Tyler Lacasse's Supercharged 3RZ Dual Cased Fully Locked Long Travel Crawler Build

https://youtu.be/vhqS9puOYro






CURRENTLY

Engine:

• LCE Supercharger
• 2.2 Supercharger Pulley *Around 10lbs of boost*
• AEM Methanol Injection
• Volant Intake
• LCE Headers
• 3" Full Exhaust w/Cherry Bomb turbo style muffler

Transmission:

• Factory W59
• Inchworm Crawl Box
• Factory transfer case
• RAD Triple Stick
• LCE Short Shift kit

Front 12" overall wheel travel:

• MCM 3.5" long travel
• King 8" 2.5 remote reservoir coilovers
• OEM Toyota Lower Ball Joint base converted to Uniball
• OEM Toyota tie rod ends
• Total Chaos coil bucket gussets
• Total Chaos cam tabs
• Total Chaos spindle gussets
• ARB air locker w/5.29s gears

Rear ~12" overall travel:

• All Pro Expo leaf pack with Dakar leaf added
• 2.5 X 16" King piggyback shocks (oversized, but found for a good deal)
• 2.5 X 2.5 King hydro bumps
• '04 Tundra axle with Trail Gear truss
• Total Chaos shackles welded above frame
• ARB air locker w/5.29 gears

COMING SOON
***Giant Motorsports 64" leaf pack along with their Solid Shock Co Bypass shocks to push around 20" of rear travel***

Body:

• 1 Inch 4crawler body lift with poly bushings, larger pucks, and upgraded hardware.

Tires & Rims:

• 38X13.50X17 Patagonia Milestar M/T
• 17" Trail Ready Beadlocks

Lighting Up Front:

• Osram Night-Breakers w/upgraded headlight harness
• LED switchback corner lights.
• Two Hella Rallye 4000 with euro driving beams
  
• Two Rigid fogs in probably not the most ideal place
  
• Ebay 42" curved light bar
• Green/white dust strobes

Lighting In The Rear:

• Taillights are all over-sized LED
• Amber/white dust strobe lights

Armor:

• Trail Gear front bumper
• Skid-Row Offroad front skid plate
• Marlin Crawler rear bumper
• Bash Fab sliders
• Trail Gear crossmember

Recovery:

• Warn VR8 winch
• Traction boards from Amazon
• Safe Jack hydraulic bottle
• Crosby Shackles
• Foldable Shovel
• Ready Welder II

Electronics:

• 12V Guy switches
• Autozone AGM batter under the bed
• High output alternator
• Two Viair Compressors

Some great people to work with-

Robert Otwell Fabricator of Otwell Welding and Fabrication.
Otwellfab@gmail.com

Chad Gardner Fabricator of BashFab.
Bashfabrication@hotmail.com

Trail Gear Vendor for going above and beyond on help with specialty parts.
sales@trail-gear.com

Paul James for Tundra and other Toyota swap parts located in Irwindale area
rpauljames.rpj@gmail.com

For Builder Parts Check out:

Ruffstuff Specialties
https://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com

Poly Performance
https://www.polyperformance.com

 

Nice truck, good luck with the swap, nice to see more and more people doing it.

 

Front end parts are still in the works for the 4X4 Swap.

But got a shell yesterday! Needs paint for sure, but I'm happy about it. Will be nice having the extra secured space on the regular cab.

 

Otwell welding and fabrication did an awesome job on my hoop. Time for paint soon!

Will be building a super cool low profile roof rack/basket over the whole shell and extending it halfway over the cab pretty soon.

 

Evolution of the front bumper. It is finished now! I am most likely going with a skid-row skid plate soon because my stock one is kinda trashed. Since I am bit armored up now, I am have finally decided to regear to 5.29s. Going with ARB air-locker in the rear. Will share the details of the onboard air setup in a couple weeks! I think she's finally ready for a proper beating!

 

Great looking little truck. Good call with the 5.29s. They really give the 3rz some much needed guts.

Subscribed!

 

Thanks, Carter! I was torn between that and 4.88s. Wasn't till I drove 3rd gear (auto) at 2,800 RPM doing about 65/70mph with my 4.30s and 33s for a few hundred miles and had no notable difference in gas mileage and truck just felt like it was meant to drive in that range. I am sold on it!! Just going to work on saving up for the gearing and locker now.

 

Oh wow, didn’t realize it was an auto. 5.29s no doubt in that case.

 

Just arrived in the mail yesterday...it is HUGE!! Viair 485C Gen II

 

Mmm... Parts! Skid Row Offroad Skid Plate arrived and put it on at midnight when I got home. My stock mud guard/skid was a bit tacoed from high centering and hitting rocks. This should do the trick. The weight of this skid inspires confidents to just send it up something now and not worry about my radiator.

 

Here are some shots of how she cruises through Cleghorn!

https://youtu.be/sXrY8pGfkO4

 

CB and amp install came out pretty clean! Since the console is from a 4runner with the parking brake in it, I'm going to stick a HAM in there since it is an empty slot on a Tacoma.

 

Soooo uhm... 35s just happened

 

yooooo! stumbled across your build thread.

sub'd.

whats new with this thing? you ever get the ol' girl re geared?

 

Hahahaha I am catching up on throwing parts at her that I've had for a while and finally getting to do. I hope you've made progress on your tranny!

Recently did 1.25 Spidertrax spacers and I completely clear the frame at lock. It also put the wheels at a much better spot for tubbing the firewall when the time comes.
Did a 1" 4crawler body lift with poly bushings and the truck feels amazing and gave me better clearance for the tires.
Moved the rear axle back 3/4" centering the tires in the wells (less trimming to come).
Just rebuilt my coilovers and got my springrate dialed in at 550lb coils with 7.5wt oil. No more body roll and she rides amazing.

I have been keeping my eyes out for a used 5.29 gear-set but not feeling too optimistic. Soon though....soon...whatever happens.

The 2jz truck is about ready to roll out of the garage too. You'll probably see it at the next Fiesta Island meet. Someone also gave me a cool boat. So the projects are rolling strong.

 

damn man, you been busy. ill have to talk to you about the tub process after you do yours. im going to have to tub mine at some point.

my truck is still down. its going into a friend of my dads shop today, so i should get some answers by the end of the day. its looking like im going to end up buying and installing a remaned transmission. if the new trans fixes the problem im going to buy a core off ebay for a couple hundred bucks and turn it in the the first guy i payed for the rebuild to get my money back. im taking it to my dads friend to have him give it a once over before i pull the trigger on a reman trans.

 

i really wanna see that 2JZ haha. i was gunna say you should come down for the tacoma world superstition meet. thatll take place before next years fiesta island meet but if it was at the desert you'd probably wanna bring out the reg cab.

 

Do you know when the superstition meet is?

 

Currently

 

Last year it was in January. No official date for 2020 but this is where it you’ll find it when the time comes...

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...erstition-trip-jan-26-27-2019.460736/page-140