TRD/ Magnuson 4.0 Supercharger Tips, Tricks, and Mods

Duh. I’m in the industry. Ethanol is bad for lots of reasons. Just make whiskey and leave the energy business to hydrocarbons the way God intended.

 

I’ll leave this here. https://www.pure-gas.org/ Go get some real gasoline. You’re welcome.

 

S/C, ucon, exhaust gears, thermostat install tomorrow. . .

 

All flex fuel vehicles use the ethanol content analyzers. This way they can have overlapping ignition and fuel maps, depending on the content of ethanol in the tank.

For tuning on "pure E85" (used loosely) from a gas station, it is practically a must to have a content analyzer. Since the standards of ethanol are not as strict as gasoline. Having one is a safety precaution by removing the doubt of actual content.

You'd need an aftermarket engine management system that can take advantage of that though. I.E. Haltech Elite.

 

It looks nice but I don't see enough there to say it will allow for better tension on the belt per se. It only seems like it curves the belt around just a little more but not enough to make a better difference.

 

I hope it’s not a mistake doing all this at once.

 

It is actually a significant increase in wrap. It's also adjustable.

 

You will be fine. Did you already install the crank pulley, intercooler, cooler pump and wiring? You can do all of that on a separate day and just leave the fuse out of the pump wiring so you have less to do when you install the sc.

 

...no. All I did was modify the area my intercooler reservoir is going (passenger side) since my aux fuse panel is mounted where the res. would normally go. I got additional hosing and couplers to run those coolant hoses around he passenger side to the front.
It’ll be a good couple of days haha. Hoping to get at least 75% tomorrow and finish saturday

 

It’s a thing. I’ve replaced a bunch of these on flex-fuel Tahoes/Yukons.

https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog...+v8,1424247,fuel+&+air,flex+fuel+sensor,10766



You can get them for aftermarket tuning needs as well.

http://www.innovatemotorsports.com/products/MTXD.php#3904

Good luck and keep us posted!

Looks good from here. Planning to do this on my rig.

 

Just ordered one so I'll see how it works when I switch from the 2.8 to 2.7 pulley.

 

Yes.

No thanks needed.

Huh. Well no shit. I wonder what the mechanism is and how it works.

 

Did u get the quick change pulley?

 

What’s that?

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...0-supercharger-quickchange-pulley-kit.519702/

 

Little question: do we plug both cables into the back of the UCON or is just 1 necessary?

 

Only need 1 .. but I’d do both.

 

Aight, I just got the square one, the harder of the 2 haha

 

How’s the massive install going so far??

 

Email gadget so he can get you in contact with Scott .. he’ll load Utune which can datalog.