my k20

[82chevyk20]

hey yall though i would post my square it is a 1982 chevy scottsdale k20. ive wanted one of these trucks since i was a kid. i found mine out turkey hunting it was sitting on 4 flat and useless tires in a pasture. after talking to the owner and his son it came home.when i got it home first thing i did was try to start it. the engine was 180 out of time. i had to put back in time some new plug wires and a cap later she fired. the issue with the trucks origional engine was that it was knocking pretty bad. i then installed the 77 350. i also added a new stall converter for the th350 that it has.the truck was origionally a 700r4 transmission. ive moved the fuel tank to the bed mainly because im going to hang weights were the saddle tanks would be since im wanting to build it to be a street legal pull truck

[bake74]

    Nice find, of all the places just sitting in some field, so could you even see it from a road or if you were not turkey hunting you would have never seen it ?
    Do you have any other plans except hang weights since you are going to make it into a pull truck ?

[82chevyk20]

thats what i though i never new the truck was there if it wasnt for walking that following a gobblers gobble i would have never found it and im planning to eventually either go to a sm465 or build a bullet proof th400 for it my 350 i installed is pushing 400 horses so for a local yokel smallblock class i think that will do it

[82chevyk20]

a little update on the k20 build ive got some new tires and okay lookin rims installed and ihave started the body work witch i still have alot to learn about

[Irish_Alley]

nice little find. if you plan on pulling theres a couple of us on here that do this now. (im just starting) i run a cummins and thought about a sm465 cause i have like 4 with 205 bolted to them. but the 465 wont hold up. and idk if you want to rely on a tran that was built to stand up to a little more than 400 flbs. maybe 32 splines will do better, but everything i have read on the 465 and sitting behind the cummins is after the 3rd transmission fix you will be tired of it

[bake74]

ihave started the body work witch i still have alot to learn about

     But haven't you heard, practice makes perfect.   

[82chevyk20]

nice little find. if you plan on pulling theres a couple of us on here that do this now. (im just starting) i run a cummins and thought about a sm465 cause i have like 4 with 205 bolted to them. but the 465 wont hold up. and idk if you want to rely on a tran that was built to stand up to a little more than 400 flbs. maybe 32 splines will do better, but everything i have read on the 465 and sitting behind the cummins is after the 3rd transmission fix you will be tired of it

thanks for the info ive heard both good and bad i may ask my dads co worker he pulls a 86 gmc 1 ton.

ihave started the body work witch i still have alot to learn about

     But haven't you heard, practice makes perfect.   

yeah thats what  dad told me its not to bad

[Irish_Alley]

he should be the 32 spline