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Great taste! After I move on from my 04 V8 4Runner project I'll likely start over with a GX build or Sequoia.

What are the details on the one you bought?

Thanks Jon! Very much a fan of the V8s and Toyota reliability. I have a build thread rolling on iH8mud if you want to follow along. Trying to get it more trail-ready by spring.

As purchased:

2020 GX460 w/95K miles
  • CBI front bumper w/ Warn 10.5 Evo winch + Factor55 Pro
  • CBI rock sliders
  • Metaltech rear bumper (Stage2)
  • Bilstein 5100 lift - needs upper control arms bad
  • Good ole' Method wheels
  • 285/70 R17 Toyos and doesn't look like any cutting to make them fit
 
  • CBI front bumper w/ Warn 10.5 Evo winch + Factor55 Pro
  • CBI rock sliders
  • Metaltech rear bumper (Stage2)
  • Bilstein 5100 lift - needs upper control arms bad
  • Good ole' Method wheels
AFTER MARKET! I know that space!

My 1st company was Installations Unlimited in NY. It was a one stop super store with every accessory for your car. We had an army of trained installers, ppl use to buy a car and drive right to our store ;-) It was a new concept back in the day. We were 100% bootstrap and grew to 3 stores in 7 yrs. Lifts, drops, wheels, tint, roofs, Audio, Remote starters, and on and on. Yup, we converted P/U's to convertibles. What a shit show that was (we stopped after the 20th conversion).
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My specialty was building custom competition audio systems. . We were so big, that I had exclusive distribution for Alpine, Pioneer, Sony, Blaupunkt, Orion, RockFord Fosgate, Precision Power, and several exotic speaker lines. My ex-employer tried to copy us and he went BK trying.

I loved to build exotic showrooms. I cut a S10 p/u down the center and mounted high on the wall. The entrance of the sound room had the nose of a ford mustang exploding thru the wall. The floor was think glass and under the glass were dozens of power amps (all live and demo'able). When I sold to my partner, I was just breaking into home theater (back when lazer disc was state of the art).

Yea, I'm old. :unclejoe:
Your mission is to get to my age talking more chances that I did.
 
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