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Hey Adventurers,
It's my pleasure to introduce you to "Astrid", 2004 Chevy Astro AWD.
Astrid has been with us for over a year now and has taken us to some amazing places and tested trough some rough terrain and always brought us home back safe.
The van has been lifted, fitted with bigger tires and bed recently. I wanted to have a build thread were all of that would be summarized and written down, as well as all the new stuff would be posted.
Hope you enjoy this thread and maybe it inspires you to go out and buy Astro van as it's truly remarkable vehicle.
Couple more pictures:
Oh and did it tell you it's very practical
As of now, Astrid has following upgrades (Updated 2015-Oct-21):
- ~3-4"lift at front and ~3-4" lift at rear;
- BFG All-Terrain T/A KO2 LT225/75R16;
- Tru-Cool LPD-4490 Trans cooler;
- G80 locker installed (Astrid came as Base model with 3.42 gearing and no locker);
- 5% limo tint on all rear windows (blacked out basically);
- Hawk pads and AC Delco rotors on front and PowerStop brake rotor/pad kit on rear (30k km later almost no signs of wear);
- Night Hawk Low and High beam lights;
- ~50" wide x 80" long bed, that converts into couch;
- Passenger swivel seat;
- ARB 37QT Fridge/Freezer with tie down system and threaded socket;
- NorthStart Group 31 AGM battery (According to my research and other overlander suggestions these are very reliable and quality product);
- 100W Solar + MPPT Charging Controller;
- 1000W Power Inverter;
- T-MAX 47-3800 Dual Battery System (Great post on How-To-Install: http://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/t-max-dual-battery-install.607791/);
- Fan-Tastic Model 1250 Roof Vent;
- ARB CKMA12 Compressor.
Notes:
Initially Astrid was built with 225/75R16 Cooper Discoverer A/T3's, which turned out to be great in terms of performance and terrible in terms of reliability. Had to be replaced.
It's my pleasure to introduce you to "Astrid", 2004 Chevy Astro AWD.
Astrid has been with us for over a year now and has taken us to some amazing places and tested trough some rough terrain and always brought us home back safe.
The van has been lifted, fitted with bigger tires and bed recently. I wanted to have a build thread were all of that would be summarized and written down, as well as all the new stuff would be posted.
Hope you enjoy this thread and maybe it inspires you to go out and buy Astro van as it's truly remarkable vehicle.
Couple more pictures:
Oh and did it tell you it's very practical
As of now, Astrid has following upgrades (Updated 2015-Oct-21):
- ~3-4"lift at front and ~3-4" lift at rear;
- BFG All-Terrain T/A KO2 LT225/75R16;
- Tru-Cool LPD-4490 Trans cooler;
- G80 locker installed (Astrid came as Base model with 3.42 gearing and no locker);
- 5% limo tint on all rear windows (blacked out basically);
- Hawk pads and AC Delco rotors on front and PowerStop brake rotor/pad kit on rear (30k km later almost no signs of wear);
- Night Hawk Low and High beam lights;
- ~50" wide x 80" long bed, that converts into couch;
- Passenger swivel seat;
- ARB 37QT Fridge/Freezer with tie down system and threaded socket;
- NorthStart Group 31 AGM battery (According to my research and other overlander suggestions these are very reliable and quality product);
- 100W Solar + MPPT Charging Controller;
- 1000W Power Inverter;
- T-MAX 47-3800 Dual Battery System (Great post on How-To-Install: http://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/t-max-dual-battery-install.607791/);
- Fan-Tastic Model 1250 Roof Vent;
- ARB CKMA12 Compressor.
Notes:
Initially Astrid was built with 225/75R16 Cooper Discoverer A/T3's, which turned out to be great in terms of performance and terrible in terms of reliability. Had to be replaced.
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