Jump to content
Ultimate Subaru Message Board

Home Made Roof Rack


Markus56
 Share

Recommended Posts

I am thinking hard about making a roof rack. A big one.

 

30" x 60"

 

Anyone done something similar to this?

 

I'm trying to decide what to use a slats. maybe wood?

 

I appreciate all ideas. Even the ones that say dont do it. I'll ignore those :lol:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

I'm a wood guy and I like the wood rack idea. Teak is rather expensive but the price of Jatoba fluctuates a lot. $3.30bf to $5.50 range. A little heavy but way strong. Teak is like $18bf. Clean vg cedar w/o knots Kiln dried, oiled well will have the lightness and the strength, weather ability to do what you need, it will ring if its a good un-damaged piece. All my racks have been cedar but I just scored a 5/4 rippled stick of figured jatoba for my next rack. :banana: I broke my last rack, I used home despot green undried knotty cedar mounted to the factory rails. It broke when I loaded a carpet roll on the top, I let it land too hard. It split right on a knot. I should have known. Still using it with a replacement stick.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 5 months later...

HAHA!! :headbang:

 

it's been six months but i finally have a cargo rack! :banana:

its the same size as the roof of the car so i have plenty of room for stuff like 2 full size spare tires, high jack, cooler, lawn chair, BBQ, etc...

 

 

its almost finished. i ran out of paint and daylight

 

PICT0001.JPG

 

and for when i have more money:

PICT0002.JPG

 

i put 4 light tabs across the front :cool:

 

so when i install all of them, my car will have 12 headlights :grin:

 

wal mart has some decent ones for 22 buck for 2

Edited by Markus56
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

×
×
  • Create New...