New lift & new look on my dad's 2000 4Runner

[rjaudi]

That looks bad a$$! Me jealous. I don't think I'd go with projectors if it's going to be seeing trail at night. Me and a friend were discussing this yesterday at work. Projectors have a cut-off, as in there is absolutely NO light above that point. I had aftermarket projectors and it really sucked on hilly roads. On the way down the hills I could see all the way to the bottom but had no idea what was down the road any further than that. This is easily solved with fog lights though.

IMHO I'd leave the HID's and tint the headlight and tail light assemblies. If you want to look into it, here's a great thread. PFO Mustangs • View topic - Headlight and taillight tinting *PFO special*

Great lookin Runner, 5*. "Batrunner", love it!

What if you installed bixenon projectors? I can flick my highs on and see everything.

 

[piperoo]

Can we get a parts list and description?

You should get headlight covers with the Bat Signal on them. olice:

 

[dnbprofessor]

what size wheel spacers did you use? 1-1/4 or 1-1/2?

 

[QBNKID]

thanks! how much did it run ya? hopefully not as much as a brushguard, as i don't wanna spend 300 for a brushguard.

It was $215 with free shipping. The chrome one is more $.

That looks bad a$$! Me jealous. I don't think I'd go with projectors if it's going to be seeing trail at night. Me and a friend were discussing this yesterday at work. Projectors have a cut-off, as in there is absolutely NO light above that point. I had aftermarket projectors and it really sucked on hilly roads. On the way down the hills I could see all the way to the bottom but had no idea what was down the road any further than that. This is easily solved with fog lights though.

IMHO I'd leave the HID's and tint the headlight and tail light assemblies. If you want to look into it, here's a great thread. PFO Mustangs • View topic - Headlight and taillight tinting *PFO special*

Great lookin Runner, 5*. "Batrunner", love it!

Thanks for your comments. I'll check out that link.
I'm a big fan of projectors, the batrunner has PIAA fog lights that will be mounted on the bull bar as soon as I get my new custom made brackets to lift that bull bar an inch higher. The batrunner will see trails but not as often as I or my dad would like to.

Can we get a parts list and description?

You should get headlight covers with the Bat Signal on them. olice:

Parts list on what? The lift? Covers? On the first post I listed what it was done and what is going to be installed within the next week or two.

LOL... I can just picture that bat-signal cutout on the headlight covers .

what size wheel spacers did you use? 1-1/4 or 1-1/2?

Spidertrax 1 1/4

BTW... I did a search on lug nuts and wheel locks and couldn't find the size of lug nuts for 3rd gen 4R. Do you guys know what size? Thinking about starting a thread on that, but I'll wait and see.
Thanks!

 

[fightman80]

Looks really sweet man! I'd leave the front Toyota Emblem Chrome though.....breaks up the black a bit....and looks great! I also find the Headlight Covers look pretty good, I did someting similar with a Monte Carlo I had, just made sure the openings were 3" in diameter, to keep the Fuzz off my back!

 

[QBNKID]

Looks really sweet man! I'd leave the front Toyota Emblem Chrome though.....breaks up the black a bit....and looks great! I also find the Headlight Covers look pretty good, I did someting similar with a Monte Carlo I had, just made sure the openings were 3" in diameter, to keep the Fuzz off my back!

Thanks on your comments. Still debating about the front emblem but you have a good point, I might keep it chrome.

 

[rodskwad]

SWEET RIG
De bag? As in remove the air bags I would see if it's legal in Nj. I know here in Mass you can't because state and Ins regs involing safty equiptment mods are strict as hell.

 

[xskydivingdudex]

im assuming he meant de-badge.

 

[theizzardking]

keep the badges and paint them red

 

[QBNKID]

SWEET RIG
De bag? As in remove the air bags I would see if it's legal in Nj. I know here in Mass you can't because state and Ins regs involing safty equiptment mods are strict as hell.

Thanks!
No, on the least in the first post says debadged not debaged lol. Meaning I took all the rear badges off.

im assuming he meant de-badge.

Yup, I should have written it like that "de-badge".

keep the badges and paint them red

Now that you mention that... I was thinking to paint the "T" in the center caps for the wheels red. Maybe having those red and the front one red would look good. Hmm so many options...

 

[zcruiser]

If you do plan on taking on the trails I'd forgo the dual exhaust since you don't need more piping to possibly get crunched on those departure angles plus freeing up the exhaust too much might hurt the backpressure needed to accelerate the 3.4 and it isn't real strong to begin with.

How 'bout redundancy? If you crunch one output, you still have another output as long as the Y is protected ahead of the axle or somewhere.

 

[(4)runnin'it]

looking good

 

[RonMAIDEN]

How 'bout redundancy? If you crunch one output, you still have another output as long as the Y is protected ahead of the axle or somewhere.

You still have the issue with less back pressure but yes,it's not likely you'll crush either exhaust outlet but with two you do increase the chance. The dual exhaust is still more of a looks mod tahn any actual performance and if you did gain a measely hp or two it would be negated by the weight of the extra piping and muffler. It does look cool but is a waste of time and money for me personally.

 

[QBNKID]

How 'bout redundancy? If you crunch one output, you still have another output as long as the Y is protected ahead of the axle or somewhere.

Hahaha... Hopefully we don't get to crunch anything.

looking good

Thanks!

You still have the issue with less back pressure but yes,it's not likely you'll crush either exhaust outlet but with two you do increase the chance. The dual exhaust is still more of a looks mod tahn any actual performance and if you did gain a measely hp or two it would be negated by the weight of the extra piping and muffler. It does look cool but is a waste of time and money for me personally.

Agreed! Again, reason I'm doing that is for looks only, performance is not an issue, but I do want to have it connected to the actual exhaust and not just a dummy-pipe.

Now... if I lived in a place like Littleton Co. where I can go off-roading more often than here in NJ where I live, then I would have a nicely lifted 3rd gen T4R (with a single exhaust out lol) and modded more suitable for that. BTW... I've been to Littleton Co. for some work training, but took my wife and son with me and we made it into a little vacation, it was incredible, very nice area, we've been talking about going back there since. Maybe next summer we'll go up there again.

 

[RonMAIDEN]

Yes,if you are going to do the dual pipe mod then do it for real since a dummy pipe will get more jeers when the true car crowd sees it. I would love the dual look and sound but there's too many mods in front of that I need/want to do.

 

[hondaracer11]

love it man!! i love the blacked out theme heres my 2nd gen murdered:cheers:

 

[QBNKID]

Yes,if you are going to do the dual pipe mod then do it for real since a dummy pipe will get more jeers when the true car crowd sees it. I would love the dual look and sound but there's too many mods in front of that I need/want to do.

Well, it was done and with no dummy pipe. For a while now, just haven't been around here to post about it.

love it man!! i love the blacked out theme heres my 2nd gen murdered:cheers:

Thanks! Nice looking truck man. A little late getting back at ya but better late than never lol. Gotta love the blacked out theme. :thumb3:

Here's a few more pics I took about two weeks ago after I washed all the trucks.

 

[fightman80]

Lookin good man!

 

[MATTALLICA]

Darth vader 4runner

sick

 

[maxspeed96ct]

The truck looks so badass ! But the headlights and corner lights gotta go . I would recommend getting a new set . Taking them apart and tinting/darkening the inside of the housing.

Btw I'm really jealous of the SRT . And major mods to it ?