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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:31 pm 
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Well, I am sure that a lot of you have seen my intro thread so here is my project thread.'

The direction of this project will be mostly determined by what parts I come upon during the never ending journey. But to understand my taste and style you have to be me I guess but I will describe it as best as possible.
1.Different
2.ratrods
3.low
4.functional as a daily driver or its useless.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:58 pm 
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PORTnPOLISH wrote:
Well, I am sure that a lot of you have seen my intro thread so here is my project thread.'

The direction of this project will be mostly determined by what parts I come upon during the never ending journey. But to understand my taste and style you have to be me I guess but I will describe it as best as possible.
1.Different
2.ratrods
3.low
4.functional as a daily driver or its useless.


sounds like the formula for a good luv build 8)
just please for the luv of god DONT PAINT IT FLAT BLACK! if you want it different :lol:

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:23 pm 
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love4theluv wrote:
PORTnPOLISH wrote:
Well, I am sure that a lot of you have seen my intro thread so here is my project thread.'

The direction of this project will be mostly determined by what parts I come upon during the never ending journey. But to understand my taste and style you have to be me I guess but I will describe it as best as possible.
1.Different
2.ratrods
3.low
4.functional as a daily driver or its useless.


sounds like the formula for a good luv build 8)
just please for the luv of god DONT PAINT IT FLAT BLACK! if you want it different :lol:

Tell me about it, flat black and baby moons are way over done. I picked up 3" lowering blocks today, wanted 4 but I am going to try to pull some leaves to get 4". I also am checking out some 68 camaro bumpers and maybe some junkyard bumpers. As far as paint is concerned Im not sure yet. I like the powder blue color but I might to some sort of roll on rustoleom job and not sand it to keep it matte looking.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:51 pm 
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4" sounds like a good drop, not dragging x-member low but low enough 8)

powder blue does look pretty good on luvs :eugeek
Camaro bumpers 8O holy crap, how did i not think of something like that when my bumpers got bent up :lol:

mine is white/red right now.. wanting to go some kind of green, or maybe red.

any ideas for the engine or interior yet?

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:15 pm 
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love4theluv wrote:
4" sounds like a good drop, not dragging x-member low but low enough 8)

powder blue does look pretty good on luvs :eugeek
Camaro bumpers 8O holy crap, how did i not think of something like that when my bumpers got bent up :lol:

mine is white/red right now.. wanting to go some kind of green, or maybe red.

any ideas for the engine or interior yet?

Well Im going for the least expected engine when they open the hood, and it has to be neat and cool.......its a isuzu g180! I look at the engine and I think its a cool engine. Every one is going to expect a sbc but not me. As far as the interior go's I am not really sure but I have the back set out of my 97 eclipse that I amd going to see what happens if I cover it in a different fabric. I will sit lower to the floor in the truck. I do plan to have a long shifter and a bitchin shifter grip.I have no clue what I want to do about carpet or floors.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:14 pm 
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Slammed her today!
front- trimmed bump stops and loosened that's.
rear- 3" blocks and removed one leaf from each side.
Im not sure how low it is but all was perfect and rode great until one of my front bump stops fell off. Now it okay but it slamms hard on big bumps. I need to figure some thing out for that.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:37 am 
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Okay so updates have been no existing for a long while.....so sorry :(
I ended up breaking a u joint and the previous owned marred the hell out of the yoke so I made it a project truck and bought a DD. Only problem is that my garage heater was broken all winter so I never made it out there :(
As of now she is back up on jack stands so I can either go lower on the static drop and then body drop it or start working on bagging it. People talk about how expensive it is to bag but really it can't be bad if you built it yourself. There are kits out there with just parts that are not fabricated for like 500 bucks and I get steel at cost. Nothing a pro fabricator can't do.
Only thing stopping me is that I think static drops are so COOL!!

As of now I am thinking of mono leafing the back and adding stiffer lowering shocks to see where that gets me. I removed the bump stops last night because I realized even having my stops cut to 1" the way the bracket it made it was sucking Up 3" of suspension travel. So I have like 2" now plus the 3" should prevent the harsh bottom outs. If I go down another 2" it would.leave me with less than three including the custom bump stops I'm making....like 2.5".


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:21 am 
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Oh! And I forgot to add I am picking up some z71 rims this weekend
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:58 pm 
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Looks good. I wish I had your doors.

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