I guess I'll start up a build thread of my own truck, ain't nothing too fancy
I think I'll just dub this, "Project Stance". We need a little more coverage of 808 trucks anyway haha.

Bought it back in August 2011 for 500 bucks from an old guy in town.

At the time, it only had 50,XXX miles, cold A/C, 5-Speed, no leaks, immaculate interior (like as if it just came out of the factory), all virgin. The only downside was the exterior. It was only surface rust but it was a bitch to get rid of.

 

Couple weeks after, I brought it down to my friend's shop to do the body work and paint.




During the bodywork and paint, I picked up some chrome parts for the truck since the front bumper&valance were pretty bad. The color is a mix of 3 different whites btw, Snow White, Champ White, and another white but I forgot the name. Pretty dope in person.

I post up the rest of the progress after work...stay tuned!

 

Lookin good so far! keep it up!

 

Wow looks really sharp. I need to get working on my white truck after seeing those photos.

 

Looking real good bro. Keep the pics coming

 

Thanks everyone for the support! Back to the build...

Less than a week out of the paint shop, I dropped the rear with 4" DJM angled blocks and attempted to torsion the front.


Since the truck was practically virgin and sitting for 2 years, the torsion nuts were frozen so I soaked them in some heavy duty break away spray for the rest of the week then took it to my other friend's shop to finish the drop.


Picked up a set of S-Runners and a rear Tacoma bumper along the way also and ran this set up for about 2 months.

 

At the end of Janurary, I picked up a set of Work Miester S1s from a guy in town for dirt cheap with tires mounted and everything. Slapped those bad boys on and decided to drop the truck more by pulling the middle leaf, flipping the bottom leaf, shaved down my bump stops, and installed some new drop shocks from Belltech.

 

Siick ass ride bro..808 all day!!

 

And right now, the truck is currently sitting like this:



My 3" lowering leafs and 2" drop spindles, both from Beltech, just got delivered to my house today. Gonna post up pics later...

 

Thanks homie, I figured we need to show more Toys out of Hawaii...

 

Very clean bro. Love the rims. I was going to say turn down those torsions some more but your going to solve that with those drop spindals. Cant wait for more pics?

 

Thanks haha, yup the spindles and leafs are in but just to lazy to go down and take a pic. Gonna order a set of those 3" DJM Lower Control Arms along with other misc. parts. Gotta change up the look for Hellaflush!

 

Heck ya. Cant wait for those pics

 

Wow those wheels make your truck pop. Very nice. Any specs of the wheels?

 

They're staggered, 18x9 in the front and 18x10 in the rear

 

nice ride bro.

 

sometimes iWish iLived up there... better roads so can slam the truck to the ground. Too bad the super ferry thing never last... wouldn't mind bringing my truck to HF hawaii

 

The roads here are pretty ****ed too, pretty much the closer you get into town the more ****ed up the roads are haha

 

Just a mini update, forgot to mention the exhaust job I did couple weeks back.

Picked up these Pace Setter headers from a friend for cheap and I know why.
It's alright for the money I paid for and I did notice some improvement in power and sound. The only thing I hate is how it isn't ceramic-coated so pretty much all the black paint flaked off and left some ugly stuff on top.


Got my exhaust done by a friend from Exhaust Systems Hawaii. Hooked the headers up to some 2.25" pipe into the stock resonator then into Flowmaster super 44s with a single out 3" bologna cut tip.


I got something else in-store for my exhaust before Hellaflush. Hint: Boso

Now up to date, here's a pic of the 3" drop leafs and 2" drop spindles from beltech:


Gonna bolt these all on one time alongside with the 3" DJM lower control arms and extended ARP wheel studs.

 

Nice progress man