Archie's 1JZ truck. Don't hold your breath.

[sleeps]

Really digging those gold wheels. I may have missed it, what are the specs on them?

[archie.]

Thanks for the encouraging words everyone. I'm balls deep in chassis measurements right now and it's doing my head in. I really hope 2014 will be the year for this thing. Got a reasonable amount of cash set aside for it, just hope the engineer plays nice and we can get cutting asap.

[clown_dog]

I love this, sooo good!

Good on you for not letting circumstances hinder you. An inspiration to us all.

[TrailerTrash]

that luv!

[FunfGang]

Love it! Keep up the good work.

[CBURKE]

bad ass!

[LOCALTHIRTEEN]

Looking great!

[archie.]

Tiny bits of progress.

Hey, so I've spent the last 3 months teaching myself inventor.
Most of that time was spent modelling the S13 IRS, that's done, but it binds really badly, because I dont know how to model elastic rubber bushes. To fix this I'm gonna replace all the joints with sphericals to allow some deflection.
Here's what I have so far with an extremely basic concept of what the rear clip might look like:




My man Rusty has also built the chassis bench. Looks solid as.




I also purchased the US Isuzu Rodeo front end off my mates drift truck. Here it is in all its glory. I almost cried when I saw he was parting it out to move on to new projects. Prepare to fap:





I'm pretty keen to see those flush headlights sitting over my Stillen front bar.


In other news, I had a six stud guard-roller made up so I could fit my gold steelies on my daily.




Was pretty impressed with how much pump we got with zero paint cracking. It was the first time me and my mate had done it, and we made it out to be way harder in our minds than it actually was.

Here's the result with my Diplomat tyre bomb, courtesy of Mad Mike's tutorial on Speedhunters.





Diplomat is a Tshirt label I do on the side because my day job is not creative at all. In this photo I am selling shirts out the back of my daily at a car show. The crane serves as a good mobile clothes rack.




I sold my Rays to my buddy, because once the 1J is done, and I sell my daily, I wont have anything to run six stud wheels.

I think you'll agree they look amazing on his LUV.




The next step is to finish my Inventor model (chassis mounting brackets, coilover mounts etc) and send it to my engineer. As soon as he gives it his thumbs-up, Rusty can start cutting. Pretty keen for the new year. Wanna see some serious progress on this.

Thanks for listening.

[lazyrs]

loving this, keen to see how it progresses

[montgomery]

I love both trucks. I'm extremely jealous of your rays.

[CraigSnedeker]

Everything looks real good!

[P78]

i don't even mind the "dodgy" paint job

[LOCALTHIRTEEN]

You sir, Are awesome and so is your truck.

[Isuzupickup]

Please follow through with coil overs and document the hell out of it. I'll be going down a similar path. Keep it up!

[archie.]

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Went out to my mate's new shed this arv. He's gonna start building the chassis bench at the beginning of next month. He also sprung on me that he'd be keen to do the actual fabrication of the IRS and modified rails to suit, as well as coilover mounts etc. We had a chat about it and I came away feeling pretty positive. The old guy that I had lined up to do the fabrication is a total guru with hotrod building, he's got about 5 old fords and holdens in his shed, all on coilovers and making big power. But he's got a serious rep, which means serious hourly rate and serious waiting lists. My mate Rusty can get started sooner, and while he hasn't worked with minitrucks/coilovers before, he has built hotrods, and his fab skills are top notch, he's also worked with the engineer who's gonna be making sure it's all road-legal and signing off on it. So keen to hack this thing into tiny pieces, hopefully some progress pictures soon