Supertruckers "Cherry"

[supertrucker1978]

I finally made some progress on my truck so I figured I'd start my own thread. I picked the truck up for 700 bucks with a bad tranny. Drove it last summer with out 2nd gear. Threw a junkyard tranny in it and started the fun stuff. '95 with a 305, 250k on the clock no smoke, no leaks. 4/5 Hotchkis springs, McGaughys spindles and shackles on 17" Budnik's Now for pics!!!

The day I brought it home.

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Dropped on stockers

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And with the wheels on

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[Devs93]

I would like to find some budnicks for mine your truck will look real badass when ya get rid of the cancer. whats ur plans for it?

 

[supertrucker1978]

Well, I want to redo the notch, box in the frame, fuel cell behind the axle, bigger sway bars, 13" disk brakes on all 4 corners. Not quite sure on what kind of engine I want to run yet. Id like to have a streetable 400 hp and a 150 shot of nitrous just incase since I have the setup collecting dust from my last project. And of course get the body straightened out.

 

[DRAGGIN95]

Nice project truck, look's great lowered!

 

[Mean Green]

Looks like a nice project! Would look awesome with a roll pan on the rear once you fix the rust on the lower box side! What part of MN you from?

 

[Southern Pride]

Yeah man looks great other than the rusty cab corner! This seems like a perfect candidate for an LS swap

 

[Fobroader]

Damn man, thats a nice truck, for $700 thats a great deal!!

 

[supertrucker1978]

I'm up in Princeton. The truck is a bit rougher than it looks in the pics. it needs a pass side door and fender and a complete boxside on the drivers side. Im just holding out until I can find some red ones because I want to wait till everything else is done before the repaint. I do have new cab corners in the garage. My last project "lemon" had almost every color body part they used on a S-10. As for the engine I've considered a 5.3 because you can get them so cheap around here and having an OBD2 for engine management would be nice.

You can see the dent in the door, and when I took the chrome off the fender the lip just crumbled in my hand

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Heres the reason for the new bedside

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And the "lemon" It was a fitting name since it was yellow and a P.O.S. when i got it.

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I know, looks nice in the pics but P.O. liked fiberglass way too much. And the paint was equipment enamel
And heres what It looked like just before I sold it.......Can you believe somone actually bought it looking like this?

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[Fobroader]

The "lemon" was cool, did that have one of those Isuzu Amigo or whatever front end on it??

 

[supertrucker1978]

It was an Hombre front clip. I would have kept it but I couldn't find the matching Hombre box. the truck was an impulse ebay buy. I never noticed that the S-10 and Hombre has different fender openings and thats something I didnt realise I'm very OCD about lol.