Happened on the 3rd spray pass I made on the big end of the 1/4. PTv was checked when I built it, it's no where even close. Was over .200 clearance iirc

 

Yea the cam that he had would have had all the clearance in the world.

 

Out with the old stuff.. Cool **** is about to happen.

**Stand by**

And yes that is an actual really sketchy pic... I cut the last crossmember not thinkin about it and the truck flipped up and almost fell off the Jack stands. Nothing happened luckily just spooked me for a few minutes.. Figured I'd snap a pic quick to remind others to alway pay attention to what your doing.

 

Whoopsie!

 

That just means you're doing good weight reduction

 

That's a self correcting action! Glad you're alright and nothing was damaged.

 

Ya got lucky, I scored a 9" housing and axles and brakes. Got a smoking deal on it which was nice, for once.

 

Sold the 10bolt and have some play money now.
Decided on a comp engineering 4 link, a diagonal bar, and anti roll bar, and I'm going to purchase and weld a back brace onto my 9". Haven't decided on shocks but I'll probly start with 150lb springs on the coil overs. Will be running a 430 gear for starters see how it works.
I removed my front sway bar and sold the stock bumper removed the cross member between the frame horns and am fabbing a hoop to replace the frame horns horns. Will have an SS plastic cover.

 

Sat down an ran some numbers for gearing looks like to run 140mph trap speed on a 29" tire figuring roughly 20% slip should be around 7500 thru the traps with a 390 gear. I want to run a decently steep gear because I do a good bit of 1/8mile racing. So I'm going to give that a whirl. See how it goes, I dunno if I will need that much gear but I'll start there.

I bought some nice stuff: went with a comp engineering magnum 4link, magnum anti roll bar setup with adjustable links, and a diagonal link, a back brace for my 9" an upper and lower coil over mount, and a tubular driveshaft loop that I intend to use for the front mount for the 4 link and I will box the frame in and triangulate it.

I will be removing the factory lines I shoulda done that when the engine was out.. I also got a magnafuel 750 pump and pre and post filters, and a boost referencing regulator all magnafuel. I plan to start building the fuel cell soon been trying to source a sending unit, a filler that is vented that looks nice I came up with this one here. Should sit flush with the bottom of the bed. I also got hp tuners and plan to do the tune myself.

 

If you have 20% slip at 7500rpm you need to throw that converter in the trash.