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I know allot of people don't understand why someone would build a 2wd truck up. But what you must realize is there is a whole world out there of people building 2wheel drive trucks and 4wd trucks to race off road!
I started my off-roading on a dirt bike and have ridden and driven everything I could get my hands on in the last 14 years. Everything from Dirt bikes to rock crawlers.
I truely enjoy all off-road sports! I love to drive fast off road but sometimes I prefer a nice slow rock crawl thru our local mountains. Now that my main truck is pretty much all rock Crawler. It was time for a new project!
I picked up this 86 toyota almost a year ago, it has a little history with me. it was my Step dads truck for a long time. As a 14-16 year old kid I would have killed for this truck! And had allot of dreams as a teenager of someday building it up to a bad ass little race truck!
Well that day has come! Me, Corey, Mcfadden dale and a couple others tore into the truck about a month ago stripping out the interior pulling the bed off and throwing away all the useless junk!
We started the cage work shortly after that! Our plans are to cage it front to rear with 1.5in .120 wall dom tubing. The front clip will be lopped off and a full Tundra Fiber glass clip is going to be our choice for the front of this truck.
Here you can see the cage work we have already started.
This is anther shot of the roof. We still have more tube work to do but were waiting for an order of .090 wall tubing. I have this idea of a super lite 2wd race truck that is super safe and really light!
We still need to finish the back wall.
The Plan is to build this truck for MDR next year. We want to finish it this year, test the shit out of it! Make sure we have a solid little truck, maybe enter one race at the end of the year just to get our feet wet then start fresh the following year in 06.
We already have Deaver sponsoring the rear springs for the suspension. Super Turf has vowed to sponsor our entry and race fee's. And the rest remains to be determined!
So have an open mind, sometimes you can have fun with 2wheels spinning also!
More pics to come soon!
I started my off-roading on a dirt bike and have ridden and driven everything I could get my hands on in the last 14 years. Everything from Dirt bikes to rock crawlers.
I truely enjoy all off-road sports! I love to drive fast off road but sometimes I prefer a nice slow rock crawl thru our local mountains. Now that my main truck is pretty much all rock Crawler. It was time for a new project!
I picked up this 86 toyota almost a year ago, it has a little history with me. it was my Step dads truck for a long time. As a 14-16 year old kid I would have killed for this truck! And had allot of dreams as a teenager of someday building it up to a bad ass little race truck!
Well that day has come! Me, Corey, Mcfadden dale and a couple others tore into the truck about a month ago stripping out the interior pulling the bed off and throwing away all the useless junk!
We started the cage work shortly after that! Our plans are to cage it front to rear with 1.5in .120 wall dom tubing. The front clip will be lopped off and a full Tundra Fiber glass clip is going to be our choice for the front of this truck.
Here you can see the cage work we have already started.
This is anther shot of the roof. We still have more tube work to do but were waiting for an order of .090 wall tubing. I have this idea of a super lite 2wd race truck that is super safe and really light!
We still need to finish the back wall.
The Plan is to build this truck for MDR next year. We want to finish it this year, test the shit out of it! Make sure we have a solid little truck, maybe enter one race at the end of the year just to get our feet wet then start fresh the following year in 06.
We already have Deaver sponsoring the rear springs for the suspension. Super Turf has vowed to sponsor our entry and race fee's. And the rest remains to be determined!
So have an open mind, sometimes you can have fun with 2wheels spinning also!
More pics to come soon!