Raptor Overland

[soulsea]

Foutz skid plate:

 

[dude1782]

At ADD where the poop's about to get real ...

So that was your truck I saw back there. The wrap looks nice.


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[soulsea]

So that was your truck I saw back there. The wrap looks nice.


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Yes, thank you.

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And bumpers off:

 

[Jepper]

bump for new pics?

 

[soulsea]

bump for new pics?

Not much has happened in the last couple of days ... the HB rear bumper is on tho.

 

[Ditchplains1]

SoulSea,
With those Baja Designs in the bumper anyone close to your back end will think that they're having a close encounter of the third kind!
VERY Nice!!!
Eddie

 

[Jepper]

Anything new?

 

[soulsea]

Anything new?

The SVC collars have been installed but waiting to do the final level when everything is on the truck. Other than that I haven’t gotten any pics the last few days but I’m sure progress is being made as I’m picking it up from them on the 15th.

 

[Mike175]

Curious as to why you didn't go with an overland trailer set up? By your own admission you wanted to be able to off-road at high speeds and also bug out in the event of a Russian evasion Red Dawn style. You're trying to combine two completely different styles of off-roading.

You could have a really nice trailer with rooftop tent or there are some nice off-road teardrops. Have all your gear, food, water, batteries charged, and ready to roll at a moments notice. Back up to it and be gone. At the same time not weighing down and hampering your high speed fun.

You could have a tire/chase rack dedicated for off-road duty, complete with all the essentials. Upgrade suspension and whatever you deem necessary for your desert fun. Trailer would make a good base camp as well to take along set up camp and go explore.

Just seems like you're trying to make it into two different things and not doing either well enough. Jack of all trades master of none sort of thing.

Wondering if you gave that any thought at all?

 

[soulsea]

Curious as to why you didn't go with an overland trailer set up? By your own admission you wanted to be able to off-road at high speeds and also bug out in the event of a Russian evasion Red Dawn style. You're trying to combine two completely different styles of off-roading.

You could have a really nice trailer with rooftop tent or there are some nice off-road teardrops. Have all your gear, food, water, batteries charged, and ready to roll at a moments notice. Back up to it and be gone. At the same time not weighing down and hampering your high speed fun.

You could have a tire/chase rack dedicated for off-road duty, complete with all the essentials. Upgrade suspension and whatever you deem necessary for your desert fun. Trailer would make a good base camp as well to take along set up camp and go explore.

Just seems like you're trying to make it into two different things and not doing either well enough. Jack of all trades master of none sort of thing.

Wondering if you gave that any thought at all?

The focus of this truck and what I expect out of it has evolved since I started this thread, if I were to do it today I wouldn’t put the word ‘overland’ in the title, especially because the word ‘overland’ itself was poorly understood by me at that time.

At its core, it’s basically a truck to have fun slapping around the various southwest environments which is what it will be doing 99% of its life, capable to carry enough supplies in it to get me out of trouble and to keep me alive should I break down in the middle of nowhere, and with enough capability to carry enough stuff in the 1% chance that I need it to go hide from zombies for a couple of weeks in the grand canyon. I’m sure it can manage that without needing a trailer, we’re just talking about adding a couple of hunded pounds of supplies, not an open ended survival situation.

In any case, anything other that a precisely focused build towards one thing, such as building a true non street legal pre-runner, or a true expedition vehicle (the Raptor wouldn’t be the first choice for that), is going to be a compromise by definition. So there’s no being master of one thing for anyone, just different levels and types of compromises.

Since I haven’t driven it yet in its current iteration I cannot have a valid opinion as to whether I’m on the right track, so you may be correct that I haven’t thought it through properly ... but the only thing that I’ve done to it that takes away from it being true to it’s ethos is adding the decked system to organize my bits, I hardly think that will harm my zombie escapability. For now I want to live with it as it will be for a while and then decide if I want to do a full suspension. Or I will just enjoy the heck out of it as it is, play with it for a year, and think about what I want to do next.