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I would like to thank all of you for your advice in my last thread about building my truck. I've put my ear to the ground and here's what I've come up with so far.

I will be going with a 300HP Chevy 350 from this place in Phoenix
The tranny is going to be a 700R4, built to suit my needs, from Mad Dog Tranny's
I'm looking for a disc equipped S-10 rear end as I can purchase one from a junkyard and re-gear it for less than hacking into my Dana 44 although I'm still working that one over. If my buddy, that runs a machine shop up the hill, will hook me up then I'll have him set up my Dana 44...anyway. Besides, it would be kinda cool to have a "Corvette-Cloned" drivetrain...LoL!

As far as the rest of the build, I'm using the "Budget-Build" from the main page as a pretty good guideline.

I will however be replacing the wiring throughout the entire truck. I've heard that the Painless set-ups are good but quite expensive. A good friend of mine suggested the ones from Summit and another guy mentioned "EZ Wiring.com". Now I can wire with the best of them but an all in one harness sounds like it would save time and a lot of headaches. Right now I'm leaning toward the harness from Summit...anybody want to put in their two cents on this one?

I know I've put a lot in this one post and in some cases repeated parts of my last thread, for that I apologize. I'm just trying to gather the best info I can so my build goes as well as can be expected. Thanks again.

It is eaiser to think through several ideas and stand back and analyze them beforte starting your project. You have gotten good advice from the board, some of us paid the price of jumping into a idea with out looking at the long run.

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Certified pilots, looking down on people since 1903.

No freakin' doubt...

It is way better to design a dozen times and then build...than to build once and have to go back and re-do every little thing a dozen times.

Besides - making all of your screw-ups on paper is one helluva lot cheaper, easier, and it damn sure is faster.

It looks to me like you're doing the right thing by first doing your homework, then seriously getting organized and getting all of your stuff properly collected before you start to build.

If anybody around here gets upset about that...it's probably comes from jealousy, envy, or shame....so just ignore all of that BS...FFS.

So you just feel free to pick all of our brains and learn from all of our mistakes... because that's why Ben put this site together...so we can help and support each other.

Had a buddy use a painless harness and he didnt like it. He complained that he ended up cutting up most of that harness because it had alot of extra and unnessary steps. Keep in mind he is a guru. He said it would have been alot cheaper and looked better if he would have started from scratch on the harness. But the down side is the time it takes to lay out the entire harness. His really only gripe was that their the kit was designed for anybody to install (painless) and alot of the wires could have been run different and made shorter to make the install look cleaner.

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Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy horsepower...and that's kind of the same thing...

Hey Rascal looks like all the home work you have done has come to a very good plan of attack to build your LUV,the combination that you picked for your build is very good and solid it should last you a long time and be worry free for lots of good crusing. Keep up the good work and shoot us an up grade on build now and then. SeeeeYaaaaa

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1978 pro street step/side 455Buick, 4sp,4.11s, 31/18.5s