Ivan- 2000 SAS linked

Hey all, I’m on the final stages of my four linked crawler/rock bouncer and I thought I’d share as I’m pretty proud of how it came out. I own a sign manufacturing shop with an off-roading habit that’s pretty damn capable! Having owned a 2003 tundra and loving it, I jumped on this truck when I found it three years ago. The first pic is how I got it, it was on tons, had arb lockers front and rear and was a good base. It was poorly built though, no hydro assist, shocks hit the leafs etc. It was the kids daily driver too. I don’t think he ever took it offroad. I traded a Yamaha yxz and a broken klx110 for it. Over the last two years we’ve built it into what it is today, a fully caged and built beast. I’ve named it Ivan after the great Ivan Stewart.

 

Nice work. That is indeed a beast to be proud of.
Welcome to the forum

 

I'm impressed

 

I got both my new prp seats in and the back seat back in today. I need to cut and fit the bed back around the shock towers, fuel cell and batteries/winch. Then a little bit of wiring inside the cab, seat heaters are new and not wired in yet and I also added line locks to the rear brakes. I can now lock the rear brakes individually to help pivot the big guy around tight obstacles on trial. They will also be nice for brake stand smoke shows as I can eliminate rear brakes with them and only have the fronts engaged. Should have it ready by this weekend to go test before loading up and heading south for king of Hammers.

 

HA! When I saw this thing last night that's the first thing that came to mind; KOH. Thought about asking if you were goin, since your build has KOH written all over it, but not sure where you're located. Nice hood decal BTW

 

Yea the build def had KOH in mind! I’m up in humboldt county, I grew up in Tustin but lived to Humboldt in 2003. This will be my second year at KOH, last year I was on leafs there, had the atlas and roll cage. It crawled alright but I was 15-20 mph across the desert, this year I’ll be ripping the Dez and the Rocks!! I cannot wait!!! Even with just the four linked front this fall at rubicon the ride was so much better.

 

Made good progress on the bed today!

 

Got it pretty much done. Well build fender under walls for the bed but that’s gonna have to wait until after king of hammers. Pretty stoked on how it came out!

 

ORI’s are amazing, they are better than the 2.5’s and bump stops in the whoops and obviously excel on the rocks. I’ll probably get some for the front in time.

 

I’ll have two spares for KOH. My employee/builder has had them on his ranger for 4 years and not a single issue and he beats the crap outta that ford fucking ranger.

 

You win the internet today, champ.

 

Id love to hear this thing. Amazing build!

 

Finally reporting back, I had an entire week at King of hammers and also two snow wheeling trips with it now and it works so damn well that it’s created and new problem! I need power! With my build being focus around rock crawling I didn’t realize it was going to be such an animal in the open desert above 60 mph. Even with my 4 speed atlas and all the gear ratios that offers, I’m outta HP.( I have regular high, one option slightly higher than a standard 4 low, one option slightly lower than a standard 4 low, and then double low for the rocks)

So after scouring the internet and mulling over my options (ls swap, Godzilla swap) I’ve come across XAT racing outta Florida. These guys live and breathe 1uz,2uz,3uz motor builds. I’m gonna ship them my spare motor outta my parts tundra (wrecked 2002 I got for $1k) and they’ll build me a 600 horse power 4.7 tundra! Then I’m gonna get a r150 5 speed manual from a Tacoma built and stick that behind it. 600hp supercharged 5 speed manual SAS Tundra! Looking forward to it!

 

Some snow pics too

 

Awesome build! The fact you have seat heaters did make me laugh. Those are the last thing I expected.

 

What a beast! Great build

 

Great build!

What do they do to a 4.7 to basically triple the power??? More than cams I'm guessing!