1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Based on my readings... it looks cleaner, and sounds different? Any added improvements?

 

Can someone persuade me not to be cheap first? At least with the switches.

I wanted something like this, but I'm 90% sure it won't fit in the sunglasses compartment.

$9 DaierTek Illuminated Toggle Switch 12V LED, Green LED Lighted Toggle Switch 12 Volt Single Pole 30 Amp 12V for Automotive Car Aircraft -2pcs

Link to illuminated toggle switches.

$13 Nilight Led Pods 2Pcs 18W 1260LM Flood Led Off Road Lights Super Bright Driving Fog Boat Lights Led Work Light Bar for Trucks Pickup Golf Cart SUV ATV UTV 4x4 Van Camper,2 Years Warranty

Link to light pods.

$26 Nilight - 90110E 5 Gang Aluminum Rocker Switch Panel Toggle Dash 5 Pin ON/Off Pre-Wired Rocker Switch Blue Backlit Switch for Automotive Car Marine Boat RV,2 Years Warranty

Link to Rocker switches.

 

Makes cool noise. Won't give you a single horsepower but it eliminates that box on the stock intake which acts like a sound damnper. The little box where your vacuum ports plug in.

 

Oohhhhh. Did someone say more noise?!?

 

I bought the lights a few months ago...still haven’t decided where or if to use them. Thought about cutting up some grill and putting them flush in there somewhere.

 

More noise, cleaner looking... that’s all. Performance gain? On Tacoma 3.4l, hood for like 2 hp.. I just like the noise

 

I feel like this would be more appreciated here.


If you look at the "DUI handling area" by the flag pole you can see this.

On the very back wall of the plant, in a secluded corner, there is a framed photo from 2003. It was taken shortly after we opened. Yamashita was the original owner of my truck when he bought it new. While he was here in America helping to get the plant started.

I've walked by this picture countless times and there has always been too many things in the way. I've never been able to get up close to it before.

Blown away...

 

What kind of noise?

 

Pretty cool topper

 

Not sure how it happened? Maybe some exp

You still have it? Sell it to @empty_lord

 

Where is this? I think i missed the first part of the story.

 

@TomGreen you got anymore info for us on this air box pipe?

 

Where house? Is that where the wherewolves hang out?

 

This is where I work in 2003.

The first part of the story is Dad gets employed at work when I'm a wee lad. Can't be older than 7-8 yo. Yamashita (YAH-MAH-STAH) is brought over by Toyota from Japan to over see the start up of our plant. He buys my truck new. He was our VP? He was a higher up in plant management. Can't remember exactly what position. His father fell ill so Yamashita had to return to Japan to care for father. He sold all of his American worldly possessions and moved back to Japan. My pops bought my lil ole V6 from Yamashita in 2006-7? With 28,000 miles.

Fast forward to me learning how to drive in it, fast forward again to speeding tickets, fast forward again to my joining the forum, fast forward again to my build thread.

Currently sitting at 326,800-ish miles.

Several deer impacts, several turkey, one bobcat, one coyote, one blood hound, one buzzard, one slide off the road during iced over conditions, one slide into a stump ass end first....

Long, long way to ba sing se....

 

Where was everyone talking about ABS vs NON-ABS master cylinders again?

This thread or the what have you done today?

 

It was a few pages back in this thread but it was specific to the ones with VSC. The 05-06 Tundra's have a really expensive master cylinder compared to the earlier trucks. VSC makes them even more expensive.

 

Lupin, please.

 

Just the K&N version...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux9XdBkcXO8

I'm still trying to figure out if it's 9hp or 13hp lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6y_sU0_4DDU

 

I found it back on page 309. Thanks for the hint. Scared of the search function here.

 

I’m thinking common sensical here. If an aftermarket air filter (which lets in more air and doesn’t filter as well) can ‘allow’ more horsepower, then a simple test run without any air filter would let us know if we ‘feel’ the power increase.

This test is only a test to see if one should risk using oily or more porous than OEM air filters. Only a test.

 

I got a similar switch panel to fit in the sunglasses holder for my hooptie. Write up here.

 

Your write up is sweet. I like it. Following your build now too. I'm jelly! Thank you!

I was concerned with the 5 gang rockers not fitting since I have 5 relays in the tacomapros box I slapped in. I appreciate your license plate mount. Much simpler, and lighter weight than mine.

Edit: I think I'm gonna try the toggle switches i posted earlier. If I want to go bigger (rocker switch) I can do that still.

I was taught to cut smaller first. (Measure twice, cut once kinda thing)

 

Thanks buddy. Initial install for the switch panel was rough and rushed. I ended up taking it all apart this summer, bending the spade connectors to 90° for all wires going into the rockers, then re-installing and applying a bit of plastic JB weld to to the corner of each rocker to keep them from popping out of the panel. That holder / headspace is tighter than a tics asshole...

I used this switch panel for reference:

$19 FXC Rocker Switch Aluminum Panel 4 Gang Toggle Switches Dash 5 Pin ON/Off 2 LED Backlit for Boat Car Marine Blue

https://www.amazon.com/FXC-Rocker-A...rds=4+gang+switch+panel&qid=1605283615&sr=8-7

5 might be pushing it.

 

We need to do an independent first gen test. Stock intake stock filter and high flow filter vs smooth tube stock filter and high flow filter.

Now who's got access to a dyno?

 

@dirtydeeds probably

 

I'm not a huge fan of Silverado's, but that poor truck.

 

That is honestly not even safely drivable.

 

I found it on the ol' offerUp, someone is trying to sell the wheels

 

That’s far to deep to fit the sunglasses oanel