Recent content by badvada

More progress today. Got the brakes on, coolant pipes made and axles bolted in

Okay got some stuff done the last few months. I'm down to all the small shit that takes forever. Frint end is painted, aligned and mostly final bolted in. Motors in trans is in diff is in motor harness is mostly complete. Just have to final the starting/charging circuits (this is ignoring cab...

Been a while. Life is busy. Front end is getting close. Sheet metal for the firewall is in and mostly welded. Spent my Saturday doing some of the small bullshit that doesn't make a big intact but needs to be done.

I designed and had 2 of these cradles cut and bent. Fits the rci 30g wedge cell. (A less expensive option to the jazz jeepseed cell) You can pick it up unwelded, tacked or fully welded from me. It's meant to mount in the chassis with 2 cross 1.75 tubes. Made from .104" steel Located in eastvale...

The 2wd frame is vastly different then the 4wd frame on both s10 and 1500. In most scenarios moving the pivots forward does require moving the steering as well. However I had more steering with the steering in stock location. Completely different chassis will have completely different issues

Clearance is tight with the truck intake and accessories and the front diff. The coil packs don't clear the brake booster either so I went with a 2500 hydroboost unit

I found the old pictures

The tbss manifolds is really tight to the block for this reason. If I dug I might be able to find you a part number. New build I'm running ebay long tubes as the motorbis 5" back in the chassis

I expect good things. They are basically outer 1500 cvs on each end, and from what I've seen the inner tripod joint on silverados is usually what breaks, so overall they should be stronger.... especially since I'm going from s10 stuff to full size stuff. I wouldn't low gear crawl with them, but...

Currently sitting around 18" of travel bumped. Not strapped. I expect 17-17.5 strapped with awd. And this is about where it currently sits

Build parts are duramax hubs, some track motive axles, a 1500 front diff with 5.13 gears. 14b rear with a spool. Og btr beadlocks I had filled and redrilled to 8x6.5, 37"bfg kdr2s fox 2.5 coilovers and hoping to find some 3.5 bypasses

Now as much as I love this platform, the 4x s10 frame isn't perfect. There's not alot of room for a bigger front diff. The stock one has no gear options and is tiny. The front cross member is massive and sticks 6" in front of the suspension and I've repeatedly found it through 2 track or jumps...

For the motor I ordered a bunch of parts. Cam springs trunion upgrade ect. I used the heads from the 5.3 and picked up a tbss intake and a summit throttle body. The combo should be in the neighborhood of 500 crank hp. I swapped slapped the motor in just in time for am late season April run with...

In this form it attracted the attention of Jason over at race dezert and we did a quick photo shoot and he did a writeup on it ...

Alright where was I? OH yes just completed the cage and rear end. That's how it stayed for the next few years. I enjoyed it and it absolutely ripped. It was fast, handled well and would take almost everything I could throw at it, except big front hits. G outs into whoops, jumps into whoops, or...