Thanks Quinn!
rickashay, Along with everyone else on this thread I am loving your 4Runner and especially the look of the front end with your headlights. I was curious though, earlier on in your build I think I remember you making a comment about how you smoked your clear corners… How did you go about doing that? I am looking for an inexpensive way to smoke my headlights and corners without buying headlight covers. Thanks, Nate
Thanks Nate! I smoked the clear corners with some vinyl I bought off ebay. It isn't perfect but I would assume that anyone who has done window tinting or something before could achieve a pretty nice result. I like how it is tinted but not full-out black.
Ha, some car show pictures have plastic under the car, some don't?? Why??
Can't leak fluids onto the carpet.
Yah it's a precaution for leaks. The car show was held in the Calgary Olympic oval and our booth was right at the show entrance, on the rubber running track. If you see cars that don't have drop cloths, they should have.
In other news.... took a deposit on the 4Runner yesterday, the new owner will be picking it up on Thursday. The cool thing is that the new owner is the girlfriend of one my buddies @ CT4WD. I should be able to keep "tabs" on the Duster. haha It's bittersweet, gunna be sad to see it go, but I'm stoked to start on the LX.
I've got sooooo much work to do on the LX it's scary. Good thing all of the mechanical stuff/preventative maintenance is done so I can jump right into the mods. I won't abandon T4R, I really have learnt a lot from this forum and have met (via the forum) some really cool members. I still hope to stay in touch with this community and meet/wheel with some of you southerners in the near future. I'm going to probably continue this build thread with my new 80-series build when the time comes, or if it's wanted I'll start another thread of it's own (although it isn't a 4Runner... haha). Don't hate. I'll still be doing retrofits again come August 1st and you all know my Wheeling Pictures thread will stay active. :rockon:
Because I'm so excited about the Cruiser, I'll give you all a preview of what's in store:
- truck is already lifted 2.5" going to stay at this height for now. May add new shocks though
- Truck already has a full belly skid, lower link skids, lower link mount skids, diff housing armor - sweet, I don't have to worry about the underside!
- Existing custom bumpers and Warn 8274 winch will be sold (let me know if there is any interest in this beauty of a winch. It's big, fully rebuilt, and will have the Warn 9.5xp EXTRA motor mod done. Literally going to be CRAZY. It doesnt fit in the slee bumper or I'd keep it..) Slee Shortbus bumper as a replacement for the front
- TJM 12,000lb winch (same as the one on the Duster, but larger... I really like these winches!)
- SCS wheels and possibly an OMF beadlock conversion (working on the logistics of this now, the only thing stopping me is the fact that they are not DOT approved and I could potentially get harassed by law enforcement)
- 35" MT/R Kevlars, Nitto Trail Grapplers, or MTZ's are on my list
- The LX450 cladding will be removed, holes filled, and the truck will either get Line-X'd (gunmetal color) from the body line above the door handles down, or I will be repaint the truck entirely.
- Sleeping platform created with the rear seats deleted
- LED dash conversion as well as all the interior lights
- Depo headlights with, you guessed it, a projector retrofit. Not exactly sure what I'm doing here yet (lots of ideas in my head), but I can assure you, it will be crazy. hahah
- LED tail lights
- Custom roof rack that sits low like my Whitson rack. Josh, you wanna get into the 80 series market? I think you would make a killing! I've got some sweet ideas for this as well. Between Josh and Bandit, I'm taking a lot of "bad influences" over to the 80-series world on this topic! haha
- Snorkel
Hoping to have all of the above done within the next year. Obviously these are my "plans" that may change but it's going to be fun!
Cheers for now!
Addison
That's so awesome that you won best 4x4! That Tacoma posing with you gives you a run for your money, but yours has so much attention to detail that it shows! Congrats again, that is so cool! 
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