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Sniv's Supercharged Tundra "Build"

Discussion in '2nd Gen Builds (2007-2013)' started by snivilous, Jun 14, 2019.

  1. Jul 31, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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    Dude that is a sweet swap! That fits great too, though I'm not surprised considering how huge the 2F was. Did you do it all yourself? Is it a stock LQ9 besides the Holley?
     
  2. Jul 31, 2020 at 12:04 PM
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    Yeah did it in my garage and bought most of the little swap parts on Amazon. The truck had a 454 in it by the PO, but it was a rough job to say the least. When the 454 developed a knock I took advantage of the opportunity to put in a fresh LS and clean everything up. It's got a TH400, NP205 and locked 14B behind it. I put in a cable twin stick for the NP205. Might do a NV4500 or Doubler and keep the auto eventually.

    Re your last post, I just went through a similar decision in selling vs keeping my Tundra. Had a good offer on it but decided I have it dialed so why sell it? Prices in the used truck market are high right now though.
     
  3. Sep 15, 2020 at 6:12 PM
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    question, I'm probably asking the wrong person... but with the SC, you think MPG would increase over stock if you ran consistent 70-75...
     
  4. Sep 15, 2020 at 6:19 PM
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    No, regardless how or where I drive it's consistently 1mpg less at best. Even just tooling around town or the mountains at slower speeds, before I could often hit 14mpg, I think I've seen >14mpg once or twice and it was on long road trips, the rest of the time at most I'm at 13mpg. I think it's POSSIBLE, but only in very specific scenarios such as cruising on flat ground and you barely tap into boost occasionally instead of down shifting, but overall at the end of the year I don't see it overall being an improvement.

    And to add to that, right now premium is around 20% more expensive where I am, and if you got 1mpg more (15 vs 14) that's still only a 7% increase in mileage. You'd have to get almost 17mpg (assuming you get 14mpg now) to even break even due to higher cost of gas. In the calculation of $/mile, I think it's impossible for the blower to win out ever.
     
  5. Oct 15, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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    Little update. Truck is at ~237k and running like a champ. Been towing a lot lately now that the weather is cooling off. Last week was Trail Hero which is a local offroading event and we drove down to it four different days, which was about 500 miles total of towing the golf cart.

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    And then next week I'm towing my dad's boat back to him in Colorado, and then hopefully picking up a lathe and might then tow a truck down from SLC that I'm building with some friends. Last week I got an exhaust from Magnaflow so decided to install that today before the trip next week. The exhaust that came on the truck when I bought it was pretty ghetto, it was dual exhaust into a single muffler with dual tail pipes, and twice now I've had a tail pipe fall off since they were shittily hung--so if this exhaust wont fall off when I'm bouncing through whoops that'd be a big improvement, plus it'll hopefully be quieter than the old one.

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    Old setup vs the magnaflow kit:

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    Apparently the previous owner had this weird intermediary tube removed when he did the exhaust, which is what the magnaflow bolts into. So of course, it can't be a simple bolt on so I had to grab some tubing and throw something together.

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    It's not exactly my prettiest work, especially since the shit I bought from Autozone welds fucking nasty (like welding a grade 8 bolt where all that shit is flaking off). But it could be worse!

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    The tip is all chrome and fancy looking, which I didn't like in the first place (too flashy for me), and when I hung it up it didn't even really fit since my lift shackles push the leaf down so far at droop. As a result I just cut the dumb thing off, so the exhaust dumps right below/next to the leaf spring which looks better in my opinion plus it won't get bashed on stuff. Now the exhaust tip can hang out on my shelf of random cool parts :D

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    Annnnd that wraps up any recent shit. I got in on the group buy cluster fuck for gears too, so I've already paid for 5.29 gears with REM polish and a power trax geared limited slip. That's all the way in California, so my plan was to go to Magnaflow and dyno the truck (see if it actually makes 600hp like seems logical) and then get the truck regeared and drive it back to Utah, but we'll see if that actually happens and even if it did it would be awhile out for me to get time to drive out there. And that wraps up the only stuff that's happened to the truck lately, and in the foreseeable future, just stock things :D

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  6. Nov 6, 2020 at 3:36 PM
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    Towed my dad's boat back to him in Colorado, and then did a lot of towing the can am around in October.

