Flit-e's ranger build thread

[Flit-e]

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

Ordered some Crager V5's threw some old dirt track tires on her to unload her

then she sat til a month ago when i have a majority of my parts to start building
Interior

Loaded her up to take her to another shop that she could sit inside for a while

getting ready to drop the motor in

the motor VinR lightning block stroked to 393 with twin t3/t4 trick flow heads gt40 intake

Trans c6 rebuilt with shift kit and 3k stall

motor installed

 

[chrwilkins30]

scribed.AWESOME!!

What seats are those?

 

[railman]

that thing will be a BEAST!!!!

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

l8r, John

 

[n_bannerman]

That'll be fun! Scribed

 

[lil'_big_truck]

wholly spooling turbos batman!!! haha. that thing's gonna scream!

 

[4.0B2]

i'll watch!

 

[SAY789]

AWESOME!!!

Nice shifter, exact same one i got in my ranger. i just need a base cover for mine tho

 

[CHKNFKR]

I see much burned rubber in your future

 

[Flit-e]

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!

 

[4.0B2]

those are NICE seats for the price. how are they? good and comfy?

 

[Flit-e]

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.

 

[Flit-e]

picked up the new roller and started on switching everything between the two

Dropping the motor in the new one

motor in hood fits good with the glass hood.

innercooler mounted

 

[Flit-e]

progress has been slower than i hope for damn life getting in the way.
Steering mod

fuel tank mount

tailgate on

fuel pump mount

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

 

[Flit-e]

here is some more photos of my slow progress.

cant really tell in this pic but i have painted all of the dash parts black.

 

[Flit-e]

fuel line ran.