Blackdawg
Dr. Frankenstein
Alberta Bound!-15.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
Hey everyone, thanks for looking through my build!
This is the build and story of my Tacoma, Frankenstein. I bought the truck as a junior in high school fulling my dream I'd had since I was about 10 years old of owning a Tacoma with 96k on it. I started modifying it in college and ever since then, haven't stopped.
A LOT has happened to this truck in the process, namely, I rolled it. my first trip to Moab in 2012 i flopped in on a dirt road at night for a number of reasons and crunched the cab up good. But I found another 96 cab from a 5 lugger 2wd truck in Idaho for 500 bucks and swapped it on. Thus, Frankenstein was born. Since then, I seem to almost break something every trip or so and often resort to junk yards for parts. As it stands now, 10 or so other Tacoma have donated parts to the cause. So he really is Frankenstein.
I have documented just about everything i have done to the truck and at a certain point in the build I started doing very detailed posts. You will also notice the change from using my ipad as my camera to a real DSLR haha!
Anyways, i hope you enjoy it. I am ALL about open discussion about ANYTHING. My other build thread has over 10k replies in it because i like to talk trucks with anyone no topic has gone untouched and it never gets old so ask questions!
I will also be hyper linking ever mod in the OP so you can easily skip the BS and go right to the mod/pictures.
Thanks!
Current setup::
Christina Lake 2016.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
LongTravel Install-149.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
MODS:
Will be updating list as i post the mods with links.
Hey everyone, thanks for looking through my build!
This is the build and story of my Tacoma, Frankenstein. I bought the truck as a junior in high school fulling my dream I'd had since I was about 10 years old of owning a Tacoma with 96k on it. I started modifying it in college and ever since then, haven't stopped.
A LOT has happened to this truck in the process, namely, I rolled it. my first trip to Moab in 2012 i flopped in on a dirt road at night for a number of reasons and crunched the cab up good. But I found another 96 cab from a 5 lugger 2wd truck in Idaho for 500 bucks and swapped it on. Thus, Frankenstein was born. Since then, I seem to almost break something every trip or so and often resort to junk yards for parts. As it stands now, 10 or so other Tacoma have donated parts to the cause. So he really is Frankenstein.
I have documented just about everything i have done to the truck and at a certain point in the build I started doing very detailed posts. You will also notice the change from using my ipad as my camera to a real DSLR haha!
Anyways, i hope you enjoy it. I am ALL about open discussion about ANYTHING. My other build thread has over 10k replies in it because i like to talk trucks with anyone no topic has gone untouched and it never gets old so ask questions!
I will also be hyper linking ever mod in the OP so you can easily skip the BS and go right to the mod/pictures.
Thanks!
Current setup::
Christina Lake 2016.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
LongTravel Install-149.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
MODS:
- Armor
- Elite Offroad Front Bumper Custom
- Elite Offroad Rear Wrap Around Bumper with Swingout. Tire Carrier, Table, Jerry can
- Modified RAT front skid
- BAMF Diff skid
- BAMF Kickout Sliders
- Suspenstion
- MCM Fab 3.5'' over Long Travel kit with ADS Coilovers
- Rear FrankenFab leafs 10'' 5150s
- Wheels/Tires
- Summit racing 15x8 Steel rims with 3.75'' Backspacing
- Goodyear MTR/K 35x12.5r15
- 1.5'' wheel spacers on the back
- Drive train/Performance
- Yukon 5.29 Diff gears installed by myself
- Magnaflow 14'' Muffler with custom piping to 3'' tip
- AFE ProDry Air Filter
- BEEFED Carrier Bearing Drop 1.5''
- Trail Gear Ceramic 6 puck Clutch
- Trail Gear BOMB Proof Solid Motor Mounts
- 4xinovations Solid Transmission Mount
- TRD Supercharger Gray body
- URD 7th Injector
- URD 2.1'' Pulley
- Lighting/Electrical
- Light Force 240s 100w Halogens
- 4 - Hella 500FFs converted to 55w HIDs
- PIAA 510 ION Fog lights
- Custom made Mirror lights with 6'' Blitzpro LEDs
- 2 - 21s Hawk Blitzpro LED bars side firing
- 2 - 4'' Blitzpro LED pods for rear fills and custom made Camp lights on extension Poles
- 2 - Rear firing Blitzpro 6'' LED bars
- 4 - 1' Ridged LED bars firing into the bed
- GM CS144 alternator swap. 140amp
- Dual Yellow Top Batteries with custom solenoid
- 12v power plug in the Bed
- 600w Power Inverter
- 4 - 5 1/4" Sony Xplod speakers
- 2 - Kicker 100w 6x9 three way speakers in separate boxes
- 2 - Alpine Type X 1000w subs in vented box
- 500w JBL 4ch Amp
- 4000w SSL Mono block amp
- 3.4 Farad Capacitor
- Custom made Bussman Relay box
- Custom made switch panel with master ON Switch
- Recovery
- XRC8 Smitty Built 8000lb Winch with Synth Line and repacked grease
- LOTS of tools
- LOTS of spare parts
- Axe
- Shovel
- Coms/Nav
- Uinden 520xl Pro CB with 5' Firestik Antenna
- Icom 5100A DSTAR HAM Radio
- Trip Reports
Will be updating list as i post the mods with links.
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