BlackTuskOffRoad
Junior Member
Just bought my first truck!
My first car was a 1989 classic mini I bought when I was 17 (which I still own)
Then bought a 2014 Focus ST as my first new car, then traded for a Fiesta ST in 2015. Going from 40 hp to 200+ was like discovering warp speed.
A couple years ago a couple friends and I started a company restoring classic minis (Singer style mid-engine swap in the works, to be launched later this year). Things were beginning to get too big to haul in a hatchback...
Went on a roadtrip with those same buddies to Moab in their Jeep JK and Dakota, right away I knew I wanted a truck to go camping and off-roading in.
A used 2014 1500 5.7 Hemi Regular cab came up two weeks ago (my preferred body style) with only 60,000~ KMs on the ODO, with Bils already in the front and spacers in the back. Very clean and already pre-dented and pre-ding'd, which was perfect. The roll-up windows and manual locks are just icing on the cake.
Grabbed it on a Thursday...
Up in the mountains on Friday
I'm very new to the truck world and will have lots of questions, so please bear with me.
To do list:
- bought a Diablosport i2 on here, coming in the mail
- wider wheels and go up to 35x12.50R17 (can I fit 37s?)
- UCA and 2 inch spacer to level it back up to match the lifted rear.
- some kind of locking diff in the back, still to be decided.
- custom skid plates. Measurements made and designs sent to waterjet. 1/4" 5052 aluminum
- build rock sliders (materials ordered)
- build faux dual exhausts with an H pipe. ordered two 3" flowmaster flowfx (the kind that looks like a tube), hopefully it'll sound more like a muscle car
- build an aluminum canopy (roughed out the design in 3D, just need to engineer it to work before waterjetting the pieces. the whole thing will open like a hatchback so I can fit tall things in it if I need to, also could use as a tall tent with canvas siding)
- build high clearance front and rear bumpers
Lots to build, but eager to get into it. If the pieces work well on the trail, I'd love to offer them up for sale, either as u-weld kits or as bolt-on's.
My first car was a 1989 classic mini I bought when I was 17 (which I still own)
Then bought a 2014 Focus ST as my first new car, then traded for a Fiesta ST in 2015. Going from 40 hp to 200+ was like discovering warp speed.
A couple years ago a couple friends and I started a company restoring classic minis (Singer style mid-engine swap in the works, to be launched later this year). Things were beginning to get too big to haul in a hatchback...
Went on a roadtrip with those same buddies to Moab in their Jeep JK and Dakota, right away I knew I wanted a truck to go camping and off-roading in.
A used 2014 1500 5.7 Hemi Regular cab came up two weeks ago (my preferred body style) with only 60,000~ KMs on the ODO, with Bils already in the front and spacers in the back. Very clean and already pre-dented and pre-ding'd, which was perfect. The roll-up windows and manual locks are just icing on the cake.
Grabbed it on a Thursday...
Up in the mountains on Friday
I'm very new to the truck world and will have lots of questions, so please bear with me.
To do list:
- bought a Diablosport i2 on here, coming in the mail
- wider wheels and go up to 35x12.50R17 (can I fit 37s?)
- UCA and 2 inch spacer to level it back up to match the lifted rear.
- some kind of locking diff in the back, still to be decided.
- custom skid plates. Measurements made and designs sent to waterjet. 1/4" 5052 aluminum
- build rock sliders (materials ordered)
- build faux dual exhausts with an H pipe. ordered two 3" flowmaster flowfx (the kind that looks like a tube), hopefully it'll sound more like a muscle car
- build an aluminum canopy (roughed out the design in 3D, just need to engineer it to work before waterjetting the pieces. the whole thing will open like a hatchback so I can fit tall things in it if I need to, also could use as a tall tent with canvas siding)
- build high clearance front and rear bumpers
Lots to build, but eager to get into it. If the pieces work well on the trail, I'd love to offer them up for sale, either as u-weld kits or as bolt-on's.
