Honda Acty Affordable Upgrades - Minitruck Kei 

Arbitrary 3D printed red cylinder was my fav mod

This is the Future!!! I Love it!!!

Wow Great detailed video, Thank you so much

Nice upgrades.

Very interested in a set of seat covers.

So helpful! Thank you!

I love these affordable upgrades for your mini truck videos. Thanks! I painted the exterior of my 1996 4WD Hijet with Medium Quartz Gray Monstaliner polyurethane bed liner and it looks a lot like your Suzuki Carry. I still need to paint the interior but that will need to wait for spring and warmer weather. I could have polished my white truck as you did (which looks very good) but I was going for the durable off road look and function. I preferred the roll on bed liner in the bed instead of a heavy bed mat, and I bought two large 20 mm ammo cans that bolt to the headache rack as toolboxes. The bottom of the toolboxes are slightly above the sides of the bed so I retained the full length of the bed for carrying stuff like plywood, and there is a one foot gap between the toolboxes in case I need to carry a bike or motorcycle with the front wheel against the cab. I'm not going for nice looking wheels, again, opting for the rugged and practical. I bought Yokohama Geolander mud and snow tires that I'll mount on the stock steel rims, as soon as I sand blast them (I got a pressure washer accessory that injects sand into the 2000 PSI water) and then powder coat them (still need to build a larger powder coat oven for doing the rims). Many people lift these little trucks (I'll eventually do a 2" lift) and then install larger tires mostly because they look better, but I'd only do that for an off road truck. Larger diameter wheels increase the effective gearing ratio, resulting in a top gear that's too high to allow the engine to rev out enough to produce the power needed for highway use. 7:20 - I'm all about saving money, but buying tools on Amazon, using them, and then returning them is TOO cheap. Please don't do that. People selling inexpensive tools on Amazon are not in business to provide free tool rental, and none of us want to pay new prices to buy the used tools that you returned. I also replaced all of the lights with LEDs. Most of that was easy but the LED turn signals caused hyper flashing which I fixed with an electronic flasher. I could have used bulbs with ballast resistors but that would use more power to simulate incandescent bulbs. The Hijet uses a switched ground electrical system which was a problem for the headlights that is solved by a relay wiring harness to convert it to a switched +12V system. I used CAD to create a cup holder that's custom designed for the Hijet and I 3D printed it. I also designed and 3D printed door lock pulls, rubbery bed rail end caps, a dash mounted phone holder, and some magnetically attached storage boxes for nylon cam straps that mount behind the seats. I thought about sanding and painting the steel gear shift rod but I 3D printed a black TPU sleeve for it instead. 🙂 I like the inexpensive single DIN Bluetooth stereo. I'm not an audiophile, but I bought an ATOTO double DIN stereo and four speakers that I'll mount in the corners of the roof. The more expensive stereo gets me a rear backup camera, front facing digital video recorder and offline (no internet needed) GPS navigation using the OSMand Android app. Those seat covers look great. I thought about buying some high quality Japanese seat covers but bought gray polyurethane faux leather fabric to reupholster the seats. I'll also install seat heaters. My Hijet cost $265 but I paid $1935 to ship it, and I needed to install a new clutch. All in, I currently have $7,547.59 in the $265 Hijet, which sounds nuts, but I love this little truck,. It's very practical, and I couldn't get a US truck that's as capable for less money. I'm not aware of any US 4WD truck (body on frame and not a unibody car that looks like a truck) with a full size bed that gets 31 MPG. It's a crime that protectionist regulations prevent us from importing safer, less polluting and more fuel efficient late model kei trucks.

those seat covers fit so well, i was gonna replace the front seats cuz theres a massive cut in the drivers seat but these might work an look soo cleann

Nice truck man

Interested in a set of seat covers, do you still have them for sale? I have a 1997 Honda Acty. Thanks Robert

Great video, lots of info I’m also looking for a link for the seat covers. Thanks

Great video!! I need to switch to LEDs now per your recommendation! My lights are so dim at night! Probably the next worthwhile upgrade I should do. That along with shift bushing and wheel bushing. If only I had more time to work on my truck…

Love the wheels on this cool truck! I'm surprised you didn't go with a more aggressive tread?? You're not a small guy either! How tall are you? I've been looking at buying one of these, but I'm 6'2!! Also, thanks for this video! I'm a new subscriber!!

So simple, so durable, so practical. .........

Hey I like your wheel set up. I just recently bought a Subaru Sambar and I wanted to know if I can run a 15x8 20 offset?

Hi Dreux,how hard was replacing the timing belt and water pump, did you have to drop engine mount? Thanks for your video

Very helpful.. you did not mention anything about the front struts to go with that summit coils?

Picking up my kei truck this weekend in CT. Looking forward to a few minor updates. Think those seat covers would fit on a U42T?

I just bought the steering wheel and hub adapter. Is the size designation I want called OH-08 ? Because I don’t see one that says civic/prelude like the description..mine just says prelude OH-08

Do you still have the extra set of seat covers?

Do you have a link for the bulbs and seat covers, I can’t find either of them

I purchased cup holders but returned them once I finished my coffee.

Great video, would you be against sharing the step file you made for the flare and center caps?

I have a 96 acty I didn't know the seat cover look OEM I'm interested in the seat covers hit me up

Got those extra seat covers by chance?

Hey do you have a link for those California mirrors they look awesome! Thanks

Any links for seat covers?

Great video! Can you tell me how tall you are? I've driven a suzuki and it was not comfortable at all. I've been told Mitsubishi's are more roomer and Subaru, Honda I'm not sure about.

Are you running the stock struts, or did you replace them? If not stock, who/where did you go for replacements? I have the same size wheel and tire combo as you on my 97 Acty, and I'm on stock struts/springs. I'm getting some rubbing, but I dont want to go with a lift kit.

What part of CT?

How much for the seat covers ?? 😊

Cool video too bad these aren’t legal in my state

can you please link the paint you used for the interior?

So you didn't need to replace the shocks, just the springs? Had they been replaced previously?

Can you link the steering wheels adapter? Thanks

hey man, im actually buying a 1999 honda acty with 66k kilometers for 9k canadian, would you say thats alot of kilometers?

Love the ride! Does anyone know the laws for this in NYC?

Please tell me the wheel and tire specs? Wheel width/ offset and tire size

What type LED bulbs did you get off amazon?

Isnt there an engine upgrade for these

Are these street legal?

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Considering that I can replace multiple commercial drives from $1500, thats ridiculously overpriced.