S3, E45 - Tacoma DIY TRD
The Truck Show Podcast
Truck Famous, LLC.
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Join Holman and listener favorite Mike Rice, as the guys take a '24 Toyota Tacoma SR5 and add capability and looks on a budget. Will it be a TRD for the "poors" or did they blow the budget? Find out the answer to this and more, including all about Bilstein's new direct-replacement monotube Tacoma shocks. The guys also dig into AEV's GM HD truck packages. The Truck Show Podcast is produced in partnership with AMSOIL, Kershaw Knives, and OVR Mag.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Truck Show podcast where we try to bring you great truck content a couple of times a week. I'm joined today by my good friend and TSP favorite Mike Rice. Hey, Holman. Hey, how's it going? It's going actually pretty well. Good to see you again. It's good to see you too. Thanks for having me back. All right, we got a great topic to cover this week, and it's basically how to build a TRD Tacoma for the pores. |
| 0:21.9 | Or how to not build a TRD pours Tacoma. |
| 0:25.2 | Or how not to do it. |
| 0:26.3 | That's also correct. |
| 0:27.6 | Because we went down the rabbit holes on everything. |
| 0:29.4 | We went down the rabbit hole, and Mike has a 24 SR5 Tacoma double cab, non-hy automatic four by four really super basic under 45 grand |
| 0:41.8 | you guys have heard me talk about wanting to do this like 45,000 dollar truck thing so you'll hear |
| 0:45.9 | a little bit of that discussion today but this is mostly for how to upgrade it and make it cool |
| 0:50.5 | because it looked like something you'd find in the lot at Hertz. |
| 0:54.9 | Pretty much. |
| 1:01.1 | I mean, it was really just like painted aluminum wheels and a giant air dance, all that stuff. I could rob a bank because I pass four of them on my way to work the exact same color |
| 1:05.0 | and fitment of everything. |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah, because it was the loss leader at the dealership that week when the paper came out. |
| 1:10.7 | So anyway, we're going to |
| 1:11.9 | talk about that and kind of dive down into something we don't do a lot, and that's Tacoma's, |
| 1:16.7 | and we'll kind of look at the price between building up an SR5 versus just going with a |
| 1:21.5 | charity off road, what the differences are. So I have a little bit of fun with that. But before we get |
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