2019 Supercab. Velocity Blue with recaro interior package..
I've had it since 2019, with 9k miles, also my second raptor had a 2012 ingot silver supercab, with a lot of nice stuff on it..
its got 59K on it now, plan on keeping it forever since they dropped the supercab.. ive done all the work to it, except an alignment, and i had to pay a guy to make a new exhaust hanger, and do some welding on the rear tire carrier..
we do some pretty cool trips, my favorite is about 125 raptors in the upper peninsula of michigan for 3 full day of snowy off road driving. heading out to las vegas, reno, moab and telluride/ouray in june.. also silver lake sand dunes in about 4hours from here so i try to go there a few times a summer.. having a ton of fun doing raptor things..
getting ready to cut the rear wheel wells in the bed open for these:
heres a few more pics..
plans for the future include a wider front suspension that will give more wheel travel and a seconday bypass shock, bigger fiberglass front fenders, 37" tires and then it'll be on to a V8 swap when the 3.5 dies.. i think the 7.3L godzilla will be the way, but a few guys have 800hp coyotes swapped into these trucks too.. with 10speed trans and everything works electronically... someday i hope..
i got the steeda springs, and blowoff valve adaptor, and i started the paint correction process, i did 2 stages of buffing, but probable needs a bit more before ceramic coating..
hoping to get the springs on this weekend.. i have been mostly focused on the truck the last several weeks as i had a big desert trip a couple weeks ago.. i put 3300mi on the truck in 8 days..
i did this project mostly myself, but i did call in a buddy to weld the new lower shock brackets onto the axle after i cut the old ones off, but other than that... all me.
You should be proud of the work you’ve done! “Built not bought” is a legitimate point of pride. There’s something deeply satisfying about doing stuff yourself, not the least the rewards of really knowing and understanding how it all works because you put it together, and everything you learn doing it. Well done!
I would not be able to afford half of the fun stuff I do if I had to pay people to work on it all the time. I never really welded anything before, and we found out later that the welder was hooked up backwards so all my practice pieces looked like crap so I called my buddy in.. and even he was having a hard time but we assumed it was the harbor freight welder instead of the setup. Getting pretty good results now that it's set up for mig vs flux core
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