Thanks for asking.....here is project: Patina'd

[prostreetC-10]

The only other thing I had to do was mark the holes to be drilled in the bed with a sharpie and drill. Got some new stove bolts and after hitting them with a DA for a little bit, I bolted them in for now and moved on to the next area of the built.

[Hart_Rod]

Originally Posted by prostreetC-10

The only other thing I had to do was mark the holes to be drilled in the bed with a sharpie and drill. Got some new stove bolts and after hitting them with a DA for a little bit, I bolted them in for now and moved on to the next area of the built.

I like,

[prostreetC-10]

"The wheels on the bus go round and round...."

Tire and wheel time.
I am a Chevy rally wheel nut and nothing else would do. Actually, there are other wheels that would have looked good but you couldn't get them in custom offsets. My first set of wheels were built by Early Wheel in Southern Cal. The fronts were 15x8 with a stock 4" backspacing. They fit perfect. The backs were 15x12 with a 6.5 backspacing. front tires are 275/60/15's and the backs started out as 29x15.5x15 Mickey Thompson sportsmans. You call Early Wheel and tell them what specs you want. The centers and rims are separate and they weld them in house. I was excited to put the 15.5 up agains the 31/10.5 that was on the truck. I painted the wheels "argent silver" which is correct for the Camaro/Corvette style rally wheels.

[prostreetC-10]

As stated earlier in the build thread, once I knew I could "probably" get 18.5's under there, I began my search. Since this was a budget build, I wanted to keep everthing as cheap and used as possible. Finally, some big ole meats popped up on craigslist. I watched them or a couple of months and watched the price just keep falling. I knew there were special application and most rigs couldn't use them. I called the guy up and asked if he would take $100 for both (they still had the nubbins on them) and he said yes. They even came with M/T natural rubber racing tubes that I sold on eBay for more than I paid for everthing! When I got them home and rolled them up next to the old tires......I got a little scared about them fitting because they were so big. Time would tell.

Next thing I did was call up Early Wheel and ordered some 15x14 rallys. Believe me.....I must have measured 20 times before I called in with the backspacing. I knew there was no sending back. I ordered them with an 8.75 backspace (funny how that's the total width of man guy's rims!!) and had the tires mounted. After re-adjusting my panhard bar to make sure the rear end was perfectly centered, I lowered down the truck to realized that I had a perfect fit. Even had a little room for bed flex.

Note in the last pic I used just a couple of steel plates to get the rake just right. The last plate is an aluminum pinion wedge. I really think these are a good idea if you are really lowering your truck so you can bring your pinion angle back!!

[67shortie]

Dayum, that's alot of tire back there

Sweet ride, love it

[northern 85]

She is a baaad mamajama!!

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by prostreetC-10

Next thing I did was call up Early Wheel and ordered some 15x14 rallys. Believe me.....I must have measured 20 times before I called in with the backspacing. I knew there was no sending back. I ordered them with an 8.75 backspace (funny how that's the total width of man guy's rims!!) and had the tires mounted. After re-adjusting my panhard bar to make sure the rear end was perfectly centered, I lowered down the truck to realized that I had a perfect fit. Even had a little room for bed flex.

I did 9.75" BS on mine but my truck was alot lower (I needed them tucked more for outside clearance). Looks cool when you see it from behind don't it?!