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    So time for an oil change and tire rotation. She's at 238,264 miles. No hiccups, though the supercharger seems really loud with the hood open. Not anything specific I'm hearing, but I think a rebuild might be in the near future. I installed it almost 25k ago and it was used so who knows how many miles are on it. It sounds fine when you're not standing right in front of it, but worth noting.

    Also trying to piece together a cold air intake. While towing the boat to Colorado I was seeing intake temperatures near 100 even though it was like 55 out, and especially after seeing temps of supposedly 200 degrees while sitting in the drive through this summer, it's definitely time to get rid of that shitty Air raid. I talked to Superchargers Online and they sold me the lower half of the intake box, I think I need to call them again since I bought an upper half off eBay (apparently no one sells the whole box used lmao) and they don't fit. I'm almost to the point of buying the $500 TRD box and making it fit, but at the same time this isn't a huge priority. Otherwise no updates, next post in another 5000 miles :D

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  7. Nov 23, 2020 at 12:18 PM
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    Just finished a trip to Baja for the Baja 1000, you can view that here: https://www.tundras.com/threads/baja-1000.78646/

    As far as strictly truck related stuff is going, pulling into the yard the truck is right at 240,500 miles. I have a supercharger airbox on order from SCOL which should be here soon and get rid of the cone filter I have, that should help with intake temperatures a lot. The supercharger is making a lot of noise, I'm guessing it's bearings (doesn't sound like the coupler). The blower now has 36k miles on it since I installed it, and it was used so who knows how many before that. I talked to SCOL and I'm sending them the blower, they'll clean and inspect it, and install all new bearings and components. It's $1350 for that, and if the rotors need to be replaced (which is unlikely) that's $2600.

    The transmission on the Baja trip got to 240F in the pan and 285F in the converter (at that temp the gauge is just starting to move). This was due to running full throttle in 1st/2nd in the sand since I was at 50psi (too lazy to air down and seemed to have enough power to push through, obviously the trans wasn't a fan of that though). No codes or warning lights or anything at that time and I let it cool. Got out of the sand and the trans started being super jerky, shifting sporadically, wouldn't hold gears, torque converter wouldn't seem to lock and unlock when it should, it was a miracle to get into 4th gear, etc. A few times I could get a pending codes to pop up like these:

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    From what I've read it seems like a fluid change alone has a good chance of fixing everything. I decided to go ahead and swap all the trucks fluids to Amsoil. There's a 50/50 lean on whether to use Toyota WS or something else, well the trans is already having issues and I had the WS in it before (drain and fill a few months ago) and figured the Amsoil claims to be superior (and most testing of Amsoil in general shows that) and at this point it wont make the truck worse. I ordered the Amsoil Signature Series Synthetic ATF, also got some tcase oil, and severe gear oil from them. I also ordered a new transmission filter and cooler (stock tranny cooler is pretty beat up). I will be doing a full flush of the transmission and have high hopes that fixes it. I've had torque converters fail in the past and that wasn't this, it seems like the ATF degraded and gummed up the shift solenoids so we'll see how she does. While I wait for those parts I'll have the supercharger sent out for its refresh. Additionally I need to get a hold of Privateer Motorsports and get them to send me my 5.29 gears and LSD and I will do that after the transmission is working again. I'm also getting the OV Tune vF Tuning software which I think is fully operational for my truck, so I plan to start dialing in my tune a bit more personally.

    Old girl is still chugging, though took a bit of a beating which was 100% my fault and needs a little mid life love so may as well do it all now. 240k and first real issue (besides starter going out) and she still got me home and across an international border, I'm not at all upset. She'll be fixed right up soon, and if there's larger transmission issues then those will get fixed and it'll come back in better shape than it started.

