New follower from FTE

[fryntrz]

Hey guys,

I also followed the trail over from FTE.  I have a 1985 2wd F-150 that I have been doing a frame off restoration on since roughly 2009.  Schooling, moving, building a garage, life in general has delayed the rebuild but I'm looking to put some energy in to it this year.  I've found myself browsing around to gather some parts info and prepare for assembly, so I figured might as well join and focus the updates here instead of FTE since the vast amount of knowledge and effort Gary has put before me with this site - thank you!

As I pull some previous pictures from the photobucket mess that happened a while back, I will create a build thread and update there.

Gary, you could mark me as Fort McMurray, Alberta, when you get the chance.  It's been a while, but I still have some Rosewood panels to finish talking to you about if you're still in need!

Here is a quick pic of when the C6 left me stranded in Dec '08 and kick started the rebuild, to how it sits now in the new place:

[1986F150Six]

Welcome!

[Gary Lewis]

Ryan - WELCOME!  So glad you followed the trail.  

Wow, what a transformation!  That looks so good!  In fact, it may be cleaner/better than one near and dear to me.  

Do I see tubular crossmembers?  Or just hoops to catch the driveshafts?  Headers, ZF5, Edelbrock carb, and what kind of front axle is that?

As for the map, you are on it.  And, I'm quite a ways away from being ready for interior, but let's talk about the Rosewood.

Hope you can get back to the project.  I've recently done that and it sure feels good.  And, you certainly need a build thread.  But I'm working on a trick that I hope to post about in the main section in a bit, and you may want to think about using it for your thread.  (Anyone can, and you can retro-fit it into your thread, as I'm doing on mine, so there's no need to wait to start the thread.)

Welcome!!!!  

[fryntrz]

You're looking at a balanced/blueprinted 460BB to the tune of 500hp/525 ft/lbs - ish. L&L Products were used for the swap like the accessory brackets, motor mounts, and their headers.    Swapped behind it is an aftermarket Tremec TKO600 5spd, Currie 9+ nodular carrier with their axles.  Those hoops are strictly for the driveshaft.  What you see are the DJM 3" lowering i-beams, with 2" drop shackles in the rear.

As I get back in to build mode and come across those panels, I will reach out to you Gary.

[Gary Lewis]

Wow!  Stout!  That will be quite the truck.  

And I'm in no hurry, whatsoever.

[grumpin]

Welcome! Very nice!

[Rembrant]

displacement4me wrote

Gary, you could mark me as Fort McMurray, Alberta, when you get the chance.  

How's the weather out in Fort Mac? Are you from the east or are you a true Westerner? Things are starting to thaw out in the Maritimes...the snow piles are turning a dirty brown and are rotting away;).

Are you still going to mount the mid-ship fuel tank or are you running the rear tank only?

There is a truck sort of like yours for sale in BC (I think). Have you seen this one? The guy is asking almost 40 grand for it!

[fryntrz]

Rembrant wrote

How's the weather out in Fort Mac? Are you from the east or are you a true Westerner? Things are starting to thaw out in the Maritimes...the snow piles are turning a dirty brown and are rotting away;).

Are you still going to mount the mid-ship fuel tank or are you running the rear tank only?

There is a truck sort of like yours for sale in BC (I think). Have you seen this one? The guy is asking almost 40 grand for it!

Nope, originally from B.C.!  Weather is great too, the kind that makes you want to open the garage door as you tinker away.  I have not seen that truck from B.C., but I noticed as a whole, the rebuilt/restored/custom bullnose presence is starting to get better.

I deleted the mid-ship tank as I prioritized the dual exhaust with x-pipe and electric cutouts being ran symmetrically.  I opted for the larger 38 gal (I believe, it's been a while) replacement for the rear instead.

[Gary Lewis]

I have a 38 gallon rear tank for Big Blue, but plan to also run the 19 gallon mid-ship tank.  Are you going to run the Bullnose era pump?  The beauty of a single tank is life without a switching valve.

[Ferdinand]

Welcome Ryan!

Look forward to watching your progress. No matter how slow. I know the feeling 👍🏻

[Rembrant]

displacement4me wrote

I have not seen that truck from B.C., but I noticed as a whole, the rebuilt/restored/custom bullnose presence is starting to get better.

I don't know if the thing is worth $38,500 or not, but you don't often see extended cab trucks hotrodded;).

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2164025807246778/

[Ford F834]

Welcome! Glad you joined us! Wow. That is a fantastic project... I look forward to following 🙂

[ctubutis]

Bryan!!!! :)

[fryntrz]

Gary, I'm lost.   I know I had a build thread in the Projects section - there were pictures of the new shop and some other stuff that filled the gap in the years, plus I remember you asking about my fueling for the 460 swap.  Was there a purge on stagnant threads or anything?  I went through all the pages in the Projects section, plus the history of my posts to no avail.  It was a smaller thread so it wouldn't be much to restart and slowly add to though, so I won't lose sleep over it.

[Gary Lewis]

Bryan - We haven't cleaned anything out, not at all.  So it should be there.

You said you've gone through the history of your posts, but did you do that by going here?  (That takes you to Page 2 of the three pages showing your 44 posts.)

Have you done an advanced search for key words with you as the author?  I can look for you if you'd like.

[fryntrz]

I did look at my history, and an advanced search.  Even under my previous username (displacement4me) but it still populates the same posts as now.

No worries though, I'll build a new project thread when I get more progress!

[Gary Lewis]

You seem to have changed your user name and all of the old posts show the new name.  And I can't find any posts with the old name.

Is there any chance those posts were on FTE?

[fryntrz]

No it wasn’t FTE or anywhere else, I haven’t been an active poster for the last few years.
It had a picture of the construction progress of my garage which was only shared on here as this is my go-to spot truck related wandering or learnings.