Full Build: OBS Chevy Race Truck With Cantilevered Suspension

today on carcass we start a new project with some big plans in mind we strap her down to the dyno and see what this old girl has left in the tank then start tearing her apart to make room for all the upgrades we plan on which includes a major power boost [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey guys welcome to carcass well the sun is shining we are not in the shop today because we are out driving a new project vehicle and you probably can't tell from the inside but we're in a 1989 chevy c1500 pickup this is what's considered now the obs chevy from 88 to 98 and we have some big plans for this thing yeah this is uh like a regular cab short box the guys are starting to call on them rcsb's uh obviously for regular cab short box trucks so they're super popular yeah um still a throttle body truck it's got the womp in 700 r4 so it's got overdrive yeah um this must have been a little classier model i don't know who did the conversions on these but you know it's got the wood grain center console it's got the woods drain well it's plastic i guess on the dash and stuff but i don't like any of it it does it just feels cheap to me it's um you know this was a classic truck when i actually met my wife believe it or not in 1999. uh these were the hot trucks she drove a 96 extended cab short box four wheel drive z71 oh yeah killing and uh that was their cabin truck it's what they used to build the cabin or family did at least and yeah man those were the hot ticket yeah and for my generation now like these are kind of the hot rod right because they're getting more popular they're getting more expensive but they're not quite out of that range where it's untouchable i guess and uh yeah like you said you're really familiar with these when i was in high school i drove a 97 tahoe z71 full giddy up on it and yeah like there's nothing nothing to not like about this whole series of trucks i don't think well at this point you practically live in a truck like this because you have two of them now right yeah i got uh grandpa which is my 92 gmc long bed single cab and then i got uh 95 k 2500 right that'll carry me around in the winter time you know right four wheel drive yeah yeah these trucks are uh they're getting not hard to find but the prices are creeping up on them you know with popularity obviously comes some jacked up prices in the market but yeah you know you can still find them and we thought you know why not try to put one of these trucks together super common to do engine swaps everybody now makes wheels and tires that fit it they make some brake upgrades suspension stuff all sorts of suspension companies out there you can start bolting a lot of things onto these trucks and they can be a lot of fun you know to drive on the street but they can also be a ton of fun to drive them on the track yep exactly and like you saw the utility of a truck right yeah and it's still they're still usable trucks yeah so you know we've got big plans for this one we don't ever like telling you guys what the plans are right away because we want you to stick around and you know see what's going to happen uh we are going to throw this truck on the dyno and see what it's got left in it it's 350 tbi it's got 247 821 and a half miles on it as of right now and it smokes and it smokes really bad so we need to swing into the gas station we're going to fill this thing up throw some fresh gas in it and then we'll get it back to the shop and throw it on the dyno yep and the ac doesn't work so i want to get out of this damn thing anyway [Music] [Music] now before we hit the dyno we're going to fill our truck up with a little better grade fuel and we're gonna be adding some seafoam motor treatment now this stuff helps clean dirty injectors and carb jets it also helps with your intake valves and your combustion areas now you can run this stuff in your crank case or in your fuel system and for cars and trucks that are driven regularly you can put one or two cans of sea foam in every 3000 miles and don't worry if you put too much in seafoam only contains petroleum-based cleaning and lubricating ingredients and it can't harm your engine or your fuel system [Music] now we only added about half a can of seafoam and a couple gallons of fuel because we're just gonna run this thing on the dyno and then we're gonna tear it completely apart get ready to swap out the motor [Music] we head down to engine power and see what our obs chevy has left listen to this uh sweet sauna right here oh yeah i forgot how clean this truck is yeah i like it that's gonna be cool i'm not sure if it's gonna set the wheel on fire on the on the roller here yeah i've never seen a raked window have you ever seen that what well boys this ain't the first time you've seen the truck but we're back to pull some numbers now no i i really like this it's a good looking rig so yeah super straight you know throttle body 350. we've gone over this already you guys seen it and uh we're just pretty much here to see what it's gonna make for power it's got like 247 000 miles on it so well we won't expect much but yeah i think the real question is is it going to make more or less than the honda it depends on before well i hope it's more than before boost but i don't know about after boost so we'll see yeah what do you think then numbers wise um yeah like 171. okay i'm going 185 i'm going to shoot a little high optimus i love your optimism just because it has a lot of miles on it doesn't mean it's down on power wherever i but i am going to say i i think it might scratch 170. okay i'll go with you i think it's like okay go a little higher a little high and pat to your case you know that may have had work done too we don't know anything about the truck this has got some fancy work done to it just one last time we've seen it so yeah pop the hood we'll take a take a peek at it because i'll tell you just because that's a frankie i'm i'm striving to say that this isn't stock and by that air cleaner yeah well yeah the taller it is more horsepower you know yeah and if it fits loose and even better it's loose you don't want that too tight because that's uh that's a restriction and i remember your wiring oh yeah that's uh see this is an addition so the battery doesn't move around this this hot hot bungee here yeah anything to gain the you know just fractions before there's nothing leaking out of it though so that's uh that's cool yeah hey strap it down and uh we'll light it it's on the lie detector so we're gonna find out exactly what it makes yep [Music] all right we're all hooked up yeah ready to roll go ahead do it can you see us okay yeah i can see that all right straight ups five grand oh yeah because then we don't have a tack in here somewhere over here just go till it stops i just gotta find drive now that's the tough part god i think that's it that might be overdrive though take a break off here we go exciting i hope i'm in drive not overdrive we'll figure it out here shortly [Music] [Music] [Music] it made it it made it through what is it dang somebody had a good game that's not bad 172. who said 171. yeah this is you 171. 239 and a half pound feet of torque that's not too bad back that up that one's a fluke two is a real number all right we'll do one more we can make 300 or 140 right here [Music] i don't know about that but we'll see all right go again that was a good pull all right well let's try it one more time yeah a little slow breaks off i'll go to six grand this time just because why not yeah absolutely if it'll go there yeah it sounded like it was struggling [Applause] [Music] it smells though it's stinky it's a little stinky it was sitting bouncing between 25 and 33 grand 175. all right we're it's we're all in the ballpark right yeah i don't know if we're all just good guessers or we just had low expectations yeah i think we're all good guessers i mean that's about i mean that's actually not far off with these things actually made yeah yeah i mean that's it was peppy so when we drove it there it sounded fine and you guys have a motor already built for this we might have something that makes a little bit more power than this one just a scotch just a little bit yeah the uh the one we have uh tuned up for it uh it's it's it's spicy so i think it's gonna go good in this thing i think it's gonna be like a really nice driver and also a little bit racy which i think is what you guys wanted for it so yeah no we're excited we got to get this thing back down into our studio we'll start tearing this thing completely apart and then we'll have to come back down here we'll pick up the motored sitting over there because i can see it yeah that'll say whenever you guys are ready for it it's ready to go yeah and then uh you know you guys can have this one too i said don't get rid of this save this one uh we always there's nothing wrong with having one of these sitting around we actually have a few sitting around right now but you're we can always do things with them projects come through here all the time and basically just plain fun and relatively cheap fun to do some stuff and put on our dyno so yeah yeah so i think we're good get it unstrapped and get her back down to the shop