Build Meet "Billy." Pappy's TRD-OR 6MT

[pappy]

Originally, I had a hard time finding a small, on-demand RV water pump. While I was at Overland Expo one of the vendors pointed me to the Pentair/Shurflo 105-013. That was exactly what I was looking for. It's job is to move water from the Front Runner 13 gallon tank I have mounted to the front of the bed, to a spigot at the tailgate.

As an aside. Both Front Runner, and Zamp Solar, are now part of Dometic.

The red switch turns on the water pump.

 

[rexington14]

How's the MT in the Tacoma? Still happy with that decision?

 

[pappy]

How's the MT in the Tacoma? Still happy with that decision?

Yep, no buyer's remorse with the manual. For some reason it can be a little goofy in low range, but that's it. It has this feature called iMT that rev-speed matches the shifts. I just wish it was the default mode.

 

[pappy]

Dyno tune day. I was fortunate to meet @CAMTuning at the HDC club breakfast this last Saturday. He has a business where he mostly custom tunes Subaru, but has branched out recently into the Gen4 Tacoma (CamTuning Performance). Saturday, after the breakfast, he came over and did a minor tune on Billy. Today, he did a full dyno tune. He increased the factory HP from 235whp to 274whp, and torque from 291ftb to 336ftlb. Look at how jagged the factory torque curve is, and how he not only raised it, but smoothened it out. I was pleased with the minor tune he did on Saturday. I was very impressed coming home after the dyno tune.

 

[CAMTuning]

It was a blast getting to work on your truck and watching your excitement after you got to drive it. I'm glad I made it to breakfast and will be at many to come!

 

[Don Quixote]

Very nice.

What a difference that tuning made...