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

The headers were on the truck when I bought it so I dont know for sure. It's a 3 bolt flange but JBA said it was a metal o-ring gasket, I'll just have to take it apart to know for sure.

 

Haven't even had time to clean up from the last project, and a new one arrives.

Vinyl, to replace the carpet.

 

What did that run matt? That would be cool to do

 

The discount is the 5% TW dicount code found in the RockAuto vendor thread.

 

Sweet. I wanna see the finish product and get some feed back! You're the ginny pig. Lol. I hate when the wife and kid jump in with no care if my carpet gets dirty

 

Oooooh

that’s a good Christmas idea

 

Right on. Will let you know how it goes.

I may wait till after Christmas. I needed the vehicle side of the seat wiring harnesses for the BMW seats. I finally found a set on eBay today, and ordered them. It says they they will be here between 26th and 28th.

I have to do some tack welding inside the truck when I do those brackets, and don't want to screw up the new vinyl.

 

What airaid tube is that?

 

What kind of BMW seats?

 

2010 128i

 

I’ve done a lot of crap to mine recently

$4k in repairs can’t remember what tbh, mechanical, something with a boot, could have kept driving it it wasn’t broke down but I could smell oil.

in addition,
Spray in bed liner
Roll and lock bed cover
K n cai
New radio and speakers
New skid plate
Led headlights
Had the antenna motor repaired
Had the undercarriage sprayed too

it’s pretty sweet these days and fun to drive

 

lap the valves and get everything back together on the head tomorrow. other side in a few weeks.. then we get ready to put this sucker in the truck and see how some 3vz cams actually run after like 2 decades of no one appearing to provide proof of them running

 

I remember drooling over some 5vz cams on school computers when I was in highschool... They havnt been sold/made for a while

 

This is true but we don't have vvti

 

who knows. this is a curiousity thing ive wanted an answer for for years. 3vz-fe in a 93 camry was rated at 185 HP at 5800 rpm. vs 190 at 4800. so who know how it'll respond. the 3vz also fuel cut at 7200 rpm but to take advantage of more RPM the matching 3VZ crank will be needed (which i have.. but not for this engine)

 

you can get good numbers. but VVTI has one MAJOR advantage. you get a much broader power band. thus in turn making it more usable power even if the peaks a bit lower.

my 05 tundra with VVTI is noticeably more peppy at all RPMs than the 04 and older non vvti 4.7s

 

colt cams still has the specs and will make them from what i was told by LCE a few years back

 

the VVTI has proven to be reliable. hell all the million mile tundras are 4.7l VVTI.

 

Well the ferrari won't run on anything lower than 98 octane, I wouldn't put it past a Toyota to run fine on garbage gas

 

the cast crank cant be spun much faster than stock without imploding. 3vz-fe crank is drop in forged replacement. if you can find one. no new ones left (i bought the last one from toyota)


to make more top end you must sacrifice some low end. also, the stock intake plenum with its long runners really drags down top end HP. to truly take advantage of these youd need a supercharger or custom manifold