she wanted in......so she got in

[84 400]

bling bling. that silver and chrome really pops. nice work should make for a good driver

[Ivan D.]

69face, consider yourself lucky with that hit your truck took - the second day I had my dually it got hit the same ways as yours, same location too, only I ended up with bent frame horns, front passenger cab mount ripped off, radiator support moved like 2-3" to the left, dislocated hood, effed-up passenger fender, nicely bent up bumper, and broken headlight and grille. Worst thing, it was a hit and run accident, I was visiting a friend and parked in front of her house while we went out for dinner in her car, I damn near got a heart attack when I we came back to that carnage... Ain't got no clue as to what hit me, but considering the time and amount of damage I'd imagine it was someone pulling a DUI in a truck, and I sincerely hope he/she got pulled over and ended up spending the night in a jail cell somewhere

Your truck is coming along real nice tho, congrats on a job well done, but if you're in Cali how you gonna pass that big motor through them emissions nazis?

[rod86]

Originally Posted by 69face

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who makes these rims? i like them...

progress is comin along nicely...

[69face]

oem specialites makes the wheels. as for emissions i just need an evap, cat, egr, and a tac for a 1979 federal vehicle. i'll worry about that later though. got it smogged before i started, so ive got 2 years

[69face]

i only have camera phone pic but holy smokes it looks good

[69face]

I think i'll just die now. man i went to start it and it fired on the first try. i went back to start it and the piston is either hitting the head, it has too much compression, or the piston is hitting the valves. i loosed all of the valves and took out the spark plugs and it cranks fine, so that kind of eliminates the piston to head clearance issue, but i dont know where to go next. if its piston to valve the valve would be bent, but all cylinders have awesome compression. if its too much compression i'm not sure where to go next. any help or idea would be great. Thanks in advance -Ram

[68GMC454]

looks great. while my ol lady is not into trucks, or car for that matter, she lets me have my toys....guess i keep her....keep up the good work

[69face]

this is the most i've had time to do i the last few months. i know sad! the lower valance facia. the dash is from my 85.

[87Lowrider]

Just stay with it and you'll get it going.. btw... it'll never be done!

Good job.


Ken

[69face]

got the hood stripped down and primed have to fill a few spots, but went pretty well. i hate having to prime and paint such beautiful metal.

[Square84]

man that thing has got a nice little gooseegg in the center. like someone hit it with a golfball

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by 69face

I think i'll just die now. man i went to start it and it fired on the first try. i went back to start it and the piston is either hitting the head, it has too much compression, or the piston is hitting the valves. i loosed all of the valves and took out the spark plugs and it cranks fine, so that kind of eliminates the piston to head clearance issue, but i dont know where to go next. if its piston to valve the valve would be bent, but all cylinders have awesome compression. if its too much compression i'm not sure where to go next. any help or idea would be great. Thanks in advance -Ram

Ok, how did you line up your timing chain? Dot to dot or dot to zero. I did that one time and the valves were just barely hitting the piston, fortunately for me. I just re aligned the timing gears and put it back together. It was fine.

[69face]

I fixed the problem that night. i needed shorter reach spark plugs and i indexed them just in case. thank you for the input. i remember a guy smashing all eight intake valves by improperly aligning the timing chain. he didn't know that 1 oclock was tdc

[supamatic]

ur not alone 73 -78 r the best folk 4 reals the quareness give them style and there like giant models to work on

[69face]

Ok so there has been some progress, but nothing outrageous. I drove her truck all weekend (HOLY SMOKES ITS FAST!) cant get it to stop pinging. I am running a stupid amount of compression, because she said she wanted fast. So being the "go way over board" guy that i am. I built her a 434 sbc with pop up pistons and 12:1 compression and a comp cams 280h cam (.480/.480, I/E). I started running 91 octane which is the highest at the pump. They have 100 octane about 15 minutes from home, but there is no use i paying $7/gal just to burn it all on the way home in hopes that it will fix the problem. I am thinking of putting a nice low compression big block in it for her( or maybe get a bigger cam to bleed off compression). Here are a few pics

[69face]

ok so i havent painted her truck yet but i'll get to it soon. I put a small block with low compression in with a 2 barrel carb. it looks ok but is pretty gutless, so i'm building a 355 with vortec heads and will put that in next week. here are a few pictures of the current setup. also the new color of her interior.

[69face]

We sanded and painted the interior today hopefully we'll get some paint on the outside next weekend. Pics tomorrow

[scottsdaleowner75]

How are you going to pass smog in that thing? Just wondering unless its a 75 or older of course.

[69face]

I've never bought a truck that wasn't smog exempt. way too many problems. here are the pics from yesterday.

[glimmertwin01]

NICE and the truck is sweet too

[menace121978]

nice progress man!

[69face]

thanks! hopefully i can get some work done on the hood tomorrow. it's raining now. i have to put a skim coat of bondo and the hood will be ready for primer

[menace121978]

right on

yea, its been cold and rain'in like an sob here for the last few days. dont feel like doing anything

[Bubba's79]

What happen to the stroker motor?

[69face]

Originally Posted by Bubba's79

What happen to the stroker motor?

sold it to get parts for the 355 and fund the rest of her project.