building a sfbd rolling chassis for the girls 1st gen dime

[throwinsparks89]

damn dood, ur makin good/quick progress. I took time on mine and im still not happy with the quality haha

anyways, lookin good...word L8

[93blazer4dr]

nice job i need to get mine done lol gave me some hope again on me

[dava flav]

thanks guys
once i get the cab sitting where i want it.. ill fit the fneders and core support and get the bed on it and bd it.. then it will all come back off so i can finish the frame

[layinlow88]

looks great man...giving me more motivation to get out there and do mine

[pearldrop]

Shawn called me about that frame when it was on CL, but I didn't have any use for it. This build is looking good. I just wish I could get work done that fast. I've been working on mine for 2 1/2 years now and I still haven't driven it further than around the block.

[dava flav]

yeah my buddy seth bought it from clint at kp. took the wheels and sups off it then i bought it with spindles and hubs for 400 bucks. lol

shawn lives right down the street from me lol

[dava flav]

got the bed body dropped.. its not even close to done though.. its just tacked together.. and the beds not even bolted down its just sitting there.

[dava flav]

the part im not looking forward to doin tomm. lol





so my hood to fender gap is bigger on pass side then driver side. the driver side is perfect but the pass side is a little big..
and my ****ing bed wont line up with the cab.. sticks out way to much onthe driver side but the cab isnt finished yet.. so ill do with that later..

[V8Blaze]

IMO s10s body fitment is junk from the factory. I wouldnt worry about it to much, it took me forever to get my front end lined back up and it still bugs me around the cowl/hood area. ANd first gen beds look funky stock too, with how much work you have going on its normal. A little tweak here adn there and a few beers and a while of staring it will fix it up lol.

anyways progress looks great diggin the frame alot

[dava flav]

i totally feel you on teh staring at it part. everytime im done cleaning the garage i just sit there and brainstorm what im gonna do and how im gonna do it for the next day of work lol i might have acutally bolted teh front part of the bed down in the wrong holes lol. but beds are easily tweakable. and the hood to fender gap im not too worried about

[m007gunit]

I have same problem with my truck fitment and it pisses me off. The thread syborg they cut the body and made it fit all these trucks do not fit well.

[dava flav]

[dava flav]

ohh and yu were right about the frame horns

[V8Blaze]

ooo i need a stfd badly lol. truck looks ****ing awesome

[dava flav]

thanks man
so im kinda torn on what size wheels and tires to run on this thing.. now that i see how it lays out on the tires that are on it. i kinda dont want that size its a little big in front...
at first i was gonna run 18/20 then 20/20 now im back to 18/20 lol
breanna and i dont like skinny tires.. so thats why im back to the 18/20 combo
this is what i have now 205/75/15 on 3 corners and a 205/70/15 on one of the fronts.
i think im gonna run thisfront- 225/45/18 26" or 225/40/18
and in the back either a 245/45/20 28.6" or a 245/40/20
this what the tires on it now look like.. an din back i cant really run much bigger thana 28" tire thats where the bed starts to curve..
205/75/15 27"

205/70/15 26.3"

[83LOWrange]

damn dude. nice work man! looks good, and good to see your making pretty quick progress to! seeing these types of builds makes me want to just SFBD my own...

you make it look so damn simple!

[dava flav]

haha please... i wish the inside of my bed looked as nice as yours lol.. i hate body dropping beds my cuts never line up lol... but i guess thats why they invented line x lol

[throwinsparks89]

jesus dood, slow down a little bit. Making myself as well others look bad. Looks good though. I also hate BD beds. Everyone says its the easiest part but of course i found the cab was easier then the bed. I actually BD the stock bed and i was so unpleased that i cut it in half and tossed it and got another bed and did the BD over again.

Do you prime your trucks at your place or do you have someone else do it at a shop or something? Also do you have the 4.3? IF so how are you gonna get it under the hood. Ive heard many diff ways around it but non sound very promising. I never get a solid answer from anyone.

[Oldskool94]

thats some badass work.

