GQ Extra cab

[Evil!]

New Armadas in the front of the old girl, top bolt has been drilled and pinned to stop it pulling out of its tread and went with eye lowers and welded in a new bracket to allow the shock to pivot nicer when flexing.

[brando4x4]

The ute looks awesome

Looks like you might need some extended bumpstops mate

[Evil!]

yeah i have no intention on driving it har just yet till i make some bump extensions. Mainly just want to make sure iv got the setup good before finalizing the setup

[Evil!]

Did a little bar work myself over the week, basically looks the same but has all new thicker pipe work and thicker center to hold a winch now.

Firstly i cut all the pipe work off and then raised the bar 30mm and pushed it closer to the grill by 15mm to get it sitting perfectly, then i bent up some 45mm pipe at 4mm thick for the main wings that wrap around the guards (this was the main reason to redo the bar work as the old setup stopped at the corner of the grill), then cut and notched some 30mm by 4mm thick pipe for the bracing under and behind the 45mm wings, next setup was to cut out all the old plate work which was only 2mm thick and replace it with 6mm plate that wrapped all the way under and back onto the mounts for added strength in the mounting. I also slotted and straightened out the spottie plate onto which i was originally going to cut away for access to the low mount and weld tabs to the main hoop for the spotties but decided against that as i am in my spare time going to try and build a full tube bar to hold a high mount or low mount that will sit in closer to the grill again for comp use.

Some quick pictures of before and during to the finished product.

[Evil!]

Edited August 24, 2012 by Evil!

[Evil!]

The time has come to start my coilover conversion in the rear end, as a start iv dropped the tray, fuel tank ect to make room to work and have started cutting off all the standard mounts, also found some small rust in the rear wall ill fix while im there.

Only have left to cut out the coil towers and i can get the grinder out and start cleaning the rails so when my coilovers show up early next week i can start fabbig up new towers for them

couple quick snaps

No turning back now lol

[tailpipez]

" LETS GET IT ON"

[Evil!]

Here a couple pictures of the progress so far, not long to go now have just finilzied the positioning and angles of the coilovers plus ordered the last two coils.

Nearly all cleaned up

mock up of the coilovers positioning and angles

[BigGQWesty]

Holy duck shit batman.. There huge... So they'll protrude past the tray in guessing??

[Evil!]

yeah more then likely hey

[Evil!]

Here ya go BigGQWesty the coilovers are in the final stages now and hoops are made and tacked onto the chassis ready and waiting for me to weld it all up but this will show you how much higher they sit now with the new tubes, ill also tomorrow take a picture with the cover off the back of my truck to see how far below the window they are.

[brando4x4]

Awesome job mate

this things got heaps of flex

is this truck engineered for its suspension mods?

[Evil!]

Not as of yet Brando, once iv finished everything, so thats coilovers front and rear and changing to tri uppers on rear with longer lowers the lot will be engineered at once to save me time and some money instead of doing it in indervidual steps, as it sits its mod plated for cab chop, 35" tyres, the 4" coil lift and 2" body lift.

[BigGQWesty]

You got a 2' cab lift passed??? Dam you have a nice engineer..

Edited September 8, 2012 by BigGQWesty

[Evil!]

Ok for anyone interested got my coilovers finished today, couple of quick snaps will go up as i was in such a rush to get it finished i didnt get many progress snaps sorry for that.

I started with this idea but got stuffed around with the guys who where going to laser cut everything for me so had a last minute change of idea.

Now it looks like this

Little flex up just to make sure everything is working how it should

[BigGQWesty]

That's nuts..

Sent from a device which doesn't always agree with my thumbs...

[Evil!]

Hey Fellas been a long time thought id update my section here for any one who may be interested, well since the coilovers iv done a double tri rear end which worked really well went on to beadlocked rims caged ect ect and competed in the Mackay Offraod Challenge this year to place 4th, was pretty happy about that but was pretty bummed that we lacked power all in all a great weekend we had down at Cathu where the comp was held since then sold the coilovers and everything under the front 5 link coils shocks ect went to some 37" treps, 17" beadlocked Savanna's, doing an efi turbo upgrade cage is getting more work chassis has been chopped inner guards getting worked for coilovers alot of custom sh1t taking place.

 

 

[Evil!]

Few more pictures from our race weekend

 

 

[Evil!]

Some pictures of the truck how she sits and some of her good bits

 

 

[BigGQWesty]

What manifold is that?

Kallen Westbrook

Owner of

Westy's Accessories

[Evil!]

What manifold is that?

Kallen Westbrook

Owner of

Westy's Accessories

Standard tb42e manifold for now will eventaully make a forward facing intake plenum with 80mm v8 throttle body

[Evil!]

thought id update some pictures for you guys interested,

[BigGQWesty]

You really have docked it right back hay.. Loving it. Wish I had time, space and money to do something like this..

I'm guessing road reg is officially out the window now and its a dedicated play Toy??

Kallen Westbrook

Owner of

Westy's Accessories

[tailpipez]

about time you put up a post Sid

[Evil!]

i only deregestered it the other week i was planning to keep rego on it to sneak out to my favourit 4wd places but i decided the amount imdriving it (hasent been driven since easter) there is no point keeping rego cause the build as i see it there is always somethign between races i will want to change or upgrade so its never going to really see the black top again.