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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Wrapped up the George overflow bottle for George. For your viewing pleasure, the pictures are sideways so you can look at them laying down. Really couldn't figure out how to upload them correctly.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Engine update: Found a high ram air manifold for half the price of new. "These things are expensive!!" Will either have to cut it up and weld the Plenum back to original or find a used one to get the elephant out of the room. Was previously on a Vette, so it was extended to keep the throttle body under the hood.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Have this doorway to nowhere since I have a fuel cell in the bed and was thinking of ideas. Hidden bottle opener would be cool, but decided on a power cut off switch. Bent up some stainless and with the help of my daughters Cricket machine, made up some appropriate decals.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
That rad cover turned out better than I thought after seeing the first couple pics
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Mounting plates/ clips installed and body work started. Added some 3/4 flat stock in the front to create another accent and hug it tight to the radiator support. Most likely going to go satin black. Don't want it to jump right out at you when the hood is open.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
I am in for this one... cool stuff so far.
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I enjoy watching the creativity. Thanks for posting.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
x2. It's cool to see others ideas come to life.
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Thank you, much appreciated. Decided to stick with satin black. People will know its custom, without the "Hey look at me" vibe.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Agreed & it looks like a clean, well thought out install.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Moving into the cab to do some organizing/ updating. Area where the current air tank gauge is pretty large and could find better use for it. There is one space left in the cluster, so decided to throw it there. Had to modify the mounting to sandwich the gauge to the cluster bezel to allow it space behind the factory lens. Will eventually change the gauge out to black, once I find one. Also took the opportunity to personalize the speedometer with the trucks name.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
very cool!!! I thought at first you were just going to polish it up...
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Switches are finally in! Decided to use the space where the gauge was for a cell phone holder. Converted the pull out parking/ head light switch to toggle and added a USB charging port. Fabbed everything up out of steel. Wrapped the face with 3M car wrap. Figured it would hold up better than spray paint and lined the inside with fabric ( Now the wife is down a pair of Yoga pants
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While the dash was apart, did a quick update on the configuration of the bag switches.
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Clean work!
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Back to the bed for some needed finishing touches. Previous owner cut out a section to show off the 4 link. I'm not going to close it up, because I like the idea as well and will never haul anything in there. Built a frame out of some old shelving brackets. Gives it a further custom look and adds some rigidity back to the floor of the bed. Its black now, but will paint silver and distress it to match the bed before I install.
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Love your creativity,
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Another check in the completed box on the checklist. Wrapped it up with a distressed look to match the bed and fasted it with stainless hardware/ brass wing nuts to be different.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Been a while, luckily work is slowly starting back up here in the NY Metro area. Jards are opening back up and I was able to grab some drive train goodies. Original plan was to go with an NV3500 transmission. Everyone and everyone's friends have had no confidence in these. Still do not have 2-3 grand to throw at a T56, so I'm going with an AR5. Drifters are throwing these things behind LS's and they are holding up, so we'll see what happens. With the trans, flywheel, adapter kit, clutch and clutch slave, its going to put me at around $1300. Still waiting on the kit, so here's some pics of the trans all prepped. Its an AR5/ MA5 out of a 2007 Chevy Colorado. The Bell housing an automatic 4L60E. It will need to be modified once the kit comes in. For now everything is blasted, cleaned and primed.
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Re: His name is "George" 84' C10
Been reading about these transmissions getting used for mild builds. Seems like as long as you not dumping the clutch w/450ftlbs of torque twisting things they're a very good alternative.
I'll keep watching.
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Quote:
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