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3D printed bumps have become pretty common in the Toyota world the past few years. These actually look identical to what I just took off of a long travel Tundra as we redo the front suspension with hydros. People usually rave about the 3D printed stuff though i don't have first hand experience...

Even 2028 sounds optimistic imo. Getting Falcon Heavy to work is just money, worst case "just" make a new fairing. I thought I saw something recently (hell maybe it was on here) how Rocket Lab or Firefly or one of the small rockets had a custom fairing for a specific customer that was some...

What you had said had zero relevance to what you had quoted. The post you originally quoted was merely stating that a Falcon Heavy can deliver cargo to the moon, and the conversation was about delivering cargo on a one way path. Falcon Heavy has sent cargo to Mars which means it can certainly do...

This post is actually from today, we'll continue the story connecting the previous post from a year ago, but this was too fun and hilarious not to share now. It's Friday, weather is cool for probably the last time for months, found a shop down the hill and said let's see how weak the 2JZ is...

Holy ****, that's real? That is a gnarly explosion and BO was already on the backfoot from their second stage issues.

That's good to know! I wasn't sure if you got 1/4" of tread and that was the end of the tire, or just don't get caught in the rain when it becomes a pure slick and it was still fine.

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Just about brand new in the pictures. Full tread depth seems to be a 1/4" or so which I think is wild, but maybe that's standard fair for drag or track tires?

Funny how that works isn't it :lmao: The adapter was very expensive, I think it's the single most expensive buy on the entire truck. All the money has to be in the flywheel, which is nice but they're probably making a fat profit on it considering what it is. There were cheaper adapters out...

The rear got the same, albeit a bit longer (maybe the rear is 5.75" and the front is like 3.0", I forget), shocks that the front has. One of my friends recommended the Viking brand, and they are surprisingly cheap with lots of good reviews. They might not be a Fox or King, but they have tons of...

I started grinding off the leaf spring perches because they sit where the lower link mounts go, then said **** this, cut it out with the plasma and welded a plate in. I hate grinding. You can see a lot of the offroad influence in the build with the rear end. Doing a triangulated 4 link...

The front suspension is now back together. This is far away not the final form, the front shocks were absolutely blown before so the coilovers were needed and I was already in there measuring things. Eventually I would like to design my own subframe and front suspension and convert it to AWD or...

The front end as a whole though got some big upgrades. I did some measuring and concluded I could stuff some coilovers where the stock shocks go. Unlike the next generation of truck, the 72-78 trucks had coils around the springs and were not torsion bars. The springs are absolutely huge, like...

Called my wife, she came and picked me up and the boys left me to continue their camping trip. This driveshaft now sits on the wall as memoribilia And this was the first signs (although nothing obvious) of a much larger issue up front: This diff really got the **** beat out of it...

Ran out of sawzall blades, picked some up, laid some whoop ass on a kid in a Mustang, so let's continue getting this thread up to date so I can post actually recent information :laughing: I weighed the truck awhile ago, all in is around 2550 lbs. 1050 lbs of that is on the rear tires. At...