silverado.408

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Teach me your ways. Have you weighed the truck yet. Curious how much you have shaved over time

dirt track racer 81

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Thanks guys


If I do a back half for it, I'll bend the tubing and build it myself. Think while I'm there I'll lower the cab on the frame, Just depending what all needs to be cut.
Thanks Kyle!

Yes Stewart like Kyke said, it's just a simpler and cleaner way to mount fuses and relays. Just an 8 gauge constant 12v, ground wire, then all your inputs from your switches or activations, then your outputs on what to turn on.
First relay turns on my holley, then fan1, fan 2, bottle heater, purge, and then my fuel pump for the stand alone, it's on a neg trigger.

I've got everything wired to where I don't have a single butt connector and everything has an eyelet to where if I want to take something off, I don't have to cut and butt connector a bunch of wires, stupid stuff like that cost me a lot of money on my white truck.


You'd sit there and shake your head.. Lol it's around 3600

Blown06

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I'd kill for 3600. How'd you do that?

dirt track racer 81

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Plasma cutter is my best friend.. Lol cut a lot of the crossmembers out, gutted the interior, took out all hvac, radio, speakers, carpet, sound drainer, cut a lot of the crossmembers out, took the doors apart and cut some metal out of there. Anything that's not needed I cut out.. I'll have to look at my scale sheets I think it was 3640-3660 with out the hood and something else, as I was planning in getting a fiberglass hood. Rear percent was I think 43-45%.. I get out to my shop I'll get my scaling sheets. That's also with a th400

dirt track racer 81

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I also have gbody spindles and rotors. That 80lbs off the front.

dirt track racer 81

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Here's a few pics of the gbody spindles and rotors. Had to change quite a few things up when I did these. I did have a thread on these, got some messages on fb from a few people wanting part numbers of ever thing to sell as kit, wasn't found of that so I deleted it.










Got started on the 9" center section along with my ladder bars.

Strange 9" case. Going to have Danny sandblast it and powder coat it.




Got the pinion and bearing preload set in the Daytona style pinion support.




Ladder bars are going to be 3 way adjustable. Tubing is 1.25" .120 wall DOM, the threaded inserts are chrome moly and the front heims are chrome moly as well, the rest will be mild steel.

Damn long bar lol.. I machined the ends and polished the tubing in my lathe.



Far from professional but atleast I'm not paying someone to do it for me.

oakley6575

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Nice progress. Bars look good.

dirt track racer 81

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Thanks man!

Tootall

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I dig the hell out of seeing projects like this. Keep it up.

What did you do about the stock cluster? Using anything off of it?

dirt track racer 81

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Thanks man, I enjoy doing stuff like this.

For the time being it's just in there for looks. I'll put a water temp, oil pressure, voltage, and maybe a speedo in there when I get time