If you are builder like me there is nothing better than throwing over sized items on your roof. Something just feels so right about it. My stock roof rack was not cutting it and after an incident with wood falling off the top of my car it was time for an upgrade.
After searching the internet and concluded, I would have to spend close to $1000 for an ungraded rack that would do what I wanted. It would need to cover the entirety of my roof and be strong enough to hold a a few hundred pounds of wood. It was time to build a new rack.
I needed it to be strong and light weight. I will use my rack mainly to haul 8x4’ sheets of plywood wood and lumber. After a bit of brain storming and a trip to the hardware store I figured it out. I picked up some angle iron, Uni-strut, and some miscellaneous hardware and I was on my way! I would like to dedicate this build to my $12.99 Harbor Freight angle grinder.
You can see the brackets I made. It composed of a L channel and U channel cut to fit into the stock roof rack mounting holes.
The main frame was bolted on and test fitted.
Was getting a bit dark but you can see the cross bars in place.
Finished it up with a coat of black paint. I added a fairing to cut down wind noise and look cool of course. The fairing was made from a sheet of expanded black PVC from Tap plastics cut to fit the curve of my roof line.