Baja 1000 FJ Cruiser

[JasonH]

I didn't see this posted yet...

There's gonna be an FJ Cruiser team at Baja this year with a bunch of big name UROC drivers on the team.

Picture stolen from another site - rig was at SEMA...

 

[paul_858]

There's another one that will be running, rod millen was on the names listed on the truck.

 

[calamaridog]

I saw a race prepped one being towed out to SEMA.

 

[LandCruisers4Life]

I am sure it will win it's class. The truck looks good, looks basically stock, which I like to see in races like that.

 

[Runner Ryan]

Hmmmm...doesn't look too stock to me. The front looks lifted a good 6", and you can see the rear lower control arms are close to double the stock length. I can only imagine what they did with the upper arms, and the rest of the front suspension. Still.....it should do well.

 

[macneill]

Looks bad-azz!

 

[Arya Ebrahimi]

I wonder if it's still 4wd and what it's got under the hood.

 

[Tools R Us]

It's 4 wheel drive and IIRC stock drivetrain. Was hard to get close to it, but did manage to stick the camera under there, the front arms are Total Chaos.

 

[calamaridog]

Total Chaos Long Travel kit that has been tweeked a little and running a Donahoe designed coilover, maybe? Anybody know what class that one is running?

 

[Runner Ryan]

I can see from those pics that the front upper AND lower A-arms are aftermarket. So is the coilover (obviously). The front half shaft seems to be a different color, so I would assume that is also modified, most likely along with the CV's. The rear has longer lower control arms, as well as relocated upper control arms, also most likely longer. What looks to be a fuel cell behind the rear axle....NOT STOCK.
Even the body is modified. I kinda like the rear fender panel.

 

[Tools R Us]

I can see from those pics that the front upper AND lower A-arms are aftermarket. So is the coilover (obviously). The front half shaft seems to be a different color, so I would assume that is also modified, most likely along with the CV's. The rear has longer lower control arms, as well as relocated upper control arms, also most likely longer. What looks to be a fuel cell behind the rear axle....NOT STOCK.
Even the body is modified. I kinda like the rear fender panel.

The front arms are longer, so the axle has to be longer. The rear axle is moved back increasing the wheelbase. The new fenders are needed for the new longer, wider stance. The cage and fuel cell are required by the rules.

 

[LandCruisers4Life]

I can see from those pics that the front upper AND lower A-arms are aftermarket. So is the coilover (obviously). The front half shaft seems to be a different color, so I would assume that is also modified, most likely along with the CV's. The rear has longer lower control arms, as well as relocated upper control arms, also most likely longer. What looks to be a fuel cell behind the rear axle....NOT STOCK.
Even the body is modified. I kinda like the rear fender panel.

It's still mostly stock, with a few minor modifications - no more modifications than a normal everyday owner would do themselves, is what I meant.

;p

 

[Yoda1]

Here's Donahoes site they have pics of of the build up and a write up of the fj. http://www.donahoeracing.com/ Is anyone going to the race ?

 

[Dragon]

I found some new pics of the Gibson/Goodrich/PS2 FJ Cruiser courtesy of Millenworks.

Website here MillenWorks Inc.

 

[Brazenhead]

The game they are advertising on the side of that FJ, ATV Off-road Fury. Does anyone know if there are FJ's you can race with? If so i'm buying a PS2.

 

[DomSmith]

Just saw this rig at contingency yesterday. Not too much time to interact as they had a video crew covering their every step...

 

[DomSmith]

This rig was there too and was pretty beat. Lots of damage to the roof and panels...

 

[swank60]

I like the black one with the blacked out bezel and bumper wings (it's got wings!)

 

[BMThiker]

saw results in other thread, Rod Millen's (blacked out Playstation FJ) got second place 40 secs behind First Place Mitsu Raider.

 

[Yoda1]

Anyone know how the Donahoe rig did ?