Let's see your before and after pics

stickyTaco · June 10, 2023, 5:33am

As the title says, post your before and after build pics.

My Tacoma started its life with me as a CPO in December 2012

It’s been a slower than anticipated build but here’s how it’s looking at this point

kherron · June 10, 2023, 12:16pm

Before

After

Dogandagladiator · June 10, 2023, 12:34pm

Still looking for that perfect “after” shot. Also I think 37’s are in my near future.

MBBME · June 10, 2023, 12:43pm

Before

During

After (and ongoing?)

nat3060 · June 10, 2023, 3:59pm

My truck went through a lot of transitions since Oct 22. But the build out of the bed from the beginning was with the GFC in mind.

Nolgore · June 10, 2023, 4:17pm

Took me a few tries to get it right

SherifandPoe · June 10, 2023, 4:21pm

Here is my before pic - we just moved to Saudi Arabia and had difficulty finding the car we wanted. This is a Chinese car made by Great Wall Motors - its called the TANK 300

The car has a 50kg weight limit (that’s why we got the GFC Superlite) on the roof so we couldn’t get a robust roof rack so we found one made for the car on Aliexpress. Pretty low profile - here it is with the GFC quick-release mounts

Here it is with just the tent on it:

We found this guy who makes custom “Flyblocks” and here they are installed: we asked Colin if he could make some for the ends of the rails - and he did. Superlite Fly Blocks by colin belisle - Exposure

We also got the lightest awning possible from Roofnest called the Litewing taking us to our 50kg weight limit:

We took it out for a test run - of course we got a flat as we were parking…

We had one of the fly’s open, but when the 270d awning is open we can’t access the blocks
Got some new tires better suited for offroading

The tent actually made a lot of noise in the front so I wanted to fit the front with a wind fairing. I purchased a wind fairing from Front Runner https://www.frontrunneroutfitters.com/en/int/wind-fairing-1345mm-1425mm.html:
It is designed to fix to the bottom of a Frontrunner rack system (which we don’t have) so I had to come up with something else. I figured if I fasten two of the Superlite Ladder Mounting brackets to the ends of the tent mounting tracks with the holes facing the front of the car, I could then drill two holes through an extruded aluminum t-track bar and bolt it to the ladder mount brackets (through the holes) in order to fasten the wind fairing to the tent mounting rails.

Worked like a charm!