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Hey fellas After some years outa the car building game have been making some progress on a new project, its not old but thought Id post it up here since have lurked for years here and seems like oldschool's one of the last well frequented NZ fabrication forums... Have always been a fan of the american muscle truck thing, even though doesnt seem to really exist here. When shopping for a sensible new family ute a few years back a saw a tidy '05 KUN Hilux that had been tastefully transplanted with a drag-spec LT1 350 chev and 4L60E auto. Not sure I have any pics from when I first bought it but did a few things including deleting the chromy bits to this spec Having built a few cars in the past and having always ending up jaded over how you seem to burn more money than you could have ever dreamed, this was the first car that I bought already modified, as figured may as well make good on someone elses financial haemorrhage. Problem with that is after owning the truck for some months I found more and more stuff where the quality of 'craftsmanship' drove me insane. Stuff like washers spacing out the custom front brakes to make them fit (R32 calipers and bigger rotors), modified crossmembers reinforced with mild steel chequer plate that look like theyd been cut by a blind person (no deburr), abortion exhaust that was unremovable without cutting etc. Also the LT1 had way too big a cam for just punting around the streets day to day so ended up deciding to reinvent the shiny lux... First came some BC coilovers up front and new wheels and rubber, but most importantly the LT1 had to go: Keeping the american muscle theme its a '08 Silverado donk, aka 4.8 LS motor. It is the smallest of the LS series engines, couldve bought something bigger but plan is to turbo it and hopefully get the best of both worlds being fuel economy underneath boost, and insane crazy power when so desired. Also bought some bits to upgrade the baby LS To be continued
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