Thread: 1972 Blazer SS
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Old 11-06-2017, 01:34 PM   #1
Ta12sec
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1972 Blazer SS

About 4 years ago I bought a 72 k5 that needed more work then the ad said it would...
While I pondered what I was going to to with it I drove it around. It was fun but the brakes felt wimpy and the suspension felt bouncy, the engine ran ok but felt like it needed some power and 70 mph felt sketchy.
Now mind you I'm not being fair judging my 1972 truck as if it were a hot rod, but I wanted a fun drive anywhere car.
I started looking at suspension kits, brembo brakes and ls1 swaps.
This is where I should have stopped, but I didn't.
What I did instead was buy a wrecked 2006 trailblazer ss and swap the k5 tub onto the tbss chassis. This got me a boxed frame, awd , modern suspension, big brakes, and the ls power I wanted. Used the tbss seats, cluster and all the wiring. The abs and tcs work, the lights the cluster. It runs and drives and is pretty much awesome...
As the story goes just got divorced, lost the house and now it's sitting in my apartment parking lot and I can't do any more work on it.
Posting this hoping for some moral support..
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