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**GregWeld** · #**161** 07-16-2014, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by ironworks

I talked to Eric today on my way back to the shop from lunch and we got you set up real good. He is going to raise the wheel wells and chop the top with the stock windshield and do a few other mods we think will really set it off nicely. Do you like 24" wheels? How about ground effects?

Are the Intros with spinners still available? I've been saving up for a set and am just about ready to pull the trigger! That or Gold Wires... I'm really struggling with this and have been waffling back and forth for several years now.

Ground effects are cool as long as they're in that bad ass black plastic... just behind the rear wheels. Somebody was explaining to me that they'll also do double duty by keeping rock chips off the rust - er I mean paint.

I've been thinking about the chopped top and will ask Eric to put some wings (for areo) on kind of like the dude Mercury has on his head. They'd be so bad ass in gold anodized aluminum and then riveted on... You know - like they do real race car stuff. I'm really diggin' the race car vibe with the spinners or the wires. Do they make gold wires in anything larger than 13"??

**GregWeld** · #**162** 07-16-2014, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by 68LS1

Greg, you are a lucky man, having friends like this helping you out

I think I just swallowed my .45

:>)

**GregWeld** · #**163** 07-16-2014, 11:34 PM

You have no idea how much this made my day!! OMG that's the funniest thing I've seen in a very very long time!

**Sieg** · #**164** 07-17-2014, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Flash68

I was thinking the same thing...

that Sieg.... what a bad apple.

Ever notice how plush the shock stroke is on a Baja Trophy Truck?

For the most part it's just a matter of manipulating shim stacks. Here's the build sheet for the WP shock on my KTM.

It should be noted the fork and shock valving on this bike has the ability to chip teeth and make kidney's bleed on public roads.

**GregWeld** · #**165** 07-17-2014, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Flash68

It's all good. Weld will just hire Ron Sutton to DIAL IN his errand truck for optimum Sun Valley road performance.

Like I always told my kids when they were growing up --- It's not what you know - it's knowing how to find the answer.

**GregWeld** · #**166** 07-17-2014, 07:01 AM

With the above post in mind....

I will take the advice of a guy that builds some pretty bad ass chassis and cars... for those that don't know them... That would be Phil and Jeremy Gerber AKA The Roadster Shop Brothers. If he says AFCO's over Double adjustable blah blah blah - then that's where I'll START.

THEN -- Keeping the above post in mind.

When I am somewhere with Bret Voekel et al... We'll corner weigh the truck... discuss it's use, and current "as built" ride characteristics.... and see if there's a benefit making a change.

How simple is that.

I really don't need to get it "right" the first go around... I've learned a couple things about cars over the last 45 or so years. The biggest one is, parts is parts - they can be improved - changed - modified - tossed out - cut - drilled.... and I'm sure I've left out a few things that can be done with them.

**Sieg** · #**167** 07-17-2014, 07:26 AM

Totally agree!

Suspension is and isn't black magic once you have a basic understanding first hand experience of difference in valving set ups.

Thanks to my off-road motorcycling background I learned a lot about manipulating suspension at a grassroots level before shock dyno's and modern technology raised the bar even higher.

When you get it right it's somewhat unbelievable how good it can be. I'll guess in the next few years you'll start experiencing that magic first hand.

ironworks · #**168** 07-17-2014, 08:09 AM

It's pretty funny how much you guys are worried about how a 1940 ford truck will handle as its used to get groceries at the local grocery store and probably will never get out of 2nd gear as Greg and Gwen grow old in their new mansion in the woods and have to go buy the super expensive Dog food for Stella every 3 days to make sure she has the freshest wet dog food they can get her. Oh and the trip to the mail box at the bottom of the hill.

Otherwise Gwen will just ride her bike.

**GregWeld** · #**169** 07-17-2014, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ironworks

It's pretty funny how much you guys are worried about how a 1940 ford truck will handle as its used to get groceries at the local grocery store and probably will never get out of 2nd gear as Greg and Gwen grow old in their new mansion in the woods and have to go buy the super expensive Dog food for Stella every 3 days to make sure she has the freshest wet dog food they can get her. Oh and the trip to the mail box at the bottom of the hill.

Otherwise Gwen will just ride her bike.

True statement!

**clill** · #**170** 07-17-2014, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

You have no idea how much this made my day!! OMG that's the funniest thing I've seen in a very very long time!

The best part is that it was done with a special paint that even after the door is blasted and painted it will still bleed thru for years to come.