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Location: Qualicum Beach British Columbia Canada
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Re: 56 project
Wow, That's amazing work. I'm just doing all of my sound system. I just installed the big sub box behind the stock seat today. Next I'm going to start filling in all of the vacancies left over.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Corona, California
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Re: 56 project
That looks great.
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Location: Corona, California
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Re: 56 project
Your truck is turning out great.
Kim |
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Re: 56 project
Looks good. FL doesn't required wipers?
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Re: 56 project
Nice!
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Re: 56 project
jjjmm56
Do you have any more pics on how you built your tilt hood? I want to do the same to mine but cringe at paying what they're asking for a kit. I just don't see that much metal or work to make one up. If you have any dimensions I would really appreciate it. Kim |
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Re: 56 project
Kim I can take more pics for you this weekend. When I did mine I used Cals as the model,and just went off reference points. I then added extra mounting points.If you look the cross bar that bolts to the hood has extra attachment point to the hood brace. If I were to do it again some of the things I would change is, on that cross bar ends instead of welding the tabs run the square tube to the end and cut it at a 45. Also add gussets at the vertical supports. Another important thing is the slides bolted to the firewall .If the angle is not steep enough or not high enough the corners of the hood will hit the top of the fenders. Custom classic trucks or Classic trucks has a install write up in their tech section.
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I really appreciate the info. Kim |
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Re: 56 project
Heres some of the things I finished this weekend, and Kim heres some of the tilt.
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To let you guys know you don't need to break the bank for your carpet. I went to a carpet store and found a leftover peice of indoor/outdoor carpet. It was 3' wide by 20'long. That with padding was 30.00. And by letting the guys there know what I useing it for they did all the edge binding for free. Also the bed floor was made using 4x8 finish grade plywood at Lowes 44.00. The strips are from mar-k can"t beat the price at 20.00 each for polished SS. Now for the polished ss carrage bolts they wanted 1.00 each which is not bad. I found the same bolts not polished at Fastenall ,11.00 for a bag of 50. I spent 30mins on the buffer to polish the bolts.
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The interior looks great.
Thanks for the measurements they are a big help. Kim |
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Jim
Truck looks awsome,what did you use for the trim peice on the cab floor in your cab where the carpet goes down to the rocker panels? |
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candyx, The trim strips are made of 1,1/2" emt that I cut in half with a 4,1/2 grinder and cutoff wheel. It does take some time to miter the corners but it's worth it. I was going to have them power coated but they wanted 75.00 each.
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Re: 56 project
nice truck!! A big whats up from Pensacola! Moved up here from Winter Haven 4 years ago. Man I miss the car scene down there especially Old Town. Your doing a killer job, keep it up.
Juan
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Thanks Juan, not to make you feel bad but I was at old town last sat.
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Re: 56 project
Man!! Beautiful! Seriously great work.
How did you connect your bottom dash piece that you built?? Posted via Mobile Device |
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Re: 56 project
Heres the pic of the brackets
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Location: Caldwell, Idaho,United States
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Re: 56 project
Absolutely love your truck, great work. how much clearance do you have between front tires and fender lip? do you have any pics of it at ride height where it won't rub? what is your front wheel backspacing? sorry for all the questions but I see so many of these clipped TF trucks bagged but most have to be raised considerably to drive without rubbing, I am in the process of narrowing the camaro clip in my own truck cause I want to be able to drive it as low as possible.
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Re: 56 project
rockers are around 4" at ride hight. I don't remember the offset, I did roll my inner fender lip for clearance. The only time I have ever rubbed was riding really low and making a hard u turn
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Re: 56 project
I would think twice about narrowing the clip. Mine is a 70 camaro and I set the 56 frame on top the sub which gives a little more drop. Like zeeing the frame. If I rember I think my offset is 6" on an 8" rim.
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Location: Caldwell, Idaho,United States
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Re: 56 project
Thanks, my clip is mounted the same way, it's tacked in place currently, but i have 1.5" less backspace (3"total) than you do, i have plenty of room on the inside of the tires to work with. i am looking at taking an inch off each control arm and then if that still rubs possibly cut from the crossmember center , i made the mistake of ordering wheels based on others builds rather than doing my own measuring to get the wheels centered
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Re: 56 project
Thanks for the picture of the bracket. That's cool work.
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Location: Caldwell, Idaho,United States
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Re: 56 project
So do you get any side to side movement using a wishbone bar as opposed to a regular panhard bar? I ask because I am considering several options to my current leaf spring w/blocks suspension and yours looks interesting. what I have read about parallel and triangulated suspensions seems to indicate problems with side to side movement using the parallel setup.
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Re: 56 project
No movement at all. Panhard bar will allow frame to travel in a slight arc going up and down. We did a watts link on my buddies 52 on a s10 frame. That is a really nice setup.
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