Re: 1976 Square "Simple Green"
 

Here's a video of Simple Green at KP Racing Dyno night/Photo shoot. Enjoy and make sure to watch it in HD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3c-W...ature=youtu.be

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What cars? Looks like a good Texas Git-Down! You keep runnin' aorund with them cats, that trucks gonna have a turbo'd LS in it, sure as hell!

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Simple Green might be for sale! Decisions Decisions.

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What are you trading up to?

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New Wheels for Simple Green. 22 inch Intro Rally

http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps5c043171.jpg
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Dang-stick it in and twist it, why dontcha? Like it wasn't fine enough before! Nice! What the specs on the wheels? I like the way it fills the fenders out.

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I like the new wheels much better, great choice!

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Lol low elco. The fronts are 22x8.5 with 265/30 and 5.5 BS. The rears are 22x10 with 285/30 and 4.5 BS. The rears are a perfect tight fit with .5 inch gap on both sides. This gives you the maximum amount of lip without cutting the rear end. There is more room on this 76 than I expected. My 84 could only fit a 5 BS in the rear. ;)

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Definitely a different look but I think unlike the billets better

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Did you have to remove or modify the inner fenders when you went to the 22 inch Intro Rally Wheels?

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Love the new wheels and your truck!

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I didnt have the inner fenders in with the 22's it would rub on hard bumps. 20's were ok with them in.

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Well I figure I will take this thread over. I bought this truck off of Robert a year ago this week actually this Saturday will be a year that I have owned my truck now. What a year it has been. First I want to thank Robert for parting with the truck. I had to twist his arm to get it. But I got it. The truck now after what seems like a small fortune has all new drive train and all new suspension "3 new suspensions" and god knows what else I have thrown into. I will get into more detail on all of that later on. Out of all the trucks I have owned over the years this is my fav.
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I put the inner fenders back in has the same drop as before but the front end is completely brand new now. No rubs no scrubs.

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DETAILS! Some of us are deeply in love with this truck, and have to know more! Glad it went to a good home.

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Can you tell us what the steering wheel is out of?

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I will have to verify with Robert cause it was on it when I got the truck but looks like the one LMC has for sale. And man it looks killer in the truck. Looks better in person than in the pic. And after you have your hands on it it wears in nicely looks like it came with the truck. Hell, my neighbor God love him thought it was the original lol.

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I got a lot of details. It did got to a great home if I must say so myself and I love my truck also. Well when I got the truck most people would have just left it alone but not me. The truck had new drop spindles coils shocks and rear flip as Robert has posted. But the control arm bushing had taken a lick over the years. So the first thing I did instead of replacing them bought the DJM DROP ARMS. Big mistake I later found out. So to achieve the same lowering setting I got the drop arm which are 3" and a 2" drop coil. All new DJM shocks cause I like stuff to match. So got those install and it bottomed out the bump stop. Call like at DJM and after listening to him cuss and had no idea why it did that I said well I will drive it a week and send pics and see if your engineers can figure it out. And yes I had stock height western chassis spindles like I was suppose to. Well it sure didn't make it a week the bolt that held the shocks to the lower arm snapped in half. So needless to say I got my money back. I am not saying DJM is no good and I am sure many have that setup but it didn't work for me. Plus I didn't like the hammer tone look.

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If it flips the pic idk why. I am posting from my phone.

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I also at the time of doing the first drop replaced the gas tank and the filler neck. The neck had a hold picked in it and was nasty after all these years.

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So like I posted up above the DJM control arms didn't work out. So I ordered up the CPP upper and lower arms. Now these babies are nice. And I didn't have any issues as I have seen some other members post about. They are really nice upgrade. I would post a pic but until I figure out how to stop having my pics flipped around from my phone. And I had to order another lowering kit for it cause I sold the one that was on the truck. This time I bought a complete Belltech kit but purchased the 2" drop coils they have to keep the same amount of drop spindles coils flip and street performance shocks. I got to figure out or to get my pics to show up correctly.

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CPP control arms and CPP sway bar

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Other side lol.

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Nice!

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Old motor and old headers I put on. This old motor is the reason for the 3rd lowering kit I have now sitting in the garage that I'm putting on. I will get into that soon. At this time I didn't have the inner fenders in but I do now.

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Thanks man I really like them. They look good plus are a suspension enhancement.

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Little LED headlight upgrade. I can see now lol. I should have done this with my other squares I owned in the past. I will put these up against any HID headlights. Plus they are a plug and play. No running wires or running relays. I forgot also the clear running/turn signals upfront.

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Clear side markers also

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The 12 bolt case was still good to go but the internals had to go. Nothing was wrong with them but doing a one wheel burnout is not cool lol. Truck originally had a open diff 3.08. Not anymore I put a Detroit Tru Track limit slip in it with a motive 3.73 gear.

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3.73. No noise. Really nice setup.

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Now about the old motor. Well I got the truck to drive show it off and run around with the fam. My lil boy loves the truck but wants it to be red lol. That won't happen. So when I got the truck it had 95k on it. I drove it changed the oil every 500 miles cause under the valve covers didn't look that great some oil sludge buildup. Well one day at linch I dove it out to get a burger and while sitting in line I heard the motor go knock knock. Trust me I didn't want to answer. So at the 105,578 mark the motor let go. It was a sad day that day but everything happens for a reason. And to be honest this sounds bad I am sure glad it did. Cause that motivated me to get a motor with over 550hp. 565 to be exact on the Dyno. My new race motor hahaha. Is balanced and blueprinted 385 stroker. I wanted to be diff so I didn't get a 383 like most. So with all the lighter parts of the motor it raised the front end up a .5" so that is why I got another lowering kit. Got the CPP new style drop spindles 2.5" and the CPP 3" lowering coils CPP flip kit. And front and rear Doetsch Schocks. So now I have a Belltech losing kit going to be taking space in the garage.
Here is my new motor I will post up a few pics.

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AFR 210 heads!! Motor is forged top to bottom. I did not spare anything on this motor. And that lower rad hose now is SS braid I didnt have it on in this pic.

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Headman long tubes 1 3/4. I changed the valve covers to the fancy ones profound makes.

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I think it looks great in the truck. Draws people in at the shows.

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Polished out 3 core champion rad with dual fans. Used the painless kit for this that is dual activated. Easy to wire up.

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Running a 3" x pipe from collectors back with 3" Borla muffler. It sounds damn good!!!

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Here is the Dyno video of motor they did several pulls and the max hp was 565 with 535 trq. I got the Dyno sheets in the folder. I don't know if this will work cause I'm not doing that good of a job posting pics. Now in the video you will notice timing cover and oil pan a different color. Well I told them everything to be chrome or polished they must have forgot. But they took care of it for me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcNkw...ature=youtu.be

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HOT DAMN! Congrats! Bet you're workin' that new posi now!

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this thing is awesome, going to keep tabs on this build

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Lol! You know it man. Runs great especially with my 3000-3500 stall convertor and new tranny. Truck stay right at the power band. Hot and go and so do the tires lol. And these Yoko 22" tires are not cheap.