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...WTF do you have in that thing?

Some dude today darn near caused an accident to catch up to me and ask the popular question. LOL!

Most of the time it's pretty cool. It's just funny to see people's reaction and how excited they get. Almost like they never heard a V8 before.

I'm sure all of you V8 LUV guys get the same thing whereever you go...

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It just doesnt go with the V8 LUV people. My little 4banger got that treatment once or twice. I had one dude run across the parking lot to see my luv. I had a real big laught when he found out it was the stock 4 banger.


Does any1 else get this statement?
My borther/sister/aunt/uncle/dad and any other relative or friend had one.
It was a good little triuck it.

I'm curious if im the only one...

Cant wait till I hear that lol.Should be a riot.

yeah me too.......hahahaha.......forgot to log on.

I always get, "I had one in High School" or "We had one of those as a work truck!"

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RIP R.J.B.

I built one in 1996 when the gas prices shot up to 2 bucks a gallon.......

I decided that a 2.8 liter v-6 and 700r4 out of a 1984 s-10 would be more "sensible" than the 350 I had been wanting for so long.....

I stroked it to 3.1 liters eith a GMPP stroker kit and ported and polished the heads, cut the heads for bigger stainless valves, heavier springs, bored it .030" over, forged flat-tops, edelbrock performer 2-piece intake and performer matched cam, balanced, blueprinted, shift kitted the tranny, welded up the spider gears(makes for nifty chirps while turning....groan) and rebuilt the 2-barrel it came with on the 2-barrel top for the intake intake.....it ran mid 14's.....

I then bought the 4 barrel top for the intake, 600 cfm edelbrock performer carb and a 100 horse NOS plate system.........ran high 12's (best of 12.77)......AND STILL PULLED DOWN 22 MPG WITH THE OD 4TH GEAR AND HIGH-DOLLAR LOCK-UP CONVERTER.......

After breaking the 3rd crankshaft in the miserable b******d i sold my baby in disgust......

Hindsight is 20/20 i suppose......it cost me waaaaaaay more to build (and rebuild) the baby v-6 then if i would have soaked up the gas money of the v-8.......if only i had put a 350 in the old girl i would still be enjoying her.......

(SIGH)

I have got to get busy and build one of the 2 I now own.....I'm planning a Weiand Tunnel Rammed or 6-71 Blown 327 this time.......

Rich Jerozal

And get this c**p!!!!!!

The 19 year old kid that bought it from me took the NOS off of it for his camaro and threw an el-cheapo mexican machine shop crank kit in it and gave the truck to his daddy........

Daddy's still driving it to work to this very day.........

EVERY DAY......and has never had a single problem out of it.......

And on top of that the Dupli-Color rattle can silver to dark blue metallic flames over a medium metallic blue base coat paint job that I put on it in my dirt driveway is still on it and doesn't look any worse today than it did in 1995 when I sprayed it........

what a trip..........

man that sucks......

I've got to build another one......AND FAST TOO!!!!!!!

Rich Jerozal

yeah i always get the "we had one of these at work" and "i had one in high school, i bought it brand new and the peice of shit rusted out in 8 years" soo many people always talk about it and how the things were all over the us like they were bred like rabbits, and today only few survive...

Yep, very few of us actually took care of them. Mine was a farmers truck when I got it in 82 and I replaced everything but the frame, cab and bed which most people aren't going to do. I still remember the look on the original owners face when he seen what I did to his old truck!

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RIP R.J.B.

My first LUV was literally a "pseudo-tractor" for a farmer in east Texas farm and cattle country......it had 3 inches(no exaggeration) of red mud in the floorboard and bed of the truck.......BUT......it apparently saved the body from rusting somehow.....

I don't understand it but it did......

Rich

I believe I read in another post that you were missing a door now????

What's that about???

