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81chevyLUV
 Post subject: Just a new Guy
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:33 am 
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hello my name is Elijah and I live in Columbus, Ohio, I just thought I would drop in and say hello...

I have a 1981 Chevy Luv, well atleast the frame and drivetrain of the Luv truck that I am thinking about restoring...

I have many other projects so this one has to wait it's turn... I am thinking about turning this truck into a autocrosser/track truck...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:21 am 
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Welcome to the site any thing you need to know is here. Post a few pic's
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Always good to have someone from Ohio! Welcome to the site!
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Welcome to the site. I was out in Ohio last summer. Enjoyed it. Went to Summit Racing store while I was there. Pretty awesome!!!

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Yeah Summit is awesome, I live about 45 minutes from there
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You lucky dog. I wished I lived that close to Summit. I bet my wife is happier that we don't! A friend of mine was out that way a year ago for something. He had a day to kill so he checked out Summit. He was telling me about it. So last summer we planned our vacation to go out east and I made sure that Summit was one of the stops.

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 Post subject: Re: Just a new Guy
PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:02 am 
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81chevyLUV wrote:
hello my name is Elijah and I live in Columbus, Ohio, I just thought I would drop in and say hello...

I have a 1981 Chevy Luv, well atleast the frame and drivetrain of the Luv truck that I am thinking about restoring...

I have many other projects so this one has to wait it's turn... I am thinking about turning this truck into a autocrosser/track truck...

You have the same idea as me!

I've had a 1979 4X4 Luv for a few years, and a 408 cid SBC race motor that's been collecting dust for the last 4 years or so. Got to looking at them and a friend suggested putting them together.

My plan was to ditch the Luv's 4X4 running gear up front, making it a RWD. Find a front clip out of a sports car, suspension, brakes (everything), cut grind and weld until it looks like it fits the Luv chassis like factory. Put in a Jaguar independent rear suspension.

18" wheels and tires all around, then go hit the track.

This is definately a simplified explanation of the tremendous amount of work that will go into such a project, but I think I'm up to the challenge.
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81chevyLUV
 Post subject: Re: Just a new Guy
PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:54 am 
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Thanks for the welcome, I really appreciate it, this truck is actually my first car when I turned 16 almost 10 years ago... I need to find another cab and bed for my truck though... the rear half of the frame behind the cab area will need to be rebuilt... the 1.8L that is on the frame only have 80k original miles... I think how small and light the truck is that it should be easy to get to handle well...

I love Summit racing, I actually grew up about an hour south of Summit racing, I now live not too far from Jegs High Performance...
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 Post subject: Re: Just a new Guy
PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:47 pm 
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Where did you grow up? I'll probably know where it is!
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 Post subject: Re: Just a new Guy
PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:12 pm 
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Bagged79 wrote:
Where did you grow up? I'll probably know where it is!



I actually grew up in Mount Vernon...
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 Post subject: Re: Just a new Guy
PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:37 pm 
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I wanted to stop by Jegs too. But wasn't for sure where it was at. When I got an idea where it was at, we were already past it.I prefer Summit anyways.

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 Post subject: Re: Just a new Guy
PostPosted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:04 pm 
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Yeup I know where that is, I live about 15minutes from Youngstown
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 Post subject: Re: Just a new Guy
PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:18 pm 
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Damn you and your good performance stores!!!!!! :)


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