Recent content by westex_rat

Mines faster!!! :D and I dont even have 3rd gear... also, mufflers are for pu$$ies :eek:

26 actually, dont know how they came up with that, but, they said they have ran them on 12 volts for years with no problems yet. We will find out, its not going to have to run very long if so. They say it will fry bacon and eggs.... anyone else hungry?

heres my shifter... hes got a flat head on top, the ford kind

Finally got the motor mounted up, aluminum heads, giant cam, rpm air gap, and demon 750.... should motorvate this truck well and got the headers fabbed up You can see here how we are running the pipes under the cab, it will exit at the back of the cab

just made some big orders to hopefully finish out the fab side of it. Still deciding on what to paint it, fake patina or a two tone. thinking a dark blue and flat black, with the black on top running down the body line. Maybe if someone out there is really good with photoshop they could give me...

its set up for 4 1/2" of clearance at the frame. the body is about 3/4" higher so it should be good anywhere around here. We though about it before we went to choppin away

you painted your car so it looks rusty, ON PURPOSE! eat that hamb

you have to wear a raincoat to drive in the rain, and your NOT in a roadster... you might have a rat rod

here it is flush, which do you like? and on with the lights

i ordered both of them from speedway, the clutch is a 3/4" Clutch and the brakes are a wilwood tandem master brakes Then we fabbed the mount ourself, and had the laser guys make the pedal arms

Heres what we came up for the hood and grill, thinking of using the vented pieces on the side... may be harder than it will be worth S-10 Blazer seats mounted up... need to be recovered, but fit very nicely

looks good, maybe some screen mesh on the sides instead, or some inlaid on the floor to show off the frame work?? but that looks really good as is

Went ahead and picked up my radiator and got started mounting it, this is a quickie mockup so we can get the hood and grille spacing and shape, we are going to widen the hood about 4-5" mounting tabs Radiator, double pass 19 H x 22 W mounted up We are going to make some out of aluminum...

Got the pedals mounted up and waiting on pedals, may make some, or buy some, not sure yet... but heres the mount, We tried to make them work inside the cab there just wasnt enough room under there.. so here what we came up with Also got the bed mounted up, heres some of it on and the...

Heres a few more of it put together and mocked up on the truck... Im heading over to Tyler tomorrow morning and will be working all week on the cab and getting the column and pedals, seats, and hopefully the rollpan and caddy bullet taillights i ordered, very similar to drewskies 55 ford...