[dava flav]

thanks guys
about the hood.. i dont have a motor yet.. i wanted to run a carbed 4.3 but there so hard to find at decent prices that i will prolly run a 283 or 350 carbed. that way i can keep it under the hood, since i only went 3 inches with the bd.
are you keeping the tailgate. i think im gonna go full skin out back with leds. the bed is so low laid out theres no point in having a tailgate..
i do all my spraying at my garage until it comes time for base and clear. i take that to a shop.
i sprayed my 05 at my buddys place and paid a guy to come help me and the only part of the truck that didnt get tiger striped was the side i painted.. so after i fix it im gonna have it comp. re painted in spring. maybe get soem wheels for it to help sell it

[throwinsparks89]

Actually i wanted the tailgate really bad but just put the skin on it but it was easier to get the whole skin combo so i welded that on instead. I like the look of stock tails more then shaving them so im keeping them. Way down the road i wanna prime it some color so i dont have a blue cab white bed. Mabey down the road i could pay you to do it or help or something. I dont have a place to do paint work. Plus i hate that shit.

i went 3.5" so it sticks threw my hood pretty good. I wanted to do a 350 really bad but i had so much money dumped into the 4.3 it would be stupid to ditch it. Plus there great motors anyways.

[dava flav]

id love to keep the 4.3 too thats whats in her dime right now.. she doesnt need a 350. plus i moved the cab back one inch so theres that much less room. then iwould have to deal with the steering in the way and shit.. i just dont want to **** with it.. i might get a vortech and a stand alone managment system to run it.. but thats a long ways away so well just have to see.
im not too far from you maybe like 3 miles. we should get together and check out eachothers trucks..

and yeah we can prime your cab or bed. no biggie. get that thing drivable and well take care of it.

[dava flav]

im actually leaving right now to go to websters pond on 35th thats where bres mom lives.. prolly right nex tyou lol

[throwinsparks89]

i dunno if this is a stupid question, mabey i didnt read something earlier in the thread but i thought you were bagging and sfbd'ing her black truck. But you bought a frame, bed, cab etc...and you were talking about not knowing what motor you wanted to put in it. That black truck should have had everything you needed.

???

[s10veteran]

Look's good man,lot's of hard work! It'll all be worth it in the end,when you're out..."Draggin your ass off" Keep us posted!

[dava flav]

Quote: Originally Posted by throwinsparks89

i dunno if this is a stupid question, mabey i didnt read something earlier in the thread but i thought you were bagging and sfbd'ing her black truck. But you bought a frame, bed, cab etc...and you were talking about not knowing what motor you wanted to put in it. That black truck should have had everything you needed.

???

the plan orig was to build a complete rolling chassis with gas tank fuel brake lines everything finished as much as possible then swap teh cab and mtor..

but then i realized i didnt want to have her truck down that long..
i only have like 1200 dollars into all the susp. including the 6 link and arms and bags air managment..
then the fraem was 400 with drop spindles and hubs..
as i put the rolling chassis together.. i realized it woudl be much easier to just build a whole different truck then sell hers when were done..
i already had a bed that i got in the summer from pull aprt for 100 bucks..
then i found the cab on craigslist.. the guy said if i come pull it hell give it to me with teh title for 100 bucks lol..
so now i ahv ea complete rolling chassis and cab iwth harness for under 2000 total. when the weather gets better lol.. im gonna get a gas tank and all the hard brake lines and fuel lines from pulla part. then ijust need a bench seat new windows 700r4 and a fresh 4.3.. i hope to be driving this thing to sittin pretti it will be in white primer.. btu the frame and susp will all be powdercoated

[dava flav]

ohh and how does everybodys first gen bed fit.. mine no matter what i do sticks a little bit out on either side of the cab when its centered. and when its flush on one side it sticks out a lot on the other.. and it really pisses me off. i notice that the end of the cab past the door rolls in a little behind the cab.. prolly making it look worse than it really is.. and it looks worse i think because i moved the cab back 3/4". im thinkng of sectioning the front of the bed to narrow it a little to make it flush then building a whole new sheetmetal floor.

[dava flav]

like this.. ths is what my bed looks like no matter what i do to it..

[m007gunit]

I ended up drilling my frame hole a bit more and moving my bed toward the passenger side to help this problem looks better but still not perfect.

