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This is my former project Somad i sold Oct 4 08. I have now purchased it back. Im posting the old build pics then will be updating as we go
1972 Suburban 3 door had it layd out on 20's before with nice engine/trans but decided to go all the way with it. Built 362/350turbo with custom engine cover and lots of billet. Custom tubular frame from front to back doin 20/22 combo w/ One off Devious Wheels. Building tubular control arms and custom satchell link setup, frame and all components will be smoothed and painted/powdercoated and everything will be plumbed with polished stainless hardline. the body has received Avalanche taillights, Pt Cruiser door handles, 67 hood on 72 front end, custom rear corners/rollpan, shaved mouldings, shaved door locks, shaved emblems, shaved marker lamps, all rust repaired with modified truck/blazer patches and all the suburban parts i could find available. Doin Bear Claw latches on the doors and hidden hinges on the rear gate/hatch, custom rear floor to conceal suspension
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Welded in a few xmembers and got started welding in the front xmember, gotta cut it up and make it all nice still but this mofo will lay a 31" tire now although im still just doin a 20 on the front and 22 on rear
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Started cuttin the xmember up this evening and got it ready to plate and fab upper arm mounts.
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Got the ends of xmember plated and the upper control arm mounts modified/fabbed and welded in and then went and picked up a 9 inch ford rearend housing/axles for it tonight
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Got the front bag brackets fabbed,welded in, and gusseted and a few other small filler panels welded in today. It will still lay a 30" tire with no prob...firestone used for mockup due to slams being so stiff LOL
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Finally found a place to get the rims/tires mounted/balanced, they had a badass machine that never touched the rim at all thing was like 11k for the machine. Anyway here are the pics the chassis will actually be rolling by end of week and we may sit the body on for body mount placement this weekend
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got the front xmember notched and ready for the rack waitin on tierod ends now and some steel to build the rear bag brackets/crossmembers
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Got the rack mounted tonight finally hopefully Brian finds the heims he has so i dont have to order some to finish off the steering. Gotta finish welding and moulding the mounts into xmember and put the heims on and its a done deal on frontend other than changing to tubular lower arms
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Got the mounts welded fully and ground smooth mounted rack then set the engine/tranny in there so i can fab mounts
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On the lift building tranny member, mounting fuel cell etc
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One off trans xmember

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Got the nuts welded into frame and mounted trans xmember finally then fabbed the gussets and got them welded in. New rims should be here this week 22/24 Rozzi Switches, also my new Airlift Dominator bags they are sponsoring should be here this week
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Well as most of u know i(like a dumbdumb) thought i wanted to sell this thing and i did last Oct.......Well i have kicked the **** out of myself since the day it left and especially when the new owner cut it in half and shortened the body 33 inches. I am buying it back and picking it up today then work will begin reconstructing the work they did shortening it and also extensive work to the roof to make it look correct and in proportion in the shorter version(i thought at first i hated it but after staring at pics and drawing the roof with all the mods ima do it actually is gonna look better than ever.

Here's a pic of it in StreetTrucks ///Allstar 08 Coverage
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Here's one of what the guy i sold it to did
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Here's a sissor and tape photoshop of it shortened altho the roof is not really changed like its gonna be...
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starting over 33 inches shorter LOL
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ready for shortening and a lot of cleanup..
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Drail made a rack to sit the body on so i can move the right wheel well back and do some metal work on all the lower surfaces
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Once wheelwell is moved back 9 1/4" like the other side we can put it back on the frame(once its modified) and start the roof mods
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The 3rd door ///Big Bill had striped and gave me for Christmas 08
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hey man i like the new frame...keep it up keef

Wow, I just went thru the thread. I remember seeing your 08 pics, that's crazy that you sold it and then bought half of it back. :lol: About 2 years ago I really wanted to shorten a burb like this, I'm glad to finally see someone do it. This pic was my inspiration. I'm subscribing.

I liked it better as a sub but o well..

so i have a quick question keef....are you goin to use those lower bars or are you going to rebend them out of less pieces?

Sorry if i missed it but what are the door handles from?

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Originally Posted by FRENCHBLUE72 (Post 3526209)

I liked it better as a sub but o well..

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Originally Posted by killer71 (Post 3546108)

Sorry if i missed it but what are the door handles from?

Pt Cruiser

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Originally Posted by little nick D (Post 3545353)

so i have a quick question keef....are you goin to use those lower bars or are you going to rebend them out of less pieces?

Using those i started building but they are getting gussets with dimpled holes to match the other work ive been doing