69 slammed, 22"/24" bbc shaved clean

[toocrazy]

This past week focused on a variety of mods to the truck. When there is so much to do we bounced around a little bit but we were able to get some momentum going in a few directions.

My buddy Bob who is very well talented in hot rod building starting fitting all of the body panels. While mixing original and aftermarket body parts he has spent a lot of time getting everything to fit. It became obvious that is was time for me to move forward on building a work-build room in my garage because the dust started flying. I can dedicate a 20 x20 area in the garage to enclose. I thought I might install a in wall high velocity fan to evacuate the dust while working. If anyone has any hints on this I am all ears.

We had been playing around with some metal fenders for the front tires. I picked up some sheet metal this morning and we started cutting out some panels to finish out the inside of the fenders around the fenders. I think it is going to look pretty good.




A new Vintage Air unit arrived this week and like any new boxes of parts that arrive they must be opened and checked out. We couldn't resist sticking the unit up under the dash..........first fitting was a disappointment as there is no room under that dang dash...........even with everything removed. The last thing I want to see is an A/C unit hanging down below the dash. Next thing you know the grinder is out and we are cutting out an area at the bottom of the cowl. It was cut close to the hood hinges so we could eliminate the outside set of vents to also hide the hood hinges. This allow the unit to tuck far up under the dash so it cannot be seen from the cab.

[67cheby]

I am at this exact same point right now trying to figure out how to tuck mine up in there !
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[jmedero]

Super clean. Keep it up man.
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[VA72C10]

Love the build! Coming along nicely with a really clean look! And the burb is sweet too!

[69CST-V]

Looking forward to more progress pictures. Great start. Nice rides, toys and surroundings you have there.

[502ms]

Very nice work! Subscribed!
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[toocrazy]

thanks guys, we are pretty much working every day right now on the truck so we hope to continue this forward motion. The second fender is almost done and we are looking for places to hide A/C hoses and wires. I have a feeling this front end is going to be more work than I imagined.

[n2billet]

Originally Posted by toocrazy

thanks guys, we are pretty much working every day right now on the truck so we hope to continue this forward motion. The second fender is almost done and we are looking for places to hide A/C hoses and wires. I have a feeling this front end is going to be more work than I imagined.

You could run your a/c hoses behind your new inner fender pieces and use bulk heads down low by the core support. Then run the other end right under the fresh air vent box (bulk heads again) up through the kick panel and over to your unit. I think I might have some pictures, I did my this way. Nice build by the way!

[heavy_duty]

Thants an awesome build.It would be great to see more pics on how you modded the dash to fit the vintage air unit.

Ed

[toocrazy]

Originally Posted by heavy_duty

Thants an awesome build.It would be great to see more pics on how you modded the dash to fit the vintage air unit.

Ed

Ed, I will take some pictures tomorrow and post them. Sorry have been away for a few days. mark

[toocrazy]

Originally Posted by heavy_duty

Thants an awesome build.It would be great to see more pics on how you modded the dash to fit the vintage air unit.

Ed

Here is a under dash picture of the modification......it is still in the rough. We held the Vintage Air unit up under the dash to see what we needed to cut out. The weird looking dimple is what we beat down to give the windshield wiper hinge some additional room. On the right you can see some of the fasteners from the Porterbuilt hood hinges.


You can see how close we came with our metal under the cowl. We made sure there was enough fall to let the water run off the top.

And finally voiding the outside vent sections on right and left to hide those hood hinges.

[JWall]

WOW! Cant wait to see this truck completed.

[mcbassin]

Awesome project. I'm in.

Oh, I forgot to mention I have shop envy after looking at the pictures of yours. Dang!!!

[big_al_71]

Really like this build so far..

[Splash4195]

Nice Project!

[mcbassin]

Nice work modifying the dash to raise the a/c unit. I considered this mod but bailed on it. I just want to get my cab done and knew it would set me back even futher. I think it will be worth the extra time you have invested.

[toocrazy]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

Nice work modifying the dash to raise the a/c unit. I considered this mod but bailed on it. I just want to get my cab done and knew it would set me back even futher. I think it will be worth the extra time you have invested.

I think it is worth while, I didn't want that big hunk of plastic hanging down under the dash. There was very little impact on the truck and considering we needed to hide those hood hinges it worked out for the better.

[Dunenutt]

"It became obvious that is was time for me to move forward on building a work-build room in my garage because the dust started flying. I can dedicate a 20 x20 area in the garage to enclose."

I just want a 20x20 garage! Awesome build! Cant wait for updates!

[toocrazy]

Originally Posted by Dunenutt

"It became obvious that is was time for me to move forward on building a work-build room in my garage because the dust started flying. I can dedicate a 20 x20 area in the garage to enclose."

I just want a 20x20 garage! Awesome build! Cant wait for updates!

thanks a lot for the compliment and sorry about not being sensitive on the garage comment I am spoiled with the space. Funny you mention the garage because a photographer from Garage Style Magazine was here tonight taking photo's of my garage for a future issue. I don't know if you have ever checked it out but its a pretty cool magazine for garage lovers.

[toocrazy]

here is the link for the magazine.........

http://www.garagestylemagazine.com/current_issue

[toocrazy]

Just checking in. We are back in the take everything apart phase. Right now we are trying to get some direction. There are so many things to do we have be jumping around a little bit. Right now the focus is finish the doors. I have this bit of advise, to save thousands of dollars do not do one piece windows and suicide doors. There is so much work in those two items to make them right it isn't funny. Right now just trying to get the doors finished and we are close. Today we cut out the notch for the front vent windows to straighten out the window opening. One Piece Window Products are nice but I really don't think they are completely perfected so we have made lots of adjustments.




The bed is off and we have just a little bit of sheet metal work to do. The inner bed was cut out to gain the extra room for those big tires. I don't know what you guys have done but we are going to close in the gap without welding directly to the bed. Seems like these new aftermarket bed panels are awful thin. We also are going cut sheet metal for the bed floor in the next few weeks.



The frame is are primary focus this week. Lots of sanding and girding to do. We have probably wasted a bunch of time welding the Porterbuilt C-Notches and other suspension parts on the frame but I wanted something without all those bolts. Next time I am building a custom frame because we have spent so much time on the stock frame. From the looks of it I need to cut down the exhaust pipes as they go over the rear end.

[toocrazy]

Bummer, what do you do when you see another truck on this forum painting their truck the color you wanted to paint your truck

[mcbassin]

Very nice work on the frame. Keep up the hard work.

[67cheby]

Great work ! Will the compressors get to hot boxed up ?
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[68jewel]

Frame is looking sweet bro!!