yep that was the most uneventful chassis hey we just needed yeah like a basically nothing was spitting out wasn't smoking yeah yeah that's good hey now you know where to start that's right we'll get her unstrapped and we'll get out of here coming up we start tearing into the skeleton of our chevy to get to the belly of the beast [Music] well jimmy we got this thing back out into the shop it made a whopping 173 horsepower which is nothing really to write home about but i think we just kind of dive into this truck and get started yep and with this truck we're going to be going for a pro touring style build and with the pro touring movement going on the last few years basically that means high performance but also comfortable something you can go out and drive and so with this truck in particular we're going to be taking out the stock powertrain putting in the ls that engine power built for us mashed with a six-speed manual transmission and up front we're gonna be doing a full front suspension kit and in the rear we're actually gonna be doing a custom three link setup with some pretty trick stuff on it that you guys will see later and at the end of this we're gonna do a little bit of paint work on the side of the truck here to give it a little classier look and then we're going to dive to the interior and kind of upgrade the seats so it's a little more comfortable for jimmy and i to drive but you know i think it's going to be a whole lot easier if we just kind of ditch the whole front clip so let's just get rid of the core support and fenders in the hood and we'll get down to that drivetrain easier that way and in the back we'll just get rid of the whole box and we'll just kind of get rolling here all right let me get some [Music] tools right that should be good ready yep [Music] that's gonna make a mess i can't believe that's coolant oh that's yucky it's brown black just terrible probably just cut the cooler lines right we don't need those anymore [Music] parts and pieces now how long is a belt got the extension perfect [Music] [Music] there all right i think it's about ready to come out i just got to finish the ac stuff here so okay everything's loose we just got to get it through the core support 13. yeah nice [Music] we got it [Music] all right i should be loose once i get screwed completely out of there pull the fenders back here's the back already right yeah oh yep okay go behind there you go good oh we got one more thing line that's just kind of stuck in here there you go [Music] i got mine you keep working on yours there we go who needs inner fenders anyways [Music] [Applause] at least it goes high enough [Music] [Applause] all right so the last thing we're going to do before the box off let's get rid of the electrical we're going to undo this ground strap and then we'll just unplug this connector up here all right we'll get this thing down and we'll get the bed off all right i'll go get the bed lift and the cherry picker [Music] i'll maneuver that in there [Music] all right take it on take it on up you're out of here [Music] there now i should be able to roll the truck right out from underneath it all right that is simple [Music] cool jinx you owe me a coke the heart of our chevy is still pumping but it has to go to make some room for our transplant [Music] well jimmy's got the drive shaft out we got a couple more bolts to get this engine out of here and we're gonna have to come back in cut the exhaust and we'll hook up the cherry picker pick this thing out of here [Music] [Music] right on time keep coming there you go all right let me get out of here [Music] we've got one bolt on that side is still in yet i mean not all right let's go [Music] all right go ahead hang on ac there we go you know what jimmy this isn't even a 350. no nope says it right on the back here three no 5.0 liters geez 405. i mean 170 horsepower for a 305 that's actually not too too terrible but it's going to be getting the big upgrades yeah that ls that's going in here is going to be a giant upgrade yeah the engine builds started with an iron block six liter ls it has a four inch bore with four bolt main caps that are also cross bolted for the internals the engine power guys use summit racing's pro ls series parts including a 4340 forged crankshaft with a four inch stroke a hydraulic roller cam shaft and a double roller timing set for pistons they used a 4032 forged style with coated skirts to cover the pistons they went with a set of trick flow gen x 255 heads also from summit racing and before they ran this thing on the dyno they topped it off with a phytec ultimate ls efi system on the dyno the ls made 585 horse and just over 500 pound-feet of torque you know jimmy that ls is going to be a giant advantage over this tired old well it's a 305 i guess now that we know that yep and it's going to take a little bit of work to get this thing in the truck but all the swap parts are out there so for us it's just going to take a little bit of time yeah i think before we set that in between the frame rails here we should take this outside pressure wash underneath the hood here a little bit so if you guys like anything you've seen in today's show go to powernationtv.com and be sure to check out our build pages where you can see more of our pro touring obs chevy project junk mail and the honda rally car all right let's get these out of the way and push the truck outside today on carcass we start rebuilding our obs chevy into a pro touring powerhouse we'll drop in a 500 plus horsepower engine that we got from engine power and slap on a performance six-speed to get it around the track plus we'll add a custom exhaust and a fuel system then fire up rls [Applause] [Applause] hey guys welcome to carcass jeremy and i have made a lot of headway on our obs chevy taking off the entire front clip removing the bed and removing the stock powertrain so now all the fun work can begin and that begins right here with this 406 cubic inch stroked ls that was built by our sister show down in engine power now this thing laid down almost 600 horsepower and made an impressive 511 pound feet of torque but this isn't the only upgrade we're doing to the obs we got to add something to the back of this to get all that power down to the ground and to do that we're going with this tremec t-56 magnum 6-speed transmission that was provided for us by american powertrain along with this kit that they put together specifically for our truck and obviously that includes the transmission itself bell housing pressure plate clutch reverse light harness the throw out bearing and all the hardware needed to do this job right and the beauty of this kit is that we don't have to cut the floor to put this thing in we can reuse the stock crossmember and this transmission can handle 700 pound-feet of torque which is beyond what our engine makes so this is really the best option that we have and we're going to have so much fun putting this thing in and absolutely roasting the tires off the truck but before we put this thing in we got to set the clutch on the engine so that's where we're going to start oh hey good timing man get this flywheel on here yep then we'll set the clutch up yeah let me get some degreaser and we'll wipe these things down sounds good with the flywheel bolted on with the supplied hardware we'll torque it down to spec then we'll clean the pressure plate and the flywheel to get rid of any oils from the manufacturing process [Music] when we're done with that we'll torque down the pressure plate and install the bell housing [Music] to put our engine in between the frame rails of our truck we went to summit racing and picked up these ict ls swap mounts specifically to put an ls in an obs chevy truck they also came with new clam shell mounts now these just replaced the stock ones on the frame rails right now so that's where we're gonna start [Music] it's a good idea when doing any engine swap to replace the engine and the transmission mounts [Music] we're all set up let's get this thing in there yeah let's see it [Music] close-up centered yeah it looks pretty centered to me just start dropping it down what's up holy cheese area well yeah you almost dropped on the oil filter yeah make sure you're still on your toes no you just got to open the freaking valve slower no it's it's stop doing that no it's really really touchy watch that uh coil pack on that side stop now we gotta just kind of weasel i think we could almost came this way just a little more but we'll be okay if you drop it down i'll try to get the belt i'll try to tilt it so the bell housing clears okay let's go down a little more okay oh no maybe not here i'll go down you may have to tilt back just a little bit to line it up [Music] all right let's get this thing out of here and then we'll get the transmission in it yeah that sounds good to me [Music] well now that we have the ls installed in between the frame rails of the obs it's time to install the transmission but not before we set up the throw out bearing what we need to do is take a specific measurement to figure out how many shims we need to add to get the right air gap so i got to take a measurement here on the transmission and i'll also take a measurement up underneath the truck [Music] that's