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Dude, this build is looking better and better. Any more and I will want to tub and blow mine! :lol:

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Well it's been a busy couple of weeks for me....My newest addition that just got painted blue that i liked so much.....well i sold it to someone would just had to have it.....now it looks like i will be doing some modifications to it for him.....anyhow...

Thanks for all the feedback on the prostreet project....the floor is finished now...the firewall is finished now.....the seats are mounted for fit....the box is back on it...fuel cell is almost mounted....batteries are almost mounted....and it looks like a truck now. I would like to see it rolling into the body shop by the middle of next week...thinking the factory color the cab was in a gloss but frankly i have no freaking idea yet. Soon as i get a few mins i will load some pictures and post a update...

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Take the time for your faithful followers.....
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wutnxt,
I love to pop on the computer with my coffee in the morning and search for the fat tired truck builds here in the group.
It gives my lazy a$$ inspiration to get out there and work on mine.
How about throwing a brother a bone and post some progress pics????
So I can go :jdp:

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So let me get this right, 'you sold one of your trucks and your getting to work on it' which means you have money to put into the prostreet truck, lol!!
what happened yesterday with the pics? i'm waiting to see updated pics!! LOL!!!!

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I think we may have a pic-tease...
:haha:
I crack myself UP!

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Okay Okay.....pictures i get it ...

So we have the box back on again with the new rear cage.....the fuel cell goes into the middle. The batteries go on either side of the fuel cell....The rear tubs are out at the moment just to make it easier to work around. We changed up the rear cage so the cab didn't get cut at all and just the window gets cut instead....it's a bit cleaner looking i think and will be a better seal in the end.

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Duuude sic!!

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The cage has been my issue.

I just haven't figured out how to re-enforce the frame without having the cage visible and hacking up the back of the cab.
I don't want to see the cage outside the truck.

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The cage is all finished now.....

Decided to not go with the swinging side door bars....didn't want them bashing into the doors....

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Thanks Dude....
From a guy like you that builds killer stuff thats a awesome thing to hear

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We went with a floating seat and shifter plan.....The seats mount off the cage not the floor so they kind of just float there....When i sat in the seat....(which took forever by the way) and your all buckled up there is no way to reach anything on the dash so we will be moving the switches/ignition to the center between the seats.....not sure when I drive on the street how i am going to use the turn signals just yet. With the seat belt laws here it basically say's that if it came with belts you have to have them,if you but belts in it you have to wear them. So call me silly but I might make the harness so it comes out easy when i drive it on the street....then i can reach everything.....lol....

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I still have a few changes to make.....
Filled a hole in the dash.....cut the hole for tunes....going to need something loud to drowned out all of the engine noise. Thinking we are going to make a gauge cluster to fit into the original dash , still not excatly sure on that just yet.

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I am not a huge fan of the high back seats so thats going to be a change...Having a big back window cab full of huge head rests didn't seem like a good idea to me. So the plan will be ( I think ) to cut head rests down and then have a head rest that hangs off the roll cage on both passenger and driver seats.That way they could be removed when driving on the street and if it goes to the track you just pop them back in with the seat harness.

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Well if it's not going to the track it would make it alot easier, if it's going to go to the track and going to run a pass....It gets way more complicated. I decided if i was going to make it possible to run that fast I might as well make it legal for the track.....in the event that oneday I want to sell it to someone who might want to race it. If i was starting the build all over, not so sure i would have done that much cage work and I would have made it more for the street.

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I am on the fence at this point.
The frame has an Art Morrison back half unit in it with a narrowed 9". I was originally going to do a extended cab/custom 5' bed job but I found a flawless 63 donor cab and couldn't bring myself to cut it.
Now I have a virgin short wheel base frame I am looking at and rethinking the build. Problem is, I have 20" wide M/T street radials and I can only get 16" tires in using a stock frame.
Then again I could re-enforce the frame and use no cage at all but what would be the point of using the 600+ hp motor at that point?

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Buddy, this truck keeps getting better and better! I for one can tell you how those dang harnesses suck goat balls to be in while on the street! I like your idea. In my vette I originally had a retractable seat belt set up in it plus the harness. But, I took it out when I was cutting items to put it on a diet. The blower looks bad azz! Heck, the whole package is off the hook! I really like the look of your cage too man!

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very nice, very nice!! love the pictures!!

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THANK YOU BROTHA!!very kind words,and kat this truck your building is sooo bad a$$$ i check the updates every day

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I will take some pictures tomorrow when i get a chance......and then the updates will slow down as it heads to the body shop.....The body guy is building a new shop and is going to wait till it's up before starting my truck so .....that gives me time to wait and pick a color......I am guessing a couple of weeks before anything happens on that front....

soooooo while i am waiting i might do a 6 bolt drop spindle swap on my black primered truck.......or a might do a engine swap on the old blue big window truck......or start a cab for the powder coated truck frame....or i could build a addition for my shop.....or i could just drink beer and relax.....

