2017 TRD DCSB, KING 3.0, CBI.

So initially I started off with a 2017 TRD OR ACLB. I liked how it looked and to be fair was cheaper than the DCSB. This was my first truck and at the time it was just me and my girlfriend. We really enjoyed the outdoors here on Kauai and I wanted to build a truck that would allow us to experience it anytime we wanted.


Current 10/2018


Suspension King 3.0 IBP Race Series
King 3.0 IBP Front Coilover with adjuster and with Eibach 650x16 springs.
King 3.0 2 Tube Rear Bypass Shock
Icon Delta Joint Billet UCA
Icon RXT Leaf Springs
King 2.0 Rear Bumpstops

Wheels and Tires
Method MR701
BF Goodrich KM3 295/70/17

Lighting
Supernova V3 Hi/Lo.
Diode Dynamics Brake/Reverse.
VLED Front Turn Signals
MeSo Ultimate V3 Turn Signals
42”lightbar
Caliraised 2x2 Ditch Lights with Low Profile Brackets
Caliraised 3x2 Amber Fog Lights

Interior
Diode Dynamics Interior LED Lights.
Weathertech Floor Mats

Exterior
TRD Pro Grille
TRD Pro Tail Lights
Ceramic Tint 30%/20% (Hawaii Sucks)
BLHM Headlights

Armor
RCI Rock Sliders with Fill Plates
Prinsu Roof Rack
CBI Aluminum Front Bumper
CBI High Clearance Rear
CBI LCA Skids
CBI Skid Plate

Misc
BAMF CMC Plate

Recovery
Smittybuilt Traction Boards x2
TredPros Traction Boards x2
ARB Tred Pro Mounting Kit

Mods on the Way:


Planning for Smittybuilt winch, factor 55 fairlead/flat link.

Retired Mods
Blistein 5100 F/R with Headstrong AAL
Icon Stage 4 with Tubular UCA
Spyder Headlights
King 550x15 Springs
SCS Ray10
Nitto Ridgegrappler
TRD Pro Skid Plate

 

The truck looks great! I love Kauai, I spent 12 days out there before I moved back to the mainland from Oahu in 2014.

 

So I started with an AC first mod was to get rid of the cheese grater. Then waited 4 months to go the SCS Ray 10 lottery. Had some rubbing so went with the bilstein 5100s

 

After that I added the RCI sliders with full ins.

 

Then life hit and me and my now wife found out we are having a baby. A car seat doesn’t go into the Access cab so the rational thing to do was trade up to a DC. Luckily they had one on the lot with a bonus! The bumper caps were already painted. This is something I wanted to do on my AC but never got around to it. I pretty much transferred everything over with the exception of the suspension and went with an Icon stage 4.

 

My now wife ended up backing my truck up into the father in laws 16 tacoma so I opted to just upgrade to the TRD Pro tails

 

BLMH in progress. Took about 1 hour to get the glue separated. I wasted the initial and second reheat because I didn’t pry far enough. I took 5 reheats overall. I used 280 degrees for 15mins as the initial heat then 8minutes because I was impatient. In hindsight those two minutes made a huge difference. Just waiting for the paint to cure now.

 

How'd the Headlights turn out? How long did it take you?

 

I’m going pretty slowly as it is the holidays. I was going to reuse the permaseal but changed my mind and ordered some retrorubber so I’m waiting for that to come in. I took maybe 4 hours to do one headlight. The next headlight will probably be much faster. I wasted a lot of time on the first light. It was the first time I’ve ever opened up a headlight so quite a lot of lessons were learned. I’ll post some photos once it’s done. I’m debating recording the next one.

 

That would awesome, I’ve got the next three months off, I’m probably going to
Give it a shot... if I can grow some stones.

You have a great looking truck! Good work

 

So I’ve been running around with these while the BLHM is in progress. They are slowly growing on me.

 

How is their output? They look great

 

The cutoff is actually really clean. There are halogen bulbs right now. I’d say as far as brightness theyre pretty crap. This was coming from headlight revolution LED bulbs though. I did order some LED bulbs for this set of headlights so going to give that a try and see how it goes. They do look really good though. It’ll be hard to choose between the BLHM vs these if the light output once I get the LED bulbs in is similar. I can’t imagine retrofitting these with HIDs. I’m not sure it would survive the heating. The plastic they used in the bucket doesn’t feel very robust tbh. I do wish the LED strip was a little brighter as well.

 

Man they look awesome! I can’t wait to hear your opinion between the two once you get some time! Good luck!

 

Sub’d

 

sub'd x2

 

Finished off my BLHM today. I have to say they look really good and more clean imo compared to the OEMassive style headlights I got off tacomabeast. The big question people had was light output. I’d say that the beam pattern for the oenassives were pretty good for the price. I didn’t take pictures but the cutoff was actually pretty good once they were aimed properly. The downfield throw was pretty crappy though. I’m not sure how much of that is attributed to the bulbs which brings me to my next point. The OEmassives don’t fit the Supernova v3s that I bought. In fact I don’t really think any proper LED bulbs with the right cooling and all the hardware. A solution I thought of is to just drill the cap thread the wire through but I’m fairly concerned about having a heatsink sitting right on the plastic. Not sure why they didn’t just go with the factories and decided an h7 layout with some aweful caps over them was the way to go. Going to stick with the BLHMs for now. I’m contemplating one day redoing this except with a proper HID retro and some demon/angle eyes.

 

I also installed the VLED front indicator LEDs and I was pretty happy because NO hyperflashing. I had the rears from diode dynamics and they hyperflashed so they had to come out. I bought a resistor from VLED so we’ll have a go with those on the tail lights later.

 

Started the New Year off at the beach!

 

Quick update, meso customs ultimate v3s coming in on friday. Pretty excited about that. Waiting to see how much ill be getting back on tax returns then possibly CBI T3 if all goes well