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  8. Feb 8, 2021 at 10:17 AM
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    Big updates! After I got back from Baja I was slated to travel for work, first to Colorado and then to Florida for about 3 weeks. The blower was making a lot of noise (plus I had bought it used) so I decided to send it off to get rebuilt. I had already talked to and bought the Magnuson intake assembly from Superchargers Online (Magnuson themselves had said to talk to them) and I knew they did rebuilds so I talked to them, pulled the blower off over Thanksgiving and had it and the injectors sent off. The plan was when I got back from traveling I would have a fresh supercharger and injectors ready to go on, and then I could address the transmission issues.

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    Fast forward a bit, and I was sent these photos of the blower:

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    Now theoretically, the blower has 30k miles on it (25k from me, SUPPOSEDLY 5k from the previous owner). Superchargers Online (David) wasn't worried about the wear on the edge of the lobes, but what was an issue was that mark on the rotors in the last photo. Somehow something got sucked into the rotors. How this happened, I have no idea, but I do have a theory: I had bought a used intake assembly (before buying the new supercharger assembly) and had tried to fit it to no avail, and this was right before my baja trip. I think something (bolt, socket, whatever) fell into the intake duct when I reassembled everything without me knowing and it got sucked in. If it wasn't that, I have no idea how something got in there.

    Regardless, bad news, the FOD had caused the rotors to become mistimed so they were crashing into each other (thus why it sounded so loud). David said they could try and retime the rotors but no guarantee, so I said screw it, just order new rotors entirely. The base cost was $1100ish for rebuilding everything, that's new bearings, lube, cleaning everything, cleaning and testing injectors, etc. and then the rotors were another $1600 in and of themselves, so all in was ~$2700 for essentially a completely brand new supercharger minus the housing. Oh well, I was $3000 into the unit used so I'm still ahead of buying a brand new one :D

    Superchargers Online was awesome to work with, they kept me up to date on everything, discussed options and prices, super chill guys and I recommend them to anyone. I got my supercharger back shortly after the holidays.

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    Back on in a couple hours and with the new Magnuson intake assembly. After installing/removing the supercharger 3 times now, I've also found some tricks! Initially I used an open end wrench that I cut and welded at like 60deg to reach the supercharger manifold bolts, and then I found that taking a socket and grinding it down so the nut/bolt head barely sits flush inside allows enough room to get a U-joint and ratchet on it! So I've evolved from taking hours of single tooth turns with an open end to a ratchet that I can barely jam in :D

    Anyways, onto the transmission! By the way, this whole ordeal of installing everything and trying to fix the transmission occurred in one weekend for some context. I was hoping I could get by with doing a transmission flush, changing the filter, and while at it change the trans cooler since it was pretty gross. My theory was the transmission acted totally normal when it was cold, and once warmed up started slipping bad, so maybe the fluid was totally compromised and nothing else (since it seemed mechanically fine when cold). I said screw it to the Toyota fluid and bought a bunch of Amsoil and first dropped the pan and replaced the filter, then replaced the cooler and at that point flushed the system.

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    Well long story short, it didn't help at all. The transmission wasn't throwing any codes, but like before once it warmed up it was a 50/50 chance if the thing would even accelerate from a stop. This was Sunday, and I was about to leave for another 10 days of traveling, so Monday I went to a local transmission shop and essentially said fix it. They ordered a transmission from Certified Transmissions, and it's a "stage 2" built one...what that means I have no idea, I said if there's one that can be built and still here somewhat fast then great. I'm still fuzzy on what I have, but it sounds like an upgraded torque converter and maybe a shift kit and apparently is all dyno tested and fancy before being shipped out. The new transmission was ~$5100.

    King of the Hammers, the big desert race that I look forward to all year (and that I'm building my buggy to compete in) was two weeks after I dropped the truck off. Fast forward, and I got a call on Tuesday (last week) saying the transmission had just arrived and that dude thought he would have it installed the next day, which happened to be the day I had pushed back as my last day to leave for KOH. Amazingly, at 3pm on Wednesday I got a call saying the truck was ready to go! I loaded up my gear and hooked up my trailer, and with literally a handful of miles on a new intake assembly, rebuilt supercharger, and brand new transmission, drove 350 miles that night to California!

