Lifting my 2002 TRD questions

im a fan of yellow actually. looks good.

 

Not my color, but damn this thing looks good. Now to do the PreRunner to 4x4 swap hehe

 

^^^ needs 4x4. be able to take your kid offroad and really have fun then.

 

Is it a Tacoma though?

 

You did a TON of cutting.

 

I'm not a huge fan of builds like this, but I have to say you did a real clean job, the truck looks great.

 

Need to remove all those decals

 

Thanks for the compliments gusy. Even those not a fan (49erfan ). As far as performance it is a little sluggish compared to stock but not bad at all. I am checking the gas mileage now. First tank of gas run through it.

 

Virginia bound, truth is that it was the only 6 inch lift available for my truck. I've called every manufacturer and every installer and this was the only one.

 

Is your truck 4 x 4? Mine is 2 Will Dr. which is why this was the only option that I had for a 6 inch lift. I could have done a shorter list of some sort and on the body left but this was the route I chose in the end. Came out just the way I wanted it to. Nice-looking truck though.

 

Truck looks good, im just not a fan of decals on any vehicle

 

Could have done 3" spindle and 3" CO lift and end up with same amount of lift but 6" more ground clearance up front

 

Thanks 49er. Normally I would agree with you. I'm not a fan of the gals. Are used to do custom painting and always paint it on anything I wanted done. But that was Motorcycl's and smaller items. Don't have the ability to do that on my vehicle.
And Devinn, to be honest I just was never offered that option. I don't know all of the inns and outs of what can be done on these things. And the clearance is not really a big deal. It is not an off-road machine

 

Spindles are also $1500 and require uniball UCA's

 

Well, to be fair, this freaking fab tech lift cost me $2100. I couldn't believe it. The same kit for a 4 x 4 version was only about 900 I think. And I did check everywhere. I was able to get the best price on eBay. But I got the installer that I used to match the price

 

Yep the fabtech is expensive. But it'd take 3k for spindles and coilovers. Then 5-700 for uniballs

 

Where am I mistaken?

 

So.... tuning question. My gas mileage went from 20 to 12 as I expected. But Is there a good tuner that will help get a few more miles per gallon?

 

Nope.

 

Tuning it not possible on first gen. Not without a piggyback or standalone, that is.