83 c10 re-innovated Pro Touring

[Skyshadow]

You got crazy with this build, the title is missleading lol. Anyways, great stuff man. Keep it up. What did you do with the original tube A-Arms you built? I'll take them off your hands if they are still laying around

[VileZambonie]

Great Progress

[Calebmcclellan]

Wow...  I looked at the first page and was like cool he got some spindles and rattle canned it flat black then clicked to the last page and had to go back and read the whole thing.  Good work man

[the dan]

You got crazy with this build, the title is missleading lol. Anyways, great stuff man. Keep it up. What did you do with the original tube A-Arms you built? I'll take them off your hands if they are still laying around

sadly i sold them to someone lucky on ebay for $133? didnt even break even on cost of material with that one off stick of 1.25 3/16 DOM, but that purchased my alt and waterpump

Wow...  I looked at the first page and was like cool he got some spindles and rattle canned it flat black then clicked to the last page and had to go back and read the whole thing.  Good work man

a little bit deceiving but when the finish product comes around i hope it still looks like that rattle canned spindle dropped truck, thats the goal

kind words appreciated as always. hope to have her on all 4's in october (fingers crossed)
Great Progress

[79brent]

That is a sick truck, NICE WORK!  Just read the entire thing, that truck has come a long long way. I was hoping to see her finished once i got through all of that, but im glad i read/looked at it all. That truck is nothing short of amazing and your gonna have alot of pride in it when its done.

[oldwhity]

Wow, this truck has come a long way since the first time I saw it in 2009! Looks awesome!

[the dan]

steering was fun, Ididit columns use a oval shaft and finding a nice joint for that was near impossible, so i indexed a moroso one and machined the oval out.

i finish welded the tunnel and ground off the excess meterial. about 8 grinding wheels and alot of headaches

i lasered these new wheel centers out to convert the 5.5 - 4.5 lug pattern for the corvette front, this brought my front wheels in about an inch on each side, and i changed to a smaller tire up front so now the 20" steel street wheels will work. then ill buy some vette wheels to run on the track.

here is a little of the tightest truck rollcage ive ever witnessed. thanks to my brother for bending the tubes and making the welds perfect. guys good...

This is the rear rollcage mount.. when i finish welding that plate ill show you how i did it. impossible to weld...


and i got bored on thanksgiving so ditched doing lunch and finished my headers, deleted the egr ports and tigg'ed on the flanges inside and outside



Im looking into Z06 front brakes (c6) and putting my c5 front callipers in the rear. not sure if ill have to trade wilwood masters for that set up since i have 2, 7/8 bore masters but i will figure it all out if i get them or not.

[bake74]

     Very nice work, I really hope you have fun with that truck after all the hours you put into it.

[VileZambonie]

Fantastic work!

[Captkaos]

Awesome progress!

[eckowidow88]

you got a sweet build going on man keep up the work and looking forward to see the final project!!

[the dan]

Thanks guys. It's coming together. Problem is I don't wanna half ass anything or work on it when I'm done so I'm doing everything now. There's a theory amongst friends that everything is $400 and its true. So I get about 1 thing a month or every other month and that's what sets me up with work to have done. Budgets suck

[the dan]

took a fridged ride in the local gorcery getter to get the tree saturday:


then got back to work

this weld was the crappiest thing ive had to do, i had to drill the plate with a 1/4 inch bit to reviel the bottom side of the tube to weld it since there was no way to get the welder in there.


made the front cage mounts


then welded the cage on. Full welding this was fun, i had to flood the inert gas around the tube and heat and bend a piece of tungsten to get around the backside of the cage

[the dan]

C6 z06 DBA rotors


rear cage bars

[slammed79]

I wish I had your skill bro, I'd love to get rid of the adapters on my steelies.