Your unique mod on the 1st Gens

Holly crap dude you are seriously talented and have access to some nice equipment!

 

Excellent

 

Wow, man. That is some seriously impressive work. You should absolutely make a build thread. Drop us a link here if you do.

 

What can't you do? you have all those machining tools tucked in your garage, or do you have access to them at your place of work? Either way, so jealous.

 

Thanks! I like to think anything is possible within a garage as long as there is no time limit on the duration of a project.

This is just all self learned and a hobby I enjoy. As I prefer to do things myself and slowly build up my gears when needed for as cheaply as possible, which often times means I'd get sidetracked having to build machines or modify tools myself when necessary.

 

You can come work on my truck anytime, LOL... Please post more! I use this thread for ideas on what to do and how to on my truck and what you have posted so far has me really thinking. If you really don't want to flood this thread with your work, start a build thread and give us a link to it. I'm anxious to what other great ideas you have come up with!

 

That is very unique and well done.

 

How's that sound? Never had good bass with the Free air subs. But not to much room in my extracab for minimum 1 cubic foot sealed boxes. Trying for 12's but might settle for a few 10's. Mounted to rear wall like that should act like a bass shaker to. Good shit

 

Like the side rails!

 

Is mobtown making 1st Gen skids now?

 

Doesn't show up on their site as of 30 sec ago, was wondering the same thing.

 

I love the sound. Nice tonal construction. Plenty of output.
The key to free air:
1:never expect it to rattle windows in a truck.
2: preparation and attention to detail. The front and rear wave must be completely isolated from one another. If the opposing wave can get into the airspace it will cause cancellation.
3: subwoofer selection is key, don’t just look for subs rated for Freeair. You’ve gotta know how to read the TS parameters and understand how the woofer will react to the environment.
4: good clean power. And plenty of it.
5: as many woofers as you can afford, and fit. I’ll be changing mine out eventually for 5-8” subs.

 

For guys who have been asking for pics of the fj80 grill:

 

Idk about your mother, but Toyota would be proud of you. Any plans for the turn signals?

 

Really like your FJ80 grille mod, if the damn grilles werent so expensive I'd buy a new one for my FZJ80 and use its grille on the taco. Here's an old pic from my last truck, but it looks like we use the same method for securing our turn bulbs haha

 

I’ve since moved the turn signals to the corner light housings

 

What are those mounts for? Is the grill not sitting in its original position?

 

The upper t shape mounts? They were temporary supports while I worked out some mounting details. And never removed them. Lol. They don’t hurt anything, so I just left them.
No the grill doesn’t bolt in like factory. I wasn’t willing to go that far in my fit and finish work.

 

Installed a few more dash and shifter with superbright LED's. Also replaced my reverse bulbs with some bright ass LED's. $15 LUYED 2 X 1550 Lumens Extremely Bright Error Free 921 912 W16W 3030 24-EX Chipsets LED Bulbs Used For Backup Reverse Lights, Xenon White(Brightest backup light on the market)Reverse LED's on Amazon

Backup LEDs


The A/C control panel used 3x NEO4 from SuperBright Leds. The switches I used the same NEO4 bulbs x3 but modified them, write up here. On the dash I replaced all the red warning indicators except low fuel with$10 CCIYU 10 Pack Red T5/T4.7 Neo Wedge 3 SMD A/C Climate Control LED Light Bulbs 12V these from Amazon and the actual instrument cluster lights I used $11 194 LED Light bulb, Yorkim 2015 Newest, 5th Generation, Interior Lights for W5W 194 168 2825 T10 Wedge 5-smd 5050, Replacement and Reverse T10 White Bulbs(Pack of 10)-Redthese from Amazon they also work in the third brake light. For the shifter I used this one from Superbright.

For the cup holders I drilled a 1/16 inch hole then glued a small white plastic spacer with an 1/8 hole in the center to the backside of cup holder. like this one, I picked them up at ACE hardware.


2 12volt $7 Honbay 50pcs Mixed Colour 5mm LEDs Pre Wired Light 12V 20cm Bulbred LED's like these from Amazon drilled the spacer just a little so bulbs fit snug. Wired them into the shifter light.