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Flit-e's ranger build thread


Flit-e

11/2012 STOTM 04/2014 MTOTM
V8 Engine Swap
MTOTM Winner
RBV's on Boost
Joined
Apr 29, 2012
Messages
43
City
Wyoming
Vehicle Year
1983
Transmission
Automatic
1983 2wd long bed pretty much came with nothing trans and rear axle interior was stripped but the dash was in great shape. June 26, 2011
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Ordered some Crager V5's threw some old dirt track tires on her to unload her
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then she sat til a month ago when i have a majority of my parts to start building
Interior
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Loaded her up to take her to another shop that she could sit inside for a while
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getting ready to drop the motor in
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the motor VinR lightning block stroked to 393 with twin t3/t4 trick flow heads gt40 intake
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Trans c6 rebuilt with shift kit and 3k stall
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motor installed
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that thing will be a BEAST!!!!

can't wait to see it finished....

l8r, John
 
wholly spooling turbos batman!!! haha. that thing's gonna scream!
 
AWESOME!!!

Nice shifter, exact same one i got in my ranger. i just need a base cover for mine tho
 
I see much burned rubber in your future
 
chrwilkins30-
The seats are just some cheapo summit racing seats
Seats <---Clicky

Thanks guys still have a bunch to do before it hits the road...fuel line box frame 8.8 and a bunch of little nit picky stuff

Hope to be done soon im tired of taking my diesel down the strip she is SLOW!
 
those are NICE seats for the price. how are they? good and comfy?
 
They seem to be comfy. The most i have sat in them was just a few minutes getting placement on the shifter. I ended up not using the sliders and using angle iron to make the floor flat. Mounting them and far back and low as i could while still having enough lean.
 
picked up the new roller and started on switching everything between the two

Dropping the motor in the new one
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motor in hood fits good with the glass hood.
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innercooler mounted
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progress has been slower than i hope for damn life getting in the way.
Steering mod
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fuel tank mount
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tailgate on
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fuel pump mount
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i got the manual brakes installed and bleed water pump is on interior is switched over just need to mount the gauges painted the dash black to match
 
here is some more photos of my slow progress.
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cant really tell in this pic but i have painted all of the dash parts black.
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fuel line ran.
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