original balzer
1/2 ton status
You missed me didn't ya?
Ok so heres the story.
Yall have seen my past junk and my lack of progress. Basically I tend to over extend myself in a project, then I get the might-as-well virus. You know where you say "well if I'm going to do that and im already that far, I might-as-well do these things too." Then it snowballs and I get over my head.
Whatever....
So my baby bro bought this truck with a bad engine and trans. from one of his friends. The body is really clean and only has 3 small dings in it. You may remember my 91 suburban that I sold to him. I had a bad ass 700r4 built for it then he built a bad ass engine for it. However being a land barge on 10b axles it went through about 6 rears and 2 fronts. And being TBI it was starved for gas with the engine he built. and finally the pretty paint job it had when I bought it turned out to be a craptastic cheapo that started to fade and flake bad.
So baby bro pulled the engines and trans and put the good stuff in this little pickup. He converted it to a carb because TBI wasnt enough for it and aftermarket FI was just too much $.
Fast forward a few months and baby bro is out of $$ and suffering project burnout, and wants to sell it cheap. I know the potential of the truck and offer him a trade. I gave him ALL my 73-87 chevy stuff the CC the general all the parts I have collected, and the parts trucks and my 67 1 ton.
That was the first part of december, now a few months later we have MOST of the bugs worked out and have the truck nearly ready for the road.
Once again I have nearly rebuilt this whole truck the only thing we havent touched is the transfer case. Both axles got new bearings and seals as well as brakes. They also got cleaned really well and fresh fluids.
OK about the truck. It is a 1994 regular cab short bed silverado Z71. It has a 10b rear with G80, 241 x-case, built TH700R4 with all the corvette goodies, the larger 6 gear planitary, set kevlar bands, redline clutches, Blah blah blah. When I had it built I asked for the baddest 700r4 he could build for a street driven vehicle. The engine isa 350 bored .030 over flat top keith black pistons, the biggest cam I have ever run, molly and chrome and lots of other good stuff I cant think of right now. Anyway according to desktop dyno from when he built it its supposed to be around 425hp 450ftlbs.
the truck has a 2.5" front diff drop and is cranked up to level with the rear which has a AAL. Right now it is riding on 31x10.50x15 big o XT's on old gambler 15x8 wheels.
I thought I had more pics, but I must not have them loaded up yet
The plans!
Unfourtunatly, my plans are mostly cosmetic. However there are a few things I would like to do that are a bit more technical.
the bigger plans are as follows.
I have my dads old 94 6 lug 2500 its beat up and wore out but it does have a SF14B rear and 4.11 gears. I plan to pull those clean them up, new bearings seals and a rear locker of some sort and swap them into my truck.
I do have a SAS kit but I dont think I am going to go that far because this truck is going to be my DD with very light wheeling camping only. (I have a wrangler to go wheeling)
My other plans are,
dechrome, demold, debadge
a lund moonvisor
stock style fender flares
95+ style mirrors
A lund shadow cowl/wiper cover
paintable bumpers (perhaps with a few custom modifications)
swap to the 96+ WT grill and headlights (I just think they look tougher and you dont see them as often+ the compsite headlights notoriously suck)
mirrors, grill and bumpers painted black
rhinoliner in black on the quarters and flares.
33" tires on 17x9 XD revolver wheels (probably 285x70x17 tires)
Build a rollbar'ish headache
low profile over the rail toolbox, or maybe a in bed chest that doesnt go over the rails
Possible other plans
2" teardrop cowl hood *really havent decided
4-6" lift *maybe I kinda like the way it sits now though, have to see how it looks with bigger tires
SAS *not likely but you never know
Things that still need to be done asap
Tune it (the big cam is difficult to find a happy medium)
Take it to the trans shop. It has a lock up converter but something about a computer controlled servo motor needs to be swapped to a line pressure switch since I am not running a computer anymore. I will also have them set the TV cable to the propper pressure since its a performance trans.
licence it
get insurance
start driving it, chase bugs
I would also like to find out if I even need the computer and most of the related wire harness. Some people say I can pull it all out and some people say the gauges run off from computer signal ???
