that's freaking stout..you certainly didn't spare any expense.

Me neither. Once done with phase 2 which is this part of the build I will start putting more videos up on my youtube channel which is very sparse at the moment. I hope to get an update video up this saturday.

I'm sure your 80 with 37's is very capable.

Today #wheelin_ with_willy got all the rear links and frame supports welded on and started on the front. Tomorrow morning the front links should be installed. And we are hoping to have the truck on the ground under its own weight on Saturday as well as finish as much of the steering as we can.

I had an exchange with RCV this morning, and there is a glimmer of hope that we will get the shafts in time for ATR. At the moment they are out getting black oxide.



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Going to be a great Friday and Saturday. The balance of our steering parts arrive today which is 2 days earlier than expected.

This is the steering pump and check valve for the hydraulic steering.

The front four link is just about done. Tomorrow will do my best to get a video of the 4-link in the front and back and post it.

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The 4 links suspension in front and back is now complete. Some additional welding needs to be completed but it has been put in and tested. The shocks will be installed by the middle of next week.

At this point if I remember correctly we have around 4- 5 inches of up travel in the front and 6-7 in the back. The down travel in the front should be around 10 inches and the back 12 to 14. Once I have all the final numbers on this I will certainly get them corrected.

We have a lot to finish but we are approaching the end of this final first stage of the build.

Early next week the new steering pump will be installed and then the rest of the components for the full hydraulic steering will be mounted and lines run. Also need to finish up rerunning new brake lines as well as the air lines for the lockers.

Some additional gusseting needs to be completed and there is roughly two full days of welding for that to be complete.

Obviously the photo below is not at ride height we were just looking at the flex.

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What are you doing for transfer case?

I'm going with an Atlas 4 speed with 10.34:1 bottom ratio. When I ordered it in early June, it had an 18 week lead time. Therefore it should arrive in middle of October. Really looking forward to receiving it.

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Damn those tires… 🤣

Shocks are going in today. Here is the first front shock mount put into position. They will all be tacked up today with the shocks mounted to measure for the springs.

So within the end of the week we will have the shocks fully mounted with all springs installed.

Front and rear drive shafts are being worked on today and we'll be done tomorrow and so on Friday we will also install the front and rear drive shafts as well as the carrier bearing

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Looks like a beast! How much weight do you anticipate all of this will add, and what will be the effect on engine performance?


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Not sure yet where it will finish in terms of weight. we have removed a lot and added a lot. It was just about 6150 when I dropped it off so I would imagine we will finish around 65-6700#.

The engine isn't the issue as much as it is the torque converter/tranny, transfer case, gearing, etc. I have 5.13's gears and will replace the transfer case with the atlas so that would leave the torque converter in stock tranny as the most likely weakest link. However this is not a race car and will rarely if ever be driven on the highway any longer. I'm confident with the supercharger and gearing I will be just fine.

I have been worried since June we would not receive our axle shafts from RCV in time for ATR next week.

Well yesterday after one week of waiting for some good news, it finally came and the shafts shipped yesterday. Tomorrow morning I will get a video of them posted of these beasts. They are the last thing required to finish this monster front axle. So a huge should out to #RCV for getting them done on schedule as promised back in early June.

I think the only thing left to source are the brake lines and I do that locally this morning. It's nice to live in the middle of NASCAR and other racing shops. It makes sourcing parts rather easy.

Below are a bunch of photos from today.

The suspension is close to full droop in front and 2-3 from full droop in the back.

Order 5 pairs of springs to make sure we get the correct mix. Right now 250# in front and 150# on back. We can return whatever we do not use.

Tomorrow the steering will just about all be mounted and serpentine belt reconnected.

Most likely will change to cone type air filter.

Tomorrow will also slightly change rear shock towers and french them info frame.

If all goes well will paint everything on Monday and get it all back together on

It's completely together so much that I picked up a 24' trailer to tow it to ATR next week. If all goes well we will test it on Wednesday to start getting used to it and a little more Thursday morning and the fun stuff. If it rains as forecasted it will be a sloppy fun mess.

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Very bizarre IMO. It will be interesting to see how it performs.