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Drink beer and relax happens when it is snowing out. :lol:

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Thanks dude....
I hope we both keep them long enough to see them parked side by side.....We are going to have to pick a place half way when they are done to hit a event....I am down for driving a day for a side by side....We had a big cruise event last weekend with about 1300 cars, and it killed me not to have anything to drive....ugh

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LMAO ***...ya but it's been a long wrench pulling nuckle busting summer dude...I pulled more wrench in this summer then I did all of last year....funny bit of info is we drank more beer this summer then we did all of last year too....intresting huh ...

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for sure that would be sic, i have plans on going to brothers show for sure and (dont tell my friends i am buying a trailer or everyone will ask me to barrow it:lol:) and that show primer nats in ventura ca , find somthing in the middle i will meet ya. we have a huge cruz night coming up oct 4 and i am try to get my p/s done in time

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That would be awsome to meet someplace in the middle Dude.....I never even looked at my prostreet truck today....Screwed around with a truck from the " field of dreams "...thats the place with long grass that i hide all my trucks. .....lol

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Ya know your a redneck when......

I cut the grass in the "field of dreams " and found 4 more 64 to 66's.....and a 1972 longhorn ....lol....shakes my head

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Like the cage. Can u show us more of it and how are you mounting your seats to it? Do the seats attach to the cab at all or only the cage? If so, how are you doing the front seat mounts? Does the cage attach to the cab at all?

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LMAO ***...ya but it's been a long wrench pulling nuckle busting summer dude...I pulled more wrench in this summer then I did all of last year....funny bit of info is we drank more beer this summer then we did all of last year too....intresting huh ...
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now thats funny!! so any idea on a color or still thinking about it?? and i got a question about the brace by the door opening? you said it took forever to get into, would it be track safe to do like an s bar? instead of a slated straight piece that you have in there now! that way it would be a lil easier to get into!! jmo!!

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kind of like the same shape as the sides of the seats!!

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The cage attaches to the cab at the floor....then the cage gets picked up under the cab and down to the chassis. The two back bars that run from the floor to the roof have extra bars the run parallel to the floor and inbetween the two back bars....On the parallel to the floor bars there are steel pads to mount the seats too. So the seats mount to the cage instead of the floor if that makes sence. Then for the front seat belt portion we but tabs in under the seat off of the mounts to pick up the front seat belt. In this picture at the very bottom you can see the two pads the seats bolt to .......and the parallel bars i was talking about. Those seat mounts and parallel bars are about 5 or 6 inches off of the floor....hope that makes sence

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I think you can get a better look at it from this picture too.....you can see the seat mounts and all of the bars they hang off of...

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Thinking that original color that was on the cab in the begining....high gloss...some flake......and a white side strip with a pearl in it.....but haven't done any samples yet..

When i said it took forever dude....i ment that it's been a long time since my butt was in the truck not that it was difficult to get into.

You can't really do a S bar if you want to pass tech at the track because the drivers side bar has to fit to each driver..( passanger bar isn't even required just wanted it to match )....so if you taller that side bar would have to be higher...plus it also helps that when I get into the truck it would be bagged down and about a 1" off the ground so your stepping down into the seats....

plus....I will be running the " Quick " steering wheel kit...the kind that just pop off and snap back on.

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Yeah, can see some of it. Thanks for the clarification. Would always like to see more pictures. I am doing a cage as well and am at the same spot of figuring out how to mount the seats. Also working on outrigger (to the frame) designs. What did you do for the outriggers?

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If i get a chance tomorrow i will see if i can take some more cage pictures for you.....The outriggers come right off of the boxed chassis and are 2"x3" steel on edge that come up from the frame and right to the pads that the cage bolt too....I think if i were to do it again if your cab mount brackets have any rust at all...You really don't need them because those outriggers actually carry the entire cab anyhow if ya follow what i am saying. Basically if you use the cab mounts and the outriggers ( thats what i did ) you end up with 8 cab to chassis mounts instead of the four....not that it's bad to have extra

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:lol::lol: shhh i am good at cut-n grass but never find any c10s

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Well i was in hopes of finding a mint big back window cab and a extra fleetside short box....but that was a bust.....I have a sweet short box chassis ready to go and could have used a cab and box...but I guess thats going to have to wait for a while....this prostreet project has killed the money tree's i had planted last year...lol

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ok i wasnt for sure how they do things at the track but i have seen some like that! and i was just wondering!

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Hey Wutnxt great roll cage work, I love this truck. Have you put any thought to how much horsepower it will take to run a given E.T and checked the NHRA Regs? Your fabricator looks like he knows plenty, so I'll continue hoping not to be talking to Austin Coil or something, 565 hp will put a 3700 lb truck @ about a 12sec e.t. An 11.5 only requires a roll bar. Here's a link to play with, not sure which horsepower it uses but I use both, dyno hp and -20% for drive train loss.

NHRA rules change at 10.5 and 9.5 etc, each second milestone = more bars on your cage. Getting in the 10's let alone the 9's takes serious power.

How much horsepower are you hoping for???

http://www.wallaceracing.com/accel-calc.php

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Dude the trucks looking nice! Question though, how do you get the bed off with the cage there? What color you plan on painting that thing?
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:lol::lol: