lightningcow
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I'm hoping that sharing my progress thus far will help give me motivation to pursue a speedy completion. This truck has been down and out for many years, since I've been married, built a home, and had a child. Time to get it done.
Base truck was a 1993 F-150 XLT 4.9 inline 6 m5od trans. Picture from 2002, the year I acquired the truck.
After painting the truck in 2003 in Autobody my Senior year and graduating, I was able to get my hands on a 351w from a '73 Torino. After a rebuild it was dropped in along with a WC T5 from a foxbody. I drove this truck daily for a few years - along the way swapping in some 3:73s and Eaton LS from the oem 2:73 open diff, shattering 2nd and then 3rd after 2 trans rebuilds and then stepping up to a used TKO600 with lakewood scattershield and spec clutch and flywheel, ruining a driveshaft or so, and dropping a valve from a broken retainer in the original d00e heads and throwing on some AFR185s. Finally, after many years I was able to get some 02 lightning wheels with tires off ebay as well.
...and then I said, "I want to paint it some awful shade of satin red." Yea, I hated it after painting it and started sanding away again. Many years later and I chose a classic Ford color: Dark Highland Green.
Base truck was a 1993 F-150 XLT 4.9 inline 6 m5od trans. Picture from 2002, the year I acquired the truck.
After painting the truck in 2003 in Autobody my Senior year and graduating, I was able to get my hands on a 351w from a '73 Torino. After a rebuild it was dropped in along with a WC T5 from a foxbody. I drove this truck daily for a few years - along the way swapping in some 3:73s and Eaton LS from the oem 2:73 open diff, shattering 2nd and then 3rd after 2 trans rebuilds and then stepping up to a used TKO600 with lakewood scattershield and spec clutch and flywheel, ruining a driveshaft or so, and dropping a valve from a broken retainer in the original d00e heads and throwing on some AFR185s. Finally, after many years I was able to get some 02 lightning wheels with tires off ebay as well.
...and then I said, "I want to paint it some awful shade of satin red." Yea, I hated it after painting it and started sanding away again. Many years later and I chose a classic Ford color: Dark Highland Green.