Mods to increase engine potential

The TRD S/C gains you power immediately, no other mods required. That's a fact. You won't have to pull it apart for 100,000 miles unless you are like me and like doing early maintenance. Even then it'll go at least 50,000 miles before you'd want to open it up. That's also a fact. Both are right from Toyota.

 

That's the $5k question. You'd want to start Googling 5 minutes ago and start making phone calls and be ready to drop money without second thoughts.

 

And btw to the people who said "you bought the wrong truck"... Got any suggestions as to what would have been a better alternative? I love my tacoma and I have owned other toyotas in the past. I just want to get more power out of the engine, am I allowed to do that? shit...

 

Facts:

- The TRD blower comes with EVERYTHING necessary to initially get you boosted, correctly.

- No other mods (though should be considered to get the most out o your investment) are necessary in order to make your newly supercharged engine last the stretch.

- TRD superchargers are still out there and available for sale, its the fit kit's that may be difficult to track down, but even then, all tbe fit kit is, is an intercooler and a wiring harness for the water pump for the circulaton radiator, and a front end replacement bracket.

- The Tacoma TRD supercharger is based off the Eaton M90 roots blower. There should be no reason nor excuse as to why you cannot rebuild the blower down the road if need be. There will and should be plenty of support for these unit's either from Eaton or Toyota directly for years to come.

- That should be it, but what do I know. Lmao.

 

Ford F150 3.5 L Ecoboost, Ford 5.0 L with the Roush blower, or Tundra 5.7 L with the S/C would give you the most bang for buck. If you want fast go for the short box regular cab versions of these trucks and drop them to the ground. Get the Ford Ecoboost tuned if you get that direction and run synthetic. The other two options are aftermarket modifications. Both the Roush Ford and the Tundra with S/C run great quarter mile times.

Sure you can get more out of the Tacoma engine without S/C, but you are going to have to pay out the nose for it. Like Torspd said, lots of bolts on parts out there but only a few of them work as advertised and you need to match them all up right to get the most effect. Even after all of that you are going to be just short of the TRD S/C. You can make the Tacoma fast, just expect to dump in another $5-$10K in supporting mods to the S/C if you want times in the 13's or 14's. If you just want the Tacoma about 30% more powerful and 10% faster, then just the TRD blower is going to make you very happy.

 

Call up Colorado, and Texas Toyota dealers as well as Bellvue Washington. All will ship their kits out on your dime. You may be paying a higher price at this juncture, but if you want the extra power, especially this late in the game you have to pay to play.

 

Ok I'll check it out, but 4.5K is already pricey enough for the end result... thanks though


fuck Ford... and the Tundra is too big.
What I was trying to say is that I bought the truck that's right for me, even if it is lacking a little in the power department. But hey, cant have it all can you? Its still better than anything else on the market IMO

 

That's what I'm saying. 4.5K is AT MINIMUM what you'll find them at right now, but again, you gotta pay if you want to play. For the new output gain out of it that you get though, you will be very pleased. Unless of course you want a rocket ship truck, like @Rock Lobster.

 

Christian needs a Raptor.

 

The longer you wait the less likely you will get even just the blower for that sort of price.

Basically yes. If you wanted to go fast as stink you would of had to of gone to a bigger truck with a V8 and still had to of gone to boost.

The Tacoma isn't really lacking in the power department. It's right about where a truck it's size should be. However, if you are used to V8 half tons, it does feel short of that mark and the TRD S/C brings it's power up nicely.

 

I have a customer that just bought a 2015 Ford F150 RCSB and is sticking a Roush stage 2 blower on it. He's also going with meth injection, a custom tune (from who I don't know), and road slicks. He will be taking it to a strip about 100 km away for times. I suspect he'll be in the 10's for time and blow the diff at some point.

 

That Mustang got it's balls smoked. LMAO!

 

Mustang fucked his launch. He needs better tires and some training. Look at the final MPH on each vehicle.

 

He still got his balls smoked. It's not the Tundra drivers fault the Mustang dude can't drive.

 

Truth, but it's almost a crime to have a Mustang that nice and screw up the launch bad enough that you can't out run a S/C Tundra.

 

500 ponies and 550 ft. lbs. torque of solid truck D can be hard to beat if the driver of it installed the driver mod. Mustang or not.

 

The Shelby is stock +500 HP. With the mods he had he should of had far better power to weight ratio. To be beat by a less powerful heavier vehicle means you need to make some adjustments to say the least .

That being said the best driver almost always wins in drag. I've watched a V6 Mustang blow the doors off a Porsche 911 at the strip because the Porsche driver didn't have a clue what he was doing.

 

In a perfect world, assuming the drivers of both vehicles have equal reaction times and all is as it should be on the vehicle itself, that Shelby should had won hands down. Now, driver mod always wins, all day long. What is the Shelby's torque? Remember, torque gets you moving, and horsepower is what keeps you moving. It's not as relevant as the torque values because regardless of the weight, anything 3000lbs and up is still an ass ton of weight to get moving off the line. To keep it moving, not so much.

 

The Shelby kills the Tundra S/C in torque as well after tuning, just check out that stock 2013 number:

Shelby GT500 (5.4 L SC V8) 2010 540 hp (403 kW)@6000, 510 lb·ft (691 N·m)@4800
Shelby GT500 (5.4 L SC V8) 2011-2012 550 hp (410 kW)@6200, 510 lb·ft (691 N·m)@4250
Shelby GT500 (5.8 L SC V8) 2013-2014 662 hp (494 kW)@6250, 631 lb·ft (856 N·m)@4000

 

Ouch. Lol. Nearly 100 ft. lbs. more.

Well, regardless. He got his nuts roasted. Quite tenderly at that.