What do you guys got tore apart right now? Lets see some pics!!
I am currently planning an engine of some sort, lots of decisions to make and money to scrounge up. My father in law picked up another '79 from a member on this site that he will be running this year. Should be a decent runner, a far better rig then what he was running. It has a 521 on n2o.
This one is going to be a ranger for me. my wife is taking over the step side! That pic is a couple weeks old have since built my extended radius arms, and have been working on the rear suspension. It is a 95 Ranger frame I widened out to fit the bronco TTB front x-member in. I am bumping up a class so it opens up a whole new world on my limitations. The engine will set 6in behind the centerline of the front axle! which is just about 13in farther back than it is in the step side.
Im working on getting my 79 together. Swapt out 1/2 ton for 1 ton dana 60 front and sterling 10.25 rear. Pushed front axle ahead 6 or so inchs Took out the tired 351m put in stock 460 and now im working on transmission cross member.
Heres a pix
Still a lot of work and hopefully sourcing out some race parts to built a mean motor
I'm planning on getting my motor done by spring. Then maybe start building some axles for some big tires. Here's a pic on what I have for the new motor
Hopefully get some ladder bars built and installed. Add a 300 shot and go play. I am going to go mainly to the Friday nite shootouts for cash and the heck with the points race.
In the mean time keep working slowly on a big cube engine in case the 300 shot don't work as planned LOL.
Hopefully making a ton of headway this year on the Orange truck. Lot of cutting and welding and massaging to get the old girl MRA Super Stock legal. It was fun the first time around, but, we're a tick smarter now, and we might get hurt, lol.
I've got to rewire the truck, had a small wire fire early last year and have still been procrastinating on fixing it. Also picked up some 24" wheels and need top start saving up for rockwells.
nothing really going on up here,just planning,everything is still out back covered in 3 ft of snow!! and with the -20 crap and below it looks like nothing gonna happen soon LOL.
Nothing too over the top for me. 69 2wd bumpside on a 79 4x4 dentside frame. 460/c6/np205 d44/9". 6" super lift coils up front with home-made extended radius arms, and going to build my own shackle flip and extended shackles for the rear. I suppose I could update my build thread. LOL
here is the "donor" body.
Frame all stripped down and cleaned up a bit (except for the rear axle, so I don't have to use all my tall jackstands and to add a little stability)
Here is the engine/trans bolted into place.
Here is one of my extended radius arms all painted up.
Someone was looking for pics of a front axle moved forward. This is mine, stretched 15" forward, 38s in the front, one pic with 35" paddles, one with 39s on the back
I'm hoping to get it really light! (Around 3,000lbs) Before I had everything cut out of the cab I set it up on the frame by myself and now with everything cut out I can pick it up with one arm! Going to add a little weight with the 10 point cage tho.
I was trying to get it together for some races last fall....But I just have way to many projects going on at once. Haha. It will pretty much just be a trail rig for now. It has a 429/c6/203. 60's front and rear. I had a 514 for it but bought a car and it got priority. As soon as the snow goes I will get it together.
More progress! I mounted the seat tonight it is going to be a tight squeeze!
Ended up with a 12 point cage i'm just hanging the body skins on the cage total body right now only weighs roughly 150lbs I really excited to get the rest of the weight into the truck (engine, trans, fuel cell, ect..) so I can get it on the four corner scale!
mine got a few thing's... new rims and tire's got rid of the TSL's on the front and got some 38x11's front on 8" aluminum rims, then picked up some more 38.5x15 bogger's and put them on 10" aluminum rim's touched up the paint and finally got the name on it... also it got a new transmission that i re built since the old one cracked the case and i lost second completely and first was nearly shot to. engine is back in and its back up and ready to go, hopefully gonna make it to a race Saturday with it....
best pics i have of what it looked like with the TSL's on front and black steel wheel's
I got my cylinder heads back today, first set of aftermarket heads I've owned they have had a little work done to them
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