20" LED light bar
$140
planned
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Start free$1,139 retail price of equivalent parts + $970 shop install quotes − $369 materials & consumables.
+ $929 planned across 3 parts, not counted yet.
DC 95 A, 3/32" 2% lanthanated. Tacked the tower plates on the car so it drops right on.
Borrowed a 48" box-and-pan brake. Bend the side flanges first, then the front lip, or the lip hits the brake fingers.
Oil cooler bracket (plasma)
Need 1/8" plate · est. 2 h
Press in rear diff bushings
Borrow a press from the club
Re-tune after FMIC
Book with the tuner
Rally light bar mount
Design the DXF first
Alignment after coilovers
Done Jun 4
Cut & bend skid plate
Done May 14
Pressure test charge pipes
Done Apr 27
Sketching the light bar mount
Nesting the light bar mount and the oil cooler bracket on one sheet of 1/8" to save material. DXF coming soon.
Installed
1 h · $80 · saved $120
Finished
TIG welded · 4 h · $94 · saved $116
First gravel day
Dry lake bed run. The skid plate took a few hits and came home with nothing but scratches. Coilovers at 8 clicks front, 10 rear felt right.
Checked off Alignment after coilovers
$150 at the local shop
Installed
3 h · $1,245 · saved $400
Bought it with 142k on the clock and a clean title. The plan: keep it a reliable daily, make it quicker and tougher for gravel weekends, and build as much of it as I can on my own plasma table and TIG. Every part I make gets logged here with materials, hours and the cut list, so you can copy it.
Shop: Plasma table + MIG/TIG