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Blazerfest 13 at Hollister Hills 07/2012

Rigs still in the driveway getting rebuilt, but I headed out to camp with my buddies and ride with Jason for the weekend. Not GMT400's, but predominantly fullsizes.
- bggrnchvy
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- Jul 26, 2012
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Offroad Chat / Trail Ride Reports / Carnage
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Paperweight Rebuild REV03

It's time for the Chevy to get a whole lot of much needed attention. She's been bandaided and leaking for a while, not to mention underpowered. So here it goes: She's getting a new heart, an 04 LQ9. With a new heart she's getting a BU54 torque converter. Stock app is 4.8L/80e and...
- bggrnchvy
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- Jan 23, 2012
- Replies: 41
- Forum: LSX + Carb Swaps
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Rubicon Sept 2011

We had a 4 day weekend out on the Con, pictures basically tell the story of how it began, progressed and came to completion.
- bggrnchvy
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- Oct 3, 2011
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Offroad Chat / Trail Ride Reports / Carnage
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Moab, UT 2010 (Lots o pics)

Moab, UT 2010 The Journey To: Early on the morning of the 4th, a small contingent of us left the bay area on a trip to Moab, UT. We gathered in Pleasant Hill and departed northeast towards Reno, NV. Just outside of Reno we stopped at Cabelas to get our share of fuel, food and camo...
- bggrnchvy
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- Sep 15, 2010
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Offroad Chat / Trail Ride Reports / Carnage
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Hollister Hills Jan 2010

Following New Years Eve and the downtime the next day as a result, I loaded up and spent an evening and day following down at Hollister yet again. I met up with Jason, Matt and some Yota/Sami guys down there. Not a whole lot happened as a result of Yota carnage on the MiniCon (hub gear) and...
- bggrnchvy
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- Jan 4, 2010
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Offroad Chat / Trail Ride Reports / Carnage
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The Out of Real Estate Shock Mounts

After wiping out the rear shocks I purchased some 2.0 Fox 14" reservoir units to replace them and needed new mounts for the longer shocks. I drew up this model and had the parts cut out on the CNC plasma and I bent them in a large brake. Then, of course I welded the assemblies up...
- bggrnchvy
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- Dec 17, 2009
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Full Custom Suspension / Cages / Fab
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Time for Cage and Dragable Bed

I built my truck in college as my principle vehicle. It had to get me to school 3 hours away and back once a month or so and it also had to be my sleeping quarters during wheeling events as well as wheel at these events. As she looked prior to BlazerFest 08: I frequently look back at this...
- bggrnchvy
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- Dec 17, 2009
- Replies: 26
- Forum: Full Custom Suspension / Cages / Fab
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4 linking the Trail Rig

A couple of years back I noticed I wasn't getting the performance out of the front suspension I wanted with leaf springs. I used low spring rate, high unloaded arch Alcan leafs with an offset pin and had a front anti-wrap to keep my driveshaft intact and it flexed great. Sadly though there was a...
- bggrnchvy
- Thread
- Dec 7, 2009
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Full Custom Suspension / Cages / Fab