What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Your post beat mine ^^^

 

Or go with a contrasting color, light if the paint is dark, dark if the paint is light. You end up with a unique looking truck and no worries about matching the paint. Or use vinyl.

 

I like this idea but I also like my speedway blue Black could work but I have a hard time envisioning anything else

 

Love the color he chose. Happy to learn it isn't a too ridiculous of a cost. Especially for complete coverage.
But...
I have heard that the vinyl wraps only last about 3 years tops. I don't know what that means exactly, like do they fall off; start bubbling; melt; or just fade out terribly? So keep us up to date on how this one wears in the coming years.

 

Finally got my @CaliRaisedLed switch panel installed. Just a little trimming required to get the two upper outside switches placed.

all aftermarket switches are AOB and backlit light blue to perfectly match the factory light blue backlight. Camera switch however is not and I’ll probably disconnect the backlight

wired up my new fog lights

 

Thank you both for the info. Looking at the options for 255/85's and I'm struck by one immediate downside. The two tires I found in that size on Tirerack, while awesome, are both damn near 60lbs per tire. Good god! (some very rough mathification later) that's 92 extra pounds of rotational mass and effectively about that many horses lost during acceleration, and that much more force required to brake.

 

Way too heavy, I don't get people running those without regearing, RIP MPG

 

This is the exact setup I would like. Have you been pleased with the quality? And has it affected your battery at all to have it always recording?

 

Yep, all true. I quit racing when I switched tires. lol

I haven't had any problems braking or merging or climbing when wheeling. I do slow down on long highway climbs.

 

That's a very sharp color. Good choice.

 

Love that color

 

Any idea what the MPG hit has been?

 

this is mine after 10 months and it does get dirt and stays parked outside. It typically last about 3 year but if it’s well maintained it can last up to 5 years. If installed properly it should never peel or fall off. But the horizontal surface will experience color fade even tho the ink and laminated have uv protection in them Mother Nature always wins lol. In my 16 years experience it starts to crack when it’s not waxed and cleaned on a weekly basis.

 

Awesome truck! German heritage or just like the colors?

 

I mean, I could trim that back 20lbs with a set of TE37's, redo the intake/exhaust and get a tune, and get some better brake pads to balance it all out for the most part. As for re-gearing, I think I'd leave that alone. In stock form I feel like my OR is already running about 300rpm too high at 70mph, so the 33's I think would fix that (after a speedo adjustment of course). Worst case scenario I guess I could go this route:
https://magnusonsuperchargers.com/products/01-19-35-005-bl

 

I love the OG Ivan Stewart Toyota race truck but instead of doing it exact I have it a gradient

 

Someone on here knows how to change out the leds. Apparently a little bit of soldering. I think he may have just posted it a few days back. There is a link to Amazon for the leds to replace the ones you would remove.

 

Way Cool!
Thanks for the info about the wraps. Nothing gets the better of Mother Nature, so I can't accuse the wrap of being an inferior product.
I've no problem with a weekly cleaning. But a weekly waxing could become a chore! *** Maybe they should rename this process from "wrap" and call it "a Brazilian"! ***

you know, weekly waxing...

 

Yes as I've kept a record of every fill up.
But then NO because I have not done the math to figure-in the odometer-reading change.
I know my speedo reads four miles per hours slower than actual (as shown on GPS and police radar). So how does that translate?
If, with the larger heavier tires, my calculations show 16, 17, 18 mpg --- am I truly getting 13, 14, 15 or 8, 9, 10 or what exactly? Yet to be determined.
I write down the miles shown on the odometer and the gallons shown on the pump at every fill. I fill to nozzle cutoff and then 1/2 gallon more every time.
I do the math by hand, no onboard computer in my SR.

Excepts from my records from two trips between GA & CO:
With factory 245/75R16:
21.5
18.2
19.0
22.1
20.3
20.2
20.7
21.9
20.3
20.3
21.5

And with 255/85R16:
18.8
18.8
15.7
17.3
16.0
17.7
16.0
17.7
17.6
16.0
16.8

 

That's actually not as terrible a dropoff as I'd have expected, but yeah maybe try tracking distance on GPS instead of on odometer if you can't find someone to speedo/odo adjusted to the tires