WHEW sorry for the long post LMFAO
Ok so heres the story.
Yall have seen my past junk and my lack of progress. Basically I tend to over extend myself in a project, then I get the might-as-well virus. You know where you say "well if I'm going to do that and im already that far, I might-as-well do these things too." Then it snowballs and I get over my head.
Whatever....
So my baby bro bought this truck with a bad engine and trans. from one of his friends. The body is really clean and only has 3 small dings in it. You may remember my 91 suburban that I sold to him. I had a bad ass 700r4 built for it then he built a bad ass engine for it. However being a land barge on 10b axles it went through about 6 rears and 2 fronts. And being TBI it was starved for gas with the engine he built. and finally the pretty paint job it had when I bought it turned out to be a craptastic cheapo that started to fade and flake bad.
So baby bro pulled the engines and trans and put the good stuff in this little pickup. He converted it to a carb because TBI wasnt enough for it and aftermarket FI was just too much $.
Fast forward a few months and baby bro is out of $$ and suffering project burnout, and wants to sell it cheap. I know the potential of the truck and offer him a trade. I gave him ALL my 73-87 chevy stuff the CC the general all the parts I have collected, and the parts trucks and my 67 1 ton.
That was the first part of december, now a few months later we have MOST of the bugs worked out and have the truck nearly ready for the road.
Once again I have nearly rebuilt this whole truck the only thing we havent touched is the transfer case. Both axles got new bearings and seals as well as brakes. They also got cleaned really well and fresh fluids.
OK about the truck. It is a 1994 regular cab short bed silverado Z71. It has a 10b rear with G80, 241 x-case, built TH700R4 with all the corvette goodies, the larger 6 gear planitary, set kevlar bands, redline clutches, Blah blah blah. When I had it built I asked for the baddest 700r4 he could build for a street driven vehicle. The engine isa 350 bored .030 over flat top keith black pistons, the biggest cam I have ever run, molly and chrome and lots of other good stuff I cant think of right now. Anyway according to desktop dyno from when he built it its supposed to be around 425hp 450ftlbs.
the truck has a 2.5" front diff drop and is cranked up to level with the rear which has a AAL. Right now it is riding on 31x10.50x15 big o XT's on old gambler 15x8 wheels.
I thought I had more pics, but I must not have them loaded up yet
The plans!
Unfourtunatly, my plans are mostly cosmetic. However there are a few things I would like to do that are a bit more technical.
the bigger plans are as follows.
I have my dads old 94 6 lug 2500 its beat up and wore out but it does have a SF14B rear and 4.11 gears. I plan to pull those clean them up, new bearings seals and a rear locker of some sort and swap them into my truck.
I do have a SAS kit but I dont think I am going to go that far because this truck is going to be my DD with very light wheeling camping only. (I have a wrangler to go wheeling)
My other plans are,
dechrome, demold, debadge
a lund moonvisor
stock style fender flares
95+ style mirrors
A lund shadow cowl/wiper cover
paintable bumpers (perhaps with a few custom modifications)
swap to the 96+ WT grill and headlights (I just think they look tougher and you dont see them as often+ the compsite headlights notoriously suck)
mirrors, grill and bumpers painted black
rhinoliner in black on the quarters and flares.
33" tires on 17x9 XD revolver wheels (probably 285x70x17 tires)
Build a rollbar'ish headache
low profile over the rail toolbox, or maybe a in bed chest that doesnt go over the rails
Possible other plans
2" teardrop cowl hood *really havent decided
4-6" lift *maybe I kinda like the way it sits now though, have to see how it looks with bigger tires
SAS *not likely but you never know
Things that still need to be done asap
Tune it (the big cam is difficult to find a happy medium)
Take it to the trans shop. It has a lock up converter but something about a computer controlled servo motor needs to be swapped to a line pressure switch since I am not running a computer anymore. I will also have them set the TV cable to the propper pressure since its a performance trans.
licence it
get insurance
start driving it, chase bugs
I would also like to find out if I even need the computer and most of the related wire harness. Some people say I can pull it all out and some people say the gauges run off from computer signal ???
WHEW sorry for the long post LMFAO
