I spent about half the day with a Toyota Engineer who designed 2nd gen! How was your day? :)

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Maybe @DCSBFTMFW can weigh in on the variances on the TRD 4.0 vs SR 4.0?

If there are any

 

The real question is "why haven't you put in an intermittent wiper stalk?"

It took me longer to type this post than it took to do the mod.

That way you can clean the bullshit off your windshield - It helps when the shit starts flying. I just turned mine up a notch.

 

I could read the excitement in your post, must have been awesome getting to talk with the guy and even more so that he is your customer now. Your gonna know all the dirty little secrets before you know it and hopefully we will all get the juicy details! Sure glad I went with a TRD hehe and now to start the twin turbo google search.


I'm jelly!

 

You ever watc

You will never believe this, but sometimes life is stranger than fiction. You ever see the show on TV "Pit Masters". They guys who build those outrageous BBQ pit rigs and go to competitions and big events? Turns out he has always been a chief at heart and would create big meals for everyone on holidays and stuff. He saw that and decided that is something he always wanted to do So he had a $65,000 BBQ trailer designed and built. He and his wife were retired and that is now what they want do to pass to the time, travel, and have fun. They have a huge RV and they pull the BBQ pit trailer to events. They have the RV insured with Allstate and he decided he needed to get the BBQ trailer insured also. His Allstate agent is a friend and is located right down the street from us. Allstate does not insure things like that so she refereed him to me. Like I said, sometimes life is crazy like that.

 

WOW, as they say, "it's a Small world" and it makes for a good story.

 

Should have bought Icon's then! They work better to clean your eyes... site when driving (hrrrmmm posting)

whatever. if your not going to contribute, why post?

 

I don't know if t was right hand drive. Yes, obviously some to test and some to let employees play with. And yes, the design team was not all based in Japan (before someone else asks) He was in California

 

TRD always had SR->SR5 included

 

Another fun fact, in the meeting where they were discussing the 'Off-Road' package the guy giving the presentation showed pictures of trucks and jeeps in different environments. S***** said some of the pictures had trucks on big rocks, some in mud, some on trails and some in the desert. The presenter asked the engineers which picture do we define as 'Off-Road'. Several people weighed in their opinions basically saying picture 1 or 2 or 3 or whatever would be considered 'off-road'. When they were done, the presenter said all of these are to be considered 'off-road' and need to be considered in the design.

Earlier in our conversion yesterday he mentioned that smaller, better designed motors can almost always be designed properly to put out as much power as larger American motor and perform similar in most situations. I pointed out steep/rough rock climbing. He literally kind of chuckled and said good point. If your goal is to climb up a mountain over boulders, Tacomas may not be the best performer, but for a stock truck, with 'off-road package' will do well better than most for most people.

He said he still has buddies in California that build only Toyotas, honestly, mostly for desert running. For what that is worth.

Basically saying, they put thought in to it.

 

Right... I was asking because @Fight4Function said his had a 2 speed... and his profile shows a 2014 TRD OR. If all TRD's have SR+SR5, then he must have another truck with 2 speed wipers...

Or a fake TRD...

 

10-4

 

Don't drag me into this dumb shit thread.

 

Two engines with identical outputs but Toyota spent a bunch of extra money running two engine lines for 10 years? NOPE

Maybe the original TRD 4.0 was built tighter to handle the proposed twin turbos (unlikely) but that would have ended instantly once the turbo idea was binned.

 

Did you even ask him what's the biggest size tires you can fit on stock suspension without the need for trimming? Asking for a friend.

HAHA. Seriously though. Sounds like a good conversation you had. Cheers!

 

Well, here's the 2014 brochure, and they're listed on the SR5 and up packages, not the SR.

Probably a fake TRD

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNENlzM4hnRXS6qDiQ4ghzYBH1_wrw

 

You need to get him to join this site. Then Tacomaworld can have its first.. ASK ME ANYTHING thread.

 

If he joined though he should be a about his identity and then just drops tons of truth bombs! If everyone knows who he is he probably would never be able to keep up with the explosion of questions.

Yeah I actually was thinking to myself the same thing, I'm curious how (internally) they decided the 1st gen tundra was a failure yet ended up being a truck that so many people desire today? I still have my old Tundra and aside from the balljoint issues that plagued some of them (including mine) it has been a dang good truck and the V8 4.7L is an amazing motor! Best fuel mileage I have ever gotten out of a truck by far and the dang thing never stops, I've got 236k+ on mine as it sits. Sure wouldn't mind seeing that V8 come to the Tacoma and back to the 4runner.