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Well I dropped my luv last night, here's a shot of that.

And when i got home from work today I dropped it even more. The front is lowered with the torsion bars and the rear is lowered with sand bags. lol, yeah, that's my winter traction.


undercarriage shot, dirtay

gotta watch where I drive now

stock motor with aftermarket plugs and wires

fan from a honda accord mounted against my radiator for extra cooling during the summer




I can't wait until I finally get all my body work done and it painted. Hopefully I'll get my motor swap the same weekend as paint, that way I can paint the engine bay while my motor is out. Anyways, thanks for looking...

pretty sleeeeeek!!!!!!!

got bored today and took more pics
at the scale behind my house

with 4 sand bags in the bed...





and where I tuck her in to go to sleep


edit-
a pic from work, my boss' truck makes me feel tiny

awsome man. How much sand do you have in the back of that thing. Seems like it should be a good couple hundred pounds...

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

4 sand bags, each one is somewhere between 60 and 80 lbs I think

wow, so without the sandbags youd be at like 2775lbs total. but thats with a stock motor. whats the weight difference of the g180 and a smallblock?

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"but its that gut feeling of you're drawn to what feels right for yourself and what you're passionate about..."

a g180 wieghs in at 311lbs, a small block chevy wieghs in at 575. But a 425 cad wieghs in at 500lbs

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

Hell that dam thing weigh's 10 pound's less than my 67 Nova SS. Look real good so far. Cant wait to some pic's of it done.

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"LIFE IS TO SHORT TO DRIVE ANYTHING OTHER THAN A BOWTIE" Damn right and it's fast to!!!!!!!

Seems like, when I weighed mine w/ the v8 it was in the 2000+ range

I scaled mine a loooonng time ago at 2550ish + - 60#
that was with SBC/TH350/Ford 8"

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1978 LUV Truck 2WD
450 "Small Block" Chevy
3.70 Ford 9
28x10 Goodyears

custom enclosure I built



new seats out of my 88 accord. they're a little big so I'm getting civic seats in two weeks



I also wanted to try and get the accord dash in my luv, but it's about 3" too wide

and I got all the body work done on the driver's side, roof, and tailgate. Just gotta get the hood and pass. side done then it's time for paint

I'll try and weigh a stock LUV and a V8 LUV this weekend. Gonna be working at a place with a scale fairly close to the house on Saturday.

i seem to remeber my 80 4x4 wieghing about 2700lbs. The title for my 78 2wd says its only 2400lbs

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

Hey Kicker, are the mounting plates on your seats flat? I'm trying to look for some different seats for mine as one of them is tilting and one sits a little high, and look funny.

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-Old ride-82 Luv diesel 5spd with some upgrades
-Past rides-82 Sierra, 78 Coupe De'Ville, 91 2dr Blazer, 86 RX7, 86 Porsche 944T (rear-ended and totaled)
-Curr. rides- 1970 Ford LTD 4dr, 390 4Bbl, 2nd owner! With a few Extras 00' Civic beater...

no they aren't. Two were good, I took a hammer and beat the third one so it's almost right. I have three bolts in each seat, the 4th mounting location isn't even close to what I need. When I get my civic seats in a couple weeks I'm going to cut the old brackets off and weld new ones on. What kind of seats do you have?

I got Blue 90's corrolla seats, they're in good condition but I'd like something like those 911 seats CTMandu's.

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-Old ride-82 Luv diesel 5spd with some upgrades
-Past rides-82 Sierra, 78 Coupe De'Ville, 91 2dr Blazer, 86 RX7, 86 Porsche 944T (rear-ended and totaled)
-Curr. rides- 1970 Ford LTD 4dr, 390 4Bbl, 2nd owner! With a few Extras 00' Civic beater...

It's been a while so here's an updated pic

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2002 Lexus RX300
1998 Honda Accord
1977 Chevy Crew Cab Dually
1954 Ford F100
http://www.yvtruckclub.com/forum

What do you mean by the seats are too high? I scored some 90 accord seats for $70 I just have to go get them. If there to tall I may think twice.

there's usually two problems, one is that the luv floors are flat where as accords and many other small cars do not have flat floors. So the brackets are uneven, here's a pic I drew up really quickly



Some of the brackets stick down further than others, so you have to modify the brackets.

And the second is that they do stick up higher than the stock seats. I thought it was gonna be a problem but after driving for a day or two it became normal and I don't even notice it now. For me I do have the seats all the to the back of the cab and I never slide them forward. You'll probably do the same so maybe you could take off the mounting brackets and find some way to bolt the slider on the seat down to the floor, that would drop you down a couple inches. I'll probably do that when I find the exact seats I want.

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2002 Lexus RX300
1998 Honda Accord
1977 Chevy Crew Cab Dually
1954 Ford F100
http://www.yvtruckclub.com/forum

Mine tips the scales at 2780# of which I thought was heavy....

Maybe them sandbags weigh more then ya think!

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-1981 Chevy LUV, 283SBC, T350 Trans, White In Colour, Long Box, Never Ending Project!
-2001 F-350 Superduty XLT 7.3L Diesel Auto, Ext. Cab, Long Box, White In Colour
-1998 F-150 XL 4.2L V6 5spd , Reg. Cab, Flareside SB, Red In Colour