O.K Need advise and ideas ive got a 1990 toy shortbed lifted already and stuff. PLease post your pics if u have a Yota all Bajaed out. Anything fenders bedsides hood suspension set everything i need HELP with ideas Thanks

 

There was a thread about a truck someone bought that was set up for baja. You'll want a Total Chaos long travel up front and some serious long travel shocks in the back.

That's the basics for withstanding jumps, but you'll want a full roll cage in the truck and probably some tubes going out to the end of the bed to help stiffen up the frame also. Baja's pretty damn expensive and its not like rock crawling where you can build up piece by piece over time. Its pretty much all or nothing.

 

Well i appreciate the advise but im not looking to do Competion i just love the look im really just looking for the basics in looks Thanks tho

 

oooh ok, I thought you meant competition.

You're probably still looking to do some jumps though, and the long travel is still required for that. And its better to be safe than crushed in a rollover so I'd invest in a rollcage too...lol

Competition is definitely more expensive than just recreational baja fun, but its still pretty much all or nothing.

Its like when you want bigger tires you have to regear and lift along with it. Everything goes together or you break something.

 

So true man so true hahahahaha thanks

 

paint and graphics work wonders LOL

 

sweet!!

 

it's my sons truck
the previous owner did the paint & graphics
I decided to leave it like that
everyone knows who's truck it is, poor son can't get away with anything

 

That's pretty funny.

 

you're an awesome father for getting him a cool looking truck (that's also a toyota), but at the same time it IS so obvious who's truck it is like you said haha

 

just want him to be safe and responsible, yet still have some FUN

 

cheap way is to get bj spacers and relax a set of stiffer t bars for a softer ride and increase travel but keeping the spring rate stiffer to deal with the speed. get a set of soft rear shocks, live Doestch tech mv 12's, so that the back end stays planted. then get a shock like a bilstein or the liking the front that is a bit stiffer so that it tracks well. I have similar setup on the rear my 4runner and it does really well, no bounce in the rear. different because of leaf springs but same basic idea.

if you go all out, Total chaos would be the way to go IMO. THat is the direction that i want to go.

 

Total Chaos fo sho .... unless u have really deep pockets then id find a wicked fab shop and have them build something from scratch... as the saying goes, custom doesnt bolt on. id deff. look at re-inforcing the frame, maybe cut out and replace some of the original x-members and replace with some thick tube... i dont know if you have ever had a chance to go out in a rig built for pre-runnin but if you can go out with someone before you build, it may change your mind on how you want it to end up.. no point in spending alot of money just to cut it apart and re-do it. Baja is an addiction and over time your going to want to go bigger and faster lol i had to get back into a wheeler because i knew i couldnt afford to build a prerunner at this point in my life.

 

yeah i plan on doing most of my own fabrication. right now i am in my first year of becoming a industrial engineer with an emphasis in metal fab. I will be taking a welding course next fall. i hope that by my junior year i will be starting fabricate some the pieces. I want to fab a new four link for my rear end from scratch for part of my senior project. i will be doing all of the labor and fabrication on it. building the shock hoops and such.

 

Yea hopefully i can find someone that can do that type of fab its funny b/c i live in NY and no one around here prolly has never seen a baja truck and most of the fab shops do the basics like lifts and axels nothing to the extream but thats awsome guys thanks for the advise!!

 

+1 for Total Chaos. I run the gen 2 caddy kit and it's excellent for a bolt on kit. If your just looking to make a toy then bolt on is the way to go.
Here's an older pic of my truck

 

check out a member who used to be on here...

his screen name on here was DeathRunner...

he runs a long travel hit with the hanneman Ivan fenders and hood... looks wicked as all get-up...

 

oops... are we talking 4wd?

 

So, I'd like to resurrect this thread as I'd like to know what happened?

I'm also trying to figure out the best way to do a similar build.

Did you ever get this setup how you wanted?

 

maybe something like this ?




we build all the pieces



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