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thanx guys the front sheet metal is all off the truck and just getting ready to tidy up the firewall and the new battery box ive stripped most of the paint off and its just about ready to shoot so itch primer and hopefuly i'll have so colour in the engine bay in the next couple of weeks.hows your projects going dino????

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my 78 is at nates and his part is almost done .then back home to finish the air ride , got a hp3000 oasis and some big red valves, but i am really stoked about my old school truck(61 big window) i am going to do a quick chassis ,pull all the torrsion bars, and i pancake a cross member (back in the day before we started the drop member) drop it real low up front and a small c notch in rear,i am keeping all the stock 250/ and power glide super clean chassis and old faded paint , this truck won't have air ride ( wierd for me) and i still have my new frame at nates for the 66 big window,but nate is a little back up so the project maybe out till march, i got the cab done for that truck, so low what color are you spraying you truck, and man is that building your shop?merry christmas dino(chevy only)

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I would love some clear pics and details of the forward tilt hood! That is sick!


Frank

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Damn just spen the last 1/2 hour readin gthe whole thread very nice work you do the truck looks sic!

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lowride you got one badd truck I would love to see more pics

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thanks guys :metal:dino that building in my avatar is my mates house/workshop we've got 6 vehicles two 4 post hoists in there aswell as a4 bedroom home :metal: as for the colour shes going to be blue

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nice set up ,looks like plenty of space in the shop, i got a lift this year,i don't know how i did with out one for so many years.it also freaks out the people who walk by and see a truck over my house:lol::lol:, nice work as always happy new year

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hay dino I seen you have a big oaisis compressor in your green truck and three batteries I cant keep my batteries charged at all Im just running two big unites, and they are not very good just wondering if that big compressor works good and if it sucks a lot of juice? I need to fill two 7 gal tanks fast. latter man

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yeah it do, the oasis runs 60amp,but only runs for about 60 seconds, and fill my 5 gallon tank, about 150psi, i run a 8 gauge wire to the batterys and 150amp alt works good, i have this set up on my panel and my 78, but you got to have high cc amp batterys like optima batterys . about 900 cold cranking. let me know . dino ( sorry mr low to jack this thread)

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thankx dude thats what I need

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well got some paint on the firewall today

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Lowride

I love the color! Is the whole truck going to be all that color? Looking good keep up the progress. I wish mine was moving that fast! I just got my c-notch and axles now I just need time to install them. Later

Tony from Norcal

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:chevy:yes the whole truck is going that colour. I'm not moving that fast it's been 3 years in the build and hopefully I'll be finished mid year:chevy::metal:

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Looks good. I really like the color also

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so are you done with all the fabrication? Now its time to paint thats cool its the final stretch. That makes me want to get mine done, looks like a cool color. later:chevy:

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nice....dig the colour

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thanx guys:metal:no i haven't finished fabrication yet but from the firewall forward it is :metal::chevy:

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I love your hood hinge I think I want to copy it if its cool, would you send me a picture . Later

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no problem but at the moment the front is in a million bits so when its back together I'll pm you:chevy::metal:

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Yea, whenever you get a chance to get some pix of the hood post them up! I want to go the same route, have the general idea, but a few details still escape me!

Kyle

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sweet az

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Blue's my favorite color! :metal:

Looking good!

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Absolutely killer LOWRIDE..........thanks for posting the cool pics of the work and looking forward to more. I just put my welder away about an hour ago ;after checkin' out your mods a couple weeks ago it got me fired up to do some stuff.

Are you goin' to keep the "blue flame" valve covers to match your new paint?:lol:

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so... you gonna chop it? looks good. man thats a lot of work youve done. can you post some upclose pics of the shaved drip rails? i was thinking about doing this when i chop mine. thanks.

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looking good man:c2::c2::c2:how was the weekend,some pics??

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no I'm not going to chop it.I'll get some pics tomorrow of the drip rail:chevy::metal:

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Hey Harry i posted some pics on the events board. Hows that truck going you thought about that grill yet ;):chevy::metal:

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I'm going to fabricate some aluminium valve covers and keep them anodised:metal::chevy:

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Lots of innovative ideas! Very nice. Looks like a real show stopper. Keep up the good work.

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made a little progress

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Lookin good man !!

That is a really nice looking color.....can't wait to see more !!!

Keep going !

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Wow man that looks really good. Awesome work

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That pretty sick. Looks great in that blue!


Frank

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mr low,are you going to run a blower on that truck,i see the big belt drive pulleys, and man one again, very nice bro

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very nice!!

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Beautiful work !!!!;)

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Wow! This is one to look for once its done. I really love that you made the fender tubs in the front like that, they're awesome. All the fab work looks great. Too bad you live so farrrrrrrrrrr because I would like to see it in person. Once again, great truck.

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Sweet truck! I was wondering about the large lower pulley too.

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thanx guys Dino and Rob I'm running a glimmer belt hence the pulleys there supposed to have the whine of a supercharger (poor mans supercharger):lol:I hope to run an s&p ramair injection unit:chevy::chevy:

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Looks real clean !