![]() They fit with no drilling or major modifications necessary.Many thanks to Outlaw Anglia co-ordinator and site sponsor Colin Millar for sending in a blog post following Dragstalgia:įor me, the most anticipated two weekends of drag racing was closing in fast, Summer Nationals, then straight onto the big show that is Dragstalgia 2023, preparations had in fact started way back last August after hurting a crankshaft and missing NitrOlympx, a new all alloy engine was ordered from Shafiroff saving me 110lbs, a new Powerglide gearbox with a high pressure pumps and a new Chance converter from Andy Frost at Penn Auto’s, a new Mark Williams floating rear axle from Robinson Race cars, a new lightweight body was prepared in the mould and fitted to the car along with a new carbon fibre propshaft and a super light weight lithium Braillie battery was fitted up front to try and adjust the balance of the car, all in all 280lbs were removed from the car.Īll sounds easy but I can assure you I was in the garage every night from August through to the first week on July. The mounts are made by other companies, with the underhood tank and compressor mounts offered by Rock Hard 4x4. Viair offer a variety of compressors for its VMS, from the high-pressure Viair 485 High Performance, with a 100-percent duty cycle at 200 psi that'll happily run all day long and take a 35x12.50 tire from 10 to 40 psi in 3 minutes, 49 seconds, to the 444 High Performance, with a 100-percent duty cycle at 100 psi (fills a 35x12.50 from 10 to 40 psi in 3 minutes, 59 seconds), to the super-fast 400 High Performance system that we selected, with a 33-percent duty cycle at 100 psi and a blistering 5.12 cfm for quickly airing up a 35x12.50 from 10 to 40 psi in just a tick over 3 minutes. In fact, the most difficult part is simply selecting which compressor setup you want. It's an easy kit to deal with because it includes everything you'll need for installation, from the wiring harness to the distribution block, fittings, air lines, and more. As an added bonus, the underhood Tacoma mount can also accommodate an optional one-gallon air tank, which we went with as well. There's a kit that mounts the compressors in the bed, another that puts them on the radiator core support between the grille and radiator, and the one we selected, which places them cleanly behind the airbox under the hood. In fact, for our Tacoma, Viair offers a VMS to mount its Dual 400 system in three different places depending on wants and needs. Viair's new VMS line, which stands for Viair Mounted System, features bolt-in, vehicle-specific brackets for the Viair compressors on many Jeep, Ford, GM, Lexus, Ram, Mercedes, and, of course, Toyota vehicles. Viair has been making onboard air compressors for a long, long time, and we've used the company's products on several off-road builds in the past, always with excellent results. We'll be building the truck up at Wood's Off Road over the course of a couple days, and then we'll log into OnX Offroad to pick a super scenic route to some outdoor adventure and camping!įinally, before we put the truck up in the air to address some more intricate upgrades like an Eaton ELocker and Superlift leveling kit for the next episode, we cracked open the boxes containing our Viair Dual 400 High Performance VMS onboard air system. That's only the beginning of our plans for this brand-new 2023 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off-Road to kick off Season 2 of 4x4 Garage, presented by RealTruck. And even if you're not actually going out and exploring the wilderness for days on end and living out of your 4x4, there are many who still want the function and utility that many of these overlanding products afford-things like over-bed racks that allow you to haul bikes, canoes, kayaks, and other cargo without losing the functionality of your bed, locking bed covers that protect expensive off-road accouterments like fridges and recovery gear from prying eyes and sticky fingers, not to mention good ol' bread-and-butter upgrades like onboard air to inflate tires, mattresses, run air tools, and so on, and selectable lockers that allow you full tractor-like traction at the push of a button but turn off completely and seamlessly for no-compromise on-road driving. ![]() ![]() There's no denying the fact that overlanding is a hot-button thing in the world of 4x4s.
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