Recent content by SByota

Little bit of fab work this morning. The motor side plates of the new engine mounts. $100 china headers fit good and appear to be pretty flat. Will they fit in the Tacoma chassis…probably not without modification….

Installed the shift kit in the Tundra trans, not as bad as I thought. The kit is universal to like 8 different versions of the A340, so it’s weird having parts left over. It was also strange pulling check balls out of the valve body, but I was super deliberate and double checked like 5 times...

I have always been a Total Chaos fan. I met Nicole at ROR in like 2002-2003ish…..man I’m getting old. I helped out in the remote pits for TC racers at MDR races for a few years. Such good time. What happened to Gargamel, the 80’s extra cab 4x4 truck Nicole used to drive everywhere. Also does...

Electric fan talk. With the V8 going into the Tacoma, I will not have room for an engine driven fan. I have to do electric. After lots of reading and research, I’ve landed on a the factory fan out of a V8 Camaro. It’s made by Spal and is 800 watts. A similar “universal” Spal fan is like $600+...

The Transgo HD2 setup for “truck”. I keep reading the “hot rod” absolutely slams gears.

Got the motor back together and stated the transmission. Going to install a shift kit and new filter. Inside of the transmission looks great. Fluid was decent and not burned. Filter was clean and nothing on the pan magnets. I’ll have to swap my pan and cooler fitting from my V6 trans, but that...

Learning the way of removing broken and seized bolts from a super crusty east coast engine. Also have the valve covers some paint with a little TRD flair. Colors don’t match exactly, but still way better than super crusty aluminum.

More tearing down, painting and getting stuff cleaned up. Getting real close to putting fresh parts on this thing. Minion came out to help, he was super interested in motor and how it works. It was rad to be able to show him.

This is going to be a fun little car! Drag racer? Street car? Auto cross? Just a little rad car with a turbo and a lot of horsepower?

Just a little Toyota

This is from the 2004 Sequioa EWD. Looks like it uses a speed sensor. There doesn’t seem to be any notes about a different diagram.

In the Tacoma/Tundra chassis the speedometer gets its signal from a speed sensor in the tail shaft of the transfer case. The transmission has separate speed sensors that controls the shift solenoids through the ECU. The speedometer speed sensor goes to the speedometer in the dash then into the...

Started on the motor refresh. Found the cam timing one tooth off. Motor ran fine on the 60 mile drive home, kinda interesting with both cams one tooth off. Also sweet china $100 headers.

Goodbye old rusty truck. Thanks for the parts and cash.

Hate speech…..even though I kinda miss the storage space now.