Mazda Ranger Budget Build

[kneums]

Asuh dudes.

So i got this lil truck.
Its a 1995 Mazda B2300 aka Ford Ranger. Bought it after selling my pile of trash money pit E38. Bought the truck off a friend as he knew i was looking for a whipsy doo to buzz (litearly lel) around town. When i bought it i knew it needed some speakers so i just went to best buy and replaced the speakers with some pioneers i think and replaced the head unit. Now i got some blueteeth and some dank sounds and shit from the speakers and its pretty lit fams.

The headliner sagged more than your grandmas boozems so i had to replace that with a fresh new young and perky headliner that has this jazzy ass coca cola design thats lit af and my sun visors didnt want to fit back on wo i invested in some baller shades.

I fly an American flag from the bed because murica, i also had some red and blue plastidip and some silver engine paint l left over from painting the 2j so i painted the tool box on the bed red white and blue. Because murica.

Oh almost forgot the most swag jazz mod of them all.

NEON.

And i hooked that shit all up and guess who? This shit decides to not work gotta love eBay shit but ill be buying new neon soon or figuring out why it doesnt work and ill be tokyo drifting around town.

Das it fur now mah dewts.

[nishy]

Wait, what 2j?

[kneums]

Wait, what 2j?

Had plans of building and swapping a 2jzgte into the 240 but im keeping the 2j and building it for another project that is should be picking up sometime this week...

[poondobber]

I got the ranger version. I was just going to rip the headliner out and not put it back in. Anything under the headliner?

These things run forever. 207k miles and Im still on the original headlight bulbs.

[kneums]

I got the ranger version. I was just going to rip the headliner out and not put it back in. Anything under the headliner?

These things run forever. 207k miles and Im still on the original headlight bulbs.

Same lol your headlights are trash like mine are i assume then aswell?

And theres nothing under the headliner if i remember correctly...

[projecthoarder]

Very nice find. Welcome to the ranger brother hood lol

[kneums]

Very nice find. Welcome to the ranger brother hood lol

Thanks mang.

Lil update here boiz n gurlz.

Got some new rear struts of a buddy for free... the old ones were quite tired after 196k miles.

Yellow one is obviosly the new one blue/mud is the old one.
Old ones have about an inch of rebound and the new ones actually work and come back fully.


That pretty much it. Going to need brakes and a tire soon.
But picking up a new project hopefully today so that should have its own thread soon enough.

[poondobber]

Same lol your headlights are trash like mine are i assume then aswell?

And theres nothing under the headliner if i remember correctly...

Yeah I can barely see at night, lol.

If you are doing brake lines these guys have pre bent lines that fit great and not bad price. sstubes.com. My brake lines were rusted through after about 17 years. A shop wanted 400 bucks. I got all the lines for under 200.

Good there is nothing under the headliner. I may gut my interior soon. It stinks of cigars and wet dog.

[kneums]

Yeah I can barely see at night, lol.

If you are doing brake lines these guys have pre bent lines that fit great and not bad price. sstubes.com. My brake lines were rusted through after about 17 years. A shop wanted 400 bucks. I got all the lines for under 200.

Good there is nothing under the headliner. I may gut my interior soon. It stinks of cigars and wet dog.

Previous owner just did all new brake lines with those special flexible nickel lines or what ever they are and i ended up searing off one of the rear ones trying to impress my friends with my off roading skills and bent the spare tire cradle and split it right at the line split on top of the diff lol.

[poondobber]

Previous owner just did all new brake lines with those special flexible nickel lines or what ever they are and i ended up searing off one of the rear ones trying to impress my friends with my off roading skills and bent the spare tire cradle and split it right at the line split on top of the diff lol.

Off roading with the old struts? Eeesh.

[kneums]

Off roading with the old struts? Eeesh.

Yeah it got interesting and literally throws you around the cab good times tho.

[kneums]

Haven't updated for while... so this is what happened in the past week or two.

1. Did a few mean ass burnouts.
http://vid1381.photobucket.com/album...psapko6hpi.mp4
http://vid1381.photobucket.com/album...psflnfo9j8.mp4

2. Exploded my power steering pump doing these burnouts.

3. Corded my rear tires doing burnouts.


4. Continued to do burnouts, drift, offroad.

5. Put on a drifting show for a cop.......

6. Split my sway bar end link.

7. Got a few new dents.

8. Actually washed it for once. Got it dirty again before i even took a pic.

9. Someone thought they'd be funny guy and loosened my lugs. Lucky found it with 2 lugs barely on just before i lost all my lugs.

10. Did a burnout in my garage.


11. Got some new wheels and lugs.



12. Painted some shxt.

13. Forgot to give a flying fxck.

[rice4life]

The truck looked better before you did anything to it.

If you "Forgot to give a flying fxck" than why bother documenting it?

[kneums]

The truck looked better before you did anything to it.

If you "Forgot to give a flying fxck" than why bother documenting it?

Your damn straight it looked better before i did anything to it. But it sure as hell has been fun as shit.

And i'm documenting it because id like to keep track of all the fun i have with it.

[poondobber]

End links and urethane bushings are cheap and can be changed in an hour.

They make a manual steering box for that year. You can ditch a lot of parts by going manual.

Then again, if you are just going to destroy it then sell it to someone who gives a shit.