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    I arrived in Johnson Valley around 1030pm with no issues! The truck ran absolutely great. The transmission runs 20deg hotter than my old one, the running theory is it's brand new and a lot tighter than the 240k one that came out. So this one hovers at 200F with the torque converter locked in. The supercharger is WAY quieter, and has a nice whine and sounds very happy. The intake assembly I'm really happy with honestly considering it was such a basic change, on the interstate my intake temperatures run ~5F warmer than ambient (to reiterate, at a drive through last year I saw intake temperatures around 200F with the Air Raid which is why I got the factory style box, we'll see what drive through temps are like now!).

    And here's a few photos of being at KOH. For the most part I just ran around in the Can Am, but on Friday I did about 100 miles of chasing and running tools for the girl I was pitting for. So the Tundra was loaded with a few hundred pounds of cargo, and we ran from remote pit 1, to main pit, to remote pit 2. The Tundra did really good, for the first time really I cranked my compression adjusters up and she actually ate up some decently rough desert. I was really impressed with how well the bolt on Kings did.

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    Saturday I stayed around until the first guy finished and then headed out since my friends had already bounced for the day.

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    Truck again ran great with no issues all the way home! Got back Saturday at 11pm. The ONLY thing that has me a little concerned, was on the way back my afr kept leaning out, and not at full throttle or anything, but at a specific throttle pedal angle the afr would jump to like 15.5, if I let off it'd drop, if I changed gears it'd drop. In the past the tune usually ran more rich than anything, but it seems overly willing to stay at 14.7:1 or worse go lean. This is the first time I've ever seen it lean out, in the past I could floor it and it'd drop to 10:1 so it has plenty of fuel I know (and again, I wasn't at WOT when this was occuring). But on the plus side, I'm getting VF Tuner set up (since my tune was from 18 months ago, I got grand fathered in essentially and got it for free) so I'm planning in the next few days to start personally tuning the truck and dialing it in. I'm also suspicious that when it was at the transmission shop that the ECU got tweaked, though I still have gearlock working so I find that unlikely, but just weird.

    But the truck is back, it's working great, and it feels good to be driving it again after 2 months of it not running! I completely blame the transmission failure on myself and would not consider it a reliability or Toyota issue, though with that said if you only monitor your stock transmission gauge I would recommend getting a secondary gauge (I use TorquePro on my phone). When I cooked the tranny the stock gauge had just barely started to move and I didn't have my phone on to monitor temps more closely. Oh well, lesson learned, but now the truck should be good to go for a long time (unless the engine blows up :D ).
     
  9. Mar 19, 2021 at 9:50 AM
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    What a cluster fuck the past few weeks have been. I dropped the truck off 3.5 weeks ago to get the gears and LSD installed I had bought from the group buy cluster fuck in like October. Scheduled an appointment, they didn't end up touching the truck until a week later, then apparently the shims for the rear pinion were wrong so it took them another week to get the right shims, and then another week to actually put the truck together. Not sure what the deal was, I was pretty annoyed and don't have much faith that the work they did is worth a shit (lesson learned, go to a mechanic for like the second time ever since I didn't have time to do it myself, and go through this whole ordeal). But anyways, I got the truck back on Wednesday and it seems to run smooth and quiet, so that's good! Break in procedures seem to vary wildly, the mechanic told me a bunch of shit about dont go over 45 for the first 100 miles, then dont go over 60 for the first 500. Revolution Gears website says drive in traffic like three times for 20 minutes and let cool. Other places say with the REM surface finish that there is no break in at all. Kind of like breaking an engine in, everyones opinion seems to vary. I did a few short trips into town, then a short trip on the interstate, then yesterday did about a 100 miles on the interstate at 85mph and she seems happy.

