'95 F-150 track ready street beast

[Sbeck09]

Wow I didn't realize how badly I have neglected you guys here. My bad.

It's been a crazy few weeks so let me bring you all up to speed (that don't already know).

So after aligning the truck the focus was more on just driving it and watching for any gremlins that might pop up while Andrew worked on the tune. He has done a FANTASTIC job btw so if you are running a Holley EFI system and want someone to do some solid real world tuning, he is your guy. Overall the truck has been solid with everything from steady state cruising to 0-100 blasts. I can't wait to really finish the small stuff so I can just play. The big thing that is annoying me to death is that my bumper is stuck not being shipped due to 'Rona. So forgive the bucktooth look.



The more I see the stance the happier I am with the choices I made for ride height.

I then started cleaning up from the chaos of building a truck from scratch in my backyard. It resulted in an overflowing truckload to the salvage yard for a whopping $30. Yay.



Oddly I felt kinda sentimental about taking that stuff away for no good reason, but now that it has been gone, I'm cool.

One of the best parts about how I setup the build and having the IRS system out back is that I could still use this as a truck for basic stuff. Even better is that provides additional justification to drive it around. Win-win.



Why would I be hauling stuff like that around town you might be asking? Well late last year the ball got rolling on a major purchase that I've only dreamed about most of my (short) adult life. A property in town that feels out of town where I could have my own real shop to create these things I constantly have in my head. I present to you all, my dream:



Looking at the house and shop. Seeing about 1/3rd of the property in this pic...maybe.





Nope, you can't see the inside because it's pure chaos. The property is 1.63 acres with a nice shop and a small house. It's essentially a blank canvas. The house will be added onto within the next year and the shop should do great for now with plenty of surrounding ground for possible expansion. And to celebrate I bought a giant new toolbox (red box is what I've been using for most of the last decade)!



So what's next? I desperately want to organize since the shop became a big staging and temp storage area for house stuff, but I'm still getting the last couple items out of the old house so it can be sold. All while I'm talking to a friend about having lazer cut panels for the doors done and a custom shift lever to better suit my driving position. I guess races being on hold for now has kinda played to my advantage, but I'm ready to go beat on this beast and get some real testing data. This is a VERY exciting time for me and there is plenty left to do. This project is definitely not done.

Luckily the local wildlife (my friends) make sure to gawk regularly