Archive for the 'Trucks' Category

Get Your Gas In Differently: Solid By Design ‘07-’08 Tundra Gas Door

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The gas door on my truck has become the bane of my existence. After all, at $3.50 a gallon, going to the pump isn’t fun anymore — in fact, it irritates the hell out of me. If I had an ‘07+ Tundra though, I could make the gas-getting experience a little more fun with the […]

Spray On Some Color: Line-X XTRA Bedliner

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

We’ve all seen the commercials that tell us drop-in bedliners are bad, and spray-ons are better, but does everyone want a black bedliner? If you’re the fancy guy who wants something different — maybe blue to match your eyes, or green to match that rash you just can’t get rid of — check out Line-X’s […]

Big Hoss Without The Dukes: Banks Duramax Performance Package

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

How do you like horsepower numbers? How about taking your ‘04-’06 Chevy with the 6.6l Duramax diesel engine and adding 124 horses to it? Or maybe you’re more interested in the extra 303 ft-lbs of torque? You get it all with Banks’ new all-in-one Big Hoss kit. It comes with a mammoth intercooler, huge 3″ […]

Drop The Taco: DJM Suspension ‘06+ Tacoma 3″/4″ Drop

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Got an ‘06+ Tacoma and find that you’re getting nosebleeds from the high nature of your ride?  DJM Suspension has just released a 3″/4″ drop kit for the new bodystyle Taco, and it’s a pretty cool kit. It comes with new upper and lower control arms for the front and a set of 4″ blocks […]

A VW That Isn’t Cute And Cuddly

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Usually Volkswagens inspire cute and happy emotions, but this Touareg painted in military matte green is more hazardous duty than suburban cutie. Lots of companies make civilian vehicles with Rambo alter egos — Land Rover’s Discovery, Hummer’s H1, the Mercedes Benz G-Wagon — and now Volkswagen has the Touareg.
It’s safe to say this military […]

A Million Miles In A 91′ Chevy

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Wisconsin, probably best known for cheese and the Packers, now claims another distinction: a million-mile Chevy pickup. In 1996 Frank Oresnik bought the ‘91 Chevy Silverado — which he calls “Old Girl” — from the original owner, an elderly woman who had put 41,000 miles on it. After three years of payments and […]

Ford F-150 Superbowl Ad Was Real After All!

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Most of the Superbowl ads were funny, computer-generated fantasies. But the Ford commercial, where an F-150 was slung around on a centrifuge, wasn’t fake — it was real. They built the set around the centrifuge for effect, but then they really hung and swung the truck by its front tow hooks, at 60 mph […]

Turbo Anything: STS Turbo Kits

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Squires Turbo Systems, or STS to those in the know, is offering bolt-on turbo systems for several different makes and models of trucks and cars, including the GM Fullsize model shown above. Interestingly, the turbo doesn’t go under the hood — it bolts in place of the stock muffler. As a result, cars and trucks […]

Power Boost For 4Runner/Tacoma Trucks

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

TRDparts4u.com is offering a supercharger kit for 97′- 04′ Tacomas and 96′- 02′ 4Runners.  The kit adds about 70 HP and 64 ft-lbs of torque to the 3.4L engines, a power upgrade that makes them comparable to the 4.0L V6s and 4.7L V8s that come in newer Tacomas and 4Runners.
Usually, upping the power of an […]

PSI On Demand: Oasis Compressors

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Whether you love to go off-roading and need air to power tools or pump up a tire, or you drive a bagged truck that lays out on 22s, you want a good compressor in your system. Lots of compressors out there work well enough for quick usage, but Oasis compressors put out enough air to […]