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12-31-2007, 05:09 AM
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road race trucks?
has anyone done their truck like a scca trans am or road race style car? ive always been in to the trans am cars, and would like to gear my 87 up like a phantom trans am truck. anyone give this a go?
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12-31-2007, 08:10 AM
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Location: Ontario
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Re: road race trucks?
Maybe like a Craftsman truck (Nascar) take the 87 Wrangler body, mount it on a used race car chassis. The nascar chassis uses truck trailing arms like the 67-72 trucks with a 9" ford floater rear axle. Drop in a 302 zapper chevy engine and munsey 4 speed buckle up and hang on.
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12-31-2007, 08:40 AM
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12-31-2007, 11:44 AM
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Re: road race trucks?
in order to make it really work you're going to have to do major surgery to the firewall and the dash to allow for enough engine setback which will allow a better weight bias and let it actually perform rather than just looking the part.
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12-31-2007, 06:26 PM
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Re: road race trucks?
The SCCA guys around here will not allow the full size trucks. S10's can. I wouldnt want to my truck, however, I would like to get it on road atlanta sometime.
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12-31-2007, 07:11 PM
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My truck is an alcoholic
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Re: road race trucks?
been thinkin about the nascar truck look,, wide tires on basset wheels, and a few other things.. like a 76 race truck.. Dunno tho..
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12-31-2007, 07:19 PM
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Re: road race trucks?
Like bigblock73's avatar, how can I post it
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12-31-2007, 08:12 PM
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Location: hants co. nova scotia
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Re: road race trucks?
i dont think id ever go so far as to hack my truck up. im gonna try to make it handle half decent thou.
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Re: road race trucks?
Frizzle Fry is so cool. All the stuff I've ever seen him post is chock full of awesome.
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01-01-2008, 08:06 AM
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Location: Ft. Worth, TX
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Re: road race trucks?
i have a few old craftsman trucks that are waay out of date and setting outside our shop. Let me know if you are interested. '98-'99 bodystyle. 1 laughlin standard snout, standard rail, and a hutch standard snout standard rail.
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Re: road race trucks?
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That looks bizarre and fun at the same time -- that thing could smash the oh-so popular miatas if they got in its way
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