In theory ANC could help, but I have the BeatSonic amp and it doesn't play nice with the ESE & ANC... I love the amp, so I'm willing to live without ANC.
Well I drove around 70 miles today and have some updated thoughts on the center pipe. It's definitely deeper and louder at idle and low-to-moderate throttle inputs. At a steady cruise it's quiet but around town there is a slight bit of drone. Wide open throttle seems unchanged in volume from...
Big thanks to @PNWkip for scoring a screaming deal on the TRD Performance Exhaust and then selling me the center pipe section!! I've had the tail pipe section installed for a while now (more than 10k miles) so I have a good feel for how it sounds. I installed the center pipe section yesterday...
I haven't found anyone that's given a definitive answer to whether or not the center pipe is worth it. If you end up not wanting the center pipe, I'd buy it off you since I've been wanting to try it out but haven't wanted to drop the money for a new one.
I'm not sure if it's possible on the dyno but it would be nice to see if there's a power difference in the daily driving RPM's. From what I've heard, most intakes make power at wide open throttle but not much of a difference for daily driving (the engine doesn't need the additional airflow at...
I'm excited to see your thoughts on the BP51's and how they perform on our forest service roads. So many suspension reviews on Youtube focus on desert performance but that's not the terrain around western Washington.
I went with the "sport" power level. I sit in a lot of traffic and didn't want the lights to be obnoxious to the people in front of me. In hindsight, the cutoff is good enough that it probably didn't matter. Regardless, even the sport power level is a significant improvement over the OEM fogs.
I got my SS6 fogs installed yesterday. The new optics have a really nice, sharp cutoff. They also just look really good and have an OEM+ vibe... like the light bars were designed with Toyota fitment in mind. I wired the backlights to Aux 3 in case I ever want to use them. Can't wait to get some...
Thanks for the video! Can you post some pictures of the SS6 fogs installed but turned off? I'd like to see how well they fit into the bumper openings. All the photos/videos I've seen have the fogs turned on or the backlights on so it's hard to tell just how well they fit.
Trailhunter and Landcruiser skid plates are steel. TRD Pro skid plate is aluminum. I see you're in Washington... Lake City Toyota in Seattle has had some of the best deals I can find on OEM parts.
I personally like the RCI skid plate out of the options you listed. I emailed RCI and they said...
That's a bummer! I hope they're able to figure it out. Keep us posted.
My truck has the needle bearing/clamshell vibration in the front, but nothing that appears to be coming from the rear. It doesn't bother me enough at this point to swap over to the ECGS bushing. Maybe in the future.