The 71Dragtruck thread

[71Dragtruck]

Well back when I first joined the forum, before we ever had this race section I never thought about keeping track of all the changes I was making to my truck in one thread, also never planned on making so many changes and a lot of never's have now become changes I've made.

So I'm going to do my best to compile some of the important info and progress into this one thread as Regan and DJ have done, to start in this post I'm just going to link a bunch of my old threads here VS a time consuming recap.

Background on the truck is I got it around 33 years ago when I was 17, it came straight from a farm auction, was yellow with a white top, 350/350 combo, all that remains of that now 33 years later are the sheet metal, trim, grill, frame rails, some interior, pretty much every thing else is now aftermarket parts.

It's had a few engine and rear combos and the trans has been reworked a couple times as well as convertor changes, its had:

Original 350/TH350 that had bolt ons added, and a cam, shift kit.

396BBC that was suppose to have some work done to it but was mostly stock junk, TRW's and a cam, all lies LOL, no forged crank etc. live and learn was a guy the brother in law knew.

Built that 396 up, good parts, ported, solid roller, lifter link came loose spun a lifter ate the cam. With that combo I built the trans and had a decent convertor, ran the 12 bolt, 4.10 gears posi rear, moser axels, street poly bushed 4-link.

Next 489BBC, all real good parts read the treads below LOL, put in a mind steel roll bar, fab 9" and a rod end 4-link, this is as far as I ever had planned on taking the truck, basement 10's, although I once also said I'd never put a roll bar in it ha ha.

I don't have many old pics of it as back then we didn't have cell phones, Digital cameras, we used film, would take pics and then couldn't afford to have the roll developed and would end up in the trash LOL. If I find any old stuff I'll try to post up a low quality pic or some sort of slide show, I don't have any pics of it yellow that I can recall.

Anyway here are some of my past threads that contain build info, or track days, I know not the best format to present the info but....

http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=161655
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=167382
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=173637
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=175264
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=175977
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=184269
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=195663
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=196747
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=298609
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=626014
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=632568

If you recall or browsed any of those, you saw that the truck now has a IFS with coil overs and a rack up front now along with that fab'd 9" narrowed and mini tubbed in the rear.


Some old YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwU8KjZrWH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEL4ukomooA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXoXX-OzKCg