Holy F'ing Car Care! That has to be $200.00 worth of supplies.. atleast!

 

More like 350, and that's only what I unboxed, that's not counting my claybars and other goodies, this meguiars stuff I got a crazy deal from a member on here

 

nice, i like how you do everything with quality, no half assin

 

Meguiars is the shit. I need to plastix my headlight.

 

I'm going to get everything you have..

Hey Chris.. what will you be using to paint your steering wheel? I need to paint mine

 

Krylon fusion plastic satin black, that's what I painted a majority of my interior pieces with.

 

OEM fogs no more




$50 black projector fogs
$125 in fog light bulbs rejected,
$2 ebay 100w blue/white bulbs winning out over 3 other sets of bulbs including generic hungarian white/blue bulbs, piaa xtreme whites and silverstars, priceless

Silverstar on right, $2 ebay bulb on left, enough of a difference to make me happy.


Ebay on right, silverstar on left (i know i'm nuts, i have problems)






Took Azn_TLx's advice and bought "6000K" ebay bulbs and they match closer enough to where I won't stress on them, next lighting mod after the white led corners (4th set of frickin corners) will be 4300k projector bulbs after the 6000k kick, but that won't be for a long time.

Also, since I'm still moving in, buddy and I took some time to setup and run wires and lights to my workbench. It's a sturdyass table I inherited when I bought the house, took about 3 hours to wire all the lights and crap up, not shown in pic



These are all the engine mods pending so far, exhaust parts are on the shelf below.


Cheers bitches

 

nice work bench, glad to see no more feet in boxes

 

I don't miss that place at ALL i f'in hated that place, basement flooding every 2 weeks, sewer pipes backing up under my CL. White trash neighbors with their baby factory, god I don't miss that place at all. Still have the hand and foot in the box though

 

Looking good Can't wait to see the whip rollin the streets again. Liking those carbon fiber handles to. Matches the black/carbon fiber theme very well.

 

Did you change grills it looks like you have a diffrent grill in th last shot.

 

<<<< this pic is a different grill, and dif hood for that matter, I have the 97 grill in my cf hood, and my stock hood is on with the 98-99 grill The one pic of my car with the oem fogs was years ago b4 i had the cf hood

 

Thanks Bro.. I'm about to pick some up asap! I can't stand the non matching of my steering wheel and the air bag..

 

Busy weekend... Yesterday spent 5 hours detailing the interior of my 4runner. It hadn't been vaccuumed in like a year. There was a ridiculous amount of dog hair in it, since I spent all last summer moving, there was no point to clean it. Ended up waiting till it got nice this spring b4 I was done moving my stuff and helping a friend move. Cleaned every inch of the truck and shampooed the carpets and such. Cleaned the dash and seats as well, after using all my spiffy new vaccuum attachments. Also cleaned all the interior pieces and then followed up with mequiars quick detailing for all the interior pieces.

Today did most of the same to the ack, vaccuumed the interior for a good 2 hours I'd say, some remnant dog hair in there from back in the day that needed to go. Got further under the seats than I ever have b4 since I got craftsman detailer attachments to go with my shopvac. After vaccuuming the carpets, seats, dash and floors, cleaned and then conditioned the leather with Poorboys leather stuff.

http://www.poorboysnw.com/Leather.html

Installed my new ebrake boot and handle, as well as my new shifter. Also cleaned my pedals, and removed more plastic interior trim pieces to be painted. Probably gonna wait till after i come back from vaca b4 i paint more pieces, but getting them together. Test fitted my 2nd gen battery box, and bought a deep cycle charger to recharge my optima yellow top that was drained from all the starting/stopping lately and playing with the hids. More fun projects on the way this week. I'll take some pics after I finish shampooing the headliner and carpets and put the new floormats in and such.

 

nice, any pics? that makes me want to go and clean my 4runner

 

I love the meguiars quick interior detailer, it smells good too. Also how did you like the poorboys? And last but not least where did you get the ebrake boot, any pics?

 

Yeah, i'm making my way through all the meg products and I'm loving them, good quality stuff for sure. Poor boys is amazing, got it for $5 flat from a vendor on here. Gonna apply another layer, just did the cleaning step first, gonna apply another layer for conditioning, but it really restores the leather to like new, it's incredible stuff. No pics of that stuff yet, I'll have some up in a few days after I do another leather treatment and shampoo the carpets and headliner.

