I re-arranged some content and split up some pages, as this project is beginning to snowball out of control.
With any luck, the short bed will be on this week, and the truck sitting in the weeds by the end of next week.
Read More: The Crusty Chevy
Category: My Projects
Screw-In Rocker Studs
Flippin’ Out
Flip kit and shock extenders fabricated for the Crusty Chevy
The Crusty Chevy
That’ll buff out.
We have a new project coming along. I’ve only recently decided to include it here.
Short-boxing a long box square-body Chevy.
Lower Control Arms
Finished today for a current project. It only took about four incarnations for it to work correctly.
Hideous Quirks
In an effort to “fix” the many electrical problems akin to my mid-90’s Nissan experience, I added a new section to the Hideous Hardbody – Hideous Quirks.
The first quirk I dealt with was an erratic idle, low-speed stumble, driveability issue which involved re-soldering a questionable crimp in the engine wiring harness.
Much better!
Control Arms
The Final Word on The Frankenleaf Hardbody
- 2WD main leaf, de-arced 3″
- 4WD second leaf, de-arced to match
- 2WD second leaf, bobbed and de-arced to match
- 2WD main overload, flattened (Canadian trucks have two overloads)
- 4WD second overload, flipped
- 3″ blocks, machined to 2″ with 6° taper
- Relocated rear shackle mount
- Re-drilled front eye mount
- Nissan Quest shocks
That should be it. SO not worth it.
Lethal Locost Tuning
I figured I should add an update on the current tune. I have been running pure Alpha-N for a couple years now, and this is the current state of the tune.
There is still a wee bit of unhappiness light-throttle around 2000rpm, and cold start is still about 10% unhappy. But very driveable, and nary a problem.
I did have a strange quirk wherein the car would act like it just dropped two cylinders, usually only once in a while, and only within the first 20 minutes of operation. Only a full on/off/on would make it go away. Someone on www.locostusa.com found the fix: reset “next pulse tolerance” normal running up to 70%. Problem solved.
Quieter (aka: “I’m Old”)
The Flowmaster is gone. I think it would have worked great on a V8, but the exhaust pulses from a 4 just aren’t enough to cancel each other properly. So – axed.
The latest muffler is on now, and there’s no going back.
It’s a Walker QuietFlow3 for a 1990 Chevy C1500 350V8. 2-1/2″ in, dual 2″ out.
And by gum, it’s pretty quiet. I can ~just~ hear exhaust note on the highway. Any drone is virtually non-existent.
Am I really that old?