Weldtec Designs
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it will get painted and then interior will go in.
^^^^ not the first cage we have built but first in a Toyota FJ cruiser^^^^
Time to get nuts with the FJ Cruiser! lets build! (WTD)
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it will get painted and then interior will go in.
^^^^ not the first cage we have built but first in a Toyota FJ cruiser^^^^
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This escalated fast!!!!! Looking good.
Weldtec Designs
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Toyota Fj cruiser cab cage
build, build, build.
The plan is to run the stock two front seats for now and to racing seats in the rear. Next week we will be moving on to the motor cage and connection it to the interior cab cage.
lots more still to come....
* 1 piece front fiberglass clip
* seat bars
*motor cage
* solid motor mounts
* solid body mounts
Thanks for watching this build progress...
build, build, build.
The plan is to run the stock two front seats for now and to racing seats in the rear. Next week we will be moving on to the motor cage and connection it to the interior cab cage.
lots more still to come....
* 1 piece front fiberglass clip
* seat bars
*motor cage
* solid motor mounts
* solid body mounts
Thanks for watching this build progress...
zidaro
Explorer
Totally digging this. Cage work is looking sharp, I do t have the geometry knowledge to critique all the triangulation, but it looks beefy
What is the intentions of your customer with this rig? Is long travel or sas planned? Daily driven? Street legal? Desert *** hauler, crawler? C Are u putting a rtt and hanging awnings off it ��
What is the intentions of your customer with this rig? Is long travel or sas planned? Daily driven? Street legal? Desert *** hauler, crawler? C Are u putting a rtt and hanging awnings off it ��
Weldtec Designs
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This was his daily driver and i am sure will be, to some point. He may want to race it in the future, who knows. We are doing a Total Choas kit up front with coilovers and a bypass shock due to time of designing our own. IN the rear we will be doing a link suspension at some point but for know just shocks. some of the stock interior panels will go back in and the rest will be custom.
No plans for an awning.
zidaro
Explorer
Nice! Any chance that link kit for your rear will not dig into the cab? As in, will it tuck under and be adaptable/fit the 4th gen t4r? That would be SWEET!!!
Weldtec Designs
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no, this one will come through the cab.
More build ing this week as we moved in to the motor cage! THe motor cage runs throught the fire wall into the cab cage.
We will be ditching the Total Choas shock mount for the bypass and build are own! There's doesn't really do with what we are building. As you can see no sheet metal and no core support. That means all new mounts for the radiator and misc things under the hood.
More pics to come!
Weldtec Designs
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Toyota J Cruiser bypass shock mount.
today was a busy day as we got the new bypass shock mount made...
Along with a battery tray mount.
Next we are going to start mounting all the little things that go under the hood like fuse box and power steering reservoir.
today was a busy day as we got the new bypass shock mount made...
Along with a battery tray mount.
Next we are going to start mounting all the little things that go under the hood like fuse box and power steering reservoir.
Mushin_Noshin
Adventurer
Amazing work!
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...I think it is time for me to weigh in as the owner of this "cute smurf" as mr4x4 put it 
BTW, this smurf is called "Jacob". Yes it is a boy - it's got an exhaust pipe sticking out...
This 07 FJ was never much of a daily driver - always been my off road toy and for the last 3 years a tow vehicle for our travel trailer. It only has 38kmi on it, but these were rather hard miles. This rig has been to Moab, did the Rubicon trail, the sand dunes and a lot of desert runs. I was one of the people who were extremely bummed out about the inner fender rail cracks (happened at 3500miles!!!!). I was very frustrated with Toyota Corporate about how they handled the case - basically leaving you stranded. As the cracks kept growing to a point where everything just keep rattling and falling apart, I knew it was time to get serious. The final straw was as the motor mounts cracked out of the frame and punctured the bottom end of the engine...
I met Jeremy at WeldTech earlier this year and I did a first test project with him - the weld-on rear bumper with hitch integration. I am very picky about how things should be done, and I can only say one thing: he did an AMAZING JOB! So it was clear for me that he is my man to do the entire roll cage with. The FJ is a tricky vehicle to do this on properly, but again, Jeremy and his team are just fantastic of how they put this together. I completely trust him every step of the way, and this is coming from someone who is considered a "control enthusiast"
Now I just hope Jeremy is not reading this comment, otherwise I don't have any room for negotiating the final price!!!!
