Taco Sauce TX Pro Build: Custom LT, 37’s, Tundra Axle Swap, and now a Back Half?

not sure if this is what you want. Kinda a pain to pop the hood with where I park in my garage.



But yes I did notice a difference. My metric for comparison was intake air temperature as I noticed it had skyrocketed when I did the engine cage and moved my air filter. First step was to move the air filter further out into the wheel well where I was seeing IAT’s on a mid 80* day somewhere around the 100-110* mark depending on cruising speeds. After the louvers it dropped my IAT’s to 85-90* in similar conditions. They still jump up at slower speeds or when idling, but are probably 15* cooler than without them. You can see the heat pouring out of them though when idling or after you park

 

That’s perfect thank you. I’m running a snorkel and the intake pipe gets crazy hot during our South Carolina summers.

 

Pics from our latest adventures. Took another trip back to CO run the alpine loop and some of the other local passes.



Highlight of the trip was on the 4th of July when we were hanging out at the top of engineer pass. This pilot saw us and decided to put on a show. Dropped in low, turned on the smoke screen and buzzed the peak for us. #murica

 

Kickin it old school with some throwback pics for my avatar and sig pic.

 

Some time consuming but minor tweaks to squeak out some more travel out of the rear ended. Bumps moved up an inch or so and now squeaking out right at 17” of travel.

Fenders needed a touch of trimming but not much.

Honestly with my modified shackle hangers I could probably get closer to 19-20” of travel if I made some longer shackles, but leafs would separate and after talking to Tim at dmz the travel wouldn’t be “clean”. I’d rather stick to tuning what I’ve got until the jump to links in a year or two.

 

Ooh the changes worked well and got some tips to scoot the rear tire back towards the tailgate for better weight transfer.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD-KtruAxhR/?igshid=1te8ytwz8ynyz

 

Trailer ordered. Truck is gonna be a trailer queen come the new year.

 

Towed by the 4Runner!

 

But of course. Just need to add that supercharger and much bigger brakes.

No, my parents recently sold their house and moved in with us while they build a house nearby. Step dad has a 2016 F350 that he said we can borrow if needed so I said hell yes that means I can buy a trailer for this desert season. So we’ll borrow that for a year or two as needed while we save up and then can buy our own.

 

Geez, you run a $0 balance on all your credit cards for a few months and then need to buy parts and get flagged and the card shut down for every purchase lol. Couple of cool upgrades coming soon.

 

I know what they are . I just got a quote for my next ones. Hope its as valuable as 90 hrs of shop labor.

 

The internet can be hard sometimes.

 

Digging the hood louvers! Did you get the inspiration from watching Matt’s Off-road Recovery?

 

Thanks and no, no inspiration from anything other than me wanting to cool down intake and engine temps.

 

Where did you get the louvre panels?

 

Amazon. If you search there’s a bunch of different styles. These were chrome but I painted them before install

 

Ever decide whether you’re keeping the tail light idea with the cyclones or sticking with stock style?

 

I still have one done with the cyclones and one stock lol. Only been 6 months lol. Definitely going to do them with the cyclones. Whenever I have time I think I’ll redo the one a little different and then copy that to complete the pair. I have all the lights and resistors, just a back of my mind project.

 

Ooh, new spindles featuring the JD Fab gussets and double shear steering. Best fitting and designed gussets I’ve installed thus far so I’m glad they are for me.

 

Some newer tundra sliders in the works.