got some done this christmas break, i go back to school tomorrow, and start baseball soon so i will have less time to work on my truck
we did get the new motor mounts made though, the cab is done getting sandblasted. started patching the cabs rough spots.
can't beleive i forgot to mention it but an old friend of my father's gave me a short stepside bed that's in very good shape. will probably go with the stepside bed becasue my fleetside bed needs a lot of work or a new bed. either way more work/money. so the step side bed is probably going on. something a little different. there are a lot of trucks with similar rims, stance as mine have already been done, but i haven't seen any with a stepside bed, all fleetside. have to raise the floor on the step side bed, which is easy. can't decide if i want to do a corregated bed floor with bedliner or a wood bed floor with a rug over it for daily use and yank it out to see the wood at shows. anyone have any good ideas for taillights? i hate the factory style taillights on stepsides. will shave the spare tire cut out, the stake pockets, and bedrail endcaps.
i decided i wanted to run a floor shifter, then discovered a beautiful thing called a ratchet shifter. i like the fact that it has reverse lock out, and i can manually shift it at the autocross or whenever i wanna have fun knowing that i wont miss a gear. but i still have the ability to put it on the "d" around town or whatever. i have a transgo hd2 shift kit which allows me to hold it in gear, and downshift whenever i want to whenever it's not in drive, but when it is still acts normal. so i bought a used B&M quicksilver console mounted ratchet shifter. i will build a console for it infront of the middle seat. was originally going to use a floor mounted shifter but it woul.d stand to tall in the truck, so i got the console mounted one which is shallower. will paint the ugly chrome parts gloss black and get somekind of new shifter knob. here a link to the exact one i bought
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/bmm-80688
have a circle d 278mm 3200 stall converter and 36# injectors on the way, and a trailblazer ss intake manifold and vette servo. and plan on ordering custom ground cam, valve springs, and pushrods later. cam will be a 222/226 at .50" and .566"/.570" on a 110+4 LSA with most likely PAC1218 valvesprings or LS9 valvesprings. looking to make 340+rwhp/340+rwtq and run low 13s.
i will probably run this steering column/wheel but with a manual column cuz i have a floor shifter
http://www.ebay.com/itm/32-GM-Auto-C...f9d91e&vxp=mtr
and possibly this tank
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Polished-Alu...item19d7ef0d32
this x pipe kit, and one of these few mufflers. maybe electric cut outs later
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/pye-xvx10
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/wlk-24236/overview/
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/mpe-11236/overview/
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/mpe-10416/overview/
i had bought a finned dual pass tranny cooler but idk if it's enough so i think i am going with this one, which is what everyone at performancetrucks.net and gmfullsize.com are using. these 4l60e and 4l80es really like big colers and last a lotttt longer the cooler they stay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TRANSMISSION...99addb&vxp=mtr
want to paint my rear end, driveshaft, tranny, and block body color red. just to be different
anyone have any good shock recomendations?
sorry for the long winded post without pics, but don't really have anything to show besides the bed and motor mounts, will get pics soon. probably left stuff out so if somethings missing ask me
