Roof Rack Decisions

Not yet. I have photos though and will probably finally get around to my build thread when I add the suspension this summer.

The rack is very similar to a design I found by Superfast Matt on YouTube. I just modified it to make more sense for me. My wife is in the process of painting windscreen v2.0.

 

The Nfab rack. It uses your stock rails as a frame.

 

...it obviously is

 

I have a question... it might be silly but I am new to thinking about roof racks and to me in my research they all seem about the same with some small differences. My question is this.. Are the attachments inter changeable? It seems they all have that slot cross bars.. or am I way off on this and you can only stick with what ever roof rack company has for attachments? Can I put frontrunner items on a westcott rack? or any other rack? Hope that made sense??

 

I think it depends on which rack and if other brands attachments are interchangeable. Racks with mesh floors I think would be interchangeable assuming clearance between roof is adequate across brands. Creating your own brackets custom is also as option. Broadly I don't think you can assume any bracket will fit all racks.

 

I wondered this as well, so reached out to 3 of the major companies. Two claim that the attachments may be interchangeable, but can't verify that. Frontrunner plainly said that theirs will not fit any other rack.

 

i think the crossbars if they are the 80/20 kind all take the same tnuts. when i mounted my case i just used 4 tnuts, 1.5 in setting screws a washer then a wing nut on top. drilled holes in the case but i got them for 129 each at harbor freight.

 

Ok thats cool.. good to know