Thread: take forever

before pics....

4 years later....

looks and sounds good! got more pics?

ya i have tons of progress pics, anything specific you want to see?

'bout time! ryan was telling me the other day hes been seeing you around more lately..

Originally Posted by masta-t

ya i have tons of progress pics, anything specific you want to see?

everythinG, post em up. truck looks killer.

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damn,thats a pretty badass buildup,looks great

............camera got busted after these pics so there's a gap in progress. will upload more later.

Thats some bad ass work right there i like how clean ur sheet metal looks gj

wow inside the cab looks crazy!

i skipped a bunch of progress pics, but here's a shot from the first test session this past weekend and some video. Video is one of the first runs and raw so isn't terribly exciting. Giants 64" kit handles extremely well along with all the other Giant stuff on there.

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Awesome truck man.

Bad ass truck dude! I'm partial to single cab rangers and yours is one of my favorites.

Also, too bad you have that V8, your truck looks like it would KILL in that new 1500 class.

Mike

so what the eh? I saw you guys out at Plaster this weekend and then you left (over by the dumpster right off the road)..move to a different spot or head home?

Originally Posted by PreKota

so what the eh? I saw you guys out at Plaster this weekend and then you left (over by the dumpster right off the road)..move to a different spot or head home?

i think thats when i sheared the pin in the leafs and had to take the trailer out to the truck.

some vid from this past weekend, not bad for leafs

Dayumm!
Doin work that's for sure!
I spy some broken main leafs in your future!

badass truck, saw it parked at the D38 races.

Originally Posted by oorracing

Dayumm!
Doin work that's for sure!
I spy some broken main leafs in your future!

a traction bar is goin in to hopefully prevent that

couple more vids......these two are the next day which we made some adjustments to the rear and didn't like em. Will be switching back to how it was in that first (lower quality) video.

Looking good man!

Mike

is looking great bet your happy to finally get to play some

Beautiful truck. Looks like it handles like a champ too.

Yeah thats a nice build, Im impressed the rear handled that well for leafs. Very nice, LOL about the whole nothing to "4 years later" in a matter of 2 posts...

SICK!!!!!!! Good luck and have fun with it!!!!

thanks for the good comments, yup its def nice to finally get it out there. I was pretty suprised on how well the leaf pack does, and the rear isn't even dialed yet.

Unfortunately, last weekend the modified f150 8.8 im running decided to prove that it is in fact 3 separate pieces. I might try to put the tubes back in and weld it to the housing until i can get a nice 9in, but it might keep me from racing the sprint to the dash. Might just be there rolling her off the start line and into the pits.

wow... that truck is really getting it in that first video... Is that out of the box valving or had you already done some tuning before you shot that??

Truck look really good!

thanks, that was after our first adjustment, 4turns in to the main compression, and 3 to the secondary. I dont know where it was positioned originally so i still have to check how from out from bottomed the screws are. It still needs more tuning though. Running 20comp and 10rebound base valving i'm pretty sure.

wow.... thats a really nice handling kit.... imagine how smooth it'll be after you play with the bypass tubes for a while.

Originally Posted by edgerunner20

wow.... thats a really nice handling kit.... imagine how smooth it'll be after you play with the bypass tubes for a while.

edgerunner20 likes the cock.

Mike

psh what are you talking about, i never asked that! DURRRR ;-)

Asked what?

Mike

specs on motor?????? also did you buy a wiy header kit?

motor is a re-built roller 302 out of an 85 mustang gt, stock cam, stock heads, edelbrock rpm air gap intake and a holley 670cfm truck avenger carb which needs a significant amount of tuning, running pretty badly. Will be going to the dyno before the dash to hopefully get it dialed.

For the headers, I just bought a box of 'bending mistakes' from Stahl headers and cut the bends out to piece together my own. Bought some steel flanges and cut those to make the tubes individually removable. Pretty cheap/easy way to go for custom headers. Just takes time.

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