Rusted beast (66 chevy C10)

[rightpedal]

Wow I forgot to update

some drive pics



Leaving the shop



leaving ecta event in ohio



Melting down a motor 1hr out side of ecta event in ohio. Supper Graham and Supper Russel to the rescue.

No home sweet home shots. But one I hate sandy shot.



More to come on the motor build in progress.

Steve

[Russell]

Glad to hear there is progress. What motor 283? Cough LS! Cough!

[MP&C]

Ouch....I'd seen that Pic in your PB album, didn't know which storm got it.....

[rightpedal]

Russel
The 99 vortec 5.7 I had colecting dust in the back of the garage. I will start the write up soon and give all the details.



Robert
Supper stupid sucky storm sandy. Steve holds grudges......

Steve

[Russell]

ok, I will wait for the write up, instead of asking you random one line questions

[Caveman Tony]

Looks like the cowl is fairly intact... I SERIOUSLY say you should sawzall the tree-bent roof bits, and throw on a front clip, call it good, and cruise it. Period.

Just keep your mouth closed. The bugs might not taste good.

[Lon_H]

The tree falling on your cab is a great excuse to do this.

[rightpedal]

teaser..... looks like i am driving it to Ohio for the first ECTA meet of the year.

[rightpedal]

I will add more later but appease Russel...


1999 350 out of a 1 ton truck. It is a four bolt main motor. It is a bit of a mystery, my guess is the internals are good. The truck I got it out of was caved in all down the passenger side. Other than that it looked really good. I should have hooked up a starter and spun it up for a compression test but add kicked in and that never happened.


a bit of pressure washing and scraping.



New cam from Pace a GM warehouse. I wimped out cause I did not want to pony up for valve springs. $168 not a bad price.
This hydraulic roller design is used on the 383 truck and Ramjet 350.

The duration at lash point in degrees (intake/exhaust) is 288/308; duration at .050" tappet lift (intake/exhaust) is 196/206 and maximum lift with 1.5:1 rocker ratio (intake/exhaust) is 431/451. Valve lash is zero/zero and lobe centerline is 109 degrees.
To quote pace website
This camshaft is a great upgrade for 1996-2000 Chevy/GMC trucks equipped with the L31 Vortec 350 Engine. This cam is great for additional bottom end torque. If installed in one of these trucks, a custom computer re-program is needed.




cam installed and gears on.

Next up date/back date soon

[MP&C]

Yes, but what does the roof look like?

engine compartment is looking good.

[milner351]

Fantastic - Sandy may have taken you down, but she can't take you out! nasty biatch anyway - you're showing her what a determined BS'er can do - take that!

I wish I could be in Ohio in April - hopefully I'll make one of the meets later in the year. Keep on keepin on!

[Russell]

Engine looks great! I have never painted any of mine. Even though you have been holding out on us glad to see you have been working on it. I was worried that the BMW was going to trump this. I agree we want to know about the cab.

[milner351]

I wonder how far off a Dodge Dakota convertible top / mechanism would be from fitting on this thing?

Or - beat the Texas Camera man to the punch - and make it a pick up / roadster.

[rightpedal]

Sandy smashed the rust free cab on the parts truck.

The original cab is in well.... workable shape.


I am going to cut the top off the taco cab and weld on the top from the red/white cab.... eventually

[JOES66FURY]

This pic gives me all sorts of ideas...that front end would look killer with a aluminum bar grill that spand the whole width from fender to fender with the head lights hidden behind it....Sorry...thinking out loud...been looking at a lot of old custom rods from the 50's and
60's lately