Our attempted timelapse without an interval timer. Spans a few days and came out really well! You can see Snowpocalypse come and begin to fade away and then all of a sudden the second blizzard hits and everything is blanketed again. Memories of DC 2010 in Feb.
All the parts are now on order and I can’t wait for them to arrive so I can get down to Iron Pig for the install. So why do I want new suspension? It is a spendy option but pretty necessary if I am going to be adding another few hundred pounds of steel to the front-end. The FJ Cruiser has kind of a lean from rear to front front wheels from the factory, but with an ARB bumper and Warn winch it would be freakin’ snowploughing the ground. So one reason would be to provided the added support necessary and level the car out. Another reason is to gain around 3 inches of lift, increased suspension travel and articulation for off-road.
Finally the Icon system gets fantastic reviews for ride quality both on and off road – suspension is something that you wnt to do once and then not have to worry about again. I managed to convince myself to shell out for the Stage 3 even though I was really drooling over the Stage 5 system with the piggy-back reservoirs. Just don’t need that excess though. Many would say that even the Icon system itself is overkill, however it is fully rebuildable and cheaper systems like the Old Man Emu (a very popular system) are not. So when you factor in that I am going to keep my Warthog until it explodes or stamped on by a Mastodon, and that I do most of my driving on-road the quality of the Icon makes more sense to me.
So what do you get with the full suspension setup? The Billet Upper Control Arm Kit, Extended Travel Adjustable Coil-over Shock Kit, Rear Coil-spring Kit, ICON Series Rear Mono-tube Shocks, Billet Aluminum Lower Rear Trailing Arm Kit and even more gubbins. Droooooling..
Warthog Stage II is shortly to be unveiled. We are going to turn the front-end into a muscle-bound fortress of pedestrian-smiting I mean tank-tough winching vehicle-recovering steel. And you know what that means – 4 more hardpoints for more lights! Naturally with all that extra weight on the front the suspension is going to need to be upgraded to cope. Erm, and I might have snuck in an HID upgrade kit for the headlights.
Plus, now I can actually have some fucking rope! I’ve always wanted to have rope. Charlie Bronson’s always got rope. He’s got a lot of rope strapped around him in the movies, and they always end up using it. You don’t fuckin’ know what you’re gonna need it for. They just always need it.
Icon Stage 3 Suspension Kit FJ Cruiser Lift (IVD Anti Corrosion Coating)
Icon Stainless Rear Shin Guard
Warn M8000 Winch
Masterpull Synthetic Rope
2x IPF 968CSG 6in round 100w BLACK
2x Fog Light Kit 2003-2007 Land Cruiser
H4 HID Headlight BiXenon Upgrade
4x Factory Fog Light Switches
Does this blog look more like your husband’s again babe?
For my second playlist I’m combining old, bona-fide punk tracks with some pop-punk pretenders for an upbeat powder-shredding jaunty little list. Hopefully I can listen to all of this before breaking something.
Playlist 1 for Colorado is a piece of cake. Classic Goth Tracks from my formative years, and it feels just oh-so-good. I have yet to add the 69 Eyes’ and HIM albums because I have for some reason become obsessed with Scandinavian Goth-and-Roll bands lately. But here’s numero uno!
I have lost track of how many times I’ve watched this video since April when it was posted. The skills that Danny has with two wheels are almost inhuman in their accuracy. Backflip Flare off a tree anybody? No, didn’t think so.
Just.
So.
Damn.
Good.
