What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

And multiple recovery points with built in tow hitch and hidden winch? Lol

 

minus the winch lol but why not. i dont do much towing but i guess it wouldnt hurt to be prepared when i got to pull someone to town

 

Cant forget some rock lights and cb atenna mount...

 

rock lights are going to be on the frame and cb is going to be right next to the cab on the bed rails.

 

Bull horns... lol jk

 

lol i do need a new toyota badge its holding on by a ziptie right now

 

I robbed the Bay Area of every Cadillac horn I could find. Still don’t have enough.



Oh... and you think I could forget about you guys? Haha.



If you’re asking why there’s a circuit board on it, it’s because I put an LED Matrix on the top of it.

Remember that episode of Top Gear where they lit the Hilux on fire?



Interstellar and Die Hard





For anyone curious, it’s an Arduino based platform called SmartMatrix Shield v4 and a Teensy microcontroller running a custom program written in C#. I bought the LED matrix panel from a Jumbotron manufacturer. They would have hundreds of these put together in series to form a billboard or digital signage. Runs off of 5v from a battery bank in my back pocket. It plays GIF’s loaded to a micro SD card.

 

Bought my tacoma 2000,4cyl 2.7 california emissions and drove 3 hours back home at 80 or 90mph, (late night) and notice the check engine light came on, parked,this morning I started and feel like the motor shaking, took my scanner and found p0303, for my experieced I just pull the plug n cylinder # 3 and motor still shaking, Took my compressor testerand check for compressionn each cylinder and#3 only 50psi but the other 175psi,, motor is 230,000 miles, but I found one for $800 with 124,000 miles, certified miles, , but is federal emission and Im not shure if the california and federal is the same motor(still working on my inglish) hope someone know about the difference

 

So, I fixed an exhaust leak a few days ago, my #2 O2 sensor that was just hanging there, still in the hole but the nuts had completely rusted away. The pains of living in the rust belt. The surprising thing is (according to Torque) I gained 4-5 mpg somhow. Went from my normal 14-15 mpg up to 19-20 mpg on my drive to and from work. I didn't think the #2 O2 would have that much effect. I'll have to see how it does after a couple tanks of gas.

 

Same internals afaik. All your emissions gear should bolt up to it

 

Soo. planning to install a supercharger within the next 2 weeks. My question is for those of you who are at sea level without 7th injector or anything. Can we get away with just premium gas? I am getting mixed reviews on whether i should upgrade the injectors to the 305cc supra injectors. I have a meth kit i am planning to install as well. @1997tacomav6 has giving me great advice as to what to do before i install the charger, and for him the 2004 injectors have worked fine. Not sure it would work for me.

 

I replaced the muffler on my '01..

Old and busted....



The new hotness.. complete with custom bike chain hanger.

 

Dont mean to be the bear of bad news but the exhaust vibrates a lot and that chain is going to make noise and wear into your new muffler.

 

Better off with some 12 or 10 gauge copper electrical wire. Flexible to install, and won't rust, plus you can twist it to get all the slack out. Will last for years!

 

Slackers!

A couple soup cans and you wouldn't even need to remove the muffler.

 

Attached with stainless steel pop rivets.

 

Yeah just a temporary fix. I have a hanger but I need to extend it out to reach the factory point on the truck.

 

Cherry bomb? fuck that noise

 

Nothing like using what you have to get by. If you only could see my truck now

 

Yeah.. last night I just said fuck it and ordered a Denso compressor, drier, expansion valve and condenser. I will just get a shop to do everything and tell them to flush the system.