The Frankenstein Build! LT/Expo/Trail rig..and BS

Tom! Good to have you!

Awesome about the new tires! I'll have to go look at how they look. First impression on power???





Bad news build wise.. My shims for the diff...just shipped. Wow. Holy slow ass service. 5 days after ordering.

 

Great first post. Welcome to TW. Great photographs BTW.

 

Good to be here!

Yeah I'm pretty excited about them, they look awesome on there.

First impression on power is I can't tell the difference between these and the 265s. They feel no different whatsoever. The acceleration is the same and it handles the same. It's a tiny bit more squirrelly on the highway, but that's because they're wider. But overall it feels like nothing has changed except for the speedo being a tiny bit off. Couldn't be happier with the choice.

Haha thanks man, good to be here. Glad you like the photos! I'm sure at some point Monte and I will do another trip and you'll see more of my stuff.

 

Well awesome man! Then they are defineitly worth it if you don't notice.

What about 4lo? That's where I noticed it most. But you're an auto so won't be as big a deal.

You have to trim at all?

Yes we will be doing more adventures I'm sure! Haha I stole a lot of your photos on my trip report...so thanks! Haha

 

Most definitely. I haven't had a chance to get an mpg figure, but I get the impression it won't be a huge difference.

Haven't gotten a chance to put it in 4lo yet, hope that's coming soon.

I had to bend a small amount of sheet metal out of the way and remold my fender liners a bit with a heat gun. 15 minutes of work total. You check out the pics yet?

Haha I'm sure we will. Beret and I are doing Independence Aug 10th, then heading to Canada on the 17th. Pretty jazzed about that.

 

Damn I'll just miss you or I'd come join you on independence. I like that trail too. Even though is super easy it is super pretty.

Not bad! I haven't looked yet. On my phone ATM. I will tonight when I get home soon though. Stoked to see it.

Maybe we can cross paths around the 17-19th..

 

Whereabouts in Canada are you going? Is it a wheeling trip in CA?

 

Yeah it's a beautiful area. I love the trail too, it's a pretty fun time.

Yeah maybe we will. I'll probably be in Seeley Lake or Glacier NP around that time.

We are going all over!

Plan is to enter Canada and check out Waterton Lakes, then head to Coleman. At Coleman, I'm going to meet up with some members of the Alberta Xterra club and do a couple trails in the Coleman/Crowsnest Pass area. From there, we're hitting the Forestry Trunk Road, an overland route from Coleman all the way up to Grande Prairie. Along that route, we'll be checking out Mount Assiniboine park, Banff, Banff NP, Jasper NP, and whatever else strikes our fancy.

 

Wow, sounds like a great trip. We hope to explore the crowsnest area when we are there.

 

Yeah it should be a blast. Tons of great sights to see along the way.

 

Crowsnest pass is relatively tame. Great views, though! My club that I belong to is heading there August long weekend.

Up forestry trunk road is ruby falls. Great wheeling adventure! Check it out.

 

Thanks for the tip. We are going there too soon

 

This looks interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Highway_734

The southern remaining segment of Forestry Trunk Road begins 3.8 km (2.4 mi) north of the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) as a continuation of the southernmost segment of Highway 40. Over its 99 km (62 mi) length, the gravel road provides access to numerous public campgrounds, crosses the Oldman River, and intersects with Highway 532. It also passes near the Bob Creek Wildland Provincial Park, Livingstone Falls, and the Don Getty Wildland Provincial Park before ending at its intersection with Highway 541 and the second segment of Highway 40, which was part of Forestry Trunk Road before being designated a provincial highway.

 

Dude. Sick Goose Lakes report. I HAVE to figure out how to get back there someday. Let me know the next time you do that, and if I can't get my truck back there, I'll ride my dirtbike - the views are amazing. Really, really, really good shots by all three of you. Man. I've been up to some of it, up to where the FRV threw a fit. But that campsite... wow. Just makes me sick to sit here at work and not be up there!

Again, great, great shots guys! Love the mirror ones too, I like shooting those. That Frontier is pretty low slung - my 4R on 30's seems quite a bit higher!

Need some sliders...a new battery...LBJs/newer front suspension... and the list keeps getting longer.

 

Seen this... you should buy it.

2jzgte vvti single turbo engine
$3,500 — Chatsworth ga
2jzgte vvti with 40k miles
Brand new 87mm precision turbo
Precision waste gate
Manifold
Intake throttle all new

Also have the stock twin turbos
Automatic transmission all wiring just about everything but the ecu

Asking 3500 cash

 

Oh my! 40k miles and VVTI? Great price!

 

Um yes.

 

Does this thing have a locker yet?!?! Bah... Thread bores me

 

Haha, I may snatch that 2JZ up, it's not too far from me!

First post in this thread I believe! Great stuff Monte!