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

lol welcome! join the club lol i have to down shift all the time haha. and true weight is much higher.

Deckplate and exhaust helped me there a bit tho..

 

Hopefully this will make you feel better...Keep in mind that your wheel circumference is bigger now, so if you calculate your MPG, which is based on rotation calibrated for your original tire size, then you are actually gowing further than what your odometer tells you, so you are actually getting better MPG than what you are calculating.

My brother in law put bigger tires on one of his cars before and we did the calculation based on the circumference of the 17-inch vs 16-inch wheels in his case, and if you calculate the added distance over a tank of gas it actually cancelled out the little lower MPG that he calculated because of the heavier new tire/wheel combination.

 

those 32's probably put the speedo dead on. I know my 265's make it read accurate where the 31's actually made it read fast.

Once you get up to 33's is where the Odometer needs correcting.

 

Yep

 

yup

 

So im pretty sure my water pump pooched itself. And my coolant overflow is now boiling... great.

 

Found out where my tire was rubbing at.
time for BFH




also roatated my tires and then headed out to find something to do, and stumbled across this small rock pile to play on and mess with the rock lights!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fYXSBB-dwU

 

Easiest clearance mod ever

 

Yup gonna try to get to it before the gulches trip!

haha i think thats ghey! I only use them when needed...i wont run mine at night unless i somehow timed the dalight hours wrong and need the light to work ...but it is pretty fun to cut them on in parkin lots and gettem strobing around and watch people that have no idea walk by and stare

 

Took me 10 minutes per side and that was with grinding off the little metal flap part of the pinchweld. Don't grind the actual pinchweld though. Then beat on it with a hammer for about 5 minutes

 

Sounds good, ill see what i can do when time permits and im not swamped with online Ford classes

 

dude that is some epic front flex! i guess ill have to learn proper use of the BFh mod..just commited to so 33x12.5 KM2s

 

Ha no kidding but the sad part is, look at how small that little sandy curb is i was on i did climb a hill right after that ghey mall crawlin

& i want to go up a size too but havent decided yet on what size i want

 

35s FTW

 

what size you have now??

i wouldn't get 35s unless you want to cut a shit ton or are SAS IMO. 33's are usually more then enough..

 

265/75's right now but im going to goto a 33 just dont know what way i want to get there but most likely just be like everyone else and goto a 285 and yea 35's are out for me right now...but plans down the road will be calling for them

 

Or you could get 255/85s lol those are really tall. like 33.6 i think..or get a 15'' rim and get real 33s

 

Yea thats what im stuck debating, i like the way both look but looks arent at the top of my list, i want function as well, but im not to much for the mud and never get snow here so my questions are how the skinnies do for trails and climbing and rocky terrain...it would make more sence to me to have the largest footprint possible on rocky terrain