haha i know where most of these shops are where youve gotten alot of your work done. whens this beast going to run?

joey_crandall wrote:haha i know where most of these shops are where youve gotten alot of your work done. whens this beast going to run?

Hell I'm shooting for mid summer. Working on the ignition system right now. I need to build the thing up to the point I can start it. Then tear it down to the frame then send it out for blasting and primer. Then paint it. Then put it back together. Fire it then drive it. That makes me think X-Mas. It would be sooner if you came out and gave me a hand.

Yo camoit. Haven't seen this truck in a while. Wouldn't mind some updated pics.

Here ya go..
It looks like the atchment feature is broken. I don't know why.




atchment of the same picture.. placed here 3-15-11

Looks like you started on wiring up the motor. I don't see a spedo on the cardboard, don't need one?

Time for a quick update. I got the dash finished up and have started on the electrical.
The dash turned out OK for not having a break. I used 2 chunks of angle iron in a vice. Then pushed very carefully. I used my Di-grinder with a surface prep disk on it to make it shiny, then gave is a clear coat and called it done. Now the gages will cost around $1800.00 to fill all the holes. The gages to be used are. Oil Pressure, Oil Temp, Water Temp, Water Pressure, Volt, Fuel Level, Fuel Pressure, Wide Band Air Fuel Ratio, Tach. and hour meter. Blow is a video of the gages in action from Auto Meter.


Lay Out


The Brake Bias allows me to adjust front to rear bias control on the fly.
Turn the knob to the right = more front braking. To the left = more rear brake.
The Timing control allows for change in fuel Octane and altitude with out having to adjust the Dist. Turn it to the right = More Advance.
The line lock allows for front brake lock up.

Raw Dash



Finished Dash

Looks nice. But you aren't going to use a spedometer? Don't wanna get caught speeding on the way to the dirt and mud. Lol.

Love your harness job, working on cleaning mine up. Not exactly a race truck, but being a computer geek, clean wiring is a happy thing!

I want your dash, or more to the point, I want a street version of it. Keeping my heat controls, vents, radio, glove box, etc.. Did you do it yourself or have it done? The vinyl on mine is trash and looks like it. Would love to box mine in with aluminum and drop on some carbon fiber. Would match the seats I have bookmarked nicely and still leave me room for a trucker-friendly instrument cluster (LOVE the passenger side oh-shit handle). Your switch panels are nice, but going with 16mm bulgin/lamptron style vandal switches for my toy. As an everyday driver, I need the space.

Biggest reason I want your dash is to make space for an LCD to display most of my sensor gauges without an individual gauge (most semis have one these days. Includes everything from a clock to OBD reports). Going to use an Arduino micro-controller to set up things like Pyro, fuel/air, Ammeter, etc that I just don't need to see all the time on the street. Was going to lose my rear-view for a switch plate, but your dash box would give me space.

Please post or PM me more about the dash?

Well I'm going to need to start the build thread on the new board. I will take this old one and clean it up. remove the odd stuff and make an article.