about 1.90 and up under the truck here we'll measure from the bell housing face to one of the ears of the clutch and we get about 2.44 so if we take our two measurements first one being 2.44 we subtract our first measurement of 1.90 that gives us 540 thousands now we also need to subtract 150 thousandths for an air gap and that gives us 390 thousands so knowing that we can take our shims which are each 90 thousandths a piece and we'll stack four of them up that gives us 360 thousands and that's right in the ballpark of where we need to be [Music] as i said before we don't have to massage the trans channel to get this thing to fit but we do have to drill a hole in the tunnel to get the shifter up through there and this truck was originally a manual but the hole in it is way too far forward so i'm just gonna drill this new one and that'll be it all right jimmy you ready for this thing yeah let's try her out you can cover on the lap and get her in position and i'll help yeah okay [Music] all right ready yep one two three [Music] [Music] all right how's that i mean we've got only not even an eighth of an inch so i think we can put some bolts in it okay i'm sure the pilot bearings engage so we're not really pulling this together with these bolts we're just you know using them to snug this down yeah and we've done enough of these that you know the dowels fit pretty tight so right you can't it's hard to get it all the way in without just by pushing yeah okay here's the stand and help you a little bit oh man you don't even need me you got this like you don't even need the stand i'm going to get me a glass of milk and some cookies all right perfect let me get the cross member all right all right let's get this trans mountain on first we should be able to use the stock cross member too that should all just work together perfect okay so now we can put the trans crossmember in it and the nice thing is is that on these chassis there's another series of holes just a little farther back that the crossmember will bolt into so we don't have to do any drilling and this transmission will be mounted [Music] it started life as a manual so we're going to return our chevy back to its roots now that we have the transmission installed in the truck we got to find a way to control the clutch now when this truck originally rolled into the studio here it had an automatic transmission in it but after doing a little bit of research we found out this truck came stock with a five speed we know that because there's a giant hole in the trans tunnel here and there's a little bit of a clutch bracket left underneath the dash here so we went out and shoved it out on the internet looking for a clutch pedal set up and we actually had a viewer send us one that fits this truck perfectly this will be super simple to install it's just one bolt and then once we get it up underneath here we'll also replace the clutch master cylinder this is all loose underneath here yet which is kind of helpful the bracket's not tight at least i'll be able to get this long bolt out of here what did people do before ratcheting wrenches [Music] these things are just awesome [Music] wheeze spacer thingy in it this should slide in here perfect now the tough part weasel this in here and get a bolt in it gotta hold you [Music] oh look at that perfect i think [Music] now that's almost tight i gotta find some bolts bolt this bracket back up to the underside of the dash here even swings like that some stuff here just gonna find some bolts quick we've got a clutch pedal it's simple [Music] [Music] the the trigger sitting on part of the wiring harness there we go installed now outside the truck we're going to be replacing the clutch master cylinder with a stock replacement piece we picked this one up from summit racing [Music] all right so the last thing we'll do on the clutch side of things is connect this hard line which will go down to the stainless steel line that goes to our hydraulic throttle bearing and we are one step closer to firing this thing up this should work coming up we tackle the exhaust system adding some trick components for race day all right so we have the engine and the trans sitting up in the obs truck and now it's time to start moving towards the back so we're going to work on some exhaust we went to summit racing and picked up these headers now these are specific to do an ls swap in an obs truck they'll fit right in there so what we have to do grab some gaskets get our headers in [Music] weasel these up there and then we'll let them rest here and we'll go up top put the gasket in and tighten them down with some bolts feed this in here once [Music] your bolts started too super simple to do this when you don't have fenders or inner fenders in your way [Music] to go along with our headers we got this exhaust builder kit from summit racing this is the three inch stainless and polished version and what you see here is actually only about half of what they include and on our truck we're only going to be able to build out about 75 of the exhaust right now because with the custom rear suspension we're putting under it we're not sure where the axle and the other control arms and everything are going to land so let's try to figure out how we can get over the transmission crossmember the first piece i have here is just a 45 degree bend i will end up cutting the header itself just to shorten it a little bit and then on this bend i'm just going to cut it here i'll get another 45 flip it over so we can just go over the cross member [Music] [Music] we're using v-bands for the exhaust because they're so easy to use and we'll just tack them in place [Music] [Music] the next piece of our exhaust is this catalytic converter that we got flowmaster this is going to make sure our truck is legal and we can drive it up to the track this is a slip fit but we will just tack it on and then keep moving back [Music] something really neat that we're going to be adding into our exhaust system is a pair of exhaust cutouts that we got from patriot exhaust what these are going to do for us is when we get to the track or the autocross course we can open up the cutouts and dump the exhaust in front of the muffler so we can really hear how our engine sinks and this comes in a complete kit it comes with clamps gaskets a little tailpipe for each one and all the hardware and wiring that you need to make this a very simple installation and in our case it's already a custom exhaust setup so we're going to go ahead and weld it on and also because we have a cat we want to make sure that the motor of the cutout is at least 12 inches away from the cat so it's not too bothered by the heat just like that [Music] all right the last piece of our exhaust for the time being is gonna be this flowmaster muffler as i said before we can't get too far ahead of ourselves because we're not sure where the rear suspension and everything is gonna land so for right now i'm just gonna get this thing tacked in [Music] all right muffler's tacked in and everything looks really good i'm going to keep working on the driver's side try to get it to come over across the chassis laying next to the passenger side exhaust the next thing jeremy's going to be doing is working on the wiring so he can get it fired up it's time to light the fires but first we have to add the fuel [Music] with jimmy working on the exhaust and pretty much buttoning that up we get to start the daunting task of getting our engine running inside of our truck now when engine power dropped off the engine it was a running engine because they ran it on the dyno and the way that they controlled the fuel injection was with a fitec ultimate ls ecu and wiring harness this is extremely simple to set up all you got to do is plug in a couple of wires and then supply power to the ecu but there's many other pieces that we need to hang on top of our ls just to get it running so we went to rockauto.com and picked up some of the essentials we've got stuff like the battery got an alternator starter we've got the ac compressor and the power steering pump now when it came time to pick out the battery all we did was plug in the year make and model of our obs and that's how we found this out but for you guys that are working on project vehicles you may not have the original powertrain sitting in between your frame rails and for us the ls did not come in the obs at all but we did know the parts and pieces that we needed came from a mid 2000s chevy silverado so we just went onto their website plug that in and we came up with some of the essentials now what i have to do is get the battery installed so we're going to grab this we'll head over to the truck so over at the truck we're actually just going to put the battery here for right now because we're not going to put the front clip on this thing we have entirely too much work to do and we're going to be working on quite a bit of suspension so from here we'll put the starter in it we'll hook up a couple cables and then we'll start making some connections all right and up next we'll toss in the starter [Music] all right so i got the starter installed and i even hooked up the positive and the negative battery cable and i ran power up here to the bus bar so now