Thread: 2004 Tacoma Prerunner LONG TRAVEL BUILD

organized my photo bucket and lost a lot of pics... sorry.

how it sits as of April 2012







brief list of specs:

Total Chaos Long Travel Kit
Total Chaos spindle gussets
Total Chaos coil bucket gussets
Total Chaos heim steering
Total Chaos alignment cam gussets
Total Chaos steering rack and bushing kit
Total Chaos secondary shock hoops
Solo Motorsports 3" lift spindles (fully fabbed)
Inverted Daystar EVS bumps stops
All Pro Baja Leafs 50T
Icon Vehicle Dynamics 9" coilovers
Eibach 18" 550# coil springs
King 2.5 16" triple bypasses
King 2.0 4" air bumps
Glassworks 4.5 fenders
Glassworks 4.5 bedsides
Trailgear frame boxing and frame plate kits
Total Chaos knock off 12" shackles, TC spring hangers, u bolt plates, shackle gussets
DDM HID headlights
All Pro 1.5" wheel spacers (rear)
American Racing 16" Mojave Teflon wheels
General Grabber 285/75/16
AFE Pro Dry S cold air intake
Beefed Taco carrier bearing drop bracket
Crow lap belts
Dirty D Fab front bumper w/ LCA front mount cross brace
FRONTLINE FABRICATION bedcage w/ Dirty D Fab dual spare tire carrier incorporated into the bedcage

AND NOW THE GOOD STUFF...

TRUCK IS CURRENTLY IN THE SHOP, BUT VERY CLOSE TO BEING DONE...

parkling lot carnage is the worst! looks goood now cant wait for the updates!

looks bad ass man! Don't even worry about that parking lot carnage... Caleb and I did that going 60 in his tacoma a few years back. Once my Yota is done lets race for pinks haha

another bad ass yota!

progress...

Normally I am not a fan of red trucks but this one looks awesome! Keep up the good work

cage just needs to be welded together and painted... then it's show time

looks really good

Originally Posted by tacorunner87

looks really good

thanks dude, it's turned out way better than i was expecting

it's just taken much longer too

Looks awesome. What are your plans for the spare set up?

Originally Posted by tacomaT

Looks awesome. What are your plans for the spare set up?

thanks man, gonna have a single spare lay flat in the bed and a simple rear bumper. the shop is gonna do that in a few weeks

here are a couple better pics

very nice truck dude

Looks awesome! I love the red! Should be sweet once you get it back!

got my truck back from Frontline. they did a great job. still needs some stuff finished up ( spare tire carrier, rear bumper, gusset motor mounts, valve shocks...) i wanted a low CG and low ride height. went with some TC 9" shackles above the frame and the deaver F-55 pack. King 2.5 16" triple bypass and King 2.0 air bumps. boxed and plated frame as well. can't wait to go test everythinig out

This is the first truck i have ever seen where i like the contrast of white glass. ahahah for some reason i dig the fuel door being red amongst the white bedside lol

thanks man, the white glass doesn't bother me too much either. it's very fitting for this time of year, it's like a candy cane... haha

REALLY nice truck man... came out super clean. Karl definitely does some good work over there. That's a cool idea about notching your frame for your shackle... why didn't you just go with a twelve though ? And how much up travel from ride height are you getting ??

Saw your wanted post for 67s. Your already over the 55s?

Originally Posted by UmmYeahItsMe147

REALLY nice truck man... came out super clean. Karl definitely does some good work over there. That's a cool idea about notching your frame for your shackle... why didn't you just go with a twelve though ? And how much up travel from ride height are you getting ??

you're right, Karl does killer work. we wanted to try something original and i wanted a low ride height so we went with the 9" and notch the frame. Karl cycled the susp but he's down at the 1000 and wasn't there when i picked it up so i didnt get the #'s from him. i'm gonna take it back next week or so to get the shocks valved and i'll get the details from him then

Originally Posted by tacomaT

Saw your wanted post for 67s. Your already over the 55s?

no, just seeing whats out there, if anything. i'm really digging the low ride height right now but i saw the new solo motorsports lift spindle and i'm really liking it. thinking about running it in a few months but i would def need the extra lift out of the 67's if i were to do that

The ride height looks awesome. The solo spindles look cool and yea your truck would have a major bro lean if you left the f55s haha keep me posted on the sale of those f55s when you wanna sell them!!

