just brought it back to factory spec, and on-road it glides like
you’re on a cloud.”
Sav also spared no expense when it came to lumens, as his
FJ lights up brighter than a Christmas tree thanks to STEDI.
Lighting includes an ARB-STEDI fog light replacement, 8.5-
inch Type X LED driving light, 50-inch ST2K curved roof LED
bar, 4x10W side floodlights, H4 LED headlight conversion, and
2x20W Wurton flood cubes at the rear. Plus, all internal and
reverse LED globes have been installed.
“The quality of the light bars from STEDI is second-to-
none,” Sav explained. “It’s the dream team of lights!”
With almost 200L of on-board fuel – factory tank is 72L,
plus a 127L Long Ranger sub tank – Sav reckons he can get
between 1100 to 1300km with constant highway driving.
However, Sav felt the FJ needed more work done to it
before it could seriously be considered a rock-crawler, and so,
since our adventure, Sav’s made plans for his Toyota.
“I’m flying up to Brisbane to see Brad from King Shocks
to get my rears extended and rebuilt. So I’ll have a rear
compressed length of 435mm and extended 735mm. That’s
3.5in more droop over what I had,” Sav told us after the shoot.
“Shocks will be just shy of 29-inch-long open, then my set-up
will be the way it was supposed to.”
A rear bar and bash plates are also the next pieces of the
puzzle before Sav will be completely satisfied, then it’s off for
a trip to Fraser Island and/or Tassie.
What happens when an FJ
lacks a front locker and
adequate rear wheel travel.A Safari snorkel feeds
air to the FJ’s four-litre
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