Driving Line VOLUME V ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2019 | Page 75

SUSPENSION
King 2.5 front remote-reservior coilovers
w/ extended travel and adjuster and 2.5
rear remote-reservior shocks w/ extended
travel and adjuster, Specialty Products
Company adjustable upper control arms and
Deaver Spring custom rear leaf-spring pack
(900-pound static weight rating)
BUMPERS AND SKIDPLATES
Mobtown Offroad front plate bumper, rear
high-clearance plate bumper with swing-
out, rock sliders, reinforced transfer case
and transmission skidplate, reinforced front
ALL THE RIGHT GEAR
IFS skidplate, Hi-Lift rock slider adapter and
locking storage door
BATTERY
Tacomas are capable, but they wanted There are about a million alterations to
the ability to go far off the trails without the interior and exterior of the Tacoma, but
problems, meaning the suspension needed to the engine compartment didn’t receive any
be upgraded. King 2.5 coilovers with remote notable modifications. Felixx explained why:
reservoir and extended travel were secured to “We found the 4.0L V6 engine in the Toyota
the front of the vehicle with Special Product Tacoma sufficient as is and highly reliable.
Company adjustable upper control arms. A We didn’t put a supercharger in it because
Deaver Springs custom leaf-spring pack (with the purpose of the truck isn’t to go fast but
a 900-pound static weight rating) works with a to overland.”
shocks with extended travel bolted to the rear.
Switch-Pros 9100 bezel-style, eight-switch
panel and power tray; Baja Designs Squadron
Sport fog, ditch, rear, bumper and bed lights;
Rigid Industries 20-inch LED lightbar; Hard
Korr Lighting full-color LED rock light kit;
Spyder Auto V2 projector headlights and
Spyder Auto LED taillights
Leitner Designs bed rack, Gear Pod and Gear
Pod XL; DECKED truck bed storage system w/
customers, they make sure to take the Tacoma locking drawers; Mountain Hatch tailgate cover
Perfectly complementing the upgraded out in the dirt every once in a while. “We try to
go out at least once or twice a month to camp.
tires they chose. “One of the perks of owning The trips are usually on a whim, whenever it
and operating a shop is that we get to test a fits our schedule, but we plan on taking it to
variety of products, tires included. We were King of the Hammers,” Felixx said. The trips are
on the fence between two different tires for usually relaxing, but they serve other purposes
the ’11 Toyota Tacoma, but when we saw how as well. “When we’re out camping, we use the
the Nitto Trail Grapplers performed on our ’16 truck to assess products before offering them
Toyota Tacoma, we were sold on putting them to our customers so we can see how they hold
on our personal overland build,” Felixx said. up in the real world and test the quality of the
“They held on every terrain we went through, products.”
when we changed our wheels and tire size, we
LIGHTS
In the midst of building overland vehicles for suspension components are the durable
whether it was dirt, rocks, snow or sand. Even
batteries
BED MODIFICATIONS
complementary pair of King 2.5 remote-reservoir
Odyssey 34R-PC1500 and 25-PC1400
ROOF MODIFICATIONS
Front Runner Slimline II roof rack, ratcheting shovel
mount, rack-mounted bottle opener, tie downs,
stratchits, awning brackets; Tepui Explorer Series
Kukanam 3 tent, Tepui 4-foot awning
EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS
Bushwacker fender flares and Beyond Wraps
Gen 2 hood stamp
WINCH
Smittybuilt X20 10K waterproof winch w/
synthetic rope and Factor 55 flatlink
OTHER GEAR
Rotopax, Hi-Lift Jack Extreme 60-inch
Shoveltec yellow shovel, Rago Fabrication
picked up Nitto Trail Grapplers again. We had
quick-release fire-extinguisher mount, Dometic
no reason to look for any other tire.”
CFX-50 portable refrigerator/freezer and
slide, Mixed Metal Work custom seat-delete
fridge mount, Smittybuilt G.E.A.R. seat
cover, Trasharoo, Roadshower 4 and Gibson
Performance exhaust
ELECTRONICS:
Kenwood ham radio TM-281A, Whistler
XP3000i power inverter, D23RS dash camera
w/ GPS and Wi-Fi
WHEELS AND TIRES:
VTX custom prototype beadlocks, 285/70R17
Nitto Trail Grapplers
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OVERLAND SPECS