Our "What are we going to do?" 66 Suburban Build

[shok]

I like the speed holes under the hood.

[piratexpress1369a]

i missed the battery tray that looks cool

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by shok

I like the speed holes under the hood.

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

i missed the battery tray that looks cool

Thanks!!

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by padresag

my feeling about all those holes is that it makes it to busy in there. it over powers what else is there. just scroll the page down until it blocks it out the rad part. it defines the rest of the eng department more readily . that is just my opinion, it is your truck.
I think that it looked good in the crossmember work that your son did on his truck.
ron

Yea, we get a little dimple happy at times

We thought twice before starting to pop holes but knew we had extra wings and could easily swap them out if we didn't like them. The bumper is in less than perfect shape, so once again, not much to lose by playing around...plus we wanted airflow to the tranny cooler behind it.

But, all in all, we like the dimpled holes

[RockTonka]

Had a busy week trying to get the burb driveable for a scheduled exhaust appointment sat. morning.

First was getting at least the drivers seat in, so bent some tube up, and after a bit of cutting, grinding, and welding had a basic mount for the drivers side...dropped a set of sliders on and bolted it down.

We also temporarily set a old B&M shifter down until we fiqure some sort of center console out...works well enough for the time being.

[RockTonka]

Sat. morning we had a couple FM 50s welded in with a crossover (2" crossover, 2 1/2" on the rest) and dumping in front of the rear through some 3 1/2" SS tips...sounds really nice!!

[RockTonka]

Picked it up at noon and ran it over for a front end alignment. On the way home we cruised past a car show in progress, turns out they were closing registration in 5 mins...we whipped the burb in there!!

Spent the next few hours hanging out with some pretty cool rides...almost 200 of them!

[likaroc13]

very cool! the exhaust looks great; they did a really nice job

[chad64chevy]

i see you did your exhaust the way we were talking about, i plan to do mine the same way but i didnt think about the crossover that will help out too!
how much did they charge you for the exhaust?? and wheres the youtube video with the exhaust, lol! how much did it tune it down??

[piratexpress1369a]

how does the crossover help?

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

how does the crossover help?

It creates a suction between alternating exhaust pulses (side to side), increasing the scavenging effect and thus increasing flow...better sound and more power. At least that's my basic understanding

[piratexpress1369a]

Originally Posted by RockTonka

It creates a suction between alternating exhaust pulses (side to side), increasing the scavenging effect and thus increasing flow...better sound and more power. At least that's my basic understanding

ah thanks ..so how does it sound now?

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by chad64chevy

i see you did your exhaust the way we were talking about, i plan to do mine the same way but i didnt think about the crossover that will help out too!
how much did they charge you for the exhaust?? and wheres the youtube video with the exhaust, lol! how much did it tune it down??

Hey Chad, what's up?

We take all of our exhaust work to a shop off of 89th on the south side called Bender's Exhaust. Ben, the owner, has always done exceptional work at a fair price. We paid $450 out the door for everything and he had it done in a few hours. He takes great pride in the work that he does and always has some cool rides in there that he's working on.

My boy and I will work on a video today of it. The FM 50s quieted it down but you can certainly tell something is still going on with it!! We wanted to stay way from any interior drone on the inside but still have an aggresive tone outside...I think we got it.

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

ah thanks ..so how does it sound now?

Give me a couple hours and we'll get something up but we think it sounds good without being obnoxious...

[RockTonka]

1966 Suburban burn out - YouTube

[jbclassix]

Sounds schweeeet

[likaroc13]

Originally Posted by jbclassix

Sounds schweeeet

x 2.....bet it's hard to keep your foot out of it as well,

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by jbclassix

Sounds schweeeet

Thanks!! We're digging it!

Couple pics of us on the back road...

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by likaroc13

x 2.....bet it's hard to keep your foot out of it as well,

Yea, just a little

[piratexpress1369a]

oh yeah that sounds great ...nice burn out too

[coulter]

Nice burnouts!!! Sounds mean
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[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

oh yeah that sounds great ...nice burn out too

Originally Posted by coulter

Nice burnouts!!! Sounds mean
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Thanks! Not to quiet, not to loud...other than that damn header exhaust leak

[chad64chevy]

sounds sweet, and two patches of rubber with an open carrier, thats awesome!!!

[oklahomaduner]

Well, I got a little distracted tonight and decided to play with some video software that I'm going to have to learn eventually. I figured this might as well be my first shot at it!

1966 Suburban - YouTube

[piratexpress1369a]

Originally Posted by oklahomaduner

Well, I got a little distracted tonight and decided to play with some video software that I'm going to have to learn eventually. I figured this might as well be my first shot at it!

1966 Suburban - YouTube

nice job on the editing