WOW yours looks hella nice and clean 2 thumbs up..I have a 90 pickup black xcab too..Here is mines



O yea im a broke too lol..just doin tattoos on the side and work here and there..i took mines to a trail before but no hardcore stuff..

 

hey nice truck i have a 92 also. its funny to read the start of your thread because i am in the same situation as you are im in college and i want to do so much to my truck but your right its impractical. but seeing how im getting money from taxes i think i should spend some money that brings me to my questions about the headers you have. what do you think of them performance wise? were they worth it? what was the total that you spent including the cross over? Did you have any trouble installing them? and should i get them? i dont mind at all how much work it would be.

thanks

 

Thanks For the header pics. Does the place u got them from have a website?

 

what is it and where did you get the bar that that your lights bolt to? it's not part of the trailer hitch right?

 

i LOVE my headers, they gave me noticeable power and a GREAT sound. but i also have aftermarket cat and muffler. the headers were 445 and the ypipe was 189 dollars. installing them.... sucked, wanted to die lol. is it worth it?? yes and no, depends on how much money you have i guess. close to 600 is quite expensive lol

 

no, it is not part of the trailer hitch. i removed the rear bumper and had my friend weld a piece of square tubing in between the bumper brackets. the square tube has two light tabs (which were also welded on) for the rear backup lights.

 

yeah man. i recommend getting a catalog from them. http://www.northwestoffroad.com/

 

How was the install on these, other than the normal bs that going along with installing headers on a small truck like ours,

ie. did you have to relocate any wiring or any crazy stuff because of the y-pipe, or have you had any problems with the heat that the headers put off?

did you put them on without header gaskets? There site says to, and that sounds all fine and dandy, but from my experience whenever you try to mate to metal surfaces together, with nothing in between, you really, really have to tighten them together to get a proper seat. Just curious, as I would like to avoid stripping out anything on the relatively soft aluminum heads

 

no i did not have to relocate anything because of the headers themselves or the ypipe. i did tie back some of the wires and wrapped them with aluminum foil. no problems from heat because i pulled those wires back. and no i did not put a header gasket. those headers are precision ed cut to be perfectly flat, therefore no need for a gasket. no leaks, no problems

 

resmith711

Do you know where those step bars came from? I am having the hardest time finding some like that.

Thanks

 

Nice truck, I had a 1990 with the same lightbar as the '91 but I sold it for an '04 Tacoma.
I miss my old truck they are unstoppable.

 

sorry man i do not. they were on the truck when i got it. try summitracing.com or ebay

 

cool, thanks for the info, a couple more questions:

How was the erg crap (on pass header) done? does it connect like stock? or do you have to cut it like with the downey and others? I am pretty sure that the NWOR site says that "they hook right up" but again I guess I am skeptic,

BTW, I think you should just black out everything on your truck, the front bumper, step bars, windshield trim, everything even the wheels, would look sick, I plan to do the same to mine, I think black and grey looks almost as good as all black

 

hooks right up man, no additional modification is necessary. i did everything that NWOR said exactly. and yeah i have thought about blacking everything out but im not sure. i think the little bit of chrome on there sets it off. but i have thought about it.

 

 

looks good man! you ever think about losing the camper top?

 

yeah man i have thought about it. im keeping it though because i have all my hunting and fishing equipment in it. i am also about to get load bars and a roof rack to mount on the shell. i love my camper shell!

 

haha i blacked out my side lights like that!

 

I have to say i like both of the trucks the 91 std cab and 92 xtra cab , although i have to say im not a fan of the camper things.

Heres some pics of my truck before i hit a tree out in the sand dunes which i have yet to fix the body work and in the process of getting another rear bumper. I got 33x12.5 bfg mudders on in this pic. How do you like your headers? i got a sec of aftermarket ones but the guy didnt know what they were when i bought the truck from him. Or the brand of Lift kit used. ;p
Anyway heres some pics , more will come in a few months after i do some major upgrades.

 

wow! jcahse nice lookin truck! I really like that yellow! and the chrome down the sides!