daryncalton
+1y
I am a little late starting my build thread but I will get everybody up to speed where I'm at on the truck.
I bought my 1993 Mazda B2200 LE5 on March 23rd, 2013 from a guy on Craigslist. It was all stock besides the JVC cassette deck.
The plan is an old school style minitruck. Static dropped with some cool old school flare. The newer style minis are boring me and I have always loved the roots of minitruckin.
Here's how it sat.
The first thing I did was removed the broken window vent visors, the rear bumper, the mudflaps, the plastic drop in bed liner, and painted the grille and bumper to match the truck.
The next step was getting it closer to mother earth. Re-indexed the torsion bars up front and a 3" block in the rear, mono-leafed with the bottom leaf stacked on the main leaf. I removed the bump stops front and rear. It ended up being right at a 4"-6" drop from how it originally sat. I also installed some clear corners lenses, blinker lenses and tail lenses.
The next step was to put my wheels on. I picked up a set of Chevrolet Z71 wheels from my uncle quite a while back. So I pulled the tires off of the factory wheels from my Protege and put them on the Z71s for the truck. I ground the tabs on the hubs to make them fit.
On the inside I added a pool ball shift knob. I used the 4 ball because my birthday is the 4th and my favorite color is purple. I bolted up a Wink 5 panel mirror that I splatter painted with a bunch of single stage paint I had left over from other projects. I pulled the headrest off the buckets and ordered some Little Trees air fresheners with different faces on them just for kicks.
It didn't run very well when I picked it up. I am guessing all of the vacuum lines that were either capped off or just not plugged into anything was the route cause. I removed all of the emissions with the factory carburetor and that helped but it still wasn't perfect. I ended up just ordering a Weber carburetor. It still needs the lines blocked off on the manifold and all of the stuff on the passenger side fender for the vacuum lines removed.
I will update this as I go from now on. I have been really busy with work and working on this thing for the last 6 weeks but I should be able to stay on top of the updates now.