TRD/ Magnuson 4.0 Supercharger Tips, Tricks, and Mods

@Coupe

 

I can understand what you're saying here, and Id have to agree. I have fuel pressure and boost gauges on the a-pillar, and then AFRs on the flexpod by the steering wheel. Would probably just use this setup for a oil pressure, oil temp, and coolant gauges. Something I can glance down at from time to time, but not as important to keep an eye on like AFRs.. I take it you aren't a fan of the Lotek mount? Here's how I have mine setup. Not a perfect fit with the Lotek, but good enough for me, and im pretty OCD. Had to have all the gauges match though

 

Will do!

 

Yeah I see what you're saying, I didn't realize you had all those other ones. I think I was thinking someone would put boost and AFR and something else down there to keep the clean steering area look. If you're putting nonessential stuff up there that you would see anyways on an engine light or something, then yeah that would probably be cool.

Yeah the Lotek A pillar thing just bugs me. The fitment always looks off to me and its just a hair off color that would make me lose my mind lol. Plug I have the A pillar Ram mount thing there with my SPoD stuff .

 

I hear that, and love the A-pillar triple gauge pod I run in my Shelby...


Unfortunately, options for our trucks are pretty limited. I'm also considering rolling the dice with a Lotek pod, even though it's not supposed to fit late-model 2nd Gens.

Thank you!

 

Yeah im thinking it'll just be the overflow gauge zone lol.

Fitment and texture wasn't perfect, but it hasn't bothered me as much as I thought it would. Your setup looks good, that screen for the s-pod is yuugee! I like it though!

 

That was my reasoning for going with lotek. I am running one in my 2013, so I don't see why it wouldn't work in your truck. @JuanitoBunito is running one in his truck as well

 

My Lotek wound up in the trash can. Didn’t fit right.

 

You give me hope, until I read something like this...

 

Woulda bought it

 

For 50 bucks, its worth a gamble imo! May get one that fits pretty good. I may have gotten lucky..

 

It just doesn’t match color-wise and there were gaps along the a-pillar and gaps where the handle bolts on. I’m generally not too particular about looks, but it’s right in your face every time you drive the truck.

 

Mine could’ve been an odd one that wasn’t correct, tolerance-wise.

 

Same on older trucks... Dremel wouldn't help? That's all I did

 

I did a little dremeling. The face of the handle is wider than the spot where the handle meets the a-pillar. To be right, I’d gave had to trim the handle.

Then there would’ve still been the gap at the a-pillar where it meets the rubber seal. If the seal had a wider lip to cover the gap, it might look alright.

Just overall, wasn’t impressed. Went back to my console plate.

 

I did I pretty decent write up that I’ve passed around to a few guys on how I did my Lotek fit the best I could. It took me 2 of them to do it....

 

Ok Boys, Checked a plug, looks fine, a little bit of sooting around the edge but the center looks fine. HOWEVER, the gap widened? I saw its supposed to be around .032 and mine is at around .05. Should I even bother fucking with it? Truck has been running fine, can probably get another 30k on these plugs before I should worry. I just don't wanna poke the bear, IYKWIM.

@Torspd

Edit- decided after some mild reading that I'm not gonna fuck with them and leave them in for now. Passenger side looks fine. Was expecting alot more carbon build up or fouling from running so rich at the beginning but it either burned off or its not as bad as I thought.

 

Wonder if we can swap vent controls down low gauges and gauges where vent controls are. I may try that.

 

Lotek pilar works fine. Just gotta go slow and dremel to fit. If I get real picky I'll have some paint made to match better. Doesnt bother me though. Too many gauges to stare at anyway.

 

Could probably find a spare set of AC controls, pop out the controls and dremel out the slots to fit 3 gauges, and then just make something below that to fit the new controls into, or retrofit the old controls into a bracket that fits below