Chef your 4Runner is looking sweet. Is there any decent 4 wheeling out there?

 

shes lookin awesome chef

 

Hey chef, its been a while. Sorry about ruby but your new silver rig looks great. I am in the middle of my SAS on my rig. I did a write up in the axle swap section. Are you planning a motor swap? I want to do the om617 TD. Could have got one last weekend at pick n pull but didn't have time. It was 1/2 price day too. Ohh well there will be another some day.

 

Thanks, and it was!

I thought it was pretty fun. But there is way cool spots out there and Parker, phenomenal wheeling actually. This was just a bit of fun for the day you know? And you can always wheel and jetski in the same day!

Thanks buddy!

Right on, hope you're well, hombre! Sounds like you've done you're research, regarding the motor swap.... Seems to be a straight forward swap... I'm getting close to making my decision, but the motor I built is running so well, I'm content to tale my time, even if I collect everything. Seeing Ian tossing a 3.4 in his 22re-c - rig ...., well, it has me throwing that in the mix of the 3 choices I'm spying out! Lol....

Thanks for that, it sucked, but I got right over it, what else could I do?

 

Good morning Chef! Loved the pictorial from your trip w/family....hahaha, kid stuffed in wheel well. . Beautiful flexy shots too!

 

Dude--talk about some memories 1970 Buick Riviera. My grandmother had one with the 455.5 in it. It had 19K on the clock when she passed away in 1983.
Backed the sucker up to the wall of the parking garage in her condos when I was 12 and put it in reverse and smoked the tires for a loooooong time..

 

Been checking in on you see how things are going. Just haven't posted. Hope all is going well.

My grandmother had a Buick Electra 225,( 197? model) those were some boat sized cars back then. The 455 was a little power house. I miss the '74 and older cars.

 

Your runner is looking awesome, inspiration.

 

Thanks so much, beautiful! Yeah, Mike nephew Mikey is a cool kid! I did a picture like that and so he wanted to! Lol. He's already saved almost $10,000 from doing business on eBay bartering and so forth. He desperately wants the truck, so we are already looking! .... Yeah, old Susie Q the Silverback did pretty well. I've been getting some ideas on sometimes I'm going to change. Possibly going to get her down a little bit in the front.. I don't wanna do a no-lift belly skidder..., but I want to maximize the performance on the odd and flop happy terrain! Lol

Love hearing ppl's stories from pics I've posted! Even better than , "nice car", by far! Crazy story! Haha

I'm still kickin, lol.... Just extremely busy. Gonna do an update soon.

Thanks!

 

What am i underneath?.....



My daughters new to her 2002 civic with all new top end and time and kiss and radiator. I picked it up for her last week! Its a5 speed civic with between 33 and 38 miles a gallon!







I hit 1000 followers on Instagram. Hahahahaha. I never even join that thing taking it seriously. But my kids, just like with Facebook, insisted that I joined. Along with a couple of guys on here. Cody I believe, and Nick! Lol... I love it. Very simple and hit and run. I wish that allowed longer videos but I guess that's probably best so that I can not spend so much time updating and so forth, especially when I don't have that time at the moment....



I promise I will be back and update with some relief cool stuff. I am going to do a meet up post because we are going to bullfrog Trail near King of the hammers. we are meeting here at around 9 a.m. On Sunday morning, June 8th 2014.....

 

Chef does your 4Runner still fit in your garage with that rack on the roof?


Mike

 

Nice looking Civic you got. Great little cars as well. I do good keeping up with one site. I dont see how others can keep up with several sites at the same time. I do like the short videos as it does show so much more then just a picture.

 

6-8-14 MEET/ "Bullfrog", Johnson Valley/76 Station Start point-->

Socal854runner, myself and a few others are meeting up at the following location and then heading on to Bullfrog Trail in Johnson Valley. It is quite a bit closer than Hammers, for me anyway....

This is the gas station we are meeting at...



76

http://goo.gl/maps/ytO1r

From there it is not too far to where we are going, which is basically a couple miles from "Cougar Buttes" .....



Cougar Buttes

http://goo.gl/maps/SaF6j

Everyone is welcomed with pretty much any vehicle, but obviously there are several hills that are mostly rock formation which some will not be able to get up. However, there are several lines people can take, and it's not very difficult at all to hike up by foot and watch some of the activities on the nastier stuff....

Go ahead and post up if you'd like to join us....

Meet and wheel, Bullfrog/Johnson Valley:

 

Nope. Without it, no prob

 

I want one of those racks so bad but my 4runner barely clears as it is. I thought about making one with some kind of quick release pins so I could remove it easy.

 

Sorry I have been so absent! Life is been incredibly busy so I've just been updating Instagram here and there. I will do an update after I get back from Lake Havasu again... I'll give you a quick teaser of my trip to bullfrog trail in Johnson Valley, which is adjacent to king of the hammers.....

Bullfrog Trail, 2 Yotas and a Jeep 2:
Bullfrog Trail With Good Peeps:
Bullfrog Trail dashcam 3:
Bullfrog Trail Drop off:
Bullfrog Trail caves group shot:
Bullfrog Trail flipagram 1:
Bullfrog Trail flipagram 2:






Izzy, @iitsizzy on IG...



Do you even air down bro? Lol.







My buddy, Arthur, inside the little cave, and Chris/ Socal854runner on here and @auaddict on IG, on top....





Art...











Woeeeeee! Lol.....











































As some of you might know, my buddy are was down from Oregon for his mother's funeral. He's in the white shirt....









Before leaving, in fact the day before, my alternator began to fail. It would at times charge well, and others not at all.... So I finally decided to break out the 130 amp ace alternators upgrade and wire it in. I will explain more later as to what I did, but I went from the top posts: large white wire directly to the battery and wrapped up the original one... Around 12 inches before the battery I installed a 150 amp buss breaker.... Long story short, the alternator kick ass and does its job well when high amp draw items like the compressor are on, etc. For instance, when I put all of my off road lights on, the idle barely drops as compared to before when it would drop up to 150 rpm...





130A Alternator From ACE in Whittier, CA PT. 1:
130A Alternator From ACE in Whittier, CA PT. 2:
130A Alternator From ACE in Whittier, CA PT. 3:
130A Alternator From ACE in Whittier, CA PT. 4:
130A Alternator From ACE in Whittier, CA PT. 5:

 

Glad to see you back. I will have to watch the videos on my home computer but the pictures look like you had a great time.

 

Awesome pics as always! So jealous of the places you have to wheel out there

 

Hey chef! The swap turned out great brother. Glad to see you are out on the trails again! I was wanting to start a discussion on your rollover and what you learned from it and what advice you and the other guys here can share. As I put more and more money into my truck rolling it is my number one worry. Especially since I haven't saved up the money yet to exo it (the 3rz swap drained my bank account and then some). I'd also love to hear from you guys on whether or not you have found a insurance company that is willing to provide a policy on "agreed value".

 

sweet altenator