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I agree!! I think he keeps raising the bar!! Between you two I'll never keep up!! Both of you guys trucks are awesomew!!

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Welcome to the Coulter Fan Club guys.... line forms at the door :lol: :metal:

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i got it off ebay. its like 20 bucks for 12ft or so.. a lil pricey but its pretty nice stuff :metal::metal:


thanx for checkin it out :metal::metal: glad u liked it!!

thanx man!! Did you end up going to the show in talequah? it was kinda rainy so i just stayed home and worked on my bike

thanx man!! ya i wish i wasnt redoing work once again but i dont wanna have any problems when i get it going. this is my first build so ive learned alot from it!!!!

hahaha you not too far behind me. You work pretty fast so if you can just find the time you will be done pretty soon.. u got all the hard stuff done :metal::metal::metal::metal: there are alot of cool builds going on right now that i cant wait to see finished :metal::metal::metal::metal::metal::metal::metal:

:lol::lol::lol:

should be a few updates this weekend.. i went all bomp style yesterday and cut up one of my trailing arms so no turning back now. gonna get some metal thursday to box them in, extend, and take a lil of the angle out. ive got a buddy thats got some dimple dies to so they gonna look pretty snazzy!!

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well got some work done today.. ran out of wire for the welder but i plan on getting more and finishing up tomorrow
im gonna run 15 inch wheels so with big drop blocks my scrub line was not good. so i decided to fix that problem
also i stretched the arms 1" to center up the rear wheels better, and i took 6 degrees out of the angle
i cut the panhard bar mount off of my old drop blocks and made some new sway bar mounts

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more

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here is 1 almost finished.. still needs a lil more welding

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Nice!!! This will always be my favorite build!!! As always, top notch work!!
Jason

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hmmm cool idea and always sic work kat!

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Thanx guys!!! Im off to the store to pick up some more wire. I plan on finishing the other side and getting them painted today
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You got it Brother!!!!
Cut it up and make it Cool



Nails watch your heads cause Coulters hitten'em

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thanx bomp!!! this is like beginner stuff compared to the mods ur doing on bompenstein!!!!

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Wow man..... That seems like a serious structural/engineering mod there.
I cannot wait to see how well it holds up !!

Your work is untouchable though, I could try for years and never catch up to you :metal:

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i hope it hold up pretty good!!!! if not im screwed lol and thanx for the cool comments man!!! you always coming up with some really cool ideas too!!!

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Nice fab work!
very sweet lookin results!

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well i got the other side done and finished up welding the first one.. also smoothed them out a lil bit to make them look good

didnt have any primer so this is as far as i could get today.. i think ive bout about 20 hrs in both of these so far :metal::metal::metal::metal::metal:

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Wow.... Those arms look great! Very nice work man!!! :metal:
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You have great craftsmanship!

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thanx guys!!! i should have them painted and on the truck in a few days so more pics coming soon

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Well i got them painted and installed. Still gotta move my sway bar back a lil bit but u can see ive got plent of ckearance now once i cut the u bolts down
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And my wheels r in thr center of the wheel wells now
Ill post some more better pics after i move the sway bar back

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Damn dude now you are making me wish I didn't already paint my arms:lol:

I guess I can live withe some off centeredness for now. Keep up the great work man. Thanks again for sharing your cool ideas and passing on the sickness we all share and motivating me to have my truck shipped out to me across the us:lol:
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Thanx man!! You and jdoisher and a few others got me wishin i would have pancaked my front crossmember. Its really cool how everybody feeds off each others ideas :metal:
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Judging by the fact that your not afraid to redo anything, I say go for it!! I was able to keep every thing as it was, I had to relocate my air line and move my upper shock hole up one inch!! Once you get the motor out and clip off you can have it done in no time!!! I say do it!!
Jason

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I really want to but im gonna wait till after i drive it a while and have the money to build.a 496 out of a spare block i have. This is just phase 1 of this build. If i keep it i plan on tearing it back down after i drive it for a while to build a motor. Powder coat everything and do all the body work with a glossy black paint job. Since this was my first build i didnt wanna go all out with the paint on the frame and stuff cause i knew i would need to change things like i have
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Thanks you. Yeah I hear you man. The more I think about it I may have gone a little overboard on the painting for my first build:lol: but since I paint cars for a living it won't be a big deal to repaint some things if need be:lol:
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ya but i would cry if i had to mess up that pretty paint!!!! lmao

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You gotta start making two of everything. One for you and one for me :) haha

Nice job on those rear arms.

