IT's TIME! Agent Orange under the knife... Merry Xmas

[effects66]

Well it's finally about that time to get this project on the road. I have been researching, collecting parts and what not for the past year. This site has been invaluable to a lot of the research that I did. So, with no further a do, here we go.

Truck is a 1970 that I have had for ruffly 6 years now. Since I have had it, just did minor stuff to it to get it running and look decent. Most wast just simple cosmetic stuff. the paint is not perfect, if fact it was painted by a student as a project. It's a 10-15 footer. Interior wise, i put new carpet, 2001 Silverado power seats and a little Chrome. It has a little massaged 350 with 350 turbo in it now. Thats about all that has been done to date.

The ultimate goal is a Pro-Touring build, but time and $$ will dictate how fast and much I do. Hopefully I will get close. Keep in mine, this will be a driver and not a show car. I plan on driving it hard with another goal of taking it on the 2013 Power Tour.

Well, here we go...

As she sits now:

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INTERIOR:



ENGINE:




Now the plans:

• LQ9 with comp High Lift Cam, new comp springs, L92 heads, GM single plane intake, cts-v oil pan - DONE
• FAST EFI conversion (to look like carb) - DONE
• relocate coil packs (with new coil packs) - DONE
• vintage air front runner system - DONE
• new flex plate
• build 4l80e (with tci controller)
• New LSX swap radiator (with dual fans)
• smooth firewall
• new inner fenders
• relocate tank to back with Boyd's tank
• plum new fuel system
• setup dual batter setup and relocate to under bed
• Complete Ridetech air suspension with E3 controller
• New custom billet dash
• New Autometer gauges
• Ididit tilt column
• rewire whole truck (American auto wire)
• wire tuck
• custom drive shaft
• rebuilt rear end with eaton posi - DONE
• porter build cross braces and shock tower - DONE

And the boxes pile up:

[effects66]

And the heart:

start



and now:









sorry about the crappy cell pix. I will try to get better pix up

[litew8]

looks like a beast!

[Ghostryder79]

Why Mess with a good thing? To make it THAT much better, duh! I'm in for this.

[effects66]

Originally Posted by litew8

looks like a beast!

It should be a small hand full I modeled the engine build after a couple of magazine builds, with of course some of my own mods and appearance goodies. Should make somewhere in the range of 500-550hp engine. So 400-440hp RWHP. We will see. Once up and running, I will take it to the dyno to see.

[NewType72]

great start I always love a good sized parts pile

[builtbyKane]

That's a nice pile of parts.
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[CC69Rat]

WOW .. this is going to be good! Subscribed.

[67cheby]

SWEET ! nice work cant wait to see more !

[bigguy69]

im liking it

[Low Elco]

That engine...is sexy. Nice little truck!

[effects66]

Thanks for the reply's everyone. I am totally excited about this.

As promised, here are a couple of better pictures of the engine right now:

LSX sitting and waiting...




And next, DECONSTRUCTION and mock up starts:

old 350 out



Started to clean the frame with wire wheel:


and then talked myself into just powered coating the frame. So, that is what I am going to do now. I might as well, everything is pretty much off and going to be replaced anyways, so it would be a waste to put on this new gear on a rusty looking frame.

So for now finished back suspension, fabed a bracket underneath bed for airpod and mocked up boyds fuel tank.

rear air bag on early classic trailing arm and c-notch:


airpod and bracket:



porterbuild cross braces (excellent product!):



interior semi gutted:



and my left overs, which are for sale if anyone wants:

steering column


inner fenders


radiator, shroud, a arms upper and lower & fuel tank

[effects66]

Cab and Bed seperated:




Frame done with mock up and now off to powered coat:




Now just need to fill all the holes in the cab, smooth the firewall and start planing where to run and hide all the wires and harnesses.

[mooseknuckles]

gonna be an awesome build man!

[effects66]

Had some time so wired up the new gauge cluster


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[Tshort1]

Where did you get that dash panel, I love it and would like to get one? Looks like your doing a great build cant wait to see the finished truck!

[widewhite70]

Looks like a good project! I'm in!

[CC69Rat]

Question.. the frame support bar behind the shock bar. One side is over the frame rail and the other side its under the frame rail.

Do they mount that way? I dont know.. Im asking. Im about to do the same on my truck.
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[NewType72]

Wow moving right along awesome brother so hey what kind of panels are these? I've never seen them before are they custom?

[Palf70Step]

Lot of nice stufff going to be in this truck. It ios looking real good.

[northern 85]

Wow !! This looks like fun

[RexDodge]

Very nice...

[effects66]

Originally Posted by Tshort1

Where did you get that dash panel, I love it and would like to get one? Looks like your doing a great build cant wait to see the finished truck!

The dash panel is from Doc's Kustoms. Great people. I modified one of their panels to get the look I wanted. Still undecided but might wrinkle paint the dash panel to mimic the original dash look

Originally Posted by CC69Rat

Question.. the frame support bar behind the shock bar. One side is over the frame rail and the other side its under the frame rail.

Do they mount that way? I dont know.. Im asking. Im about to do the same on my truck.
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No, they do not mount this way. I was simply mocking it up. It goes in between the frame rails. It's a tight fit and didn't want to bang it in and then have to bang it out.

Originally Posted by NewType72

Wow moving right along awesome brother so hey what kind of panels are these? I've never seen them before are they custom?

If you are talking about the door panels, I had gotten these from someone local that was selling them from his truck. I don't know if these are stock.

[effects66]

Correction on the door panels, they are original look. You can get them from LMCtruck.

[NewType72]

Really? I've just never seen them like that must be special for LMC the wood insert usually encases the handles in it and the arm rest would be the longer squatty one instead of the 67-71 style for the metal door panels. I'm Learning something new everyday