Street Source Magazine
Street Source Magazine

1994 Toyota 2wd Pickup

Drootz (1 owner profile)
Purchased: 1994-06-02

Engine

K & N Intake, Downey header, Jet Electronics chip, LC Engineering EFI camshaft, Crane coil, Magna flow exhaust, Chrome valve cover, billet spark plug router, hose techniques hoses, optima yellow top, and Center force clutch

Exterior

Shaved hood squirters, shaved antenna, shaved door handles, shaved 3rd brake light, shaved rock guards, shaved gas door keyhole, shaved tailgate handle, shaved door side mounted factory rearview mirrors, color matched wipers, tubbed rear wheel wells, notch cover, weld on roll pan, 4 x 4 front fenders, 4 x 4 bumper, 4 x 4 valance and 4 x 4 grill, gaylords tonneau cover, lexan rear window with frenched license plate, clear bumper lenses, diamondback headlights, euro taillights, door pillar mounted billet rear view mirrors, and Line-x bedliner. The custom paint is kept clean and shiny with Mothers car care products, Kolor Shoppe painted the truck and graphics using a variety of House of Kolor paints: sunset orange, tangelo orange, lime green, hot pink pearl, cosmic blue, and burple.

Interior

Full Custom tweeded interior including dash, headliner, kickpanels, pillars, headliner, center console, sun visors, and carpet, custom tweeded flamed door panels, installed 4Runner bucket seats, carbon fiber steering wheel, carbon fiber shift knob, carbon fiber rear view mirror, billet armrests, and billet window cranks.

Suspension

Bagged on all 4 corners with Firestone 2500lb bags, 8 Blitzluft ½” Valves, 2 Chrome Viair 450 Compressors, 5 gallon tank, upfront is a pair of Bell Tech drop spindles, the rear is monster notched and uses 3” lowering blocks with de-arched leaf springs

Wheels

17 x 7.5 Arelli DeLemma wheels using 205/40/17 Pirelli P7000 Super Sports

Stereo

Sony CD head unit, Sony 11 band eq, Q-forms kick pods housing Boston Acoustics mids and tweets while the bass is supplied by 2 Bazooka tubes with Kicker amps pushing it all.

Awards

1st place Hottest Truck - Hot Import Nights San Jose 2006,
3rd Place Import Mini Wild - Fobidden Fantasy 2006,
3rd Place Mini Truck Wild - DUB Magazine DUBShow Cow Palace 2005,
2nd place Open Bed Mini Truck Radical - Spring California Truck Jamboree 5/2005,
2nd place Open Bed Mini Truck Full Custom - Fall California Truck Jamboree 8/2005,
Best of Show Mini Truck - DUB Magazine DUBShow Cow Palace 2004,
1st Place Mini Truck Wild - DUB Magazine DUBShow Cow Palace 2004,
Tied for Best of Show - FBI Grand Opening Show 2004,
2nd Place Mini Wild - KRZ 2nd Annual River Run 2004,
1st Place Mini Wild - Truck Affair 2004,
1st Place Full Custom Open Bed Mini - California Truck Jamboree 2004,
2nd Place Open Bed Wild Mini - Freakfest 2004,
2nd Place Radical Mini - Freakfest 2003,
Best Paint - Show N Shine Customs 2003,
1st Place Wild Minitruck - CMI Speed & Show 2003,
2nd Place Minitruck - Extreme Limit Autofest 2002,
2nd Place Wild MiniTruck - Tricked Out Showdown 2002,
2nd Place Stock Closed Bed - Summer Madness #11 (1st trophy for my truck before the paint and shaving)

Future Plans

4 link, Billet Steering Wheel, Billet Shift knob, and lots of chrome under the hood