thanks for the complement. My wife calls it industrial. .hey what can i say i work for an engineering firm.
The pictures also dont do it justice.. it looks a bit more messy than it really is.. I have mounts on the side for shovel and Bumper Jack.. ill post pictures with those items mounted when i get some other things done. . when its done my goal is to have a super clean rack that has multi uses.. I plan to have front and rear cameras, front, rear and side light bars. mounting for Sking, offroad events and all my gear. Its all aluminum at the moment but plan to either powdercoat it or anodize it black and other colors on silver would look funny. I have 2 months into the light configuration and 3 revisions. One looked REALLY cool but didnt work so well. the light reflection was not right. Now i have a pretty blocky light bar much like the older police light bars. but it works incredibly well. all the light buckets are Hand sanded to a 1600 grid and then mirror polished. so its better than the chrome relectors you get in any standard offroad light.
The Coverage is AWESOME. I only have the one side of 4 lights hooked up so far and it lights my entire 1/2 acre property like daylight. by next week ill have all lights hooked up and my poly carb covers installed. so im pretty much ready for Moab utah.. not sure if ill get to use the lights but im hoping so.
The Camera Was installed specifically for the trip even though we plan to have a hi def camera as well. I can tell you i would have had alot of money into that rack if i had to pay for it but fortunate for me that it all time that i spent on my own and pieces of aluminum i pulled off of jobs so i was able to absorb some of the costs. out of pocket is about 150 bucks but there is easily 300-400 in aluminum and lots of time in drafting, programming, runtime changing the design 3 times and finally Hand work... I may still change somethings to make it look cleaner.
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