What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

new map lights.....nice and bright, but not too bright

shipping took 10 days

 

Added a bumper, winch with Rope, light bar… shackles etc … rock lights next up.

 

How do they sound? much improvement over stock?

 

Your right!
That is the 1st thing I did a week after I bought my Taco. Just upgraded again from Infinity to Rockford Fosgate.

 

Installed the red push start button today, decided to go all red..!!

 

Swapped tires again 1 week later. Unfortunately my brand new P265/70R16 SL Toyo ATIIIs were shaking after a rebalance. I think I may have been unlucky enough to get a bad tire. Rather than deal with finding that and fixing it, I opted to upsize to 265/75R16 SL.

Made in Serbia, first I’ve seen. Time will tell how good they are, but they’re buttery smooth at highway speeds so I am happy. No perceived acceleration difference from the 265/70s, which is what I was worried about, so I am content.

 

Picked up a toy.
I got it from my neighbor for mowing his lawn. Cost me 25bucks in gas to do the lawn it's big.
Bike is new, been sitting in his shop for a year. Super fun to ride.

 

Got the same speakers, you should add the kicker tweeter as well. Sounds amazing day and night compared to stock.

 

While this may come as a shock...


...sometimes I just need that boost...


... to feel like I've got the power...


... without feeling dehydrated.


12V deep cycle battery with smart box for cooler.
Power booster for jump start.
Power bank for phone, laptop, etc.
Body Armor molle panel
Landrol 2 gallon water container.

 

Put my cap together and installed yesterday. Then put my load bars in tonight in the dark. This was before it got dark.

 

Paper cone speakers can actually be really good, Toyota used neodymium magnets too that provide a denser magnetic field than a ferrite magnet the kickers use. The issue with toyota is not in the materials, its the voice coils fault the speakers suck, its too small, not efficient enough, and has too low of a power handling.

Many high end home systems use paper cones, many PA systems use paper cones too and provide clear sound for concerts. I have some 18 inch JBL PA subwoofers, they use paper cones with fabric surrounds... but they also use a 4 inch voice coil with a high efficiency.

Here is a 6.5 inch paper cone, neodymium woofer. Same materials toyota used in their speakers, but the voice coil on it is much much larger and more efficient than the toyota ones
https://www.parts-express.com/Ciare-CXPA-6-6.5-Neodymium-Coaxial-Driver-293-106?quantity=1

Here is a 9 inch woofer with a paper cone and neodymium magnet, but it has a 5.1 inch voice coil... massive voice coil for this driver.
https://www.parts-express.com/Morel...-with-5.1-Voice-Coil-4-Ohm-297-128?quantity=1


So yeah, toyota should of put in better speakers, but the fault is not on the paper or small magnet.

 

i saw speakers in the thread image...

i personally run dayton esoteric 7" drivers in one vehicle, and peerless hds-nomex(paper hybrid)6.5" in the tacoma. the esoteric's have a much larger voice coil, i had been hoping for slightly 'fuller' lower-midbass out of them from the perceived increased control

but it's really only part of the problem. the second part is the low power rating of the factory radio, and the third part is the factory-implemented eq curve to attempt to make the rear speakers to make them seem something they're not.

for me, just changing the radio was a huge improvement in audio quality, due in part to a small power boost, but mostly in dealing with the factory eq. it's still not loud or clear enough for me, but at least held me over for some time.

 

If you like your peerless speakers, check these things out. They are LAT speakers (made by peerless). Each one has ten 2 inch cones and a voice coil on each side. So each bank of 5 cones go the opposite of the other bank. This results in no vibration, just sound. Each one is the same as a 8 inch woofer.
I have had them in a closet since 2008, still have yet to figure out what to do with them.

Alpine made a system that used these woofer (bigger versions) in 2006 or 2007, but it never took off because it looked funny and cost too much.






Here is a good video of the alpine version to show the cone movements

 

ordered some "blemish" gen5s from vin. third set of SCS wheels. stoked to get them

 

this is getting out of hand

 

Short people problems

 

How short do you have to be to lower the hood? lol

 

Oh man !! Maybe you’ll get lucky and it didn’t go all the way threw

 

Liked my supercharger when I had it on my 4Runner. Hope it’s the same on the Tacoma.