XL Boosted Yaris build

Trip report:
Had a good time even though every day it seemed if something could go wrong it did. Murphy’s law

Between taking a wrong turn on Christmas tree pass, to having to repalce my battery, to getting the wrong battery and having to try and make it work in the oreilys parking lot, then camping next to some rather inconsiderate individuals. The icing on the cake being my dometic cfx95 giving troubles the whole time. It was one of the more stressful vacations I have had.

Sadly did not get to do a lot of things I wanted to, including meeting up with @snowsk8air2 who was more than once within like 1 mile of me probably.

The good news is I made it home safe, and the truck didn’t take too much damage. Just going to need to replace my flare weather strippings, also going to bust out the polisher for the passenger side as I got a lot of brown pinestripes that don’t look very nice on a white truck.

Now I am gonna drink some whiskey and decide if I should send back this damned fridge that only wants to work right when plugged into AC. Haven’t figured out if it is operator error or not yet.

Hoping my trip in August goes a lot smoother than this one.

 

Literally floating in the pool and watched you driving through the parking structure. You had to have driven past my parked truck lol. But hey, glad you had a decent trip. I know we did.

To the glass of whiskey. We'll meet another time.

 

I was looking for your truck and didn’t see it. The sad part is I probably did drive past it.

Was it raining when you guys headed to Oatman? I was curious how bad the dirt road was if you went that way.

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I had a good spot behind a wall on the second floor. You had to have driven past it, but unless you looked back, it was hidden.

It rained on our way there. Radar showed heavy rain the hour before we left, so to avoid flash floods we just took the hwy there. With a second truck I would've risked the dirt road, but not alone. Lots of lightning and heavy rain once we got there though. Cool little town

 

Bright and early Saturday I pulled off my swaybar. Can’t believe I didn’t take it off sooner. Also I need a better floor jack as I had to remove my skidplate to jack the truck up (this is the only spot I can lift the tires up high enough and place my jackstands).

Tried to install my all pro transfercase skid plate and failed so I am going to leave it off for now. You must have to modify the brake line bracket, I wouldn’t know because there is no instructions on AP’s website.

Greased the drivelines and the control arms for my up coming trip. Also installed my splash guards from @cnote4l.

I also unbolted my trailer wiring harness. Going to tuck it up out of the way until someone restocks the relocate brackets.
Got a spare tire on the stock spare wheel, but they didn’t balance it so I have to go back.

Overall I think I am ready for this trip to Arizona. Super excited for it! My only worry is how exposed my air intake is with out the wheelwell liners. Crossing my fingers it will be ok though.

 

Nice work and plenty of time to button up the little things. Don't worry about your intake, I ran mine like that for years and now have the urd tcai and filter is even more exposed.

 

Soooo..... how was Sedona on Saturday? You take all the "hard" lines and have some fun?

 

It was awesome man! Truck did great even through the tougher stuff and I definitely totally understand what you mean now when you said regearing will be the best thing I ever do. 4 lo was my friend this trip and I think that’s the most I have ever used it. I planned on posting some pictures and maybe a couple videos, just havent had the time to go through them all yet.

Thank you again for your info. We ended up doing everything backwards but it dope lol. Ran Solider’s pass, then Broken arrow. Then we were relaxing and it started to rain so we went up to Schnebly hill. It was definitely cool but next time I would not go up the whole mountain, we ran it from Sedona towards the 17. Man that was a long bumpy ride but the views and waterfalls were definitely worth it. We ran Outlaw trail sunday morning to the old Indian site which was pretty interesting to see.

Also the devils staircase on broken arrow was for sure a white knuckle moment. Going down and knowing there is no turning back. It wasn’t that bad but the first big double drop area got me good.

 

This is where I stopped to air my tires down on Soldier’s Pass since the parking lot was full.


This is on Broken Arrow before you get to go down the staircase. I originally stayed to the right and went up but a bunch of jeepers were talking smack on the yota so I went down to show them that even my Toyota could make it up. Silly jeepers. (Sorry for bad pic, had to screenshot a video)


Here’s the pic I took after making it down the stair case.


One of the pics I took on Schnebly or how ever you spell it. We stopped here to check out the waterfall the recent rain created. Picture below:
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When I got home I was admiring my new memories on my passenger side. Also the truck was dirty as seen here


So I had to clean it up. Man that red dirt/mud sure likes to stick to everything.


