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1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by Speedytech7, May 31, 2018.

  1. Mar 23, 2024 at 10:32 PM
    Speedytech7

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    Put in a new gauge temp sensor (same part num as a first gen taco funny enough), flushed coolant, fixed some vac lines to wastegates and blow offs, cleaned a lot... Now investigating some funky behavior with the idle, tach, and sunroof that I believe are ground related. Also there's a weird stumble as the sequential turbos go from 1 to 2.... It's got some sorting to be done, ABS is acting up too but I think that's just a bad tone ring on the front.
     
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  2. Mar 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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    Weird, kept it stock huh?

    Non sequential mod is usually the first mod, aside from getting the entire rats nest cleaned up
     
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  3. Mar 23, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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    No

    FCA vehicles (now Stellantis) in general
     
  4. Mar 23, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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    Previous owner kept it stock. We're going to get it running right and then it's getting its entire engine harness ripped out and replaced with a haltech and a plug and play brand new engine harness that's designed for FD. And I think it's also going to get a GTX 3582 because I can't see any benefit to these tiny twins. Specially not when you can light up a modern ball bearing turbo so easily with a rotary
     
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    Yeah those turbos barely make the car move, but a single large turbo is fucking fun

    Stand-alone would be smart; I paid a rotary shop to redo the entire rats nest when I got mine, and the same shop when we went single turbo; couldn't get much help from the elitist mindset at RX7Club to share shit with me when I mentioned DIY :bananadead:
     
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    There's just no reason to keep the Mazda computer because it's completely untunable and reacts poorly to any change from stock. Plus going stand alone allows us to get rid of 99% of all the vacuum solenoid bs.
     
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    Oh of course; you're in a no smog state :luvya:

    We had piggybacks and shit like 1st Gen Taco's do (before going stand-alone)
     
  8. Mar 23, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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    Ah yes the things you plug in expecting to make things better but end up only kind of making them better and sometimes blowing the extremely sensitive dorito engine
     
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    I saw it for sell some years later; my old friend found it on CL while we were at work cause he was looking up other coupes

    Ended up with an S2000, and I was surprised to hear how fucking expensive those hard tops sell for let alone an S2000 in white and telling me about AP1 vs AP2 and all this other shit
     
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    I forgot to see that when driving around Detroit, it experienced a death wobble two times. He said at 70 MPH it felt dangerous. Our 1st gen Tacoma has more power and stability at high speeds.
     
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    One of my local club buds LS swapped his 1st gen Taco.

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    I recorded a coin balance test on the Gladiator engine. It has so much vibration that I couldn't get the coin to even stand any length of time. It just looks like some garbage.

    No way in hell it can compare to this.

    https://youtu.be/h-o_JaAHyjA?si=LCjWYOR9Qo1rF0vr
     
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    98 Supra 30,000 miles on it.

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    That's ubsherd
     
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