My '72 Blazer project.

[SamMargritz00]

well this is my first build thread. i guess ill just start out from when i bought it. We were looking some vehicles on ebay, then came across this 1972 chevy blazer in Cheyenne, wy. Me and my dad went and picked it up a day before my birthday. what a great birthday present! drove it around for a year or so then we decided to restore it.

So the destruction begins.

[SamMargritz00]

so it was in rougher shape then we thought it was. the floor on the driver side was nearly rusted out, the passenger side wasnt much better. had to replace the doors, both front fenders, and we replaced the whole passenger side using a short bed pickup side from lmc, had to do a little customizing but it works.

[SamMargritz00]

we ended up ditching the 350 that was in it. one of the cylinders was going bad and got horrible mpg. so we ended up going to a junk yard and getting a 5.3 fuel injected engine from a 2001 chevy pickup with 40000 miles if i remember right. sent up the computer to some guy in south dakota and had them make a custom wiring harness and had them do a performance upgrade. had to get rid of the manifolds of the pickup and found a guy in my town doing a 5.3 swap into his older ride and he had the manifolds that were out of a camaro. so we traded now the manifolds fit between the frame. pulled the body off to paint the frame.

[SamMargritz00]

took the body off and had the frame painted.

[SamMargritz00]

we started on the rust spots, then planting season came around for the farm. instead of letting it sit for a couple months, we decided to just take it in to get the rest of the rust spots taken care of. my best friends uncle has a business in central nebraska called Car Doctor in North Platte, great people, great work. while it was there we just had them prime it and block it. heres me coming home with it after it was done.

[SamMargritz00]

heres the pics

[BobbyK]

Looks great!
How long did it take? From the date on the pic's >2yrs?
What engine/trans/transfer case combo is that?

[SamMargritz00]

well thats where i am so far. should be picking up my baby from the muffler shop sometime tomorrow. cant wait. need to do some final adjustments to the 2 amps for my 2 L7 subs (kicker all the way ) and one for my 4 speakers. had to order the back bumper, visors, other little things. hopefully be done in a couple weeks! two years of work put into this thing.. its been a great experience. lots of memories. thanks for looking.

[SamMargritz00]

Originally Posted by BobbyK

Looks great!
How long did it take? From the date on the pic's >2yrs?
What engine/trans/transfer case combo is that?

i got it july 3 2009. so a little over 2 years. the engine is a chevy fuel injected 5.3L and a 4l60e transmission all from a 2001 chevy pickup. the transer case was out of a 1990 suburban, dont remember what the model was.

[CTENTA1]

Great job! It came out really nice.

[1970BLZCST]

Excellent job! Very nice build

[PNW_Smoker]

Looks great. The color is very close to mine.

[SamMargritz00]

ive already posted a few updated pictures on different threads but heres some more pics to add to my build thread.

[ChevyFreak60]

Sweet blazer man!!

[72gmcshorty]

how did you get the front seats mounted to the floor?

[SamMargritz00]

Originally Posted by 72gmcshorty

how did you get the front seats mounted to the floor?

custom made them from scratch.

[SamMargritz00]

the brackets i mean.

[Splash4195]

Nice Truck

[Torrey72]

WOW, I like your rig.

[SamMargritz00]

thanks. its been quite the project.

[Snake41_83]

Awesome K5, man. I really like all your custom paneling, and I really like that radio setup. I would love to do something like that with mine some day.

[SamMargritz00]

the radio wasnt all that hard. running the 1/0 wire for the amps in the back took a little effort routing it under and up into the back, and money lol.

[SamMargritz00]

heres an update on the rollbar build. I used the rollbar i had in my 82 i sold a few months ago and cut it down to fit inside the blazer. we cut a few inches off each leg and narrowed it to 60 1/2 inches. in the back legs i decided to do a little "custom" look and welded a plate with a nut on the back side so it can be bolted down from the bottom up. then when it gets back from media blasting then ill prime it and bed liner it.











cut the corners off with the torch and ground the edges smooth all the way around.

[SamMargritz00]

heres what it came from...



and heres what it looks like as of today!




more pics to come once its installed

[SamMargritz00]

and here's what it looks like as of yesterday. I still need to put the remaining bolts in and tighten them up but it looks pretty good in my opinion. It looks a little bit narrower than i'd like but with the panels i made are an inch wider than the cst panels so i had to make it so i can still remove them for the hard top.