69 short bed

[TYoder]

Hello Gents, I'm starting my first build with the inspiration that I received from looking at your trucks. While growing up, I remember riding with my grandpa in "old blue" a '72 k10 and knew that some day I would have one of my own. So I picked up a 69 short bed, which was someone's project that fell through. Either from lack of money, time or both.



I know don't say it, the bed is wrong.....thats ok. I dont want a step side anyways.

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So, on with the truck. It originally came with a inline 6 but some one converted it over to v8. Upon further inspection the motor is a '69 DZ302 from a z28 camaro. I plan on building up a 350 for this build so again. If your interested in the motor let me know.

My plans so far is to strip down to the frame and build from there. I will be updating to power brakes, 5 lug conversion with disk brakes all around. Rack and pinion steering, lowering with springs, fleet side short bed are just to name a few.

[TYoder]

I picked up a used 700r4 transmission that I am going to have rebuilt to set behind the 350 block that I acquired. This truck is going to be a driver and 4 speeds with overdrive would be nice for cruising on the highway.

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I changed the oil and fired the motor up, and I double checked the stamping on the motor. Its defiantly a 302 from 1969 z28. I took a short video of the motor running.

69 z28 dz302 - YouTube

Tomorrow I am going to take the cab off and start stripping down the frame. I found a local guy to media blast the frame, bake and paint....so that's the next step.

I don't know what I want to do for the motor

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[68GMCCustom]

making good progress!

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I found a local guy that will media blast the stripped frame, bake it, then paint it. Once that is completed I plan on doing a 5 lug conversion, full disk upgrade, high performance suspension all while lowering in the front or rear.

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I found this online and picked it up, I figured it would make a nice addition to my truck. Its original.

[Kyle Martin]

Project looks good man

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[Tinkermc]

looks very nice. I look forward to watching, very interested in 4 wheel disc brakes.

[TYoder]

I have been doing some research on rack & pinion steering. I originally thought of doing a manual rack, but decided on a power rack. I want a more responsive feel while turning and quicker lock to lock. I have found some good information and alot of good information on this site aswell.

http://www.crankshaftcoalition.com/w...inion_steering

http://www.longacreracing.com/articles/art.asp?ARTID=13

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I identified a cam that I pulled from another motor on hand its a erson hi flow 11h , and I cleaned up an edelbrock torker II intake as well. I know these are older pieces but they will work for now what im doing. I will also change out the factory valve covers for an aluminum edelbrock set that I have.

[TYoder]

Erson P/N E110521 ,Grind # Hi-Flow IIH ,Advertised duration= 306°I/306°E ,@.050 duration 235°/235° ,gross lift .472/.472 ,108° LC and ground w/0° advance.

This is the cam specs for the above noted cam, it may be a bit much. I don't have a lot of knowledge on cam selection, but im learing.

[trkfrk]

Sweet....

[mcbassin]

Cool project. I'm subscribing.

[TYoder]

I got off work early yesterday, just in time to get the frame loaded up and dropped off at the powder coater. They are extremely affordable, I hope everything comes out looking great. I will post pics when I get it back. They are coating the frame and the cross memeber for now, more later. I am excited to get it back so I can finally start on the suspension.

http://www.rmlpowder.com/automotive.html

They are located in Ottawa, Kansas

[TYoder]

With the frame getting coated, I figured it would be a good time to clean up the shop, so I pulled everything out. I degreased the floor, now to figure out this 2 part epoxy kit. It shouldn't be too bad. Will post pics soon.

[Tinkermc]

a clean shop makes life easier, but it is the final product that counts and only that. So far looking goood

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[LEX]

The floor looks awesome. I want to do that to mine someday. Was it fairly easy to do?

[TYoder]

Originally Posted by LEX

The floor looks awesome. I want to do that to mine someday. Was it fairly easy to do?

It was pretty easy, I wish I did a before pic. I was all stained up from oil, grease, dirt etc. Right now it is still curing. The color is almost evened out, the system I used the rust-oleum epoxy shield 2.5 garage. Now that the shop is done the wife wants me to do the garage.

[TYoder]

Getting everything put back together.

[mcbassin]

I really like the new shop floor. I hope to use this on my new garage when I build it. Clean shop? what's that?