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Re: so lets build a truck/my '52 chevy

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Originally Posted by cajundragger (Post 2852674)

I dunno how a/c will fit, its going to be tight for sure.

maybe you can get a universal one for hot rods they are small. you will need air down here if you plan on driving it much.

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I really dont use the air in any of my dads cars when I cruise them. thats why i chose no air. I will probably add air later on though, no heater or defrost, just air.

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you mentioned that you put dodge brakes on the 12 bolt, what dodge has the correct bolt pattern. like the under dash brake setup and impala wheel. reall great looking project and keep the pic's coming.

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Originally Posted by 55dude (Post 2862760)

I have moser axles that go to 5 on 5.5

so everyone run out to your nearest news stand and pickup the copy of superchevy with the baddd nova on the cover. Our wagon got a 4 page spread and this truck got a sentence in there, LOL.

but as some of you know we have a hurricane coming so we'll see what happens.

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Great job! You're making miss my 48...........

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well my truck survived the storm. But because of the storm my wiring harness and everything to do my trans is not going to come in for a while. boo

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Originally Posted by cajundragger (Post 2852674)

Yup, small consol. I need one anyways for the shifter.

I dunno how a/c will fit, its going to be tight for sure.

Vintage Air has one that will fit, but you may have to make a very short glove box.
I don't know if you can see this one but it is in a Speed 33 and has a brake/M/C AND A/C under the passenger side.

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I should have an update wednesday. Im at school(LSU) right now but I go home for thanksgiving. Im planning to rip apart my t-56, cut it up, and when reassembled the shifter will be about 10" forward of where it is now.

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ok, this is freaky. you built the almost the exact truck i have been thinking up for my 49 forever. same color and everything. dont know what ls series motor that is, but i was gunna use an ls7, and same 6-speed tranny, bags and everything. weird....
love it though! looks awesome. u do really nice professional work.

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but ive since decided to keep my rust, so you dont have to worry bout havin a clone lol.

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lol, yeah weird.

Im currently waist deep in modding my t56 for center shift and it sucks. Very bad.

And that is just a regular ls1, for now. But I thinking ~1.5 liters more displacement and twin hairdryers would make it move nicely. Not sure how crazy I want to go yet. either way for now its just an ls1, and I have a wild cam to put it in.

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WOW, that is some nice work you have goin on there, talk about having to run some lines that is do darn tedious, great job

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very nice build you have there, nice and clean and i will agree with you on the color choice, it can be heck to spray, but a beautiful color, hardlines are ran real nice.

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looks good, I like the hard lines, Spal makes good stuff, I have their dual fans on my vette but they had troubles with the electronic controller. it had a high failure rate. they even quit selling it at one time. they were having it made by someone else. mine use a simple temp probe and a relay to turn them on like this

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/SPAL-F...NSOR,5350.html

if they are selling them again they might have the problem fixed. just wanted to give you a heads up.

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well I picked mine up something like a year ago. We'll see...

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took the water pump off and popped the fittings out...

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j5...r/IMG_2297.jpg

then tapped them for pipe thread so they can be plugged...

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j5...r/IMG_2298.jpg

that stuff and a few other things were all for today. Tomorrow the wiring that controls the engine will be finished. Which means Im waiting on a bunch of fittings that I ordered tonight and to tune my computer and she should run.

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making progress, looks good. where did you get your motor mounts?

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they are stock vette mount uppers with like a universal rubber biscuits and lower mount to the frame.