..but I wanna see more of that GTX..... 
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looks sweet!
thanks for shareing pics of your project. I always like to see what other are working on.
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What Pistons/compression did you go with?
that should keep you chompin at the bit till you get it. 
, looks great, now if I can just get the dang truck out of the paint shop. 
, he sent me a pic of the cab Saturday... hopefully have it back in my shop by this weekend, pics will be posted.
, non-fabbed valve covers on the way...sheesh anybody want to buy some brand spanking new fabbed valve covers?????
Id get 1 and use the fabed valve covers..
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Do you have the small diameter booster.
switch to the 3/4 ton booster, and keep the fabbed covers!
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Do you have the small diameter booster.
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oh well...if the new ones don't clear I'll be looking at changing the booster. The fabbed valve covers have the bolts integrated and that's the problem...you can't get a bolt in the back hole, the standard mount flange on the chrome covers should cure the problem. Hopefully...if not I'll be changing the booster...
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Do you have the small diameter booster.
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Bed is on, some pics prior to lowering the front, and just prior to a trip arond the neighborhood...LOL, got thunbs up from the neighbors, truck sounds good. No hood, no windshield, no back window...REALLY interesting ride
i use to own a 73 D-100 with a s/b and always thought of doing something like this,kick my self every day for trading it on a newer ram 
.Make sure u get vid. when it's done........... 
the windshield installer is backed up, the bed inside of the bed needs finished, the tune-up is way off 
etc, etc, etc...
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Rapidus Maximus,
your Truck absolutely rocks, i love it!
Keep up the good work, i´m just starting out with mine that i got 3 weeks ago and your truck is very inspiring
Never had a US car before. Never had a V8 before. So i got a lot to learn and i learned one thing or the other from your posts. Thank you very much!
It's been alot of fun (and work) and I have really appreciated all of the help I've gotten here on 
but it your truck long as u r HAPPY...
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Thanks, not sure I have the front low enough yet but it's going to stay like it is for now......................................................Me personally i would like to see it a little lower in the front
Looks SWEET! Keep the pics coming.
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............
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...
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how much off the coil spring now?
pics will follow shortly thereafter... 
any new updates? 
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...
but it did run out pretty nice Pics coming...
. 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?
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...
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I think it looks good. Not as good as a real rear bumper, but 1000 times better than a step bumper.
dude that painted the truck has been MIA for nearly 2 weeks with half the truck color sanded and if that wasn't enough I can't seem to get ANY windshield company interested in coming out to my shop and putting a new windshield in...sheesh! On the positive side I got the tuning bugs figured out (operator error) and the rear bumper is shimmed and installed. I took a day off today and my goal is to get SOMEBODY to bring a new windshield out here and install it... 
BTW...what year windshield will fit this '78?
finally got ahold of the "right" company...installers will be here by 2pm and about the back glass, since the truck has no a/c it will soon (before next summer) have a sliding back glass installed for "flow through ventilation"
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Looking at your truck will do things for ya that Viagra can't !
Great job
, got the new windshield in this morning, back window installed also, got to drive it to the inspection station and it passed , it's about 5 miles from my house to town, it ran great, cruises nice, just took it easy so far and enjoyed the ride
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That is good news that it made its first road trip there and back no problems.
did you noticed how people look at you while driving it?
does your face hurt from the smile you have while driving it? mine hurts when i drive mine.
, yes, this was me... now if I could just get my painter to finish up... 
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Got the tires and wheels mounted, balanced and installed...
Rear view..
)...headers on the way
Anyway, headers are now on order...by the way...it runs exceptionally well through the 318 manifolds funny thing was that probably the most intelligent comment I got at the cruise night was "why does it have exhaust manifolds still on it?" Bad news is that the painter has apparently taken his money and run (I know, shame on me). Drivers side is sanded with 2000 grit and that's the last time I saw him...never done any buffing and don't want to start now...anybody know someone in this area that will do mobile buffing?
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Burned a tank and a half of gas through the truck this weekend, hit a cruise night in the Albertson's parking lot, fielded some youngsters questions...is that a GMC?, you got NAZ on it? What happened to the wheel wells?
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Don't what cha' to get to far down on the forum so i'll give u a
The 318 manifolds and stock headpipes may have been creating a bit of a restriction 
just sayin...
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Burned a tank and a half of gas through the truck this weekend, hit a cruise night in the Albertson's parking lot, fielded some youngsters questions...is that a GMC?, you got NAZ on it? What happened to the wheel wells?
