has anyone run their 4runner/ tacoma at the drag strip? what kind of times have been put down.

what about dyno sheets and numbers.....?

 

PM thefatkid. i think he's on here, he's on ttora more though. he has a blown runner that moves.

 

anyone else????

 

Midiwall was squeezing every ounce out of his he could. I believe it's out of commission right now...
QSVeilside put a ton of work into his as well.
Greedy has a custom turbo setup.

 

Even with all these forced induction 4Runners I still rarely see real strip numbers and reliability seems to be an issue but I'm pretty sure somebody pushed the SC into the high 13s at least.

 

gadget has a page...

http://www.gadgetonline.com/

 

I'd be willing to bet that there are many more S/C'd 3.4's on customtacos.com.
I honestly think that the s/c is a bad way to increase a 3rd gens power. The reason I enjoy my truck is its reliability.

 

Not to sound smart, but how do you increase a 3rd Gen's power in a good way?

Are there documented cases of S/Cs blowing up perfectly good motors? How many of those were due to a poor tune or lack of fuel mods?

I am seriously (in the future) considering S/Cing the Runner.

 

I know of one, the guy would have still been under warranty too except the fuel mods voided it. I'll look for the thread.

Here it is, not a 3.4 though, one those new 4.0's. Darn he quit hosting the pics
http://customtacos.com/forum/showthr...=blowing+motor

 

I just feel that you end up spending a ton of money if you want to do the s/c properly with all the appropriate mods. I know my truck is heavy, slow and horrible on gas. I Wouldn't personally spend the thousands necessary to have a heavy, less slow truck that gets V8 gas mileage.

To answer your first question, if I was to commit to a hp increase with a s/c type of budget, than I'd lean towards this route:
http://www.uzswap.com/forum/index.php

 

TRDOLMAN over on TTORA had dyno sheets on his 5VZ Taco, he hit over 300 RWHP with a 2.0" pulley, TRD 7th injector, headers, no cats, and water/meth injection.




14.2 sec, 93 mph 1/4 mile


http://www.customtacos.com/gallery2/...Mods_List3.JPG

 

My runner has over 142K miles on it, been supercharged since day one. Never had anything other than the usual scheduled maintenance. I've seen some 4runner dies before this without the S/C

 

Fair enough. I believe that other than dropping a 5.0 in the 4Runner, a TRD S/C is the only other viable option. I have seen the uz motor swap and while it is cool, its more expensive than a 5.0 EFI swap. That being said, you will DEFINATELY get V8 mileage out of the 5.0 or 4.0 Toy V8.

However, I have also been told that the fuel mileage with the S/C is either the same or under some conditions, mildly better. So I am not concerned with that so much at all. Besides, if I am to get poor mileage, I might as well go faster doing it.

And to the OP, the only way to REALLY get the 4Runner/Taco in the 13s is gearing. That is the trick for most race cars. Power yes, but gears are cheaper.

 

Do you have a link for the 5.0 swap in a third gen? I'll search in the meantime...

 

It's gonna be tough to get an SUV into the 13's without some serious power. I'd say that 14's are more realistic with a BUILT motor. Low 15's for the S/C that you can just bolt on, I would guess.

 

If you want 14 and under you need to create a good bit of power and strip the truck of all un-needed junk.

 

Buy a 2wd Taco and supercharge it if you want to play on the drag strip. The dead weight of a 4wd is counter intuitive for racing. With a rear wheel drive truck you can economically regear and spool it and go racing and the exhaust mods will be less of a headache. Race it long enough and hard enough and you will find the weak links. By the way, its only a 3.4L so don't expect to set the asphalt on fire.

My $0.02

 

i just want to beat most ricers and hang with some diesels.....

 

turbo it, then...
blower will get you in the high 14's/low 15's (WITH fuel mods etc)
turbo you can get to any 1/4 time... depends on how much you want to spend..

 

yeah. i would do that if i had a n/a motor. already got the charger. now i just want to see what kind of power i can get out of it with stock charger pulley. i am also preping the system to run e-85 mix.... im running 3 gallons per tank right now. to stop any pinging there might be. want to run half and half.