Basicly, I'm heading up a team, well, I am the team with 2 other guys who'll be showing up on race day, that's building a cheap truck challange truck for a competition in july. The comp is being put on by canadian 4x4 magazine. The rules are simple. $1500 max coin into it, no borrowing from your other truck or loaners. And you have to take it back out when done. I'm inot mine for about $20 so far. I have a pair of dodge axles going into it, a front d60 and a rear d80 both with 3.54 gears. Not great, but free is free. Both axles are being setup with a mirrored one link setup which will be anchored to a bolt in crossmember which will double as a re3ar tranny mount. I had a 460 lined up to drop in as well but the guy I'm getting it from is semi employed right now and doesn't want to spend the coin on his new motor so I can have the old one right now, so it looks like I'm putting in a 5.8 for right now. I have a zf5 behind that followed by a dual 1356 tcase setup that I built for another project that then whent a different dirrection. I have a set of 44" ground hawgs that I've had forever and will be running when street driving and a set of 42" tractor tires for the comp, again, free.
I'm designing this so that when I roll, not if, and the body is destroyed I can just go get another one, unbolt and reinstall my good stuff on the new one. The first snag, the guy I got this one off of is a bit of a buisy boy right now. His wife is poppin out her first kid and I know that's stressfull ect. He promised me that he'ld have the papers for me over a week ago. Nothing against him, but I'm not building a truck up when I don't have papers for it. I've been down that road before and I am not doing that again. If it's not 100% legaly mine, sorry, but it's going to scrap tommorow. Don't worry though, I'm picking up a white one about an hour after that one is off the deck. The white one already has no motor or rear end, so no real time loss, just agrivation. Whitty's interior is kinda beat, but today I'm pulling the first's interior, doors and other selected sheet metal for spares.
Fortunatly I'm working part time, sortof, right now so I can get this thing done as well as getting my crane/deck truck done as well. Can't wait for the wife tostart in about redoing the roof this year.
