Rod Millen Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma

This is the following year when he tried with a Toyota Tacoma

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Pikes
• Peak
• Tacoma
• Toyota
• Rod
• Millen
• 1997

[super2ner]

this car has no tacoma parts on it. like a nascar the only thing in this car that is tacoma is the stickers

[EpicGamer2]

Do you even understand what a wastegate does?

[jman945x]

SIK DOSE CUZ

[yutubeguest44444]

i wonder what it would look like in production

[justforever96]

@rotomanr1 You'd prefer that I lie and say that I knew for sure that it did? I don't, but I do know that I've learned that there is absolutely no benefit to "backpressure". It's an old myth. There are things that people ASSUME are for backpressure, but the actual benefits are not from resistance to the exhaust flowing from the engine. I can fish out the specific article I read it in, in Hot Rod magazine or wherever I read it, if you really want me too. I trust them more than random dudes online.

[rotomanr1]

@justforever96 "Probably", now thats hard hitting facts talking.

[justforever96]

@ericmies824 Well, I've found that most "common rules of thumb" are absolute BS. Second, 7" of pipe won't make any backpressure. If anything, it's to help scavenge the stuff from the turbo. I can think of some OTHER good reasons to put at least 7" of pipe off of a turbo running at 1,000deg F, but not for backpressure. Like how they say the fewer restrictions the better, yet no one just leaves open exhaust ports...a little pipe helps scavenge the cylinders. It probably works for the turbo too.

[ericmies824]

@NeeKroVal please explain then what i meant by over spool was it dumps excess exhaust as to not over boost the engine past its limits by opening a valve that is either on the exhast side of the turbo or on the mani its self and can dump into the exhaust or atmosphere your choosing haha but what do i know ive turboed three cars and own a skyline myself just saying

[ericmies824]

@justforever96 is this why there is a common rule of thumb that you need at least 7 inches of exhaust for some back pressure for the turbo?

[NeeKroVal]

@ericmies824 somebody didn't have their cheerios this morning 

[justforever96]

@HEREcomesTHEpainnn Is that supposed to be a joke? An engine is only capable of taking a certain amount of boost, so it needs to have a means of controlling the boost level, like a thermometer. You design an engine to run at, say, 15psi, it needs a way to bleed the extra, or it'll overboost. So either you size it to make 15psi at 6,000rpm and get underboosted at anything under (and no power), or you size it to make a full 15psi at 3,000rpm and bleed off the extra as RPM rises.

[justforever96]

@Krissdafish It ain't modified....it's a whole different animal, with "Tacoma" body cladding. It's "modified" like a NASCAR "Monte Carlo" is a "modified" Chevy Monte Carlo. It just has the same name and a slight resemblance, but this "Tacoma" and the "Celica" before it are one-off, high-dollar, space frame pure race machines.