What have you done to your 5th Gen 4Runner today?

Yes I agree, they are way too pricey for what they actually are... I am going to possibly have a friend at work fab something similar in our shop at work

 

See your profile says E. PA... Are you a fellow Erie-ite?

 

Installed a Borla 40665 muffler under it tonight. I am very undecided, not sure I like it. Around town it's quite loud and not the good kind of loud. From a stop, even gentle acceleration it's quite loud, again, not the good loud. On the highway I am happy, no drone and nice and quiet. I do notice an immediate difference in passing power and I notice the engine seems to not work as hard. I say that because the engine definitely climbs through the RPM band quite a bit faster than it did with the stock muffler and it seems to do so much smoother. We'll see if there is any increase in fuel economy over the next week or two and I will make my decision at that point. Only issue is, if I want to go back to stock, I have to find someone local with a stock muffler laying around!

 

That's strange. Mine is louder in local driving but not a bad sound at all. No it ain't a V8 but I don't expect it will ever sound like that and it's not that loud even with the rear window down. I noticed the same thing with the power though and I'm really liking that a lot.

 

By the way if anyone is interested, the stock muffler weighs 23 lbs. more than the Borla. Can you say better gas mileage? LOL!

 

Just the muffler? Wow

 

Yes, no pipes included. I didn't weigh the Borla, I'm going by the weight on the Amazon web site. I weighed the stock muffler on a very accurate scale I have.

 

T9 head unit. Comments in T-9 thread

 

I got new Michelin X LT A/S tires installed yesterday. I've been driving from MT. to CA. dragging a cargo trailer quite a bit so I didn't need an A/T tire just for the freeway.
No shakes or shimmies with the new Michelins. They claim 70,000 mi. warranty, we shall see.
But the worn out BFG KO2's served me well for those 2,400 mi. trips back and forth.

 

If you add a Borla sticker on the truck somewhere, that's a guaranteed 5 extra horsepower as well

 

Good thing the muffler comes with 2 stickers. +10!

 

Those Michelins are one of the best tires you can buy. They perform really well onroad and last forever.

Yes, there are better offroad tires, but they actually perform pretty well there also.

 

I put it under the hood so 5HP for me!!

 

Hey mine only came with one sticker! BOOOO!

 

Mine came with one white sticker and one black sticker.

 

Just a white one for me.

 

Well you can have both of mine since you know how I feel about stickers lol

 

Here's a clip I took a little while ago. Apparently the tail pipe is touching the heat shield for the spare tire which I never heard until I took this video. Ill bend it out of the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urkElCLceFA

 

Got the LFD Off road full aluminum rack on today. Finally!

 

Got her dirty playing in the mud at hunting camp today.

 

Radiator grill mod.

 

Mounted my ARB 2500 Awning, onto my SSO Roof Rack.
Didnt come with any brackets, just had to make my own angle brackets out of 1/8" thick, used 3.

 

What did you end up using for this ?

 

Metal gutter guard from the depot and some zip ties (until i find a better way) cost about 10 bucks.

 

We took the 5th gen out for product testing at ATR this past weekend all the sliders, skids, and bumpers did exactly what they were designed to do. Oh and got a new one added to the fleet for some more product R&D




Also got a chance to test out our Hi-Lift base and ZR2 sliders. The base anyone can use it worked really well. The Large plastic bases and the stock ones kept wanting to slide around and not grip. This one with the teeth and angled design dug into the dirt and held up well.

 

Nice we got to meet them at ATR ironically one of their guys won our FJ Cruiser front bumper in one of the raffles

 

2020 Trd catback

 

How was installation ?

 

Had to drop my spare to get the old one out. maybe if I jacked it up more it would have cleared. Install was quick, clean and everything fit like a glove.
Someone mentioned that they would just buy the tailpipe only but Toyota didn't make it easy. Old one has 2 bolts new one has 3, one would need to hack the ends off and weld or clamp it on

 

Can I get just the tip? LMAO
Looks great!