Wow, let me chime in to say awesome truck and great progress!! Those pictures remind me of the 454 I am building for my blazer right now. Please continue to keep us updated. I read through the entire post and just wanted to reinforce the sand blasting issue that was brought up and not completely discussed. I know you are doing the mechanical right now which is great, but please do not touch any sheet metal with a conventional sand blaster
Take sheet metal to a professional to be stripped with a soda blaster or other material that is comparable. A regular sand blaster will work great on the frame and heavier metal, but it will completely destroy (warp) your thin and very nice sheet metal. I learned a very hard lesson with this, lets just say there would be one more very nice 69 front clip in this world if I had never purchased a conventional blaster
. Lesson learned... hard way, sorry for the long post but really wanted to save you a headache......
Keep up the AWESOME work!!!!
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67 short wide 355ci 3 on tree
69 short wide 250ci 3 on tree
68 long wide 283 3 on tree
72 2wd Blazer project 454 5 speed
