I figured I'd make a post about a truck we are building for a buddy of mine. He is on here, his name is Matt (Average_Ass_Lb7). It's gonna be a little long winded but hopefully we can get some good information in here as going into this whole thing I could never find much information on something of this caliber, as they aren't usually built by small shops like us. We take pride in trying to do as much of a build as we can and save the pocketbooks a little :roflmao:.
We started last year as he wanted to do the UCC qualifier so we built a truck that performed decent for its first outing being at UCC. It made 1460/2200, but unfortunately we couldn't get the thing to shift and fought that issue all year. I think the fastest pass over there was 6.90s but at 115 which we were happy with. And going into the pull it was strictly novice driving as he isn't a puller, and thats fine, but he gave her the onion too early and it just blew the tires off. It went all year on a 4" lift kit and at about 7000lbs. He finally ran 6.50@110 at SDX.
The main purpose of this build is he wants to run around and do some ODSS 5.90 racing but even though he placed toward the bottom at UCC, they had a couple drop outs and they invited him to the main event this year and the truck is getting a complete revamp. Major weight reduction and suspension changes are the main things I'm going to make some posts about. I think about 90% of what we have to do is fabrication as its getting a lot of fiberglass and that makes a lot of work up front.
Anyways, a couple weeks ago we got started on it. He brought it to us after pulling the driveline and gutting most of the interior and we went to work. We got the hoop and down bars mocked up and started cutting. It is going to get a sheet metal floor/ back wall and lexan glass in all the windows on the cab. It's getting a 25.6 cage (optimistic eh) and a 4 link rear, which is most of where this is going to start. And I'll take some pics as we go of everything else going on if i can remember. We have a pretty tight timeline (if we can make it), and running through this and customers trucks out of a 40x50 shop is going to make for some fast paced work.
Heres some pics of the 25.6 which is an absolute nightmare to build. I'm 6'8 and 310# and definitely not a contortionist. I have no idea how people do these things in the truck, I don't think I could. The spec is aimed more toward dodges i think which have more room between the frame and the rocker panels so we are going to have to cram some bars in some tight spaces. It is built with Docol R8 which is 1.625 .083 wall and a super clean metal. Any questions, feel free to ask; any advice, feel free to share. Thanks for the help over the years guys :thumb:
Don't mind the messy shop
Sorry all the pictures are sideways, It's the way they transferred from my phone.
We started last year as he wanted to do the UCC qualifier so we built a truck that performed decent for its first outing being at UCC. It made 1460/2200, but unfortunately we couldn't get the thing to shift and fought that issue all year. I think the fastest pass over there was 6.90s but at 115 which we were happy with. And going into the pull it was strictly novice driving as he isn't a puller, and thats fine, but he gave her the onion too early and it just blew the tires off. It went all year on a 4" lift kit and at about 7000lbs. He finally ran 6.50@110 at SDX.
The main purpose of this build is he wants to run around and do some ODSS 5.90 racing but even though he placed toward the bottom at UCC, they had a couple drop outs and they invited him to the main event this year and the truck is getting a complete revamp. Major weight reduction and suspension changes are the main things I'm going to make some posts about. I think about 90% of what we have to do is fabrication as its getting a lot of fiberglass and that makes a lot of work up front.
Anyways, a couple weeks ago we got started on it. He brought it to us after pulling the driveline and gutting most of the interior and we went to work. We got the hoop and down bars mocked up and started cutting. It is going to get a sheet metal floor/ back wall and lexan glass in all the windows on the cab. It's getting a 25.6 cage (optimistic eh) and a 4 link rear, which is most of where this is going to start. And I'll take some pics as we go of everything else going on if i can remember. We have a pretty tight timeline (if we can make it), and running through this and customers trucks out of a 40x50 shop is going to make for some fast paced work.
Heres some pics of the 25.6 which is an absolute nightmare to build. I'm 6'8 and 310# and definitely not a contortionist. I have no idea how people do these things in the truck, I don't think I could. The spec is aimed more toward dodges i think which have more room between the frame and the rocker panels so we are going to have to cram some bars in some tight spaces. It is built with Docol R8 which is 1.625 .083 wall and a super clean metal. Any questions, feel free to ask; any advice, feel free to share. Thanks for the help over the years guys :thumb:
Don't mind the messy shop
Sorry all the pictures are sideways, It's the way they transferred from my phone.
