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drizzoh's build thread

bonifacio said:
Oooh. The open door beep. Forgot about that one. That crap would annoy me but I guess I just block it out now.
It is a silly notification. Like no shit, I know my door is open. But then when you close and open it again, it doesn't.
I might have to look at mine again.

Stew really needs a rewards program...
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I just got sick of pressing the plunger every time. Not to mention I park half the time with the door open to make sure I'm in the exact right spot so my garage door can close and the siren screaming at me drove me fuckin nuts. Now the issue is gone completely. :)

Going to yank the speaker out of my tC soon and see if it has any ill-effects because its door beep is pretty obnoxious too.
 
drizzoh said:
I just got sick of pressing the plunger every time. Not to mention I park half the time with the door open to make sure I'm in the exact right spot so my garage door can close and the siren screaming at me drove me fuckin nuts. Now the issue is gone completely. :)

Going to yank the speaker out of my tC soon and see if it has any ill-effects because its door beep is pretty obnoxious too.
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You just mentioning your tC makes me want my tC back.
Now I'm debating if I want to send Stew another $200 or not... FML.
 
bonifacio said:
You just mentioning your tC makes me want my tC back.
Now I'm debating if I want to send Stew another $200 or not... FML.
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He's done a grip to correct annoying things on this platform for sure. The steering wheel fix was only $50 though, what else do you need to grab? Lol.
 
drizzoh said:
He's done a grip to correct annoying things on this platform for sure. The steering wheel fix was only $50 though, what else do you need to grab? Lol.
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Probably new Key Fobs. My main one went through the wash too many times. Board is fried and I guess the heat got to the plastic and it began to crack. Possibly the headlight trim plates. Not sure how I feel about how they would look. The Switchbacks. Corny as well, but I like the idea of them being white DRLs. Have the Morimoto ones now. I've been putting off swapping the map and dome lights to the newest ones. Why I hate revisions. ALL THE TIME!
 
drizzoh said:
Grabbed the MESO Steering Wheel Control Fix kit pretty much the second it was released and threw it on this weekend. With going back and forth between driving a few different vehicles regularly, I could never get used to the ass-backwards setup this truck came with. Was originally going to just swap out the button and then reprogram my Maestro to match, but it was too easy to just throw in the MESO board while it was apart since the stock board needed to come out anyway. Was a very painless install. Using a magnet helped to pull the 2 T25's for the airbag out so it was able actually come out of the car. They're kept bolts but didn't just fall out of the airbag after loosening like the video would have you think. I also kept the factory-colored steering wheel trim and I like how it looks with the rest of my interior color scheme, but I removed both to add some felt tape between them and the wheel itself to help it sound less plasticky and feel a bit more solid.

I got used to the button placement immediately. With the touch screen Pioneer HU, I rely on the steering wheel controls almost exclusively while driving and it's so nice to not have to think about what button is what anymore. This upgrade worth it just for the 3d aspect with the tactile feel of it.

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A must needed mod, thank you for reminding me they went on sale, just picked up a set.
 
bonifacio said:
Probably new Key Fobs. My main one went through the wash too many times. Board is fried and I guess the heat got to the plastic and it began to crack. Possibly the headlight trim plates. Not sure how I feel about how they would look. The Switchbacks. Corny as well, but I like the idea of them being white DRLs. Have the Morimoto ones now. I've been putting off swapping the map and dome lights to the newest ones. Why I hate revisions. ALL THE TIME!
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SPEND ZE MONEY NAO. Not all revisions are good tho, their v2 fuse box cover fits like crap and its fuse puller is unusable.

NoirTaco said:
A must needed mod, thank you for reminding me they went on sale, just picked up a set.
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I do what I can, lol.
 
drizzoh said:
SPEND ZE MONEY NAO. Not all revisions are good tho, their v2 fuse box cover fits like crap and its fuse puller is unusable.
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Definitely get that. I usually bite for when it's something that benefits me or is an actual upgrade. I hate when places release a revision and it turns out to be a downgrade to save on production costs.
 
okay, so did not care at first about the MESO steering wheel control fix and now I am not sure I can live without it haha

are their instructions pretty good?
 
JCC said:
okay, so did not care at first about the MESO steering wheel control fix and now I am not sure I can live without it haha

are their instructions pretty good?
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They have pretty good install instructions for most of their parts with videos showing how to do it. My screws would not release from the airbag without a magnet but after I touched the screws with it the airbag was able to come out just like it does in the vid.
 
drizzoh said:
Yup. I found a bundle on eBay with a full new kit from a Toyota dealership. It would be significantly cheaper to buy used, but all the used boxes I found were damaged and thought my truck with 5k miles deserved parts that matched.

I just needed the tools to cut the bed and a nutsert tool + M6 nutserts to use to secure the box to the truck. A dremel with plastic cutting disk cut thru the composite bed without any problems. I also used a step-bit to drill the corner holes first to hopefully prevent any cracking from adding this.
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do you happen to have measurements for locating this?

definitely miss this from my '17 and looking forward to getting this put in - thank you!
 
