my 1994 silverado

[Moparmat2000]

EMB 175 seat tracks. A view from "my office" in cargo. These come undrilled. They have to be measured, fitted , clamped, and precision drilled in place using the holes in all the mounting brackets as templates along with lots of cleco pins. We also use 45° and 90° angle drills. The hole sizes are machinest #s . Example a #21 drill equates to a nominal size #5 diameter rivet shank. They come back out to deburr the holes to remove potential stress concentrations and treat the drilled holes with a corrosion preventative before these go back in for good. An awful lot of work.

 

[Moparmat2000]

All I can say to anybody reading my thread, is come down from the rustbelt to west Texas and buy a good solid rust free GMT400 to take home. The plastics and rubber parts will be shot, along with 300K to 400K on the drivetrains, but the sheetmetal and frames will be solid. Perfect rebuilder to swap you drivetrain parts, rubber and plastics into from your rusty one.

 

[93chevyluvr]

Like this rusty or worse????

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[Moparmat2000]

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That's pretty rusty. We dont have that crap down here. Come on down and get you some rust free metal.

 

[93chevyluvr]

Yes Ohio is bad for rust

 

[Moparmat2000]

Sheeeeit get a rust free cab and doors and take it home. Or buy a whole truck out of the local paper. Anything down here has got to be better rust wise than what you have up there. We dont even use torches and WD40 to take stuff apart. It just unbolts easily. The stuff down here will blow your mind. My 94 has not one spot of rust on it. Not even the battery tray or inner fenders. These pix i just went outside and took are original paint from 1994. Nothing has been cut out or patched. This it typical of almost every truck in my local boneyards. Its 101° today. Dry assed heat. People junk em because they are worn out with a quarter to a half a million miles on them. Bodies still solid. A mopar buddy of mine runs a salvage yard. He has quite a few of these. He would sell you a rust free cab and a pair of doors. Just swap your vin plate into the rust free cab.

 

[Moparmat2000]

Making him work for a change.

 

[Moparmat2000]

With the decent condition my truck is in, I probably wont be doing too much to it for now, other than needed mtx and minor improvements like improving the original lights with LED bulbs and some less jarring shocks. I have too many irons in the fire with all my other stuff, but with it sitting under the carport, it's out of the sun and direct heat that deteriorates everything.

Other than needing a fresh paint job since it needs the hood painted and hail damage fixed on the bed rail tops, and roof, and getting the A/C revamped. Other than these things, it doesnt need much. I am thinking of getting a new tonneau cover, and running some LED bed lights back there. I already have wires ran back there from a previous incandescent bed light with a built in switch i installed years ago. Long before high bright LED strip lights were a thing.

Most expensive thing will be paint. Toying with 2 different paint jobs. Since new I have wanted a cowl hood. The old plan was SS stripes on the hood in either black or a dark emerald green, and some chevelle repop cowl induction emblems on the sides of the scoops.

The newer plan was the stock green on the sides, and from the upper body line on up to be the 90s corvette light teal green, body color the exterior door handle coves and mirrors, add stainless covers to just the exterior door pulls. Im just not sure of a stripe color between the 2 colors to tie it together.

With the SS stripes I think I can keep the truck rallyes or see about getting the 1970s passenger car rallyes in a 5 on 5 pattern. I think they will go good with that. With the 2 tone, I'm thinking aluminum torque thrust wheels.

Speaking of LEDs , I am thinking of white/amber switchback LEDs for the front signals. I am keeping the stock clear lenses. Thinking those might be cool to be lit up the same color as the headlights until I put the turn signals on so it kinda looks like I have 4 headlights in there

I wish I could get rears in blue LED so it would be a modern interpretation of blue dot taillights. My old 71 C/10 I did the jeweled blue dots. Always thought those were cool.

What do y'all think?

 

[HeavyAsAChevy]

I’ve heard good things about the maverick. Its speculated that they’ll be the big project car around 2033.

 

[Moparmat2000]

I’ve heard good things about the maverick. Its speculated that they’ll be the big project car around 2033.

Probably so. Honestly if GM or Chrysler did something like this, I woulda jumped on it just as fast. It's a great idea IMHO. Mini trucks used to be all over the place. It seems everybody forgot about them. My buddy Gary has an old square body S-10 with a tuned port 350 and the newer vette rims on it. 2 tone orange and silver parting at upper body line. That's where I got the idea for my silverado from. I keep telling him to 5 speed it for more sideways fun and shenanigans. My other friend also named Gary. We call him 2G Gary, has a tuned port 350 blazer. That's the white buffalo. Its white, and we dont ever see it. Hence the white buffalo.

I have a few plans for mine to personalize it a bit. A set of rims, 2"-2" drop, cold air intake, uncork the exhaust when warranty is done. Tonneau cover, bed mat, LED bed lights, a set of weathertech drop in liners, some scotchguard, and quickie seat covers since what I do for work makes me filthy. Truck is ordered in iconic silver. Ya cant go wrong with silver. Scratches hide easily, and it never looks dirty. My 15 year old HHR still looks good in silver.

Heres pix of rims and tires I already got for it. The specs on these are for Brit spec Focus RS Mk4. The center caps are 63mm aftermarket medallions glued to aftermarket rim center caps to make the rims appear stock. 18x8 +35mm offset. Tires are 245-45R18. This puts outside tire diameter the same as stock to not throw off the speedometer. Made some .40 cal valve stem caps out of some I kept from last time I went shooting too!!

I feel that a daily driver has to be a little fun to drive. My HHR is a 5 speed. That's what made it fun. Why I feel like Ken Miles upshifting and down shifting at Le Mans in this thing I dunno, but it actually is fun to drive. I took some measurements of my HHR, and for some crazy reason I am wanting to make it into a 2 door mini pickup like a little 48 Chevy advanced design body