    I haven't gotten on the gas hard, or even made any boost yet, but she scoots. Revolution Gears 5.29s with REM finish and a Powertrax Grip Pro geared LSD in the back. Which on the note of the LSD, powertrax "does not recommend" synthetic gear oil or additives, which I think is weird and I'm frankly ignoring. I don't understand how making the gear oil perform better and decreasing friction can hurt anything, I can understand the LSD may not engage as well/effectively but I don't see how it'd result in breaking anything. So my thought is, run synthetic, and the worse that happens is the LSD doesn't grab as much. Plus powertrax doesn't blatantly say "do not use at all costs", they say don't use oil with friction modifiers, which seems like very generic language in the first place (isn't oil by definition meant to be a friction modifier versus running dry?). Point being, the shop put synthetic in, I'll change it out this weekend with some Amsoil Severe Gear I have and we'll see what happens. I'm traveling again next week, so ideally will be driving the Tundra to Colorado so my plan is to change the fluids out before the trip (and I already have 200 miles on the gears). I'll probably do some towing this weekend pulling the Can Am around, so by Monday should have a good idea if everything is acting good before putting another 1000 miles on it.

    Additionally, I have VF Tuner all set up and my supercharged calibration file is on there. I'll go and flash that tonight since the tune I've been running is like 18 months old and see if there's any updates.

    5.29s, LSD, supercharger with a pulley, she should boogy for looking pretty stock :D

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  10. Mar 19, 2021 at 11:08 AM
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    You are good at telling stories lol. Happy to hear its running well.
    My gen1 had a LSD with the wrong oil in it and it would shudder from a stop when turning left or right. Put the proper oil in and it was good. Dirt bike clutches hate friction modified oils as it can glaze the plates and ruin your day.
     
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    Update 250,000 miles! Just got back from a 995 mile trip to the Rubicon/Lake Tahoe towing the FJ40. Tundra just chugged the whole time without issue, I'll be changing the oil this weekend, the front diff oil which I haven't changed since the regear, and maybe do a drain and fill on the trans now that it has 10k on it and start swapping the fluid over to Amsoil. No real updates otherwise, I'm hoping to swap over to HP Tuners once VictorG is ready to do remote tunes, and from the sounds of it I'll have to upgrade my fuel pump (again) to handle the power increase with his tune. I still have the OV Tune on the truck, and no real complaints but I still have not received my tune or a supercharged tune to work on in VFTuner so have said fuck it, I got my $400 worth from that tune and I'd like to swap to someone who actually responds to questions and frankly who I trust a bit more to develop a reliable tune.

    Onto the next quarter million!

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    Few weeks ago picked up my dad's old camper so plan to start taking that out. I think finally getting a rear sway bar is justified now.

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    My AC had utterly sucked ass for awhile, so I finally decided to tackle that which I was convinced was the climate control servos. Well after tearing the entire dash and center console apart, it turns out the servos were fine! The fan filter had like a solid 1/4" of dirt in it so it couldn't blow :rofl: On the plus side the AC and climate controls work great again and are confirmed to work. What's really weird, and why I thought the servos were fucked (which maybe one is and I didn't see it) is the feet are always on full blast. The servos that I could see all moved, but there didn't seem to be a servo to turn the feet off. Full face? Well it's actually full face and full feet. Full defrost? Full defrost and full feet. Full feet? Well that's full feet and nothing else. The feet can't seem to turn off and are constantly blowing. Maybe I'm missing where the foot servo is and it's broken, but I couldn't see or feel anything that would block the feet off. Really weird. Oh well, at least everything works and 3 hours of fucking with stuff turned out to be four screws and a filter causing all the issue!

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    Also an adventure with the ham:

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    Then this past weekend we got major flooding. Luckily our house is next to some huge farm fields and a bit away from mountains and slightly elevated above the road and farmland, but almost everyone got fucked, even our neighbors directly across the street so we got super lucky. But we spent a few hours driving around, helping our friends who's house was flooding, helping our neighbors who's basement was flooding, moving sand bags to people's houses, etc. Tundra took it like a champ! Pretty wild for straight up desert, some of the roads literally had 3+ ft of water. At one point I exited the main road to go into the neighborhood we live in and the water came over the front of the hood until the bow wave accelerated away!

