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does every K5 get to this point?
- Thread starter jekbrown
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JIM88K5
1/2 ton status
Tube it and hang fender and 1/4 panel skins on it. If your gonna keep it, have it look like a k5. What happened to the S10 body plan ? Sandmans, Bowties and ORDs Are the best looking heavily modified rigs in my opinion. Marv Springers tube car is what a tube car should look like. The K5 chassis skinless tube cars don't flow well. I think having the stock firewall and pan limit the design and keep the truck too wide. Take the K5 tub off and graft on a four seater sand rail framejekbrown said:the more I look at my rig the more I am feeling inclined to chop the top just behind the windshield, add a couple hundred feet of 1.75" tube and go full on truggy with it. Anyone else feeling the urge? I got my new Art Carr shifter and I was thinking how I wanted to mount it. Well, once i get the bender running I was already gonna add a crossmember to mount my seats to (think ORD) and it'd be easy to add some more tube from there for a dash (just tore out all the AC/heat junk, mojave style heater has been ordered)... and angle some down from the center of the dash for a center console/shifter mount... and...and... and!!! Many times peeps have posted pics of 2nd gen blazers with the tops chopped and I respond with a "dont do it!" but now I find myself wanting to do the same thing. lol. It just seems like it'd be a lot easier to do the interior cage if the top was chopped, a bikini top would be a snap at that point.
i dunno, what do you guys think... stay 2nd gen K5 style... or head into the wild blue yonder of full-on truggy-ness?
j
. That would be trick and save a buttload of fab time.
Corey 78K5
1 ton status
What happend to the Yota build? I vote to not hack the K5.
zcarczar
1/2 ton status
jekbrown said:
I like a full body K5 because it makes jeepers and toyota drivers look bad when you fit down the super tight trail taking damage left and right.
84_Chevy_K10
Banned
FWP said:
I'm with you. I've trashed my truck pretty good and I don't see any end in sight for it. If I knew what I know know, then, this would be a sweet DD with 3/4 tons, armor, bumpers, gears, lockers, etc., and I'd have a full buggy or truggy to wheel the piss out of.
86chevybanshee
1/2 ton status
im for the full sheet metal, the body looks straight in the picture so id leave it how it is until its all smashed up
Whatever you do, keep the actual useage of the truck in perspective. Sure, truggy's are the current fad and definitely have advantages in pure off-road conditions but the their other uses are pretty limited. Here is a list of my personal reasons for being against it:
- I like to wheel year-round, but where I live that includes at least 3-4 months of cold weather, snow, rains, etc.... The more "truggy-ish" it gets, the harder to keep the elements off of you, and wheelin' all day when it's 20 degrees and snowing with no heater, doors, top, etc.... get's old.
- Street legality - of course it depends on the state, but again the more you go towards "truggy" the harder it is to keep it street legal and you will also attract more attention from the cops. Unless you only go to dedicated off-road parks you really start limiting where you can go. Most of the places I've been to, minus the parks, require at least a few miles of road time between the parking lot for the trailers and the trail.
I know of at least a couple guys who have gone to a custom built truggy type rigs only to sell them because of these issues.
- I like to wheel year-round, but where I live that includes at least 3-4 months of cold weather, snow, rains, etc.... The more "truggy-ish" it gets, the harder to keep the elements off of you, and wheelin' all day when it's 20 degrees and snowing with no heater, doors, top, etc.... get's old.
- Street legality - of course it depends on the state, but again the more you go towards "truggy" the harder it is to keep it street legal and you will also attract more attention from the cops. Unless you only go to dedicated off-road parks you really start limiting where you can go. Most of the places I've been to, minus the parks, require at least a few miles of road time between the parking lot for the trailers and the trail.
I know of at least a couple guys who have gone to a custom built truggy type rigs only to sell them because of these issues.
Why would you hack on a K5 tub with decent sheetmetal? Go buy a 2wd truck, throw the K5 tub on it, and put the truck cab on the K5. You'll find a use for that tub that's in decent shape. Pretty much going the same route as hacked-to-hell K5 only you start with something a lot cheaper.
If you what the "convertible" feel then just take the back window out for summer wheeling and then put it back in for winter wheeling. Run two sets of doors, one half door one full door.
I, myself, get sunburn after being in it for an hour so running a full removable top to me seems silly. No back window and half doors is as close to sunburn as I want to get.
If you what the "convertible" feel then just take the back window out for summer wheeling and then put it back in for winter wheeling. Run two sets of doors, one half door one full door.
I, myself, get sunburn after being in it for an hour so running a full removable top to me seems silly. No back window and half doors is as close to sunburn as I want to get.
you can't see it in those pics, but my sheetmetal is pretty far from perfect. My front fenders and hood are good (miraculously) but my rear fenders have several good sized dents in 'em these days. If I narrow the rear, I'll prolly pound those dents back to a close-to-normal shape and rattle can them. My rig is short on comforts as it is now, its almost a truggy with no doors/top/gate/rear seat as far as getting cold and junk. Personally, I don't really mind. Im not gonna wheel when its below freezing... and I can wear lots of clothes when its in the 40s/50s. No biggie. If I did chop the top, I would be adding a custom soft top made out of boat-top material. It'd be just as waterproof as my stock half-top and it would be long enough that rain blowing at an angle wouldnt be hitting me in the back of the head (like it can now if its windy). I'm also going to make some fabric liners for my tube doors so they aren't quite so prone to crap blasting through 'em.
As far as tangent issues some people brought up:
1) the s-10 cab project seems like its gonna take me forever and ever to get done... cause I wanna do it right and have the final result be restraunt quality. Practically bling. Anyway, I think if I narrowed the front and rear or my K5 I wouldnt even care about being slightly fatter in the middle. I kinda like the feel of a truck that is large in the cab... and I'm not sure an s-10 + exo is much thinner than a K5 with an interior cage. Last but not least, Im a "fullsize guy"... just always liked them best.
2) the toy buggy project is still on schedule and Im going ahead with it. I dunno, maybe thats something that makes me not wanna go mini-truck with my K5. The toy buggy is gonna be super small... prolly 100" wb and single seat-wide. It could be my tiny rig, the K5 my big rig. Two small rigs seems redundant.
j
As far as tangent issues some people brought up:
1) the s-10 cab project seems like its gonna take me forever and ever to get done... cause I wanna do it right and have the final result be restraunt quality. Practically bling. Anyway, I think if I narrowed the front and rear or my K5 I wouldnt even care about being slightly fatter in the middle. I kinda like the feel of a truck that is large in the cab... and I'm not sure an s-10 + exo is much thinner than a K5 with an interior cage. Last but not least, Im a "fullsize guy"... just always liked them best.
2) the toy buggy project is still on schedule and Im going ahead with it. I dunno, maybe thats something that makes me not wanna go mini-truck with my K5. The toy buggy is gonna be super small... prolly 100" wb and single seat-wide. It could be my tiny rig, the K5 my big rig. Two small rigs seems redundant.
j
