slowly putting sy #231 back together

leadsled2020 · 08-29-2008, 11:44 AM

It cought on fire and I'm puttin her back one piece at a time so I'm gonnna whore it up with a bunch of pics....

This another one that I'm working on....

87wildside · 08-29-2008, 12:00 PM

Glad you're going to save it.

Driveway Kustomz · 08-29-2008, 12:27 PM

things like that make me wanna cry, but im glad ur taking the time to put her back together good job

Brutus2TheMax · 08-29-2008, 12:35 PM

That's gonna be an expensive ass project. GOOD LUCK MAN!

leadsled2020 · 08-29-2008, 02:34 PM

yes its expensive.... I already have all the new sheetmetal.... pretty standard square body s10 stuff.. I have a line on the body cladding and I'm looking at almost 3 grand for all the front stuff..... I've been in close contact with RPM (race proven motors) and for all the driveline items I'm lookin at around 15k including the things that I want to upgrade and I havn't even looked into paint and final bodywork but I want to do a "midnight pearl" black so I'm assuming around 3k so somewhere around 20 large for all of it and thats not even getting into the interior......

truckman · 08-29-2008, 02:41 PM

leadsled2020 · 08-29-2008, 02:43 PM

The last three pictures are of my friend Jim's sy(#1070) and we have it torn apart to do a motor swap. we have got a longblock from RPM with a stroker kit and a 0.030 overbore we are planning on using a set of thier ported and polished vortec heads a larger throttlebody stage 2 turbo with external wastegate as well as stainless steel headers and crossover pipe into thier full 3" stainless exhaust we also got rid of the old water/air intercooler and went to a much larger air to air unit to be mounted in the front bumper cover we also went with a new jasper racing trans and had the transfer case and the front diff rebuilt with stronger internals and also machined to allow for the use of larger and stronger half shafts and prop shafts when it all comes together we are going to have the computer remapped and tuned to compensate for all the upgrades

we are hoping that this truck will be able to compete in the low to mid ten second range on the quarter

leadsled2020 · 08-29-2008, 02:46 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by truckman

trust me I know!!!!! I could buy one that runs for ten to fifteen grand in good condition but this one is such a low # coupled with the fact that I seem to have an affinity to do everything the hard way....... so I decided that this one was for me

bagged92 · 08-29-2008, 03:04 PM

cant wait to see this thing get back together...

sy's/ty's fvcking rock...

bingedrinker · 09-02-2008, 11:11 AM

i have a nice frt bumper cover from a sonoma gt i'll cut you a deal on.i have some int. pieces too that you might be interested in also

91sonomast · 09-03-2008, 09:38 PM

these trucks arent to awfully reliable as DD's, and nowadays arent too fast, but in my mind they are great Americana, congrats on saving it. I swear if I ever become wealthy I'm going to own 2, one stock, and the other will only be a sy by the badges and VIN and AWD lol.

leadsled2020 · 09-04-2008, 12:17 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by bingedrinker

i have a nice frt bumper cover from a sonoma gt i'll cut you a deal on.i have some int. pieces too that you might be interested in also

im me and we'll talk business

1BadElky · 09-04-2008, 01:23 AM

that hurts to look at man, especially knowing how much that cladding costs.

drummerdude89 · 09-04-2008, 02:40 AM

how'd the fire start?

Dragonball98312 · 09-04-2008, 03:11 AM

thats the saddest thing ive ever seen. if you could pull off the rebuild you'd be god, breathing life into something that died long ago

Outlawz24 · 09-04-2008, 04:16 AM

Guessing you are using the removed parts from your buddies truck that are being replaced with aftermarket parts to rebuild yours? Did you get that truck in that condition or did you own it before it got all burnt up?

jimhrabe · 09-04-2008, 09:49 AM

Looks like its gonna be a fun build!

leadsled2020 · 09-05-2008, 02:24 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by drummerdude89

how'd the fire start?

as far as I know turbo heat burned insulation off nearby wires..... they in turn grounded out and caused an electrical fire

Quote: Originally Posted by Outlawz24

Guessing you are using the removed parts from your buddies truck that are being replaced with aftermarket parts to rebuild yours? Did you get that truck in that condition or did you own it before it got all burnt up?

some of them.... the rest will be bought new as we are going for similar goals
but i'd like mine to be a bit more streetable than his.....

and the truck was his when this happened and he gave it to me for helping him with his other one....

