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[mylow53]

Love the truck i would be carefull of the splash guards near the running boards and lower cab corner. mine hit my paint on the cab after going over a bump. the cab moves a lot if you using the stock mounts. yours look much closer than mine.... awsome work by the way!

[Dirty Doug]

Great looking truck! Did you cut out part of your firewall or cut out the ribs and weld all the wholes up? I hate the thought of welding all the wholes up on mine and then grinding.

[buildinga55]

I did both. Welding a lot of holes and made some patches. The previous owner had put the horizontal part of the firewall in with 1/8 steel plate. It is super flat, but hard to drill through. I like the way the firewall turned out.

[Wvgearhead]

nice truck and a great color choice. did you have somebody build a custom seat or did you use a donor seat with a custom cover?

[buildinga55]

That seat is out of about an 88 Chevy pickup. The upholstery shop made the cover and I did not like the base of the side of the seat, so he made a nice cover for it that I really like. I don't think you can see that in any of the pictures.

[Dirty Doug]

Bldg55 Your firewall looks great, it turned out well. It has me rethinking about smoothing my firewall. Did you have to narrow your seat where it meets the doors? I hear that you hve to do that with these 88-98 Chev seats. Does it feel like the seat is to big, like putting you into the steering wheel? I love the way those seats feel. I've used them in others trucks because they are so comfortable to me.

[buildinga55]

The seat fit perfect without any modification other than not putting the headrests on. The back of the seat has about an 1" or so clearance away from the cab on each side. It feels really good to sit in and centers you in front of steering wheel really nice. The base of the seat makes the height just right. I looked at a couple of other seats and considered buckets, but I am really happy with the one I picked out. Basically, all i had to do on the seat was position it where I wanted and drill 4 holes to mount it. Good luck.

[Wvgearhead]

I have a bench out of a 97 which is basically them same, the guy that covered it for you, was he local? I would like to use it, but would like to put a shifter notch in it.
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[buildinga55]

My upholstery guy is in Rolla MO. I know he can modify seats with notches and such.

[N2BOOST]

Very nice truck ya have there! I'm glad to stumble across this whereas I was going to get the vintage air setupbut like yours better.

Good job!!