as it sits right now...


old pic of the rear.



havnt worked on this for way over a year. rarely even drive it just the usual once a week around the neighborhood to keep it maintained.

i got another project that keeps me busy. but now im finally gonna tear it down and FINALLY get her done. i got a 4runner as a daily so i can work on this fulltime without having to worry about driving it the next day and it ended up becoming another project and spent all my time working on that instead of the yota, but now im gonna be able to work on both. i had big plans for this from the last couple years im exciting to finally get down to do it

 

Nice! I won't post a pic of mine, to keep the thread clean

 

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there is my truck. im starting my body drop to the doors this week. let me know what you think.

 

if you can, take lots of pics of the bodydrop, i plan to start mine at the end of jan. so any pic, detailed as u can get will help me out a lot. thanks! truck looks nice, gonna look sweet bd!

 

ya im planning on taking tons of pics. i got a new camera for christmas so im set. ill be doing a traditional and i stock floor to get it to lay door, so needless to say its going to be great fun!

 

WOW.. Skip that truck is sweet

 

I wrote up a how to on bodydropping.

This is in a nutshell, how to perform a body drop. I have left out relocating things because it will be very different for each truck. But this shows where to cut the floor on your average mini truck. The front will vary from truck to truck, but this should be a good place to start.

Okay. Its a 2" body drop. I cut a 1.5" strip out of the back of the cab to allow for an overlap.

Then cut out a 2" strip on the front of the floorboard, and above the tranny tunnel.

I ended up building a low profile tranny tunnel to keep the stock heat.

Then cut straight down the side of the floor to connect the front and rear cuts. Then, let it drop.


You'll have to cut through some body mount supports. Brace them later on.

 

Rather than do this on the ground, which was quite wavy, I welded some heavy wall square tubing to the bottom of the frame to rest the body on.


Line it back up (I made some referrence marks with a marker) and weld the rear panel together, and start making filler panels.


Don't forget to tub the firewall.

Now is also a good time to replace any rust floor panels. Lol.

 

Its not necessary to remove the cab, but I chose to do so. I wanted to weld up the underside, and coat it in Por 15.

If you dont, lay down some paint on the other side of the new panels best you can to prevent rust.

I would recommend taking the areas to be cut down to bare metal before you make the cuts. It is much easier to remove paint when the panel isnt moving around.

One last thing that may help out, the clutch master. Where to put it? Well, theres plenty of room under the dash. I made up a simple lever setup on the stock pedal that worked in reverse. It is actually easier to press now. Here is a shot before it was installed.

And here it is under the dash, the frame welded to the dash support.


I located it off to the side of the AC vent, where it does not interfere with anything. It can be filled by simply removing the AC vent there.

Hope this helps.

 

thanks man its a 92 with only 65000 miles on it. but just wait till its done, its gonna be sweet

 

hey twisted minis your truck is so bad! i have been following it for awile and its looking way good. you do awsome work! those pics are great too.

 

here's my baby. I sold her but, I'm getting another and it's gonna be way more stupid then this one.http://www.bastosdesign.com/uploadedimages/cimg1678.jpg

 

Thanks man. Your truck is hella clean. I wish I could have afforded to start with something that nice.

 

Aktoy-

Please put a link to that picture, or take it down. It's simply too big!

 

lol its like a actual size pic

 

My god aktoy, what size wheels were on the back of that truck? Hopefully you remember offset and what not. I've been wondering for so long on what the biggest size tire is that will fit outback with no mods.

 

http://www.toyotaminis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59

theres some pics of my truck in this link

 

afford? hahaha it used to be my grandpas truck. he only drove it when he went fishing. thats why it has only like 65000 miles and is so straight. he wasnt using it anymore and knew i needed a truck so he just gave it to me! and i cut the hell out of it so it was really "affordable"