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

Installed “bed rails” for a mounting option.

 

Coronavirus boredom finally motivated me to build this engine crossover. Pretty darn happy with the outcome.

Anyone know of some good edge trim that can contour around some tight curves? I was originally planning on welding the notch in my hood shut, but might just put some edge trim on it if I can find some good stuff. I tried some from Oreillys but it didn't have the pliability to work well.

 

Just buy some 1/4'' or 1/8'' vac line and put one cut in it to open one side of it. It'll grip the metal and look good. Plus super cheap and easy to do.

 

Spent about 2 hours in my left front fender well. Added a fender liner (been missing since I rebuilt this wreck) and added a seal to keep winter slush from splashing into the engine compartment.



If you know anybody in the roofing business, this stuff really comes in handy. My brother-in-law does warranty inspections for Firestone on the roofing products they sell. Gets me all the free rubber I need.



Lots of holes already in the frame and inner fender panel, and I had some of those push pin type clips that can easily be removed for oil filter access.

 

Mostly exterior stuff and engine parts....spare headlights, tail lights, fiberglass ram induction hood, ratty 5 spoke 4Runner wheels, the supercharger and 7th injector setup, spare stock intake, oil pan, complete heads...stuff like that.

 

Made a couple of harnesses today and got the front lights installed. All most 180 degrees of light up front! Side and rear lights next.

 

Ive been wondering how my truck would perform without the 2nd cat. Would y'all know how it would perform?
2004 Tacoma 2.4L 4x2.

 

Meh, some say less restriction more power, others say the catalyst is larger than the pipe diameter so it doesnt cause restriction

None have proof

 

Do the cats change size for the v6 engine?

 

Its 2.25 inch pipe on v6s idk 4 bangers

 

I've been slowly piecing together a "test pipe", so I was just wondering about this, and also how much would it normally cost for a exhaust shop to weld it on?

I like how tons of people are on.

 

Looks like rockauto has separate part numbers for them. So much for that theory.

 

Depends where you live where i live they will give you 70 bux to cut the cats off and weld a pipe in their place

 

???

 

I was thinking if the v6 and the 4 cylinders had the same cats, there wouldn't be much gain in going to bigger cats.


but then again, from a production perspective, it would be simpler to put the same size cats on all of them - so why do they bother making smaller ones for the 4 cylinders?

 

Sounds good, I wonder how Houston's shops price at when I have pipe for it

 

Platinum is expensive

 

Go on facebook market place and look for ads like this

 

The front cat was removed from my truck with an open pipe welded in it's place. It is definitely louder than before. Can't say whether that means it performs better because my butt dyno is out of calibration.

 

Took my 3rd gen grille and put it in my 1st gen