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[Chris4R]

4Runner Build List

Year: 2026
Make: Toyota
Model: 4Runner
Trim: Limited
Engine: 2.4L turbocharged I-FORCE
Drive Train: FT 4WD

Modifications List

Black Out / Custom Paint

• Blackout front and rear bumper valance
• Black out front grill
• Blackout all logos
• Custom Bronze painted front emblem
• Custom Bronze painted Tow Hooks

Suspension / Body / Mechanical

• Wescott Preload Collar Lift Kit (2.5” Front and 0.75” rear)
• Rough Country Extended Flares - Gloss Black
• Custom installed fender markers on front and rear flares
• 18x9 Fuel Rebel 6 D681 Bronze/Black Wheel Fuel Rebel 6 D681 +1 Offset
• 1” spacers - Rear wheels only
• LT275/70R18 Kumho Road Venture AT52 All Terrain Tires
• SXTH CPLT Intake

Roof / Lighting

• Original Prinsu Roof Rack
• LASFIT 42” Light Bar
• Cali Raised Ditch Lights and mounts
• Just installed White Raptor Lights

Interior

• Full Nano-Cermic Tint
• Hard-wired Radar Detector
• Full LasFit Liners - Everywhere
• OffRoam Phone Holder / Charger
• Blackout steering wheel

Planned for June

• MBRP 3" Cat-Back Single Rear, High-Clearance Turndown exhaust

or

• MagnaFlow® 2025-2026 Toyota 4Runner 2.4L Overland Series™ Cat-Back Performance Exhaust System 19657

How it started (sort of, black out already done).

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[soulsea]

Hi

I got my truck delivered a few months ago, and at first I was only planning to put a little bigger rubber on it and call it a day. But as usual, and partly because all you here are a terrible/awesome influence, things quickly escalated to a full build. Keep in mind that this is my first ever Toyota of any kind so the learning curve was very steep, and so in addition to all the info on tis forum I reached out to Wescott Designs to guide me. My wife an I were going to spend the Month of May in Sedona AZ anyway so I shipped my truck to them in Phoenix ahead of time and picked it up last week when I landed, so the timing and logistics fell perfectly in place.

The vision for the truck was to strike a balance between high off road capability but also to be able to be used as a daily driver, so I didn't want to go overboard with suspension mods. Driving it both and off road for the last week I think we hit the sweet spot of the compromise, so I'm super happy with it. I also wanted to do something a little different given that the truck is black so I had them paint all the accessories (except rock sliders) gloss black, which helps my ocd. I especially like the Rago bumper because it looks as if it could be OEM to me. Thanks to @papadop88 for that inspiration and also for helping me figure a couple of other things out.

Here's the list of mods (wrap and tires were done before I sent it to WD):

- Full Xpel wrap/Full Xpel ceramic coating/front tint to match rear/windshield PPF
- 285/70/18 Falken Wildpeak A/T4W
- 1” Spidertrax black wheel spacers
- Wescott Designs Lo-Pro Roof Rack (gloss black)
- Baja Designs XL Pro Linkable LED Light Bar (for roof rack)
- Wescott Designs Ditch Light Brackets
- Baja Designs Squadron Pro Black LEDDriving/Combo Light Pods
- Rago Fabrication Center Mount Winch Front Bumper (gloss black)
- Rago Fabrication SkidPlate for Center Mount Front Bumper
- Baja Designs 20" Sport Light Bar (in Rago bumper)
- Warn VR Evo 10-S Winch
- Epic Hawse Fairlead
- Factor 55 UltraHook
- Wescott Design Molle Panels (gloss black)
- Wescott Designs Kickout Sliders
- Wescott Designs Preload Lift Kit

Pics and the associated IG post:

I think I'm done messing with it for now, the only other thing I might do in the near future is get some aftermarket 0 offset 18s to get rid of the spacers.

Hope you guys like it.

 

[soulsea]

For the record, I think admin kindly copy/pasted my original thread onto this thread ... it wasn't my ego cross posting for attention.

 

[skye9595]

Excited to share my build! Still waiting on some front recovery points from SXTH, but things are starting to really come together.

- Method 323 Gloss Black 18x9 | 6x5.5 | 12/5.44" Wheels -12 Offset
- ALPHAREX NOVA-Series LED Projector Headlights, Alpha Black
- Aspire Stealth Tail Lights, Smoked Black
- ALPHAREX NOVA-Series Prismatic LED Third Brake Light
- LED Sequential Mirror Turn Signals
- Westcott Designs LO-PRO ROOF RACK
- Westcott Designs MOLLE Panels
- Agency 6 Billet Grab Handles

 

[WEIMRUNN4R]

Hi ALCON,

Just wanted to create my own build thread to share some of the things I've done, and lessons learned.

My 4RUNNER is the non-hybrid (gas), TRD Sport. That being said, I regret not getting the hybrid & the larger radio/JBL setup...my wife got the TRD Sport Hybrid 2025 Tacoma with the nicer radio, two days after I got my 4R, and it straight up rips. WAY more fun to drive than my 4RUNNER/gas model...guess that means I need to pull the trigger on a tune & intake?? Lol.

I have owned & built many lowered cars, and a couple of race cars...but never a lifted vehicle. Coming into the 4R from a Sierra, and before that a 644whp Subaru...With that, came some anxiety & uncertainties that made me question everything on the 4R. It's no racecar, but in sport mode, it's pretty dang fun for an suv.

