"TANGERINE" (C20 to K10) (LWB to SWB) (CST/MOD) (5.3)
 

TANGERINE (living reflection from a dream). So I've owned a lot of cool cars, drove' em, traded' em, bolted bigger engines in them, sold them, but I've never actually "built" a car or truck. Man this site is just full of off the wall cool builds!! I thought I'd try my hand at it.

I've always loved the 69-72 Chev/GMC pick ups. The one my Grandfather had was a pretty plain Jane truck but it was awesome to ride in. I found this truck on craigslist, it was in Richland, WA. about 120 miles away from where I live. I knew I was going to buy this one from a block and a half away. I'd looked at so many in my price range (I have very little $) and this was incredibly straight (and rust only in the usual places) for the money ($1100).

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I drove the truck for about a year and a half as a daily driver as well as driving it the 120 miles home with no problems, and took it camping, fishing, hunting and mountain biking. It smoked some, but performed admirably.

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Because I have this crazy idea burning a hole in my head. Which is where my 2001 GMC Yukon comes in.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7639/dsc03882dt.jpg

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And so I build.

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And build.

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I know it's a little confusing,,,,,,,,,,,

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Maybe this will help.

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Was the youkon wrecked or do you just have way more money than me lol? Looking good cant wait to see more of this build

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Thanks 85chevy383,,, good call.

Yeah, I bought the Yukon from our local wrecking yard. I paid $3400 for it and so far I've sold all the doors (except the rear lift gate) and the rear seats. That made me $1400 so I'm only in the Yukon about $2000. I should be able to sell about another $1000 in leftover parts from the Yukon and the 70 C20.

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2601/dsc03879w.jpg

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Was the PO really bad at backing up? Not sure I understand that rear bumper, but this looks interesting....

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Lol!!! yeah nothing says "I customized my truck" like a solid steel wrap around rear bumper!!

The po said the truck was originally purchased in, and spent most of it's life in Seattle. So the rear bumper is probably a "self defense device". If you've ever been there then you know what I'm talking about (those drivers are nuts).

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Boy do the old chevys and GMC's ever come cheap in the U.S it seems. You should see the junk 1100.00 dollars buys in canada

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Yep, we're pretty luckily here in the northwest, lots of barn finds, pretty light rust. :chevy: :gmc2:

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Some pics of the "test fit" of the cab on the firewall/floor.

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9932/dsc04842v.jpg,
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Wow! what else can I say? You stuffed about a year worth of work into 3 posts? Amazing work and vision. I haven't seen this conversion done before. Of course I'm subscribing to this one!

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:lol::lol: wow you made me laugh out loud at work with that one !

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I dont know what to say other than holy crap, nice transplant that is awesome !

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Subscribed on this one. Looks very interesting. Keep up the good work. :metal:

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Mike, thanks and welcome,,,,, I've actually been watching your 69 project,,,,Dude your exhaust work is over the top SICK!!! That's some pretty mad skills on the whole build.

The truth is I took the Yukon apart last year in anticipation of this build, then I found out the repair shop I work for was going to move. I didn't want my part's spread all over and lost so I put the build on hold till we got settled, in our new digs. I started back up again a couple of months ago, and then found this site ( I sincerely apologize for my ignorance) and I just kinda sat back and watched and learned how this site works. So now I'm trying to lay out what I've done so far. Thanks again for the encouraging input. :metal:

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Thanks,,, it's been a lot of work (so far) but I've also had a lot of fun. This isn't the kind of work I'm use to, so I've learned a lot and had fun doing it. By the way I'd love to see some pics of your 59 Brookwood. My dad's first car was a brand new 59 Pont. Bonneville convertible tri-power, and I'm a big fan of wagon's. thanks again

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From Kuna eh? I hear you've got some pretty good mountain biking trails near you. Welcome to the thread. :chevy: :gmc2:

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X2

Have you checked out the wheel base and frame rail height?
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Thanks Wade for the nice words. I try to learn something new every day on this site. I would love to have access to a BIGGER shop. I'm squeezed in a 900ft. shop. It's my own fault I should have just borrowed the money and built it big enough the first time instead of paying cash.:waah:
Looking forward to updates.

