Been a while, coming home soon

Feels like forever. Bout to be back home in the good ol midwest again. Finally a way to get away from the snow land of wyoming LOL.


Updates on the truck were massive (imo) and still have some major mods up my sleeve in the next couple weeks

What it looked like back in Jun




Current upgrades...



Tore into the top half of the engine


Just for completing this



Still grill-less but ill be modding again to refit soon



Got selected for a calendar shot


And a custom panel I painted for the truck




As far as the major mods. Plans are to shave the rear end minus the handle. Lights = gone, bumper = gone. Gotta fab up some taillight fillers and rework the bodykit in back to accept the rollpan and then some avs lights


See yall back soon, keep an eye out for me at the shows!

welcome back

Thanks bud!


Power wise well = http://www.rotrex.com/Home/Supercharger_Experience/Details.aspx?kit_id=971aa45c-51c9-4d28-a473-3765062731ca

That should say it enough

lookin mean!

Nice!

Glad your back. And thats a nice little addition to the truck.

Thanks guys. Glad to be back. Hopefully the next metal modifications will help put me out on front street

I know one of the mods ive only seen 1x in all of 2005+ tacomas and it will still be different then that hehehehehe so hopefully it will turn out good

aight man glade you made it back! and cant wait to see it done!!

Hey bro! welcome back to the boards! Trucks looking mean.

Welcome back... I am a fan of those trucks. They grew on me

Day 1 of metal progress...

Right side template made for tail light, metal cut out to size.

Lights arrived today as well. AVS billet leds. One per side and the reverse to be put in the rollpan.



Tomorrows plan of action - Make metal from template for left side and begin the metal shaping and flange work.

Plans are to be one of the first STILL xrunner truck with a shaved A**

Day 2 progress

Left side filler 90% complete. Needs a hair more curve at the bottom and then trimmed/flanged. Right side filler 60% done.



Torn down



Rough cut on metal after paper and cardboard templates were made


Curved left-right roughly to shape and next is shrinking to get the up-down curve going



Ran into a snag with getting more metal funds were lower then expected so the rollpan may take longer then I wanted, reverse light may end up going into tailgate. Once both sides are done and ready to weld ill be making the buckets to fit the leds in since they are way to flat to flush mount on my hard curve bed side

Not to much done today unfortunately. Backs starting to act up again so the planishing hammer was definetly not my friend. LOL

This shot was taken before the piece was cleaned up some





Went back in to add the bottom and side flange (tailgate side). Come to find out 3 different bends plus 2 different flange bends dont like each other lol. Might end up trimming the bottom flange off and tig welding it in place so I can keep a nice curvature

More updates for today. Went a little slow since I was helping my buddy on his coupe and taking my time. hes in the process of recessing the headlights.
Flanges are done pieces are 99% done as well. Left side needs the bottom cut off and right needs the top bit cut off. Then comes the grinding and welding

Mondays agenda is to cut out inner hole where the wiring comes in to have an 'access' to the new lights. Also mocking up new lights to start creating the bucket for the light to sit in

Testing the fit on both sides



Flanged inner piece for fitment




Monday should get about 8 hrs of work done doing this task...

Sorry for lack of updates. Working on the light buckets, tomorrow is welding and finishing everything up