Blanco Taco Build. LS, 4.0 Kings, caged, backhalfed, Trophy Truck

Lil late to the game but, SOOO jealous of your relentless bumper with custom cutout. Just got mine and regretting not asking them to leave it blank so I could do the same. Kinda sol now.. Guess I could sell it eventually and get another. Ha. Did you ask them to leave it blank or did you do the diy'er?

 

asked them to cut it out, pretty sure this is the only first gen one with a 20" cut out

 

Hm. I tried to work with them to do some custom cutouts for me on the wings but said they couldn't. Asked for 2.5"x8". I realize that's kinda big for the sides(could go smaller), but shoulda been doable... Trying to find someone to do them for me. And decided (too late) I would've rather had them leave the center blank. Just got it and I'm kinda tempted to sell it just for that. Lol. But yeah I didn't even realize you had this done as I thought itd look dope with a light bar cutout in the center. Idk why they don't offer that as an option. Oh well..

Badass rig tho mang!

 

Think eric just stopped doing custom stuff because it slowed him down too much making order waits too long

 

probably, hes got a ton of work. i got mine back in 2011 or 12 so its been a long time.

 

Yeah it's no biggie and I can understand that. I know they're busy dudes and don't mean to throw them under the bus by any means, just for that, ha.. Just wanted to be a lil unique.

And I hate to have someone else hack up their work of art. So I am fairly anxious to trust anyone to work on the cutouts I want on the sides. The one shop I would trust hasn't responded.. So I may just leave it. Still happy with it tho and it's a badass bumper nonetheless!

 

Got them all mounted and wired now, just need to connect them to the tranny. But that can wait till next weekend. Up next is ammo can storage, 36" chase bar, and fire extinguishers. Then back to my crawler. Need to do brakes on the taco pretty bad

Here's pics

 

Man shoulda just ran those lines down with the cage bar and drilled a hole in the bed.

 

There's the drain hole for the bed but it's more race truck the way I did it lol I was gonna run them down but just said fuck it. When I redo the cage that's what I'll do

 

My ocd would not allow that haha

 

This thing looks great man, keep up the awesome work!

 

So, got five 55w hids in for the taco. Gonna run a single radius bar across and weld tabs to them. It'll be very similar to how KC does it with their pro6 style. Simple and clean. Also ordered a rear chase bar. And EBC brakes and pads for the truck. Next up is fire extinguishers and some rear storage and possibly a jack and skid.

 

So sick

 

Lights all finished. Gonna pick up some tube this week and order some tabs, should be cool beans

 

Love the new lights. I'm considering the round KC ones that can be curved. The round is really growing on me compared to bars for top lights.

 

I was gonna go with the new pro6 but it's already played out. Gotta get ahead before these get played out again lol

 

Really. I've just seen them. Those are the ones I'm liking. But who knows if I ever go that route. It's going to be sometime before I get to the lights.

 

Tamba sticker huh? You off Kauai? Sick truck by the way. Killer set up.

 

Haha damn, that's some narrow definitions for played out....there's not many Tacomas running around with the Pro6 at all.

Let me know when you're ready!

 

Most definitely. Name drop wink, wink, nudge, nudge being a good friend of Eric Aka Gramps I know you'll hook me up. Jk, you guys been very generous to the Colorado peeps. Looking forward to give you the business. When the time is right that is.