My crew cab '86 square

I saw your truck at his house, looks good

I dropped the truck off to a guy in Baytown before last Thanksgiving and got it back the middle of February. The guy I took it to said he couldn't finish it because he was real busy with work and asked me if I was ok with him taking it to a guy in Tomball to finish it off, I told him to go for it, I just wanted my truck back. When I picked it up it had a flat tire, cracked head light, the A/C box was broken in pieces, the blower motor didn't work, and some of the rear brake lines were rubbing on metal. I didn't want to get into figuring out who did what, since more than one person worked on it. I just took the truck home and fixed everything. Overall, the wait was worth it considering how it came out and what I paid.

I still have a couple of small things I want to do to the interior/exterior that probably nobody will notice except me before Tex Mex. My next "big" mods will be getting the dash and door panels wrapped in black, and installing a K/5 Blazer center console.

that truck looks sick

yeah that truck is badass....i kinda wish i woulda went this route instead of bag/bodydrop sometimes cause i would be driving it right now instead of in a million pieces in teh shop

Thanks for the compliments guys, I look back on the first page of this thread and she's come a long way. I hate downtime. The notch/tub job was supposed to take 2 weeks and ended up taking 3 months! I'm almost scared to take it to a body shop. It comes out well in pics but, pieces of clear literally fall off of the bed when I wash it. In a way I kind of like that, it gives it character, more of a work truck look. I dont' have to wax it or even bother drying it when I wash it. I just dry the windows and the shiny stuff, and if it gets scratched I just add more touch up paint.

WIDE LOAD C-30
hey do you have a part number on those headers because i can only find raw or ceramic ones and i want painted ones...thanks

They are the raw Patriot Clipster headers for a '69 Chevelle that Summit sells. I rattle canned them before taking the pics. I used regular paint instead of high temp. paint and now they are raw again. Either way the finish would have been ruined because they had to be slightly modded to fit right. The right side was rubbing on the frame and the left side was rubbing on the motor mount and hitting the oil filter on my factory oil cooler equipped truck. But, they were well worth it, the truck has a DEEP low end sound.

hey that truck kicks ass i hope mine can get to that point soon.

Well I haven't gotten much progress on the dually because of work but, now I am only working 5 days a week so i will have a lot more time now compared to before..
I finally got the billet pedals installed that I have had laying around since last year-


I finally installed my new lockable K5 Blazer center console, I had to fab up some cutom mounts and use some parts from the old woodgrain center console-


The truck is going to be my 4 door, 6 wheeled sport truck so I had a custom badge made for it at work and installed it on the console-


I purchased a Gear Vendors Overdrive Unit and did a "stealth" install of all the electronics inside of the new console-

I do however have a lot of new parts which I want to have installed very soon.

Gear Vendors Overdive for my Turbo 400-


Edelbrock Performer RPM Air Gap intake manifold which I cleaned up the ports on in the same way I did the headers-




Bigger pushrods-


72gph electric fuel pump, Comp roller tip rockers, and cam and lifter kit reccomended to me by Comp Cams for my application-


"781 Oval ports "assembled with stiffer springs," stud guides, gasket matched with some "nice" portwork, and "bigger stainless valves." These came off of a '70 chevelle drag car and they are "ready to go." The guy replaced them with some Dart aluminum heads and said my 781's "weigh a lot more but, damn near flow as much as the Darts."-








I think the truck is really going to wake up with the new parts and no loss of fuel mileage because of the overdrive.