eric_n64's 2002 Toyota Tacoma

hear is my 2002 tacoma prerunner with total chaos long traveland king 2.5 race coil

over shocks. I am new to car domain but i have a welth of knowledge with tacomas

and mine has to many mods to mention right now...i will have more soon

Those are some of my comparison pictures…quite a difference I would say

I use to think that these red peace of crap coils were the $hit but they were really just crap. they had like 6" of travel and were so stiff. Luckily I bought a whole new  leaf springs, shock combo from all pro off road at the same time, they were better than stock especially after I pulled out two of the leafs. But after the long travel I noticed that the back end was riding way too stiff. So I pulled another leaf and lowered my shock mounts now I have 10” of rear wheel travel and the back end just soaks up every bump even better than the front…gave me even better rake to. It’s still not long travel deaver springs, but it works great for now

Here is my new rear end with 10” of the softest yet supportive travel. It doesn’t look as good as the first rear end I had but that will change when I get some more time to re-paint and clean again

Here is one of my favorite mods BLUE LED dash lights EVERYWHERE. I found all my lights on eBay for absolutely amassing prices and I when crazy. I have led spedo and tack gages blue the air bag, seat belt man, cigarette lighter, rear diff lock, glove box, ash tray, dome lights.. You get the point if there was a light in my truck if probably has a blue led in it now

Ya I could have changed all the red lights to blue but during the day it was next to impossible to see a blue low oil, or engine check, emergency brake…all thing I want to know about immediately so I let them be…ya that is a TRD boost gage I pulled its bulb and stuck in a blue led just so everything matches but sadly it is not connected to a TRD Super Charger…Yet

Under my head unite use to be a crapy little pocket that would rain all of the crap you put in there at the seemingly worst time. Needles to say me and the pocket didn’t get along so it had to go. It made way for a digital led Volt meter and 6 blue led rocker switches for accessories. It is very useful for monitoring my batter it’s accurate and lets me know when it’s time to charge up. Next to the ECT power bottom are two more led rocker switches one for my front lights and one or my rear lights, or blinders as I call them.

I continued with my Led madness all the way to the tail lights. On the right is stock incandescent bulbs and the left are new Led bulbs. Getting the turn signals to work was a bitch I had to find and replace the blinker control unite in the cab because the stock one got such a low voltage draw form the led that it hyper flashed the blinkers. After replacing that with a led friendly flasher unite all worked well.

The light is shining through my tinted tail lights so this picture doesn’t really do them justice you can see the real difference hear.

I’ve goon threw 2 bumpers before vie finally sort of chose the right one. First I had a lame bolt on n-fab prerunner light bar. It bolted to the factory bumper and looked semi good. The next and most current bumper is a Baja bumper that fully replaced the whole factory bumper and is extremely solid. Right is the bolt on N-fab and left it the baja bumper.

I’ve gone through just as many lights as I have bumpers. First I had pro comp 55w driving lights, they worked good not to bright though. Second I got another pair of eBay 55w fog lights with 7 color Led halo lights, they were cool you could cycle threw red. Green, blue, turquoise.purple,white,and yellow green..But after a while the glue holding the halo turned yellow and made the lights look hazy. Now I bought three Baja design light..The same ones they use in the Baja 5000. And I am fabricating a light bar to emulate this one by soltek. I am 90% finished and will have it mounted soon.

Here is how my light bar got started, just a few traces of the lights and a few measurements and I have card board sharpie blue prints to follow. Next to it is the finished product after weeks of work the end is near..It looks pretty bad ass if you ask me

I’m past the point of no retune now. I had to cut off my prerunner hoop to make way for the new light bar. Personally I like it better hoop less but the light bar looks the best. Let me know what you think.