we're going to move on to the standalone ecu and the wiring for the fuel injection [Music] that pretty much wraps up the wiring on the efi side of things now what i have to do is jump into the stock harness because we're going to need things like the crank signal i got to come up with kion hot to run the ecu and i'm going to be looking for the oil pressure wires and for the coolant temp wires but i'm going to dive into that but coming up next we're going to work on the fuel system to go along with our phytec fuel injection system we need a way to get that fuel to the injection system itself so what i have with me is phytex retrofit fuel pump kit and what this does is it takes your carbureted fuel tank and converts it to something you can use with efi so take this bronco for example we have this pickup here that all we need to do is drill a hole drop it in have a way to seal it to the tank a fuel sock and a pump and you can bring your old car into the modern age luckily for us our truck was already equipped with fuel injection so we only need the pump and what i have here is a brand new fuel sending unit that we got from our local parts store and i just threw on the 340 liter power pump that we got from phi tech so all i have to do is take the old fuel sending unit out put this one in and then we're onto the fuel lines [Music] all right take this hose off real quick and we'll get the new new sending unit in [Music] all right so we've got the sending unit installed and the last thing to do to it here is we're going to use these two adapters that we got from holley and these will adapt to the lines coming off the sending unit and allow us to run an lines all the way to the front [Music] all right that wraps it up on the tank side jeremy how you doing up here well this is the last connection for the plumbing and all the wiring's in it so uh let's see if this thing fires up all right let's try it fuel pump on yeah hear that there you go yeah and that's pretty easy yeah well the guys at engine power they kind of did the hard work and our job was easy right and it just kind of slid right in here so i think that pretty much takes care of it for now though if you guys like anything you've seen on the show today why don't you go to powernationtv.com and be sure to check out our project pages where you can see the honda rally car the junk mail jeep and more of this obs chevy and keep buttoning up a couple things yeah move on to suspension [Music] today on carcass our obs chevy makes the transformation from a daily driver to a track competitor we beef up the suspension with a high performance front end with coil-over shocks plus we show you how to build a custom suspension setup that pays homage to oval track racing [Applause] [Applause] hey guys welcome to carcass well our 1989 chevy pro touring truck is really coming along nicely we've managed to remove the entire front clip and the box out back and we pulled out the entire drivetrain and then we dropped in this 406 inch stroked ls that we got from the guys at engine power and backed it up with a t56 magnum six-speed manual transmission and now we're at the point where we're really getting into the parts that will make this truck a pro touring vehicle so today we're going to be working on suspension up front we're going to be bolting on some pretty trick parts but out back is going to be something of our own creation and then at the end we're going to bolt on a big set of brakes all right well let's go up with this thing and we'll get it torn apart sounds good [Music] now we've had these caps off before because we torqued the wheels down before we hit the dyno somebody's put the wrong lug nuts on these wheels you can't get to them with an impact socket so that's why we're using a chrome socket on the 3 8 impact i know you're not supposed to be doing that but that's the only way we can get the lug nuts off right now [Music] that's heavy [Music] now before we tear our suspension down we're going to make our lives a whole lot easier and spray down all of our nuts and bolts with berryman products easy does it professional lubricant now this is a powerful penetrating oil that instantly goes to work to free up loose and corroded nuts and bolts it's got three different ways to spray using the supplied straw you can use the drip function or you could use the stream or if you take the straw out you can use the spray now you guys can use this basically anywhere from automotive use you can use it around the farm personal watercrafts you can use it on bicycles you can even use it on firearms or pretty much anywhere rust and corrosion has bonded two metal parts together [Music] the suspension comes apart pretty easy i'll start with the tie rod end loosen up the sway bar [Music] now let's get this brake caliper [Music] we'll take the caliper out of the way [Music] get rid of the old worn out shocks [Applause] release the lower ball joint let's do it and pull the spindles out of the way [Music] now we can pull out the coil spring [Music] remove the upper control arm followed by the lower control arm [Music] and the last thing we'll get rid of the sway bar with the front suspension out from underneath our truck it's time to start installing some really good parts that we got from ridetech now you guys can buy all of these as just individual pieces or you can buy them as a kit and what we got were their two inch drop spindles we have their big inch and a half sway bar and we have their strong arm upper and lower control arms now these have a relocated lower ball joint and upper ball joint socket to prevent some binding but really the heart of this whole system is right here in their hq series shocks now these are really going to allow us to adjust and dial in our truck when we're out on the track they're 24 way adjustable they have an inch and 7 8 piston and they have a 5 8 inch shaft now before we get all of this installed we have to do a couple mods to the chassis and that involves a little bit of cutting [Music] up inside the frame we have to trim up a couple ears with a cut-off wheel so we can get our new strut assembly installed all right let's do a test fit here make sure these holes lined up yeah that'll work so the next step here is i have to drill the shock hole out to about three quarters of an inch [Music] all right now we can install the entire coil over assembly [Music] after our coil-over assembly is installed we'll install all of our new suspension parts [Music] all of the ridetech suspension utilizes the factory mounting points besides for the little bit of trimming we had to do inside the chassis to mount the coilovers everything else just bolts right in [Music] all right well that wraps up the front from here jimmy and i are going to tackle the brakes then we're headed on to the back [Applause] front's done now we have to make room in the rear for our custom suspension setup hey guys welcome back well we've got the complete front suspension underneath our obs and jimmy and i even tackled the brakes we got this set up from little shop manufacturing and it came with machine hubs and brake rotor hats to fit our ridetech spindles we've even got massive 14-inch rotors and six piston calipers and now it's time to move on to the back where jeremy and i have a few tricks up our sleeves doing stuff that we've never seen done to a truck like this and that all starts with getting all the old stuff out so let's get the axle out of it sounds good [Music] first thing we'll do is remove the rear bumper [Music] and get rid of the spare tire [Music] after lowering the truck down we'll get rid of the shocks [Music] and remove the leaf spring hangers unbolt the shackles and the rear end can come right out [Music] [Applause] with the rear end out of the way we'll cut a few rivets and remove the shackle mounts [Music] all right now that jimmy has the rear of our obs stripped down to just two frame rails it's time to start designing our rear suspension but we're not going to be using the stock 10 bolt we're actually going to be using a ford nine inch housing because it's quite a bit stronger and for the suspension side of things we could go back to a leaf spring setup we could do a four link setup but we're actually going to be using a three link setup with a panhard bar and it's going to be a little bit modified from what you normally see and it's something you'd be more likely to find on an asphalt oval track car a three-link is relatively simple there are two lower links and one top link to control the four-and-a-half location and the rotation of the rear axle and a panhard bar locates it side to side in most cases for street driven vehicles the top link is solid this is fine for overall performance and actual control but here's where hours will differ taking a page out of the circle track world our top link will be a torque link when power is applied through the drivetrain torque will be absorbed through bushings or springs to help soften the power applied to the ground providing more forward bite and before we actually put the suspension under this truck i have to go design it in our cad program to make sure the geometry and everything is going to work out and in the meantime jeremy's going to take care of one more thing