Increase in torque

Is there any mods or bolt-ons that focus more on torque? Nobody really bothers with torque it seems, just HP.

 

throttle body spacer should increase torque

 

Is there anything else that I can do?

 

these are pretty much horseshit...

 

Weren't they for caurberated engines?

 

supercharger or turbocharger. maybe headers. anything else is a waste of money.

 

that's what I've heard

yep

I got curious and did some reading on them and it said they're pretty much useless on a fuel injected engine, but do serve a purpose on older carborated engines. Sorry, OP.

 

I know superchargers are ungodly expensive.. And turbos need expensive supporting mods and stuff. Hmmm..

 

If you don't mind me asking, why do you want more torque? Tacoma's are known for a lot of things, but torque isn't necessarily one of them

 

not for 1st gens, you can get them new for ~2.7K

 

Exactly. Make more torque on a non torqueing engine

 

How much used or in need of a rebuild?

 

From what i've read you can usually find them on craigslist for under 1km and a rebuild is 6-700 IIRC.

Its not cheap, but not as expensive as the 2nd gen blowers.

 

So about 1k less total?

 

more torque just regear

 

Just like you, I'm only interested in mods that will improve torque, and don't care about horsepower. The best bang for the buck is long tube headers. They will make peak torque at lower rpms as well as fattening up the peak itself.

If you do put on headers... don't open up your stock exhaust with high flowing aftermarket mufflers and pipes, because when you lose backpressure, along with it you'll also give up low end torque. However, you'll likely gain more top end horsepower, but it will come at the cost of low end torque. Unfortunately no one makes long tube headers for your engine. These JBA short tube headers for your 5VZ FE 3.4 are under $500 from 4wheelparts, but will not make as much low end torque as long tubes would.



Greg

 

But if theres a blower, then shouldn't all back pressure be eliminated?

 

But why? Just go get a Dodge 2500 v10.