2006
- Pick up the truck with already some after market mods on it; had a FE 302 with some heddman shorty headers flowing through true dual exhaust with 2 flowmaster super 40s with no cats, had a stock transfer case and transmission. 6" Skyjacker lift and 3" spacers sitting on 38.5" ground hawgs. The front end on this thing is crazy...it's a jeeps dana 44 flipped upside down....it aint breaking...with a ford 9" rear, dont remember it's gears back then.
Clean
Within a few months I busted the rear oil seal, fixed. Took mudding at least once a month at a hole in Montpelier, you know huge fires, beer, trucks, and country girls...good times. Towards the end of the year I busted the ring n pinion. So Jerry (buddy) and I put in some nice 4.86:1 gears.
Back on the road in a few weeks. Then towards the end of the year my tranny went so I parked it at Jerry's for a while (spent about the past 6 years there)
Since then it's gone through some hell.....(past 6 years - taken our time)
- Came with a nice bed lift, but it was bouncing around too much when hitting the hole so I took that kit off. Bolted and welded to frame - watch those gas tanks hahaha
- replaced the shocks with some skyjacker nitros
- brand new c6 4x4 suto trans
- brand new np207 transfer case
- slip yokes for bumping around
- brand new 40' SS boggers
- Like I said it came with a stock 302 so we decided to pull that out and stroke it to a 347...bored and honed the block, had the kit there ready to go...just then... Jerry said...you know, we should drop a big block in there....Been thinking that this whole time! haha... so we returned the kit, looked through his stock of blocks and found a perfect 460 X block to work with.
Current Engine Specs
- bored .30 over
- 870cfm Holley Street Avenger Carb
- Edelbrock Performer Manifold
- dove heads with big 'ol ports
- long tube hedman headers - were a pain to fit, had to get tubes moved
- Eagle stroker kit (crank, rods, etc.)
- Proform Aluminum Roller Rockers
- Cam has .6+ duration/lift? Don't remember
Building was the easy part....finding all the correct brackets and pulleys needed for the alternator/water+power steering pump took WEEKS....we went to ever junk yard within 20 miles and called all our buddies for parts. We got a mix from different years (the problem) and after all the bull of trying to fit this, how should be fab this here, or here....said screw it and bought the march performance kit. Didn't want to spend the money, but in the end real easy to work it.
Jerry working (has the mixed brackets and pulleys)
Finally where she belongs with old alternator, will be going home this weekend to put on a nice one.
So after 6 long years of piecing this truck together waiting for funds and such she's finally ready to hit the holes...well I do need ladders bars, but besides that....she aint street legal right and with the power/gears/compression I wont be driving her around on the road very often so I hope that one of yall can help me tow her around. Ill be getting her towed here at the end of the semester.
ALSO I have some parts that I aint using from the 302 im trying to sell, along with some other goods...check the 'For Sale'
Cheers
