Yeah it's a grant bumper

found the bumper via craigs. When I finally paint this thing, the bumper will be matching too. As for the headlight fillers, I think rockauto gots the tacoma filler for like 7 bucks each. Cheap enough to experiment so I think I will using them whenever I get to that.

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Up next for this, I plan to take this out at night and have the headlights adjusted to driving height. Once that's adjusted, I plan to graft tacoma parking lights on the fenders along with the headlight fillers so the lines match up better. After that's said and done, need to concentrate on the back end and figure out what type tail lights I'm going to run. That should be my last mod for this truck before body and paint. I'm considering caddy's cause they look so good (yeah I know... everyone does this). But I've been thinking of something REALLY old school. I've NEVER seen my idea on a mini so if I do decide to go that route, It should be the first of it's kind.

 

I photoshopped Impala tails on my truck with the bezels and it looked sick, since you were talking oldschool.

 

NO caddys man. Lets find something different. Hey eurofreak got that pic of the photoshopped impala lights?

 

Yah but using facebook/ photobucket none of my photoshop renderings are allowed on this site ?????? I even saved them as GIF and JPEG formats and still nothing so I dont know whats up with that but yah it looked good.

 

What if you saved them from your photoucket back to your computer?

 

You guys just gave me an idea!!!

Wow guys, Why didn't I think of this sooner... start a new tread about tails

 

Good Idea.

 

It's been awhile

Since last post, I was trying to figure out how to put my air setup all back in considering the body drop and still utilize my tonneau cover. I didn't like the idea of downsizing my air tank as well as spend more money. I decided to just cut another hole in the bed and countersink the tank. I still have 12 gallons of air to play with!
Next was finding a place to hold my valves. I know I wanted to keep them together AND still keep them at a upright position (preventing premature wear and tear) so I made a stand for the valve setup just above my gastank. I'm picky on the layout. My objective here is to have a bullet proof setup with easy access for maintenance and still have somewhat room to stow small things away in the bed.
After all was said and done. I decided it wold be a perfect time to line the bed. I went with the DIY stuff, Herculiner. Last weekend, I had put the 4th and final coat in. My truck is now waiting for me to start putting everything back in. I already have my new airline and fittings too. I just need to find time to start doing it.
Pictures coming...

 

pics

Pics

 

Thts a big ass air tank lol. Makes my 7 gallon look tiny. How many comps do you have to fill it

 

just one compressor

I'm running an oasis xd2000. Fill time from 0 to 160 is about a minutefourty. 125 to160 is about 20 seconds.

 

Well its nice to finally here from you again. The liner looks good and so does the setup. Hey since you have a multi color truck you should have lined the whole truck in that liner. HAHAHA keep it up man

 

Damn those comps are $$ but seems like they're worth it. How many batterys are you running?

 

Haha yeah, I wouldn't have to worry about scratches and dents and it would the same dirty or not! Haha

 

Just one, the main battery. Yeah I know about the high current draw on these compressors but fill times are so short I can recoupe battery life pretty fast. Although I did upgrade to a 4runner alt. Not sure but I think it puts out around 90 amps now? A little helps.

 

Ya thts the only bad part they draw out alot. My buddy had one on a fullsize chevy but took it out cause it drew out alot. Then he went to an edc

 

Last Weekend pics

So here's my final layout. Still gotta plumb the lines and electrical but you get the picture.

 

more pics

Took her out for a spin last weekend. Here's a shot of the roof open and a side profile all up. I've got SS-8's on order to level out the rear.

 

Man its looking good and im glad to see it finally out of that garage and rolling around town. Keep it up man

 

Sweet wheels