new ride! 85 c10

[LiveAnimals]

Originally Posted by thesickc10

me and my buddy got bored so we made my truck posi today. i pulled off my diff cover to see what gears they are (3:42's) and my buddy who is a welder told me we could weld it up and make it a fully locked rear, so we did! i lovvveee the way it hops when it turns!

That won't last long driving around town with a welded rear. Just a heads up.
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[bitchin85]

Originally Posted by LiveAnimals

That won't last long driving around town with a welded rear. Just a heads up.
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ya your going to go through back tires like crazy too

[thesickc10]

yeah i know i burned two sets of tires off of it already. i have a posi rear at the junkyard just sittin waiting for me to get it

[billnorman]

Dittos on the won't last long, when you turn sharp, something's gotta give..axles, gears, tires or something must give way. On the HiPo engine, I'd ditch the long valve cover hold-downs, they vibrate loose and will cause leakage. Still, you seem to have yard-sale and swapped yourself to an inexpensive hot rod. The 12:1 comp ratio is probably mitigated by a high overlap cam so you can run it on street gas. With that loud yellow color, the cops in your burough will know exactly who you are, good luck.

[thesickc10]

yeah i realize that the truck isnt really set up right but in all honesty i bought this truck just to toy around with while my camaro is being built

[rayfinseats]

haha this is awesome! where can i buy one?
I80 truckstop has them in the chrome shop. $180

http://www.iowa80.com/DirectionsWEB/...art_truckType=

[thesickc10]

i dont know if the duck emblem is 180 dollars cool jeeeeeeezzzzz

[gregg72340]

Originally Posted by thesickc10

had a little extra time today...new grill

so what did ya do with the old grille???????????

[thesickc10]

i traded my stock grill for this grill but the kid never picked it up. ill give him one last call then its up for grabs!

[timjt]

My 85 C10 had a bad trani, it cost us 100 to have it rebuilt but the guy screwed it up a little. Its running now but I wish we had gone with the rebuilt ones on craigslist with garantees.... you can get 'em around here for $350 with a 6 month or 1,000 mile garantee

[thesickc10]

my th350 will be up for grabs soon. i just put a fresh 355 450 horse motor in and need to get something built for it. i want a 700r4 so i can run 4.56's im afraid to price them out haha

[timjt]

While I was shopping around I think I found some for about 1200 that would handle 350-400 hp

[thesickc10]

http://www.bowtieoverdrives.com/cata...SUBCAT&CATID=B

this is the best ive found so far. do you have a link to the 1200 dollar ones?

[timjt]

I wish I could find the website I was looking at a few months ago, but while I was searching for it I realized I probably got the price wrong, sorry. I think the basic rebuilt ones with good parts was 1200 and the upgraded ones were around 2000. Sorry for the mistake...

[gregg72340]

Originally Posted by thesickc10

i traded my stock grill for this grill but the kid never picked it up. ill give him one last call then its up for grabs!

Hey if hey doesnt get back t you let me know about the grill and trans

Thanks
Gregg

[thesickc10]

Originally Posted by gregg72340

Hey if hey doesnt get back t you let me know about the grill and trans

Thanks
Gregg

will do man!

[thesickc10]

ordered a new 3 row aluminum radiator off of ebay today for $211. guaranteed to cool 1000hp not a bad price. as soon as it get here i can put it in the truck and break in the new motor!!!

[thesickc10]

heres some pictures from the removal of the old motor. turns out the crank in the old motor was bent, some guy offered me 200 bucks and off it went. we pulled the motor out at my buddies house since his garaged is heated and mine is not and towed it back to my house with my buddies rollback. enjoy!







motor is out!


i got excited

[thesickc10]

my daily driver. 2003 ford f250 5.4
my buddies 83 1 ton snow commander 360
buddies part truck


hey how ya doin?


on her way home

[thesickc10]

picked up some seats today. my buddy had two sets of these laying around from one of those zr1 blazers he was gonna build but never did. so i got this set and a set with grey stripes for FRREEEEEE.

[thesickc10]

breaking in the new motor

[thesickc10]

break in was succesful. 400 plus hp you can feel every ounce of it!!!! ill post vids and pic as soon as i can upload them

[thesickc10]

short clip of what the new motor sounds like. speaker quality on my camera isnt that great but you get the gist of it.

[thesickc10]

recently put on a hardwood 3.5 cowl hood, peep mirrors, and removed stock mirrors.

[thesickc10]

put on my my visor tonight that was donated by a friend, i gotta get some better pictures during the day.