that we need to do to take care of the back half of this truck and that's going to be adding a c-notch to the chassis now ridetech does make all the brackets to do this but with this being a one-off custom setup that jimmy and i are gonna do we were unsure as if we really did have to see notch but now that we see how close the axle is to the frame we definitely know that's gonna have to happen so jimmy already went ahead whipped out some brackets on our cnc plasma so now all i have to do is get to work and start cutting i'll trace our line out on the chassis and then just cut the lower section off the frame all right get this axle housing out of the way and we'll start cutting [Music] [Music] all right so now we'll fit the c notch plate on the outside here and then we're just going to tack it in for now and we'll keep building this thing out okay so now that i have all of our c notch brackets on the chassis i'm going to knock the tabs off and take this assembly over to the bench and weld it up completely then we'll come back put it back on the chassis and we'll finish it off with the top piece all right so i'm going to share with you guys a little tech tip as we start welding this the heat is going to drive these two pieces of the plates together it's going to compress it so if we just use two sockets that are just the right size they kind of match the chassis with as we weld that's going to keep it apart and make it so we can slide it right back on the chassis [Music] all right let's get this in here and throw in a couple tacks add the top plate here tack this on and we'll weld the whole thing up [Music] all right with this side buttoned up we'll move on to the driver's side and then we can move on to suspension coming up we start fabricating our custom rear suspension with a racing theme in mind [Music] now that jeremy's got the notch all finished up i've been designing some of the suspension components and now we just have to cut them out and weld them up we're using our premier plasma 4x4 table to make a crossmember chassis brackets and some axle brackets [Music] that's just nice [Music] [Applause] [Music] when welding parts that have outside corner joints it's helpful to tack them together flat on the table and then bend them to the desired angle my [Music] we've got some of our suspension brackets cut out and welded now so at this point we got to get everything tacked in and mocked up to make sure the suspension is going to work like it's supposed to and that all starts with cutting up this crossmember here to make room for some third link brackets [Music] [Music] once we get that tacked in place we'll move on to the cross member and the link brackets [Music] all right we've got all the brackets that we need on the chassis now i just need to weld the axle brackets [Music] just line that guy up and tack it in [Music] i've got some of the brackets tacked on the axle so we can keep moving forward i also took care of these lower links they're all mocked up so we can put these in as well oh sweet you want to help me get this thing up here yeah get your side up there there we go cool [Music] so [Music] all right you want to level that out yeah tell me when [Music] when [Music] all right jimmy here's the panhard all right [Music] with everything mocked up we can tack in the rocker arm brackets [Music] throw in the coilovers and install the push rods oh yeah we got you dude this thing looks so amazing and i can't wait to take it out for a rip yeah me too and i try to design everything with adjustability in mind so we can kind of change everything and get it to handle the best that it can and even like these rocker arms we can make new ones with different ratios to adjust wheel travel or shock travel stuff like that and i know that there's one thing that you did want to take care of and that's a sway bar but you have measurements for that yep all taken care of cool well we're going to get closer and closer to getting this thing on the road there is one thing i have to do now and that's build out the whole rear axle so you want to help me get this out of here and then you can just weld everything up yeah sounds good perfect don't go away we set up our rear axle to get it ready for the track all right guys well we're getting super close to wrapping up our pro touring truck but while jimmy's been building the entire rear suspension he's been basing it off of this ford nine inch axle housing now we got this one from speedway motors and we ordered it to a very specific width because we want to run a wider set of wheels and tires now to go along with our axle we also picked up this third member from speedway and it came complete with 411 gears and a clutch style locker and we ordered it for 31 spline axle shafts now these are cut to length axle shafts so what i have to do is set the third member in the housing we'll take a measurement cut these things to length and then we'll finish it off with a big set of breaks [Music] [Music] okay so now that we have the third member installed we'll go ahead and slide in an axle shaft here and take a measurement and that way i know how much we've got to cut off take a measurement here from the face over to where the seal sits that's about two inches we'll take two and an eighth to give us a little bit of wiggle room then we'll mark the splined end of the shaft here two and an eighth and let's go grab the cutoff tool all right now we'll slide this side in make sure it engages right and then we'll move on to the other side it'll work [Music] all right this side fits perfectly as well but i do have to pull them back out because we're going to move on to the brakes and i got to put the backing plate on here first [Music] go ahead and throw our spacers on for the caliper slide our caliper in here tighten it down [Music] put the pads in [Music] all right jimmy while the complete suspension is in it and i built out the whole rear axle but we get the big daunting task now of taking it completely apart because we got to paint the whole yeah that's going to look good though it should well if you guys like anything you've seen on today's show go to powernationtv.com and don't forget to check out our project pages where you can see our completed builds like project junk mail and our little honda civic rally car all right let's do it again take it apart [Music] today on carcass we make some serious modifications to our chevy's truck bed making room for the fabricated three-link suspension then it's time to give it a color change with an oe style paint scheme [Applause] [Applause] hey guys welcome to carcass our 1989 chevy pro touring truck has really made a giant transformation from the day that it originally rolled into the shop we got rid of the entire drivetrain and swapped it out with a six liter and a six-speed we bolted on some really trick suspension in the front and jimmy even designed his own custom rear suspension to give it a little bit of a different look and to make this thing really handle when it's on the course and now we're at the point where we're gonna paint the truck and this thing was painted at one point in its lifetime but it doesn't look so great anymore so we are going to do a color change and lay out some lines for a nice two-tone but to do that we have to hang everything back on the truck including the bed and you might be wondering how are we going to clear the rear suspension well we're just going to take some measurements lay out some lines and cut a hole [Music] all right 33 should do it 33 33 okay so that's where we'll cut we'll cut and clean across here we'll cut clean across the bottom down here and we'll come up cut the inner tubs out of it on both sides and then we'll just take the whole center section right out of the bed yeah let's get some tools we'll start cutting along the pinch weld in the center of the wheel tub [Music] then we'll work our way across the top and the bottom and get everything free [Music] [Music] there you go cool we'll clean up the edges with a flat disc and contour the corners [Music] you're steering the box yeah i'm steering the lift are we high enough should we yes this is not easy to do let's see how straight i am or off crooked i am here stop right there stop-ish yeah i think we're off to the passenger side a little try to go slow won't scare you this time [Music] touchdown oh yeah what do you think of that it's a nice piece is what it is look at that you can see everything that's cool yeah that looks really cool gonna get bolted down now i'm gonna do a little shimmy shake in here yeah i'm coming my way a little bit all right that wraps up the back of the bed now we'll go hang the front of the truck together [Music] up front we'll start with the core support and then we'll hang our fenders [Music] all right that takes care of the fenders now we'll just slap the hood on it [Music] [Music] we got the front clip hung on our truck and we got the bed on it and now's the time to prep for paint and one thing we got to do is take these tail lights out and as you can see these are all really faded and we could try to polish these up but instead we went to rockauto.com and picked up some new tail lights along with some marker lamps and some turn signal lenses and these are all really easy to find because once you go to rock auto's website you just search by year make and model and even trim level of your vehicle and you can find any part that you need and obviously we're not going to put these on before we paint it but once we prep and paint we'll put all these new parts back on it so now we just got to get this to the prep booth and get started coming up before we can paint we need to prep it first we got the truck in the prep booth and it's now time to start sanding on this thing we want it to look really good so it's going to be a time consuming and tedious process but as the painter would say it is 90 prep yeah so let's do it all right so before we got this thing down here we took care of a couple things like we've got this big cut out in the fender now but don't worry we had to do that for tire clearance and we're going to cover that up a little bit later but to get started right now we're going to get down here and take off this rocker panel cover and this trim so let's get started [Music] use a heat gun to heat up the molding and the rocker covers the heat releases the glue that hold these on the truck and then with a little help from a vise grip so we don't burn our hands we'll grab the corner and just start tugging [Music] from there we'll start working our way down the truck [Music] all right so now that we have the chrome trim off and this molding off it leaves behind this like sticky tape on both sides so we have an eraser wheel this is just hooked to a drill we'll just spin this up and it pretty much melts the stuff off and takes care of all the residue too [Music] you can pick up these eraser wheels at any local parts store and they make quick work of a tough job [Music] all right well we got all the moldings off and we even took the vent shades off and now we're gonna start prepping this thing we're not gonna get too carried away we're just gonna hit it with 320 grit on a d8 [Music] [Music] we're using 320 grit to start eventually we'll work our way up to 400 and finish sanding the truck with 600. [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so as we're sanding we actually noticed something our sandpaper is turning black obviously that's the color of the truck that means we're working with a single stage paint now if this was a base clear this would be like a white chalky film but it's actually working in our favor because right now the single stage is actually working as a little bit of a filler that's allowing us to make the truck just a little straighter [Music] to get in the nooks and crannies we'll put down the d.a pick up a piece of sandpaper and use good old-fashioned muscle [Music] so [Music] now when we're sanding on the truck what we're actually doing is putting small sand scratches into the body panels and that's going to allow our new paint to adhere to the truck now what we don't want to do is put deep gouges into the panels like if we're leaning over the side if we're working on the hood that can happen if you're wearing a regular belt or a big belt buckle well jimmy and i actually wear a pretty unique belt to prevent that from happening and grip 6 has a solution the belts themselves are made of a rigid high tensile strength nylon weave and the sleek design of the buckles sit flat and tight against your body so they don't protrude out or dig into your skin and because there's no moving parts there's nothing to wear out and the best part they're 100 made in america and they've got a bunch of different designs of belts and buckles that you guys can choose from and like jimmy and i we've got some special belts that say carcass on them so if you want a belt that will last a lifetime be sure to check out grip six we've got a bunch of stuff that we still got to do to the truck but the next time you guys see this thing it's gonna be in the booth getting ready for some color [Music] with all the prep work done now it's time to lay down some color all right well our truck is all prepped and masked off we're in our mobile environmental solutions portable spray booth and we're ready to lay down some color but before we do that we have to lay down some primer sealer and even before that we have to wipe down the whole truck with wax and grease remover and then we'll be ready to go [Music] wax and grease remover does exactly what the name implies it gives us a clean surface so we can lay down our sealer [Music] once we have the truck wiped down i'll lay down a couple coats of primer sealer that we got from summit [Music] so now that jimmy has two coats of our primer sealer down we're going to lay down some colors now all the stuff we're using came from summit racing and we're going to paint this truck in a two-tone paint style now the first color we're laying down is a cappuccino and we just mix this to the ratios that they call for we'll throw it in the gun and then we'll head back into the booth there look at that color [Music] for our first coat of color we're not trying to change the color all we're doing is stacking up our paint and after a couple coats it'll end up looking great we'll be spraying this using a fifty percent overlap making sure we get the metallics in the color to lay down correctly [Music] we chose this color because we thought it would really complement the second color of our two-tone all right so we have the first color laid down and now it's time to tape off for our two-tone color we're going to be using some eighth inch fine line tape then we'll mask this thing off spray the second color then we'll move on to clear [Music] [Music] after our fine line is laid down we'll finish off with some paper [Music] for our two-tone color we're going with summit's gold rush metallic and then we're actually going to add some of this mocha in it to make it a little bit darker and how we're going to do that is put these two quarts in this bigger container then add the mocha in because it's a lot better to have extra paint than it is to go back try to recreate a color if you run out and that's the beauty of summit racing's paint is that they're all compatible so you can mix and match and make your own color [Music] i haven't painted too much so i was a little bit nervous but anytime i can practice some skills it's always exciting just like jeremy i'll lay down three coats of gold and then we'll move on to clear the mobile environmental solutions paint booth is a great fit for any industry the 360 degree ambient lighting allows you to see the true color you're laying down on your body panels their spray booths can be used for painting window tinting doing wraps spraying in bed liners and even in the carpentry industry their paint booth designs are compliant with all environmental and governmental regulations they have booth sizes ranging from small standard boosts like the one we are using and even xl series that are made for heavy duty commercial uses okay this is the first time you've ever actually laid color right yeah yeah so were you scared how'd it go uh well with metallics you got to be careful about laying it on too heavy right because then you'll get streaks from metallics that's what you told me right so just trying to be you know as consistent as possible with distance to the panel and like my overlapping everything so i can get a good finish you know it looked really good from the outside like you did a pretty good job techniques there techniques there yeah i mean it needs some polishing but i'll get there yeah it looks pretty good [Music] after we let it flash we'll do a quick unmask and then we'll start mixing our clear [Music] unlike our honda rally car for clear coat we're doing something a little different and using summit racing satin clear to give our obs a modern look [Music] we'll lay down two coats of clear allowing it to flash for five or ten minutes between each coat [Music] after prepping and painting we need to do some cleaning and then get one step closer to finishing this thing up we got the truck out of the booth and back into the shop it's been sitting for a little while and now it's time to hang everything back on it to make it really look complete and with the outside all nice and clean the interior could use a little bit of a spruce up because no matter how well we tape and mask off when we're in the prep booth and in the paint booth some stuff just gets inside of here so i'm going to grab a couple products and we'll clean up the inside as well now sonax is known for their line of exterior detailing products but they also have a full line of interior cleaning products what we're going to be using to clean our obs is stuff like their dashboard cleaner we've got their glass cleaner their multi-purpose interior cleaner and their profiling plastic care now all of this stuff is really going to help clean and protect the inside of our truck where we're going to start is right here with the dashboard and the glass cleaner so we'll grab a rag we'll get started [Music] to clean our dash i'll apply our sonax dashboard cleaner directly to the rag then we'll give it a good wipe down [Music] man that's disgusting [Music] for our door panels we had to remove these when we originally painted the truck because we had to get rid of the door handles they've got