So instead of high jacking others threads I thought is was time to start my build thread…
About me:
Growing up my dad was a semi-mechanic, he was never trained and he figured it out as he went… for a while he would buy and sell cars… usually cars with broken time chains or other disaster… He would always throw way more money into a car than he ever got out, so at some point my mom put an end to that hobby of his. I spent a lot of weekends in junk yards helping him look for parts and my Pops knew the name of every employee at NAPA auto parts store, cause he was in there daily… So I learned a lot from him growing up good and bad… I never saw him use a torque wrench and he fell in love the day he found J&B weld and used it to hold many cars together. So that was my training for this build.
So I had a Toyota 4runner 4th Gen SR5 and it was the best car I have ever owned and the first car I ever purchased brand new… I told myself I would never pick up a wrench to it… all the years of being under a car and trying to fix it in time to get to school/work the next day was over. If anything broke, I would take it to Toyota and say fix it… but nothing ever broke on my Toyota in 60k miles…. Then I traded it in when the Warranty was over, out of some fear that I would start having problems… At the time I didn’t understand that if you take care of these trucks they will last f-o-r-e-v-e-r. So I went over to a BMW 335i and had nothing but problems I was in the dealership every other week for a code that would pop up on the dash… and then of course during this time Las Vegas had the worst/first snow storm ever in the part of the city I lived in called Maderia Canyon: there is a massive Hill to get home and shocker the BMW never came close to making it home… as I walked up the hill in the snow I saw lots of lifted trucks and SUVs climb that hill, in fact a couple of them went up and down a couple of times for fun... I had lots of thoughts on that long walk home and most of them was I really really miss my 4runner… and that is my journey that took me to my 2012 Trail.
MODs so far:
285 Duratracs
Tint
TRD intake
Bud built sliders: full plated
Borla-cat back exhaust
Spider trax spacers
Plasti-dipped badges and TE rims
Cobra 75 Cb
Gobi rack & Ladder
Otrattw switches
Leds for all interior lights
Kappas throughout
MODs to come:
SoCalTrail’s behind the grill HID euro fog lights
Grillcraft upper/lower
Dual Battery setup
Air compressor under the hood
TRD SUPER CHARGER!!!!!!!!!!
Day 1
Day 2: Tint And Duratracs
TRD Intake arrived
Toystory's great write-up got me through it
Done... I am loving the whistling sound of it and sometimes I pretend I can feel some proformance gains.
Borla Cat back arrived... wow looks real darn close to the factory exhaust!
But the tip is shiny right?
Sliders came... realy heavy
continued...
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2012 Toyota 4Runner Trail, Black, NAV & KDSS
My build thread:
http://www.toyota-4runner.org/5th-ge...ld-thread.html