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haha i wish it were that easy
thanx man!!!
i got some updates today.. got one side of my exhaust pretty much all fitted and tacked together.. gotta make some more hangers then do alot of welding.. i made some pie cuts around the tranny crossmember to make it clear.. ill take some better pics of that when i go to weld it up.. was hard to get a good shot from under the truck
the exhaust is prolly gonna be way too loud but im gonna try it out and see how i like it.. i can always add more mufflers under the cab.

also i got a question?? since there really insnt room under the cab i thought about adding an H pipe right after where the the exhaust comes through the rear crossmember.. would i benifit much for doing this or is it a bad idea??

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also u can see i took my trailing arm brackets off my rear crossmember. im gonna try to get them modifyed tonight

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Nice job buddy! almost ready to fire up? ive been waiting patiently!:lol:might as well pull the front xmember down and chop it up while your at it for some ground clearance:lol: maybe this will help....
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...50ACBCDE47.jpg
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man thats pretty!!! ya im really tempted!! im running 2" drop spindles. i would like to be able to use stock ones like you are.. i bet ur ground clearance is way better than mine in the front.. and it goes lower!!! lol

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Nice work on the exhaust.:smoke: I have to do the same thing to my 66. That cross member makes me want to go tear mine out.:lol:

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good work man... closing in on a driver.

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When I added my cross over pipe (White '67 Camaro behind shop) the exhaust note did seem to be a little less loud.
Nice work on the exhaust.

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thanx :metal: ya he did a killer job on that crossmember:metal::metal:

thanx man!!! ya im getting pretty excited!! i would love to be able to cruise it to one of ur bbq's this year :metal::metal::metal:

ive been reading alot about it and im not totally sure if mine is gonna help me much.. i know they need to be as close to the motor as possible but im still gonna go for it

i did get a lil farther this weekend.. there first couple pics are of the mods i did to the trailing arm brackets.. since i set up my bag brackets with those huge lowering blocks the bags were bottoming out before going all the way down with the smaller lowering blocks (another nooby mistake learned the hard way :lol::lol::lol:). so i made the holes on the trailing arm brackets about 1 1/2 lower than stock. it hangs just a lil bit below my crossmember but it wont be a problem because i wont be going low enough to touch that anyway since my front wont go that low.. im just gonna level it with some bump stops so it never drags anything in the rear.

also got my exhaust most of the way done.. just need to finish 1 more hanger, finish my H pipe and do all the final welding.. also gonna need to reroute the air line for the front bags now but thats no biggie.

its hard to tell from the pics but ive got about 3/4 inch of clearance between my exhaust and my tranny crossmember. btw all the exhaust under the cab will get heat wrapped to keep my fuel line as cool as possible

anyway enough blabbing and on with the pics

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and ya i know this exhaust is gonna be a lil overkill being 3 inch on a basically stock 454 but one day i plan to build a pretty nasty 496 so i dont wanna have to upgrade that later on

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looks like careful planning is paying off. there is alot of stuff going on in that small area.definitely think routing the exhaust thru the trailing arm front bracket is the way to go. no ground clearance issues.3 inch ehaust is HUGE. nice job

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Looking great man! I'm ready to hear it start up!!!:lol::lol:
I bet it's going to sound mean!!!! :metal:
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Thanx guys!!! I got my crossover pipe done. Just gotta do some final welding and the exhaust will be pretty much done
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That is some twisted wicked exhaust!
Dig it:metal: