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^^x2 most neeper wheels and niche f16s..favorite chromies

i woulda rather went billets on it... but im broke as a joke, and i paid $175 for the wheels with tires off ebay.. adn they were local so i didnt pay shipping either.. so i had to jump on that deal.

Been a while since i updated this thread..

But alots happend since my last update... I ended up getting my own shop.. so now im not pressed for time.. and decided i wanted to completely go thru the truck and redo everything i didnt like.

so i pulled the motor out, Was going to turbo it, But i tore the block down to check the bottom end, and the #2 piston had seized rings, and the main and rod bearigns were scored.. so that motor isnt going back in.. Im just gonna small block it.

Cut the firewall out, and started building a new one, But i figured it would be easier if i had the motor and trans mached up first..

Then i realized that i need to build a new tranny tunnel to fit the new trans.

and since thats going to be cut out. i figured i might as well cut the whole floor out and build a new one

Well ive never been a fan of traditional bodydrops, only reason i did it was because i didnt have room at my old shop to take the bed and cab off for a stock floor

Now i have the room, So SFBD it is.... Even tho the floor will be nowheres near stock, i shouldnt lose much, if any room in the cab. The floor in the cab is gonna have a frame made of either 3/4 or 1" box tubing. then im going to lay the new floor over that. Body mount areas are going to be plated with 1/8.

i got 1 frame rail in yesterday. i still have to gusset the rear where it meets the rear clip, And im gonna shear gusset all the joints.

cool.

some more pics. All i really have left is reinforcing some of hte joints. i put the shear gussets over most of them, But im going to plate the area where the new rail meets the front clip.. And i want to cut off the tubing that sticks up, where the engine cradle meets the "z" area, and plate that smooth.

Then i gotta pick up a motor and trans to mach up my motor mounts and tranny crossmember.

Nice work.

thanks..


some more progress... Smoothed out the frame a little... And last night i cut the rockers off.. decided i didnt want to do a new floor.. my rockers were all dented and shit anyway when i got the truck, so i said fuck it.. cut em up. So ya. now the truck will lay door. i need to get smaller tires tho. i think the 225/40/18s are going to be to tall.

if you door it fitting an 18 requires the smallest tire they make, like 250 a piece i think.

any idea what size it would be? Its not going to lay flat door. its going to be about 1/4" away because im plating the bottom of the rockers with 1/4" plate.

For some reason im thinking a 215/35/18 will fit.

I know that the 225/40s fit with my truck laid on the rockers with no pinch. They came up to the hood tho. Its hard to tell exactly how much i cut out, because the rockers are small to begin with, and there not "flat" on the bottom. they kinda slope downward a bit.. but it cant be more than 1"-1.5"

the 225/40/18 is 25.08" tall. And the 215/35/18 is 23.92" tall. so thats a little over 1" of difference. And they range from $88 to $160 each on tirerack.com. I cant seem to find a tire smaller than that. ive tried a bunch of different combos and cant find anything online thats smaller.

I think 215/35 is the smallest ya can get. Question tho? Ya Gonna have enough lift to clear the wheel wells to turn ?