Working on details and the last of the wiring. Hopefully start it soon.
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I just got to watch the videos of the Tourliner, now I'm even more impressed with your talent. Amazing work and vision.

What a nice truck !!!!!!!

Tried to start my crate LT4.... not a sputter. Fuel pump ramps up and I have fuel at the engine. ECU gives me a PO 00006 code, from which is suppose to be for a fuel shut off valve. Can see nor smell fuel on plugs. On the back of the engine I know of two plugs one on each side for the injectors and one other on the drivers side that looks like its for the intake (maybe pressure)? Anyone know where this valve is located? Is there a plug for it?

I see in the GM manual it makes mention of a "soak and idle" which is to connect the battery for 8 hours before starting. "Turning on the ignition for any length of time may cause you to have to soak an additional 8 hours". I didn't do the soak. Could that be the issue?

Got it running this morning. I had cleared the active code PO 00006 yesterday.
So I imagine it was that or it needed the "8 hour soak and idle".

Congrats on getting it started!

What's the purpose of the soak and idle? I've never heard of this before.

I read it in the erod LT4 manual. It is not very clear, but seems that they want the battery hooked up to the ecu for at least 8 hours without turning the ignition on. From the little info I could find it sounds like it gives the ecu time to do diagnostics.

This thing is stunning !!!!!!!

My guy Marc Latrace from Miracle upholstery foamed up my stock seat.
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This truck just keeps getting better and better.

Two other guys I know bought the same LT4 8 speed auto as I did. We assumed the 5 transmission gear positions would be P D N D S (S is for sport, manual shifting) same as Corvette and Camaro. Except our transmissions have 6 positions. Anyone know what the extra position is?

Absolutely beautiful! WOW

Assembling the wood bed. Lots of hard to get at bolts.

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This truck is going to be amazing! Great work.... love the HUGE brakes also.

Super beautiful!!

Got my seat back!
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Looks great!

My butt would be right at home in that seat. Very nice!!

x2 looks comfortable and a huge upgrade from factory.

Originally I wanted to have a stock looking seat. But because this truck should be able to corner I didn't want to slide off. Used the stock frame without the springs. It is very comfy and holds me in place well.

Going to give the truck a final buff and detail, then wax. Researching there are a few new options. Ceramic, grapheen ceramic to name a couple. Not sure if they are worth it on a truck that will likely never see rain and always stored indoors. I have been using Meguires for years and am leaning to their "Ultimate". What are you using?

Meguiar's Nxt 2.0... but I agree some the ceramics look good!

I personally use AMMO NYC products on my cars and love them... the owner of the company Larry Kosilla has great Youtube channel as well showing you how to use all of his products. I got into detailing by watching his videos and have been supporting him ever since.

That being said, detailing products are getting so good nowadays that you really can't go wrong. I used Turtle Waxes new products recently on my daily driver and loved the results!

After a lot of research I am going with my tried and true Meguir's 2.0. I believe the Ceramics are superior, but in my application where I Colour sand then polish then wax.......then find more colour sanding scatches, so do more buff and wax and so on and so on, I think the conventional wax is the way for me to go.

Mines also getting close.

Cool that we have the same wheels lol.

Budnikssssss

Looks awesome! Maybe one day when things get back to normal I will run into you at a car show. Goodguys Pleasanton is a fav.

Spent the last week buffing and polishing details. Went for an uneventful cruise.
Love the paddle shifter. The manual brakes are very nice. Power steering is a little heavier effort than I was expecting, but I like it. Corners like its on rails.
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Several guys with slammed trucks complained of no storage in these trucks. This is part of my answer to that.
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Waiting for my carpet to arrive to finish off the interior.

Looks nice. I hope to achieve that level of quality with my finished project.
HEH HEH I think I may have a finished project some day, LOL.

That color combo with all the chrome looks so clean and timeless!
I just noticed the exhaust in the last pic! Thats very cool!!


Jeff-

Dang, I didn't notice it until you said something Jeff and had to go back and look. Yes, that is too cool!!

Can you share another photo of this? I have a 69 I am planning a box for now and would like to know what subs you went with and how much space you had (depth) in the box behind the seat.

Thanks and beautiful build!!!

William

Other than the subs installed it still looks the same. I am waiting on my upholstery guy to give me a call to take the truck up to finish, hopefully in the next week or two. The 10" sub's are made by Audison. As are my mid's, tweeters and amp/dsp. I just roughly used the dimensions of the stock fuel tank as a guide for the outside measurements and then used Audison's specs for the sub's idea volume to create each box.

Undestood and thank you for the quick response. Trying to decide if i do a single center mounted sub or this setup with subs on either Side. I think this looks VERY good.

Thank you. My vision for this build was to have the latest tech, engine, drivetrain, suspension and creature comforts, but not lose the look and charm of the original truck. Of course this is always a compromise and is different for each of our own tastes. With the sound system I tried to create the "center stage" with the tweeter and mid speaker placement. The compromise was I used the stock radio as the head unit. It has been reworked with all new internals and has preouts, bluetooth, USB etc. I have tried it and it sounds pretty good. It will get better once the dsp has been tuned.

Yea my struggle with radio is the previous owner cut mine for single DIN. dont love it, but it's in place.

If i go to replace that it's a spiral of how far do i want to take it? Buy a double din insert and put a screen in which is probably what i would WANT to do, but it doesn't fit well with the factory center AC positon. Vertical space runs out quick. So many options to look at, and trying to choose what's "best."

William

My interior guy is really busy. Progress has been slow. Hopefully done in a couple weeks.
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Do you have a build thread somewhere?

What a stunning build Vet57! I love this generation Chevy pickup. My Dad had a 64 when I was a kid growing up and I have wanted one ever since!

This is it. Start at the first page.