YotaMan's build

Sorry about the lack of posts and modifying for awhile. I have some bad news to share. December the 13th a young man and close friend was killed in a hit and run. Craig A. Loxton was 18 years old. He was an avid car & truck enthusiast. He gave me many ideas for my project. Many of the ideas required his help because I could not do them on my own. He was a much better mechanic and person than myself. Now i must finish all of the ideas we had gotten so fired up over. Please keep his family and friends in your prayers.

 

i used the old door speakers to make the door mounts. I could have bought them and make life easier on me, but i prefer the personal touch more.

 

Today i got a new exhaust put in. cut out the old one alittle before the muffler and installed a Cherry bomb pro muffler. i'm letting it dump under the bed. i'll post pics and videos when i can find the cable for my camera. I went to my local car meet and people were saying my taco sounds like a subie.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EHwX3_JUS4?fs=1

 

took the truck for a ride down the highway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMHZjz0dv0?hl=en

 

got a set of 20s, but two of the rims have small cracks and i'm thinking of scrapping all 4. if i just get rid of the two bad ones i'm gonna try to buy replacements. what yall think?

 

eh not really a big fan of the super-low profile tires

 

yea that was one of the things about them i didn't like. i'm moving down to 18s. all 4 of the 20s got scrapped

 

swapped grill for chrome so i might start doing a satoshi grill with my old one.

 

Started my Satoshi grill today. i need to go up to the hardware store so that i can get the sand paper i need to make it smooth. but so far i think i'll paint it with plastidip or undercoating. not sure yet

 

if you've read the satoshi write up you know whats been done. next i'm going to sand and primer the outer section, then paint the entire grill a flat black.

 

got it painted all thats left to do is get the mesh and mount it.

 

I'm going to use bolts with lock nuts to hold the mesh in place when i get it from the parts store. since i chose to go that route, I superglued stainless steel corner braces for the mounts. all that remains to do is pick up the mesh, paint it black, and mount it.

 

finally got the satoshi finished.

 

got my camera back and took acouple more pics of the front of the truck.

 

installed blue LED lights from the parts store. nothing fancy. they are bright enough for my liking

 

i've painted the stock rims black until i have the money to buy real offroad rims. and i've also mounted 5.5 offroad lights behind the Satoshi grill.

 

Nice work on the grille. Going to put any logos/emblems on it?

 

You are putting offroad rims on this thing?

 

i've been looking around for the old school toyota elblems. i'm about to start trying on ebay.