No I'm not walking away. Just thinking of getting something a little more useful. So here are my thoughts.
The body on my blazer is trashed. Roof, windshield, firewall, door frames, all rusted up. I bought this truck with the intention of doing a partial restoration and having a fun cool truck. But life changes are pushing me away from that and I need something more readily available for driving. I've got a new 383, a 4l80e, Holley terminator x, and one ton's with gears and lockers that I just had installed beginning of the year plus custom ORD leaves and cross over steering. My thinking on this is take the drivetrain from the blazer, and put it in a gmt400 body. Do an ORD solid axle swap. As much fun as the blazer is to drive around town, it's kind of a pain to drive long distances down the highway what with the no doors, no top, no AC. I can find a gmt400 tahoe or suburban or truck in decent shape for far cheaper than I can a K5. Only thing I'm not 100% on is merging the holley kit with the factory wiring but I'm certain it can be done, just haven't done much research on it yet. Something newer could have power windows and locks, AC, cruise, and none or less rust (my truck was a mud truck in it's previous life hence all the issues). Also figure it might be easier than doing a body swap on what is sure to be a tweaked frame. I've thought about going the fiberglass body route but that alone costs more than what a running tahoe//burb costs minus the extra effort for paint and installing everything. Hell I could even put everything in a jeep but that's more time than I'm willing or able to put in at this time.
Right now I'm just thinking out loud and pondering the next phase of this truck. I've spent to much money in the drivetrain//suspension to walk away from it so I'm keeping that. Just need to figure out what to do body wise so I can drive it and enjoy it more often.
The body on my blazer is trashed. Roof, windshield, firewall, door frames, all rusted up. I bought this truck with the intention of doing a partial restoration and having a fun cool truck. But life changes are pushing me away from that and I need something more readily available for driving. I've got a new 383, a 4l80e, Holley terminator x, and one ton's with gears and lockers that I just had installed beginning of the year plus custom ORD leaves and cross over steering. My thinking on this is take the drivetrain from the blazer, and put it in a gmt400 body. Do an ORD solid axle swap. As much fun as the blazer is to drive around town, it's kind of a pain to drive long distances down the highway what with the no doors, no top, no AC. I can find a gmt400 tahoe or suburban or truck in decent shape for far cheaper than I can a K5. Only thing I'm not 100% on is merging the holley kit with the factory wiring but I'm certain it can be done, just haven't done much research on it yet. Something newer could have power windows and locks, AC, cruise, and none or less rust (my truck was a mud truck in it's previous life hence all the issues). Also figure it might be easier than doing a body swap on what is sure to be a tweaked frame. I've thought about going the fiberglass body route but that alone costs more than what a running tahoe//burb costs minus the extra effort for paint and installing everything. Hell I could even put everything in a jeep but that's more time than I'm willing or able to put in at this time.
Right now I'm just thinking out loud and pondering the next phase of this truck. I've spent to much money in the drivetrain//suspension to walk away from it so I'm keeping that. Just need to figure out what to do body wise so I can drive it and enjoy it more often.