[dava flav]

that was gonna be my first try.. i had to do that on my 05 because their beds and cabs are the same way..
im gonna ream out the hole bigger ont he frame then try it out.. before i tear it apart

[balistiks10]

if you look at the thread with project Syborg he accomodated for the bed being wider, but im not sure if you guys want to go that far

[dava flav]

Quote: Originally Posted by balistiks10

if you look at the thread with project Syborg he accomodated for the bed being wider, but im not sure if you guys want to go that far

i read his thread he actually widened the bed a little bit.. he had the opposite problem we are having.. then he filled the surrounding areas with lead body filler to make it perfect

[balistiks10]

Quote: Originally Posted by dava flav

i read his thread he actually widened the bed a little bit.. he had the opposite problem we are having.. then he filled the surrounding areas with lead body filler to make it perfect

gotcha i just remembered him havin a similar problem

[throwinsparks89]

oh i gotcha now, thats pretty sweet uve managed to do all this with little money. I have a bench seat that is flawless out of my roomates 83 ranger. The bench is sweet, i cut all the mounts so it will mount as low to the floor as possible. its flawless other then the fact then i notched the middle bottom of the bench for the drive line tunnel. It just needs to be wrapped. you can have it for free. Its just sitting in my garage wasting space. I switched to bomber seats cuz i wanted every ounce of head room i could possibly get since i did a traditonal BD.

Now that i think about it. I had the newer 89-93 dash also that i threw out cuz i have a sheet metal dash now. I just throw away what i know im not using cuz i need all the space i can get in my garage.

Also, i have a brand new all chrome 91-93 sonoma grill i got from LMC and i dont want it anymore. Let me know if your interested at all.

[throwinsparks89]

and i had the same problem with both the beds i BD. There fine stock, then after i BD them, they stuck out. I thought mabey i ****ed up and it bowed out on me but im not sure exactly

[dava flav]

i wil gladly take that bench off your hands and its even more badass that its been cut down so i will sit even lower inthe s10.. people will think im a midget lol
why dont you want that grill.. ill take it what you want.. or trade
on another note me and buddy tore it up all over maltby tonight on his 4wd quads rode for 40 miles around town just doing 4wd drifts everywhere
and im keeping the old dash i love it way more than any other s10 dash

[dava flav]

Quote: Originally Posted by throwinsparks89

and i had the same problem with both the beds i BD. There fine stock, then after i BD them, they stuck out. I thought mabey i ****ed up and it bowed out on me but im not sure exactly

i figured it out.. if you look at the end of the cab.. that last little cab corner sucks in towards the middle fo the truck making it look like the bed sticks out from many angles..
but from straight on by the headlight its fine.. but one step out and bam it its all ****ed up lol

[throwinsparks89]

That makes sense but then how come you've never noticed it stock? I know i havent, or at least not as bad as what it looked like after BD'ing it?

As for the grill, and bench...ill have to stop by some time after this billard calms down a lil bit. If your willing to help me out on my truck sometime then we can work something out with the grill n shit.

seven1nine-one0one5 you know the area code, not 206 tho

[dava flav]

well this is the first s10 ive worked on and i never really paid attention.. but since i noticed it i starting looking at everyones pics and at cars in the parking lots and they are all like that. pisses me off

[dragsdaily]

i hate the design of the back cab corners on an s10. nice work on the truck so far.

[dava flav]

i got the rest of the firewall all ground up and mudded also. but didnt take pics of that lol

[blazerida88]

this things lookin good dave, i wish i wouldnt have sold my first gen

[throwinsparks89]

Wow, i thought u fell off the face of the earth. Take a holiday break from the truck?

[dava flav]

for a little bit lol
got the whole firewall mudded. made templates for the floor foot area. gonna cut them out after work tomm. and try and finish the floor up.
when you gonna stop by and bring that bench seat with you..

[93blazer4dr]

nice job and i got started back on mine after seeing this

[Oldskool94]

lookin good.

[dava flav]

picked up a steering column at the junkyard. took forever for me to find the one with the same plugs. and tilt auto.
also got that becnh from drew(throwinsparks89)
havent done anything else. ive been selling my other two trucks and loooking at houses. im gonna be buying one pretty soon so that takes a lot of time

[V8Blaze]

looks awesome, lets do mine next lol

that bench seat is cool as hell

[throwinsparks89]

haha, the bench looks sweet that low in there.

i have a tilt steering column to that i dont need that had a couple wire severed that could be fixed easy. To late now i guess

keep that shit flowin bisch!

[dava flav]

round two like drew
im goin to look at a new bed tomm. lol
and a driver fender. now i just have to find a rear end.
and im ditching the kp kit for a triang. four link.