a little bit of body shop dust on them so we're going to hit them with the interior cleaner and then we'll come back follow that up with the plastic care [Music] [Music] sonax's profiling plastic care can be used on interior and exterior plastics giving it a nice shine and a coat of protection [Music] all right so jeremy's got the interior all cleaned up i put on the bumper and getting the grill on here got this stuff from rock auto and the truck is really looking nice [Music] oh man this truck is looking so slick right now yeah with the front end on it man it looks perfect and this is a great example as to why you should not paint bumpers and grills just leave them chrome right because chrome adds a couple horsepower here and there so we got like five horsepower here and there's five horsepower there too right well it just looks good painted stuff looks terrible right you know we've got a couple more things that we do have to button up we got to get back underneath the hood we still have the mirrors and the door handles to put on but we're getting really close to getting this thing out on the road but it pretty much wraps it up for us today so if you guys are interested in anything you've seen on the show why don't you check out powernationtv.com and be sure to check out our build pages where you can see the rally civic project junk mail and the obs chevy all right let's bolt down a couple more things yeah [Music] yep it's looking good man it is looking really good here [Music] today on carcass we finally finish up our c1500 freshening up the interior with new carpet and a set of racing seats then we head down to engine power to see what kind of horsepower we can lay down on the dyno plus we head out on the open road taking our pro touring pickup to an event for those who love gm trucks [Music] [Applause] [Applause] what's up everybody welcome back to carcass we are on the home stretch of our obs chevy truck the rear suspension and everything is dialed in engine and transmission are in it and working properly and now we're on to the last piece of this puzzle which is the interior the last time you guys saw this truck we gave it a fresh paint job but the inside got a little dirty so we just spruced it up then well now we're going to dive back in here and replace the carpet and the seats plus we're gonna go strap this thing down to the dyno see what kind of horsepower it puts out and then at the end we're gonna take it to a special event that's kind of wrapped around these two wheel drive chevy trucks so what do you say we dive inside yeah let's take it apart ready yeah giant she's heavy me get around the seat belt here okay still doing all right yep these cabs aren't very big though oh yeah all right [Music] with the seats removed we'll start taking out the interior trim pieces and the seat belts so we can get rid of the carpet [Music] seriously this one won't come out well do it the right way then yeah i can wait almost there it goes jeepers [Music] under the pedals take it my way yeah that's right it's terrible i guess that's coming with two before we put the carpet in this truck i've got this patch panel for the transmission tunnel made we could have just as easily patched the original hole for the original shifter but we wanted a little bit cleaner install so i opened the hole up made this patch panel for it and we just have to weld it in something to note here is if you're using this transmission you have several different options for shifter location this shifter that's on it now we can flip it 180 degrees to bring the shifter farther back or you can go to american powertrain and get one of these more mid-mount style shifters take this plate off put the shifter on it and it'll move it farther forward in our case this configuration is going to work out so just got to get this plate on and wrap it up [Music] i drilled some holes in the panel and we'll just rosette weld it to the floor [Music] i painted the bottom of the panel with primer before welding and once it's in place i'll coat the top [Music] okay now that jimmy has the patch panel in the truck we'll go ahead and put our carpet in that we got from rock auto now we're just going to set this into position for now we're not going to mount it completely or trim it we're going to end up just getting it to fit and then we'll come back get our seat brackets in here and then i'll do a final fit then this is molded carpet designed to fit our truck all you have to do is give it a little bit of love and push it into the corners [Music] so the seat bracket for our original seats should work we did a couple mods to them so we'll get this in here gonna find the mounting holes pop some holes in the carpet and then we'll uh get this thing mounted [Music] just like with our honda we'll heat up a piece of pipe with a torch and put a nice clean hole in the carpet for our mounting locations then we'll install our hardware perfect [Music] and finally we'll trim the carpet to fit [Music] now that jeremy's got the carpet all trimmed up and in here we can install the seats these are pro car seats that we got from speedway motors and these are going to be perfect because they're an adjustable bucket seat and these will hold us in when we're on autocross track with jimmy installing the seats in the truck it's almost buttoned up and we're almost ready to hit the dyno but we're gonna take care of one last thing before we head down there and that's replaced all of our weather stripping now we got all of these products from steel rubber products and that was pretty simple to find we just went on their website plugged in the year make model of the truck and we came up with all of our gaskets we got stuff like their door seals now this is made of 100 epdm sponge rubber it's made to last and it will not fade shrink or crack we got their door window kit it's got their run channels and their window felts and we even have the little bumpers that go underneath the hood now they've got a bunch of stuff for your cars and your trucks and they even have a universal section where you can look at cross cutouts of seals and gaskets for you guys doing custom work well we're going to get all this installed then we're going to go strap that truck down to the dyno see what kind of numbers we can put to the rear wheels coming up we strap our obs to the dyno to see how much power of the 406 cubic inch ls mates what's up everybody welcome back to carcass we've got our obs chevy down here in engine power strapped to the chassis dyno and we're ready to post some numbers to see what it can do it looks great i'm going to give you that right now the color choices are on point i'm really digging like the dark brown and the gold i like how the engine matches that's amazing yeah you guys inspired us with the engine so this is what we got nice now do you remember what it made before all the mods well when we found out it was a 305 and not a 350 uh 170 horsepower thing okay well that uh if it starts with a uno that's uh that's a bad thing i think we're gonna do better than that right now so i'm almost positive we're gonna do better than that so yeah i think so might be onto something there all right well uh the talking's done why don't you get in there and light it but i'm gonna throw you guys a little curveball here you guys run your engine dyno all the time how often do you guys get to sit in a car or truck and run your chassis dyno never okay so instead of jimmy and i driving we're sitting here why don't you two jump in the hot seat and take your first spin it's all you my man you don't want to tack at it nope because when you nuke it then they can't take it there and i don't want to feel bad about it why is that always a theme when i run make sure you check the oil level and the tires oh it'll be just cover yourself it'll be just fine oh this is nice comfy right yeah that's nice you look good now thanks i feel like it should be mine right you guys just want to leave it here no good good luck yeah we all ready yeah let the big dog eat i'm excited to be standing out here and get to watch this yeah i can't believe when you guys didn't want to drive it oh well we'll drive it sounds good [Music] oh wow [Music] all right first hit 82 482 heck yeah that's about right right yeah 426 pounding dude that's mean that's pretty decent tired yeah i mean this thing has no uh yeah it has no temp in the drive line oh yeah everything's still cold you're making that loose and not me go ahead and just make another one right where you're at what'd you run it up to that frankie rpm waste right about seven okay cool this thing's just a slick that's just a screamer man that's awesome he gets it it's mean ready [Music] yeah exact same thing 482. you want to go for the trifecta might as well i mean we are here honestly this thing i mean it's on the dyno but it's like super smooth gets right in it i mean it's really nice for 93 octane plum gas that's that's outstanding i bet this thing is this happy on the street yeah all right make one more say we did go for three why not i want to hear it again is why yeah right nice [Music] all right may 78 now it's starting to get warm let's get started going starting pull it up and then drop drop it off dude it's right in