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I guess I need to send some of my trucks up to you and then maybe something would get done on them.......:). Great work.

EDIT: How good is your tuner guy with superchargers?

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ya, goahead and send me your new supercharged 68, and some new tires too, you'll need them when i get done:metal::metal:
you are talking about your 5.3 with the supercharger right?? im assumeing you are... he is great with supercharger tunes..... he did my brothers 02TA with 16PSI of boost

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The 68 S/C came with a set of fairly new drag slicks, would that work? :D Yeah, I was talking about the 5.3 with the Magnacharger. There's a guy in PCola that's supposed to be able to tune them, but I haven't talked to him yet. I'm just looking for a backup plan. I'll get your guy's info if this doesn't pan out.

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thought I would ask again ;)

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it's been posted in this thread twice maybe he'll pm you the dimensions!

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the tire sizes are
front- 255-35-20
rear- 265-35-22
no the goodyear tires were'nt the least expensive, i think the hankock tires were, the goodyears will ride better and also the thread pattern is real neat and unique.....plus the hankock tires were on backorder too:lol:

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I'm still confused why an ORANGE truck project's name got deemed "big red" :lol: lookin good tho

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cuz someone is color blind!:D:help:
some people can't spell, some people can't see colors!

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Subscribed... this is going to be one sweet project!

I might have missed it, but what color are you going with?

And not to take away from your build, but I know several board members that would love to see your '68 and maybe this truck when you're done. Consider trying to make it to the Midwest All Truck Nat's in Riverside, MO. It's the best truck show in our area, and last year they had 350+ participants.

Keep up with the progress, this thing is flying together!

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LOL :jest:

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any progress...

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cause killer is color blind and doesnt know the diffrence between red and orange:lol:
i tries atleast :ww:
let me know when and where, id like to go...
ill see what i can get up here pretty soon

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"i tries atleast :ww:"

tries??? 600$ later and a 30 year old dash we can't use! Maybe we can store it in the bed i just picked up for you!:mm::lol:

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40+ yrs old...its in good shape tho:lol::uhmk:who kneW that 1 letter in a sentence can change the entire meaning of the sentence????

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yea it's in decent shape, no worries...but that still leaves the bed to deal with....

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I'm late, but here none the less. Time to get some more education:D

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updates?

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Subscribed!

Don - Will those headers and engine mounts work for an 85 too? I would think that they would. I'll be starting my Gen III swap in my 85 in a few months. I may be calling/PM'ing you for info! :lol:

Killer was such a clean install, I'll be anxiously following this one.

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ok i finally got another camara (old one broke) so here is where im at with big red.... the firewall was rusted alot more then i thought, so i cut out a nice chunk and replaced it with new metal....also the side piece was rusted too, and'fixed' with bondo , so i cut out the bad area, and replaced it with fresh metal... when i was in there i coated everything with rust inhibitor..
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/100_2090.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9220007.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9220009.jpg

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ANother sweet build in your stables... Subscribed! :metal:

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switched from the rust repair to the suspension, i ran 3/8 hardlines from my valves to the bags...i used bulkhead fittings to go through the front crossmember, kinda under the engine perch, to connect the front bags... same with the valves, i used a 't' bulkhead fitting to connect the valves to the tank through a rear xmember... also im gonna move the location of the tank (mounted under the bed infront of the rear tire, on the ouside frame rail) im gonna move it to under the bed, where the spare tire would go, simply because it would save me time with the line to connect the tank with the valves, and also it will make it easier to maintance should something go wrong with the system....
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9240017.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9280006.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9280005.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9280004.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9280007.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9290015.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9290016.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...d/P9290014.jpg

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Nice job on the hard lines!

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looks like it came that way! Nice Work!

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Nice work, love the hardlines.

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looks good man. why are you fittings blue though? i seen this in spray bombs thread on how he did the lca's and his bolts were the same blue so im just wondering.