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Project "Double D Blazer" is under way!

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crashandburn

crashandburn

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Project "Double D Blazer" is under way!

So here she is, a 1982 K5, with a 6.2 Detroit Diesel, 700r4, NP208, 10 bolt gov-bomb, 10 bolt open. Body is remarkably solid. Got a 6 point cage, sliders under the rockers, square tube bumpers, exhaust through bumper with a stack (iewwww), a snorkel, no lift and 33X10.5 BFG AT's. Bought it with a blown trans for $1100. Luckily I had another K5 with a good trans and a bunch of other good parts that I was getting rid of, so I stripped it first.
Dig the ghetto rigged grill with trailer signals. Don't worry, I took the good grille off my other truck.

THE PLANS:
4" lift plus 1" zero rates in front, added leaves in rear, move front axle forward 1.5"
35X12.5 Maxxis Bighorns for now, and I will have room for more later
12 bolt rear
4.56:1 gears
Some sort of locker in rear
TURBO! From a 6.5 TD
Maybe a safari rack
A swing out spare tire carrier
Some interior work
Rhino line the sliders, bumpers, and intake snorkel

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The old truck. I guess I just got burned out on it. It will end its life honorably as a parts donor. I didn't have a jack that goes high enough, so I put my engine hoist on the 2 ton setting and lifted the truck up that way, of course using jackstands. Then I lowered the front axle, springs and all onto the legs of the hoist and rolled that baby right out.
SCORED:
HD rebuilt 700r4 trans
NP208 t case
4" lift springs, shocks, steering knuckle
12 bolt rear, 4.56 gears
10 bolt front, 4.56 gears
brand new 35X12.5 Maxxis Bighorns
front grille
visor
dashboard pad
interior door panels
class 3 trailer hitch

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looks interesting...I'm digging the snorkel.
 
Scored a GM-8 turbo from a junkyard along with an intake manifold, upper plenum, air box and downpipe for, get this, 90 BUCKS!!! Also got the right hand exhaust manifold for $50. So the problem is that the turbo will interfere with my AC box, and really, I don't want to mess with it, because everyone says it is near impossible to make it come out decent, and besides, I don't want to buy anything that I don't want to. This is a budget build. The solution? Move the turbo.
So here is my half completed extension housing that will move my turbo forward, to the right, and up to get it out of the way. Also I will be able to drain my turbo oil into my valve cover, instead of having to mess around drilling the pan.

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crashandburn said:
Scored a GM-8 turbo from a junkyard along with an intake manifold, upper plenum, air box and downpipe for, get this, 90 BUCKS!!! Also got the right hand exhaust manifold for $50. So the problem is that the turbo will interfere with my AC box, and really, I don't want to mess with it, because everyone says it is near impossible to make it come out decent, and besides, I don't want to buy anything that I don't want to. This is a budget build. The solution? Move the turbo.
So here is my half completed extension housing that will move my turbo forward, to the right, and up to get it out of the way. Also I will be able to drain my turbo oil into my valve cover, instead of having to mess around drilling the pan.
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I'm guessing the oil exiting the turbo will be super hot, worried about draining it into the valve covers?
 
dhcomp said:
I'm guessing the oil exiting the turbo will be super hot, worried about draining it into the valve covers?
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I don't see that really being an issue, it's just going to drain back into the pan from there. I wouldn't have been able to do it that way before because the turbo didn't sit high enough.
 
She didn't have any interior panels on the insides of the quarter panels. I got bored, and I'm cheap, so I made some out of sheet metal and 16 bucks worth of auto utility carpet from ebay. I must say it came out way better than I expected being that this was my first ever attempt at anything like this. I mounted my nice 6X9's in it too. My only concern is that the magnets of the speakers touch the inner quarter panel and I'm not sure if that is a problem.

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Got around to doing my shackle flip. I dig it, it looks mean. That's a little more like it. Tomorrow if it doesn't rain I'll lift the front so the truck doesn't look so confused. Right now it's saying,
Am I a stock truck?
Am I a lifted truck?
Maybe I'm a drag car.

Ignore the scissor jack in the second pic. I only used it to stabilize the spring.

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swettysblazer said:
I like it. It looks good, and that bumper is a monster.


What's in the garage??:popcorn:
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Yeah, I'm gonna tone down that bumper a bit, it's a little much. One of the things on the list.
The garage is home to a 1994 Kawasaki Vulcan 800 (fiance's bike), a 1992 Harley Fat Boy (my POS), a 2005 Yamaha Road Star Warrior (my NICE bike), and my baby, that you saw in the corner of the photo.
It's a '72 Buick Skylark with a 471 inch big block Buick that makes 640 hp on pump gas. I just did a major suspension project, so it should handle better than most modern sports cars, and just dropped the motor back in last week after a little valve spring problem.
I've had the car since 2 weeks before my 16th birthday, and it is currently 2 weeks before my 31st. Lots of history there.

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crashandburn said:
Yeah, I'm gonna tone down that bumper a bit, it's a little much. One of the things on the list.
The garage is home to a 1994 Kawasaki Vulcan 800 (fiance's bike), a 1992 Harley Fat Boy (my POS), a 2005 Yamaha Road Star Warrior (my NICE bike), and my baby, that you saw in the corner of the photo.
It's a '72 Buick Skylark with a 471 inch big block Buick that makes 640 hp on pump gas. I just did a major suspension project, so it should handle better than most modern sports cars, and just dropped the motor back in last week after a little valve spring problem.
I've had the car since 2 weeks before my 16th birthday, and it is currently 2 weeks before my 31st. Lots of history there.
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Drooooool. Thats a beautiful car. I love that body style, i think it looks better than almost any other GM car of that era. That thing looks sweet.

And I like the bumper, I'd rock it as is :woot:
 
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