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Thanks! Had a blast on the Tour.

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Awesome! Glad you made it thru the tour without much issue. Too bad about the rim. Did you complete the tour with the bent rim?

I had a buddy from Tyler go on the tour with his son in their Trailblazer. They said it was a blast.

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:ennyd: Fantastic Mike! Long time in coming. Big Congratulations to you. Outstanding job well done. .....Huge personal satisfaction I would think.

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Great build!

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It was quite the experience. By mid-week, we could barely remember what day it was. That's the kind of vacations I like! Nothing to worry about except enjoying your time.

We hit our first local car show this past Saturday and took a Top 30 award out of about 183 vehicles. The truck cleaned up pretty good after all of those miles.

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Congratulations... Some yr I will make that show. The next one I will attend is the Schoolcraft 4th of July show in the park. It is a smaller show but they seem to pull some pretty nice vehicles.

Marc

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Thanks, Marc. I've heard the Schoolcraft show is pretty good. If I get the chance I'll head up that way.

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http://www.pro-touring.com/threads/1...by-Mike-Knauss

Here's a link to the write-up I did posted on pro-touring.com. Check it out when you have time.

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Nice write up Mike...thanks for sharing.

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Awesome work and looks like all that hard work paid off in a big way! congrats on the killer vacation:metal:
too bad Indiana has the same crappy roads we have here.

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THANKS! By-the-way, I finally had some time to get a quote on having the bed locating tabs made up. If I can get enough orders, I can get them at the higher quantity discount, which would help out with a lower retail price. I should have something posted soon.

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Looks like you are enjoying the truck. I feel you on the Indiana roads! I about lost a wheel the other night on them.

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For those that inquired about the bed locating tabs, please refer to the following link for more info:

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=634651

Thanks,

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Another shot from the Power Tour in Knoxville when we were set up in the Holley booth next to the Crusher Camaro.

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Mike, do you have any details on how you ran the rear e-brake cables?

I have the same rear brake setup and was looking at the Wilwood "universal" e-brake cable kit. I see you put the trailing arms on so the clip was on the inside. Any details would help greatly, thx, D'

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Sure, I swapped the trailing arms from left to right, as you pointed out. Part of the reasoning was the way I ran my exhaust tucked up between the frame rails, there was no good path to run the brake cables. Also, I plan on running the tailpipes along the outside of the trailing arms, as I'm planning on it exiting just in front of the rear tires. Currently I just have turn downs after the mufflers.

The Wilwood universal kit you referred to is the same as the Lokar kit I used. (Lokar actually makes the kit for Wilwood) You will also need the forward brake cable and then adapt it to your factory parking brake pedal/lever, part # EC-8001U. Here's a link to it on the Lokar website: http://lokar.com/product-pgs/ebrake-...h-ebrakes.html

Let me know if this info helps. I'll look through some more pics also to see if I have anything else for a visual.

Thanks,

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Thx, Id be very interested in pics of where the front to rear cable mount come together, and I assume the lokar EC800U1 is a one piece from handle down to the rears clevis mount? As I don't have the parts a visual would be greatly appreciated. D'

And yea, where did the exhaust end up????

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Found this pic of how the exhaust is ran. Kind of shows the preliminary routing of the park brake cables. I ended up mounting them to the bottom of the cab floor and then route up thru the factory firewall hole.

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Had a great time at the Lane Automotive Show last weekend. They picked our truck to be on the dash plaques and handed out 1,000 of them! Also met CherieLynn Westrich from Overhaulin' and Miss Painless Performance Veronica Jensen.Attachment 1408686

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Here's a link to a video from the show also...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cebzUDXHocA

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Congrats

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Such a good lookin' truck - thanks for posting up some new pics! Must be pretty cool to have your ride plastered all over the place like that!

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Truck turned out really nice. Have you been driving much? If so, how are you suspension parts working out?

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Well deserved, nice truck for sure!

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Congrats on the recognition Mike! Truck is still lookin great. Looks like a great turn out...thanks for sharing.

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Thanks everyone!

The truck rides better than my '03 Silverado in all aspects: steering, braking, ride comfort, etc. Starting to play around with different spring rates and thinking about changing out the QA1's for RideTech shocks.

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If you need any assistance dialing in spring rates, let me know. I would be happy to help!

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Thanks Chase! I'm running 200# springs in the rear at the moment, but have some 250# springs waiting to go in. I'll be heading to Bowling Green, KY next week for the Ron Sutton Race Technology workshop and after that I'm ditching the large cap HEI and going with an MSD setup. We'll see how time goes this winter and hopefully I'll have the RideTech shocks in place for next season.

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Made it back from Kentucky, the truck ran great as usual. Made a stop in Jasper and took a tour through Ridetech, awesome place and really liked what I saw! Here's a few pics from the trip. Had a great time at Ron Sutton's workshop also!

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On another note, our C10's engine bay made the cover of the Motorstate Distributing 2016 Engine Builder catalog! It's the lower right pic.

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One of the coolest build threads! Truck is awesome!

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Thanks, appreciate the compliment!

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Very nice congrats on the accolades. That truck turned out slick as heck!

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Thanks!

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A little more in the spotlight for out little C10. We made it into the CARS, INC. 2016 Calendar. Stay tuned as we begin phase 2 of our project and take it from a sporting street cruiser to several stages of prep for full on Autocross. Project G-TR 2.0 coming soon!

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Just came across this thread for the first time. Good looking project!

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Sweet Mike! :chevy: Just ordered the calendar. Price ain't bad, but the shipping....

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That's pretty cool!

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Thank you!

I didn't know they had them already available to order, but they did send me a handful of them. I may order some to have extras to give out at the local shows, etc.

Thank you!

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I think I am in love!!!