I can probably hook you up if you are in need......I have both kinds with vent windows and without.....

let me know something...

later

Rich Jerozal

Thanks for the offer, I am storing the truck at my dads house and he starts it once a week for me. Sometimes the truck won't start with the key but you can jump it from a wire by the battery. Well some how the shifter was knocked into reverse and it wont start with the key when it is in gear. He thought it was just the usual and jumped it with the wire and it started and took off back into the garage with the drivers door open. Needless to say the door caught on the garage and ripped it from the truck and the tailgate got dented up when it hit the back of the garage. Luckily the lower hinge broke in half which saved the cab from damage. There are pics at the bottom of my webpage. As for the door, it took me a while to find one as every truck I found seemed to be hit in the drivers door. My dad has a black 78 that was hit in the same spot. Well I found a door at a local boneyard and after getting it home, I found it had been hit and had a good amount of bondo in it. A couple a weeks ago I was looking for some parts for my S10 and the yard I go to quite a bit had 2 new Luv's. One had 2 perfect doors so I snagged both of them!! I am going to suicide them this time around so now I have an extra door to play with!! I am glad the truck was in reverse and not drive as the truck would have went about 15 feet into a cement ditch behind his house. That would have been major damage!! Thanks for trying to help me out though!!

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RIP R.J.B.

You should try telling them you have a big block in one!! Most don't believe it until they see it.I have been tring to sell mine and a bunch of people have though I was nuts and didn't really know what I had.
My truck is by no means pretty or finished but I took it to a show and had a for sale sign in it and people would walk past nice vehicles and look at mine.They would just stand there and look and look.It was really sort of funny to me.But it probbaly didn't set to well with some of the S-10 boys.

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them lol
i have never seen a true BB in a s-10 closest ive seen is one dude had a 355 and this other crazy sh*t that put a 383 stroker in one

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I have seen a couple of them and they are tight.I have not seen one with Headers both used manifolds.
There is a S-10 blazer here wth one in it,and I have seen one pickup 4 or 5 years ago in Gattlinburg.
But they are uncommon.

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yeah my truck, when we found it in a garage that my dads company bought out and was going to tear down, was sitting rather weird due to a flat STEEL BELTED RADIAL- (i had never heard those words b4) tire and was in pretty sad shape, it had a topper on it and which had a vynil boot to the cab which meant there was no backglass and the truck had been turned into a hick sport truck equipped with the cigarrette burns in the carpet and that wonderful smoke stench, the roof had been cut out and a crappy sunroof put in which had duct tape along the side to prevent it from leaking, the bed had an actual bed in it and the topper had curtains and had been lined with plywood, the kmart bucket seats had mice living in them at one time, the dash had a kmart radio in it which played casettes, underneath the dented hood was the durtiest engine ive ever seen ,which we didnt know ran beacuase we had no key, the body had been spot painted over the rust and was dinged and dented all over. it had been in california for some time because there were some airfocrce base permission stickers on the front bumper from i think 79 and 80 to some base in california. the michigan plate had a 1995 sticker on it which meant it sat there for probably 5 years. Dad towed it home one day with his company van and surprised mom with "new" truck in the garage, the story goes on and on but that hot red truck has come a long way,

Hehe, you know the one I get allot is "hey I know the guy that built that truck", I have a hard time keeping from laughing when I hear that one. What sucks is they have to go into detail about how involved they were in building it - as you might tell we have some real winners in my neck of the woods! LOL

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I put V-6 emblems from a late 70's Monza on mine(they were a gift from a fellow gearhead) So of course the first question is "Is that stock". Which really isn't too strange considering the truck looks very standard.

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9" ford rear end/short bed/blue
What do Water, Electricity and Humans have in common... They all travel the path of least resistance.

I used to have a Truckin' magazine with an S-10 with a 454 in it it was when the 454SS pickups came out he found one that had been totaled and took the engine and tranny and stuffed it in the little brother. It was a beautiful sight for me at the time I had just bought a new 92 S-10 and was looking to massage a 350 into it but got sidetracked before I did it. Well anway a BB can fit.