1st Gen Tacoma STS Turbo

ok guys a buddy is selling me his sts turbo from his 1st Gen Tacoma. my question is will it bolt on to my x-runner or will there have to be any fab work done. has anyone done this before plz help

thanks for the feedback

 

Search for Torsp's build thread, he started with an STS turbo kit.....

 

Ok ill check it out thanks

 

There were a couple of members on www.xr-underground.com whom had XR's and that kit. I'm not exactly sure what small changes that they had to do to make it work, versus what I had to do. Either way, the kits that they had were for the PreRunner/4x4 models.

 

Yeah its off a prerunner 3.5L it looks similar to the 4.0L turbo kit from sts. for $1,600.00 its a steal I think of just getting it

 

Did you get it?

 

Not yet why?

 

Just curious. Have you been on www.xr-underground.com yet?

 

Yeah I have I judt don't like that everyone is all hung up on urd parts and are anti nos lol..... but I'll check it out from time to tike to see whats new lol

 

Ahh yes. There is that. Lol.

 

Yeah thats my pet peeve about that ... dont get me wrong everyone is really nice and helpful but just the fact that urd is the only thing around kind of sucks

 

If I can offer my best advice about that kit, I recommend against it. Unless you are a fabricator or work at a performance shop, and have good access to the tools and materials needed to adapt that kit to your truck.

If you are dead set on doing it, I can tell you what needs to be done. Be prepared to spend some monetary to get it Right though.

 

We I work at a steel fabrication shop I can get alot of stuff fab thats not a problem but what other parts am I looking for

 

Stainless steel flex coupling (turbo lined), so the exhaust can flex. Flange to bolt up to your Y-pipe, if not a vband flange. If his tubing is rusted, changing it out to at least 304 stainless, on the exhaust side. They like to have mild steel on the intake side too, so there is potential for rust to be in those tubes as well. Which would be best upgraded to aluminum.

Vacuum lines, and possibly new hose for the oil feed and drain.

Material to make a snorkel for the turbo inlet. Hydro locking creates a long spiralling build......

Injectors, and fuel pump. EMS to tune it in properly. That basically sums it it.

 

Ok i was going to get the turbo rebuilt just for cheap insurance .... ems what do u recommend I was going to go with AEM I dont want that ucon shit it seem like it was too many bugs

 

AEM will work nicely. If you only plan of the FIC version, get the nicer of the two. www.Dezod.com has them, as well as plug n play harnesses.

 

Yeah I seen it before .... I'm start by getting the turbo kit off my homie boys hands ... then I'll go from there

 

What do u think of the water methanol kit ...... I have a snow performance kit I been waiting to use

 

Me personally, I would use it for the cooling. Not to get extra power by adding in extra timing. Just me being extra cautious. It could likely be tuned with the AEM as well.

 

Yeah that was my thought vs the 7th injector from urd