ICON updated a Bumpside F100

[Vic Roma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UAnYNaLeL8&feature=em-lsp

[Gary Lewis]

Wow!  Just WOW!  I love it.  

[Ray Cecil]

Beautiful truck. I have yet to see a bullnose interior that looks as good as any of the older trucks. I wish we had metal dashboards.

[Rembrant]

Very cool. It's beautiful in a money-is-no-object kind of way (obviously), but still very tastefully done keeping the overall stock vibe.

[grumpin]

Nice!

[ArdWrknTrk]

I've been seeing a lot of this truck lately.

Much like a Singer 911, it's in a class of its own

[Ray Cecil]

I love the wheels and tires. Wheels are maybe an inch or two too big for my taste, but I love the white, and the tall skinny old school look.

[Rusty_S85]

Think they would have started making reproduction dashboards for our trucks considering they are plastic and many of them are breaking up due to age.

[Ray Cecil]

Rusty_S85 wrote

Think they would have started making reproduction dashboards for our trucks considering they are plastic and many of them are breaking up due to age.

I was just out looking at the dash wondering if a steel dash could be made to replicate the factory look.

[Rusty_S85]

It could.  my '78 Mercury has metal trim pieces that was sprayed with some kind of coating to emulate vinyl pattern.  I also believe our trucks the windshield trim panel that is in the center on the inside is metal as well with the vinyl texture.

It can be done, and I am surprised no company has decided to make a replacement for these trucks.  Hopefully what is said about LMC seeing our trucks as being the next big market helps to drive home stuff like this.  Me I would personally settle for just another OE plastic dash to replace my cracked and falling apart one.

[Rusty_S85]

As far as the 5.0 Coyote goes, this is the one I built at work for a customer, '82 F150 work truck that he bought new and decided to sink $60,000 into its restomod build.



And under the hood.



It can be done on our trucks just way too big to fit without lots of modifications.  I personally would like to try and install Fords new 7.3 Godzilla motors in one of our trucks.  From what I am hearing its only a couple inches wider than a 351W small block unlike the 5.0 Coyote that is close to 11 inches wider than the 351W engine.

Just to show the size difference here is a 5.0 Coyote stuffed under the hood of a foxbody mustang.


And the 7.3 Godzilla installed in a foxbody mustang being chopped up for dragracing.

[grumpin]

C’mon man! Now I want something with Godzilla in it!  

[Rusty_S85]

If I ever did a late model transplant in my '82 flareside it would be the 7.3 Godzilla.  The 7.3 Godzilla is rated at 430HP @ 5,500 rpm and 475 ft/lbs @ 4,000 rpm compared to the 5.0 Coyote`s 395 HP @ 5,750 rpm and 400 ft/lbs @ 4,000 rpm.

So it doesn't make much more power but because its such a larger engine it is not being pushed as hard so it should last a long time.  Plus the best thing I like about it is that it is not much bigger than a 351W small block.

[Vic Roma]

That's very cool.

Did you connect the new motor to the original dash gauges?
If yes, how?
If no, what did you use instead?

[Rusty_S85]

The oil pressure sending unit on the 5.0 coyote was the screwed into the block with the same size port as the oil pressure log.  What I did was reuse the old ford pressure log and drilled a second hole into the top flat and tapped it to the correct pipe tap size to screw the 5.0 coyote pressure sending unit for the ecm.  Then retained the OE 82 f150 sender for the OE oil pressure gauge.  For the temp gauge we got a inline pipe threaded adapter that fit inline of the upper radiator hose that I ran a ground wire to the block from and treaded the OE temp sender into.

For the tach, the boss didnt buy the cluster I told him to and he bought one that didnt look that good and the tach ended up being bad so I ended up using the block off plate from the OE cluster and drilled out a hole in it through the back of the gauge cluster and installed a small autometer tach.  I'm not sure if the OE tach can be used on an aftermarket ignition system but I was willing to attempt to use it though.

If dakota digital releases the RTX retro line up clusters for the 80 to 86 trucks and Broncos I'm going to notify the customer if he wants to bring his truck in and upgrade.