Frankenstein Is Back To Street Legal....

[DieselEater]

I'm building a completely new PULLER for 2008....so FRANKENSTEIN #1 is back to just being a 500HP bad ass play toy...

[jamie72]

nice looking truck!!

[62 short step]

Where's the pics of the new puller?

[DieselEater]

It's still in progress...but you can see the different parts on my sig link site....

750 HP 470 cubes
1970 C20 body
1970 K2500 GMC chassis
AND LOTS OF FABRICATION!!!!!

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[Blue_71]

hey dieseleater, do you have any pics of the inside of your bed? im curious how the gas filler i got from you mounts. im trying to put an underbed aux. tank on my K20

[DieselEater]

I'll take pics of it tomorrow and post for you.....I still have the splitter valve next to the seat if you need it...

see the hole on the drivers side of the bed? On the inside of the bed was a squared enclosure around the tube. It just went straight down to the aux tank.

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[ryanroo]

NICE!!

i am about 250 miles west of you on 160. you aught to just cruise that truck over here and leave it in my driveway...

[DieselEater]

JUST TO BE CLEAR!!!!.........I'M NOT SELLING FRANKENSTEIN....

But just for ****s and giggles.....What would he be worth to you 4X4 guys????

specs:

- 69 3/4 frame
- 77" Dana 60 front....open
- 80" 14-bolt rear.....4.56 w/mini-spool
- SM 465 (1980)
- NP 205 (1980 style with flange front output shaft)
- 8 leaf stack of rear leafs with ORD 4" shackle flip kit
- 4" front leafs

Have receipts on engine totaling $4500.00
- engine cross member off 1980 truck...moves engine forward for clearance)
- HEI dist
- 16.5 X 9.75 slots
- 32 X 12 HAWGS...(half tread left)
- 72 C20 body...no AC......needs body work and paint
- 4 bolt mark IV 454 block
- TRW L2348F forged closed chamber 11:1 pistons
- Isky .510 lift cam 540 dur @ .050 Hyd
- stamped roller rockers
- 840 iron VETTE closed chamber rect. heads (sell for 1500 on e-bay all the time)
- stock length forged Dimple rods
- forged GM crank...stock stroke
- RPM air gap intake
- 800 CFM JET Q-jet carb
- CUSTOM rear bumper worth 800.00 easy!

Engine desktop dyno's right at 500 HP and 570 torque

Truck is very streetable, but likes to be above 4000 RPM up to a 6500 redline. Runs fine on 91 octane at 6000 feet elev. Wouldn't go below 91, and would be a good idea to use 100 Av gas, or booster below 5000 feet elevation.

Just a ball park number would be cool to know.....

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[jrdv]

D.eater,
I live east of Des Moines, NM. We should meet up and try out the new off-road park on Raton Pass sometime. Your truck looks great--I would like to take a look sometime.

john

[mudmizer]

Hey D.Eater, I know you have used the truck in the past for pulling and I'm wondering why your front is open. I have been playing with using mine in the local pulls around here, only 4X a year. I'v made a draw bar that connects just behind the cab on the frame and runs to the back. It is adjustable up and down from 26"s and i'v made brackets that mount the springs solid to the frame in the rear. I have front and back locked. Is that not what I need. like I said your front is open. Or did you open it up for the street. Any tips you have would be appreciated.
Thanks

[DieselEater]

jrdv....I did not know about the park!!!! Call me anytime on my cell phone at 719 859-3898.....we'll get together.

As far as the open diff.......I never got that far with this truck and pulling to go all the way. I pulled in Modified Street class since 2006. In 2008 I made the jump to Pro-Stock, and will have to compete with REAL pulling trucks. SO yes I will be locking up my front diff. Go to this site to learn all about pulling from some pro's.......I visit this site multiple times daily...

http://www.network54.com/Forum/228279/


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[jrdv]

[QUOTE=DieselEater;2528526]jrdv....I did not know about the park!!!! Call me anytime on my cell phone at 719 859-3898.....we'll get together.

I'm not sure if it is open yet. I read on another forum that the owner of Superlift Offroad Park in Arkansas bought some land on the pass and has plans to open a new park. I may call you next time I go to Trinidad. Where do you work? I ranch east of DM.

john

[DieselEater]

My wife and I own Kiddy Korner Preschool..........And I work for Sam Sisneros Operations, west of town in the gas fields.

