Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Hi peoples,

I'm in the process of finalising materials needed to do a ute conversion of my zpook. no, not chopping completely, rather boarding in the back to make it look similar to a style side.

Here's a pic of what I plan on making over the next few days. It will be stained in a nice american redwood colour. The inner box will have a layer of glass resin over it. vertually turning it into a good eski - for when it's just a day trip or weekend piss up and not requiring shit loads of recovery/camping equipment.

anywho, I'll post pics once it's made, but for know here's my spec.

What!? No checkerplate!!?!

no damo, I will leave the "bling bling" shiate to your POS

mine has enough "bling bling" as it is.

Progress update.

ok I've got the lid made. wraps flush around all the grooves in the targa bar. the rear corners are flush also.

not bad for 1hrs work. I love wood. so much easier to work with than metal. :flipOff:

so far it's fitting tighter than a nuns wahoo....which is good. now I have to figure out how far I want it to come into the cab, make up some bracing for where it will hinge then fab up the speaker board.

once I've done all that it'll be time to get the router out, do the edging, stain it and give it a good lick with marine grass high gloss sealer.

taking shiate loads of pics of how I fabbed everything and will post them tomorrow.

what weight you expecting from the wood.

cheers

around 20kg. give or take 5kg.

keeping it light, but the added weight in the rear should make it ride a little smoother on-road.

yeah wont hurt having a few kilos in the back

ok, still not made any progress as I've been far to busy with work, teaching and djing.

I have uploaded pics though. you can see them in the newest gallery on http://www.mark-mccarthy.com/

I will post more as I take them and as I do more work to it.

bout time SLACKER..

G'day Tiger,

Hopefully the gawd dang rain will hold out this weekend where I am. I wanna get the rest of it done. so, if it's fine weather (or some a-hole clears the workshop so I can use it) I will have some more pics next week for ya'll.

I know that this thread hasn't been looked at in quite a while, but has anyone else had trouble trying to access the link that skippy put up to access the pics of his 'ute'?

http://www.mark-mccarthy.com/

It doesn't seem to work for me?!?

Am interested in seeing the results of this conversion as i also read about it somewhere else.

Thanks for reading... let me know if there is somewhere to view these pics.

I dont know the site, but there sure is a lot of mark mccarthy's out there!

If you look up a bit, you'll see that skippy, the person who originated the post, actually posted the exact same link...

ok, still not made any progress as I've been far to busy with work, teaching and djing.

I have uploaded pics though. you can see them in the newest gallery on http://www.mark-mccarthy.com/

I will post more as I take them and as I do more work to it.

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Skippy

but yeah, I agree, there would be a heap of Mark Mccarthy's out there. Is anyone else not able to open that link?

There is also a thread on the following page

http://www.suzishop.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2227

about the same topic, with the same 'mark mccarthy' link. Thanks guys.

i think skippy has moved on with this.

im sure he sold it ages ago as it was in the avitar pic..

Oh ok, thanks for that. If there are any pics of it, would still like to see them tho - it seems like a great idea. Has anyone else done something similar?

yeh i wanna do it

Chunkz, have you seen it done before? I've seen one of those soft tonneau covers, but not a hard cover - it would be better, being lockable.

na i havnt seen it done

CA18escort brought this rig. he had some pictures posted in the members section... not sure if it's still their or not.

Thanks for that - It's still there, I found it - now I've just gotta ask if he still has it or if he at least has any photos of the rear lid. But thanks heaps DeWsE.