Recent content by Flipper_1938

After stewing it over for a week, this is what I have to do. Anything else is selling out. I don't care if it means poking the engine through the hood and having a big ole transmission in the cab with me. In has to be a HOT ROD!!! The grill shell needs to be on the ground.

This was at the Redneck Rumble (last year?). I think it was a long bed crew cab to start with. Mine would need to be longer ....probably 3 or 4 feet longer.. I have longer nose, bigger cab, bigger motor. But it would let me set the body down as low as I dared to go.

Bamamav, we thought of that and put a tape measure to it. It would work better as a COE. To do it with my cab and the Seagrave sheetmeral....it would be around a 228 inch wheelbase!!!

I understand why you don't see cummins 8.3 motors in anything but dump trucks and motor homes. They are too damn tall. From bottom of oil pan to the air intake tube it looks around 43" tall (kinda hard to measure cause it slopes downward). The Allison 3060 trans sump hangs down several more...

Yeah. That ain't gonna happen. To get to the ride height picture, the axle would need to be at the bottom of the current frame rail. Aired out our be recessed 6 inches into the frame. It would need one heck of a step for the air bag.

With a 32" tire, I can lay running boards. This is the rear wheel I had on my flatbed. Ride height

If I get a chance to go to dad's this weekend, I'm gonna did out My smoothies and put a Seagrave fender over a front wheel and a rear wheel and see what it looks like.

Yeah. I think I have already talked myself out of rubber bands....and the full blown streetrod stance. It might look cool, but I don't know that I can get there with the pieces that I have accumulated so far. I'm a little concerned that I have no business narrowing the front axle either...

I thought I had all of the room in the world using this big SOB as a starting point. RV stuff is even bigger. I think I'm gonna follow you lead Bob and narrow my front axle.

Oops. Another reason not to go stupid low. This cummins 8.3 is too tall to fit between the bottom of the frame and the hood. Part of it has to hang below the frame rails. Back to sensible we go.

Not exactly apples to apples, but not sure rubber bands are the answer

Looking on tirerack this morning....there is a 255/45r22 that is rated for 2,140 lbs and has a diameter of 31". Paired up with my 40" tall back tires that would be a serious rake.

This ride height is looking better and better. Part of me wants to get the grill shell closer to the ground, but damn that would be a bunch of work.

This is closer to where it would be with a big step up front. It would require raising the fenders a bunch and/or going to 22's with lower profile tires.

Yeah, to go stupid low would require raising the fenders a bunch. This is a fair amount of drop over stock even in wussed out mode. I'm gonna have to widen the inner fenders more than I thought. I was thinking 3" per side. I see about 6 per side.