    The charger on the left isn't even the deep part of this intersection, and it was flooded and dead in the water :eek2:

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    Things like this is why we don't own any cars, I know they have a time and place, but it's nice we can point at any of our vehicles and be able to do stuff like this or be able to go offroad impulsively. Having a truck, and lifted, was certainly a selling point on this day. Here was moving sand bags to protect the machine shop that my buggy engine is at currently :D

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    Afterwards the Tundra had sticks and shit all over it. I'm also super glad I got the HP Tuners and got the Magnuson cold air intake installed, I have no doubt I would've hydrolocked the engine with that stupid air raid. After all this I changed the diff fluids to be safe, though amazingly the rear was fine and the breather had become clogged so no water got in :rofl: and then the front looked great too, and this was the first time I've changed it since regearing and there was hardly any shavings which is great.

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    Which on that note I am now rocking the HP Tuners life! OV Tune was nice and did the trick for awhile, but HP Tuners just working and not being a hassle feels great. I did some tuning myself, read up a lot, posted on the HPT forums, and got to know how it works decently. @VictorG had said he was gonna start a tuning service with HPT, and I had already been on the fence but I'm not great at tuning so I heard that and said sign me up! Victor also recommended switching to the Walbro 450Ti fuel pump from my Aeromotive 340, so while he was perfecting his tune on the dyno with other people I ordered that and then started playing with HPT myself. Two weeks ago Victor said he had finished his tune, so I instantly grabbed it and he sent it to me a few days later after giving me a questionnaire of what I wanted. I ran it for a few days, and yesterday finally got some datalogs in which I sent to him an hour ago if he wants to update anything. Additionally, I installed the Walbro 450Ti last night which I don't think I really needed (maybe at sea level, but even at the lower elevation I go to of ~2500ft I wasn't getting any lean out) but decided to throw it on to be safe so now I should have plenty of fueling margin.

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    I don't remember it being quite this easy to swap the pump, but I was able to drop the tank, pull the pickup assembly, swap the pump and reinstall it inside of a 1.5 hours without rushing (literally got home, tank was almost empty so said fuck it I'll do it now and was done). Truck is running great, no more super rich behavior at WOT. Victor modified the shifting so the torque converter locks up instantly and stays locked unless it's shifting, this was a huge deal for me since it means the trans temps will NOT climb and stay locked in. Plus all the normal shit, 4Lo limits removed, 4Hi and reverse limits removed, AIP failure throttle limits removed, I haven't blown any MAF codes (just realized that!), just a bunch of stuff and optimized for my pulley and gears. What's also great, is since I learned a bunch about tuning while waiting for Victor's stuff to come to market, I can tweak my own personal tune and play with stuff if I ever want to. The Victor tune is locked so I can't modify it, but it's nice to know I have the freedom to make my own tune, which VF Tuner was supposed to have that ability but it personally never came to fruition.

    Vegas to Reno desert race is next week and I'm pitting, so will put another 1000+ miles on the Tundra with the new tune and see how she does. I'm really happy with how it is already though! I also have a set of Charvonia tie down anchors I need to get around to installing, but otherwise no plans for the future.
     
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    Rolled 260k yesterday!

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    Averaged a thousand miles a week for the last two months, but most of that is from some big trips. In August I chased the Vegas to Reno race for some guys in St George. That involved driving to Las Vegas, then following the race up to Reno, then driving back across Nevada to Utah. The racecar we were following finished which was great, but holy shit what a long day. Woke up at 6am and pulled into the hotel parking lot at 6am the following day.


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    After that at the beginning of September we loaded up the camper and spent a week road tripping, going up through Idaho, across Idaho and through Washington to Olympia on the north western edge, and then back down. That by itself was 3000 miles as I recall.

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    The following weekend I drove to SLC for a bachelor party (where we ended up following almost the exact same route up to Seattle but in a $2000 Suburban we bought to pack a bunch of dudes in), and then soon after that drive up to Bozeman for the wedding so between the PNW trip, SLC, and Bozeman was about 5000 miles in September!

    Before the wedding I finally had time to change the oil at 258574, which was quite a bit overdue since the maintenance light came on within 500 miles of leaving for the PNW, but I run good oil and filters so I pushed it a bit.

