deamon3's Jurassic Park explorer build thread

[BrianDye]

Deff. subscribing to this one! I love stic-o's but this is gonna be awesome to see the progress!

Great work so far man!

 

[deamon3]

I have made more progress on the ex today. I sanded and primed the front passenger door and passenger quarter panel.

In case anyone is wondering why I'm only doing little sections each day , it's because it's all the time I have between when I wake up and before I go to work. On my days off of work I make much much more progress. I'm quite excited as the priming is getting close to being done , all that's really left is the front clip.

 

[NHarris]

Good to here your making great progress. Can't wait to see how the finished product will turn out. Are you just painting your X outside or in a garage?

 

[deamon3]

Outside my garage , It's harde moving it in and out of the garage so I just took the pics while it was in the garage lol

 

[NHarris]

Glad to see some more pictures. If you do as good of a job as my neighbors did on a jeep then it'll look good Remember to clear coat it when finished.

 

[EastoutWest]

its just my two pennies, but you may have less of a chance of getting paint defects (or say gnats in the paint) if you paint inside that garage... sap droplets can play hell with your paint job.

 

[snoranger]

bubble roof! bubble roof! bubble roof!

You may want to look for a roof like this. Best I can come up with is that it came on a Centaurus Conversion Explorer.

 

[BrianDye]

Those are horrid looking! It would look GREAT without that roof

 

[deamon3]

Got a bit more done today. Got the front grill and bumper off and the lights rewired back to stock. Also got a little bit of sanding done too.

 

[deamon3]

Btw , if anyone actually likes that converted navajo grill and limited bumper let me know. I won't be needing them anymore and it's a pretty easy and nice looking mod for any ex.

 

[FROADER]

Kris G. is almost done building a 1st gen.

Keep it up.




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[red.EDDIE.4x4]

IMHO, you should ditch that grille and headlight assembly and get a traditional explorer grille and headlights. they cant be too expensive if you buy from a salvage yard.

 

[willindsay]

IMHO, you should ditch that grille and headlight assembly and get a traditional explorer grille and headlights. they cant be too expensive if you buy from a salvage yard.

The front end will be changed back to the stock look as I saved all the old parts

First post.

 

[geoph1986]

I've been watching this thread, and I'm lovin' it. But I also have a question. What year Navajo grill and such fit the Explorer? Is it straight bolt on? Fenders are the same, right?

Thanks, in advance.

 

[red.EDDIE.4x4]

First post.

i miss things alot...:

 

[deamon3]

I finished sanding the front clip and reinstalled the original grill , headlights and bumper pieces.

 

[NHarris]

I think that original grille looks a lot better than the mazda navajo grille. Looks like you're about done on getting that explorer primed

 

[deamon3]

See that's funny cuz I like the navajo grill more. Simply because the original grill/lights is too 80's. But when doing the jurassic ex you gotta have that original front end.

 

[NHarris]

It may be 'cause I'm used to the regular grille. I have never seen an X with a navajo grille on it...in person

 

[GRNMACHINE]

Subscribing!