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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #450 on: July 14, 2015, 03:19:38 PM »
it was in Branford at Woodwind. She cleans my shop, pretty much an angel

So my Melling Oil Pump failed and sent my oil pressure to 100psi, and simultaneously the input seal on my supercharger blew out and littered my windshield with oil. We are back on the road now making 6-7psi of boost and spinning 12 wides at 45 with a roll on. Should take it back out this weekend and open her up.
83 C10 Pro-touring, Forged 408 Stroker LS, Paxton supercharger, T56 magnum, Detroit 9", and horrible paint

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #451 on: July 20, 2015, 07:26:46 AM »
https://youtu.be/Gl_0mPrBG44

Got my girlfriend to take a video of me spinning to third. Pretty happy with it!



I bought another set of wheels so i can have 4 19x12's






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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #452 on: July 20, 2015, 07:29:36 AM »
Great work, that is the coolest build I've seen.

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #453 on: July 20, 2015, 09:33:41 AM »
That's what I call putting the power to the pavement. Great job.
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #454 on: July 21, 2015, 10:38:21 PM »





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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #455 on: August 20, 2015, 12:04:12 PM »
I made a shifter bezel so the hot air can stop giving my arm hairs a perm



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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #456 on: August 20, 2015, 01:40:44 PM »
That looks great, nice job on the bezel! Is that billet aluminum?
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #457 on: August 20, 2015, 02:14:39 PM »
Oh yeah this is a nice truck. What hood are you going to put on it? That truck also needs a custom license plate. Just sayin...
It's been a LONG time since I have been called a newbie. Just sayin....

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #458 on: August 20, 2015, 02:28:22 PM »
That looks great, nice job on the bezel? Is that billet aluminum?

Yes it's 2 pieces of 6061 welded on the seam that wraps around the tunnel
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #459 on: August 21, 2015, 02:04:37 PM »
That looks great, nice job on the bezel? Is that billet aluminum?

Yes it's 2 pieces of 6061 welded on the seam that wraps around the tunnel
Sweeeeeet.
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #460 on: August 25, 2015, 09:27:27 AM »
Your craftsmanship is award winning!

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #461 on: September 16, 2015, 07:04:11 PM »
Awesome Dan! She sounds beastly, and looks amazing!

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #462 on: March 13, 2018, 06:19:20 PM »
What's going on the dan?
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #463 on: March 14, 2018, 10:52:44 AM »
Updates when I get home I promise! Huge life changes in the past 2 year's that took the truck off the road.
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #464 on: March 14, 2018, 11:20:20 AM »
Where so i start.
After my last post I had some falling out with thw company i was working for. I had a huge choice to either move to NH or move to southern CT. Either way I was getting out of my ahop rental unit to focus more on my Engineering Career. I ended up taking the job in New Hampshire Whelen Engineering in fall of 15'

I went 3 months in a small apartment and literally lost my mind. I bought a house on a piece of land, drove the truck for the beginning of 16' after I rebuilt the rear end with a resprung Detroit and a strange pro aluminum center section, had some wheel bearing failures etc.
  So in 2016 i drove it a bunch, then decided that i needed a shop because i lose my mind if i cant work. Especially in rural NH
So this is the c10 with 1650lbs of concrete in the bed


One of many lumber yard trips



2 sets of QA1 shocks, and an optima battery that never worked well, I parked it in march of 2017 and focused on the barn and getting my shop set up.



So heres where we are:



Shocks are getting replaced with Fox 2.0's
Battery is going to an off the shelf unit
Paxton supercharger has 700 miles since rebuild and is leaking oil out of the seal, Vortech wont warranty it because its been over a year since it was rebuilt.

408 forged stroker
Fox Shocks
Ripping the bed apart to lighten it and fix the sending unit
Ditching the compressor/tank and going with a nitrogen setup
Dynamat and wrap the exhaust
Paint

83 C10 Pro-touring, Forged 408 Stroker LS, Paxton supercharger, T56 magnum, Detroit 9", and horrible paint