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General Site Info => Welcome => Topic started by: REVINKEVIN on March 02, 2008, 05:15:14 pm
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Hey. I am new to this site. I am building my first box truck. I am working on my 1986 Silverado. I searched for this truck for over 3 years on eBay and all over the Internet. All the black trucks around here were rusted. I found this truck last January on eBay. It was in Florida. It had only been there for 2 months. The guy bought it from the original owner in South Carolina. I is black with black interior. It has every option. The option sheet is still in the glove box with a customer order number on it. I have completely disassembled the truck with the great help from my friend Jason at My Mechinex in Rosenberg. The only rust found was on top of the bed rails where it had the old style plastic bedliner installed. All body work is now complete. All emblems have been stripped and all holes welded and smoothed. We are about to weld in the tailgate skin, rear roll pan, and the front roll pan. The Goodmark steel cowl induction hood will be here this week.
The engine, transmission, and suspension are all complete now. The 305 was traded for some work. I found a 1971 400sbc and had it rebuilt. The motor is now a 406. The stock crank was ground and treated to some 5.7 rods with Speedpro pistons. The cam is a custom ground solid flat tappet designed by the NHRA Pro Sportsman of the year and his friend at Ultradyne. Oil pan is Milidon. The heads are the new Air Flow Research 195 Eliminators and use Orson 1.6 aluminum roller rockers. The headers are Hooker Supercompetion 1 3/4" that dump into an x-pipe and 3 chamber flows. The intake is a Weiand Stealth with a Holley 770 Street Avenger and K&N Filter top setup. It also has a new B-Kool aluminum radiator and a Holley Blue pump fuel system. Trans has been replaced with a 700R4 upgraded with a billet input shaft, 5 pinion planetary gear set, Raybestos bands, beast sunshell, etc, and custom 2300rpm stall. Suspension is Brother's 3-4 kit. 3" drop springs up front with 4" monoleaf springs in rear with matching drop shocks at all four corners. The front end was completely dissembled, cleaned, painted, and fitted throughout with Poly budhings and new ball joints. The truck now also has new Addco front and rear swaybars.
The inside is also being worked over. I have a set of Dakota Digital dash and a Kenwood eXcelone 959 head unit with a Kenwood Music Keg. I still have to put my full roll of Dyno Mat inside, but I have to wait for it to get out of the paint booth. It gets painted Black Clearcoat sometimes soon. One interesting thing I am going to use is the Solid side window kit I found that eliminates the vent windows. I also sold the sliding back glass and will install the solid rear window as well.
Well I am sure I forgot some things, but this is my project and it's well underway. I am sure I will have many questins in the future.
Kevin
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Welcome to the forum !
Now let's see some photo's !!
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Welcome - Please post pics ;D
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Sounds pretty slick. Welcome from New Hampshire.
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Welcome - Yes, post some pics. I gotta see this thing.
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Welcome to here.
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Welcome to the site? Did you get the one piece glass from us?
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Hey. Thanks for the welcome. I bought the glass from Brothers. I did not know about your business or this site until the other night. More new parts to come though. Not much to see in pics right now. Just a completely stripped truck. Let me see if I can post one. It says all of my pictures are to big. See if this link works. I might be letting people into my personal photobucket site. So, don't do anything to me, please.
http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/REVINKEVIN963/
Kevin, at the bottom of you pics are tags for posting, just copy it and paste it here like below... Captkaos
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Welcome, nice pics also.
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Hey. Thanks for the welcome. I bought the glass from Brothers. I did not know about your business or this site until the other night. More new parts to come though.
OUCH, they want $775 for the kit, and I have them for $675. Same kit, same supplier; OPP. OPP has them listed on their site for $695.. I am cheaper than the manufacturer.
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welcome from s.e.tx, lookin good
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Hey. I looked back on my reciepts. I bought that window kit on a sale that ended on Holloween last year. I paid $625 for it. Still way to much, but I feel better now after your post. I just got my Goodmark Cowl hood in today. It was bent on 3 corners from shipping. Lots of drama with Jegs and Yellow Freight. I worked it out though. Just postponeded my paint booth appointment by over a week. Oh well. Projects go like this.
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Nice truck and sweet Camaro too! ;D
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Welcome from West Texas
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Hey. I looked back on my reciepts. I bought that window kit on a sale that ended on Holloween last year. I paid $625 for it. Still way to much, but I feel better now after your post. I just got my Goodmark Cowl hood in today. It was bent on 3 corners from shipping. Lots of drama with Jegs and Yellow Freight. I worked it out though. Just postponeded my paint booth appointment by over a week. Oh well. Projects go like this.
Actually that isn't that bad, they probably bought a lot of them, of course that won't be happening again...
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Drool Drool, I love your Camaro. Very very nice!
