NW WA Meet / BS Thread

I did a regear to 4.88’s, truck runs great.

 

Yeah 4.30's in my 6speed, but I regeared while I had 34" yokohama Mt's. 100% worth it.

 

Still passed people daily with the lil 3.5l
Its fine stock geared/with a tune if you dont have too much excess weight/drag.

 

I'm rocking 315/75/16s with kdmax pro XT stock gears I'm happy

 

Speaking of that, I still have a 200 mile used Kenda on a wheel for sale if anyone needs one.

 

Changed from ott?

 

Yeah ott just wasn't hitting right in my daily drive .

 

Lol yeah, stock gearing is totally fine with

• A tuned engine
• A light truck
• AND you're below about 6k ft

I get used to thinking my truck has power driving around at sea level then I take a trip to Colorado and it's a dog lol.

 

With my truck coming out of Tahoe (around 6k ft?) fully loaded, the motor had more than enough power to speed/scream up the big passes, but the only thing that was holding it back was tranny temps.

 

Maybe the 3.5 does better on the highways too.

Tahoe eh? Coming from the Rubicon?

 

yeah I went through Tahoe and Jackson hole without noticeable power loss. Do 3rd gens read trans temp? Or did you put something aftermarket in?

 

I have a scangauge

 

What kind of temps were you seeing out of curiosity?

 

It was like 70 degrees out and I was going above speed limit, and got the pan up to 220/convertor up to 230ish, dont really like to go above that. Stock gears/35s/bed stuffed to the brim with camping/wheeling stuff.

Stock the 3rd gen trannys run at 190-200 degrees, so its not insanely horrible.
Have a huge cooler with a fan, and trans tstat pinned so normal driving its about 90 degrees over ambient temp with 37s/stock gears/weight

 

Was going up to the rubicon from Tahoe, so the fun windy pass. The 3.5 screams once you're up in the rpms, but yeah tranny is the hold back at that point. My poor buddies in their Lc's were snailing up doing 30mph most of the pass wide open, while I was playing Pikes Peak racecar haha.

 

Little poly motor mount swap I did last night, for those interested
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/3-5l-simple-poly-motor-mount-upgrade.780279/

 

Hell yeah dude! That's rad

 

I know someone else on here that makes solid motor mounts for our trucks . I've been on the fence about it .

 

what did you not like for daily driving and what do you like about the new tune more?

 

Ott did have some good trq and shifts . I miss top end power which kdmax definitely gave that top end power . Currently kdmax is running trials on a new manifold riser. Supposed to gives us more lowerend trq and better mpgs . If all works out I'll be purchasing that riser .