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Old 11-22-2016, 01:20 PM   #1
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Re: Project Cannonball C10

Pheewww...I just finished reading this entire thread!

Im digging that you put a lot of miles on this square, race it at events and it still wins awards at the shows!
Congrats on your Build!!
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Old 12-10-2016, 10:06 PM   #2
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I just seen your truck in C-10 Builders Guide mag, congrats on the mag feature, you've got a beautiful truck for sure.
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Old 12-11-2016, 03:42 AM   #3
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What a great thread, Congrats on your award.
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Old 12-11-2016, 10:46 AM   #4
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Thanks guys! It's been super cool to see it in C10 Builder's Guide. The photos turned out even better than I expected thanks to their awesome photographer Luke.

I've got one more outing planed for next week, which is the most exciting thing we've done yet with the truck...time to really put this chassis to work. Hopefully the weather cooperates with us. Stay tuned
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Old 03-10-2017, 08:44 AM   #5
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This is an awesome build and a very similar style to one I want to build. I'll be building a step side and was thinking the orange Sport paint scheme. Thank you for sharing this build.
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Old 04-20-2017, 12:45 AM   #6
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Re: Project Cannonball C10

Thought I'd check back in here with an update. Just looking back I noticed that I never posted after we had Cannonball out at Thunderhill Raceway Park in December.

I was lucky enough to score a cheap rental day for the Thunderhill West track, so we had the whole day to ourselves with just Cannonball and my E46 M3. So normally in a track day situation you will be out on track for 20-30 mins at a time with maybe 10-12 laps at speed, then at least 1/2 hour for a cool down in between. Unfortunately this didn't occur to us and we ended up hot lapping the truck for about 75 mins before we noticed things starting to fail. We ended up completely cooking the power steering fluid to the point it exploded out the top of the plastic reservoir and covering the engine bay...also roasted the clutch fluid to the point that it wouldn't throwout anymore and we were stuck in gear. Other minor things was cracking the rear welds on both exhaust pipes, and (which we noticed way later) breaking off the internal baffling in the fuel tank. Worst though was a loose fitting underneath the differential vent which ended up blasting gear oil all over the track (and bottom of the truck). Fortunately the Thunderhill guys were really cool and they had the track cleaned up in short time.

We managed to patch things up over lunch enough to get back on track, and had an absolute blast doing lead-follow hot laps in the two cars for the rest of the afternoon.




The track is about 3 hours drive from home and 2 1/2 hours into the return trip the rear end really started whining. I had serious concerns that we toasted the gears by running it too low on fluid, but after a rear diff flush and fill everything seems good.

It was definitely an awesome day, but also revealed some more areas that need attention if we want to use it like this again.
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Old 04-20-2017, 01:36 AM   #7
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That's awesome! Love watching you make it work. Drive break fix repeat.
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Old 04-21-2017, 12:04 AM   #8
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By far one of my favorite trucks!
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Old 04-21-2017, 07:10 AM   #9
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Old 04-21-2017, 07:07 PM   #10
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Glad to see the truck again.
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Old 06-13-2018, 08:40 PM   #11
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mikentosh, I'm checkin in. Your PM box is full. I'm in town for the week and it would be great to meet up and see the truck(s) if you have time. PM me if you get this and we'll go from there. Thanks, LT7A
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Old 06-13-2018, 09:37 PM   #12
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Could try contacting him on IG at @cannonballc10

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Old 06-14-2018, 01:06 AM   #13
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Old 06-14-2018, 08:37 AM   #14
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Hey guys, it’s been a while. Nothing has really been happening with Cannonball. It’s been sitting in storage at a buddy’s house since December. He had somebody come out and work on the engine tune a couple of months ago so it now has much better idle and part throttle cruise.

I picked up a really nice ‘77 short-fleet that I’ve been spending all my free time on for the last little while. I’m definitely the type of guy that’s more into building them, so Cannonball is probably going to be changing owners very soon.
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Old 06-14-2018, 08:40 AM   #15
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Oh yeah I should add that I’ve got another Instagram account that I use for my other car and truck projects, including the new ‘77. It’s @mikeyplayswithcars
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Old 05-25-2019, 07:57 PM   #16
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Re: Project Cannonball C10

If you don't mind me asking what is the height of your frame under the cab? I trying to see if my truck will be to low.
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