Ken's Taco Build "Bullet"

Sure dude where do you live?

 

BB= big bear. My winter break starts dec 14 so if big bears not snowed out we can run little John Bull or do something in Death Valley or something

 

Yeah man it should be good then. Im always down to wheel with you. Maybe we can get something with Andy and who ever. It's always a good time.

 

Yea of course!

 

Installed a 27mm sway bar today off of another Tacoma. Used energy bushings for the frame mounts and moog end links with the zerks. Was a pretty easy install. The trucks is a lot better on turns and feels more planted. Glad I did it.

 

Serviced my throttle body the other day because my truck was idling a little rough intermittently. Looks like this has never been done before because it was fairly dirty. Also since I'm fly by wire the truck doesn't have a IAC but small ports and a door which leads to a vacuum tube. When I took the 4 screws out to open to little hatch it had a bunch of debris in it. Glad I went ahead and investigated. Seems like it fixed the problem. I reset the ECU so it's still relearning but it seems a lot smoother

 

I know doing your bed liner yourself doesn't get you as good as results. But man it sure is nice to make it look like brand new in 5 minutes and only costs 7 bucks
(Ignore the tail gate) lol

 

Updated mod List

 

Some photos of my bigbear trip with my brother in law. We went all over and had a blast.

 

Just purchased the power-stop truck and tow kit for a 2005 tundra for my swap. The kit number is

$458 kc2324-36 Z36 truck & tow front calipers with drilled and slotted brake rotors, carbon-fiber ceramic brake pads brake kit for toyota tundra sequoia caliper casting #13WL

kc2324-36. For the price it seemed like a good deal even though it wasn’t my end all set up I think it’ll be a pretty decent upgrade. Going to grab my cvs from Napa and going to the shop this week to set up a time to get my manual hubs pressed in. Getting close

 

Finished my tundra brake upgrade and started my big 3 upgrade today. I went with 4 gauge welding cabe. Noticed a difference right away. CS144 alternator coming soon.

 

Just picked these up for 50 bucks! Out of a 2007 wrx and they are in perfect condition. I got the driver seat installed but I’m gonna have to remove it and modify the bracket slightly. Surprisingly these things lined up really well in the Tacoma. They are full recline, double slider, heated, the whole shebang. These are way better than my stock seats. I’ll do pics of them in the truck when I get the other one in.

 

Ok so I got them in today. Gonna have my buddy make me 2 legs for each seat to make them fit perfect. Here’s a pic with the factory seat and the new seats and some with both seats in.

 

Finished my CS144 alternator swap. Man this thing is sooooo much better with respect to output. I turned up my system way louder than I enjoy it at and it never dropped below 14.1v. I used the factory Alt belt and 2x 1/8 grade 8 washers to fill the void. I was surprised that I only used 2 wires from the GM pig tail and its working like a charm. Pretty stoked. Hopefully this thing will last me a little while. I'll post some pics later, kinda tired from being in the garage all morning. Thanks for reading

 

Cool picture my brother in law sent me

 

How did the swap go for those WRX seats? Did you have to redo the rails and all that?

 

Pretty simple actually. Only had to modify one leg

 

Right on! Been looking at swapping my seats and Subaru seats seem to be a good swap

 

Yeah I love um man. I mean they aren’t direct bolt it but I feel like your average guy could make it work

 

+5 hp