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[mudmizer]

D. Eater, Thanks for the info.

[vtblazer]

Originally Posted by DieselEater

I'm building a completely new PULLER for 2008....so FRANKENSTEIN #1 is back to just being a 500HP bad ass play toy...

Cool!
Should make a sweet mud runner. (if you decide to set it up for that)

[special-K]

I still think headers through the hood would be cool.

[Zoomad75]

Off road park? Raton???? Do chime in when more info is available! That's 100 miles from me and 90% downhill! I'd wheel down there more if there was someplace to go!

DieselEater, you'll need to bring that 500 Hp bad boy up to Pueblo. Looks like it might be good throwing some snow in the wet mountains near Westcliffe.

[DieselEater]

My problem is fuel economy!!! I'm getting around 6 MPG WHEN I'M NOT INTO THE SECONDARIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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[88JRFAN]

Still Like The Look Of Those Rims. They Will Look Just As Good On Mine. Got To Get Some Tires Bought To Fit. Daren

[DirtyLarry]

Originally Posted by Zoomad75

Off road park? Raton???? Do chime in when more info is available! That's 100 miles from me and 90% downhill! I'd wheel down there more if there was someplace to go!

What? Off-road park? Where?....Here?.........In CO?…. WTF….are you guys turning gay or what? This is Colorado….we don’t have “Off-road parks” here. Off-road parks are for people that live in Indiana, Michigan and other terrible places. Of course, you said Raton…..Raton as in New Mexico. The Land of Entrapment….of course. Yea…I spent a night in jail in NM not that I hold a grudge or anything.

You and I pay taxes on thousands of miles of national forest roads to play on that comply with tread lightly regulations……why the heck does someone need a friggen PARK to wheel in other than to give those tourists from Texas a place to go???

Zoomad….your going alone on that trip. I am not going to some “park” 90 miles away in Raton to wheel. I dated a hot little latina chick from Raton in college…she was crazy too. This whole "park" thing was probably her idea to get back to me somehow.

[Zoomad75]

Originally Posted by DirtyLarry

What? Off-road park? Where?....Here?.........In CO?…. WTF….are you guys turning gay or what? This is Colorado….we don’t have “Off-road parks” here. Off-road parks are for people that live in Indiana, Michigan and other terrible places. Of course, you said Raton…..Raton as in New Mexico. The Land of Entrapment….of course. Yea…I spent a night in jail in NM not that I hold a grudge or anything.

You and I pay taxes on thousands of miles of national forest roads to play on that comply with tread lightly regulations……why the heck does someone need a friggen PARK to wheel in other than to give those tourists from Texas a place to go???

Zoomad….your going alone on that trip. I am not going to some “park” 90 miles away in Raton to wheel. I dated a hot little latina chick from Raton in college…she was crazy too. This whole "park" thing was probably her idea to get back to me somehow.

Testy are we? I'm not going gay, just being realistic. The way legislation is going, we might loose a lot of the forest roads to roadless wilderness. If the greenies get thier way it would be sooner than later. It might be a few years down the road, but it's the direction things are headed for. I don't like it much at all, but Off road parks might be the only way it's done by the time Robbie gets his license. Tread lightly and enjoy the trails while we still got them I guess!

[DieselEater]

This post got way off...............

SO DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT MY TRUCK IS WORTH????


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[jrdv]

Sorry, can't give you a price on your truck. BUT, I did get new tires on the unimog. I'm ready to follow you around and pull you out of the mud!! It has a ten ton pto winch on the back!!

[DirtyLarry]

Originally Posted by DieselEater

This post got way off...............

SO DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT MY TRUCK IS WORTH????


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WIW is always a tough question….. The reality is everything for sale is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. The ole supply and demand deal.

Around our parts it is a $1000 to $3000 truck and that is if you can find somebody that embraces old iron. Which is muuuuchhh less than you have in the engine, axles and labor alone. Put it on Ebay and sell it to someone in the rust belt for $4000 - $7000. Put it on the Barrett-Jackson auction block and you got yourself a $400,000 truck. You can say that Steve McQueen owned it once or something and probably make $800,000. I got a trailer and the tow truck….you pay the gas and….let’s go to Phoenix!

[JAKES 68GMC]

I'd like to have those slots...they'd look right at home on my 68.