Wow that is awesome. I'm not sure if you are jokin or not about movong the motor. One would think you would have had to with keeping the radiator up front.
Off Season Sled Pulling Mods
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Hes joking, its a tight fit, theres not much room for error when making the mount.
Yes I was just kiddin. It sometimes feels like we should have changed the firewall and moved some things, but everything fits very well up front. Really hoping that TS does not get rained so Rob can run the truck again this weekend. :woott:
The motor and driveline are in their stock locations. The radiator is also in the stock location...
Oh hell I can hear the rumors starting now:rofl:
Tim did rob ever sell his old weight bracket? And did y'all build the new weight box? Got any good pics of it?
Looks great! Excuse my ignorance, but why the extra a/w in the bumper? Is the core in the banks intake not adequate?
It's not ignorance, I am sure that the water intake would do wonders, but a dual stage water to air is awsome. Should in theory create very cold dense air... But stay tuned on that, not for sure how it is all going to work yet...
Nope Rob has not sold it yet... Do we need to bring it to TS???
I will try to get a few of those pics up. Bryson Patrick built the weight box that Rob is going to run this year. It is a very clean job on the new box.
Not that it matters, but unless it has been moved from where it is in the picture, the radiator appears to be about 4" forward of the stock location.
Oh you got me. I must say that truck makes me want to build a puller. But I think I want a 10 second pass first....
It is forward about 2 1/2" from where it sat on the intecooler. When we called our association and the schied diesel guys, their answer to it was they wanted it in the stock vacinity. They stated that they did not want a half radiator, or one that was mounted in the bed. When we told them that it was the stock radiator and that we moved it to where the intecooler normally sat, they said that there was no problem with that.
It does look forward, but the mounts we made for the intecooler are the ones that we are using for the radiator. Just makes for a really tight fit. We originally were going to move it another 2 inches forward, but was trying to be as close to stock front to back.
Same here. Mine sits just about where the AC condenser used to reside. :thumb:
dodge boys will cry and break out their tape measures (if they knew how to count) and try to DQ you
see thats one rule I don't get (completely). I'm putting a 12V in a 70' chevy truck and that's fine and legal and all,,,, BUT who's to sat if it's mounted in the right location????
I'm in the same boat Matt! Another part of why I'm back to going with a a body swap on mine rather than just building engine mounts for the 83 chassis.
The competition is tight, and though I don't pretend to think I'll make any of the top trucks sweat with my fierce badass stock bottom end LBZ :roflmao: I just didn't want to put all this time and money into this truck to be turned away and not able to play on some stupid fuggin technicality like that. I think with conversion trucks, the Tech shoulw and likely will go by the "spirit of the rules" rather than necessarily strap your ass to the T on every little detail. Like stock engine & radiator location.
Those are to prohibit you from moving the engine to a more advantageous location for weight (especially important for the 2wd guys and likely where this rule originated back in the day?) and to be sure you use a stock radiator in the engine bay and remote mount it underneath or in the bed.
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Now post some pics of this conversion truck brah!!! :happy2:
The competition is tight, and though I don't pretend to think I'll make any of the top trucks sweat with my fierce badass stock bottom end LBZ :roflmao: I just didn't want to put all this time and money into this truck to be turned away and not able to play on some stupid fuggin technicality like that. I think with conversion trucks, the Tech shoulw and likely will go by the "spirit of the rules" rather than necessarily strap your ass to the T on every little detail. Like stock engine & radiator location.
Those are to prohibit you from moving the engine to a more advantageous location for weight (especially important for the 2wd guys and likely where this rule originated back in the day?) and to be sure you use a stock radiator in the engine bay and remote mount it underneath or in the bed.
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Now post some pics of this conversion truck brah!!! :happy2:
4. Front of engine block can be no farther forward than 17” of
the centerline of the front axle
the centerline of the front axle
haha go to a junk yard and look at the pieces of trucks scattered everywhere,, it's about the same thing right now. It started as a hugger orange 70' C10 2wd truck with a big block and a three speed that i converted to a 4wd 1/2 truck with a small block and a np205. Hoping to have it out in 2012. Sorry but the first it will be seen is the first pull of that year
