What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

I drove mine and filled the gas tank.

 

Getting back on topic, I finally calibrated my ultra gauge for my larger tires. Hopefully this will give me a more accurate MPG calculation, cuz my mileage has been terrible.

 

Did you do this just by calibrating the distance? I did that and it says im getting around 17mpg, but when i calculate it by my odometer its usually off by 1 or 2. Never been able to understand how this all works.

 

What brand did you go with?

My motor mounts are pretty squish and I have dented my headers and broken an intake tube from it.

i was looking to do some sort of performance ones but it seems for our motor they only offer OEM or solid kits.

I use this as my DD and would hate for the vibrations to be ridiculous.

 

Yeah I calibrated the distance. The reason it is different than using your odometer to calculate is because the trucks computer calculates distance based on stock tire size revolutions per mile. If your tires are 10% larger than stock, you have traveled 10% farther. But the truck can't tell you have different sized tires.

So I reset the UG trip odometer, started my GPS track and drove 4 miles according to GPS, then told the UG that the distance I traveled was 4 miles. Before calibrating it, it thought I had only traveled 3.8 miles or something like that.

So if you calibrated for larger tires, you should only use the trip odometer on the UG for fuel mileage calculations. That is how I understand it, anyway.

 

I just do it easy and add 1 usually haha 33s are like .8 or .9 more almost everytime i think in mpg compared to 31s..least thats what i came up with when i calculated it all out.

 

Woke up to a thunderstorm and immediately sprinted outside nekked to close all 4 windows I had wide open

 

i feel bad for your neighbors

 

Good thing my closest neighbor is 2 miles away haha

 

oh good then, i would prance around my yard nekked 24/7. Oh how free that would feel

 

It is quite wonderful

 

finished my rims. not sure if i'm gonna do the hubcaps or leave them off...

 

finished my rims. not sure if i'm gonna do the hubcaps or leave them off...

 

id say do the hubcaps, i like the way they hold everything togehter. if you want a reference, check out my build page in my sig

 

Thank ya sir. Kinda what I figured. So I should be all.good.

Kinda.what i all calculates.out as well

 

I say do it!!! And do the toy in white!!! You will love it!!!

 

I installed the trailgear bombproof motor mounts. Pretty simple, took me 2 hours. There is alot of vibration compared to OEM, but they are solid. If you are worried about vibration, replace just one with a solid and one with a OEM. Most of the vibration will go away but the motor will be solid

As jberry said, they suck at idle, but when moving they are normal.

 

Or you could use some high temp paint on the hubs.



I didn't like the look of my rims with the center caps (which stuck out about 4") from the wheels. I painted them over a year ago with no issues.

 

Anyone know of some good bump stops for the front? I was looking at these http://www.polyperformance.com/shop/Daystar-EVS-Foam-1-3-8-X-2-1-2-Diameter-Bump-Stop-p-25912.html

Anyone try them?