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

Well I can say that as I have the exact same truck as him and even in the horrible horrid St. Louis traffic I still get 17-18 on shit winter blend gas..

Easily..

Haha

Still. SC would kill me..but be fun.

 

Someone hit my truck in the parking lot again. Same spot as last time. Hard not to be upset. I got another quote at the body shop who fixed that spot a few months ago and they laughed. Its frustrating, i always park away from people, I even parked in a different spot than usual becauase the snow bank offset the parking spot isles.

Should just bubble wrap the whole truck...


Or get a rear plate bumper

 

Plate bumper/ problem solved

Thanks gentlemen. I think I will try to clean up the terminals first...maybe he spilled something on it and its all gunky

If not, I'll replace the switch

 

The door and sill design on the first gen is wacko.. when the windows are down everything makes its way to the switch panel area liquid wise.. sometimes I forget and run the wipers with fluid to clean the windshield and it gets all over the inside door area.

 

I have noticed!

still love my first gen tho

 

I know how you feel. I've been hit while parked 7 times between 2 cars. One person left a note, however they were mistaken. The scrape they thought they caused had been there for months from some one else who hit my truck.

 

That's my problem too. I drive it hard all the time. I think I get like 15 mpg on a good day.

 

I feel like I need more horsepower lol a mid-travel suspension all around for starters, plate bumpers a winch and a bed cage with a roll bar. My last tacoma had a SC on it. I had a shop look at it cause I thought it wasn't tuned right but they didn't find anything. I think I rather avoid forced induction for this one though. But would love to get 250-300 horses XD

 

You'll never get that without FAI. not out of our trucks.

 

Filled up today.

 

I thought LCE or somebody did a full rebuild of the 3.4L and was getting close to 300 HP naturally aspirated?

 

possible. But LCE doesn't sell parts for the 5vz anymore last i looked. And the amount of work and money you'd have to do to get that, be cheaper to just boost it. or swap a motor i bet.

 

True. I think they did it as a project for an auto trade show. An article was floating around about it a few years back. I seem to recall a price estimate of $14k tied to it. A blower or donor motor is much cheaper.

 

How much do you think you can get out of a 5vz with headers exhaust and cold air intake with a performance chip? I remember googling some parts awhile ago and saw a few with pretty nice performance output. But idk how well they really work on tacomas since I'm the only one of my friends (mostly jeep, and a couple full size truck) who owns a tacoma.

 

headers look like they would be a bitch to get too no? can anybody who has them chime in?

 

When I was looking at getting some, I believe I read that the install required you to unbolt the motor mounts and hoist the engine up a few inches. But it may have just been a certain brand. But yeah, it was going to be a pain in the ass to do. Think the manufacturers were saying 6-8 hour DIY install time.

 

It will be a lot louder, most likely get less mpg cause you'll be on the throttle more and gain maybe 10hp?

All that costs close to $1000 for maybe 10hp

Supercharger with all stock parts and 7th injector $4k-ish for all new parts and can get you closer to 60-75hp I think.

I had to replace my exhaust manifold muffler when I got the truck so I went performance headers and magnaflow muffler.

But all in all its a lot of money for very little gain

 

So if you're set up and tuned you could possibly get at least 275hp out of it with a good exhaust setup and s/c?

 

No I mean a w56. It still has a 3.95:1 first gear though. Bayaretaco's crawl ratio will be 217:1 then, didn't think about that I don't have a tacoma tranny.