No thunder stolen, just trouble saved! FWIW, it seems every time Jake94 comes over, my life gets easier. I really, really am in trouble if he ever calls the debt due.

No blowers for me. Regular gas and intact ring gears por favor. Oh, and the intake roar? Priceless. Gonna hate hiding it with the hood. Deck plate mod my eye!

Harry, after driving the Taco I can see why Brian894x4 wants a sway bar or a track bar. I must have gotten used to it. With more power, comes the need for more attention. So you'd win any race.

Call Mike at Off Road Solutions and tell him you are hearing wonderful things about this mod to this truck. I think he's pretty discouraged due to 1) it taking so much longer than he or I thought, 2) his having to put more time into it than he felt good about charging me, making it unattractive for him to do another. He just needs to standardize the swap a la AllPro with SASes years ago, then turn them efficiently. For you jealous types out there, it ain't cheap! But after crawling around underneath, in, around, etc. it looks factory.

It's quite the major mod where, the closer you look, the more you see about how he went about it, and the more you like. I could have done this in, oh, a year maybe, but it wouldn't be as good as it is nor as reliable I'm sure.

I had him leave the easier details to me, like the hood, the shift tunnel, the shifters, the tach... uh... by the way, anybody know how to make an I-4 tach work with the 3.4? No, I mean really. I have JayK's article on the I-4 tach and a Chebbie V6, but mine reads 0 RPM, not something high. Mike admitted he had not tackled tachs.

She faces her virgin run tomorrow on Spring Creek. Nothing like being thrown to the lions on the first date, a 4+ trail.