 

Couple of the 4runner, haven't finished detailing yet Washed the windows with invisible glass (inside) vaccuumed up more loose dog hair. Threw the stock beat ass floor mat in the driver's side to drive to work today cuz I didn't clean my rubber floor mats yet. So here's a couple quick pics of the interior.

Clean ass interior car seats cleaned and vaccuummed entire interior cleaned and detailed. You can see the beat ass stock floormat that lasted a week.

You would not have believed the dog hair I pulled off these seats and carpet.


But hey you asked for pics of the detail, hope it inspires you, it's all I've been doing for almost a week now. Back to the CL next

 

Hey i know this was from a while ago, but i just noticed you posted pics, but i was acutally asking for pics of the ebrake boot . But those are some nice detailing pics too. I was thinking about getting a new ebrake boot pretty soon and wanted to see what you got.

 

Leaving for vaca in like 7 hours, so not gonna get any pics of the boot up, but I'll get some when I get back

 

i've always actually loved 4 runners...I envy you man...I'm a particular sucker for those old school ones with the huge fender flares

 

got like what I would think is an '03 4runner for sale right buy my house. Has the new body style. They are sick.

 

4Runners are great vehicles, drove down to NC from Pittsburgh, got 28 MPG Highway and 18 MPG city all the way down. Mine is the new body style b4 they put the HID projectors in, it's the 2 tone with the plastic bumpers and flares which I prefer because I do a lot of offroading and mountain truckin and don't want painted bumpers. Gotta love the 4runner, oh and don't use tireshine on your floormats unless you're gonna wash it off afterwards, cuz it gets slippery.





Was gonna take her on the sand dunes on the beach here to go see wild horses, but found out I have a torn CV boot. No 4 wheeling for me

 

dam dude, seeing those horses is sick
i was just there for spring break not too long ago
you can rent a wrangler limited for like 40$ if you really wanted to...its by the currituck club, just down the road a bit

 

Son of a I was just by the currituck club yesterday, ended up driving home a day early. They all went without me, fawkers

 

Better shot for ya, still can't tell it's like 5-6 bottles deep



No one's allowed to see what's on the shelves above and below that one though

 

hm.. are they things for your car or what? haha. Where could I get a clay bay at. I need to go to work on the Ack with one. The rubbing compund just aint cutting it. Would it be best to just get one off ebay, or another site.

 

Go to advanced auto or any parts store, I have mothers and meguiars

 

Dude, your paint looks flawless! She looks brand new. Can't wait for more pics from your ongoing project. It's coming together nice and clean.

 

I wish it was flawless, especially the bumper is hurtin and gettin replaced soon as I get my stimulus check, and after I finish my interior work I'm gonna do some SERIOUS paint restoration with a claybar, some medium cut compound, a porter cable, and some sexy polishes, then I'll be happy, gotta hold off on the paint job till next year. Chris, my progress is slowed to a halt right now, waitin to get back into it very soon.

 

Just got my stimulus check, coilovers and bumper being ordered tomorrow. Also getting the ack inspected for myself for my bday first week of july. Hoping to enjoy some summer with my ack before I rip her apart again, gotta rewire one of the ballast plugs and put the rest of the interior back in. Oh and threw my other set of HID's in the 4runner had been without since october or so.

 

sounds great! whats good w/a mid summer meet? lol

 

rollin 2 CL's maybe 3..maybe 4? hurryyyy.

 

almost inspection time

 

you know what should get is carbon fiber push down knob by razo..... and put a booot.... it looks nice.... ill post some... of what my car looks like with the shift knob

Those razo knobs are huge and stick up way too far, and there's no point in putting a boot on an auto shifter. I put a new boot on my ebrake handle though

 

e-brake and shifter.... ouch...

the last things that I'd want to NOT be OEM are the e-brake and shifter.

keep it up though -

I'm expecting some freshness - - with all of these h22 threads and f or k series whatever

people are doing - we need another great 3.0 litre ya know?

 

Razo knobs are ugly and stick up way too much, believe me I've looked at them. And there is no way I'm putting a boot on an automatic. I put a new boot on my ebrake handle. I'm the first one on here to do that.

 

i dont think you are the first dude.... i have one..... i did a while ago... but w/e... i dont have a ugly ass shift knob... i think your perspective will change after you see my pics...

 

Chalk me up.

BlackAck, you wanna wait until after your inspection, bumper, and coilovers go on?

 

At least suspension and inspection, that'll be done this month