Long story short.. this 1991 s10 longbed 4.3 started out as a build project for a friend of mine who was suicidal and tried to kill himself in his s10.. and then it never stopped.. here is the pics and rest of the story>
These photos of all the ones I have of where he was driving home and decided to try and end his life and ramped off the side of an overpass. The look he was going for was a lowered longbed with some limegreen on it and to slowly build a smallblock for it. The truck was in really good shape and only had 120k on it. Hardest part for me was finding a std cab longbed. Drove two hours and picked up this:
It also is a 91 longbox, but has a million more miles on it. The plan was to switch out everything good from the wrecked truck and swap it into the donor truck. Here is the transformation.>
Then came the motor swap. Pulled the good motor first>
On to the other truck..
So I am lacking in conversation here.. haha What I did was swap the good 4.3 motor over to the donor truck and scrapped the other motor.. On to lowering the truck.. Granted in all these pics to come.. I changed the stance of the drop a few times due to not liking it.. Oh.. and many wheel combination changes.. haha
Then in the middle of all this swapping.. my mom died.. RIP Mom Love you.
Don't remember how i did that, but it was with a diegrinder and it hurt.. haha
This is where I basically called it good.. this is how my friend would have wanted it to look... so then I went to see him.. and here are the pictures he took of it..>
Perty much the end of my story on building it for him.. I think since the whole ordeal, he has lost his license and has yet to get them back, but he has kept his head up.. I just couldn't stop with the build of the truck though so the pics roll on.. with my 350 swap!
Here is my friend with his optimistic attitude haha.
These photos of all the ones I have of where he was driving home and decided to try and end his life and ramped off the side of an overpass. The look he was going for was a lowered longbed with some limegreen on it and to slowly build a smallblock for it. The truck was in really good shape and only had 120k on it. Hardest part for me was finding a std cab longbed. Drove two hours and picked up this:
It also is a 91 longbox, but has a million more miles on it. The plan was to switch out everything good from the wrecked truck and swap it into the donor truck. Here is the transformation.>
Then came the motor swap. Pulled the good motor first>
On to the other truck..
So I am lacking in conversation here.. haha What I did was swap the good 4.3 motor over to the donor truck and scrapped the other motor.. On to lowering the truck.. Granted in all these pics to come.. I changed the stance of the drop a few times due to not liking it.. Oh.. and many wheel combination changes.. haha
Then in the middle of all this swapping.. my mom died.. RIP Mom Love you.
Don't remember how i did that, but it was with a diegrinder and it hurt.. haha
This is where I basically called it good.. this is how my friend would have wanted it to look... so then I went to see him.. and here are the pictures he took of it..>
Perty much the end of my story on building it for him.. I think since the whole ordeal, he has lost his license and has yet to get them back, but he has kept his head up.. I just couldn't stop with the build of the truck though so the pics roll on.. with my 350 swap!
Here is my friend with his optimistic attitude haha.