I don’t know why a bunch of people who aren’t interested in a LT kit are being discouraging lol
100 Series long travel kit
- Thread starter Delta VS
- Start date
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
Peasants and Broverlanders can’t help themselves.
Keep us posted on the Souther California shop. I’d make the drive down from Sacramento depending on the cost!
Spoke with Brandon at BTF Fab in Upland, CA. They make a number of long-travel kits for some Toyotas and other trucks.
He is able to make a RCLT-type LT kit for a 100 series, although it will be custom / the first one he has made. Would need to move the shock mounts forward and add some width to make everything fit and to get some performance gain. The kit would have a bump and coilover with the ability to add a bypass. Kit would likely have RCV axles and new fenders (TBD if fiberglass or if existing fenders could be modified).
Super rough quote for the first kit was $20k, but additional kits should be cheaper.
I’ll be visiting his shop in January to check out some of his work and to discuss this more with him.
I’ve also spoken with a number of shops about grafting a Tundra / 200 series LT kit into a 100 series. The consensus is that it can probably be done, but will just as expensive as a custom kit.
He is able to make a RCLT-type LT kit for a 100 series, although it will be custom / the first one he has made. Would need to move the shock mounts forward and add some width to make everything fit and to get some performance gain. The kit would have a bump and coilover with the ability to add a bypass. Kit would likely have RCV axles and new fenders (TBD if fiberglass or if existing fenders could be modified).
Super rough quote for the first kit was $20k, but additional kits should be cheaper.
I’ll be visiting his shop in January to check out some of his work and to discuss this more with him.
I’ve also spoken with a number of shops about grafting a Tundra / 200 series LT kit into a 100 series. The consensus is that it can probably be done, but will just as expensive as a custom kit.
Just posted an update ^
Somebodyelse5
16124-75030
That’s still a lot of money that could go to importing, and motor swapping, a 105…
Can't diesel swap since I'm in CA, at least that is my understanding.
This is also the cost for the first one that I think has ever been done.
Somebodyelse5
16124-75030
I’m sorry you live in california lol
Here’s some pics of a tundra grafted 100. Was a custom job by some guy I met on IG. I’ve been leaning towards this. It’s a 2nd gen tundra frame, 200 series steering rack, and 3rd gen tundra CV that were shortened and resplined for the 100 series diff.
Mind dm’ing me his instagram name?
hoser
SILVER Star
Bravo, and you can buy that entire front clip for cheap. The stock Tundra arms are long arms for the 100. Joe Bacal’s LX570 was getting ~ 12” of travel with stock arms and mounts. Too bad you can't easily graft the 200 front diff too. The pinion is in the wrong side.
IDK his Instagram but it's Russian Alex. He bought a donor truck and it took him maybe 6 months? We texted about it the whole time as I was hoping it was possible for me to produce bracket kits for it on my plasma table. The new set up has allowed him to run 37s on his truck comfortably (with trimming. Pics show it after the body work, which he did himself as well)
Last edited:
FYI this is not the guy on the Tundra long travel kit.
I follow that guy. Pretty cool but all he did was extensively trim the body. Nothing long travel about it. Look cool but not as functional as what Russian Alex did.
His Instagram name is @carpenter_by_night and he has 0 posts, which I think he deleted everything that was on there at some point.
He told me he keeps a lurker account.
Maybe that's the account, but with Patch tagging "Carpenter by Night" on his Instagram, the lurker account is exposed LOL.
