Finally done.....1st Gen, 351W

[Dan B.]

Nice. My "black" is a bench mix of three different colors.....a Toyota black, a Ford black and Dodge PB5 (blue). My father-in-law paints for a living and has tons of colors left over from jobs so he just pulled stuff off the shelf and messed around until he had what he was looking for. In the sunlight the black just explodes with metallic flake.

 

[Beef52751]

Looks Awesome!!!

 

[Dan B.]

Looks Awesome!!!

Thanks! There's been a lot of time and money into that little truck.

Back when I did the initial conversion I was in college...total cost for everything to get it driving was $1300!

 

[91BiggieGreen]

WOW gotta say im not much into street rangers but this I like a lot.

 

[Dirmaid]

love the truck man, you need to make one more run in it and let us know how your et looks. if it were me, id be dying to get to the straight away

 

[Dan B.]

.....you need to make one more run in it.....

I plan on it. May spend a couple bucks on some dyno time to finish getting it dialed in then take it to the track. The wideband really helps get the AFR tweaked but the dyno will weed out the best timing and advance curves. But for now, she is resting comfortably in the storage side of the garage as winter slugs along. ASA the weather breaks in the spring she'll be out.

BTW....thanks for the comments. I've put more time into this truck than most can imagine and it's finally EXACTLY the way I dreamed it from the first day I laid wrench on her!

 

[Dirmaid]

How much do dynos usually run price wise? I was thinking about doing that once I got a wideband for mine

 

[DNGRNGR89]

Bad to the bone brotha!

 

[Dan B.]

How much do dynos usually run price wise? I was thinking about doing that once I got a wideband for mine

It could be a couple hundred bucks easily if it takes more than a couple hours. But considering that the only other way of making adjustments and measuring for marked improvements would be at the track, it's not that bad.

At the track there are too many variables that I can screw up (launch, shift, etc)...and we usually only get four passes per night (at $25 each night). Then the weather will surely change from trip to trip. Add in gas and food to and from track, etc, etc.

So hitting the dyno once if I have the AFR dialed in close and hopefully only need timing/advance adjustments would be fine....and then you have cold, hard numbers of what your ride will do.

 

[Dan B.]

Some more pics. This was back in 2007. After several years in Dad's pole barn setting idle I got back to rebuilding it. Main reason for this rebuild...tree fell on and smashed the cab so I tore it down to the bare chassis. Then a new job, moving away, moving back, buying a house then a pair of kiddo's (didn't buy the kids! ) stalled the rebuild which was OK since I ended up finding a very clean donor truck and swapped the entire '85 cab and bed onto my '84 chassis. The entire frame was epozy primed and then gloss black...can't find the after pic, but here's a "before".

In three weeks it went from the pic above to being on the road and raced again. The pic below was a couple weeks after that when winter had started and before I had the garage. My is daughter posing with it. I'd post her with Daddy's hot rod now but I'm not a fan of posting pics of my wife or kids on the web....sorry. But these were some of the only digital "before" pics that I had.

Another interior pic.....plain factory parts but clean....other than the small tach and shifter it looks stock...the way I like it.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Nice truck!

Richard

 

[Dirmaid]

i do believe you were nominated for totm

 

[Dan B.]

i do believe you were nominated for totm

I saw that. Super psyched that all my work is being recognized!

 

[--weezl--]

someone post a link when stotm goes to voting please, i would like to vote this month

unrelated and un biased note... have you guys all voted for toty?

 

[Dan B.]

STOTM link below. All very nice (and BLUE) trucks.

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121185