    No real updates on the truck, still running VictorGs HPT tune, still haven't gotten it on a dyno, and she still purrs and drives great. I think one of my tie rods might have a little play in it so need to check that. I spent the last week with the trailer and Can Am hooked up going down to St George for Trail Hero too, so the truck has put maybe 3500 miles on it in a month with either the camper or trailer behind it and hasn't missed a beat!
     
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    Thanks :D the ole girl does alright for looking pretty stock!
     
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    Thanks for documenting this and all the great info!

    I have a supercharged Taco (long travel, 4 linked, fully tubed, 4x4 pre-runner) and after pulling it from CO to San Diego this past Baja 1000 decided to pull the trigger on a supercharger for my 07 Tundy. This thread been a great resource!

    curious if you have any other tips for the Tundra supercharger install or fuel pump swap? I did the one on the Taco and it went fine but your tool tip looks awesome and curious if you have any other wisdom to bestow upon me? Thanks!
     
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    There's a thread on the forum called Harrop Stage 1 or something, lots of good info on there. You have the choice of the Harrop, a 2.6L blower or the Magnuson which is a 1.9L blower. Both will put out enough juice to take the stock engine to it's limits, but I'd lean towards the Harrop new vs new since Harrop is active on the forum and their blower is more thermally efficient. With that said, not a single complaint from my Magnuson.

    I would go straight to the Walbro 450ti fuel pump, it was actually cheaper iirc than the Aeromotive pump I started with from URD and has much more fueling capability so may as well start with it. Installation is identical between the two.

    If you want to install a smaller pulley, I would do that before installing the blower since it's a lot easier to remove the nose cone with the blower off (obviously) though not impossible with it installed.

    I would recommend the Innov8 boost/AFR gauge, quite a few guys are running that now and I still love mine.

    For tuning there's a lot of options, I'm most happy with HP Tuners and have a tune that VictorG on the forum made for me, though prior to his tune I learned how to do it myself and made my own tune. Even that was miles better than the TRD tune, which while it works has a lot of issues. VF Tuner I don't want to bash, ran his product for a year and a half but getting it up and going is a lot more of a cluster than HPT however you arguably have a larger fanbase (support) and capability out of VFT. There's also Prospeed and D3 which are (both?) in Texas and do tuning. HPT you either need to do yourself or have VictorG send you a tune, VFT theoretically you would receive a canned tune that you can build on. HPT does not come with a canned supercharger tune, it just enables you to modify what your truck came with. With all that said, if you buy new from Magnuson it should come with a tune to start with and if you go with Harrop they claim that with "stage 1" they do not require a tune at all.

    Mechanically not much to say, I now run synesthetic fluid and as usual change it every 5k (ish). I'm about to cross 265k and no regrets getting the blower, and a week ago did a 4.4s 0-60 pull! If you're smart, watch your gauges, and don't thrash it (too often :D ) you'll be golden. If you have a linked and tubed taco all of that should be second nature anyways!

    Where in CO do you live? I grew up west of Boulder.
     
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    I already got a great deal on a new Magnuson from a Toyota dealership, it should be here late next week. Do you know much about the Magnuson tune and how it compares to the TRD? The kit includes an HP RTD flasher. I have to pull the stock tune off the truck, send it to Magnusson then they send my S/C tune back.

    I don't have any plans on smaller pulleys or anything else. Just going to keep this one simple.

    It's great to hear how well your rig has held up! I was shopping 3/4 tons but my 07 has less than 100k and I love it--plus a S/C is much cheaper than a new truck and I'll have the tow rig I need.

    I'm in Colorado Springs. Wish there was more access to the desert out here! Where are you in UT? I grew up just north of SLC
     
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    I’m going to ask a silly question. Have you ever calculated the mpg with the supercharger?
     
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    Every fill up. In general 12mpg, though you could say Im a spirited driver :D I've pulled out 14-15 multiple times. Last week I was driving back from Colorado and got 14 between Denver and Grand Junction, then hit Utah and it was windy as hell and had cruise set at 85 and got 10 the rest of the way home. Speed limits are fast around here, and I use everything they allow so mpg suffers, if it was babied you could get good mpg. At most I noticed a lost of 1mpg compared to what it was before, but then remember it's also running 91 now.
     