Overall made it out in one piece. I know I hit my exhaust but it still sits somewhat normal. I plan on chopping it soon anyway once I get my new ypipe. Sliders took a good hit on the underside and it didn’t bother them a bit.

Overall trip was a sucess. I want to go back some day and do more exploring, there was too much to do in too little time.

 

Well it looks like it was a good day. Bummed I had to bail. But there's plenty more to see out here so come back anytime and I'll try to plan on being available.

 

I installed this amazing American hand made ypipe from mr @Roostfactor

Here is the flex pipe w/ a high flow cat to complement everything.

Here is some mediocre sound clips


I am thinking now is the time I start saving up for my hammer hangers.

 

You got power, now time for suspension to put it to the ground when off road

 

Not gonna lie I was pretty envious at how fast you were going on that forest road. I didn’t feel in control trying to keep that speed.

The sway bar being off though has been amazing. I just want to focus on beefing up the rear now. I feel like that is my weakest spot. I am thinking hammer hangers, custom pack, and tundra 10” shocks in the stock towers should be a worthy upgrade for me.

Then I can focus on regearing

 

It helps to know the road, even though that was only the second time I've taken it that far back. And never try to keep up with the leader if you feel unsafe. If you fall behind and they don't notice, they are a poor leader. ( I always had my eyes on the mirror looking for you to judge my pace)

So I have heard of people throwing the tundra 10" shocks in and don't completely know why? Just never cared to do my research and I was built beyond that when I heard of it. What is the benefit of going with them over a factory replacement if you are keeping the stock shock mounts? Cost vs a stock Tacoma replacement? Cost vs doing a shock relocation? With the shock relocation you save a lot on the shock because you are buying essentially a generic shock vs something that is an "oem" replacement

 

Yeah I learned that pretty quickly I am sure you noticed I backed off pretty early and then the truck was happy.


I am not sure on all of the cost benefits if any, but I do know you get more travel than the stock tacoma shocks. I figured it has to be cheaper than buying the relocate towers and paying someone to weld them on and grind all the old stuff off. Not as much travel as a 12” shock, but more than stock. I could do the relocates but I really don’t wanna run wheel spacers to be completely honest.

Here is a thread with more info on the tundy shocks
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2007-tundra-rear-king-shock-upgrade-on-tacoma.537083/

 

Thanks Murph! Glad you love it!!!

 

$900 for the oem replacements. $1200 if you want compression adjusters.



Or under $600 for double bypass, and $711 for triple bypass 12" shocks. (Triple is better) and go with either a bamf relocation for $126 or archive all around for $350





Price for parts is either cheaper or comparable and going to ride so much better, especially with a custom leaf pack. Only added cost is labor (spend a weekend here and I'll do it cheap-ish)

Nothing wrong with wheel spacers if you need them. I'm running 2" in the back and have had one size or another on the front and rear for years. Proper install/ torque/ retorque/ and re retorque and I haven't checked mine in over a year.

 

Well you have me thinking now..
I didn’t realize there was such a price difference. I’ll be honest I don’t know much about bypasses other than they are top of the line stuff. I will need to do more research now for sure. Might be sending you a PM asking some questions as well.

 

Go for it. I ran bamf relocation with remote resi smoothies for a while before going full LT. I could probably drop some knowledge on anything similar or in between. Yeah after labor you're gonna be more expensive, but probably not by much in comparison to the performance gains

 

So comparing the cost of the parts alone, this is what I have come up with:
For tundra shocks + blackout14 leafpack:
$1607
For 12 or 14” shock setup:
$2,700.

Both of these are not including shipping, and obviously not including fab time on the relocate kit. I also forgot to include wheel spacers for that one but those aren’t a huge price difference. I’m not 100% sure how much to put as far as cost for installing the relocation kit.

So the specs on the relocation kit I have 14” 2.0 3 tube bypasses (not sure if those will fit but either way, 14-10” bypasses were the same price some how)
Archive shock towers, then I factored $920 for a leaf pack. That is based on the custom deaver pack on Archive’s website which is designed for the hammer hangers and a 14” shock.

I may be able to get a better price on the king shocks but nothing major. I didn’t include the hammer hangers on either of those price breakdowns because I plan on doing that either way.