I originally toyed with the idea of rebuilding the driveline, putting it on a custom chassis and dropping the body of my 74 chevy luv onto it... and making a crazy fast Luv sleeper but i decided to stay true with this one and do that one some other time

leadsled2020 · 09-05-2008, 02:25 PM

*edited*

leadsled2020 · 09-05-2008, 02:29 PM

*edited*

83blazer28 · 11-10-2008, 02:38 AM

still waitin on updates

leadsled2020 · 11-10-2008, 11:53 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by 83blazer28

still waitin on updates

there arent any at the moment.... I'm back in school and I'm doin some things to my daily..(94 s10 ss) the thread is in the "SS" section it's "just bought a 94 SS"

83blazer28 · 11-10-2008, 12:32 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by leadsled2020

there arent any at the moment.... I'm back in school and I'm doin some things to my daily..(94 s10 ss) the thread is in the "SS" section it's "just bought a 94 SS"

Oh =/

leadsled2020 · 11-10-2008, 01:13 PM

yeah its just too expensive to work on right now.... I need to buy all of those 2000 dollar or more parts.....lol needless to say i dont have that kind of money to play with so i'm workin on the other one....

the baPhoon · 11-12-2008, 12:27 AM

One hellofa uphill battle before you man. You're makin good progress though.
Good luck on the resurection.

