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Well where to start. I guess i will give a little story to go with this truck. My dad bought her new and then she did everything from logging to deliveries and finally retireing as the farm truck. She was the first truck i ever drove and when i turned 15 my mom gave me the keys to her. Well that is when i started to work on her, i built my first engine for her a 355, and did the interior of her. Well i drove her for about a year and then got bored on day and me and a friend decided to tear her apart, This was the beginning of a very beautiful love/hate realtionship. for the next year and a half i restored her, and then drove the bag off her....... time for pics.:metal:
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Well after finishing her, the engine blew up on me, waterpump went and the gauge did not work, what are the chances! So she sat for 2 years until i moved and decided to build another engine, this time it was a 355 with about 350 horse. well that lasted about 6 months, no 1 intake valve decided to stay open and whack, whack it goes thru the single plane intake and finishes off with pieces btn the block and crank. (thanx to the machinist that screwed my guide up in my head) so she now sits for another 4 or so years..:smoke:
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Now it is time to get serious and get her done and running, so we haul her back home to my garage and time for the tear down, so on to a ton of pics and desciptions. That is the amount of miles i got on her before the second tear down since i was 15. not too many eh.
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Well first order of buisiness was the engine, i went with a 358 (350 punched ot .040) scat and eagle bottom, crane xe274, world products sportsman heads, speedpro hyper pistons, edelbrock waterpump and intake, scorpion roller rockers, mallory distributer, holley street avenger, arp studs throughout....... and much more
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Now tear down time!!!!!!:metal::metal::metal::metal:
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And more....
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more yet...
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WOW more yet
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Some parts i have ordered!!!
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And what i got done today, ground her down some for some epoxy.
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Nice truck hope it lasts longer this time
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Freak'n cool :metal:
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looks good!
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Nice build so far... can't wait to see more pics.
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That's a lot of money you've spent there on that table! I'm jealous cool project
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nice project! Looks like the body work is mostly good, just the fun stuff (for me anyway) doing the mechanical rebuild?
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Thanks for the replies guys, as for the bodywork she is in really good, shape, all original metal and everything, however, i will be deviating alittle bit from the original,, she is becoming a shortbox, (always was my dream), shaving a few things here and there, modifing a few things, and of course replacing the rockers, cabcorners, and front pillars, normal stuff, i will let you all in on a few things as we go, but she (Havoc) will no longer be the same truck, she is gonna have an alter ego real soon i hope, »Thanks
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looking good. I wish i had the parts stash you do! keep up the work bro!!
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Well had a little spare time last night, took 2.5 hours and went out to the garage and got this done, hope to have time tomorrow night to weld it up
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Nice parts stash and lookin good on the frame . Cool that it's still in the family .
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Very cool looks like you have most of your work planned out ...
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Well had about 1.5 hours tonite to kill so finished taking apart my frame and welding it up, Hope you do not mind Kevin (Rokcrln) but i am gonna tally my hours up for my build like you did (great idea), the first time i did it i was 16 and had about 800 hours so curious this time what i have into it, at the end i will post how much $$$$$ I have into her, thanks.
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well, have got nothing done latlely, did have a little precious one show up on sunday, my daughter Harleigh Dawn, great present for me, the proud papa, and got home today from running errands and this showed up for me, some more for the project and going to pick up my tubing and sheet metal tomorrow so i can start my frame now, yah!!!!
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Wow,very nice. Congrats on your Daughter,they are ALOT of FUN!
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good luck with your project and congrats on your Daughter.
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Well it has been an extremely busy 2 weeks since Harleigh was born, ppl coming over, later nites than usual, but i still managed to find time for my truck, i removed all of the crossmembers from the frame, what a P.I.T.A job that was, rusted everything, then i procveded to clean the frame up with a grinder and a flap disc, well, let me tell you i was not happy with the results, me just being cheap and not wanting to sandblast the frame, well a decision was made and it went out to get blasted, MUCH BETTER. once i got it home i cleaned it up some ( trimmed some more excess metal off of it ) and proceded to box it in, got a lot of welding to do now and filling in holes, got over 3/4 of it done so far, so not off to make some bracing and grinding welds down, fill you guys in some more this week on my plans.
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awsome build! congrats on a beautiful daughter!! as someone else elligantly said "little budget buster" good luck on both v/r phipp13
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i was wondering if anyone had some straight pics of the front of the frame rails, one of the left side andone of the right side any help would be appreciated, need to see how straight they are, mine are slightly bent, dad hit a bridge in 76. thanks
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well she is finally all welded up and i started grinding the welds down some, i did not box the front of the frame yet as my rails are twisted some, so when i go home for x=mas i will chop the rails odd of anoth truck of mine and splice them in so she will be square. on to some pics. plans for the weekend are finish grinding, weld all the holes in, c=notch it and start putting my crossmembers in. later
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Well, time for a little progress report, i got the frame all boxed in, and then had to use my trustee frame staiteners to put her back in place, i wondered why they put crossmembers in there, man that was alot of grinding, i hate it. anyway, once i got the frame back in position, i started to weld in my crossmembers, got a few put in, and got my bed mounts welded back on and also my brake booster assembly in place, things are slowly coming along, onto somne pics
James total hours:47 |
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And some more pics, the frame so far, the white 08 CRV is the wifes she works at honda as an accountant, got one heck of a deal on it, she likes it, the 69 camaro is a customers, it will be a total rebuild, 468 BB, th400 in it, need to make money some how to fund my lifestyl, any way on to some pics. oh and one of my daughter, if looks could kill at such an early age and she already has a womans look, lol
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awesome work, Congrats , she's a cutie.
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nice job on frame con grats on new daughter
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Well i got home tonite at 4 pm, the wife is staying at her parents farm for the rest of the week with Harleigh and my dog dakota, so that meens off to the shop for me, i went out there tonite and made some new trailing arms for my truck, i think they turned out alright, should handle the horsepower i have, the reason for the ballistic joint is i want to be able to adjust the lenght of where the differential sits, and makes it nice and easy to do an alignment to it after, also the joint is teflon lined and there will be no friction as the arms are in their travel cycle, they will twist easy, no squishing the old bushing.
anyways on to pics. i may do this as a FAQ for ppl if they want. James Total hours: 50.5 |
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What a great build. Oh and congratulations on your daughter. I have four boys in college and they are a budget killer but it's all worth it.
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what type of brake booster and pedal assembly did you use? that is exactly what i wanna do, but wasn't sure how to go about it or what to use.
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