Bart's Mostly Lighting Build

[GrdnFrmn]

I brought the Raptor home in March and have been enjoying it immensely. It's has the 802A and carbon fiber packages, but no graphics or tailgate appliqué. This is from warm, sunny NJ, fresh from the dealer:

My teenage children started calling the Raptor the Big Ass Red Truck or Bad Ass Red Truck, depending on the kid. The name Bart stuck and I'm OK with that. Since then, I've made a bunch of mods. The most visible changes are to the truck's lighting. I picked up a lot of good ideas here and thought I'd share my build here.

This is Bart today:

And from the rear, both daytime and at night with reverse lights:

Over the next few days I'll post up some build pix and details, plus some night shots.

 

[GrdnFrmn]

Here's a daytime shot with all the front lights on.

This is from a lonely road at night, headlights only.

Here's the same shot with all the accessory lights on. Same camera and settings.

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Most of the lights are from Baja Designs. I've had them on my KTMs and think the quality, durability and light output are excellent. Shout out to Baily at BD for setting me up with the forum discount.

The upper grill has the 30" S8 driver combo. The lower grill holds a high output OnX6, also with combo lens. The fogs are S8s as well, but with wide pattern lenses.

This is one area where Baja Designs really shines, so to speak: user serviceable parts. I originally installed the fog S8s with the combo lens. They are angled about 15 degrees right and left of straight forward facing. The original combo lens had too much "spot" going at a distance where I didn't need it. So, quick swap for the wide lens and now it has a true fog light pattern with close to 180 degree sweep around the front of the truck.

The back lights are BD S2s and the Putco Blade. I also changed out the license plate incandescent bulbs for Diode Dynamics LEDs. Much brighter and nearly spot on to the color temperature of the OEM LEDs (I can't tell any difference anyway).

 

[4x4TruckLEDs.com]

Nope no photos still... what image source are you using. If you are sharing them from facebook and they are not public, none of us will be able to see them

 

[hkguns]

I wish I could say it looks sweet but I can't see any pictures.

 

[ineedaBubble]

 

[Jeff-Ohio]

I brought the Raptor home in March and have been enjoying it immensely. It's has the 802A and carbon fiber packages, but no graphics or tailgate appliqué. This is from warm, sunny NJ, fresh from the dealer:

My teenage children started calling the Raptor the Big Ass Red Truck or Bad Ass Red Truck, depending on the kid. The name Bart stuck and I'm OK with that. Since then, I've made a bunch of mods. The most visible changes are to the truck's lighting. I picked up a lot of good ideas here and thought I'd share my build here.

This is Bart today:

And from the rear, both daytime and at night with reverse lights:

Over the next few days I'll post up some build pix and details, plus some night shots.

The name of your truck makes me laugh and here's why....... In a previous job, I managed a "Business Intelligence" team and a group we called "Shared Services". We had a meeting to see if we could come up with an easy name for everybody to use when referring to us. One of my direct reports came up with "BIG ASS" which stood for "Business Intelligence Group And Shared Services". I thought it was hilarious and it definitely would have been memorable, but we obviously couldn't use it for HR reasons. I like your kid's sense of humor.

 

[GrdnFrmn]

It appears I suck at getting pix to link. So, never being one to give up, I thought I'd try again with flickr. Stay tuned.

https://flic.kr/p/X7CTbS

 

[GrdnFrmn]

Trying one more time. This jpg link works just fine in a different forum.

 

[raptor36]

Looks nice!! Post some night shots of that Baja designs bar!


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[rdz418]

Looks nice!! Post some night shots of that Baja designs bar!


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If you look at the Flikr link he posted, about 2 posts up, there are some night shots.