Looks SWEET! Keep the pics coming.

Any new news on this build?I'm really thinking of doing a short body/boosted/sb/bb What year is your truck?is it the 78 in your sig?I,v already have a set of the cop wheels/pancake caps that i wanted to put on another project.I'll be keeping an eye on this thread............

yeah its a 78, finished lowering the front 2 inches (pics coming) and now I'm fighting the tune...

Appears I still have the valves adjusted too tight... or the cam timing is off...can't seem to get it to stop "detonating" at part throttle and trying to "butterfly" back through the carb...ugh...

how much off the coil spring now?

Nice little truck!!! Now we need some new photos!!!

Truck is undergoing intense color sanding and buffing pics will follow shortly thereafter...

Don't what cha' to get to far down on the forum so i'll give u a any new updates?

Yeah, worked on it all day yesterday fine tuning my timing issue...turns out that for some reason the balancer had 2 timing marks and I had the timing so far advanced(accidentally) that I could see the "wrong" timing mark with the timing light. The "wrong" timing mark was telling me that I was at 10 degrees behind when I was actually about 20 degrees advanced anyway, got it figured out and also tuned the stumble out of it. Now for the frustrating part, after the painter sanded the entire passenger side with 1000 grit he decided he had little league baseball he needed to be doing, haven't seen him since , he hasn't even started on the drivers side and he has lots of orange peel to get out. The front and back glass are still not in, the installer says the front window is on back order...sheesh...

However...I did leave a small set of marks in the driveway and drove it down the highway with no windshield, no inspection, no tags...no front and back window was a bit "airish"... but it did run out pretty nice Pics coming...

So, today while the painter was color sanding I decided to do something that was talked about in an earlier thread...put a front bumper on the back... . Worked the bow out of it, took the bumper mounts off of the step bumper and did a little cutting, fitting and welding. It still needs a little shimming here and there and some bumper bolts. What do you think?

looks awesome....been waiting to see this done

Rickster

I think it looks good. Not as good as a real rear bumper, but 1000 times better than a step bumper.

Yeah, the step bumper was a no go...you wouldn't believe how we got the bow out of this front bumper... LOL. the step bumper mounts were cut off about 3 inches and provided just enough material for mounting the bumper. the trick was that the frame rails were a few inches wider than the bolt holes on the bumper...the excess mount material was used to adapt between the two, little welding, little fabrication and wala...

lookin good. i like that rear bumper even if it is off the front.

Hmmmmm, roll pans...after shimming this bumper and installing the proper bumper bolts I'll see if I still like it...if not, I'll be shopping for roll pans.

Any updates?