87 Mazda B2000 project, DONE!!!

Ha, workin on it. Hopefully I will have my front suspension all welded up tonight. Then I can juice the truck up and make sure everything is perfect. I need to have it rolling by Dec. 10th at the latest. I have to make room in the garage for another hydro install.
The body panels got to the painter Friday.

I like the "from scratch" approach, respect, I am gonna have to build or modify my front arms to pull my 20s in a bit, so I dont have to roll with widened fenders damn drop spindles pushed out the wheels at least an inch.
I will also consider z,ing the frame, an that sux.

great progress, and keep the pics coming,
I love how clean hydro set ups look

lower control arms...

Nice welds.

Seats look good, simple & subtle

Can't wait to see this thing painted

i dig the lowers man

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Good looking lowers! Question - will they pivot up high enough to allow the frame to lay? Hard to tell in the pics and even harder to relate to the stock arms in my truck.

They should totally lay out, if you look at the mounting point, it is the same as stock. Only the arm is slimmer and there is no metal overhanging the pivot point of the mount. It will probably lay better than stock lower arms. -Good looking work again and I told one of my friends about your set up and he is copying it on his 1960 Ford F-100. Hope you don't mind. -ED

Those lowers look great. Awesome work

The tubes are 1-1/4", so they are shorter in height that the stock arm. So they could go way past where they need to in order lay the truck out. However, the strut rod part of it would come in contact with the frame if I wanted to run a bigger wheel. Anyway, the ball joints will bind and the cylinder will have to be moved if I want to run bigger wheels also. I never plan on it. 20's are enough for a minitruck, IMHO.