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**mr48chev** · 01-21-2015, 01:06 PM

Not very often but while you or I would probably buy a tired engine and build it ourselves or get a really good used engine only a crate engine with all the trinkets is good enough for some guys.

Where I would probably go with steelies and white walls. Other guys are going to go for the latest billet big rims with matching tires at around 1000 a corner on the truck and then worry about them being "out of date" before the truck hits the street.

We all do things a bit different and have different views on how things should be done. As long as we are building trucks that are safe to drive on the roads with no cobbled together pieces that may cause safety issues and not telling others to just cobble things together "because you don't need to do that fancy stuff the other guys say to do" to build a safe truck it's all well and good.

01-21-2015, 01:06 PM	#12
mr48chev Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toppenish, WA Posts: 15,824	Re: Not my cup of tea... Opinions? Not very often but while you or I would probably buy a tired engine and build it ourselves or get a really good used engine only a crate engine with all the trinkets is good enough for some guys. Where I would probably go with steelies and white walls. Other guys are going to go for the latest billet big rims with matching tires at around 1000 a corner on the truck and then worry about them being "out of date" before the truck hits the street. We all do things a bit different and have different views on how things should be done. As long as we are building trucks that are safe to drive on the roads with no cobbled together pieces that may cause safety issues and not telling others to just cobble things together "because you don't need to do that fancy stuff the other guys say to do" to build a safe truck it's all well and good. __________________ Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club. My ongoing truck projects: 48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six. 71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant. 77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around.