48 Chevy COE custom diesel build

[Chance48]

Good info wrencher and thanks...I just might give a churbo a try then, haha.

47, I'm using a universal kit from thorbros. It is a burly unit, also using their universal pan hard kit. I was gonna build my own ladder bar setup and ditched for this. When I'm more experienced I'll tackle total fab, I was just not real confident but I understand this stuff a lot more now as I read and get hands on aswell. I'm gonna build a raised bench, same size as the floor/seat tub structure was before but this will be about 9" tall. It will be closed in with a removable lid so to speak. Will need to find a shallow made seat. Maybe on of those early 90's Chevy seats you where telling me about. For the bed I may have changed my direction. Prolly not doing a car hauler now. My bed is gonna be 12 1/2' long and I don't wanna go any longer. I'm thinking I'm gonna build a semi fancy western hauler type bed if your familiar with that. Skirt it out, add some aluminum bling here and there, throw some stacks in it. Will have to make a little dog house in front for rear of engine of course. Also gonna search for some air cylinders to maybe rig it up so it will tilt and I can get to engine easier. I wanna pull the valve cover. Move oil fill hole to rear of cover and fill front, then put a remote radiator fill tank aswell and make the oil filter remote. Then all I'll have is power steering fluid to fuss with should it need topping off, rest will be out back, nice and easy to access.

Boy, I'm looking at this thing as I go, the mid engine makes it hard to mount all the stuff I'm gonna need to mount. Compressors and tanks are some of that. I didn't want to put them on outside of chassis for they will intrude my toolbox space, I can't put them in the rear cuz I believe I'm gonna build a fuel cell back there. I always wanted to be an engineer, haha.