Who's your favorite?

Looking for some recommendations on good aftermarket manufacturers mostly concerned with exterior armor and weight reduction

Armor and weight reduction are opposite, no ? What are you looking for exactly ? To have a Raptor lighter than the OEM ?
Except to make a trophy truck removing everything useless as rear seats, AC system , audio system, ect... I don't see solution , I suppose it s not what you want... May , a complete body carbon fiber...Good luck.

The fenders and bedsides are already composite, I doubt you will lose much by swapping to CF. Weight reduction on a giant truck seems difficult, but I suppose you could shed the things list above.

Armor, not sure there’s much available other than bumpers / brush guards.

Your goals are unclear. As stated, armor and weight reduction are 2 opposite goals.

By armor, do you mean skid plates? Or a push bar for elk?

This will be way better if he’s looking for ballistic armor, probably owns one of those cartel raptors

I usually just find the best on etsy

I'm looking for the names of manufacturers for those types of modifications. I want to see what's out there. I've had my truck for 3 weeks so don't commit to a build direction just yet.

Who are the big names out today ?

This post confuses me, and intrigues me.

^^^^ Yeah, kind of a love/hate thing.