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Originally Posted by regan wilson
This is one of the Coolest builds on this site. i love it.
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Thanks! It's coming along Hopefully next week I will be able to start it for the first time. I have a video of the the engine running in the donor truck, but I have not had it running myself yet. It will be a NA start as I don't have a intercooler or piping yet and no down pipe.
I wirewheeled the exhaust manifold and painted it. I'm still waiting on extended studs as I am going to have to run a 1/2 spacer for the turbo to clear the manifold. I tried chearincing the manifold with the grinder but the manifold was really thin there. It was mabe 1/8 thick so I had to reweld it with stainless wire to fill it back in hopefully it does not crack.
IMAG2862 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
IMAG2869 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
I got the front shocks in they are just KYB replacements.
IMAG2868 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
Since I am waiting on amazon
I decided to paint the hood I plan on getting a new hood at some point. But for now I'm going to use the old one. I really wanted to keep the patina on the hood but I don't want a white hood on the truck. I have been thinking about doing this for awhile now I did not know how it would turn out But I think it turned out great. I took a paint brush and a old bucket of grease and used the paint brush to paint on grease where I wanted to keep the original patina. Then I painted the whole hood green then pressure washed off all the grease that was covering the original patina. I think it came out great.
Befor
IMAG2863 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
IMAG2864 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
IMAG2865 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
IMAG2866 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
After, the pressure washer added a little more patina as some of the paint chipped off but it still has its original 50 years of patina
IMAG2872 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
IMAG2873 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
IMAG2874 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr
I also added some fake patina to the fenders
IMAG2867 by
jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr