Posted By: beesting
38 done and heading home! *update 4* more pics. - 02/13/09 01:40 AM
not under its own power yet, going to a friends house has heated garage, him, guy next door to him and polarbill, going to help me get back on it and get it rolling. going to be living there after work and on the weekends for awhile
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/13/09 01:42 AM
one more at its new home for a little while
Posted By: KatFysh
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/13/09 01:54 AM
That looks nice. Looks like a nice to place to work on it at too. Do you think you'll have it done in time for Mikes 2nd annual car show in June?? I'd like to see that. It looks like it would be a fun build..
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/13/09 03:42 AM
yes hoping to have it road worth by then have everything for it except running boards and back roll pan but have a few ideas for them But you know how projects go thought it would have been done 4yrs ago! this time looks good Thanks to freinds, brother and a wife (that thinks its hers cause i have the bee) that want to see it done
Posted By: 4speeds4me
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/13/09 05:14 AM
GGGGRRRRRRRR! That was misleading...
Looks good, though...especially now that I've got a pair of 37's coming...I'll be looking for LOTS of updates!
Posted By: earlymopar
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/13/09 02:48 PM
I thought I'd offer that "Smoothie Fabrication" in North Carolina makes a nice steel running board for these pickups (ads in the back of rodding magazines). I don't remember the exact cost but it seemed like a bargain to me at the time I got mine His boards even have a matching bead stamped or rolled into them that matches the original. They are not meant to be a factory exact duplication but no one would know after you covered them with rubber matting. I'm not into the painted running board syle myself but that's an option for these as well.
- EM
Posted By: Ryan_340
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/15/09 02:24 AM
Sweet project
It always nice to work in a warm garage
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/16/09 03:30 AM
WOW! what a differance a couple of days and a few freinds can do. motor was just sitting on frame. day 1 motor out frame and fire wall painted motor repainted put back in bolted down and to tranny.
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/16/09 03:34 AM
Day 2 all thats left is radiator,hoses,plugs and plug wires, battery and some fluids and it's ready to fire up
Posted By: bohmer2
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/16/09 02:44 PM
Looks good, that checkerboard on the firewall recess makes for an interesting optical illusion in the photos. I think I got dizzy for a couple of seconds while I wait for my eyes to get the right focus.
Looks like its going to be a fun ride...remember tire smoking photos are also fun to see.
Posted By: RodStRace
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/16/09 05:37 PM
Sweet, but Orange Motor mounts?!?
Can't wait to see it really on the road.
Posted By: moparx
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/17/09 02:03 AM
lookin good !
that firewall sure makes the eyes do a double take !
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/17/09 03:07 AM
It's alive!! we got it running tonite, ooo sounds good just unreal that its running,
Posted By: Polarabill
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/18/09 02:28 AM
I just got back from helping beesting and friends work on the 38. Gotta tell I'm having a ball. Having a couple of friends helping makes things go so much smoother. Last night we pulled the bed off,welded some spacers where needed and got the bed back on and all lined up.Tonight all the leakes were repaired. That 360 sounds so good with open headers.This is really coming along good.
Posted By: Mopar Ron
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/18/09 02:52 AM
sounds like you guys are having fun
OK now you got to take a video and put it on you tube so we all can see and hear it running
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/18/09 03:27 AM
thanks guys!! I'll give that a try Ron never did it but its a good time to learn.
Posted By: 4speeds4me
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/18/09 05:54 AM
Can I ask a couple questions about the truck? If these details are somewhere her on Moparts and I missed them, then I apologize.
Is it sitting on stock frame, or something newer? Is the firewall stock/original? Will the engine clear the sides acceptably? Having the 37's coming now, inquiries may become commonplace. I hope you don't mind...
Thanks!
Posted By: earlymopar
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/18/09 01:58 PM
Having a 37 myself, his firewall appears to be stock. Small and big blocks both clear the hood sides with no problems. Hemis exit the hood sides at the front as the hood narrows toward the front of the truck.
- em
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/19/09 03:39 AM
4speed4me yes orig frame with a 82 dodge mirada front end welded to it to give me disc brakes and better ride had to make engine mounts. motor doesn't hit the sides but you'll have to maybe adjust your alternater so it don't hit I'm going sideless though, the fire wall is orig. don't worry about asken ques. best I can if not someone will
Posted By: 4speeds4me
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/19/09 06:40 AM
Thanks, beesting. Any chance you've got some more detailed pic of the frontend install? One is coming without a frame, and one with. I located a Dak for reasonable $$$ but was wondering which frontend I'd prefer in the stock frame. I was thinking MII, but I have a couple transverse T-bar units, so I could make use of what I already have onhand...
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/22/09 05:36 AM
4speeds4me this is the only pic i have hope it helps heard a mustang II would be easier if you have the money
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/22/09 05:42 AM
more updates primer, glass, front fenders and the grill pic 1
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road *update* more pics. - 02/22/09 05:48 AM
pic 3 hard to belive its only been a little over a week
Posted By: 4speeds4me
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/22/09 06:50 AM
Thanks for the pic!
No MII for me! Bucks down. TIGHT budget...especially with work the way it is right now.
If you get the chance, can you get a pic of how you've mounted the rear of the crossmember? The front part is good and clear, but the rear point looks like it's hidden behind the knuckle and brakes and all. If you can't get a pic, even a decent written description would be a good start to help me out.
Thanks Again!
Posted By: Polarabill
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/23/09 12:45 AM
I had to work ovetime fri and sat and couldn't believe how much got done in those couple of days.When I left today it was off the jackstands.The exhaust is on.Carpet is on the floor,shifter and boot completed.Door and back glass are in. More stuff gets done every day This thing should be roadworthy within a couple more weeks barring a disaster.AND, we are still having fun doing it.
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/26/09 04:09 AM
had touble down loading pics from last few days but heres todays backed it out and turned it around under its own power!!!!
Posted By: dodge41
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/26/09 11:51 AM
Wow, when you guys are done that truck, I have a 41 that needs a bunch of guys to come help me finish (or start, depending on if you're a glass half full or empty kind of guy)! But bring your snow shovels and winter coats, because the truck is buried and my garage isn't heated! But a plus is that our beer is good here
!
Nice work
Matt
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/26/09 08:23 PM
lawfish the metal bed floor was bad and the pc of wood in the bed didnt look good and i didn't have money to replace either one so we went with a pc of linoleum so polarabill had a pc of that card board stuff to make door skins so we used left over linoleum and covered them
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 02/26/09 08:39 PM
dodge 41 I had to have mine towed to my freinds garage to have heat and freinds help, know any tow truck drivers that would bring it down just put the beer in the bed
I still can't believe everything thats been done in two weeks
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 03/03/09 02:43 AM
well good enough to drive it home this past saturday about 10 miles tracked great and ran good still need somthings running boards and rollpan made and some warm weather.
here's to good freinds and big brother. thank you!
Posted By: Mopar Ron
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 03/04/09 12:17 AM
TRUCKS looking good
it had to be a fun ride home,
it sure has come a long way in a short time
Ron...
Posted By: beesting
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 03/04/09 02:16 AM
yes not much room ok for a short ride but not a long haul
wife says they are ok but for me 6'3 270 and the seats being really thick too. makes for very little leg room, like polarabill said the back bench seat in a caravan would work a lot better also looking at a set of well a ok GEO seats
but if they are cheap I'm there
Posted By: moparx
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 03/05/09 01:41 AM
i'm going to use the center buckets [leather] from my old 95 caravan in my humpback. they are only 20 1/2" wide each, and i have them sitting in there now. seems to be enough room, but they need some kind of tracks mounted. i'm not sure if i'll take off the headrests. i remember looking at a high end neon at carlisle one time, and those seats seemed to look like they would fit. there is not much room in the 33-34 bodies, and i think the 35-39 would be very similar. when i had my 38 plymouth coupe, i used a cadillac bench, but i had to cut out over 12" to get it to fit.
Posted By: Webster
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 03/05/09 02:42 AM
Posted By: earlymopar
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 03/05/09 04:02 PM
The largest issue with these cabs (other than the width) is that the cab narrows a fair amount from the back of the cab to the firewall. Therefore, any bench seat you use is best "pinched" or narrowed at the front to correspond to the cab taper. If you don't do this, you are losing quite a bit of seat width. I used a late 80s Mazda B2200 bench seat frame in my 37' pickup that I first narrowed and then pinched. You have a little more forgiveness with buckets if you like buckets in a pickup.
- EM
Posted By: poorboy
Re: 38 hits the road pics. - 03/06/09 01:28 AM
In my 35 sedan, I used a pair of buckets from a ford fairmont. They were low back, thin, and narrow seats that were actually fairly comfy. Even the fairmont seats sat side by side, you had to be friends with whoever was riding with you. Tried seats from a front drive Mopar, but they were too high of a back and too wide. In my 54 pickup, I used a bench seat from a 4 door valent, it was narrow and set just under the rear window ledge. That 54 was a bit wider then the 30s cab would be, but there was still room on both sides of the valent seat, it might still fit. My 50 truck has an unknown set of buckets with the adjustable seat backs, those work out well, you set the back angle which lets you move the seat farther back. Gene
