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'72 K5 - Greg's @MightAsWellK5 Build

This is the build description. I will improve this later. (GB)
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So, This happens to be one of my favorite builds to check in on from time to time and I can say enough about it. Everybody that I talk to about blazers here in TX i make sure they know about this build!
Keep it up! :waytogo:

I do have one question though.
How much does this beast weigh or expected to weigh?
Just wondering :rolleyes:
 
NTXJIMMY said:
So, This happens to be one of my favorite builds to check in on from time to time and I can say enough about it. Everybody that I talk to about blazers here in TX i make sure they know about this build!
Keep it up! :waytogo:

I do have one question though.
How much does this beast weigh or expected to weigh?
Just wondering :rolleyes:
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Thanks! :waytogo:

Weight-wise..... I've got no idea. Too late to go back and design for lightness, so it's going to be whatever it is.

Probably 6000Lbs if I had to throw out a wild guess. At some point I'll buy a set of race scales and collect detailed weights for each component,mount that's still a ways off.


-G
 
That's about what I was thinking
I really would not care either!

I will be interested though so I will keep watching
Good job!!!!
 
no way in he!! your gonna be 6 g's imo.. BB, 38's, eleventy thousand pounds of plate, tube and links, etc....

just embrace the PHAT!!!!!! :woot: :pimp: :waytogo: :haha:
 
Greg, my old black 81 Jimmy was 5800 lbs. Pretty basic and empty of everything but me and the driver's seat. 6.2 diesel, 465/205 60, 14 on 40's.

FWIW the 6.2 diesel is about 75 lbs lighter than a BBC.
 
Good think you are bbc because I am learning weight and sbc do not always equal performance. Bb makes big tq all the time.. Man do I miss my bb... (Banghead)
 
max 02 said:
Mine is just around 5000 with the BB and it is a stripper model compared to yours and Mikes. :popcorn:
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I have a lot more speed holes as of late. My rig is no longer part of this "Heavy" classification that you put it into, Dean. :shame: :pimp:



Dave said it best....."Thin for the win"....:waytogo:



I think I will paint that on the tail gate, fancy like, so Greg can read it as I rip past him in 2018. :D
 
NorCal69 said:
I have a lot more speed holes as of late. My rig is no longer part of this "Heavy" classification that you put it into, Dean. :shame: :pimp:



Dave said it best....."Thin for the win"....:waytogo:



I think I will paint that on the tail gate, fancy like, so Greg can read it as I rip past him in 2018. :D
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TFTW! :thumb:

Going to start calling you Speedhole! :haha:
 
2015.01.12 - UPDATE! - LET'S TAKE IT OUT BACK...!!!


The new materials finally came in at the end of last week, so this weekend it was important to use my prototype framerail as a template for the driver's side while it was still waiting to be welded / fishplated to the original frame on the truck.

Transferred all the cut lines from the first framerail to the new one....

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Then made my wedge-slices to allow me to get all the angles I needed to match the new frame profile....

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Tacked it all into place so that it could be compared to the original and tweaked as needed....

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Here they are clamped together as a "mirror pair"...

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The decision was made last week to simply run the new framerail all the way out the back of the truck instead of trying to scab it together with a small 12" - 18" section of the original frame..... it just didn't make sense and ultimately was more work than just using a clean section of 2" x 4" tubing all the way throughout.

In this image, you can see the extended length of the new framerail sections (left side of photo) to allow them to pass all the way out the back of the truck. Keep in mind, the framerails are upside down in this photo so don't let their orientation confuse you. :D

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And a shot of a partially finish-welded and flap-wheel dressed part waiting for a final test fit....

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..... and a parting shot of the night with the frame in position! :waytogo:

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So the next step will be to cut out the fish plate shims and drill all the through holes that are needed to weld them in place. I'll built two sets just to keep the efficiency as high as possible, so I'm not sure if I will have enough time to cut and metal-finish them tonight AND get them welded in.... we'll have to wait and see on that one.



-G
 
ryoken said:
nicely done...
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Thanks Bud... :waytogo:

You can see in these photos that I'm fully in the "winter build mode" environment now. The garage floor is constantly wet from the wife's car being parked in a warm garage... the sloppy snow in the wheelwells falls off and splashes salt and crud all over the place. Every time I want to work on the truck now, I have to go out early to turn on the space heater..... back her car out of the garage.... sweep/shovel the snow and slush out, then set up a box fan to dry things as well as I can as the space warms up.

There is salt residue everywhere on the floors, and it's just not a very fun environment to be in... but I figure if I can just power through it emotionally for the next 60 days or so, the weather will start to get warmer and by the time the snow is melted I can have this truck ready for some more outdoor photos!!!! :waytogo: That is the thought that keeps me warm (and motivated!) these days.....

....Charlie is really starting to talk a lot about having, as he calls them: "Adventures in the monster truck". So that's another thing that is really pushing me to work hard, even on super cold days when I don't really feel like it.



-G
 
ryoken said:
no way in he!! your gonna be 6 g's imo.. BB, 38's, eleventy thousand pounds of plate, tube and links, etc....

just embrace the PHAT!!!!!! :woot: :pimp: :waytogo: :haha:
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may have to get some stickers made up. Embrace the Phat. :pimp::haha:
 
Ceiling fan will do wonders for drying the floor out I mean absolute wonders.

Glad you went new frame back there really opens stuff up.
 
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