Project PT-57, 1957 Truck, Built By Hot Rod Jim's

[rat_rod_russell]

Originally Posted by WaterCooledNelds

Greg,

In the illustration Russell seems to have had an angry extreme makeover by 'Dorf' (aka Tim Conway).

PT-57 and Charley's Merlin would be quite a powerful pair.

lol, we need our LSX short block and upgraded turbos before she'd feel safe sitting next to that monster.

-Russell

[fleetus macmullitz]

Originally Posted by rat_rod_russell

lol, we need our LSX short block and upgraded turbos before she'd feel safe sitting next to that monster.

-Russell

That is true, Grasshopper.

[syborg tt]

that's awesome

Adding it to my screensaver folder

[rat_rod_russell]

hehe, Got to drive it sometime right.

-Russell

[Kendall Burleson]

It was build to burn Rubber

[GHOSTDANCER]

http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2010/01...od-pickup.html

[fleetus macmullitz]

Originally Posted by GHOSTDANCER

http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2010/01...od-pickup.html

Thanks for posting that link, I enjoyed the article.

Congrats Russell and all contributors to the build.

[rat_rod_russell]

Sorry for my long absence been busy catching up the customers projects and getting sick for almost 2 full weeks doing nothing but sleeping and now I'm trying to recover my strength. Nothing like knowing a month ago I just picked that rear end up and put it on the table, now I can't budge it.

For those who missed it there was a little article on the PT-57, lots of its wrong but hay who's counting.
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2010/01...od-pickup.html


For the fans, I just got around to taking these today so you all can see how she's come out so far. I'm still playing with the HDR's.







I'm still experimenting with differential mounts and brackets so I haven't gotten a chance to put it on the track yet. I'm also going to do a major renovation of the firewall, steering column, steering linkage, and pedal system.

The steering column ended up a little lower than I would have liked so we'll be moving it up to better clear my huge size 13 feet and I'm going to give a little extra because I have 2 friends / customers who wear 16's. I want a little more leverage on the brakes, I can just barely lock up the street tires the way she sits now and that mean's I have some grip I'll loose out on with the Slicks so a little more leverage on that end and a little different pedal design too.

The fire wall is going to get a different look to make it more of a factory design instead of the overly common slick everything. I want to make the motor compartment look and feel more like the inside of a bomber / fighter than a tricked out show car. We're also going to ditch the inter coolers since they only show very little cooling compared to the intake air temp. On the dyno the ITA was only 5+ ambient and that was no air moving across the rest of the mandrill tubing under the car. The pyrometer on the end caps was only showing 8-10 degrees drop across the IC’s and they had a fan blowing on them directly so they go and with it some weight too.

Later
-Russell

[-Freak-]

O' my. This is a unique and extremely well thought out build.
It kind of makes me wish i was building a truck instead.

Do you have higher resolution versions of the HDR pics?
They are to small for my monitor resolution to look good as wallpaper.

[tones2SS]

Awesome pics.
That thing looks mean. I love it, good job!!