there though dude shut it down that's what it should make now yeah not on the dyno we weren't turning an ac compressor and all that good stuff either so uh that's full net wheel horsepower and that's still i mean that's nice all right this thing's uh this thing's smooth as glass yeah and uh not that we didn't expect it to be but you know once when something goes from a dyno and we have a pretty controlled condition you stick it in a vehicle you have a whole other different set of uh things you have to worry about right yep not from the from the accessory drive to the actual driveline itself and uh man i don't know uh i'm very impressed yeah when you guys get done with this we probably take it for a ride yeah i mean it's funny because we rarely get to dyno we rarely get to drive them either so uh so maybe we'll take this one for appeal one of these days but you guys are you guys gonna have some fun with it yeah it'll scoot we had a lot of fun building the truck like we put the whole thing together and obviously like you guys put the engine together you ran it with its fuel injection system that's on it you delivered us something that was in theory turnkey ready like we didn't have to do anything to it we hooked everything up we turned the key and it runs and that for us is huge so we don't have to worry about that kind of stuff and then you know getting the number now i mean that's just like money in the banks well you know the things that that should happen did happen right now if this thing would have made for 10 at the wheel like we had with a serious problem so it's a tune-up problem you know some something's falling out of it but uh from where the transmission is we know about where a driveline loss should be for what this is uh we're right on target so uh guys congratulations uh that is uh that is a job well done yeah thank you thanks for the engine too should we get it unstrapped yeah let's go drive let's actually go put it on the road now please tell i don't want to get out no you got to get a seat in here these guys got work to do get out of there we take our chevy out for a cruise and end up at a party for gm trucks all right so here's the deal we obviously put the truck together we've got it out on the open road yeah we laid down what 485 horse on the dyno we got like 585 just motor i think the trucks gonna do really well when we go out and have a little bit of fun here yeah it should rip you know 335 continental tires all the way around which uh i don't know if there will be another obs out there like this one but uh you know ride tech suspension in the front we've got their coilovers in the back with our own custom setup and uh just test and tune it see what what it can do yeah you know uh the fact that we're cruising down the highway doing 70 75 miles per hour we got six speeds of awesomeness really yeah the truck runs out pretty much like a stock obs but has a ton of power yeah and even handles quite a bit better so yeah and it's really comfortable yeah it's quite comfortable it's quiet inside here yep not too bad yeah it's not this droney stuff you know this is really an all-around build like the pro touring movement this is what this truck is about that's exactly right so c10 nationals is the big test yeah that's right here down the road national super speed but yeah it's going to be fun man little show little go drop a gear then let's go this thing hauls it does [Music] the c10 nationals started in texas back in 2017 when the founders who shared an enthusiasm for trucks saw a shift in the automotive world and wanted to help fill a need for those like-minded enthusiasts [Music] trucks are the new hot rod so trucks are hot uh trucks are where it's at it's people are interested vendors are interested in so that's why we started the c10 nationals now they could have started an event that included all manufacturers but you can probably guess why they chose to focus on a particular brand ken and i are both gm truck guys those particular trucks there's a lot of parts available they're easy to work on the fords are getting there but the uh the gm trucks are where it's at and at the c10 nationals we allow c10 c20 c30 k we also allow obs just about any year but at some point you have to pick a name so everybody knows what a c10 is and knows what that means with the c10 nationals thriving in texas they started looking to add events and tennessee was the next logical choice due to its location and people's passion for pickups i love c10s i love trucks i've got a whole bunch of them i love fixing them i own a restoration shop and this is what we do my first vehicle was a truck i've always liked trucks it's just i don't know i drive i've got a tahoe at home and i've just always liked a truck in tennessee it's the other end of the country where these trucks are and you have a lot of overflow from the carolinas that whole nascar community and how to fabricate that has spilled over in this area of the country and i think you can see it in some of the trucks out here it doesn't matter if you're into customs classics or resto mods this event has a little bit of something for everybody you can watch these trucks perform on the track or get some inspiration and friendly advice for your next gm project there's a lot of nice people here and a lot of nice trucks and there's a lot of vendors great event beautiful trucks here good selection and a lot of variety love seeing different things get ideas for my next build i love the turnout um the amount of trucks has been great the creativity with all the different styles and years and everything else is a good show a lot of guys that come are working on their truck it's not quite ready they need to talk to vendors they're looking for ideas they're going to go out where the show is but then there's also the entertainment factor like we talked about earlier with all the different activities that we have going on this year's event brought out quite a few custom projects that really made us stop and admire the craftsmanship that goes into creating these one-off builds like bobby cunningham's 16-passenger chevy school bus just always wanted something different and seen pictures of other people's school buses brad trucks and stuff and i just decided hey that's what i don't do it's got a ls6 tow got a nine inch ford rear end on our bags rack and pinion uh dual ace we decided we'd bring it out and come to this and don't forget the swap meet where you just may happen to stumble across those hard to find pieces to complete or add to your gm truck project then who knows you may even find your next project so if you're a gm truck enthusiast the ctem nationals has something for everyone [Music] we've driven it on the street but can it handle the track we'll find out next [Music] hey guys welcome back well we're out here at the nashville super speedway and we're at the c10 nationals well we drove this truck here for one reason and that's to put it on the autocross course well since jimmy's in the driver's seat he's gonna go set the pace see at the starting line we'll meet you now this truck flat out rips i've had quite a few obs chevy trucks but nothing that handles quite like this it feels really tight and stuck to the ground around the turns and stops on a dime with a little more seat time we could really get this truck dialed in [Music] [Music] we're running pretty good times out on the track and one big reason for that is our continental tires we're running their extreme contact sport this tire has sport plus technology that delivers precise steering for maximum control and provides responsive handling this dynamic ultra high performance tire comes in four different styles to handle all types of driving the three thirty five thirty sport tires we're using are the perfect combination for our pro touring truck on and off the course and these will help us set fast track times we're looking for all right dude that was the most fun i've ever had in a vehicle well you're running like the 327 you're right in the mix on it i feel fast cool well i want to feel fast too so i'm going to hop in it and see if i can catch hammer it [Music] this is the first time i've driven the truck since we started this project and the obs has made a huge transformation from the stock truck with big wheels and a ton of body roll to an absolute animal on and off the track i ran a bit slower than jimmy but with a 33.6 second run i'm right in the mix with the other trucks [Music] we had a bunch of fun out here at the c10 nationals and now we get to do what this truck was made to do and that's drive it right back home yep we're right in the mix on the track and now we get to ride home in comfort and we got a couple more things that we're gonna go check out so that wraps it up if you guys like anything you've seen why don't you go to powernationtv.com and be sure to check out our build pages where you can see project junk mail the honda rally civic and more of our obs chevy all right let's go for a little cruise everything's loud around i know but that's so amazing our truck's loud too a little bit [Music] you

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Length: 106min 32sec (6392 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 13 2022