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I am building a 1990 regular cab short bed ranger. I bought it a month and a half ago for my birthday odly enough its the same year as I am gave 500 for it. I bought a 302 and a c6 out of a 79 f150 with low miles on rebuild for 550. I will be using the factory bottom end. I bought gt40p heads with trickflow springs for 280 a edelbrock performer rpm intake for 100 and will probably grab a summit 600 carb when the time comes. I decided the c6 was too power hungry too heavy and too bulky lucky for me a friend is into drag racing and a buddy of his had a built c4 with 2600 stall for 650. I pulled the factory engine (not running) and tranny and traded it and 100 cash for an 8.8 LSD disc brake rear end and a 2.5 inch cowl hood. I ordered drag lite style wheels from American muscle for 240 for the set 15x8 rear and 15x4 front and nitto n555r drag radials for rear $280. Also picked up some small things explorer seats tach etc etc......so far I have bed pulled frame cleaned and painted and engine bay cleaned up. I have started sanding and bodywork. Going to try to get rear end cleaned up and ready to put in this weekend and supposed to pick up some swap mounts oil relocation and headers next week but not sure I can use the headers due to the "p" heads but for 100 for all il see what works. I still need to order my cam ( 509 intake 512 exhaust) from comp and some other things to get engine built but I'm well on my way.
The build will be a street toy with occasional drag strip. I pulled all heat air etc. It will only be driven on nice days. I plan to paint it back to original color ( the first blue color they came in) I have had several trucks I've fixed up etc but never done paint, body, engine swap, engine build, axle swap, etc etc so this is all a learning curve luckily I am blessed with good friends that have knowledge so that helps.
Sorry for the ramble, bad punctuation and lack of spacing. It is a pain to do this on my phone but that's all I have and wanted to share.
