The Burrito

I would be hesitant to call this a build thread but I guess I can post as I make changes. This is really the first vehicle I've made any real changes to, and I'm pretty proud of it so far.

This is what the burrito looked like the day I brought it home in 2015 with 116k miles.




This is what it looks like now with 155k miles.




Current changes from stock: (2001 TRD Off-Road, SR5, 4WD, 3.4L 5spd/j-shift)

Exterior
- ARB bumper w/ warn M8000
- Color matched grill/corner lights
- Mesh grill
- eBay black headlights and corners
- fender flares plasti-dipped
- debadged
- TRD emblems to replace SR5 emblems
- TRD and Toyota emblem on tailgate.

Suspension/wheels/tires
- Front: Toytec Ultimate Coilovers
- Rear: Bilstein 5125 shocks and all-pro standard leaf pack
- 33x10.50R15 KO2s
- OEM 15x7 steel 16 hole wheels painted dark grey

Interior
- JVC single din head unit
- Paranoid fabrications single din switch panel
- QYT/Rugged Radios 25w UHF/VHF radio

Future plans in order of priority
- King OEM replacement extended travel coilovers
- Total Chaos dual shock kit with King 2.5" remote res
- King OEM replacement rear shocks w/remote res
- Baja Designs LP9 lights x2
- Baja Designs S2 as dust light
- Snorkel
- Rear swing out tire carrier bumper (cbi? Pelfreybilt?)
- Prinsu roof rack
- Rocky Road sliders
- 3rd gen 4runner dash/center console swap
- 3rd gen 4runner leather front seats

 

Nice truck...
In 1 photo, it appears the wheels are the OEM steelies, correct?

 

Looking good man

 

Yep, just got those put on this week, haven’t done any “photo shoots” yet. Haha

 

Cool, I ran them for years until I installed a set of SCS F5's in gun metal grey.

 

That’s what my brother @Willbeck has on his truck. Good looking wheel!

 

Quick little addition about my grill. I get a lot of questions about it via social media. Good way to change the look of the truck without straying too far from an OEM feel.

Bought a cheap bare black plastic grill off eBay. I think it was $45 shipped. Cut out the center section and painted it to color match my truck. I’m not a fan of chrome, think it looks gaudy.



Lots of prime, sand, coat, sand, coat, sand, coat, sand.





Roommate works for Lexus, and he offered to call in a favor from the body shop guys to throw a professional clear coat on for me.

I used the customcargrills.com kit for the mesh, and emblem, since their package was cheaper than buying the emblem off eBay.



Had to work around my ARB for the install, which was kind of a pain in the ass but not too difficult.



While I was replacing the grill, I replaced my old headlights with some $60 ebay specials as well. So far, they’re great. No issues, and they update the look a lot.

I pulled off my old HID driving lights, as the ballasts were burnt anyway. I’ll get some Baja Designs lights to replace those at some point.

Before:

After:


Also color matched the corner lights. Color match wasn’t available from the factory on the “mystic gold metallic” trucks, so I think it’s fairly unique, while still keeping an OEM vibe.

 

Truck came with some black powder coated SR5 wheels, either from a 4runner, pickup, land cruiser or T100. They looked good, but kind of dated the truck, in my view. Since I already replaced the front emblem with a land cruiser emblem, I kind of wanted to continue that theme on the rest of the truck. Thanks to another member here, and grabbing some wheels from a local wheel recycler, I built a set of steel OEM wheels. 15x7”, 16 hole. Most were in good shape, some had a little surface rust. I cleaned them up, primed them, and spray painted them charcoal grey.







Tire shop guys were very confused. They didn’t understand why I would want boring steel wheels, but I dig the look.

Sold the SR5 wheels to a friend who is restoring a first gen 4runner. They went to a good home.

 

Output on the ebay headlights? Also, what bulbs?

Love that grill

 

No idea on output, seems the same as stock. Right now I’m just using the garbage bulbs that came in them. Haha. I’ll swap them to Philips X-treme Vision once I get around to it.

 

Happy national burrito day!
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