After winning the battle with the new front end, Brandt still wasn't happy. His Tacoma still needed a few things to give him a feeling of accomplishment.  With that in mind, Brandt dropped his Tacoma off at Final Finish in Rayville, Louisiana. Gerald Barnett completely disassembled the truck's entire air ride system and revamped it. The normal airline was ditched and it it's place, 3/8" stainless line was installed. Next, Gerald installed Ekstensive Metal Works electric fast valves, in place of the valves that Brandt already had. Gerald also added two more compressors, giving Brandt a total of three compressors feeding into a nine-gallon tank. Still not completely happy, Gerald decided to make sure Brandt's truck drove like a Cadillac, so he replaced the factory carrier bearing and flipped the mount to improve the pinion angle of the driveshaft.  | Brandt's new suspension helps lay this Tacoma nicely against mother earth. |
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Gerald took one final glance over the entire truck to make sure the bodywork was nice and straight before laying down the paint that Brandt had picked out for his ride. Gerald decided to perform a few more modifications to the body work of Brandt's truck, so he went to work molding the fenders to the A-pillars and then molded fenders to the headlight spacers.  After making sure everything was aligned properly, Gerald laid down 2000 Honda Civic SI Blue and enough clear coat to make Brandt's truck look wet, even on the hottest of days.  To finish things off, Brandt wanted to make sure all those long trips driving his truck would be kept comfortable in the sound department. James and Bobby at Music Mart in Ruston, Louisiana installed six JL Audio 12 WO subs, which are powered by an Orion 250HCCA amplifier. The MB Quarts PSC216 6 ½ component set is powered by a PPI PC450 amplifier. All the sounds get sent to the speakers via an Alpine CDA7949 head unit and an Alpine ERAG320 EQ keeps everything going to it's correct location.
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