another favorite type of vehicle for us
here at the SEMA show our race trucks we
had a chance to catch up with Jerry's
Aidan of camber gracing to talk to us
about a new toyota TRD pro that he's put
together for the next mid 400s
re-entered the truck in the stock mini
class and with the stock many class
means is engine transmission ran most of
the components have to remain stock now
in the rulebook your loud shocks through
the bed you're allowed shocks multiple
shocks up front on different springs but
that's pretty much it on top of the
safety equipment so roll cage seat
harnesses gas tank so the trucks
challenge to build i would say would be
that it is a stock truck and we want to
build unlimited trucks and go as fast as
we can but we have to follow rules so
you know we open up the best in the
desert rulebook and we follow those
rules and this is what they allow us to
do so we take advantage of everything
the lettuce fast as we can
yeah so what's great about the Toyota to
come as they come at the ton of
technology so we're maintaining crawl
control traction control we're keeping
all that in the vehicle so none of
that's modified in the trucks the trucks
basically completely stock other than
springs shocks and upper control arm a
gas tank racing seats harnesses in a
roll cage so we're going to be racing
this truck in the stock mini class and
were allowed to make a few changes so we
put the shocks through the bed so we use
larger Fox shocks through the bed we
have the rear leaf springs ago under the
axle and that allows for more wheel
travel and on the front suspension i'm
basically the same type of coilover but
we added a bypass shock next to it along
with the camber kinetic series build
aluminum upper a-arm so it's really cool
about the mint 400 we see everything
from San washes to dry lakebeds that go
on for miles so we'll get this truck
complete leap into top speed which i'll
let you know at top speed is after the
race we figure about 115 to 120 and a
lot of times there's trawling sections
where jeeps would struggle to get
through it
and the Tacoma is just going to blast
right through it so will average 25
miles an hour through those sections
yes when you look at the back of this
truck you'll see the roll cage comes out
basically right out the back of the cab
ties in so we got the bump stops in the
back we have the Fox shocks that's all
incorporated in the cage work then we
have an oil cooler for the transmission
because some of the sand washes we we
don't know the temperature if we see
really hot temperatures we're gonna need
it if we don't see hot temperatures are
the factory cooler still hooked up on
the truck that's more than adequate we
have the max track panels on the back so
in case we do get stuck the bad sandwich
you want to get out quickly because
there's other vehicles racing up from
behind us
I'm i don't really foresee needing them
because the vehicle has its technical
crawl control then we got a spare tire
back there's the kmc wheel on the same
general x3 bud mounted same thing we
have all around the vehicle and usually
you know we don't really get a lot of
flats out there but you just never know
what obstacle around the next turn
basically so a camera girl manufacturer
of off-road truck suspension and you
know we build we've been building
product for the Toyota trucks and then
into the tacoma series trucks for years
now when you race the vehicle you use it
a lot differently than when you go out
and test so in my opinion when you
benchmark against racing it's way more
extreme it's it's way more intense
because of the competition and even in
our classes for beating our competition
I want to be the faster classes and so
for us it's what are the limitations of
the vehicle and that you find that in
racing the other steering rack steering
pump ball joints there's all these
components now we do have a lot of
experience with the toilet and we do
know what it's capable of we haven't
personally raced one now we've had
customers racing these trucks and
they've all won
you are our products winning these races
but now with us doing it with our setup
in our expertise that would be really
cool to see
we want to thank Jerry zadan for giving
us so much of his time for that
interview and we can't wait to see how
this does in the mint 400 you want to
know more about how this truck performs
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