OVTune 3.5L Tacoma Supercharger and Twin Turbo Systems

As long as you drive it nicely, no. Just stay out of boost.

 

Cool that's what I figured.

 

1 here

 

Let me know

Let me know too please. I want to check it out before I install mine. Still waiting for it to ship.

 

Best I can tell who bought a kit/received a kit:

1- MESO (received)
2- bigetaco22 (received)
3- mziggy (received)
4- speedtacotursday (on the way?)
5- turd hawg (received)
6- whitedlite (received)
7- seelyarttacus (received)
8- jimmyturbo (received)
9- jamest
10- twtaco (received) - 3rd_gen_trd_taco
11- jrgymie
12- tea-coma
13- gen3tacomaobx
14- kodeman23
15- ronzio
16- redlantern
17- thetacochrist
18- ackattack911
19- kncklechldrn
20- blkdout
21- bluetacho
22- Jason j
23- rj_taco
24- ?
25- ?

 

I’m 3rd to last on that list according to Matt. FYI.
But I plan to install it completely the week I receive it, and document lots the first month.
I will put a lot of miles on fast.

Or I may sell my truck before it comes in. I’m kind of relying on this turbo to keep me invested in this truck.

 

Not received

 

Thanks for putting that together as disappointing as it is. Lol Thought more had already received. I’ll stand by to stand by.

 

Mine was to be picked up and shipped last Friday so its possibly on its way, not certain on that? I didn’t get a shipping notice yet however.

Also, looks like there’s atleast 6 members that should have their kits fully installed very soon. It’s a neck and neck race between Turdhawg, Mziggy, Jimmyturbo and Bigetaco22 it seems

 

I’m pushing, but keep hitting snags. I got the passenger side pretty much done. I trimmed the passenger side shock tower and wastegate to give myself room. Also trimmed and shimmed the lower air box 1/2” up on the motor side to make it clear the 90 coolant fitting on the turbo. That may only be because of the extra space taken up by the turbo blanket.

Took the wastegate off the drivers side to get it to go down in the hole and mounted, cut away a bit of wheel well too to make it easier, maybe not absolutely necessary but I’m in F it mode and going for easy. Found the air inlet runs directly into the oil fill, and I’d need to chop 1/3 off the shock tower, to include 1/3 coilover bolts, to get the wastegate in. With expert supervision and suggestion, I’ve decided to 22.5 or 45 off the air inlet to clear the oil fill, and loosen the vband to turn the wastegate and cold side of the turbo towards the motor to clear of the shock tower. If I knew that prior to trimming the passenger shock tower then it probably wasn’t necessary. I found you also need to start the top left manifold nut prior to attempting to seat the manifold all the way as the manifold stud damn near touches the manifold on bolt up.

Used quite a bit of extra heat shielding. I’m finding 5/8” and 1” diameter adhesive heat shielding to be invaluable. I’ve also been bouncing ideas off of others installing the turbos which has been more than helpful.

All in all going well, OV has been really responsive to emails with concerns, questions, and parts listings for jacked up parts.

Keep in mind I’m no mechanic, so every step is a challenge, I’m inching closer, can’t wait to fire it up!

 

You first few installers along with your snags and tribulations are sequentially making the install easier for the following members as they receive theirs. So..much appreciated and don’t forget to snap photos along the way!

 

Yes, already told my shop to get this on a the schedule so photos and guidance appreciated to smooth the process.

I’m planning to delete the cats as can get by without them where I am. Anyone else doing that? Trying to research quiet exhaust to go with it. Thinking urd y pipe then????? From there.

 

Are you 1 of the 2 mystery persons out of the 25 getting a kit?
You should have ordered catless from the get go and save yourself the hassle of removing the cats.
Going catless equals more noise, so if you are looking to lose the cats it won’t help with your goal of a quiet exhaust. However you can squeeze in a couple Vibrant ultra quiet resonators as I did in my 2nd Gen Taco and it will help keep it a bit more tolerable.

I kept my URD ypipe off of my 2nd Gen and may install it, but we will see how loud it will be as is, without. Installing the URD ypipe will exasperate the noise problem even further as it removes the last 2 downstream cats. It’s a trade off, you will have to decide what’s more important to you, a bit of performance or noise/sound.

 

Wasn’t Meso an exception? The 26th? Which would leave three more to your list.

 

I went with catted downpipes and then ordered the Doug Thorley catless y-pipe with resonators.

 

Day before yesterday, I called the shop to see how things were going and they ended up asking me to stop by to discuss some things with the kit, so I did.

They were under the impression that this kit was purchased used or that an install attempt had already been made due to various issues and condition of some of the pieces.

The tech they have working on it is "the turbo guy", apparently he's their top guy for performance installs. He went over all the issues with the kit with me and said he took pictures of everything to make sure he's got everything documented.

Some stuff has gouges in it, nothing functionally damaging except for one of the carbon fiber pipings that is cracked through and they're going to replace with an aluminum piece so that it doesn't leak. He'd said they can't just seal it up because eventually the seal would likely fail.

One of the actuators was stuck open so he had to fix that. One of the wastegates is missing a lock so they're going to add that in.

The heater hose pieces that are designated to be used for oil he flat out won't use and will be getting proper lines for because he said it'll soak it up and expand and fail.

Looked like the turbos were on the wrong mani's, looking like the holes didn't line up either when looking at the markings left behind, meaning not all the air would be flowing properly.

They definitely agreed that the kit is the real deal. They saw the ford stampings on the gaskets and saw the garrett logos and remarked on the quality of the downpipes and mani's and whatnot and kept saying this is going to be a badass kit, no doubt. But the tech is determined to make sure that it goes in correctly, instead of haphazardly or with pieces that will fail or not work properly.

I'm actually really happy that they called me down to show me everything and go over it all with me, and relieved that I elected to have a shop install because for awhile I'd been undecided if I'd install myself and some of these things I wouldn't have recognized or thought to check. All in all, I did get informed my install quote will be going up due to the extra hours spent fixing and checking items, but that's fine. Would rather it get done right. At least I've got @Turd Hawg working on his too and hitting the snags that he is so that I can relay those solutions to the shop if they encounter them as well.

 

I don’t think they have ordered yet as we are still working on the rear trying to get it sorted so we know where everything is going and can route around it.

I can get by without any cats, it’s making it quiet after that which is the challenge.
Thanks for the tip.

 

No, our prophet @MESO was 1 of the chosen 25.

 

You mean martyr. RIP

 

Some of the nicks and gouges I would bet came through shipping, but also there turbos come from Garrett with some nicks, scratches, etc.

On the manifolds, where the drill press drilled them you may find but it doesn't hurt or affect anything.


The turbos definitely are not on the wrong manifolds, if they swap they the turbos will spin the wrong way creating no boost. You can't put them on any other way, or the inlet of the turbo would be facing backwards.

The wastegate locking clip may have fell off and would be in the box.

Also oil won't soak through the hose.
Oil soaks through pure silicone hose


Will be sending out tune files to everyone today