1968 F100 6.0 ls build

[aggie91]

Truck looks good in the pictures, nicely done.

I am starting to get the itch to build a simple turbo motor, but I want to do it on the cheap...

[hackster]

Do it!!!!


Huge thanks to Ron for all his help on this, we had a great day. I think we are past the little gremlins as we were not only able to successfully tune this thing today but we were able to drive it around....quite a bit if I might ad too.

Made a lot of changes to the VE table and got it running well enough to even get it into some boost.

For the first time since this whole build started I was able to drive it around with a smile on my face. No weird transmission shifting issues, no dying, no weird hesitations or funky things when the fan turned on or shut off, it was like driving a brand new car.

Shot a couple of pictures of it with the man responsible for making my entire weekend!!!

Did I mention that the weather here was amazing today?

We put about 25 or so miles on it without a hiccup and have it pretty damn happy for where we are at in the tune. More to come soon so stay tuned.





Thanks Ron and Anthony for the help (LS1Tech). It made my entire month to be able to drive it around even if it was just a little bit



Sean

[waynieZ]

Great to hear its working out and you got to enjoy some of your hard work.

[hackster]

Thank you!!

Drove the truck into work yesterday with zero issues other than finding some tire rubbing all the way around.

Drove to work, lunch, ran some errands after work and just had an epic day enjoying the truck.

Damn thing is a hoot to drive. Big boosted V8 with an Auto and a real converter in it is way more fun to drive than I ever imagined. If I can get traction, I bet it will be a pretty quick little ride.

Sean

[hackster]

The weather here was just amazing this weekend. I managed to spend the entire weekend not doing much, helped out a few buddies and spent some quality time with the wife.

Cleaned up the shop though, like clean clean, pulled all the stuff out, scrubbed and pressure washed all the floors. Cleaned everything up before it went back in the shop too.

I took the truck out for a little bit yesterday, drove it over to a buddies house to pull apart a jeep liberty top end. What a job, got one head off and found it cracked so we made the call and ordered up two refurbished heads for it today, it should be going back together tomorrow night.

Truck is great to just drive around, enjoyed it out in the sun yesterday but it really is quite boring without any kind of a stereo. I stopped in yesterday and picked up some 6" coax speakers and a small kicker amp that has bluetooth capabilities and auxiliary hookup. Not too sure I need a fancy head unit, I can just use the bluetooth or an auxiliary input.

I was going to put them in the kicks but they are just too big. I think I am going to do some 4" or 5" separates up front either in the stick speaker hole or build some kick panels to house them.

Here is what I started on last night. The plan is to build a nice little speaker grille for this and kind of hide it back in there and then I will wall off the back are and carpet everything to make it look neat and clean.






Also brakes should be getting ordered for the front as long as I can get them to fit. I thought that I had lots of clearance but 15" rotors are pushing the caliper out to where the spokes start to come back a bit. Looking at a full Wilwood setup with 15" cross drilled/slotted rotors and 6 piston calipers. Should fill up the wheels a lot better =)

Sean

[Justin@EntropyRad]

Love the cross-breed

[hackster]

Thanks...its actually kind of fun. Thinking about my next project and I guarantee it will be another cross breed.

Only had a little bit of time to work on it last night, still helping work on the Jeep 3.7 rebuild.

Got the grilles mounted up behind the panel, then the speaker to follow that. Rounded over the front edge of the panel where the speaker opening is to give it a little more smooth look.

Also built the other side last night.

Picked up some speaker box carpet as well and got them covered. I am not sold on the carpet not matching the floor carpet but they just about dissapear behind the seat and finish off what was a pretty unfinished area before.

With carpet



In the truck....and really hard to get a photo of.





What you see when the seat is back. Pretty much dissapears.



Thinking I might run a single subwoofer to go along with these 6" speakers. Not sure if I am going to run a set of fronts or not right now. Maybe after I get this stuff up and running.

Sean

[DBasher]

Looking great Sean! It's always nice to have some music, especially on longer road trips....

Sounds like the lil hot rods really coming together, nice work!

[hackster]

Originally Posted by DBasher

Looking great Sean! It's always nice to have some music, especially on longer road trips....

Sounds like the lil hot rods really coming together, nice work!

What you mean like a really long road trip? Like Northern California????

You get my email I sent to you a few weeks back?

Sean

[Justin@EntropyRad]

Beast of a turbo setup