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Oh, thank you very much. That was my last project. It just sits in the garage anymore. My 3 year old daughter sits in it and listens to the stereo until she falls asleep. I started out building this truck to pull this car to the track and shows. That is an old picture. It has changed some. The truck and the car are going to be a matching set one day. The motors look pretty much identical. Same Kenwood head units, same exhaust, same headers. The car does have a Tremec TKO 5-speed where the truck has a 700R4. It gets painted black with a matching Goodmark Cowl hood later this year. Anyway, thank you. That car was a lot of work.
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I used to do the Camaro thing until I got the 55 thing!
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That is my favorite style Camaro's. Anything 70-73...
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70&1/2 with the small rear wing, the only year Camaro in my opinion
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Well if you are being picky then yeah, that's it. ;)
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As a matter of fact ;D
My first Camaro was a 70 SS, 400, 4 spd. 3:73s
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Hey. That's a lot like this one. It had a four speed with a 350 when I got it. I now has the Tremec with a 408sbc with coated Speed Pro pistions, 10.6 to 1, Comp Cams solid flat tappet cam, .525 lift and .250 duration @ .050, well Comp Cams everything as far as roller rockers, timing chain, hardened push rods, matching springs, you get the picture there. On this motor, I used larger AFR heads than the truck. It has the 210cc cnc ported version. The intake is a highly ported Victor Jr, with a modified 850 double pumper. Same electric fuel system as on the truck. This motor was built for more high end HP, while the truck was built for more torque. It also has a Lakewood blow proof bellhousing, .373 12 bolt posi, and the Hotchkis TVS Suspension kit with Koni shocks. It also has MB Quart speakers with a 600watt Kicker amp that I made to look like it floats in the trunk. I spent a huge amount of my spare time on this car last year. I must add that once again, Jason at My Mechinex loaned a huge hand on this one as well. I really thank you for the complements on it. It was crazy hard work. As you can see by the truck pictures, I just can't leave well enough alone.
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My wife's first car was a 71' she didn't have it long though it got ran over by a cement block truck with her in it. She says camaro's are her signature car so she's had several but when I get time and finish my son's truck thats going to be my next project to build one for her either a 67' or 70' not sure which depends what I find when I look.
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Welcome to the site. You have a very nice truck to start with.
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nice truck and Camaro! i'm into the F-Body's too...even though i love them all, the 2nd and 3rd gens are my favorites...got any stock pics of the truck? before any teardown started?
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Here is a pic. I added 2 to my photobucket. I need to add more. I want to do a build of the truck on that site so people can get a just of how hard some of these projects are. This truck is going through some major changes. I hope this link works. If not, the 2 stock pics I have on this computer will be on the photobucket link. Thanks for the complement.
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Just out of curiosity REVINKEVIN. Have you checked to see if the endlinks of your front sway bar hit the spindle at full lock. My ADDCO kit took out a full turn of the wheel out at full droop and over a half turn at rest height. I had to remove one of the bushings between the bar and angle bracket and shim the bar down 3/8" at the frame mounts (to keep it as level as possible at rest).
I'm diggin' that Camaro. Polished Z06 rims would look killer.
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Hey. I am glad you brought that up. I have only driven it around the block so far. I was sitting on a 5 gallon bucket at the time. The truck has yet to get on the road due to all the work being done at one time. I will check that soon. I am in the process of cutting out the tailgate for the Sir Michel's tail gate relocator. This is some hard work. Weak compressor makes it very time consuming. I am also going to fit the front roll pan and get it ready for welding. That looks like another fun job. I have only had 4 days off so far this year. I start another major turnaround at another chemical plant on Monday. I have lots to do so we can push it over to the paint shop.
I have thought about the chrome Z06 wheels. I think the black ones would look cool as well. I was really wanting to get the same rims for the car and the truck. I will have to see how that goes. I need a few more turnarounds before that happens. Thanks for the kind words.
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HOWDY from East Texas........
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Hey. Here are a couple of new pic's on photobucket. Front roll pan was a pain. Rear tailgate skin was not much kinder. I, in the process of working 88 hours a week, am installing the Buick GNC fender vents. I will get these pics on soon. This truck is crazy work.
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Welcome, nice truck and camaro..I really dig the split bumper era.
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Welcome from Dayton Oh. Sharp truck and Way COOL Camaro!
My mom had a 68 327 3spd red w the white stripes up the hood in the early 70s. I loved that car growing up so their my fav. F-body but I like em all. Come to think of it my dad had a 73 long bed 350 3 on the tree at the same time, guess I'm stuck in 74 or so!!!!!!! Neither had A/C or pwr steering! Guess people were tougher back then.
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nice truck and Camaro! i'm into the F-Body's too...even though i love them all, the 2nd and 3rd gens are my favorites...got any stock pics of the truck? before any teardown started?
Ditto, REVINKEVIN. I am digging your black-on-black Silverado! Black paint just makes the chrome trim stand out that much more. Can't wait to see what the truck will look like when you get it finished.
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