HM Racing Design Luxury Raptor Build for John Bowers

A Ford Raptor with 3.0 shocks and bumpstop kit is a highly capable off road machine for some, but not all were created equal. For John Bowers that was not enough for his Raptor run excursions, and found he wanted more out of his Ford Raptor. The game plan was to leave one of his Raptors with the bolt on accessories, and the other he would turn into a purpose built prerunner. After shopping around with several aftermarket companies John chose to build his truck here at HM Racing Design. This was in part due to our extensive history in the off road market as well as our previous luxury prerunner builds. We took no time in tearing into John's 2012 Ford Raptor, with only 8,000 miles on it! Every piece of the truck was itemized as it came off, and every stock piece was carefully wrapped and stored to ensure a brand new look when the truck rolled out of the shop.

The strip down


John wanted a race legal roll cage inside the truck, as he and his son are planning to race the truck down the road. The inside roll cage is 2in Chromoly construction, and was built with protection and functionality in mind.
Every Door was carefully wrapped to ensure care was taken during welding. The rear window was also pulled to ensure no splatter ruined this beautiful truck. Just one more thing taken into account during our in house builds.




Frame junction


Our rear cage work was designed to fit an aftermarket Harmon fuel cell, 2 Odyssey batteries, 2 37" Baja T/A spares, a craftsman race jack, storage, 2 heavy duty transmission coolers and room for a heavy duty winch. All this while pulling 26" of rear wheel travel was no easy task, but we did it and then some! The flow and functionality of the tube work is based directly off of our Trophy Truck platform, but built with the Raptor in mind.




Check for part 2!

That's an intense build

so awesome.

if only i could win the lottery... you guys could do that to my ranger

6.2 said:

so awesome.

if only i could win the lottery... you guys could do that to my ranger

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We haven't even shown the good stuff yet! And speaking of Rangers, we just finished one here at the shop!

yeah i was browsing your site, but i didnt see a 98+ 4x4 kit

6.2 said:

yeah i was browsing your site, but i didnt see a 98+ 4x4 kit

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Because there junk

J/K

I just could not pass that one up

PART 2 of the John Bowers HM Racing Design Raptor Build

When we tackled the rear suspension of the Blue Beast we decided John Bowers Ford Raptor needed only the best parts. After all, the Supercrew Ford Raptor was not a light truck before modification, and the last thing John wanted was a rear failure while using his truck. It was for this reason we built John our large Pro Series full floater Rear end. All the components of the rear suspension are the same as our Trophy Trucks, from the large Full Floater hubs, to the heat treated 300m constructed 40 spline full floater axles.



The Rear of the truck runs a 6x6.5 lug pattern, the same as the Trophy Trucks. To allow this, we had custom drilled rims from Walker Evans so that every rim on the truck can be used as a spare front to back, with John not having to carry different tires on the truck.



Few more shots of the rear of the truck...
Rear 4-Link and Shocks



Rear Spares, Jack, and Winch


Rigid Rear Lights, along with the aftermarket Transmission Coolers

jesus christ that thing is insane

VERY impressive, thanks for sharing this build with us!

Too bad normal people ("people who aren't wealthy") can't afford to do this.

I'm fascinated by the fact that they're having you do this to a SCREW Raptor.

O MY, thats friggin nuts