Hackster's Autocross Track Day Truck (Garage Build)

[hackster]

Originally Posted by SSLance

18x11s on front, Wow! Especially since I know how excited I am for my new 18x9.5s that should be shipping to me next week.

Ron talked about you and your car in the class... I felt special since I knew who you were and could relate from your build thread. Yeah...11's I was really having a tough time with tire choice for the wheels until I took Ron's class. He has a lot of experience and said that he would much rather have a car with the right size tire on it than a huge tire on a smaller rim. We talked more specifics in the class and I settled on 295/40 on the 11" rim. Looking at the tires this am, I am a little worried they might be stretched a bit but hope they are just right.

Originally Posted by sanddan

What wheels are you getting?

Rushforths.....I am a big fan of supporting local vendors and Jason is just up in Tacoma Washington and is becoming a buddy over the years......maybe less after the 50 questions last night about....see below.

Originally Posted by ZMAN1969

Sean I just found and read throught this - exellent craftsmanship!!!



Great Job!

did you ever teardown original engine to see what happened to it?

Thanks man appreciate the feedback. I had my suspicions so I tore the pan off and was quickly greeted by the cause of the noise. Thrust bearing was gone. I believe I have about .040 endplay on the crank shaft. It probably just needs some bearings and it will be good to go.

Well after a couple of months of waiting, these sexy bitches showed up at my work yesterday. A couple little issues with packaging from the builder ended up with three wheels not being perfect. Ill work with Jason on that front, not sure what to do.

He did the hidden valve stems on the wheels and although they are super cool just would not work so I picked up some flush mount valve stems to plug the holes and got to work drilling holes in the front lips on my brand new wheels... :cry: Yes you heard that right.

But lots of measuring and prep and they are drilled with some nice clean valve stems in there.

I went out on a limb with the color on these a little bit. I love brown, its such an elegant under utilized color on cars and with the tan/Beige color on the truck with the brown interior I thought it would work well. Jason nailed the color and finish on the wheels they are incredible.











This was just a cool shot....gives you an idea of just how big these are....yes, they are all 18x11's



Should have tires on them later tonight now to make these big girls fit is going to be a whole nother story, wish me luck.

Sean

[DBasher]

Love the color and finish, Sean. They're going to look great mixed with the brake dust! Looking forward to seeing them mounted up and the truck sitting on the ground.


You owe me a beer...

[garage_engineer]

I've been following your build progress and wanted to say I love the truck! Nice choice of wheels.

[hackster]

Originally Posted by DBasher

Love the color and finish, Sean. They're going to look great mixed with the brake dust! Looking forward to seeing them mounted up and the truck sitting on the ground.


You owe me a beer...

Thanks Dan..Beers on me next weekend.

Originally Posted by mbstingray74

I've been following your build progress and wanted to say I love the truck! Nice choice of wheels.

Thank you. I like them too

Well, an update that is worthy of some pics for a change.

I decided on the Falkens. I know that they are not the best tire out there but for the truck size they are the best tire for me right now. Ordered these up a few weeks ago and got them mounted up this afternoon.

Giddy like a little kid about this point, they look great.





Typical wheel and tire install tools at my house.

Also add to that BFH, SFH, dolly and a couple of pieces of pipe just for good measure.



Just one side done, still needs to finish rolling and pulling the fenders at this point but wanted to see it in the sun.







So with that, I got the other side done. Cut the lips on the rear openings and rolled them in as far as I could. I might need to pull the bedsides out just a touch to clear the tire at full bump, but it has a bit of room in there now.

I pulled the front fenders as far as I could at that point. It is very subtle and looks very clean and nice.

Here is what she looks like, first trip around the neighborhood.






Good shot of the wheel here



All in all its been a ton of work to get them on there but I am super happy and the truck looks mean, just like I wanted it to.

Keep it clean and in one piece till Goodguys next weekend, then back to the track.

Keep on truckin!!!

Sean

[Evan Iroc-Z]

You are building one hell of a truck. Nice job!

[Chad-1stGen]

what method did you use to pull the front fenders out? Truck looks great!

[hackster]

Originally Posted by Evan Iroc-Z

You are building one hell of a truck. Nice job!

Thanks Evan. Its getting there one little bit at a time.

Originally Posted by Chad-1stGen

what method did you use to pull the front fenders out? Truck looks great!

Thanks Chad.

First was working with the real sheetmetal, I folded the inside lips flat, then rolled them up and in as far as I could with a hammer and dolly. They are really thick metal and took a lot of work. Tried the fender roller with reasonable results but with the non round opening it was a pain in the ass.

Then I got it on the ground and went to work with the old piece of 2" and 1.5" metal DOM tubing (no seams) and I did not think it was going to do anything. Turns out that method worked suprisingly well to actually pull the fender out.

I bet it pulled the lip and fender out below the beltline about 3/4" or so. It worked far better than I thought it would have.

Sean

[bonecrrusher]

Originally Posted by hackster

This Holden was super cool, it looks like it is a real Holden brought in from Australia and sounded rowdy!!

Nice build man - I missed this entire thread, lol.

Looking at this Holden - I think thats a Chevy SS that has been badge converted. It looks like the steering wheel is on the left hand side of the car.

[hackster]

Originally Posted by bonecrrusher

Nice build man - I missed this entire thread, lol.

Looking at this Holden - I think thats a Chevy SS that has been badge converted. It looks like the steering wheel is on the left hand side of the car.

I wondered about that.....damn cool car but was loud as all get out.

Thanks for the props, easy to miss with all the crazy cool builds going on here at Lat-G.

For those following along.....first time with the camper on the old 12 valve dually and it was night and day difference, half the power of the 14 but it handled the camper so much better than the 14. I was shocked. Truck did extremely well. Need a few things for it. Steering box needs replaced, and it desperately needs the 3k governor springs. Those are next on the list but I was very happy how the truck did with the camper, trailer and F100 in tow.

What a weekend.

Got up to the fairgrounds about noon on Friday and got the truck unloaded and the camper all setup, its just better on the dually.

We hit the show about 1 or so and met up with my old man there. I was surprised how many cars were there on a Friday. Got to meet some cool people there that day. It was hot out.

Few pics from the show on Friday.





Yeah...you are seeing this correctly





This thing was super clean....and you know I like these trucks.





We got done at Puyallup and headed out to the drags. I cruised out there with my dad, F100 did great in the hot weather and sitting in traffic, I was pretty happy.

Met up with Rushforth and a few of his buddies for some Karting time.. I had no idea that I would be sore afterwards. For being a pretty big fella, I was happy with mid pack, 8 of 15 guys. It was a blast. 2 fifteen minute sessions were enough though. If you are ever up there, check this place out, its totally worth it.



I met this chap at the track and talked with him for a while. Super cool old truck. It was an original short bed that someone used to tow with and was just cool. I talked with him a bunch over the weekend. Great guys.



Was an awesome first day up there. I walked a lot, was pretty tired and hot by the end of the day and was so busy having fun I had forgotten to eat or drink anything from about 1 or so on.

[hackster]

Saturday,

Damn early morning, up at 4:45 to get things ready and roll into the show, glad we were camping right there.

Great parking spot to wait in line.







Got all setup at the show and pretty much forgot to take pics =) there were a couple of outstanding cars there that I could not get pics of but some that I did.

This is an Avanti....yes you read that right.









Just some other neat cars, I shot and thought I would share.






Yes, that is a common rail cummins..