Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Hey everyone. Been lurking around here for a long time stealing ideas and getting advice. Thought it was finally time to share my project with yall. I set out a few years ago to find a patina'd short bed truck. After many months of searching I finally found one. 1970 C10 short bed, good patina. Fairly solid truck. Started working on it, but life got in the way and I had to sell it.

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Fast forward a couple of years and I was ready to find and start on another truck. I tried to buy the blue '70 back but the guy just didnt want to sell it. Cant say that I blamed him. So my search continued. I had a friend that had a '68 short bed that he had lost interest in. We agreed on a price and I brought home. It wasnt much to look at it. But it was a start.

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They had taken the bed and the firewall of the cab down to bare metal so I knew the truck was solid everywhere. Had the entire suspension sand blasted and painted. But it was a long bed frame that had been cut down. I wasn't crazy about that so I found a true SWB frame to start with.

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Couple of long nights, a bunch of cut off wheels and a few air hammer chisel and punches later and voila! We were ready for Porterbuilt.

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Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

A call to Nate and Dave at Porterbuilt and three agonizing months later, it all shows up.

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I was as giddy as a school girl when I got all of this. I'm running level 3 dropmembers front and rear with Ridetech coilovers.

Couple days later. I had a rolling chassis.

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Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Started looking for a 6.0 and got lucky and found a LS2 for a good price. And started ordering some goodies.

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The motor is getting stage 2 turbo cam from tick performance, Comp pushrods and dual valve springs, melling HV oil pump, ARP everything.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Cool build!

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Im in .

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Got the LS2/4L60e put in.

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But then plans changed and someone talked me into building a turbo motor. So I ditched the 4L60e and the trailing arm crossmember for a 4L80e and PB's inner frame stiffener.

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UPS decided I needed a custom bend in one of the IFS mounting points.

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Got the IFS and 80e in.

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Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Nice project keep the updates coming

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Glad you finally started a build page, :D!

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Damn gotta watch this.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Thanks, guys.

I've been contemplating it for a while. I felt I was finally at a stage where everyone might think its cool for now lol

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And then it was onto the fuel. I gave Travis a call at azproperformance and he got me set up with a Boyd welding tank with an Aeromotive a1000 in it. Should be more than sufficient for the turbo. Running AN-8 supply and return.

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I wanted the tank to be a little higher than just riding on top of the frame rails. So I found some bushings from energy suspension that would help with that.

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Then it came time to run the fuel lines. Enter a lot of google searching for how to run the fuel lines. Most everyone I've seen has ran them on the outside of the notches. And as I found out for good reason. But I wanted them hidden for the most part and knew that the only way I could do this was to go through the notch. I'll be the first to say that this was a pretty big pain in the ass and fairly expensive mod. I found some bulkheads from Russell and they worked great.

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Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Im in to watch this one!!

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Looking good. The boyd tanks are nice. When you get a chance could you measure the distance from the top of the mounting bracket on your tank to the top of the tank? I just want to know how high above the frame the top of the tank will be. Thanks man, I hope it's not too much trouble.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

From the top of the mounting bracket to the top of the tank is right at 3".

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Awesome! Thank you :metal:

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Decided on a set of wheels (for now anyways). Gotta save my pennies for a set of billets lol Boss 338 20s and 22s

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And after searching for what seems like forever trying to pick a set of tires out, I settled on Dunlop 255/35/20 and 265/35/22.

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Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Wow! I'm definitely watching this build! I can't wait to see how it progresses! Looks great!

Joe

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Very nice looking Chassis! Subscribed!

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

wow. looking good, awesome build!

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Thanks a lot guys. I really appreciate the kind words. Keith and mooseknuckles, I've been drooling over yalls trucks for a long time now. Keith I'm anxious to see how your new one comes along.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

I'm in! Killer looking frame.

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The frame mock up is pretty much done at this point.

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Now it came time to put the body on. And I drug my feet heavily when it came to this. Not that I didn't have a solid truck because I did. But I just couldn't get excited about the truck body that I did have. It wasn't what I wanted. So the search was back on to find a patina short bed truck. Many months of searching and absolutely no luck. I was starting to get a little discouraged. The whole time I was building the chassis, the blue truck was in the back of my mind. Kicking myself for ever selling it, I kept thinking it would be awesome to have it back. Well luckily I sold it to a guy that was fairly local to me. So I call him up one day and ask him if he wanted to sell it one last time. (probably asked him a dozen or more over the last couple of years lol) And once again, he shot me down. I had one last hail mary for him. I told him I would trade him the '68 body that I had for the blue truck body since I had already built the suspension and he had already built his as well. After what seemed like a lifetime over the phone, he agreed on that. OH HAPPY FREAKIN DAY!!!! I was giddy as a school girl. The blue truck was coming home!!!!

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Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

That blue truck has perfect patina. I can't wait to see it sitting on your frame. Badass!

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Cool you got that one back. What size are your new tires?

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Thank ya, sir!

They're 255/35/20 front and 265/35/22 rear.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Nice start to your project. Looking forward to seeing it come together. Working on setting up my S475 now with my current build.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Thanks, man. I just read through your build thread and DAMN! Your chassis looks awesome.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Thanks!

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Once I got the body home, I didnt waste anytime putting it on.

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Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Can I borrow your tractor, lol? Looking good, we are pretty close in our builds!

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Looks awesome! How much did you have to clearance the cab floor to fit the 4l80e trans? Are you just running a high hump?

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Just a high hump. I was scared whenever I set the cab on, thinking I was gonna have to get the cut off wheel out. But it fit right on there surprisingly enough.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

That's great news, I really want to run an 80 instead of a 60!

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

looks real good.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Thanks, man!

I was the same way. The money that I was going to have to put into a 60 to be able to handle the turbo just wasn't worth it to me. I just bit the bullet one day and it paid off.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

I'm looking at mine with my 80e and it looks like a really tight fit. Hope my luck is the same!

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

All these cabs getting sat on their frames.. Good job! Going to be a killer stance.

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Nice progress looks good as it sits already what did you do with the old trans crossmember and trailing arm crossmember if you want yousell it I'd be interested

Re: Project: Boosted Blucille. '70 C10 SWB PB Fab, LS2 S475
 

Thanks! I already sold it. It didn't take long for those to sell at all.