Topdown
1/2 ton status
I forgot to take pics before I cleaned up the frame, cut it, bobbed it, etc... but I have started taking pics so...
Here is a pics after I cleaned the outside of the frame rails, cut it in two and then removed 36" out of the middle, 11" off the rearend and 4" off the nose.
http://coloradok5.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/18182/size/big/sort/1/cat/500
Here is a pic after I welded the frame together again... before I have plated it to beef it up some along the welds. Not a bad looking weld if I do say so myself. The total frame length is 149"
http://coloradok5.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/18184/sort/1/size/big/cat/500/page/
The body is in real rough shape, no rust-through, just lots of surface rust. it needs some sanding, priming and painting soon... as soon as I get the frame painted and on axles that is.
Right now I am planning on running it 1/2 ton since I am working with a $0.00 budget... but I may have access to a 12bolt with 5.13's a couple D44's and at least one 10Bolt front. So, I will regear one of them to match and run them for the first year or two or until I get tired of fixing them.
I have a 360hp 400ft-lb small-block from my blazer that I will be dropping in it with a TH350/NP203 that I am picking up from a friend on a payment plan. I figure I will run stock rams-horn manifolds until I can find some 2.5" rams horns or later model manifolds that breathe a little better... then I will run that through a 2.5" exhaust that I will probably end up bending/running/welding myself.
I figure I should be able to get it done by mid summer ... at least enough to take it wheeling
Here is a pics after I cleaned the outside of the frame rails, cut it in two and then removed 36" out of the middle, 11" off the rearend and 4" off the nose.
http://coloradok5.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/18182/size/big/sort/1/cat/500
Here is a pic after I welded the frame together again... before I have plated it to beef it up some along the welds. Not a bad looking weld if I do say so myself. The total frame length is 149"
http://coloradok5.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/18184/sort/1/size/big/cat/500/page/
The body is in real rough shape, no rust-through, just lots of surface rust. it needs some sanding, priming and painting soon... as soon as I get the frame painted and on axles that is.
Right now I am planning on running it 1/2 ton since I am working with a $0.00 budget... but I may have access to a 12bolt with 5.13's a couple D44's and at least one 10Bolt front. So, I will regear one of them to match and run them for the first year or two or until I get tired of fixing them.
I have a 360hp 400ft-lb small-block from my blazer that I will be dropping in it with a TH350/NP203 that I am picking up from a friend on a payment plan. I figure I will run stock rams-horn manifolds until I can find some 2.5" rams horns or later model manifolds that breathe a little better... then I will run that through a 2.5" exhaust that I will probably end up bending/running/welding myself.
I figure I should be able to get it done by mid summer ... at least enough to take it wheeling
