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

Nice. Been there twice. Trails are not so thought but the scenery is beautiful.

 

This is one of the best looking 98-00 models in my opinion. What size tires?

 

IDK, I want shims for it though. Should 3* take care of it?

 

Have to agee. So clean

 

Good'ol tennis ball mod.......I knew that was gonna catch on....LOL

 

Tires are 305 65r17 like a 32.61x12.01 15 but ProComp MT2s measure 34x12.5 17

 

Leave it... i bet it's stopping that heat shield from rattling haha

 

Had another productive night last night. Buttoned up the new ARB and Smittybilt 9500. The winch just BARELY fit. I actually had to grind a little notch out of the front radiator support. But I got it on and working. Tonight I'll be putting on the Relentless bed bar/hi lift mount and the Redline hood struts.

 

Bwahahaha. No kidding!

 

Redid my intake. I did the in-cab snorkel. HUGE drop in intake temps, this is a real CAI. My intake temps dropped from 114* to 78*. As suspected, there is a dramatic increase in noise in the cab when at WOT. I'm looking for some pre-filter foam to use inside the tube to baffle the noise a bit. At idle and cruising the noise isn't bad at all, just when I'm on the throttle.

More pics in my build

 

Yeah, when Jon's truck was an actual truck and drivable, I was in it a few times as a passenger. He had the in-cab snorkel and it was a considerable drone.

 

The Safari Snorkel with similar ambient temps in the mid 90s would hit in the 95-105* range intake temps. The 114* was not the stock location but inside the engine bay, similar to any after market "CAI". The stock location would likely be more similar to what I was seeing with the Safari Snorkel.

As for winter intake temps, it should be about the same since the temps inside the cab are going to be about the same regardless of season.

 

Failed frame inspection

 

Damn that sucks

 

Nah I'm actually excited. ... I'm getting all new frame under the warranty!

 

Nice. Mine got a new frame in 2012.

 

I think a toyota forum is the only place you'll see that sentence followed by a smiley.

Mine's getting real close and honestly I'm excited too. Probably will drag it out as long as I can though to prolong things post-replacement.

 

Clean work Adam! Looks like there was quite a significant amount of room to work with using the glass. I recall a TTORA truck that had to have pretty much the entire snorkel shaved down to fit under the stock fenders. Any luck finding material for covering the fender/wheel wells?

BS. I never heard any drone from the in-cab snorkel.

... not that being born completely deaf in my right ear has anything to do with it.

 

huh?