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here is some progress....this weather has me motivated like a muhfuggah....
really dont know where to start, so i will just babble a bit and then post some pics...
$$$ is the slowest part of this rig, followed closely by the fact that i have a hard time pulling the trigger and doing something.....that is partly due to the fact that everytime i have completed something, i work on another aspect and have to change what i had been working on....moved the fuel pump 3 times, battery, blahblahblah....
anyway, swapped the HP D44 out for a D60....79 HP ford unit stripped and rebuilt from the ground up with detroit, 4.88's, reid racing knuckles, BTF high steer arms/arp studs, R&R offroad flanges, 3/4 ton brakes, Alloy USA shafts, LONGFIELD 300M joints, forged 1350 yoke, and a BTF diff cover...:smokin:
also stabbed in some full hydro (no, not the sticky-icky) by PSC.....BOY IS THAT a TIGHT FIT....one note about the 60/44 swap, the car now sits about 1" higher in the front b/c i had to install taller tabs to allow for the height difference of the 60 coupled with the hydro ram....in hind site, i would have most likely chosen a single ended ram but hey, that's hind site and it fits....:homer:
also went with -3 HP brake line, i did't like the bent hardline and i saved a little $ over my original investment of the hardline, -4 hoses @ the joints and all the adapters for them....so that was cool that it worked out that way....
uh...ran the fuel lines...(FTR, SS hose is a biatch to work with if your tape aint got no balls....period).....
also, ran the lines for the tranny cooler...
uh, put on tabs for a roof (not pictured) will do the roof last when i can take the car to the guys house and have it cut on site....
interior is @ 90%, waiting on my aluminum welder man to finish reinforcing my dash that i built (i dont ahve a tig, nor am i learned in the tig arts...) and also he is welding my coolant overflow tank to the ron david radiator...hopefully this will be done within a week, and i can add tabs for the dash and get to stripping 'er down...
here are some pics....please, no make fun of my welds...i am still learning, lol, some are prettier than others, but i think that they should all hold just fine........there are a few more things that i have to touch up here and there (welding on boat side tabs and what not...
*****oh....
almost forgot....i corner weighed the car today....
cam in @ 3075#....i padded teh interior and underhood by a good bit with jackstands to account for the missing ratiator and warn 9.0rc...also put some inside the car to account for the missing dash and instrument panel, and also used a bag of sand with the fuel cell to account for the fuel....there are other things that i added for weight, but are not necessary, you get the point...
the last pic will be the scaled weight.....:grinpimp:
couple pics of the fuel cell with the added pics, thanks KULA for the link to those, now maybe i wont starve it going down a steep grade....
few random shots of the front axle...thank to jmhinescj7 for helping me set up the gears.......
really dont know where to start, so i will just babble a bit and then post some pics...
$$$ is the slowest part of this rig, followed closely by the fact that i have a hard time pulling the trigger and doing something.....that is partly due to the fact that everytime i have completed something, i work on another aspect and have to change what i had been working on....moved the fuel pump 3 times, battery, blahblahblah....
anyway, swapped the HP D44 out for a D60....79 HP ford unit stripped and rebuilt from the ground up with detroit, 4.88's, reid racing knuckles, BTF high steer arms/arp studs, R&R offroad flanges, 3/4 ton brakes, Alloy USA shafts, LONGFIELD 300M joints, forged 1350 yoke, and a BTF diff cover...:smokin:
also stabbed in some full hydro (no, not the sticky-icky) by PSC.....BOY IS THAT a TIGHT FIT....one note about the 60/44 swap, the car now sits about 1" higher in the front b/c i had to install taller tabs to allow for the height difference of the 60 coupled with the hydro ram....in hind site, i would have most likely chosen a single ended ram but hey, that's hind site and it fits....:homer:
also went with -3 HP brake line, i did't like the bent hardline and i saved a little $ over my original investment of the hardline, -4 hoses @ the joints and all the adapters for them....so that was cool that it worked out that way....
uh...ran the fuel lines...(FTR, SS hose is a biatch to work with if your tape aint got no balls....period).....
also, ran the lines for the tranny cooler...
uh, put on tabs for a roof (not pictured) will do the roof last when i can take the car to the guys house and have it cut on site....
interior is @ 90%, waiting on my aluminum welder man to finish reinforcing my dash that i built (i dont ahve a tig, nor am i learned in the tig arts...) and also he is welding my coolant overflow tank to the ron david radiator...hopefully this will be done within a week, and i can add tabs for the dash and get to stripping 'er down...
here are some pics....please, no make fun of my welds...i am still learning, lol, some are prettier than others, but i think that they should all hold just fine........there are a few more things that i have to touch up here and there (welding on boat side tabs and what not...
*****oh....
almost forgot....i corner weighed the car today....
cam in @ 3075#....i padded teh interior and underhood by a good bit with jackstands to account for the missing ratiator and warn 9.0rc...also put some inside the car to account for the missing dash and instrument panel, and also used a bag of sand with the fuel cell to account for the fuel....there are other things that i added for weight, but are not necessary, you get the point...
the last pic will be the scaled weight.....:grinpimp:
couple pics of the fuel cell with the added pics, thanks KULA for the link to those, now maybe i wont starve it going down a steep grade....
few random shots of the front axle...thank to jmhinescj7 for helping me set up the gears.......