1968 F100 6.0 ls build

[ChuckDriver]

Very nice! You're gettin' it done pretty quick, when do you want to be driveing it?

[hackster]

Originally Posted by ChuckDriver

Very nice! You're gettin' it done pretty quick, when do you want to be driveing it?

No real goal for an on the road date other than spring. Would like to take it on the power tour this year, maybe make it to the LS Fest this summer, both are a long ways from home though.

Not the best day of work in the garage for me, but I did manage to get more sanding on the inner fenders, they are at this point done and ready for paint... Tired of taking pictures of them though.

Got the tranny all cleaned up and put a nice dusting of aluminum paint on it to freshen up my freshened up tranny before it went into its new home.

Asher came over and we bolted up my new SFI approved flex plate, filled up the amazing circle d triple full billet converter and stabbed it in the tranny. Holy crap this tranny is a big heavy girl, but up to the task of holding big power for the long haul.

Keep in mind, never even a test fit on the tranny into the hole and over the crossmember....and into the truck we go.









I took lots and lots of measurements and was pretty sure that it was going to be close on the tunnel and at the crossmember.

It fit like a glove, plenty of clearance all around the big girl and the motor sits nice and low in the chassis, looks good in there.

So now my big debate is to go turbo now or finish the build na and go turbo later. Going to take a lot more $$$ and time for the turbo setup but it sure would be nice to do it all now before it goes in for paint.

Sean

[ChuckDriver]

Looks good in there and the motor mounts look perfect, nicely done!

[hackster]

Looks like things will slow down a little bit for at least a week or so.

Just ordered turbo...

Borg Warner S475 T6 frame along with all of the exhaust stuff I think I am going to need to get it put together.

Should be fun, but a lot of work. Goal for the truck is somewhere between 650 and 750 WHP.

Anniversary tonight, so no garage duty

Sean

[hackster]

So, got the tranny x member buttoned up and installed, turned out pretty good too. New poly tranny mount too.

With the weather here descent for a day, I figured it was bout the last opportunity to shoot the inner fenders and core support, so I setup my "Paint Booth".....aka driveway mixed up some paint and finally after too many hours of cutting, welding, sanding, priming, sanding, priming, wipe down clean and then some more of all that above, I shot some paint on them and the core support.





Pulled them inside to dry after they had setup for a few minutes. Bodywork looks awesome for my skillset and background. Paint turned out pretty descent as well, little orange peely on one and some specs in the other but keep in mind that I shot these in my driveway.

Inner fenders will have nothing mounted on them, all the holes were filled along with the battery tray on both inner fenders totally deleted. Should be a good look, nice and smooth.

Worked a little bit on the front of the motor, got the dirty dingo idler relocation bracket bolted onto the freshly blasted and painted accessory bracket. Looks descent.

Moved the steam port a little to make room for the ls1 intake, moved the electric throttle body from the truck over to the ls intake and got it set in place. Water pump installed, power steering pump back in place and got the power steering lines all figured out. Good Progress.





Needed to get the bed mounted up to figure out where to cut out for the gas filler door. So we moved the bed from my driveway over onto the frame to see how she looked for the first time.







Rear stance is pretty descent, According to my preliminary measurements, should tuck wheel in the rear on the 20x11 rears =)

Sean

[ChuckDriver]

The LS looks good sitting in there!

[aggie91]

Looking Good there Sean!