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    That's awesome! I don't know much about the Magnuson tunes, they've changed devices and companies multiple times. The RTD flasher is different from the MPVI2 that I use to flash the truck, so you're unable to edit your own HP tune and flash it is my understanding. I would assume (hope) the tune Magnuson gives you is more than the TRD tune but I kind of doubt it, especially being an 07 where the TRD tune has been around forever so may as well use it---ultimately no idea though.

    I live a bit outside of St George. I actually moved here mostly because of access to rock crawling and the desert, plus way less people than the front range. So far that plan has been working out great :D
     
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    Ahh got it! I’ll try and find out from Magnusson what the tune is, their kit advertises that it makes 550hp/550tq so I was thinking it was different than the TRD tune. They have been very helpful and responsive so I’ll see what they say.

    With the RTD flasher I should be able to load other tunes though, right? I’d like the option to get one from VictorG or someone else in the future. Side note: I had OV tuning my Taco and it was a terrible experience, I know that guy is busy but I couldn’t get responses for months. Went back to stock.

    Rad, I love that area. I have some family down in mesquite and keep meaning to take the Taco down that way!
     
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    Sorry forgot to reply to this, Victor has a thread in the performance and tuning section called VictorG Tuning or something, in that someone had asked if they need anything else since they had the RTD module and Victor had said no (if I'm remembering right). I think the issue was the RTD can flash, but it can't download from the ECU or something weird. Something where it was capped for what's needed for a person to download a custom tune. Take it with a grain of salt, but pretty sure that's what the consensus was.
     
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    265,143 mile update! I haven't done much since the last big post. I didn't make the Baja 1000 this year since I was traveling every week of November for work (though we did drive out to watch the Mint 400). Besides a drive to Colorado and the usual towing of the Can Am the Tundra hasn't been very eventful.

    Today was an oil and filter change, plus threw some parts on that have been sitting in boxes for a few months.

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    Threw the truck up on the lift for new brakes from EBC. I already had stoptech front drilled and slotted rotors but they seem to have a warp under heavy braking. The wife's 4Runner has EBCs in the front and been great, and their brake pads are very well known so I went ahead with their slotted and dimpled front rotors and green stuff pads. In the rear two weeks ago I had one of the rotors start to get chewed up from a pad running out, and the rotors are ancient and all rusted so decided to swap the rears out too with EBC flat rotors and they came with some blue stuff pads.

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    I also flushed the brake fluid which I'm sure has never been done on the truck, and was pretty nasty. Rotated the tires too, which I'm extremely lazy about but the rears seem to have plenty of tread considering how often I let the back end loose :D speaking of which, I tried out this little app when I was down the hill a few weeks ago (3800ft elevation) and apparently did a 4.4s 0-60! I want to do some more pulls and see how that compares to the Torque Pro number for consistencies sake, but at low elevation this thing launches like a mule! Part of me wonders what it would do at sea level with a true 4Hi launch but the other part of me thinks that means breakage. Regardless, mid 4 seconds in a truck on 35s at nearly 4000ft aint too bad!


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    And that's a wrap for this 5000 mile interval. Now to drive to Colorado for Christmas and then start prepping for KOH!

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    Cool thread Toby. But what we all really wanna know is…..





    Have you jumped the Tundra yet?

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    Not intentionally, but you know how it is man, when you have low travel numbers you get air whether you want to or not a lot of the time :D
     
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    Very nice :thumbsup:

    Torque Pro is off a good amount. This past weekend when I hit the 1/4 track I ran 13.6 on track timer with TQ Pro reading 14.2. Just bought a dragy, shall see.
     
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    Well at least torque pro is conservative then :D I'd buy a dragy in a heartbeat but the Amazon reviews put me off. Some people saying the unit died after a few weeks/months and others saying the app is a cluster fuck. Too bad I'm not an electrical engineer since I saw some people with the same thought process and they just made their own haha
     
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    Order direct from their site and they give a 1yr warranty. Not sure that helps with the app but it's something.
     
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