Okay it’s Saturday night. Let’s see some pictures


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lol, had to get up early, unload trailer and head to my army reserve unit for mandatory fun...

Nice

Need some close ups of the engine bay


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what portion do you want to see?



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The girls hangin out getting some sunshine...






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I want to see the headers you used to mount them.

https://www.stainlessheaders.com/i-3...tegory:1390444

here installed in the 56 chevy

Started fabbin up the new tailgate.

I'm waiting on the hinges to arrive, but, it will swing open to the side, not down like a normal gate would.

bracing for the side mounted hinges. the gate will open on the passengers side and hinged on the drivers side.
I see no benefit of having the gate drop down 6 inches onto the ground. More so it'd just wreck the paint.
So one sided barn door opening it is...

This is fun. Keep up the good work!

thank you sir, much appreciated

was able to get the tailgate roughed in and some epoxy sprayed on..
most likely will round the lower corners, just havent gotten that far yet.

need to cut and fit the hinges into the rear drivers taillight area and build some strength into that area to hang the tailgate off of.

might get it mounted this week, will have to see as i am slammed with work.

Been working the side swinging hinge for my tailgate. It’s not 100% where I like it, but its opening and closing. The hinges are made for a thick door, not a thin tailgate. OS I have to work some sheet metal to cover it and make it look good.

Not sure if I said it above but I'm trying a new powder coater. I sent off oil pan, transmission case, trans pan and front cover to be coated. If they look good, ill send more parts to the shop. Eventually all chassis and parts will be powder coated red.

I dropped off my lower control arms to my buddy and had him press out the ‘stock’ lower ball joints and installed ‘tall’ style ball joints to help with alignment and getting another ½ inch drop out of the suspension.

I order some new upper control arms that will allow more lift from the air bags. I might use them and make a jig to modify them to work more with this type of suspension, and not the ‘drag race’ set up they are made for.

today mr UPS man dropped off a few boxes.

I promptly took the new holley intake and ground off the 'holley EFI' logo and ran a DA with 80 grit over the top surfaces to smooth out the rough casting and bead blasting they did.

Then I put the parts in my truck and dropped them off for powder coating...

-intake manifold
-fuel rails
-valve covers
-front engine cover
-valley plate / knock sensor cover
-engine oil pan
-4l80e transmission case
-aluminum trans pan

I also dropped my cell off for new glass as it has had some nasty cracks for awhile now.
And since my phone is linked to my computer, i cant upload any full res pics, so youll have to enjoy this tiny one for now..

....and now they are all red

Getting it ready for transporting to the exhaust shop for custom up and rear headers

Nice progress.

Makes me want to go out the garage and work on my car


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Took the trans out to vegas to have a rebuild done on it for the power levels im planning on putting through it..

The March accessory kit arrived...
took all the parts out, inventoried, and dropped off to the powder coater to be stripped and coated red..

The alternator, PS pump and AC compressor will all stay black.

Only waiting on the turbos now.

thank you..

not as fast as id like, but, i have so much work in the shop and not enough (good) workers..

Trans is ready for assembly....

.....mo red for the ole gurl

started installing the front accessories so we know there is not interference for making the new exhaust manifolds

trans is built

Nice progress


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So yesterday I had a new guy stop by and I gave him some things to try out to see if he can handle power tools the way he says he can.

First up was to Take Alice's 2001 model year doors and cut the upper window frame off, and the door skins.
This would be in preparation to put the 1963 Scout door skins onto the S10 door shells.

He did what was asked of him, and in a pretty quick manner.

He is coming back today to see what else he can do.

I pulled the skin of the scout door and mocked it up on the S10 door. The S10 is about 4 inches longer than the scout skin. This brings up a few ideas. stretch the scout frame and rockers 4 inches to accommodate the s10 door jambs, and gain some interior room, or cut the door shell and shorten it to fit the Scout skin better.

I'm nearly 90% positive I'll stretch the scout body and chassis to gain the needed room.

Here is a few pics of whats going on for a visual. And yes ill be keeping the square S10 door and making the scout skin fit it instead of having the 40 degree chop out of the lower rear skin.

This will be the last major modification to the body. The only thing left is chopping the roof (s) to match the windshield, but that's not happening for some time.

Oh, and incase you missed it, I'm putting the entire S10 door jamb (A pillar, rocker and B pillar) into the scout. But I'm putting the 'drivers door' on the passenger side of the scout and passenger door on the drivers side of the scout. This way, it will have suicide opening doors using all the factory S10 hinges and door latche assemblies..

...having a little fun

Broke down the suspension and painted it all red.
Will powder coat most of the pieces when we powder coat the chassis, but for now it's spray painted.
Still need to order the tall upper ball joints, this is why these are painted, as they'll be replaced.

Would like to order a quick ratio gear box with the billet upper plate so I can add some red there as well..

....and this is how it will stay until we tear the entire thing back down to a bare frame and finish welding, grinding, fitting and whatever needed before powder coating.

This weekend the vehicle goes to get the custom header built.

The trans is being delivered from vegas on friday.

Then I have to wait until the turbos are mounted

dropped it off for the custom turbo manifolds to be built

...the stainless pieces and parts have arrived for the turbo manifolds and the first few tack welds have been started.

when i get some pics i will post them up.

ordered up wastegates, o2 bungs and some airfilters for the turbos

they shop is fitting up the location of the turbos to start building the headers, waste gate location and downpipes..

got a few pics, exhaust should be finished in another week or two...

slowly comin along....

Oh, shiny new pipe pieces. Very nice.

This just keeps getting better and better... wow!

Thanks man, much appreciated..
I picked it up and brought it back from the 'exhaust shop'

just happened to be a IH event about an hour away from the shop so i went there to make some purists a bit unhappy.

lol

ahhhh

Aliceson is back in my possession from being at the 'exhaust shop' getting the headers, down pipes and wastegates all built..

It's all stainless to the sides of the transmission, and then i have mild steel to the rear.

here is a few quick pics..

Im getting closer to settling on final colors...
---its hard to depict that gold in a drawing

paint has arrived...

now to spray a few panels to see if i like it