Taco Terror's ‘96 Old Truck Build

Well I haven't updated this thread in over a year now, so here goes nothing.

First, took her offroad with my buddies a few times here and there last year.




suspension shot when I dipped the right rear in a little mud.

 

No rear locker but she does well

 

Also it doubles as a boat haha

 

Here the lil yota is loaded down with my lil quad


Suspension handles the weight of the full toolbox, line x, and quad well.

 

And onto the mods since I last posted!
First was a tint strip, it definitely makes a difference.

 

Then @LSC15 offered to make me some projector retrofits, I had to say yes.

With my H4 conversions:


Then with his finished product:

 

20 years of age started to show on the grill plastic so I color matched it with duplicolor:


bug eyes:


Sometime before I painted:


And then as of today, roughly 4 months after:

 

I did a few other things over the past year, but now heres some moar pics in case your computer/phone was already struggling.





No flares because I was cleaning underneath them:




All clean next to my buddy's truck:


and a rolling shot:

 

Went to the junkyard today, didn't really find anything of interest but I bought this black antenna.

Why? Because it matches the truck better than the stock silver one, nobody will ever notice something so small though. But, it's more flexible than the old solid steel rod so hopefully it's less likely to bend and break offroad.

A car wash bent the old one slightly.

 

What kind of rims do you have? Do you know the exact model?

 

They are American Racing Baja wheels. The number is AR172

 

Nice truck man. Love that rear.

Just realized you're buds with Logan

 

Thanks man, yeah I remember when he started out with the 4 cylinder that looked the same as mine. That didn't last long though haha.

 

Yer boy digs the rolling shots

 

Thanks breh. The one on the dirt road was rolling but it doesn't look like it.

 

taco terror, you still have this model?

 

Sure do

 

looks good! I've been roaming around here for about a month and yours is the first one I've seen that is very similar to mine other than the mods you've done … those wheels are definitely nicer than the stock steel wheels, mine came with the aluminum alloys which are still in decent condition after 22 years of road wear.
Have you done any mods to your engine compartment? … looking through your pics and I might have missed a shot of under the hood
also, I am needing a new muffler and pipes finally and the parts dept. no longer have OEM that I can find, what do you have on yours? I don't want to put some krap on mine and not be happy with it looking around for some recommendations ya know

and now I know what mine would look like with a camper shell on

 

never mind LOL I must've skipped over this page … looks like this was done about 5yrs ago? How is this system today doing?

 

The OEM alloys are nice 90s wheels, I hated my steel ones because they were so ugly.

Under the hood I did have a K&N for a short period of time which was cool at first to hear the induction noise. It does not filter like the stock box though so I sold it and reinstalled the original air box. You can achieve the same neglible HP increase a cold air intake gives you with a deckplate mod.

The magnaflow is an 18" I believe, it gives it a deeper growl without a real bad drone (There is still some drone). After having it for several years I kinda want a quiter exhaust again. It depends on if you want it close to stock or louder, there are tons of options out there.