I got my BS in construction management from UF. I loved building homes, the custom ones are more of a headache sometimes though. I built a few Jacksonville Jaguar homes, which was cool, but banging out specs is a lot easier. It went down hill so I moved on to commercial construction, which I hated. Now I am joining the sheriffs department, but I still do high end custom decks on the side(my personal one is over 1500 sf.). I wish you luck with building homes, it is a lot of fun. Nice truck too.

 

Not much of an update, but figured I'd share. Found a water jet company 2 miles from my home so this is going to help this and future builds tremendously. I have about $170 worth of brackets being cut and will help get me to the next stage of my build... picking them up tomorrow stayed tuned for that.

As far as, have I been working on it? Well yes, but not much to take pictures, however I did finish up the exhaust tip openings, made them bigger and more symmetrical. All metal finished up. As far as the tips I decided on painting them, as well as the front bumper ducts with a chrome paint. This will allow me to do some needed bodywork, the back plate of the tip will be black to help hide the exhaust tubing opening. Stay tuned, I have one more week off from school and with work slow I may have a few "days off" so I can get some good progress.

As far as the rollpan, here are some pictures before I weld it in for good.

 

looks good

 

Your truck just keeps looking better and better BTW. You should start making some of those rollpans with tips I would be the first buyer.

 

I think it'd be way too expensive to try to make them, a LOT of work went into them,

Update time:
So this water jet thing freakin' rocks! So nice to design them in CAD and have them 1-2 days later.
Couple brackets I had cut, were the cage plates, explained in the video

Swaybar Plates to weld to the bottom side of the frame to hold the muscle bar


New rear lower bag plates

Lower Shockwave Mount




Upper Shockwave Mount




Waiting for my 3/8" Aluminum Spacers for the upper mount

Clearance? Good!




VIDEO UPDATE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfPCneg_EZw

 

keep it up! i couldnt imagine tackling a project this big

 

thanks man, it's all fun!

 

HOLY MOTHER OF CUSTOM TRUCKS this thing is freakin sick.this has got the be the most extensive build i have ever seen

 

Good update, coming along nicely.

 

This brings me back to my days at Wyotech and all the cool **** people would work on up there...

I must say im HIGHLY impressed with your work and how your quality has come along!