SMOKY 2 Build - 2nd time around improvements.

[AutoCraft Aus]

After a great service life, SMOKY has been retired, and SMOKY 2 is now in the shop, and having some build time to get it up to speed.

This will be a chance to make some more improvements, over SMOKY, and do afew things differently than V 1.0.

This truck will do local mountain camping trips, snow trips, lots of remote desert trips, so has to be an all rounder, as well as my current daily driver.


1 hr old [well, one hr after delivery....] the right hand one.

2013 Cement FJ Cruiser, 4.0 V6 5 sp auto with extra rear tank, and crawl control, rear locker [Aus Spec]

So into the shop, and lets do a strip and fit.

Suspension, which was first item on the agenda.

I decided on afew bits from ][CON, and had Omega 2.5 bypass shocks made for the rear which have 12.5" travel with a 40mm bump spacer for the compressed length, [We are doing bolt in bypasses for the FJ, the 80, 100 coming, and doing 200 as well]

Whilst apart we put some DBA T3 rotors, and some of our custom pads in to help stop the loaded truck on big tyres too.

In the front, 2.5 extended travel coil overs with CDC adjusters for low speed, and some 2.5 Omega bypass shocks for high speed, with some 700lb coils for the extra weight this thing will lug around.

Next, BMC, and some Method NV's with 35" MTRs.

 

[Mtbcoach]

Friggen Crazy, full top shelf stuff, well done...

 

[Archy Chris]

Nice!

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

EXP ONE front bar on the welding bench getting Highmount mods, and rear bar back from powdercoat, so pics as we bolt these on next few days.

Ran a highmount on SMOKY 1 too.

And storage components back from the powdercoater, will update the install on these to over the next week or so.

 

[Mtbcoach]

Can't wait...

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

Cut up a new Kodiak bar, so its now single hoop, and takes the Highmount winch, and sent it to powdercoat

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

No room for the factory FJ washer bottle with twin reservoirs, so a VE wagon bottle with twin pumps for front and rear behind the highmount winch!

 

[Mtbcoach]

No room for the factory FJ washer bottle with twin reservoirs, so a VE wagon bottle with twin pumps for front and rear behind the highmount winch!

Well done, this pics looks like jewelry for the FJC...

 

[1911]

Nice to see someone finally put an 8274 winch in an FJC. Great build!

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

Added a new pantry box, and tailgate cover last week, by using a poly filled alloy skinned alucabond product, which cut over 40lb in weight from the steel one it replaced.

The tailgate cover is also alucabond, with carpet added.

60lt engel.

60 lt water tank.

 

[TGCruiser]

That icon setup is making me antsy in the pantsy. Absolutely beautiful!

 

[Mtbcoach]

That icon setup is making me antsy in the pantsy. Absolutely beautiful!

X2, love this build, very envious of all that suspension jewelry...

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

Managed to get some time using it over the Xmas break, which is always good, compared to just working on it!

Rear slide outs work well to set up the camp kitchen beside the car under cover for the week, with the bus tent sleeping quarters, and the fly tent for eating, if required.

There were other FJ's there, on our annual Xmas trip too, managed to fire up the coffee making gear each morning in the camp kitchen too.

Billy Goats Bluff to the lookout.

 

[winnie]

lot of functional bling there ... nice build ... it suddenly hit me why there's so many big bumpers i.e. "bars" there ... really notice it on 40s ... Roos ...

 

[AutoCraft Aus]

Emu's too wild pigs, wild dogs, cows, buffalo even !

 

[ratfink]

Very nice setup.