View Poll Results: Immediate thoughts???
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Less Talk More Pictures......
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Take it to the scrap yard....
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Make it Light Make it Fast!
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This could be interesting.....
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Thread: Project Barnyard Budget AXS10
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03-19-2016 #61
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No pics visible?! Any updates?
Ric
2002 s10, DD and AutoX.
1966 Malibu owned since 1971. Drag car converting to track toy!
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01-16-2017 #62
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Well guys I don't know what happened to all the old pictures but I'm back and the project is underway again.
01-16-2017 #63
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In the last updates I was still living in Southern Indiana or had just moved back to Indy and taken a job at Raymond's Performance. That lasted a year and I have officially left the career out of a hobby phase of my life. This means working in the garage is fun again right? Here's some progress from the last few weeks.
Set up a makeshift seeing table at home.
Fabbed up a rear underslung clip
Ohh yeah..... Here's the home shop setup (work in progress)
And the helpers.
01-16-2017 #64
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The stock s10 rails were bobbed right at the rear cab / front bed mount so I rigingly fixed what was left of the stock frame to the table with the rear rails to "properly" mate them.
Learned a lot while I was at ridetech. One of the biggest things was how much I missed hanging in the shop with my Dad. He was a Mopar guy until my sister and I were born. There's not a day he turns down a chance to come and tinker.
01-16-2017 #65
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Once we got tied together I hung it to weld in the bottom side.
Worked great
Boxing was all finished so it was back down to ground level.
2 laser levels, a couple tape measures, and what seemed like 300 measurements later the wheelbase was laid out at 108" and the axle was locked into position with a couple exhaust clamps (NOT DYNO RATED)
Time for some fun!
01-17-2017 #66
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I love your ingenuity in terms of building and measuring the frame.
01-18-2017 #67
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Thanks. Just trying to get by with what I have.
Originally Posted by Dr G
01-19-2017 #68
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Glad to see you back on this project Mike...
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01-19-2017 #69
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Looking good Mike. Hopefully I'll get to see it show up at Midwest Muscle Car challenge next year!
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01-19-2017 #70
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Thanks! Now that I'm not dealing with everyone else's projects it's actually fun again. Originally Posted by SSLance
01-19-2017 #71
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Thanks! It will still be a couple years before it will be road ready though. Originally Posted by Craig@Bowler
01-23-2017 #72
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Was able to spend some time Saturday evening in the garage. Successfully got the link and coilover brackets installed to the axle.
For ****s and giggles I tried the 18x11s n the front and low and behold the fit well. I'm actually going to order 2 more with 1" less be and go for it.
01-24-2017 #73
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Awesome man. While this one's down, you can pull that dually out onto the autocross.
01-24-2017 #74
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Ohh ****... You're still on here. Bosses give u a bunch of feces and you have to get back on the forums or did you just bail from FB? They still watching you post counts? If so comment as many times as you'd like lol..Awesome man. While this one's down, you can pull that dually out onto the autocross.
01-27-2017 #75
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Someone really needs to take my allstar catalog away. Picked u another stack off goodies from the local dirt track parts store so I should be making the next step forward on rear suspension this weekend.
01-31-2017 #76
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I love the forums. I just got tired of social media, lol.
01-31-2017 #77
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Mike or Josh. School me on the difference between the g-body tru turn control arms and the s10 strong arms.
02-01-2017 #78
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The G-body TruTurn setup has these added corrections: Originally Posted by myth
- Adjustable cross shafts/different caster slugs for more caster adjustment
- Lower balljoint is moved forward, upper balljoint is moved back for more added caster while keeping the wheel centered
- Taller upper balljoints to increase camber gain
- We have the bumpsteer under .065" throughout 5" of travel
- Lower shock mount is moved out to reduce motion ratio, allows us to run a lower spring rate while maintaining the same wheel rate. (old design had a higher motion ratio and needed a much heavier spring to lift vehicle)
02-01-2017 #79
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Thank you sir.
Mike. Sorry for hijacking your thread.
02-03-2017 #80
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Anytime! Originally Posted by myth
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