08-29-2008, 11:44 AM	#1
leadsled2020 Crazy As Fuck Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 322 Location: St. Louis User is: OffLine	slowly putting sy #231 back together It cought on fire and I'm puttin her back one piece at a time so I'm gonnna whore it up with a bunch of pics.... This another one that I'm working on....
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08-29-2008, 12:00 PM	#2
87wildside Registered User Age: 32 Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 439 Location: Newark DE User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together Glad you're going to save it.
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08-29-2008, 12:27 PM	#3
Driveway Kustomz Dropped 3/4 Age: 18 Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 443 Location: K-Town, NY User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together things like that make me wanna cry, but im glad ur taking the time to put her back together good job
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08-29-2008, 12:35 PM	#4
Brutus2TheMax Cleanest truck in school Age: 19 Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 166 Location: Plainfield, IL (60544) User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together That's gonna be an expensive ass project. GOOD LUCK MAN!
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08-29-2008, 02:34 PM	#5
leadsled2020 Crazy As Fuck Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 322 Location: St. Louis User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together yes its expensive.... I already have all the new sheetmetal.... pretty standard square body s10 stuff.. I have a line on the body cladding and I'm looking at almost 3 grand for all the front stuff..... I've been in close contact with RPM (race proven motors) and for all the driveline items I'm lookin at around 15k including the things that I want to upgrade and I havn't even looked into paint and final bodywork but I want to do a "midnight pearl" black so I'm assuming around 3k so somewhere around 20 large for all of it and thats not even getting into the interior......
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08-29-2008, 02:41 PM	#6
truckman shitter was full Age: 29 Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 8,554 Location: nc User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together
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08-29-2008, 02:43 PM	#7
leadsled2020 Crazy As Fuck Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 322 Location: St. Louis User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together The last three pictures are of my friend Jim's sy(#1070) and we have it torn apart to do a motor swap. we have got a longblock from RPM with a stroker kit and a 0.030 overbore we are planning on using a set of thier ported and polished vortec heads a larger throttlebody stage 2 turbo with external wastegate as well as stainless steel headers and crossover pipe into thier full 3" stainless exhaust we also got rid of the old water/air intercooler and went to a much larger air to air unit to be mounted in the front bumper cover we also went with a new jasper racing trans and had the transfer case and the front diff rebuilt with stronger internals and also machined to allow for the use of larger and stronger half shafts and prop shafts when it all comes together we are going to have the computer remapped and tuned to compensate for all the upgrades we are hoping that this truck will be able to compete in the low to mid ten second range on the quarter
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08-29-2008, 02:46 PM	#8
leadsled2020 Crazy As Fuck Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 322 Location: St. Louis User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together Quote: Originally Posted by truckman trust me I know!!!!! I could buy one that runs for ten to fifteen grand in good condition but this one is such a low # coupled with the fact that I seem to have an affinity to do everything the hard way....... so I decided that this one was for me
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08-29-2008, 03:04 PM	#9
bagged92 Tater Kustomz Age: 20 Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 974 Location: K Falls, Oregon User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together cant wait to see this thing get back together... sy's/ty's fvcking rock...
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09-02-2008, 11:11 AM	#10
bingedrinker Registered User Age: 32 Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 17 Location: User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together i have a nice frt bumper cover from a sonoma gt i'll cut you a deal on.i have some int. pieces too that you might be interested in also
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09-03-2008, 09:38 PM	#11
91sonomast Good Bye SonomaST Age: 24 Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 5,633 Location: Jacksonville, FL User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together these trucks arent to awfully reliable as DD's, and nowadays arent too fast, but in my mind they are great Americana, congrats on saving it. I swear if I ever become wealthy I'm going to own 2, one stock, and the other will only be a sy by the badges and VIN and AWD lol.
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09-04-2008, 12:17 AM	#12
leadsled2020 Crazy As Fuck Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 322 Location: St. Louis User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together Quote: Originally Posted by bingedrinker i have a nice frt bumper cover from a sonoma gt i'll cut you a deal on.i have some int. pieces too that you might be interested in also im me and we'll talk business
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09-04-2008, 01:23 AM	#13
1BadElky Hi-Tech Redneck Age: 18 Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,946 Location: Albany, GA User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together that hurts to look at man, especially knowing how much that cladding costs.
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09-04-2008, 02:40 AM	#14
drummerdude89 Registered User Age: 19 Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 89 Location: Arizona User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together how'd the fire start?
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09-04-2008, 03:11 AM	#15
Dragonball98312 Super Saiyan User Age: 23 Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 229 Location: Bremerton WA User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together thats the saddest thing ive ever seen. if you could pull off the rebuild you'd be god, breathing life into something that died long ago
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09-04-2008, 04:16 AM	#16
Outlawz24 Drifting Nomad Age: 25 Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 495 Location: Lloydminster Sask Canada User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together Guessing you are using the removed parts from your buddies truck that are being replaced with aftermarket parts to rebuild yours? Did you get that truck in that condition or did you own it before it got all burnt up?
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09-04-2008, 09:49 AM	#17
jimhrabe Turbocharged Pimp Age: 35 Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 903 Location: Mokena, IL User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together Looks like its gonna be a fun build!
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09-05-2008, 02:24 PM	#18
leadsled2020 Crazy As Fuck Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 322 Location: St. Louis User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together Quote: Originally Posted by drummerdude89 how'd the fire start? as far as I know turbo heat burned insulation off nearby wires..... they in turn grounded out and caused an electrical fire Quote: Originally Posted by Outlawz24 Guessing you are using the removed parts from your buddies truck that are being replaced with aftermarket parts to rebuild yours? Did you get that truck in that condition or did you own it before it got all burnt up? some of them.... the rest will be bought new as we are going for similar goals but i'd like mine to be a bit more streetable than his..... and the truck was his when this happened and he gave it to me for helping him with his other one.... I originally toyed with the idea of rebuilding the driveline, putting it on a custom chassis and dropping the body of my 74 chevy luv onto it... and making a crazy fast Luv sleeper but i decided to stay true with this one and do that one some other time Last edited by leadsled2020 : 09-05-2008 at 02:31 PM.
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11-10-2008, 02:38 AM	#21
83blazer28 paint color? ... Mud =D Age: 16 Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 615 Location: Baltimore, MD User is: Online	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together still waitin on updates
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11-10-2008, 11:53 AM	#22
leadsled2020 Crazy As Fuck Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 322 Location: St. Louis User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together Quote: Originally Posted by 83blazer28 still waitin on updates there arent any at the moment.... I'm back in school and I'm doin some things to my daily..(94 s10 ss) the thread is in the "SS" section it's "just bought a 94 SS"
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11-10-2008, 12:32 PM	#23
83blazer28 paint color? ... Mud =D Age: 16 Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 615 Location: Baltimore, MD User is: Online	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together Quote: Originally Posted by leadsled2020 there arent any at the moment.... I'm back in school and I'm doin some things to my daily..(94 s10 ss) the thread is in the "SS" section it's "just bought a 94 SS" Oh =/
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11-10-2008, 01:13 PM	#24
leadsled2020 Crazy As Fuck Age: 24 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 322 Location: St. Louis User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together yeah its just too expensive to work on right now.... I need to buy all of those 2000 dollar or more parts.....lol needless to say i dont have that kind of money to play with so i'm workin on the other one....
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11-12-2008, 12:27 AM	#25
the baPhoon Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 43 Location: User is: OffLine	Re: slowly putting sy #231 back together One hellofa uphill battle before you man. You're makin good progress though. Good luck on the resurection.
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