JCC said:
do you happen to have measurements for locating this?

definitely miss this from my '17 and looking forward to getting this put in - thank you!
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I just matched it up with the box on the other side of the truck. They're the same dimensions.
 
Picked up a 30" Baja Designs S8 light bar a few weeks ago during the huge 21% off sale at Showstoppers and wired it up this weekend. Mounted it using the CaliRaisedLed brackets and trimmed the air diversion panels in order to reuse them with the light bar brackets in place. I need to do some tuning to the adjustment and grab a second relay to power the backlight off a second switch (BD has their switch configured to send power thru the switch which I don't want to do with a push-button style switch), but it fits really clean and subtle and is super bright. Hopefully I'll have time to adjust it soon.

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The Taco build is almost wrapped up and I had an opportunity to grab my attainable dream car, so the truck got a new roommate.

Meet the new 1987 Supra Turbo 5spd w/ targa top.. Oh, and only 69k miles.
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I have my 2 forever cars now. <3
 
drizzoh said:
The Taco build is almost wrapped up and I had an opportunity to grab my attainable dream car, so the truck got a new roommate.

Meet the new 1987 Supra Turbo 5spd w/ targa top.. Oh, and only 69k miles.
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I have my 2 forever cars now. <3
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Damn hell yeah! That’s awesome at so low mileage and that color is beautiful.
 
Been spending most of my time doing Supra stuff lately, but the relay for the S8 backlighting finally showed up so I got that installed this week. I can run the backlight off its own factory-style push switch now.

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What lights are on the lower grille?
Also, since you've moved onto your Supra, you can always donate the Performance Pedals to me. Just saying.
 
bonifacio said:
What lights are on the lower grille?
Also, since you've moved onto your Supra, you can always donate the Performance Pedals to me. Just saying.
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Lol nopeeeeee I just can't decide if I want to put them on the truck lol.

Lower lights are the backlights from the S8 light bar.
 
If you want to mod something else, I see you have a crawler. Grab some Cordua and rewrap the pads. Can also get nicer padding. :)
I did mine and it's noice.
 
Been a while since I did anything to the truck since the build is pretty much finished now. But it was time for an oil change again at 8500 miles so I got to throw on the metal filter housing assembly and Fumoto F-133 that I've had in the garage for a year or so along with some fresh Mobil1 0w20 and a TRD filter. Hoping the Fumoto makes the future changes less messy with the TRD skid.

The P/N for the metal housing is 15620-31060 and was pnp and did not require making any changes.

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Most of my time lately has been spent working on the Supra, but this weekend I washed the truck and swapped in my spare K&N air filter (I have 2 that I rotate while one is getting cleaned). Also spent some time doing a much needed retune on the VX700/5i in the truck. This is the 4th time I've retuned these Focal's in 1.5 years. Have the frequencies dialed by now, but they continue to break-in and were super overpowering the sub by this point. It's bliss in there again now, hopefully was the last time I'll have to do so.
 
It's been a while since the Taco got any money spent on it, but happy to finally update this thread with a new mod.

I have been looking for a clean way to display the trans temp for a while since the iDatalink Maestro annoyingly will not display it. The ScanGauge II doesn't have a clean mounting option that keeps it visible at a glance, and the ScanGauge III is too big. I forget how, but I found out about this Banks gauge and A pillar pod a while back and have been wanting it ever since. My MK3 Supra has been demanding my funds lately but that's finally paid off and running again, so decided to treat the daily to some new stuff. Pumped to have a Banks part, even if it's not performance-based, just always loved their stuff.

Enter, the Banks iDash SuperGauge. It displays way more parameters than I'll ever need and is super customizable, but the big thing is I can monitor the trans temp finally and can see if it will be worth adding a trans cooler to this, pinning the thermostat open, seeing when it's at the right temp during fluid changes, etc. Everything about this gauge and pod is super clean and I love the placement of it. The color and finish of the pod also matches perfectly. I figured the truck has everything else already, so the gauge is a nice, functional, finishing touch. With the OBD2 daisy chain splitter I have, the connection does support readings going to both the SuperGauge and the headunit simultaneously, but only if I manually enable the HU each time. I have an OBD2 Y-splitter I still need to experiment with to see if it will enable both automatically. I won't really need the display on the headunit anymore, but I like to have everything functional. Pretty happy with this little mod, I love interior stuff that you can see every time you're behind the wheel.

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So far I'm pretty happy with this little gauge. Also happy to report that the trans temps are nowhere near as high as I expected them to be based on the other forum. Below are the numbers after I got home from work last night while it was still 106° out. For now, I don't think it needs a trans cooler but we'll see how it does with longer drives and 4x4ing.

Another thing I can now keep an eye on are the AFR's from my tailored KDMax 10 tune. They're a hair lean, but that's probably why it's a bit more efficient. Good stuff.

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