Toyota Hilux High Lift Front and Rear Bumper Designs

[Pintopower 1499]

As usual, stock is not good enough.

Let's start with the back.

Back Bumper

I didn't like the rear bumper and as I posted earlier, I designed a new one. It accepts the RC4WD hitch perfectly and I am a giant fan of lights so those are a nice addition for me. I did add some guards for some scale realism. A friend of mine had me remove the lamps for his truck as he was not keen on them so I now have a basic rear bumper as well.

Rear Shot:

With rear lamps on:

Close up:

The truck will also accept the stock Tamiya exhaust hangers used for the vibration control:

Lenses and LED's installed:

Light Testing:

Scale receiver. This is the pre-production version in black abs. I just installed the stainless one. Some notes on it:

1. I had to drill two holes in the rear chassis mounting plate for the rear attachment point

2. Further boring of the mounting through holes was needed due to tight tolerances

Tucks nice and neat:

The Front Brush Guard:

I doubt anyone will argue how strong the front bumper of the High Lift series is. I will, however, mention that it certainly is not a looker.

This always reminded me of the over kill front bumper on my first RC car, a Nikko Turbo Panther. It was twice the size of the car practically.

Since that bumper has saved the trucks beautiful shell a number of times, I decided I wanted to keep it. Rather quickly, I designed some headlight guards for the bumper on the Toyota High Lift Hilux that I could add without a single modification. These screw in to the stock upper cross bar mounting points and come with a central bar that is sandwiched between the vertical plates when it is screwed together. This gave the truck stock look as well as the feeling that you could see a 1:1 version of this truck passing you on the street.

Version 1.0

This one was basically parallel to the cross bars. It also sat dangerously close to the bumper so if there was chassis flex, it came to close to the bumper for my tastes.

Version 2.0

I made the guard follow the curvature of the front end as well as lift if off of the bumer 2mm. This, to me, gave it a more finished look and I love it.

These are the three parts that i needed:

The upper mount is screwed in first with a Tamiya 10mm self tapping screw:

Then the lower mount is held in with the machine screw that holds the lower bar in place:

Center bar has domed ends and is compressed when the guard is assembled.

As for the rear bumper, finishing is required. Due to the manufacturing process, all holes needed to be cleaned out.

I then went ahead and painted everything a low gloss black to make it all uniform.

Here it is, all done.

Nice.

Those Vector wheels that I designed back in '07 have been a great addition to this project also. I need to buy some for my 1:1 Hilux at some point. This has been a long going build. I will need to do a thread on all the rest of the chassis upgrades for those of you into scaling.

If anyone is interested in the parts, they are on my Shapeways page.

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/AmPro?section=Tamiya+High+Lift+Series+&s=0

I'll keep you posted for more mods.

[Shodog 1847]

Those look great!

[Pintopower 1499]

Those look great!

Thanks man. I hear you are in San Jose also? Willow Glen here. We should hit up Alviso some time, great scaling out there. Maybe we can get OCD, Skotto and Tamiyamandan to join.

[mongoose1983 3362]

Those wheels look sweet.

[Pintopower 1499]

Those wheels look sweet.

Thank you! I really like them too. They are also on shapeways but you will need to finish them. They come in black and need light sanding and painting.

[Shodog 1847]

Pintopower, on 13 Jan 2015 - 10:16 AM, said:

Thanks man. I hear you are in San Jose also? Willow Glen here. We should hit up Alviso some time, great scaling out there. Maybe we can get OCD, Skotto and Tamiyamandan to join.

Yes, we will definitely have to meet up. I'm not to far away in Downtown SJ

[scootmike 36]

Wow that really turned out nice, great job, totally changes the look of the front bumper, was going to pull mine because it looks so out of place.

After seeing your I'm rethinking that one

[Pintopower 1499]

Yes, we will definitely have to meet up. I'm not to far away in Downtown SJ

Oh cool. I can look at downtown from my window.

Wow that really turned out nice, great job, totally changes the look of the front bumper, was going to pull mine because it looks so out of place.

After seeing your I'm rethinking that one

I know. The stock one is just goofy looking but man it is durable. Some black paint alone helped I think.