Project Girl with Wrenches

[roademon]

Got the truck cleaned up but missed the show n shine. Woke up this morning and let the dog out and noticed she was peeing blood. She comes before car shows so I had to take her to emergency. Turns out to be a bad urinary tract infection. Turns out she has cushings disease, it's the cause of the infection and her thinning hair. I just figured she was getting old. Poor dog. She got her first ride in the big dodge though lol, she likes the power sliding rear window. Just gonna go give the truck a quick wash and take some pics. I tinted my rear windows at 1am last night. I was so looking forward to the show today. Gonna put it in one next weekend though. I'll post pics in a bit

[Drain Bamaged]

I'm sorry give te dog a hug for me

[sonomaguy]

Sorry to hear about both the dog and the car show.

[heeter_33]

My dog has cushings too and always gets bladder infections but she's still rockin!

[roademon]

My dog is feeling much better today Poor old girl. Sory for delay in the pic. Damn photobucket and those videos they insist on playing while you upload made my computer crash yesterday and I didn't have time to boot it back up and start over. So here's the pics finally!



No more smashed up side!

[roademon]

Still needs the tailgate and the toneau cover done though.

[90blueS10]

It looks the same as it used to! You must've had some nice paint before.

At least its all painted now and not effed up

[AWD V8]

Looks damn good Heather, you should be proud!

[Sonomanclature]

Looks like doo doo
































































































:P

[StirFrey]

looks great! the bumper turned out nice.
whats with the drivers side of the grille?

[sonomaguy]

It looks great! You guys did an awesome job.

[Pew]

looks real good

[ZQ8 Blazer]

looks great.

[Drain Bamaged]

Looks killer

[roademon]

Quote: Originally Posted by StirFrey

looks great! the bumper turned out nice.
whats with the drivers side of the grille?

One of the bars off the support. I haven't glued it back up yet lol. The bumper is the same bumper, was running out of time to make my custom one. I have the 98+ bumper cut apart and I'm going to hit the jy for another pre 98 bumper to use for the project. I just really wanted it back together lol.

[mafiacustomz]

Their is nothing hotter thin a woman who builds her own ride.

[roademon]

Quote: Originally Posted by 90blueS10

It looks the same as it used to! You must've had some nice paint before.

At least its all painted now and not effed up

Lol I was just really good at picking lighting to make my paint look good. It was nasty, low gloss, and the old decals had etched DEEP into the paint. Actually took priming and sanding it twice to get the decal and pinstriping imprints to dissapear. The paint was also checking pretty bad. Plus now, no more rusted rockers and cab corner

[roademon]

How bout a before and after shot

[mostizzle]

Enjoy putting the first swirl marks and/or scratches in it. lol

[roademon]

haha yea, I'm going to let the paint get good and cured in the sun for a month or so then once summer is over it'll get full wetsand and polish to make the paint smooth as glass. Not a project I'm looking forward to but sooooo worth the outcome. Then it will get stored in a shop

[GM]

It came out really nice, congrats.

[sonomaguy]

Good job on the hood too. Fit looks good. There is nothing like being able to drive it after something like that eh? Get that first ding out of the way and then all will be good.

[koeberle04]

Looks awesome overall!

[roademon]

The hood was a bit of a bastard to get to fit. Took a lot of shaving the fiberglass and boreing out the hood bolt holes. But it's pretty damn close now. As close as fiberglass can be I guess haha.

[PSYKO_Inc]

Sooo slick and shiny, looks awesome I really need to get around to painting my piece of shit...

[roademon]

Still deciding on what to do with the hood insert. Wether to paint the one it has flat black so it's less noticable or to try to build a billet insert.

[90blueS10]

get a cheap billet grille and cut it up.

[sonomaguy]

A billet insert would flow nice with the billet grill.

[262X02]

Truck looks good and I'm glad you found a better camera. I would black out the hood insert.

[StirFrey]

i would make it functional, and i noticed it wasnt the custom bumper, i just thought it looked good how it was

[roademon]

I'm leaning towards blacking it out. It looks kind of gawdy with the silver in it as it is so I'm thinking billet wouldn't look any better. The hood is functional.

[StirFrey]

oh, well, ill shut up then

[roademon]

Lol $800 hood it better come functional :P

[Drain Bamaged]

Wow reallllly

[95blazerv8]

Truck looks really good. That before and after shot is like a 360 deg turn around.

[roademon]

Oh yea it's like two completely different trucks. It hugely needs exhaust work now, looks like it should have some sort of throaty sound to it but no. Same quiet 4.3 stock exhaust note. Might cut the cat out for now, I think it's a bit plugged up anyays. When I put the v8 in it I'm going totally custom exhaust with true duels and an x-pipe to even out the tone. Should sound sexy then.

[90blueS10]

As long as you pick a good muffler.

[roademon]

Most likely magnaflo

[snowman46919]

I was going to vote flowmaster, they have never let me down and they are usually pretty cheap.

[roademon]

yea it will be something along those lines. it's a ways off so I haven't put too much thought into it yet.

[nomacane07]

Flowmaster has a stainless 40 series now for only $15 more than the steel version. I now your wanting to run a true dual setup but I personally would go with a 3" single factory style exhaust with 2.5" down pipes. Or for the duals you could do 2.5" all the way back with a X or H pipe and 2 of Magnaflows 4" round mufflers. What's your plan for tailpipes/tips?

[roademon]

the tails will angle down at each side similar to how the single does now but with less of it showing.

[nomacane07]

That would be my choice or dumps straight out the back but not to be seen.

[roademon]

Exactly, something not visible. The truck sits too low to have them sticking out too much and I don't want to put them out the rollpan. I like it nice and clean.

[nomacane07]

I always had a clean idea for it to exit out the roll pan though. Basically like the exhaust on your Dodge. Cut out half circles and make a nice style line around them with some 2.5" rolled slant cut tips.

[snowman46919]

You could always side exit right behind the tire in the wheel well. I have seen it done right and I have seen it done horribly wong, but it can look good if done right.

[262X02]

I would go with a Magnaflow muffler. I've been running with a Flowmaster 40 for the past 8 years and switched recently and it sounds and runs better. Mags are straight through where as the Flows tend to create a little back pressure in the system with their chamber designs.

[StirFrey]

your truck convinced me to paint my bike black

[roademon]

Quote: Originally Posted by 262X02

I would go with a Magnaflow muffler. I've been running with a Flowmaster 40 for the past 8 years and switched recently and it sounds and runs better. Mags are straight through where as the Flows tend to create a little back pressure in the system with their chamber designs.

Good to know.

[nomacane07]

You get the wrong Magnaflow and it will sound like poop. My buddy have a 67 c10 with a 400 horse 355. It has a full stainless Magnaflow dual exhaust and Headman ceramic headers. If you see it you'd think it's gonna shake the ground when he starts it but it don't. It's pretty quiet and the tone just isn't right. The truck is still bad ass though.