What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Looks great. Damn it! LOL!

 

Regarding cold air intakes I noticed IMMEDIATE better throttle response with my K&N. No more sluggish take off. I do not off-road so no concerns there. May fab a screen cover for it anyway. I would not say I gained any real horsepower but, after nearly 2 years of use, absolutely better throttle response than stock. When I added my Gibson exhaust I also noticed a slight gain. I would say maybe 10 or 15 added hp total MAX. But I only paid $435 for all of it. I was going to buy a $550 TRD exhaust. Much happier with what I have. The only down side is the loud intake. Fortunately the exhaust balanced it out. I have had at least 10 K&N setups over the years. My daughters Shelby came with it stock and my last 2 Z28's came stock with them. For what I paid I would have sold them for 1/2 price if they did not increase performance no matter how small. The problem is that these engines just don't perform unless you add a tune. I was pissed the first week when I found you could not add headers to the crappy exhaust design. So for my money I know I increased my performance. When I bought it the slug would not spin a tire. I can break the rear loose practically at will now without a tune. That is a FACT.

 

Yeah.... I tried to talk a deal on a TRD Pro and basically got laughed at hahaha

Luckily I was dealing with the sales manager, I had been working with him for a few days and already gotten 5K off the sticker price. On the last day I basically said "you know its a nice truck and I'll do the deal, but I want different wheels and tires" he said he couldn't which I knew he couldn't. I pushed a little more and kinda made good fun conversation in the mix. Then I said "Alright, i'll do the deal if you will just throw in the TRD Intake and Exahust" he said "Ok but you will have to pick it up and install yourself, we cant install for you or else you'll have to pay for it". So i said done and installed it myself lol

 

I know this is an ongoing discussion/argument, but I have directly spoken to five people and read at least a similar number of post, by folks that have both the TRD exhaust and TRD performance intake and all are in agreement they noticed improvements in accelerating, as I did. The only folks I see saying that there is no chance of improvement are the ones that haven’t done these modifications. You can talk about butt dynos and real dynos and hopeful imagination all you want, but for me the improvement was noticeable and I have no regrets with the purchase.

 

my engine bay looks like I sharted all over it too. is it safe to hose it down and clean up?

 

Agreed!!

 

and you don have to carry a stool around

 

What % up front?

 

Why not just this for a whole lot less money:

http://www.autoanything.com/air-intakes/hps-performance-silicone-air-intake-hoses

It looks like there might be an additional 20% off?

 

Spot on, lol. I did the math this morning because I was curious. Not quite 3 week's yet with my 18. $2050 spent. Plenty more coming.

 

Just imagine my emptiness with no engine mods other than removing that charcoal filter. I want that HPS hose, an axle dump, and the crossover reroute but am trying to be good.

 

Back when I had my 2016 Tacoma, I worked directly with Airaid on the development of their CAI. We went through several different designs, subtle tweaks here and there, road tests and a few dyno days.

Working directly with the engineers and development team, you gain a lot on insight and see first hand what was real improvement and what was not. One of the versions saw a pretty good gain in HP but drivability sucked and the truck kept throwing codes, so that design got scrapped and a more mild design was created that produced less HP, like maybe 5, but didn't throw codes, so that's the one that ultimately went into production.

Having said that, any HP gains are pretty negligible, but throttle response was definitely improved across the board. I ultimately opted to not run the intake on my 17 because I hated the loud induction noise and since it wasn't much of an improvement in the power department, I couldn't justify listening to the loud ass induction, especially on long drives. I do have the TRD exhaust which I like a lot as I feel like it's the best sounding exhaust for these trucks, just my opinion. Performance wise, it's doubtful that it offers any increase, not that I'd notice anyway with the addition of armor, sliders, heavy 34" tires and such, but it does sound better than stock and I got it for next to nothing, so why not..

There are some engines that do benefit tremendously from a CAI however our 3.5's are not one of them. The 4.88 gears where the best drivability mod that I've done hands down.

 

but ya gotta love those headlights

 

Blacked out the “AVISO” decals on the visors.

 

Simple solution to pedal response..... Pedal commander.. Though I do not have one personally, I have heard great reviews from people I trust that know what they are talking about..

 

Look's awesome! How much did the top run you?

 

If you are asking what “Sharted” means:

When you push hard to force a fart out, but a little doodoo comes out instead

 

No problem. Pedal commander might be your ticket then and wont have to listen to loud induction

 

Some more random stuff... also went wheeling this weekend before I put these sliders on and welll the sliders came in 2 days to late....



@Pelfreybilt


Also got this cool handlebar shifter from @gogetagrip

 

Or you when wheeling two days too early? (I kid.)
Two days after I installed my sliders, I was off-roading on some wet "trails". While crawling, my rear tires slid on a wet log and tossed me sideways directly into a tree. My sliders (with kick-outs, thankfully) saved my ass some $$$$$! (And a few times since.)