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Offline jaredts

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #255 on: April 03, 2011, 01:32:43 am »
Wow, that c5 front looks wicked.  Have you already researched that swap?  Do you know if it will be tough to get that in there?

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #256 on: April 03, 2011, 06:54:31 am »
From what I've found, I'm one if the first to retrofit this set up. some hot rod guys use the control arms and spindles but not the whole setup. Thus I'm on my own. Shouldn't be too bad
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #257 on: April 03, 2011, 03:11:51 pm »
Now I'm paying a lot more attention, that swap has been my secret fantasy for a while
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #258 on: April 03, 2011, 10:18:06 pm »
Just set the frame and chassis square to my floor, luckily the concrete lines kinda set up a grid And they are very straight. I'm now just working on setting the whole thing up and making a jig to set the front where it needs to be.
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #259 on: May 10, 2011, 10:49:17 pm »

made the chassis jig and marked all my nesessary data


test fit all my stuff to figure out how low the cross member can be comparative to the lowest point on the driveline which shows that the cross member and oil pan are almost on the same plane, the crossmember is a tad lower, but the transmission is pretty high


this is a C5 oil pan (bat wing) and motor mounts, the mounts are OEM GM and the aluminum is pretty cool and light weight, those mount into the front crossmember
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #260 on: May 11, 2011, 09:34:14 am »
heck of a build

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #261 on: May 15, 2011, 09:13:41 am »
this build is getting wilder and wilder by the min i love it cant wait to see more 8)

Offline the dan

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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #262 on: May 15, 2011, 11:45:21 pm »
Heres more:
spent 6 hours dialing the whole front set up into its own jig, then when i get the wheels straight i can center it onto the chassis jig to the centerline of the front wheels. cant wait to start fabbing some brackets


finals in school are this week so ill have an update this weekend ;D
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #263 on: May 16, 2011, 05:05:02 pm »
Very cool the dan! This is one heck of a build.
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #264 on: May 16, 2011, 06:23:47 pm »
This is a awesome build!! Keep up the great work!
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #265 on: May 16, 2011, 10:07:24 pm »
i cant wait to beat the crap out of it. and destroy mustangs.
I had a dream the other night that i was camping, and i woke up to my truck running the way it was with a 6 speed though.. i was so mad when i woke up, to walk out to the driveway and get in my beater ford ranger ???
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #266 on: May 18, 2011, 11:01:43 pm »

put it in place, had to lift it by hand, luckily i know some strong gearheads



waiting on headers, i think im going to cheap out on them, i would really like stainless, but $1200 isnt in my budget right now, so hooker supercomps are looking pretty nice, only issue is i need to figure out how low they will hang
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #267 on: May 20, 2011, 12:14:22 am »
good luck man, it will be a thing of beauty, that thing will handle like a dream!
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #268 on: September 10, 2011, 03:15:23 am »
Dude its been almost 4 months of suspense... whats the deal?
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Re: 83 c10 re-innovated, air ride
« Reply #269 on: September 14, 2011, 04:13:15 pm »

Purchased 98 camaro headers and modified them to fit. it was a pain trying to get something that didnt hang too low. making headers out of steel cost 700 in meterials.... these were $250 from hooker

got my intake in and finished the passanger side frame. the intake was the wrong one, it needs the injection bosses so im sending it back. the carb is on there just for a picture

This is kinda what i wanna do for my throttle body, kinda will look like a carb, but its not going to be (obviously) i want people to open the hood and not know what engine it is...

im not a fan of heims on my steering. especially in a truck ill be racing. so i made my frame go around it.. lots of bends but the cage will tie into the main spots to support it all. plus im fishplating it

clears my steering rack, and the whole frame clears the headers so when i ever have to remove the engine i can remove it downward on my lift by just removing a few bolts, a fuel line and a break line and a positive wire. (well in a nut shell)



thats all i got, been really busy at the shop. so not much truck time. next week i should have the front attached and order the front air over shock bags and get those mounted as well as the upper a arms
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