Vegas BS Thread!

Probably best to go Nationwide/worldwide and ask in the Suspension sub-forum. It's a nationwide forum and company who sells parts to 350 million, not just 2.7 million. Limiting yourself to just the Vegas forum doesn't give you all the info.

So please try to read for a few days the wealth of info in this forum.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/forums/suspension.18/

And welcome to Vegas! Hehe.........

 

Just sitting in my garage waiting for paint and install. Where the heck is 4x innovations with my sliders

 

Sweet looking! Looks strong, go slam it and test it!

 

Painted my bumper didn't come out as well as I hoped but not to bad

 

Boom

 

Looks good!

 

Anybody know anyone selling a 4Runner looking for late 90s early 2000s any help would be appreciated got couple that I'm looking at tomorrow from craigslist

 

So I just picked this one up it has adjustable icons upfront weathertech floor mats front and rear k&n cai and a Throttlebody spacer

 

Got my sliders today

 

Are you going to paint behind the bumper black? looks good Derek is working on my rear bumper can't wait for it to be done!!

 

Yeah I'm going to black out behind the bumper I figure I will do it when I take the bumper off to install my winch. Hell yeah your getting his hi clearance rear bumper right your going to have to cut your bed? Derek will be installing my sliders Sunday

 

Not me I'm going broke over here just spent over 1100 on bumper sliders and skids looking at about at least another 1000 for winch trail gear rear bumper cb and 2 20" and 1 50" light bars

 

Getting my windows tented

 

Getting the sliders installed today maybe pick up some famous fab stickers while I'm here

 

As much as it's going to annoy me... My parents are looking for an extended cab 4wd tacoma or pickup in the $5k-10k range. I've told them to stay away from the older 3.0L platform since 3.4L swap will not be something they will ever tackle. Told them if they're going pre-tacoma go with the 4 cylinder and if going tacoma platform get the 3.4L. I think they'd prefer auto trans but if it's manual it wouldn't be a deal breaker.

So... That said, if anyone knows of something in good shape for a good price I'm watching. I think they'd prefer something relatively stock mostly cause the likely hood of offroad abuse probably isn't as high as a built truck.

Thanks,
Khris

 

Anyone local have a 3.4L with the first gen all silver super charger on it? I looked at one tonight and I've never had any experience with a supercharger in general let alone that one and well, at idle, engine open. I wouldn't say it made a knock or a click or anything but it made a noise I'm not familiar with. Definitely wasn't the blower type whine which I could hear for sure when I test drove it. Closest thing I guess I would say was it had a very minor almost sounding knock but it was a very dull type almost thud type of knock. Any idea if that's normal?

Also, I wasn't exactly blown away by the power? This was a 4wd, 3.4L manual with the supercharger and it was on probably 33" tires with stock gearing and while it got up and went, it just wasn't the power house I guess I'd expected it to be. In comparison I'm used to a completely stock 3.4L auto in an '04 on 35's running 6.0 gears and it honestly felt comparable. I know the 6.0 gears in our truck gives kind of some hard fake acceleration but I was expecting more out of it being supercharged.

Any thoughts?

 

sub'd

 

Yea a bit of general input. It's still just a 3.4 stock pistons etc. Can't put too big of an SC without blowing it up. Look in the performance sub-forum, things go boom. I can imagine with the big tires, no regearing and the SC I wouldn't be impressed. I have a 2014 with the SC and the low end torque is sooo much better, it gets up and scoots! That's awesome for off roading. Ask the owner if he'll regear with 6.0 for comparison, LOL.

In summary it's not a 350 V8 with an SC, with flat top pistons and headers etc. Read around about the actual HP improvements but look at the low end, it's pretty impressive.

Ohh go to one of the Tacoma meets n greets in Vegas, you can ask them.... And meet the coolest folks in the world... Tacoma owners.