Being working on this for a couple of months now, due to school and work as well as other delys progress has been slow untill latley.

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Made some more progress today, ill try and get some more pics tonight when i get a chance.

Let me know what yall think, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

I have tractor joints on my panhards

And I HATE them they rattle all the time

They are temporary, I will switch over to something else when I get the money.

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Looks good josh. still love my exo I bent you....:flipoff2:

Any way the tractor joints were put in just to move the truck out of my shop. We tore the truck down planing to build the truck there, but I got a great job offer in AR and had to quickly move it.

Looks good.

Thanks Rusty

Got some more pics

Inner X done
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Got the hood cut down
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That is awsome. It is going to look killer when it is all finished.

Thanks man, I'll get some more pics after this weekend when I make some more progress

sweet build. keep up the good work

I like how simple you made that look...

This is a sick build. Good motivation for me

Had it not been for my friend chris this project probly never would have taken off. We came back from wheeling one night after I had broken something in the front and he told me I could take it to his shop. That night we gutted the interior, havent looked back since then.

Had it not been for my friend chris this project probly never would have taken off. We came back from wheeling one night after I had broken something in the front and he told me I could take it to his shop. That night we gutted the interior, havent looked back since then.

It is folks like those that make you look back, way on down the road, and say, "What the hell was I thinking. Whatever it was Im glad I did it"

yah he loves me.

I am the chris by the way.

story behind the build started when josh swaped from street truck (lowered dodge with a build 360) to the z-71. I had been into 4x4's a while and had taken him wheeling a few times in my FSJ. So by the time we were out of high school he was hooked on wheelin. The plan was a basic SAS, with a 44 front and stock rear. Well we see that didnt happen.

One night we were out wheeling. and had gotten into some pretty big shit that we probably should not have been in and josh broke a tie-rod, and after I drug him 2 miles back to camp with the tires toed in I had burn up the trany in my burb, and blew out one of his front tires. so we fixed the truck and in the following outing a situation much the same happend, we were trying to climb a wall and broke the front axle. so with the last two trips ending in desaster. Josh was fed up.

I offered to tow his truck to my shop so he could work on it, well we got a little carried away and with in a month it had the front and rear frame sections chopped the lower 2 feet of cab boat sidded and a full exo encasing the cab. yah Im a good friend, I gave him time, metal, tools, and the Ideas to build one of the coolest late model chevys out there. I hope he is glad cause there is no going back. but out of all this I think the coolest thing is that the two of us are only 18 soon to be 19.

is the front ifs? or did u put a straight axle?

it is sitting on rockwells with 4-link and coilovers

been awhile Update's?

come on josh... I have built my buggy, put my TJ on one tons and your still not done? I have been on like 30 wheeling trips without you. I need my buddy back... LOL

hay RadFlo has a big sale on coilovers till the end of the month. I got a quote of $365ea with springs for 16".

Its been a little while since I have posted on this in the chevy fourm, but I figured it fit in better hear then it did in general.

New rear frame side four link mounts
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Got the boat sides all welded up, knuckles drilled, the rear tail light mount done and shaved the rear rock. Should have the rear upper axle four link bracket done by this weekend, updated pics soon.

Got some more work done tonight and some new pics.

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Boat sides finaly done.

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Flipped the knuckles and tie rod, and got a tractor supply ram.

Sorry for the shity pics, really need to get my own camera.

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Im really diggin the front clip. Looks bad to the bone!

lookin good

whats going in that bin on the rear?

Fuel tank is mounted back there and then just some space to put straps, chains, whatever you want. Plan on putting a small pancake air compressor back there but that will be on down the road.

Front clip definatly looks killer with the fenders you did! Keep up the good work. What size tire you lookin at?

47 ltb

Nice build!
What kinda wheelbase are you going for?

Man it looks kinda mad max build.....like to know what it weighs in at:eek:

Man it looks kinda mad max build.....

Thats what everyone else says that I show it to:D


What kinda wheelbase are you going for?

I dont remember the exact number off the top of my head but it is sitting around 130". A little long but I plan on running rear stear, I just want to get her running first.

hell yes, nice build.