Mo4130
Adventurer
Hello, my name is Tom and I am new to the forums here and have been very impressed with the lack of internet bashing over here vs some other forums, so here I am!
A little about myself, I am 29 and am active duty Coast Guard, and after a two year stint of driving fast cars I have come back to my original love, which is 4wd. I started with an 1989 Jeep XJ Pioneer which I got for 900 bucks. I was 18 and knew very little about anything mechanical, and being in college and working full time, I was more interested in just keeping it running, let alone the funding to actually make it awesome. To this day I still miss that Jeep, it had the 4.0 5 speed with 3.07s in the rear, but I though it was the balls! Anyways maybe later, I'll get another one. I'll see if I can dig up some old pics. After that came a 1998 ford ranger xl longbed. That thing now that I think about it would have been the perfect over landing vehicle! It had the 3.0 in it, which was called the "roach" cause you really couldn't kill it. It had 31's mounted and had plenty of room to stuff the tires, the floor was vinyl and had crank windows, 3.55's in the rear end.
At this point I had gained a little more knowledge in the fine art of auto motive care, unfortunately the check book was still tight, so I really didn't do much. At that point, I was going through a lot of life changes, I was finishing with college and enlisting in the Coast Guard, so I really wasn't concerned with anything vehicle wise, as I had some HUGE life altering events coming up. After I got out of boot camp and was making less then I did before I joined :Wow1: I finally made rank and made the jump over to the import scene, so I did what any normal guy would do who just came across a rather large dispensable income with little to no financial responsibility, I bought a brand new 2009 mazdaspeed 3, and immediately got a full cold air intake, top mount inter cooler, suspension, short throw shifter, rims, tires computer tune and new turbo and fuel pump, did all the work myself and had a ball doing it, did a couple races and realized it didn't suit my lifestyle of just being outside and mountain biking and such, so I sold it and that brings me to where I am now with my 2011 pro4x. Once I get stationed out in Port Angeles, I will start my build but anyways here are some pics of some off roading the other day.
A little about myself, I am 29 and am active duty Coast Guard, and after a two year stint of driving fast cars I have come back to my original love, which is 4wd. I started with an 1989 Jeep XJ Pioneer which I got for 900 bucks. I was 18 and knew very little about anything mechanical, and being in college and working full time, I was more interested in just keeping it running, let alone the funding to actually make it awesome. To this day I still miss that Jeep, it had the 4.0 5 speed with 3.07s in the rear, but I though it was the balls! Anyways maybe later, I'll get another one. I'll see if I can dig up some old pics. After that came a 1998 ford ranger xl longbed. That thing now that I think about it would have been the perfect over landing vehicle! It had the 3.0 in it, which was called the "roach" cause you really couldn't kill it. It had 31's mounted and had plenty of room to stuff the tires, the floor was vinyl and had crank windows, 3.55's in the rear end.
At this point I had gained a little more knowledge in the fine art of auto motive care, unfortunately the check book was still tight, so I really didn't do much. At that point, I was going through a lot of life changes, I was finishing with college and enlisting in the Coast Guard, so I really wasn't concerned with anything vehicle wise, as I had some HUGE life altering events coming up. After I got out of boot camp and was making less then I did before I joined :Wow1: I finally made rank and made the jump over to the import scene, so I did what any normal guy would do who just came across a rather large dispensable income with little to no financial responsibility, I bought a brand new 2009 mazdaspeed 3, and immediately got a full cold air intake, top mount inter cooler, suspension, short throw shifter, rims, tires computer tune and new turbo and fuel pump, did all the work myself and had a ball doing it, did a couple races and realized it didn't suit my lifestyle of just being outside and mountain biking and such, so I sold it and that brings me to where I am now with my 2011 pro4x. Once I get stationed out in Port Angeles, I will start my build but anyways here are some pics of some off roading the other day.
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Don't worry the truck will be done proper when I get out the PNW. As with the silent armor's I am just going based on the reviews on tire rack, the Desti ATs are at the top.
