Kryptoroxx
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Caution: I make my own stuff. Sometimes it's a good idea and sometimes it's a bad idea. But always bring popcorn.
My rig is a 3rz 4wd 5spd that I purchased in October 2010 as my wife's ride. I tried to teach her but she had a couple of bad experiences while driving by herself and now she has a Scion XB. I found a picture of how I bought it originally.
First I replaced the stereo and added a CB in the ashtray slot. Since I don't smoke I didn't feel it really subtracted anything from the vehicle. I used Outdoor Logic's mount for the antenna which is still amazing to this day. When Mstudt did his group buy I bought a passenger side one for a future addition of a HAM radio (in progress).
I didn't really modify anything else in my 4runner till the fall of 2011 when I did the entire exhaust and CAI. I wish I had pics but my phone was stolen around that time and lost the photos. However I do have a picture of my headers from LCE.
Honestly the sound/drone is a little much and sometime this will be replaced by something else a little more civilized. A lot of people ask me what kind of v8 I have in her. It's fun to tell them to divide in two. Anyway I dabbled in fiberglass for subwoofer boxes but they now sit in my garage. I won't ever use them as they took up way too much space imo.
Eventually I will do another sub box but it is not a priority for me at all. I do have plans to do mounts on the doors for 3 way components and a sub enclosure for a single 12 but it's a luxury item for me.
I took a long time off trying to build my 82 pickup and ended up selling her when I found out I was having a kiddo. Now that I have another kiddo on the way as well I am very glad that I sold her. I was also glad I experienced building one of those trucks. If I ever get a shot at it again it will be a first gen 4runner
lol. That cab was tiny for me.
At some point I changed my tires out for General Grabber AT/2 265/75/R16 and I upgraded rims as I wanted to clear the way for Tundra brakes. They are slightly oversized for my little 4banger but....didn't really tax it all that much being only an inch over size. They did rub a tad bit though.
Next up on the 4runner was a combination of things. The 4runner needed paint after being beat on in the desert for 3 years so after reading a lot and my experience with bedliner before with the 82 I decided to paint mine with bedliner completely. At the same time I added the RS2000 (doesn't play well with 5spds but it's keyless entry all the same), satoshi grill, limited cladding, and 99 springs all the way around.
Limited cladding complete and before and after shots for the 99 springs.
I did a few interior mods at around that time as well. I pulled the mirror from a Denali and my buddy found the sunglass holder for a non-sunroof 4runner (how he found it I will never know....but it was cool that he picked it up for my birthday)
My rig is a 3rz 4wd 5spd that I purchased in October 2010 as my wife's ride. I tried to teach her but she had a couple of bad experiences while driving by herself and now she has a Scion XB. I found a picture of how I bought it originally.
First I replaced the stereo and added a CB in the ashtray slot. Since I don't smoke I didn't feel it really subtracted anything from the vehicle. I used Outdoor Logic's mount for the antenna which is still amazing to this day. When Mstudt did his group buy I bought a passenger side one for a future addition of a HAM radio (in progress).
I didn't really modify anything else in my 4runner till the fall of 2011 when I did the entire exhaust and CAI. I wish I had pics but my phone was stolen around that time and lost the photos. However I do have a picture of my headers from LCE.
Honestly the sound/drone is a little much and sometime this will be replaced by something else a little more civilized. A lot of people ask me what kind of v8 I have in her. It's fun to tell them to divide in two. Anyway I dabbled in fiberglass for subwoofer boxes but they now sit in my garage. I won't ever use them as they took up way too much space imo.
Eventually I will do another sub box but it is not a priority for me at all. I do have plans to do mounts on the doors for 3 way components and a sub enclosure for a single 12 but it's a luxury item for me.
I took a long time off trying to build my 82 pickup and ended up selling her when I found out I was having a kiddo. Now that I have another kiddo on the way as well I am very glad that I sold her. I was also glad I experienced building one of those trucks. If I ever get a shot at it again it will be a first gen 4runner
lol. That cab was tiny for me.At some point I changed my tires out for General Grabber AT/2 265/75/R16 and I upgraded rims as I wanted to clear the way for Tundra brakes. They are slightly oversized for my little 4banger but....didn't really tax it all that much being only an inch over size. They did rub a tad bit though.
Next up on the 4runner was a combination of things. The 4runner needed paint after being beat on in the desert for 3 years so after reading a lot and my experience with bedliner before with the 82 I decided to paint mine with bedliner completely. At the same time I added the RS2000 (doesn't play well with 5spds but it's keyless entry all the same), satoshi grill, limited cladding, and 99 springs all the way around.
Limited cladding complete and before and after shots for the 99 springs.
I did a few interior mods at around that time as well. I pulled the mirror from a Denali and my buddy found the sunglass holder for a non-sunroof 4runner (how he found it I will never know....but it was cool that he picked it up for my birthday)
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