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Not dad's truck but something else to pay the bills and keep my skills honed.

These are from a few days ago. This is probably one of the nicest exhaust I'm ever done with all the subtle details and fit. The exhaust hangers are my own billet design that use two Stainless Works exhaust bushings so you can mount them at any angle instead of having to be directly above like normal You can mount them on any surface and then have the tubes swing out from there or the mufflers as is in this case as well. You can also use it as a split like I did on the pair of pipes under the differential.

2.5" Stainless mandrel bend
Flowmaster Delta Flow 50 Series Muffler
Summit Racing V Band Clamps
Vibrant Performance Flex Joints
Melrose C4 Conversion Headers
(raw and coated, I'm looking for stainless to use on my chassis but I can't find anything that fits currently)
All back purged while tig welded.

Complete galley here.

And check out the bling on the chassis. These photos don't do this metallic justice!
(these are from a few weeks ago when it came out of the oven and got its suspension installed)

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Custome...6-_H6A1741.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Custome...6-_H6A1747.jpg

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And the exhaust photos.
(These are from yesterday, October the 15th)

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I need to finish up the video I did about this exhaust with a 430 and 480 horse LS3 crate engines so you can hear the difference. I have a 525 LS3 in the shop as well but I think he's going with louder mufflers on that one. We'll see.

Later
-Russell @ Nerd Rods

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Pretty Pictures pretend like I'm getting something done at least. Right?

-Russell

*slow heavy metal music intensifies*

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We started rearranging the shop for a new toy. I flipped off the lights after moving the mill and lathe farther in and saw this. Doom metal started playing in the back of my head shortly after and I snapped this one.

Wow, I didn't realize how bad I was behind. Forgive the mix of cell phone photos. Its been all I could do to keep up with the old dude and the shop work load.

First some refined inner fenders were in order. This time out of aluminum to help shave a bit of weight off the front. There are a few revisions in these photos so if something looks a bit different one to another, its probably Dad scraping a set and moving to a fresh start for one reason or another.

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...5_14.38.15.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...5_19.09.32.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...5_19.09.45.jpg

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...5_19.09.54.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...7_12.30.34.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...7_13.00.10.jpg

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Moving onto getting all the boost tubing mounted. I opted for stainless over aluminum this time for reliability compared to my previous builds. The goal is that the truck will be Dad's daily so a few things like this are acceptable for the peace of mind if give if you hit a road gator, or small animal that will roll up under the truck and screw something up.

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...4_12.10.29.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...7_22.03.44.jpg

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...7_22.03.54.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...7_22.04.02.jpg

With all the items we need to hook to vacuum or boost references we had to cook up this manifold to have them all functional. Waist gate, Blow off, Boost controller, MAP sensor, Boost Gauge, and Vacuum booster but only one large port on the intake.

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...1_03.21.54.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...1_03.22.27.jpg

Next we finally decided to just dump the whole front core support system and just start over. It was just easier that way for this project. We have a small ish radiator but we have a very large oil cooler with an oil thermostat as well to prevent it from over cooling but we can bump that down a bit if we need to cool the engine off a bit more. The new ZR1 has a smaller radiator than this so we're not too worried about over heating. The main goal was to block off as much area and force air through the radiators. We might do some brake cooling as well with all the extra real estate under there.

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...1_07.23.07.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...9_19.49.29.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...9_19.49.41.jpg

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...0_10.00.38.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...0_10.00.53.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...1_10.25.29.jpg

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Finally after having her on the ground for a while I realized how much work we've been doing around the shop instead of on the truck so I snagged these for guys who are interested to know what the low stance will look like and this is about it.

https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...1-_H6A2045.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...1-_H6A2057.jpg https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Project...1-_H6A2048.jpg

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We're getting ready for new toys so the truck is getting a new home in the shop. We should have it ready to rock shortly and I can get back onto the wiring to get her fired up for the first time.

And anyone who want's an easy link to all the photos and just wants to flip through them you can click here. https://gallery.nerdrods.com/Projects/03_D3/08/

Later,
-Russell @ Nerd Rods