Where is everyone #5

I’m on a diet to try and get back down to 200 or so, but some coors light is sounding pretty good

 

Mine is built for drag racing, I just decided a long time ago new trucks were ugly to me, and the old 99 was a keeper. So I put the turbo motor, new trans, rebuilt the rear and repainted it. It’s more of a sleeper for hurting overpriced sports car feelings, but it takes a backseat to the 97 Honda at 27 mpg.

By the way, you would like my brother’s shop in Memphis. He does custom work for motorcycles in his off time, fabricating parts and performance stuff. He has so many toys and tools in that place he can make anything. He’s fabbing up some handle bars and having to notch a frame on a bike for a short girl because she bought it without even sitting on it. Keeps him busy.

 

The nine definitive rules for wearing sweatpants in public

I had no ideas there were rules. I wonder if I should forward this to JJ Keller...

 

I like the sleeper look. No one expects a pickup to be fast. Shock value alone taking off from stop lights would make it worth it. Plus I'd like to be able to haul a quad or dirtbike in the back.

 

I didn’t say that you shouldn’t build a fast truck. I meant not to just build it for a quarter mile drag strip. I used to build 4x4 K5 Blazers. The last one I had WAS fast. But if you put enough power in a church bus, it will be fast. The last one I had, I built for private security. I could go to a wall, drive a front tire up the wall, front axle at 45 degrees and the rears flat on the ground. Gobs and gobs of power, black on black, 6 inches of Skyjacker, air lockers, quad shocks, quad steering dampers, go rhino trusses, billet phantom grill covering the headlights. You know how you see the blacked out official SUVs. Mine looked like if Satan had personal security. Not murdered out...everything glossy. Had two more, one green and white, one blue. The black one was my work vehicle. Pristine and dark and modded to the hilt. Fancy black Alcoa’s with Thornbird tires. The blue one had a4 speed Muncie and ground hawgs and was my mud toy. Big, ugly and dented. The green and white one was my errand truck. Had the 33 12.50 BFG all terrains.

You have a nice looking truck. And 4x4 to boot. If you really want to drag that truck, you’re gonna have to lose the front axle and t case, slam that thing to the ground and put a Detroit locker in the rear. It will be faster and more reliable in the long run for hard launches.

 

I haul chemicals/sack mud to the rigs every now and then. Barrels are usually banded together on pallets, in which case I’ll throw pallets on top and strap em down.

 

Good thinking! At times Inhave used my premade wooden coil racks like that.

 

Well I guess it must’ve gotten a little slick earlier. Saw a dry van split completely in half in the ditch of westbound I-40 around the 50mm in OK today. Halves sitting about 30 feet apart.

Detoured around OKC. Westbounders said it was all backed up. Loading sand on the banks of the Arkansas River south of Tulsa now, bound of Chickasha.

 

That’s kind of what I have been thinking, lowering it down a little lower than stock 2wd height. The rear has a true trac limited slip, newer 4.11 Yukon’s, beefed up LPW cover, better bearings and solid pinion spacer and CalTracs. When I got it painted I debadged it to be nondescript for the sleeper effect. As it sits it’s not a 1/4 mile truck unless I go to a drag radial and dial in the suspension. The motor is capable of 10s, but that’s the easy part.

Then again, if I am going to race, i will buy a 1978-80 Malibu and do it up right. Four link, cage, sub 9s.