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That photo was immediately after painting. It actually dried totally smooth (it's also a satin finish when dry). But I may do the foam roller on the second coat.

Plodding along trying to finish up the frame. Flipped it again to do the remaining things on the top (bed) side. Because I'm overly paranoid about things not being strong enough (lack of confidence in my welding, IDK), I added some frame reinforcement up in the neck area. I had some 6x6 1/8"...

Flipped the frame today to do all the underside welds (well, the top-side I guess). At the front of the neck I made cuts and folded down the open ends of the diagonal side bars, so now they're all closed up. I also drilled out the spot welds on a couple of the stock bed mount brackets and...

Yep, next post will talk about the tongue! And I always listen when a Warrant is speaking ;) For springs, I have a buddy with some 3500# springs he's giving me, which are certainly overkill for this, so I'll probably remove a leaf and see how that does. If anything, replacement springs are...

Today I rolled down to the local steel place and picked up 40 feet of 2x3 .120 wall square tube, cut into 10-foot lengths, which will give me the right sizes for my cut-ups (and also fit in the Sequoia!) When I got home, I cleared out my other garage bay and needed to move the bed from my...

For those following along here, you may also be interested in my new related project, a truck-bed utility/adventure/rally support trailer to be towed by the Raider. And of course I'm building it using a Mitsubishi Mighty Max bed, to keep it in the family, as I mentioned above. Anyhow, I started...

One thing I'll throw out there is any thoughts (from you) on what rate springs to use on this (I'll be using standard twin-eye leaf springs with shackles). I'm going to go with a 3500# axle but don't want spring rates that high and am thinking more around 2000# for those, which I think would be...

This project is going to start pretty slow as I do some planning, but figured I'd start up a thread now to keep my thoughts in one place (my mind is a bad place to keep my thoughts....). I'll probably cc some of the work in the my Raider build thread (in the Mitsubishi section here) as well...

Well, after three months of nothing from LOKKA, PayPal refunded my money. So I don't know what the f--k is up with those guys or if they're still in business, but that sucks. I figured three months would be plenty of time to deliver, but I guess not. So, back to this idea of getting Aussie...

In unrelated news to the above post....but more related to the Raider... So after ordering a front lunchbox locker from LOKKA in September, I never heard from them, couldn't get in touch with them, and eventually tried to go through PayPal. Still was hoping they'd come through with delivery...

So only loosely related to this actual thread, but today I did some road-tripping in the Sequoia, with the trailer. I wanted to pick up something in PA for a future project (related to the Raider, perhaps), and as it happens a buddy's Volvo needed to get to a nearby town for its rally cage to be...

Just finishing up the branch risers. Changed the "stack" order of the spring and the turnbuckle for cosmetic and routing reasons, and welded on a couple little tabs near the back of the rack. So now when not on the trails the risers will just run back on the rack and out of the way. So...

Didn't have much to do today (still waiting on a package that's 2 weeks overdue now), so did a little project I've been meaning to do. So this actually feels a little bit poser-ish, but for those of you here on the East Coast, you know that the trails tend to be pretty overgrown in a lot of...

Thanks, I'm trying to keep the ideas coming, though it's getting a lot closer to my vision lol. A few other things planned in the next month, but spending on this will probably tail off for a while after the new year so I can build up some cash to enter a few rallys in the e30 (that stuff is...

Hope you all had a good Christmas. I'm winding down now, so I guess I'll recap a few things that resulted from mine: My birthday was about a week ago and my parents sent me some new headlights (I had mentioned it to my dad and he came through!). This is the same conversion I did on my Porsche...

So the other day on our mid-atlantic rally facebook page, an old-school rally driver (who stopped racing around the time I started) posted up a number of items for free (plus shipping). Anyhow, i managed to snag a couple things: So on the right is a Terratrip 303 rally computer. It's missing...

Well, today is my birthday, and the girls apparently have changed from drawing racecars on my cards to drawing trucks... my parents got me a nice Igloo BMX injected cooler, which should keep things colder a lot longer than the old coolers I've been using over the years. Among other things...

In 2WD you shouldn't notice it. Most recommend having manual hubs so you can totally unlock when not using it.

yeah, that seems like a good plan. Just lift the body right off and swap it over. All you really will need to do is change some wiring and ECU out of the smashed one, more than likely. Also would give you a good opportunity to clean up/paint the frame. I highly doubt there is frame damage, Once...

Continuing on with the sleep platform. So on the back section, decided to use the factory seatbelt lower mounts as the "tie downs" for the assembly, which works out well and means no new holes to drill... And modified a couple of the factory tie-downs (taken off the Blue Raider) for the...