Months and months of indecisive nights & research, as well as asking around online for input, here's where it left us:

Went with

* 285/70R17 SL Mickey Thompson Baja AT's. SL's because I, straight up, have zero interest in off-roading this 4R. It is my daily driver, and wanted the slightly softer vibe/comfort. We may be moving to a rural area where unpaved roads will become more frequent, and the SLs should do just fine (I think...)
* 17x8.5 +0 offset Racelines. My justification for going this wide, is merely just that - I wanted to go wide. I prefer the look of this aggressive stance, by far. Not measured, and only given an ocular pat-down, I'd say it's about 2" wider than the TRD Sport stock fenders. On cloud nine in rock chip heaven, and happy to be here.
* It was driving me nuts - I couldn't find anyone who went into detail about the required lugs needed for Raceline wheels. THEY NEED CONICAL ET SPLINE LUGS 14X1.5. I originally bought regular non ET gorilla spline conical lugs, but they only threaded on about 5.5 full turns on the front. This car needs about 7.5-8 full turns to safely drive/sleep at night. Raceline customer service confirmed that their wheels are bored with Toyotas in mind and needing the ET style spline lugs. The Coyote ET lugs I bought on Amazon, got a few more turns than needed. I believe the ET portion is 0.62" wide, and fit in the raceline lug bore just fine. Wasn't touching the wheel's bore hole-wall per say, which is good to avoid the known issue with ET lugs snapping due to seizure while touching the wheels. But, there was in fact a tiny tiny gap, yet very tight & precise fit. Fingers crossed on longevity & reliability.
* A lot of sleepless nights on what to do with the lift... went with the Westcott pre-load collar lift, stock UCAs, (but opted in to not install the top hat spacers to ensure the front-end stance stayed where I want it - in a slightly downward rake as I like VS reverse-rake that I've been noticing on some). Ended up with about 2.25" higher in the front & 0.7 in the rear. The shop that installed it, did the same lift on a SR5 the week before, and shared photos..... it looked ridiculously reverse-raked, which I wanted to avoid at all cost. The shop also agreed, and highly suggested we not install the top spacer...that was 110% the right decision IMO.
* Crash brackets removed - even with stock mud flaps removed, these tires were still rubbing the flat crash plate behind the mud flap, so I removed all four from the front end.
* Installed the ARK delete cover kit
* Installed the front & rear ARK wheel-well liner splash guard kit, too
* Front air air dam lip removed.
* Front lower well-liner moved & re-screwed about 1.5-2" forward: this was where the wheels were catching l, even after the lift, when the steering wheel was fully turned. There's now about 0.5" of room at full turn. No trimming anywhere.
* Stock mud flaps removed (they rub the tires big time) & replaced with the external mount rally RB'z to make more room. These things are sweet. Looked goofy with the stock wheels/suspension, but they buttoned up the look, for the better, with the new wheels & lift, IMO.
* ARB red front recovery hooks
* Tried the stickerfab wireless charger, but that was a big POS, and didn't fit with my phone, nor did the actual charger on it, work/charge. Couldn't return it. With how much room it takes up, I'm surprised it works with any phone at all.
* Added the "above the push-start button" magsafe phone mount/charger. The stock one in the lower center console is a useless POS. Doesn't charge my phone (OnePlus 15 or 12), and was sliding all over the place when making turns. Useless. So I bought one on Amazon for like $60 bucks (15W). Doesn't charge quickly even when plugged into the quick usb-c ports, but the location & strong magnet are what makes it worth it's weight in gold compared to the stock wireless charger. Again, stock one is a big POS.
* Stock wireless charging pad is a big POS.
* My car had cloth seats, but I paid to have a shop nearby remove & replace with black leather
* Added the Canvasback interior liner on full rear floor, side walls & cup holder covers, and rear hatch cover. I have two big dogs that I take everywhere, and one drools like crazy. These covers actually wipe up pretty well, and hair vacuums up easily too. The double sided tape worked well for about 4 months, and is now starting to peel away - that's my biggest complaint with these.
* Added a rear seat grill bar/guard to keep the dogs in the trunk & stop them from leaning over the rear seats. Really happy with this one.

Drives way better, now, than with the stock wheels/pre-lifted...thinking it has to be the nice beefy tires helping take the bumps better, and the wider stance too. The tires are also whisper quiet, I repeat, whisper quiet, so I'm definitely happy about that since I wasn't sure what to expect with tires like this. Can't wait for Winter/Snow. Steering feels the same. No major noticed change in body roll (maybe slightly better from the wider stance), or front end nose dive while hard braking. Not at all a problem, but I noticed that if you let off of the gas to just glide, it slows down a bit quicker than with the stock wheels.

Final complaint - the shop gave it back to me with the alignment in spec, but steering wheel cocked to the right at almost 1 o'clock. I took it back a couple days later to have them correct it (they have a shop around the corner who actually does it for them), and they gave it back to me the second time saying the the front driver's side was actually off a bit & it was corrected - gave me the print out of the alignment too - all in spec yet again. Drove it home, and steering wheel is now to the left at about 11 o'clock, so, the opposite way than the last time it was aligned. It's driving straight and not pulling any which way, at least. I'm more annoyed than anything at this point, and don't want to waste another trip for them to try a third time - one time should have been enough. I will just get it aligned by someone else who can try and get me back to 12 o'clock on the steering wheel (or at least closer than it is after these last two attempts, SMH).

Will aim to get a nicer front skid plate & higher-wall'd front all weather mats for winter to avoid the salt staining the carpet from my boots. Lasfits aren't doing it for me. Tune & CAI is really the next big ticket item.

Regardless that I haven't saved money at all since I bought this lol, I'm overall super stoked, and I'm proud of it thus far.

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