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Chopping a 105 series
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 4:34 pm
by td lux
WHO WILL DO IT!!!! been searching for ages...
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:00 pm
by AutoBalanceMan
Beno from 4bfabrications does'm.
Check out
www.4bfabrications.com.au
Jonesy
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:04 pm
by AutoBalanceMan
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:30 pm
by 80's_delirious
awesome chop!
I like it, I like it alot
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 6:48 pm
by Barno111
Wide bay motor bodies! i work just down from him and he does a great job!
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:17 pm
by fester2au
Barno111 wrote:Wide bay motor bodies! i work just down from him and he does a great job!
Hope he does better work normally than he did on the new model goldy coloured extra cab Hilux in his photo galleries. We spent nearly a week trying to fix up the bodge he did on the toolboxes in it and sometime the owner still wants the underslung toolboxes and the tray fixed. For the money I've not seen anythign as rough. The owner is seriously still thinking of selling the whole tray/toolbox set up and starting again. The fit and finish was quite poor not to mention the welding splatter (melded into ) all over his rear window.
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:38 am
by 98lux
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:47 am
by TheBigBoy
Creative conversions do 100's of them...
http://www.creativeconversions.com.au/
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 1:47 pm
by v8zuki
i love it looks awsome wife said i have to buy another one i cant chop hers up
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:48 am
by 98lux
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 4:44 pm
by TheBigBoy
Ive seen a heaps of theirs. Really nice job. Id rather pay 1000's more and have a good job. Than to be in that other guys boat with a bodgy job. Especially with a 105 series.
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 4:48 pm
by TheBigBoy
Maybe good for a comp truck. But that looks like absolute crap!!!! If it was my truck Id have to set fire to it.
Thats how its suppossed to look. Following the window line. Nice clean lines almost factory.
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 6:18 pm
by 80's_delirious
TheBigBoy wrote:
Maybe good for a comp truck. But that looks like absolute crap!!!! If it was my truck Id have to set fire to it.
Thats how its suppossed to look. Following the window line. Nice clean lines almost factory.
Tell us what you really think
I do agree though. There is no shortage of butchered chop jobs being done.
The green one at the top of page is the best Ive seen in terms of good proportions and clean factory looking lines.
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 7:47 pm
by TheBigBoy
Yeah the green 1 is VERY nice.
. Seriously though, even if the chop was done for free in the first pic. Youd have to shoot yourself - or take it to these other guys and folk out the $10 000
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 7:58 pm
by Auto-Craft
TRhe green one is slightly mis proportioned, it needs longer roof, and pillars, and the rear fender flare section on the back needs to be bigger.
Black satin wheels with body color beadlock rings would really set it off.
The front bar and rear bar also need to be a dark grey, like the body strip, so they dont get lost in a black fog, and look more 3 dimensional.
Some rough chops, but gives the idea. [probably more noticable in the skin] but the quality of the work is good.
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 8:07 pm
by TheBigBoy
LOL... You dont moonlight as an interior decorater in your spare time do you assassin. Atleast you know what you want.
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 6:39 am
by Auto-Craft
TheBigBoy wrote:LOL... You dont moonlight as an interior decorater in your spare time do you assassin. Atleast you know what you want.
Well, when spending money, if another 10 or 15% gives the client exactly what they want, vs a close likeness, I would spend the extra every time.
Then you never drive it round all that time its finished with that little voice in the back of your head going "I wish I had of done it while it was apart"
Cutting a truck, and making it what you want should be more about exactly what it should be, even if it takes longer, than how quick, or how little it costs.
When you get that one right, its the one you keep for 10 years, and dont want to see it go.
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:02 pm
by pitty_86
does anyone know it the front bar on the green one is a custom one or brought from somewhere cause its looks verysimilar to the design i was goin to build for my 80 series.
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:19 pm
by cmcd
Ben at 4B Fabrications did the bars as well as the chop on the green 100.
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 2:13 am
by rockcrawler31
TheBigBoy wrote:
Maybe good for a comp truck. But that looks like absolute crap!!!! If it was my truck Id have to set fire to it.
Thats how its suppossed to look. Following the window line. Nice clean lines almost factory.
lay off the crack pipe dude. that top one looks far better. yes the rear wall is vertical, but the tray looks closer to factory. The bottom one is stupid, how retarded is it to say that a sloping rear wall looks good when it leaves a gap at the top of the vertical tray canopy combo it has on. and slapping a short little cab chassis tray on a cut job just screams "i'm a chop job and havn't put any thought into it at all."
At the end of the day none of these jobs are going to look factory because guess what? the factory never released a 105 series ute did it. at least not to the general market.
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 8:34 pm
by ozy1
i have this feeling that the white 100 actually does have a canopy for it, i remember readin he was modding one to suit, so it would look quite great,
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:08 pm
by BUSTED100
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:09 am
by td lux
looks unreal, the guys from 2dextreme are going to do mine aswell..
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:32 pm
by TheBigBoy
rockcrawler31 wrote:TheBigBoy wrote:
Maybe good for a comp truck. But that looks like absolute crap!!!! If it was my truck Id have to set fire to it.
Thats how its suppossed to look. Following the window line. Nice clean lines almost factory.
lay off the crack pipe dude. that top one looks far better. yes the rear wall is vertical, but the tray looks closer to factory. The bottom one is stupid, how retarded is it to say that a sloping rear wall looks good when it leaves a gap at the top of the vertical tray canopy combo it has on. and slapping a short little cab chassis tray on a cut job just screams "i'm a chop job and havn't put any thought into it at all."
At the end of the day none of these jobs are going to look factory because guess what? the factory never released a 105 series ute did it. at least not to the general market.
Well just my opinion, and thats the beauty of chops. Can get what ever you like done...