http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/ Autoblog Comments for SEMA Preview: TRD builds a heavy-duty Toyota Tundra http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/Oct 21st 2007 9:58AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/Oct 21st 2007 10:43AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/tundra/114436-tundra-tailate-failures-i-am-club/

I wouldn't trust them for actually pulling a substantial load.]]>Oct 21st 2007 10:49AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/even Dodge for some major tweaking.
No wonder Toy execs are jumping ship. ]]>Oct 21st 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
Every assisted tailgate will have the same problem until the release mechanism moves from the notched swivel point that is commonly used.]]>Oct 21st 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/]]>Oct 22nd 2007 1:00PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
*sits waiting for Toyota haters* ]]>Oct 21st 2007 10:51AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/Oct 21st 2007 10:55AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
I wonder if anyone reading realizes that 37" tires, a blower, and a raised suspension do not do any favors to the standard truck as to towing?

To tow, you need bigger brakes, tires with a better load rating, full floating axles, an engine that can pull from low RPM without pinging, and coolers on everything.

Heck, 37" tires should make it *worse* by increasing the leverage on the swept area of the brakes.]]>Oct 21st 2007 11:15AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
We have 37'' tires on our Jeep thats TOWED by our dodge diesel,

not the other way around]]>Oct 21st 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
The blower might kick in at fairly low revs though, and it's not like Toyota can do design a new engine in a couple of weeks, so what else do you expect? Blower is still better than no blower. My only guess for the huge tires is that it's either just for looks (it's SEMA after all), or they wanted wider tires and had to go bigger at the same time (probably just for looks though).]]>Oct 22nd 2007 1:48AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
Not for towing. You can't turn it off, and it does little at low revs but raise air charge temperature and risk detonation. In fact, I bet they have a ping sensor so it'll dial back ignition timing when it does, raising exhaust gas temps....

A blower on a small V8 used to tow a very heavy load is a recipe for torched exhaust valves.]]>Oct 22nd 2007 6:05AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/Oct 21st 2007 11:19AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/Oct 21st 2007 11:35AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
Besides, isn't the nose of that 5'th wheel a little close to the bed on that truck?]]>Oct 21st 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/Oct 21st 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/Oct 21st 2007 3:46PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
You get my idea. Toyota, HD buyers arent wowed by this, if your going to release a production HD version, make your concept atleast some-what similar to it.

Then again, this is SEMA, so this really isn't an instance to release a concept... ]]>Oct 21st 2007 4:10PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/Oct 21st 2007 7:32PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/21/sema-preview-heres-your-heavy-duty-toyota-tundra/
Is Toyota really puffing it's chest out and showcasing a SEMA truck? What about the truck at the dealer lot. That's what the Silverado was. Nothing special.. A dealer lot heavy duty. Something Toyota is not showcasing much knowledge in.

Why don't they just rebrand a Hino? Then they could create some competition to the big three.]]>Oct 21st 2007 10:22PM