So what is the plan with Smurf Jacob: I like to go fast but I also have rock crawling. for me, the weakest link was the front suspension (I had a 3in Donahoe Racing lift kit), as I like to go a bit faster through the desert. So that was tackled with the Total chaos 3.5in long travel suspension and the King shocks. this setup is for sure not as ideal for rock crawling anymore but that's ok - I got a winch and it needs to be used. The roll caging is to limit the flex of the ladder frame against the body, which was the root cause for the inner fender rail cracking. Yes, safety is an added value, but I don't have the plan to roll him... To give him the proper look, I will install a single piece fiberglass front end (lights and grill integrated). I pieced this together from the individual fiberglass hood and fender available on the market. The plan is to use the original hood mounts to open the entire piece - this should give nice access to the engine compartment for any repair if necessary.
I will also re-gear him to 4.88 (from 3.73) to compensate for the added weight and bigger tires (33in). Drifting in the canyons was only good in low gear, but I was running out of rpm. So hopefully the 4.88 gives me enough umpf to have fun in high gear. I still need to get someone eliminate stability control and all that BS in high gear. At some point I may put on 35s. Beside the re-gearing, the rear axle stays for now. Wanna play with him first and then decide on the details. Most likely I will get a 7in wider axle housing (probably Diamond), but no decision yet on 4-linking or not. As I said, I wanna feel it out first...
On the interior I want to put individual panels inside the cage to make him nice and pretty and this also allows me easy access for installing overhead switched, lights, speakers and so on. That way I don't even need to mess with cutting and fitting the old interior panels. The cage gets painted in silver. The dash will remain stock. Since there is not enough room for the original seat bench in the back, I just ordered a couple of Corbeau FX1 bucket seats (hopefully I made the right decision on these). I may switch the front ones out too, but for now I will keep them as they are quite comfortable for me.
Ok, now back to making some money so I can pay Jeremy...
Cheers,
Gerhard
BTW, this smurf is called "Jacob". Yes it is a boy - it's got an exhaust pipe sticking out...This 07 FJ was never much of a daily driver - always been my off road toy and for the last 3 years a tow vehicle for our travel trailer. It only has 38kmi on it, but these were rather hard miles. This rig has been to Moab, did the Rubicon trail, the sand dunes and a lot of desert runs. I was one of the people who were extremely bummed out about the inner fender rail cracks (happened at 3500miles!!!!). I was very frustrated with Toyota Corporate about how they handled the case - basically leaving you stranded. As the cracks kept growing to a point where everything just keep rattling and falling apart, I knew it was time to get serious. The final straw was as the motor mounts cracked out of the frame and punctured the bottom end of the engine...
I met Jeremy at WeldTech earlier this year and I did a first test project with him - the weld-on rear bumper with hitch integration. I am very picky about how things should be done, and I can only say one thing: he did an AMAZING JOB! So it was clear for me that he is my man to do the entire roll cage with. The FJ is a tricky vehicle to do this on properly, but again, Jeremy and his team are just fantastic of how they put this together. I completely trust him every step of the way, and this is coming from someone who is considered a "control enthusiast"
Now I just hope Jeremy is not reading this comment, otherwise I don't have any room for negotiating the final price!!!!
So what is the plan with Smurf Jacob: I like to go fast but I also have rock crawling. for me, the weakest link was the front suspension (I had a 3in Donahoe Racing lift kit), as I like to go a bit faster through the desert. So that was tackled with the Total chaos 3.5in long travel suspension and the King shocks. this setup is for sure not as ideal for rock crawling anymore but that's ok - I got a winch and it needs to be used. The roll caging is to limit the flex of the ladder frame against the body, which was the root cause for the inner fender rail cracking. Yes, safety is an added value, but I don't have the plan to roll him... To give him the proper look, I will install a single piece fiberglass front end (lights and grill integrated). I pieced this together from the individual fiberglass hood and fender available on the market. The plan is to use the original hood mounts to open the entire piece - this should give nice access to the engine compartment for any repair if necessary.
I will also re-gear him to 4.88 (from 3.73) to compensate for the added weight and bigger tires (33in). Drifting in the canyons was only good in low gear, but I was running out of rpm. So hopefully the 4.88 gives me enough umpf to have fun in high gear. I still need to get someone eliminate stability control and all that BS in high gear. At some point I may put on 35s. Beside the re-gearing, the rear axle stays for now. Wanna play with him first and then decide on the details. Most likely I will get a 7in wider axle housing (probably Diamond), but no decision yet on 4-linking or not. As I said, I wanna feel it out first...
On the interior I want to put individual panels inside the cage to make him nice and pretty and this also allows me easy access for installing overhead switched, lights, speakers and so on. That way I don't even need to mess with cutting and fitting the old interior panels. The cage gets painted in silver. The dash will remain stock. Since there is not enough room for the original seat bench in the back, I just ordered a couple of Corbeau FX1 bucket seats (hopefully I made the right decision on these). I may switch the front ones out too, but for now I will keep them as they are quite comfortable for me.
Ok, now back to making some money so I can pay Jeremy...
Cheers,
Gerhard
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