What size shackle is that for some reason it looks short to me

Edit: helps if I would have read it was a 9" shackle

Originally Posted by tacomaT

The ride height looks awesome. The solo spindles look cool and yea your truck would have a major bro lean if you left the f55s haha keep me posted on the sale of those f55s when you wanna sell them!!

will do

Originally Posted by tacorunner87

What size shackle is that for some reason it looks short to me

Edit: helps if I would have read it was a 9" shackle

haha, all good

What size tires are you running. 33?

285/75/16 BFG AT

i think the overall diameter of the tire is about 32.8"

truck looks badass I like the ride height as well! I've got my eye on those solo spindles as well! very clean truck!!

Originally Posted by jets

truck looks badass I like the ride height as well! I've got my eye on those solo spindles as well! very clean truck!!

thanks man, did you sell your tundra and get a tacoma? i've been seening a couple tacoma prerunners around ventura recently

so clean nice job!

Originally Posted by nelson18matt

thanks man, did you sell your tundra and get a tacoma? i've been seening a couple tacoma prerunners around ventura recently

I ended up keeping the truck and just decided to finish it up. So its at the shop getting the rear end done as well..its just a waiting game! I like the boxed frame too looks killer! karl did a nice job with it!

Originally Posted by jets

I ended up keeping the truck and just decided to finish it up. So its at the shop getting the rear end done as well..its just a waiting game! I like the boxed frame too looks killer! karl did a nice job with it!

right on, did you take it back to Frontline? and yeah, Karl did a great job w/ everything. it came out better than i was expecting

Originally Posted by nelson18matt

right on, did you take it back to Frontline? and yeah, Karl did a great job w/ everything. it came out better than i was expecting

No, I don't take my truck there anymore.. I'm having wc fab and viking offroad work on the truck should be all squared away this week hopefully.

sweet dude, sean at viking builds cool stuff too. whats wc fab? haven't heard of them.

i'll keep an eye out for you around town

I forget the price off the top of my head, but you can send your springs down to Deaver and just have them re-arched for a higher ride-height, and I'm pretty sure Deaver will still do it for free once if you bought the springs new. Something to think about when you get to that point.

WC fab is the place where Karl of frontline stole all of his ideas from. Most of the trucks around Ventura have been built by Will at WC. After seeing the work that Karl has been pumping out of his shop I have yet to be impressed. Your bedcage is the only piece of work that he's done that looks decent.

Originally Posted by dirtsentinel650

WC fab is the place where Karl of frontline stole all of his ideas from. Most of the trucks around Ventura have been built by Will at WC. After seeing the work that Karl has been pumping out of his shop I have yet to be impressed. Your bedcage is the only piece of work that he's done that looks decent.

hmmm, IDK...

where is WC fab? like i said i'm not familiar w/ that shop.

WC just moved into the same business center as Marshall's Bodacious BBQ. His work is pricy but it's quality not quantity coming out of that shop.

Will does sick work but it is indeed pricey! But good work isn't cheap, I'm finally getting my truck back tonight mike! there's a difference frontline builds "Prerunners" and will builds race trucks! nelson18 go talk to will he's a cool dude and check out some of his work..top notch shit or check my truck out, he gussets and double shears everything imaginable so badass! he's right next to associated tire

Originally Posted by jets

Will does sick work but it is indeed pricey! But good work isn't cheap, I'm finally getting my truck back tonight mike you called it talk about a laaaaag haha! there's a difference frontline builds "Prerunners" and will builds race trucks! nelson18 go talk to will he's a cool dude and check out some of his work..top notch shit or check my truck out, he gussets and double shears everything imaginable so badass! he's right next to associated tire

Lol, I really wanna know where your getting all this info from?

Originally Posted by jets

Will does sick work but it is indeed pricey! But good work isn't cheap, I'm finally getting my truck back tonight mike you called it talk about a laaaaag haha! there's a difference frontline builds "Prerunners" and will builds race trucks! nelson18 go talk to will he's a cool dude and check out some of his work..top notch shit or check my truck out, he gussets and double shears everything imaginable so badass! he's right next to associated tire

Not quite the 6 week deadline but close enough ehhh John??? Haha probably looks sweet might need to scope your shit out later.