LoJac963's Deuce Build

[LoJac963]

Figured I'd post my build thread over here since the H2 members seemed to have died off at the other forum I frequent....

enjoy

This is how she sat at the dealership the night I went to test drive. Bought the 2 that night after a long debate at the dealership regarding the trade in of my 06 GTO.




First thing I couldn't stand were the gigantic chrome nerf bars. Did some research on options and fell in love with the U-steps. Finally found a set for a great price. They were pretty beat up so I had them chemically stripped and PC'ed. Insanely better than those huge chrome nerfs.






Next was the DRL's change to LED's. The SMD's are quite a bit brighter than the stock bulbs and look a hell of a lot better.




Something I've always done is change over the interior to LED. Much brighter, crisper light.








After that I put in a Lev-o-Gage just for fun.




Next on the list was a Volant air box. I couldn't stand how much of a PITA it was to take the stock lid off so I opted for a Volant.




Pic of the silicone coupers and t-bolt clamps I used. The Volant adapter included is worthless.

[LoJac963]

Next I decided to play with Plasti-Dip. Sprayed the chrome stock fuel door.




After doing the fuel door I figured I might as well do the rims also. Get rid of all that chrome in one go!






Next I put in the CF look dash pieces.








Up next......the roof rack

[LoJac963]

Picked up a Gobi Stealth for $850 shipped brand new. Install was interesting getting the gigantic thing on top of the truck.










Here are the 2 rear lights installed




Now onto the bigger project. I didn't like the idea of only 1 light in each section on the front of the rack so I opted to make my own double light brackets.

Started with a 1" x 4' piece of aluminum stock




Cut that down into 12" sections




After quite a bit of cutting, filing, drilling and threading we went from this




To this




Here is one of the brackets painted and ready for the rack.

[LoJac963]

This is the final product with all the lights on the rack






Stay tuned, definitely more to come hopefully soon!

[LoJac963]

Small update, finally ordered and received my Gobi ladder. Went with the driver side but now I'm thinking one on the passenger would look good too. I didn't drill the hole the instructions say to, just used the factory hole with the included bolts and the set screws on the bottom.

[LoJac963]

Also finished wiring up all the roof lights, one hell of a project.

One switch runs the center 4 lights, one switch runs the outside 4 lights and the far switch runs the 2 rear lights.

Switches



Pics of the wiring for everything:







The wiring runs through the side marker trim down through the outside window trim, through the cowel cover down next to the side vents and into the engine compartment.

Center 4 lights on:



Outside 4 lights on:






Here is all 8 lights on:





And finally the rear lights:




I need to take it out somewhere very dark and see how these things light the road up. They seem very bright but we will see.

[fyr145]

THAT IS SO COOL !!!!!

How in the world am I EVER going to keep up????!!!

Now we definitely need to meet up for lunch someplace soon. We have the same color H2. Mines is more of the chrome direction. But I must say that the black really sets it off nicely !!!