83 C10 Pro Touring Truck

[vette427-sbc]

The inner fenders alu or steel?

[Gojeep]

Love the look of the engine bay.

[the dan]

aluminum! light weight, the whole sheet 48x8' was like 20 lbs, and half of it went to scrap haha

[the dan]

Love the look of the engine bay.

Thank you! all the way from down under! wasnt sure about how to attack it but this is definitely the outcome i was imagining!

[the dan]

So I finally got my rear bumper mounted, as well as my front bumper. Pulled it outside to see it in the daylight, and made all my seat bars to get my seats and harnesses in. Ordered my custom gauges from speed hut (made in USA), cant wait to show all of you.
Stay humble gentlemen!

[Gojeep]

Very nicely done mate.

[linkstar69]

This truck rocks!

[mittler]

we like the catalog bud! call us if you need anything! carry on with the excellent work!

[the dan]

Custom Breitling guages to go witht he aircraft accents

And i won best Domestic at a local car show, coolest trophies ever mind you

[Gojeep]

Well done on the win.
Like the new gauges too. Something military looking about them for some reason.

[kbscobravert]

What a craftsman! I love this build. I think there is something from every auto enthusiast community in there (besides 4x4 guys that is).

Subscribed for the updates.

[Tig]

Awesome, you are a talented man.
That engine bay is a work of art as is that trophy, congrats.

[the dan]

Thanks Tig and KBS, is it bad that i made the trophies? i told them they needed to pick someone else but they insisted, each trophy took about a half hour to polish and assemble without cut time.

finished welding my cage and seat bars this weekend

welded in my cap for my valve cover fill neck

got rid of the holes for my windsheild wipers too

[ReDDruM]

Great build

[hotrod56]

What gauge aluminum are you using in the engine bay? Can you tell us more about the riveting there as well?

You bolted the rear cage to the frame with a threaded plate. What did you use to make it? Are there welded nuts on the back of that plate?

[the dan]

What gauge aluminum are you using in the engine bay? Can you tell us more about the riveting there as well?

You bolted the rear cage to the frame with a threaded plate. What did you use to make it? Are there welded nuts on the back of that plate?

The inner fenders are 18g 3003 Aluminum, the rivets are aircraft 1/8 button heads that I made my own die and ball peened each one, I just purchased the proper riveting head for the air hammer last week
the plate is 3/16" and the frame is 3/16" thick, welded the plate to the frame, drilled the holes and tapped them

[low68]

This is an awesome build! Do you have any recent updates?

[the dan]

Anyone know about ford 6.0 Diesels will laugh at this




shes a frame, painting it tomorrow night

[Peter Mc Mahon]

This is absolutely the coolest build on here.

[timmytimm3]

You're an animal Dan.