Although I am selling my gray trooper, (priced at 1500$ currently, that's around the lowest I'm going) I want to finish my design of a 1st gen trooper cargo system for the rear. I'm looking for some schematics/diagrams that I can use with this.

It originally started with me wanting a way to transport several dozen airsoft weapons at once, with a secure system that opened up on the guns sorted and arranged, but it could apply to almost any type of gear, from fishing to hunting to djing.

Any suggestions on where to look for schematics? When I have it drawn out, I'll run it past an engineer pal or two to make sure it's doable, then post plans.

I love designing :)I just built a cargo/storage/dog area/sleeping area last week. It's made from 10" cedar boards for the supports and 1/2" plywood for the top. It is 4' long and 4'3" wide (coulda been another 1/2 or 3/4" to fit snugly). Just in front of that I made a speaker box that adds on another 11" of length to the deck area. All this (on top) is covered in "scrap" from Lowe's hardware ($25 for 5x24')This pretty well takes up most of the rear area...oh, and I took out the rear seats too to accomodate this cargo system...This kind of system allows stuff to be placed in containers underneath for easy access...as for airsoft guns and all that comes with them, I'd make something that looks like a mini-Tonneau cover with hydralic lifts or something. I'm in Search and Rescue and this area is for my K9 and I during searches or for transporting stuff and people.Also last week I Herculined the lower body panels and wired in Hella lamps for the front bumper. (pics to follow soon)Good luck on the project! It was 100 degrees during most of my work...hope your's is cooler!Dana

That's a little design I cooked up with the help of an earlier post NotSoSimple made with pics of their stock trooper.
I didn't use solid diagrams, so you will notice some variance in the dimensions regarding the wheelwells. They may be completely incorrect but the overall layout is sound.

Please excuse the cruddyness. I am not an engineer (although I would like to be) and I am not familiar with the "right" way to do schematics. Never really learned how.

1 and 2 are the points where the cross sections are. The rest should be intuitive.

In this case I'm assuming the storage unit is used with the seat folded up- it could be sized to work with the seat down, eliminating the C areas (and the question of how to reach them). Also, I am not occupying space directly up to the doors- I'm leaving 3-4" of dead space before the doors, just because it seems like a good idea. You can sort of see this in the picture I pasted in with lines drawn on it.

A is a sliding drawer. This is the best solution for the space up to the tops of the wheel wells. It pulls out the back on supporting steel rails. I've seen similar truck drawer designs, that was my inspiration here. Since the wheelwells create pockets, the areas D1 and D2 can be lockboxes. A could also be two drawers, with one 2/3 the width of A, the other 1/3 the width of A. This would let you pull out one of the drawers with just the one trooper door open.

B, I do not know what to do with. For the area above the drawers and boxes, it could be anything. I would like something that folds from horizontal to vertical in two sections divided down the middle (length of vehicle) like clamshell doors. You could really do anything with this part, maybe more sliding / opening sections.

C is the problematic area. Again, if this were made for use with the rear seat in use, C is not a factor. If A extends all the way as far as it can (for an extra long pull out drawer, the end of the drawer would have a little drop down leg that would support the weight outside the vehicle), then you have the two little spaces C1 and C2, similar to D1 and D2, but not as easy to reach. Maybe a pair of subwoofers could go there.

D1 and D2 as lockboxes would be the perfect size for handguns, cd players, cameras, etc.

If A stops at the end of the wheelwells, then C is a single section. It would be kind of hard to get into, though. If B stopped where A stops (in the same sense) then C could go up into the same area where B was (am I making sense) and just be a sort of bin to dump stuff in from the front seats.

That's all for now.