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Have you checked out the wheel base and frame rail height?
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Hey 68 TT, Awesome job on .45 ACP, I didn't realize you were in Spokane. :cf:
Yeah I checked the wheel base before I bought the Yukon. A friend of mine who is really big into these trucks told me the wheel base on a shortbox is 115 inches. When I told him the wheelbase on the Yukon was 116 inches he got pretty excited, he said a lot of guy's move their rear axle back an inch to make it look better in the wheel well. As it sits I have 6 feet 4 inches from the back of the cab to the front of the rear bumper,,,so it should turn out well. The dip in the frame rail (where the cab sits) worried me. The frame rails on the 67 to 72 trucks are pretty flat (not much dip). That's why I went with the Yukon over a newer shortbox pick up frame, less dip (flatter). It looks like it should all work out. Here's some more angles. Thanks

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It's good to know the wheelbases are so close. I am going to pick up a wrecked Tahoe as a drivetrain donor eventually for my 4x4 project. I was just going to do a driver side drop front axle swap but may look into doing the entire frame swap similar to what you are doing instead.

How high above the rest of the frame are the arches over the axle?

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Yeah I don't know about all that. I'm not into any of that. Just work on ol' chevy trucks all day, but from what my neighbors do, they say there's some good trails.

Truck is looking good.

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If I remember right the optical VSS output from your speedo conversion is 2000 ppm and the TPI ECM wants to see 4000 ppm. I think you will have to run that optical VSS output through a DRAC like the stock TBI trucks did but use the 4000 ppm output from it to feed the TPI ECM instead of the 2000 ppm output the TBI ECM used.

It may run fine but the tune will be off since the ECM will think you are going half as fast as you actually are. It will mess up the coolant fan cut off speeds and not allow you to make highway mode work properly too.

Highway mode is one of the coolest features of the 8D programming for the 1227730 TPI ECM. Even though it was disabled in stock form for emissions reasons the programmers were nice enough to leave it in the code so we could reactivate it :) My 91 Z/28 jumped from 24 mpg on the freeway to 30 mpg after I turned on highway mode.

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Hey 68 TT, I think my plan is to run the factory Yukon instrument cluster. I've already cut out the C20 dash. I'm going to have to custom build my own dash.

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I'd like to build something that looks like this,,,,,,,

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I don't know who's truck this is but I think this style and design would work well with the Yukon instrument cluster. I would like to re-flash my computer so it will ignore the rear o2 sensor. Do you know where I can send it for this mod? are there any other cool mods I should have them do?

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Nice build there are tons of info and brains to pick from here. I started with just having to finish off the interior and put the trim on until I found this site and saw what could be done.

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Looks very C2 Vette in style. That will look great.

LT1swap.com seems to be popular from what I have read on here. I was planning on buying the software to tune my own with the LS swap. I have tuned & burned chips for many OBD-1 ECM's but haven't done the OBD-2 stuff yet.
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Please don't pick to much,,, I don't have much left!!! (I really don't, just ask my wife). Man FrankieD your build is looking good!! Sweet headers too. Seeing that parts truck go to crusher made me just about pass out!! Thanks for interest and kind words. Keep up the good work. :hot:

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Glad to see someone doing this. I had been thinking of it for a while now. Looking forward to seeing how you work it all out. The work looks fabulous so far.:metal:

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Awesome project!

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This is nuts. I love it!!
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I sent my PCM to Brendan at lt1swap.com. It took about 2 weeks including shipping time. He did a good job and answered some of my dumb questions free;)

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Hey Palf70step, Good to have you on board! Yeah I'm looking forward to see how it turns out TOO! Chime in anytime (I could use all the help I can get). :chevy:

Thanks!!!

Dude I feel nuts sometimes!!! :uhmk:
Thanks Mike,, I'll check it out.

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thats cool

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I'm in. sick swap!!

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Thanks guy's, welcome in. :metal:

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I don't know about you guy's, but I think stripping paint is a pain. We don't have any pro soda blasting business's in the local area so I thought I'd buy my own blaster and do it myself.

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I got the dual blaster (soda and sand) from eastwood and well,,,umm,,, let's just say I'm not to impressed. I wish I could recommend this product but I don't think these blasters are really up to the task (pretty light duty/low power). They are difficult to use because they run the hoses from the sand tank and the one from the soda tank together into a "Y" block so that (with the use of valves) you can blast both media's together. But with the hoses together, it's difficult to move them around, especially when it's cold out. So I split the hoses apart and put a blast nozzle at the end of each one. This helped quite a bit but I'm still dis-appointed in the blasting strength of the soda side (sand side works pretty good). I don't know if anyone else has had any better luck with these things, let me know. Thanks again for all the encouragement.