Idaho BS thread in the PNW

Yea..fun

But not what I'm talking about.


Also..you owning a high performance vehicle with a custom turbo setup.....I can even fathom that..lol

 

so your balance is in almost stock rig form? if you build the truck right it can be better on and off road

and you have hopped on the "expo" band wagon too eh lol

 

Ill say..oh well..

 

Come on...could he ever?? Lol

Actually 80 is no fun for me..never was in Frankenstein.

 

Lots of custom piping, and more importantly, fuel deliver and tuning. For uber power. Need very good tuning and that can be the tricky part.

A goooood setup for an NA setup to turbo..will be 4-8 grand

And mine never could cruise at 80 "nicely" too noisey, and twitchy steering. Before I did anything too it.

Igor is nicer but still..80 sucks. I don't even like doing 75 in my tacomas. To much wind/road noise

My dads tho..you can do 90 and not know it.

 

Yea right. I bet the exhaust sucks since you'll be at close to 3000-3100 rpm and yours is cut right behind the cab so it's boomy in the cab already.

Your probably just deaf.. haha

Ill be okay with any turbo fun car next..basically..haha

 

Mine is quiet from 2300-2800 ish but at 3000...starts to wail haha

 

yeah the 18" isnt very loud inside the cab. Its sounds a lot louder when someone else drives it

 

Bens 18 is louder in his cab then my 14. Cause he has it chopped..mine is piped out..but mine is way louder outside.

I have been in his and driven it

 

did some looking into it today and putting a second gen front diff and using second gen axles into first gen is totally doable

 

i was cruising at 75 just fine the other day

but in truth so what? Why would i ever want to go faster? Top speed clearly is at the bottom of my priority list. Its a truck, and trying to make it something else is just foolish. Its not a car, and it wont handle like one or have the speed of one, so why not build it up to do what its meant to do

 

this Im not building mine to go fast im building it to go anywhere

Edit: but on the note of being loud rolling down the free way have you ever driven a 12 valve cummins? When you do you will gain a new respect for how quite your Tacoma is.

 

^ haha truth. Those older diesels are a whole nother level of loud.

 

Or an oldbluechevy with no carpet or insulation (jusy metal) and dual blown glasspacks *whatd ya say?!*

 

2nd gens are running the exact setup as first gens. I'm pretty sure they sure the exact same ring gears and I haven't tried it, but I wouldn't be surprised if you and I could literally just swap 3rds.

I think this is all rumor. The idea comes from the fact that the 8.4's have an extra brace that the 8.0's don't have. This is also where the idea comes from that the 8.4's are stronger. I don't know why the 8.4's are called 8.4's because they run an 8" ring gear. It just has a different bolt pattern than the 8.0's or I'll be they would be swappable as well.


My take, is I think that Toyota got a bad or flawed batch of ring and pinions for the 2nd gen TRD Offroads. For a while they you always heard about a new TRD Offroad destroying another ring gear, but for the last year they seem to have quieted down a lot. So I kind of think that Toyota either did a silent upgrade to the flawed ring and pinion or ran out of the bad batch.

My reasoning is, almost all of them that blew up the factory ring and pinion have gone to after market gears and haven't killed them. Hell I went through 2 OEM ring gears in the first 3000 miles I owned my truck and I babied it back then. I beat the shit out of it now and 14,000 miles later on the 4.88's with no issues.

The other possibility is that having the same rear end as 1st gens, but being heavier, having more power and a lower geared tcase all add up to being able to put enough stress on the ring gear to blow it, but I don't completely buy this or all of the S/C'd guys would have destroyed their factory gears pretty quickly.

 

I thought about that last year for doing a LT build with a 4'' over kit since the diff and arms are a bit wider. Would be nice as they are much stronger then the 7.5

I have..wasn't bad..coulda been a 24v though..was a 96 2500. Good truck.

 

Mine is also chopped and dumped over the axle

cold start up its kinda loud but once its warm its not very loud at all.

 

Ben's is pre axle. thus, more cabin noise.

Mine is loud outside..a lot..haha love it though. But its not over powering or anything.

 

Yea and i weight more then you do brady..and im doing fine..haha

 

thats what you think