1990 GMC V3500 Slow Build

[burban nate]

Here is my current project. I'm swamped at work right now and don't have much time to work on it as I'd like so progress will be slow.

I bought this '90 Chev V3500 my junior year in HS (2006). One of my dad's friends had it since the early '90s. I remember seeing this truck once and a while when I was real young and new I had to have one someday. It had 219,000 miles on it when I bought it, and those miles were hard miles.



Anyways this is where its at right now.





Cab is completely stripped and is ready to get sand blasted so the metal work can begin. It will need both center and rear cab supports, inner and outer rockers, inner and outer cab corners, and a good chunk of the lower back panel.

I'll be using mostly stock frame and suspension. I'm buying new springs for all four corners because there were busted leafs in all the spring packs. I'm possibly swapping in a rear Dana 80 w/posi for the 70. I'll be putting in an OEM rear sway bar. The Dana 60 front is going to get a rebuild with premium parts. I'm keeping the 4.10 gearing. I'm possibly going to put in a quicker ratio steering box.

I'm going to keep the 454, THM400, and NP205 combo. the 454 has been rebuilt with a steel crank, HP rods and forged dome pistons. It has 049 heads with a performance valve job, Comp Cams TBI roller cam, and good valvetrain. I'm going to use a Vortec intake and control it all with a Dynamic EFI EBL Flash P4 computer. I'm also going to use the Kwik Performance brakets to adapt the '87-'94 SBC serpentine system. The Turbo 400 will get a rebuild with premium parts and a towing converter. Also it will get a 2.75:1 low gear planetary. The NP205 just got new gaskets and seals, it looks really good inside. I will also be adding a Gear Vendors overdrive.

The interior is going to be tan and black two tone. I'll use '89-'91 'Burb front buckets and both floor and roof counsels. I'm going to install a '91 elec. speedo cluster and add a big truck 5000rpm tach/fuel gauge, diesel C-70 100psi oil gauge, and big truck vacuum gauge. Also I'm going to mount a factory clock in its own pod on top of the center of the dash, and a few extra factory gauges in a custom cluster under the dash for oil temp, trans temp, and possibly a few more.

Exterior will be mostly stock except I'm using all GMC trim, I like the GMC grille much better. I'm not sure on color yet, it will either be all black, white and blue two tone, or green and charcoal two tone. I'll be adding '91 power mirrors, Alcoa 8 hole aluminum rims, 'Burb tinted rear door glass, and a '81-'82 marker light bumper with gaurds. I also have a set of factory tow hooks to put back on with the valance panel. I'm also going back to stock ride height.

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