FAST Fabrication 94 b4000 turn into SNORE class 7 race truck build thread

This is our first full truck build, my brother has a 2001 HnM prerunner we have done bumpers, bed cage, and glass install on it and will be doing a cab cage and link in the future. We do trailer work, upholstery, and all kinds of metal fab work and we are located in Bullhead City, AZ next to Laughlin we also make parts like jack skids for any jack (mine happens to be for a harbor freight aluminum jack), spare spinner kits, light bars, etc.

So it started out as a extended cab 1994 Mazda B4000, for years I had 33s and a front clip and 6" bedsides on it with no suspension because the front was in an accident. Two months before the full build I had installed an extended beam kit with coil buckets, an 8.8 rear-end (now in brothers truck) and made the front clip tilt.

Then we gutted the entire truck all for sale, I have so much for sale from electrical stuff, to panels, to gas tank, etc.

Cut the back of the Cab off and here is/was the plans:

-2" d.o.m. main cab cage with 1 3/4 d.o.m. support tubes and throughout back half and engine cage
-Equal length front d44 boxed beam kit with crossover steering strapped at 20"
-GMR boxed race links, with GMR fully trussed 3.5" housing
-Scheiner Enterprises 2.5" full floater hubs, Wilwood 4 piston calipers and rotors
-35 spline 4340 Superior axles, strange light weight spool, 5:43 ring and pinion, billet nascar pinion support, 1350 yoke, Currie 9 plus race nodular
-All four corners have 2.0 by 4" bumps, 2.5" dual rate coilovers, and 2.5" triple bypasses, 2 quad limit straps with clevis
-Jaz 32 gallon jeepspeed fuel cell
-Built a Wishbone for 3-link
-Grade 8 hardware through out with Fk heims and spacers
-10" flat top bedsides 2005 and newer ranger front clip
- 2 suspension seats with 3" 5 point harness
-Built Custom steering column with quick disconnect
-Built removable spare tire setup
-4 led light box
-5 kmc enduro bead locks on 35" wheels 5x5.5
-battery box in rear with dual yellow tops
-and much more

I like to give a special thanks to our current sponsors, their product has been amazing and their help has been superb. We can get you any of their products as well.

FK Bearing (fkrodends.com): supplied us with all of our heims the JMX series, high mis-align spacers, uniballs and cups, bungs, and jam nuts

G Machine Racing (thegmr.com): Owner Jason Heard has been so helpful in setting up his 3 link boxed links as well as making us a second housing for the bigger hubs

Sway-A-Way (swayaway.com) supplied all our shocks 4- 2.0 by 4" bumps, 2-2.5 by 14" coilovers, 2-2.5 by 16" coilovers, 2-2.5 by 16" triple bypasses, and 2-2.5by 18" triple bypasses

Glassworks Unlimited (glassworksunlimited.com) supplied their new 2005 ultimate 85" wide ranger clip and their big boy 10" flat top bedsides

Vision X Off-road (visionoffroad.com) will be supplying 5 of their H.I.D.s and 3 of their big Halogens

Suspension Spring Specialists (bluecoilspring.com) supplied their Blue Coil springs powder coated black giving the truck a perfect stance at ride height

PRP Seats (prpseats.com) supplied two of their completion seats, 2 of their 3" 5 point harnesses, 4 coilover covers, and two custom window nets

Optima Batteries supplied the two yellow top batteries

Plus of course F.A.S.T. Industries with the divisions of FAST Fabrication, TEAM FAST Racing, and soon FAST Apparel and FAST Media & Web Development
How it looked before we gutted it to build a race truck




After I primer cab and did extended beam kit, 8.8 rear end, and flip hood mount

Some custom seats I had made along time ago by twisted stitch had to sell, but my sponsor seats by PRP have same colors


Thank You FK Bearing for your Support


Thank You GMR for your support and sweet housing and links
Old housing


New housing



Trailing arms


Thank You Glassworks for Your Support



Old 6” bedsides on brothers 2001 a arm ranger


Thank You Optima Batteries for your Support


Thank You Sway A Way for your support

My current front suspension and crossover steering






My fuel cell 32 gallon jaz fuel cell jeepspeed style, hard to fit in ranger


My sway bar had to get longer bar installing it this weekend

Took out my new energy suspension body mounts for some solid ones

My battery box, very cool

My light box

Ok now on to the install of all these goodies and the FAST Fabrication build of the class 7 Mazda converted to Ranger race truck
Went in like this

Add 400 ft of metal


Cut back off first

Started with a 2” dom main cab cage and 1 ¾ supports welded to the frame







Cut roof to fully weld tube


Went through back and made first part of frame to where housing would hit metal, with 2” and 1 3.4
(old housing in pic)



Started on engine cage and front suspension install





Bottom coil was to long had to get shorter length


Front will be getting custom uniball spindles and full floating 2.25 hubs by the end of build
Built the wishbone for the 3 link

Mounted fuel cell and got it into a roller, this is how it look when I took it from shop in CA (Jan 2010) to my shop in AZ (April 2010)





Roller, with new correct bottom coils








Old housing with my 2.25 hubs, hubs going to go on front of truck now, rear now has 2.5”… and KMC endure beadlocks

Cab Cage Painted



Installed new GMR housing with 2.5 hubs



Mounting Seats & Sliders, not the seats I am using







Mounted lightbox

Made and welded frame gussets and wishbone gussets





Welding Filler & Drain Bungs onto new housing along with brake calipers and setting up hubs and rotors






Fabricated fuel cell straps



Mounted battery box





Fuel Filler neck mount, going to drop it lower



Mounting Hood & Grill








Mounting Bedsides







Glass all mounted May 2010

Fabricating rear bumper







Fabricating Spare tire mount (removable to get to fuel cell)

Removed the rear suspension, painted it all got hubs sealed and reinstalled and made bump can mounts










Re-installed almost to metal touches battery box, but it will be bump a cpl inches lower anyways

mounted bump cans


got third member and axles and calipers all mounted

Cpl different colors I have played with

wow. awesome build! can't wait to see some video's of this tearing up the track

spdcrazy said:

wow. awesome build! can't wait to see some video's of this tearing up the track

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hoping to have those videos in Fall, check it out if you attend the offroad expo in pomona this year

I would go but i will be in korea, bummer, and it looks sweet i like the stuffage on the rear tires haha. and what engine are you goin with a v8 or 4.0

a newer 4.0.... was going to put a v8 in it but i want to race in the competitive classes like class 7

That is an awsome truck and I prefer the bottom pic for the color of it