Tom's Turbo Garage Project Firebolt: Steering, Rear Axle, and Accessory Drive Part 2

There is a lot going on in this episode of Tom's Turbo Garage Project Firebolt, Tom Tharp's 2002 Toyota Tacoma that is getting a dose of turbocharged LS.

Tom put his thinking cap on to come up with an alternative to the factory steering linkage, which blocked any path to install a header on the LS. Experiment 72-A resulted in a very slick setup.

A Ford 8.8 inch rear axle will replace the Toyota's axle. You're gonna be surprised to see what happened when Tom rolled the 8.8 under the truck. 

And the nice accessory drive system Tom set up in Part 6? No clearance for electric fans with the bigger radiator that's going in. Some browsing on your favorite parts emporium yielded the parts to redo the drive system.

You can see all that, plus a few more tasks, in the Part 7 of Project Firebolt on our OnAllCylinders blog. It has links to the previous six installments in case you need to catch up.