Tacoma Ultra4

[Stone age]

Appreciate that dude, Paint and Tacoma bits next

[Moorin90]

Wow! I only came on here for a quick browse and then ended up reading the entire build thread! Loving the shock mounts and the tube work!

[Hacksaw707]

Super clean and detailed work, you nailed it

[Stone age]

Remote reservoirs

[desertmaxx]

Originally Posted by Stone age

Remote reservoirs

thats sweet. do the king reservoirs just screw off?

[Stone age]

Yep, Just a grub screw holdin' em in

[Stone age]

Some shots and the (thankfully) ever decreasing to-do-list

Rear remote reseviors








shiny superficial things next, and shock set up, its starting to sit pretty low!

[Hacksaw707]

Love the remote reservoirs, the chassis lines are perfect with that roof and hood

Some aluminum strap mounts for those reservoirs would be awesome detail

Oh, and what driver's are those?

You Fawkin nailed this thing, Props to you!!!!

[Stone age]

Thanks bud

Yeah, agreed, the zip ties are un-doing my hard work a bit, the interior is from a Tamiya wrc kit, there is a company called TBG on eBay reproducing them

[DzrtRyd]

I love this entire build. This thing is awesome. I cant wait to see it done. This makes me miss my 1:1 prerunner.

[XSRCdesign]

This id turning out sick! Thanks for convincing me I need to dig out that wraith kit..

[Stone age]

Thanks for the support guys, Im really enjoying this rig and I'm glad you guys dig it too

My deadline for completion is looming and I'm going to have to skip the tacoma bonnet and grille i had started. no time, plus all that fancy styrene will get smashed to bits pretty early on. so I may add later, or I may not. The open face, exposed shocks, bypasses and lightbar are eye-candy enough for me anyway.

So Its almost looking complete, just need to paint the drivers hook up some lights f+r and mount that fawkin panhard bar. And I'm changing the wheels again

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Thats all for now folks

[rockhugger]

May I be the first to say.... AWESOME .... sorry gold is not a color choice when posting, so I had to use wheat.

[WHITE-TRASH]

Bad ass build! I see you finally took the panhard off. Figured out that it doesn't work so well having a dual triangulated 4 link with a panhard eh?

[Stone age]

Ha, I've mounted it since these were taken at the weekend and it works a charm

[WHITE-TRASH]

If the panhard is level or very close to you are right it will work well. When it's at an angle the suspension will have some binding to it unless your links or their mounting points have some give to them to allow the axle to cycle in an elliptical motion rather than straight up and down as the dual triangulated links will allow for.

If you take one of the upper links off on one end and cycle the suspension you'll see that the bolt hole doesn't line up part of the time as it's cycled.

I'm certainly not dogging on the rig it's a work of freaking art, keep up the kick ass work.

[Stone age]

Its alright mate I know what your saying, I'm only running one of the original top links since mounting the panhard, I've built the set up before after all. The shocks are mounted to the lower links so they are immune to any effects of the axle rotating round its axis, thats one of the benefits of this set-up, bind free.

[kakachille]

wow thing looks awesome nice work

[Hacksaw707]

WOW!!!

Looks great man, what material did you use to make the body panels out of? The fit and alinement are spot on.

[Stone age]

Thanks mate, the body panels are 1mm black styrene, there is plenty of give in the material so they might stand up to a little abuse