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1969 C10 short bed project $1700obo. 69 C10 project truck. Original AC cab, short bed, p/s, manual brakes, aluminum powerglide transmission, wheels. Rare one-year only color option. Engine: - 4 bolt main 350 out a 78 suburban 3/4 ton - Factory cam - 882 heads milled 0.025, larger...

Also, most of the original engine is in the trunk. For a $500 car, its a heck of a deal. Anything I don't reuse that's still in decent shape and/or cleans up nice will be sold to help fund this. (emblems, front seats, possibly original block, heads, etc). I'll be taking inventory and...

I don't consider it bashing at all. You give reasonable advice. I'll try to explain where I'm coming from with this. Its not even about the money or worth of the car for me. Money is secondary to seeing the vision in my head realized and enjoying the car. I've come to the conclusion that any...

Luckily I've got friends with a performance shop. I can get lift time on the weekends and a lot of help from them. Cotton got me a good engine. Not sure what kind of shape the transmission in the car is in. The only thing I'm really going to have to farm out is the body work, everything else can...

And it seems I can never get my hands on a car with a solid floor :( Also have the original wheels sittin' in the bed of the old pick-up in the one pic. ....The vendors here are gonna LOVE me:biggrin:

Well, now that I've got my engine (Thanks Cotton!), its time to start tearin' the car down. I've decided to go ahead and do a full frame-off restoration. This gonna take a couple of years at least. I'll be posting stuff up every now and then. Here's an idea of what I'm starting with. 85 T-type...

Thanks to everyone involved for such a great event. It was a real blast and this is probably the friendliest car enthusiast community I've ever been a part of. Also, special thanks to: Jack Cotton- For putting together the intercooled engine and conversion parts to swap into my hot-air...

See, that's my problem with this thing. With the amount of mods we have, we SHOULDN'T be seeing this. It's stock turbo, stock injectors, no alcky, and 93oct. I know the chip isn't that good compared to a newer TT or anything, but we still shouldn't be seeing this. We found a couple of small...

We've actually got a FAST XFI setup for it as we are going to start making heavy mods to it and are more familiar with that style setup versus the usual chips. Main reason for current testing is to find any serious issues that need to be addressed before we install the fast and begin...

Alright, got back with my friend's who did some research. Chip seems to be an old Thrasher chip. We T-ed off a vacuum line near the turbo, coming off the turbo housing, and used the dyno to read boost. The dyno actually only read 13.3lbs, but the fuel pressure built up 15lbs from the initial...

Hi folks, I'm trying to help a friend get their car straigtened out. I've got some experience with tuning and have been following the advice of some of the board vendors. We just put the car on a dyno and got a good run with the powerlogger. I was wondering if anybody could look over the file...

^ is a great guy to know :biggrin: THREE CHEERS FOR LADY GN OWNERS!!!! HIP HIP HOORAY!!!! HIP HIP HOORAY!!!! HIP HIP HOORAY!!!! ....how'd this brown stuff get on my nose? :tongue:

Well, nice to know I wasn't too far off on my thoughts. I would prefer to see the car at 15lbs. I think one of our main problems is knowing exactly what settings are on the chip. Is it strange that this was only happening from a stop and doesn't seem to be misbehaving when going from a roll...

Okay so I took Ann Synder's (new member) car out for a test drive this morning. Now keep in mind I'm new to the TRs myself and I'm still figuring out the scanmaster. Normal driving everything looks good. From a roll, getting into the boost there is no knock. Now, I took the car out to try a...

I've got Jack up at Cotton's Performance putting together a complete intercooled conversion kit for me. Hoping to see that come in sometime soon. I'm going to use the original block and heads and will be sending that out to get rebuilt once I've got the cash up. Found the original wheels buried...