Thought some of you might be interested.
In person, it looks awesome.

Switch is not mounted yet, but all wiring is run.
They are bright as.... there bright.

 

looks good. but what kind of lights are they? i hope they are pencil beam pattern. they seem to be pretty far back.

 

also howd you mount em? Ubolts and custom plate or...?

 

Basically, I sacraficed the frontmost upper roof rack bar.
It was on the upper rails, I relocated it to the lower rails, as far forward as possible
and mounted the lights to it.

I ran all the wire inside the 'mounting bar', and ran the main power wire through the roofrack rail to the front. I had to get above the head liner inside the FJ and drill a hole for the power wire to run down into the cab. (from the inside of the rail... it sucks to tear into a brand spankin new vehicle like this!)

If anyone is interested, ill post more pictures of where the wires are run, ect.
To sum it up, it looks awesome, and the lighting power is great. However,
it was a major pain in the butt. (fishing a coat hanger through the roof rack to guide the wires ect....)

As far as HOW I mounted the lights to the bar, I drilled 4 perfect equally spaced holes and mounted them up.

 

Dude, you rock... you've had that thing for what, two weeks, and you're already drilling holes in the thing?

Of course, I had my truck for an hour before it got it's first Arizona pinstripes...

 

Drilling holes, routing wires, mounting switches... haha

Im gonna have this FJ for a very long time. So, what the hell.
Im making it mine.

 

I like this guy....

 

Sweet! Curious why you didn't just move the top bar all the way forward and use one of the wind deflector mounting holes for a power wire exit? Garage clearance? Nicely done, please post some night shots of the beam pattern too.

 

how do you like the FJ? I think I am waiting for Toyota to bring in a diesel engine like they have in the Hilux before I buy new again

 

Just BARELY clears my open garage by maybe an inch, at most.

Shantz, I LOVE the FJ. Its the perfect vehicle for me. Extremely capable,
yet comfortable, very strong/quick, love the 6 speed manual, totally solid,
its just the perfect vehicle for me.

 

I can never see your pics when you post them up... on firefox or internet explorer... What photo hosting site do you use?

 

I use http://www.imageshack.us/.

Internet explorer is my browser.

 

that looks great, but just wondering if anyone knows why toyota decided to paint the top white. i mean it looks great, but why? ahh, maybe a stupid question.

 

its a throw back to the old FJs

 

oh okay. i knew thats what they designed it from but did not know they had white tops.

 

Awesome... now I can see them. Looks sweet, man... congrats!

 

pfft... thats nothing.. on sunday i wheeled with an 06 taco that had just gotten its first oil change at 3500 miles!

 

how much more is the oem roof light package?



it seems like a better location

 

We won't know until shortly before release this November.

 

I actually thought about that OEM deal, but decided to mount my own.
I wanted 4 instead of 2, and I actually like the location of them.

It looks good, like they are almoast trying to be consealed or something like that.
I have not aimed them yet, but I can tell that the location of them will not be a problem with aiming the two outsides farther out, and the two insides a little closer if I chose to. (my point is, the roof does not get in the way)

Ill get more pictures today.

Oh, one more thing... I was surprized that on the freeway at 80+ the lights do not add any wind noise. Must be due to the rounded shape of the lenses.