You should move the tun signals to the ranger location and then mount fog lights in the old turn signal holes. That would complete the front IMO.

~HJ

 

Trucks looking good man. Those lights look badass in there.

 

john those lower lights are just markers, the corners blink. But I'm going to wire in the ranger ones with the corners and basically do the turn signal mod so they blink alt. when the lights are on. But yeah fogs down there is a good idea might do that too.

thanks guys! going to be a nice summer ride

 

Hotness!! It's funny how in Arizona, i WAIT till winter time to work on my vehicles because its way too damn hot in the summer to do anything. lol

 

i think the corners would look fine if you just cleaned the lenses up and made them more clear IMO

 

Hah yeah Chris I wish I had that problem. I have like 5 months that just sucks for anything you want to do without heaters or tons of clothes

that driverside is a brand new one, so thats is clear as they get. I wish they were the same kind of clear but oh well.

 

Hey Int3r, see if you can follow me...

mazda.....


rwd.....



f2t with tbird turbo




or fe3 with a 66mm on it...




You still with me???

 

Haha yeah dude. Actually there might be a sr20 in its future, Possibly even a drift Career. My buddy has been pushn me forever to,and a truck would be sick

 

little update. got some tires for the rims and got them mounted. I have to replace the driver front wheel bearing and then I will more than likely start driving it to work etc. On days when it snows alot I will still take the ranger. but come spring I will be tearing it down.

I'll get some pics up tomorrow or friday with them on the truck, If I can get home before dark. otherwise I'll have to Saturday.

picked up some 225/40/18 Toyo proxe 4's real cheap.

 

thems are gonna look sweet!!!!!

 

got them set on the truck to get a little look at the. I have to shovel it out so I can get working on it and get it driven out to the front garage. kinda crappy cell pics





tried to simulate the front up in the air but it didnt work as well as it layn on the ground.

 

Those look great on there.

 

x2

 

dude the truck look soo sick great job!

 

Was the B2200 a sister to the Ranger back then? I know they shared a engine and trans. I wasn't into pick up trucks back then. When did they( Ford/Mazda) start sharing body panels as well as platforms?

 

thanks guys! cant wait to start drivn it.

back then I believe mazda was still a seperate deal, the motor is the strait up mazda one and the ranger body is way different. And yeah heh, pretty soon she'll be old enough to drink

 

I hope the part search doesn't get you down. I got a 89 GT Mustang convertible thats getting close to done with the "had too's" now its the "maybe's" I'll deal with later.

Good Luck with her, and keep her out of the bars till she is 25...LOL

 

parts aren't too bad, there are alot of these year trucks around me actually. There are also quite a few guys from the mazdabscene.com forum in MN to talk with and share tech tips. so that makes things nice. Just have to keep myself away from wanting to throw money into bagn it now haha. I already need a c-notch with the static drop it has. Its actually resting frame in the pics in the rear with the snow in the back. without the snow its only got about an 1-1/2" travel before it hits. I have to either do a small c-notch or stick a leaf back in and/or put the 2" block back in instead of the 3"

 

lookin good
nice build so far
keep up the good work

 

Yeah, I need to keep this a nice mpg daily for a while till I can afford a new f-150 or something a little later on. Then if its still in nice shape I would like to motor swap somthing into it. either a nice v8, or a sr20 turbo motor. I would even possible like to turn it into a drift truck and go race with my buddy here and there. get some nice suspesion under it for that as well.

 

Aw man, I would die in the snow. Cool build thread, I will have to stay tuned. I like what you have done so far, looks good.

 

tell me about it man. there will be another 10"+ more snow it it by tuesday morning.started snowing again sunday night and doesnt stop till tuesday. I cant ever get it shoveled out heh

 

94 was the first year that mazda trucks were basically rebadged rangers

another interesting deal is the old ford couriers are actually rebaged mazda trucks

they have always had a deal going but 83 - 93 mazda was mazda and fords were fords.

 

i liked them old ford couriers. that looked cool to me when i was a kid.

 

yeah I like those and the old nissan/datsun 620 trucks like these. I almost impulse bought one last year before I got my mazda. it was $600 and was mint for an MN car. just needed some motor work