Here's the boat as i bought it off my old man, completely stock apart from some sheep skin seat covers
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First of my things to do was suspension; I decided to go for wizard suspensions lift. With help from this forum, i decided it suited me the most, i plan on keeping the lux for a while so really wanted a kit that would last and even though it is a little bit more pricy compared to other kits around, i felt with this kit you get what you pay for. Another thing that attracted me to the wizard kit was the adjustable front end, meaning if i got into any trouble i could wind it down a bit and run some smaller tires on road, also the coils came pre compressed so i could install it myself. For the rear i went 2" tough dog medium load leafs, with the fabtech shocks which also came from wizzard:
Stock
The Goodies
Swapping
Kit fitted and driving
Alloy Side steps removed
Flex testing
Harry posing for the flex test
Next up was the tires, I chose 285/75x16 Mickey Thompson 4 rib ATZ's as i wanted to go as big as i could and as "chunky" as i could, but also planned on using them as dailies hence why i didn't go the MTZ's. These tires are fitted on 16x8 dynamic sunnies with a 0 offset:
Flex test
I didn't plan on chopping the guards, but as this was the only HIlux fitted with aftermarket control arms and this big of tires at the time in Rockhampton, no one could get the wheel alignment correct (with enough castor) to clear the guards, so I had to do a little surgery.:
I also trimmed the body mounts but do not have a picture of this at the moment
Now the suspension and tires were done the next thing on my list was a UHF, luckily i landed a tx3440 for my birthday so went about installing this. I installed the main unit under the centre console right behind the cup holder, and ran the headset out over to the passenger side above the footwell, there was holes previously drilled where a car phone kit had been, so i used these holes to mount the clip for the headset.:
The next most important thing for me was a compressor to allow me to inflate my tires after 4wdriving, because I mostly off-road on sand. I installed this on the driver’s side of the engine bay in the corner against the firewall:
Next mod was a set of Skog's diff breathers, ran theses alongside the brake lines from the rear and mounted them against the firewall on the passenger side.
An xrox tube bar was then fitted, big thanks to Matt from Monster Rides for getting it to me for a great price and going out of his way to get it too me in under 2 days, cheers mate! Anyway this went on pretty easy, only took a couple of hours didn't get any pics of the fitting process however sorry. I also knocked up some rear mud flaps using 3mm rubber sheeting from Clark rubber as my stock ones kept getting torn off:
Finally for now, I fitted pacemaker headers and a 2.5" exhaust. We also changed the t section to a y section and removed the pointless hump that came with the 05's exhaust system. At first I had a hi flow muffler, which was alright but still didn't really have much of a note to it, so went back and got a hot dog installed instead. Defiantly A lot louder now, I can still keep it at a reasonable noise level if a drive lightly, but sure has a nice ballsy sound to it when the foot hits the floor
Still a big list of mods to come when time and money allows, firstly i think will be a set of sliders followed by lockers, and we'll see where i go from there. Cheers, Max
Lastly just a couple poser pics haha
