Progress looks good bruddah!

 

I think you should have built a long bed for it, or just left the frame and bed the way it was. :kiki:

Hey man, email me at boydsmith40@gmail.com if you want that shadow logo I did. Not sure if you wanted to use it for anything else but since you are the only one with it...

 

Nice pics man.

Keep up the good work mate.

 

thanks guys

blurred - it looks too short the way it is but i have changed that up with the new frame i am building. it is about 8 inchs longer to make it look a lil more proportioned.

alot of other countries get long bed ones but GM here for some reason decided we didnt need one. its bullshit coz every other manufacturer has the option.

anyway i shortned it and made do for the time being.

also i got that shadow logo, awesome bud appreciate it, i will chuck it up now as my av.

more pics soon.

 

Looks good cant wait to see more

 

hey you dick tease wheres the rest of your pics :moon:

 

looks good keep us up to date

 

i prob have about 300+ pics that i have to go through and pic out the good ones! haha

can only image how many pics i will have by the time its done.


i got rear ended on the way home from work and decided it was as good a time as any to start what was inevitable.

i called up matt grant kustoms and got 2 full combo skins sent over. got one put on a spare tub and the other is still hanging on my wall

sold that off and made a nice lil wad of cash.

bought myself a new daily work hack, cut out all the rust and then gave it a respray

this finally gave me the chance to pull the 355 off the road and get started. id been planning this for a long time and fuck it felt good to be finally starting on it. the strip down began.

sat a spare tub back on it and pushed it outside to see how it sat metal on metal with zero suspension.

quite obviously it wasnt low enough!!! hahahha

that same day =>

pulled the front end off

stripped the interior and removed the wiring harnes

the next day i rolled her back out the shed and this is how she looked!

just over 24hours and thats where we got to.

 

TIT-A-RIFFIC

i like man

 

badass man. I'm so impressed with everything done so far. nice work.

 

nice man!

but your steering wheel is on the wrong side!!!

you should put it in the middle

 

All that welding shit confuses the hell outa me. How you can get it too look so flat its amazing your truck looks good too.

 

ok so.... now the interesting part.

LAYING OUT THE FRONT!!

then the motor came out. sold that.

kilometers on the clock when i pulled it off the road- 33,251klm = 20,661 miles!!! fuck all!

the front end minus the motor and slammed to where the BJs bind.

then i made new upper control arm mounts to raise the upper BJ and stop it from binding.

after putting the front end through its cycles of up and down i found that it caused the wheels to pull inwards just before it layed out.

this is due to the length of the upper arm and relation to the length of the lower arm in relation to their distance apart! hahah :naughty: a head fuck at the least.

took me a while to get my head around it, i spoke to bio max about it and he helped me work it out. so off came the control arm mounts and shorter ones placing the UCA to its orignal position were fabbed and welded in.

i raised the lower BJ 2 inchs with a block moching up belltech balljoints while i waited for them to arrive and i made up shims from a solid alloy block to change the angle on the upper BJ and stop it from binding.

once i did that and played with this, and adjusted that, cut this, ground that i was about half an inch from laying on equivilent to 255/35 R22.

i finally got my belltech BJS in the mail all the way from the other side of the world

i put them in and had to do a bit more cutting here and there and then shaved down the upper shims they provide to increase the angle on the upper BJ.

after doin this the front FINALLY LAID OUT!

 

more pics tomorow. this shit takes forever to get through.

 

Very impressive, great work man keep it up..

 

:355:

 

Yes Impressive, not sure what else to say.:thumbup:

Damn I'd love to have one of those right drive trucks over here.

 

NEW 3/4 FRAME :

i had plenty of time to plan this build so i knew what i wanted pretty well stright off the bat.

3x2 rails firewall back all rolled to flow. i drew what i wanted in cad and did all the figures.
next on the list was to bend them to shape. so i went on the hunt to find a company that could do what i wanted. finally one came through so we set out and did it.

this was what the end result was.

they are 14 foot long and built to lay 24s with ease.

as i built the truck to lay 24s almost the entire front end would be cut off so i thought i may aswell get rid of it and start fresh. so out came the sawzall and off it went!!

grabbed the new rails and put them under the cab to get a feel of how it would look first hand.

i was pretty happy with that but it just wasnt low enough so now it was time to remove the pinch!!! nothin beats laying hard sill so i used some rhs to reinforce the sills incase of dragging mishaps
nice and thick rhs

more on the frame tomorow.

thanks for looking guys. keep ya comments comin.

 

Stu, you are a mad man!

I can't wait to see it completed bruddah!

 

you got some balls man

 

so sick.....wanna trade?

 

lookin good man..... can't wait to see it finished

 

HELL YEAH! This is the shit I'm talkin about. I LOVE build threads!

 

sweet. i haven't seen a lot of these pics...quit holdin out

 

your going to be a legend here.