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Old 08-14-2018, 12:44 PM   #101
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I do have videos brother, but I don't know how to share em. ??? Lemme know and Ill post em up.
I put mine up on youtube and share a link here.
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Old 09-24-2018, 05:05 PM   #102
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Having a good time with the truck. Last two events were LS Fest in Kentucky and an SCCA event at the old Blytheville AFB here in Arkansas. We were racing in standing water 1/2 to 1 inch deep, and the truck def performed well.

The truck is a real beast and is a blast to drive. After LS Fest we decided to get a set of the "Attack" style wheels from Rocket Racing Wheels. 18x9 and 18x10's. Also, put on a set of Bridgestone RE-71R tires. Adjusted on the front alignment as well. 1.5 inches of neg camber, 6 degrees of neg caster and 1/16th of an inch toe out. The ole truck really handles now.

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Old 09-25-2018, 09:14 AM   #103
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Looks mean!! I like it, great work!!
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Old 09-26-2018, 09:32 AM   #104
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Looks mean!! I like it, great work!!
Thanks brother. While it is fun to build em, its even more fun to thrash em

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Old 09-28-2018, 05:37 AM   #105
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How's it all feel with the ls and 6 Spd?...... Nice to drive,what was your diff ratio?........how's the driveshaft go with slip joint?...all work as should?
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Old 09-28-2018, 09:30 AM   #106
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How's it all feel with the ls and 6 Spd?...... Nice to drive,what was your diff ratio?........how's the driveshaft go with slip joint?...all work as should?
Absolutely love the 6-speed with the LS. The truck is an absolute beast. Will most likely put a different shifter arm on it. To bring it more towards the driver.

Rearend is a 3.42 ratio. I have a rear tire just under 26 inches tall, so at 75 Im doing just about 2K rpm's.

Driveshaft and slip yoke work as advertised my friend. The whole system works great. I did have to switch to a 3/4 bore master cylinder to be able to move the slave cylinder.

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Old 09-29-2018, 10:26 AM   #107
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Having a good time with the truck. Last two events were LS Fest in Kentucky and an SCCA event at the old Blytheville AFB here in Arkansas. We were racing in standing water 1/2 to 1 inch deep, and the truck def performed well.

The truck is a real beast and is a blast to drive. After LS Fest we decided to get a set of the "Attack" style wheels from Rocket Racing Wheels. 18x9 and 18x10's. Also, put on a set of Bridgestone RE-71R tires. Adjusted on the front alignment as well. 1.5 inches of neg camber, 6 degrees of neg caster and 1/16th of an inch toe out. The ole truck really handles now.

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Old 10-03-2018, 09:38 AM   #108
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6 Degrees Negative caster????
I'm sorry brother, you are correct in your assumption. I meant positive.

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Old 10-10-2018, 04:39 PM   #109
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Just read this whole thread after seeing your post in the LSX swapper thread. This thing is awesome! I have a black ‘77 that I need to do this to!

My mom’s entire family is from the Beebe/Garner area. My uncle is Roger Lynch, he’s a senator there...a gun toting senator
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Old 10-10-2018, 06:05 PM   #110
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Just read this whole thread after seeing your post in the LSX swapper thread. This thing is awesome! I have a black ‘77 that I need to do this to!

My mom’s entire family is from the Beebe/Garner area. My uncle is Roger Lynch, he’s a senator there...a gun toting senator

Thanks ace. Your uncle is in the district below us, towards Lonoke.

And look me up if you are ever around.

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Old 10-29-2018, 11:13 AM   #111
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Just a few updates.

Been to two more SCCA events. The kid is getting a lot better and he is realizing that the brakes are better than he thinks. Really accelerating hard to the corners just in time to whoa the truck up.

I was scrolling through some pics the other day and you can really tell the difference between the first truck we built, and the current one.
The first pic shows the truck with a 5/5 drop and just belltech front and rear swaybars.
The second pic, the truck has the full Ridetech suspension: Coilovers, sway bars and rear 4-link.

Third and fourth pics show the tonneau cover I got for it. Paid 251 dollars at Summit for it.

We really enjoy driving it every day. Next up is to make a rear subwoofer enclosure for my son, and to figure out why the driver's window comes outta the front channel when the window is all the way down.

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Old 03-01-2020, 09:47 PM   #112
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Gonna bump this up to the top, to show y'all what's the latest with the ole C10.

Since the last post my son has joined the USAF with aspirations of being a PJ. He has a long road ahead of him, but he is in the pipeline.

He also destroyed the TR6060 in Memphis at a track day event. Glad I had a scatter shield on the trans, or my lil boy would not be where he is now. So we changed the trans to a T56 magnum and we were driving that around.

Truck set for 3 months, so I decided to mess with it again. Been reading up and hearing a lot about these S1 Sequential shifters outta Australia. Sold some goodies that have been laying around the house so I figured, "What the heck?" Ordered it on a Friday, was here the following Monday.

The basic premise is that you pull back to upshift, push forward to downshift. I bought the digital gear readout as well because sometimes its kinda hard to remember what gear you are in. Anyways, I can tell you is is one well engineered piece of equipment. Totally impressed with it.

I have it in the truck now and I'm still lining out some details as far as shifter angle and the gear indicator location. It is also a whole new experience driving with this kind of shifter, really takes some getting used to. But its fun as heck.

Anyways, here are some pics right out the box. Ill have more pics of it in the truck in a few days.

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Old 03-02-2020, 12:18 PM   #113
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Bubba, what a great write up! I missed this whole thread somehow; must be getting old! Excellent work and even better story. If you have more details on the manual trans swap I'd be interested!
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Old 04-03-2020, 10:04 AM   #114
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Sweet build! Glad your back at it. Good luck to your boy, PJ's are a tough row to hoe!
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