FAST Fabrication 94 b4000 turn into SNORE class 7 race truck build thread

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Richard

r u referring to the prerunner maniac article? if so thanks, if not what are you referring to?

 

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here is a couple more pictures from the expo, now i know longer have a dead hand anymore.... wish i would of got better pictures in our team shirts... The last picture is my family, a friend that help my dad when I was not in AZ, and miss FK..... Ali was fun and was able to get away and walk and talk with me to the truck, should of took more pictures cause 3 of 4 have sun glares.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

r u referring to the prerunner maniac article?

Yes,

Richard

 

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yukon stuff

Some wiring photos,

everything gets crimp-solder-heat shrink- then loomed

fit all these wires into a tight AN8 virgin, had to lube and stretch her out

rear completed, moved on to the front

got the last light sensor needed, get it installed tomo, that will complete the front.

need to run some wires from underneath and do the light bar, then we het the fun job of connecting it all on the dash.

 

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Clean

 

[Jim Oaks]

Truck looks good. When and where are you going to race it???

 

[Bennybooster]

you should come wire my 350

 

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you should come wire my 350

wait till you see the work we did on our 350, not sure what i have posted. we got the sound system done, the race radio, headers, will be fitting a custom utility box to it, once its painted going to be bitchin 88 f-350

Truck looks good. When and where are you going to race it???

jan 27-28 primm nv HDRA redline at stateline and Mint 400 in vegas in march

 

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I thought I posted this last night, guess I forgot

Its midnight and my feet are killing me, we just finished tonight, and worked till 11 yesterday. Tomorrow wiring will be done and tested (minus GPS but plug already ran for it). Been a long time coming took us about 5 days to completely wire the truck.

Got a pressure sensor from an 84 Chevy pickup, looks identical to the Autometer fuel pressure one and a quarter of the cost.

Got my first third member built, this one has the 6.00 gears. The other supplies needed to build the second one with the 5:83 gears are on their way.

Next is the wiring, I can’t remember if those first few pictures are just from the back or is a majority of the wires. Awhile back I showed the Weatherpack kit I bought. It came with 29 connectors ranging from single pin to 4 pin square and flat (the entire time we thought the 4 pin flat was a 6 pin). So since we did not have six pins we have about 1.5x the connectors we would have had. After we did all the components outside of the cab I still had 17 connectors in my kit (plus two 3 pin connectors that I decided to use for roof bar tonight instead of buying a 6 pin tomorrow, wiping out every connector). Most of you will probably say why didn’t you use a bulkhead connector if you wanted it removable. Well it would of cost over $300 (there a $100 a connector from pro wire) and I would of needed fixed to dash, fixed to panel, and dash to panel connectors. I decided to use what I had already bought, everything is labeled and in the end we ended up with 17 connectors (all filled [one capped for GPS] and every connector got used). I had to go out and buy an extra 25 male, 25 female, and 50 seals for size 14-16 wire. It was a lot of fun, very tedious and time consuming. We have gone through almost 400 4” zip ties and on our second 100 of the 8” & 14” zip ties.

Panel connectors

Start of dash wiring

Fixed gauges wired along with passenger ptt, horn, and oil pressure lead

Dash completed minus making the backing plate and molding into glass to mount the tach (also waiting on coil ptt, should be here tomorrow)

This has all the wires and connectors in it minus the roof bar wires and GPS, everything is tagged with the label maker as well as staggered connectors and reversed ends. As usual we use bare crimp terminals and then heat shrink.

The start of the panel, all the breakers are jumped (minus the 4 main leads) and the top row switches are powered and our first connector attached.

Next are pictures with all the wires attached (minus GPS lead) and the roof light bar leads were ran and had planned on buying two 6 pin connectors for the 10 wires tomorrow. About 30 minutes after these pictures changed my mind.

Closer look

In the end I decided to save myself $20 from buying four six pin connectors (2 male & 2 female) to save on using one less connector. I used my last 4 pin square and flat and my 2 pin (being replaced with a 3 pin so GPS is prewired) connector. Doing it this way also kept me from having to have two cavity’s in the connector. The other end of these will run up to the relays that will be behind the visor, and from their 5 powers and 1 ground will go into my last two 3 pin connectors to make the light bar removable. In the picture 4 wires are still not connected because I need to pull the 4 pin square off another harness and replace with the two pin I am removing from this picture.

I know it probably looks crazy, I definitely understand why wire guys get paid so much. It’s a lot of work, my neighbors friend is an aeronautics electrical engineer. He stopped by and confirmed one concern we had about splitting the breaker power leads in half, instead of one 10 gauge lead per row we are doing two per row. He said we did a great job and doing it just like he would of done it. So my dad was very happy to hear that. Hope you enjoy the pictures, time for me to crash so I can get up at 8am again. Oh btw here is a picture of the motorhome we got, trying to get a wrap for it.

 

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Got to love wires, the start of the roof light bar

The dash all wired up minus the ptt

With the PTT

The old panel leads, decided to split the rows up and just use the 10 gauge wire but four instead of 2. The panel is now complete

1450 light wired and ready to go

The light bar is all wired, just need the final harness for the last relay so we can run the wires from the light bar connector to the panel connector, then we can test everything YAY

 

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[Bennybooster]

how far out are you guys from being race ready?

 

[CHKNFKR]

I'm almost scared to ask, but how much do you think you have in it at this point?

 

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how far out are you guys from being race ready?

our race is on the 27th.. i say were 10 days out, we need to a little more fab work and fix a couple things

I'm almost scared to ask, but how much do you think you have in it at this point?

i really dont know, i have a box full of receipts. 30-40k maybe less