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I'm kinda lucky very little work needs to be done up front to get the wheels to fit, still havent decided what wheels will be going on it just yet. thinking a set of 15's or 16's with a nice white wall to contrast the black car. chassis will the same red as the drums are painted. a mate suggested I should do a Mater style look ( from the movie ""cars"") but its not really the right shape for it

the only thing I dislike is that even when dropped on the ground they still look high because of the high roof of the cab but the only way is to chop the top, but I don't have the skill or the patience for that much work but atleast it could always be a pipe dream

thats 15cm off the rail, will need to be tubbed. thats just the wheel sitting under the tub. i had the tub sitting on blocks at the height I want it to be. to get it to fit properly i will need to tub it as wheel wells are very narrow. it will eventually be notched bagged with 5 link rear and eventually it will either lay rail or go very close. fronts will also be on bags,

opinions on lowness?

photos of recently completeed work,

thanks to a mate of mine for helping me out, front and back brakes are now reco'd repainted fitted and have with new bearing up front, new pads all round. A shout out to Rosco's Engineering for taking car of the machining and welding work ive had done at short notice even right before closing time. The bogan BBQ was running hot and so was the midnight oil, the tub has been removed for easier access to rear leafs so i cna get stuck into the suspension and frame work

took me a while. she had to tell me the number of pi i though it was 3.739 but its not its 3.1416

260 (D) x 3.14 = 816 div 360 = 2.26 so there fore 2.26 = 1 degree? so 1 degree for 1 inch drop. its currently 2 inches P/C so i could go crazy and drop 5 inches and still be on a safe limit of camber. although when braking and the nose dives a bit that is obviously going to increase mmmm oh and if i ever carry a decent weight in it which is unlikely

I'm currently getting a maths lesson off a 15 year old on how to use pi. and too think i got high marks in my S/C for maths oh wait that was 6 years ago.

ive been trying to reconstruct this as a full scale model using masking tape, a texta and a tape measure but I can't actually measure the angle. any one out there feeling creative and what to get measuring for me?

street tyres will be fitted once resto is close to being completed, its currently fitted with 31'' muddies. just been drawing up a full size scale of it and the horizontal line between point F and point D is actually lower at point D by 2.5'' so if it drop it 3'' it will only just have N/C sso they will be room for more chop and drop later once it get the new wheels on set the ride height to a level i am happy with

so it doesnt look like a totally meaningless question i will show you what I am working with. its '74 F100 with twin I beam front end, my issue is that if i fit lowered springs it produces negative off set, there is an equation for how much drop to how much camber but i can't find it right now, the next step after lowered springs is to get a set of drop beam from the states but thats atleast a 6 week wait, ive already got the rear sitting at the right height with a 7 inch drop but I can't quite get the front low enough. I hope to have the truck back on the road within 6 weeks but can't do it with the front sitting so high. for those of you that are good at maths the I beams are 130cm long from mounting bolt AKA pivot point to the centre of the wheel. if i drop the springs 3'' how much camber will that cause?

just playing around with the truck and just wondering how much negative camber can be safely run on the fronts with putting my self or others in danger?

yeah i sure love the older trucks aswell 67 to 69 model are my favourites, but they were too highly priced or too far gone for a short term project. ive been flat out with work and with the missus about to pop out another bub, she doesnt get work on everyday, but today i got stuck in and 9 hours hard work, done so far striped front brakes removed heater/ cooler unit, canopy removed bullbar and towbar/rear step and slide steps removed, started sanding it all back currently sitting on stands on front while brakes are done but rear is still on wheels at new height thanks to flipping the front hanger of the leaf springs. which has set it a total of 7 inches lower. the fornt will take a little more work to get it sitting that low. here how she is currently

rusted bolts. not just because they are rusted, but because they are always in a hard to rech place like the very furthest corner inside a wheel arch and after 90 minutes i finally decide to cut it off but they only way i can do that is by using half a hacksaw blade and with a 2'' stroke at a time i finally cut through it. OMFG.

i generally never really got that. it was more nice gemini or nice datsun. and when you say ""nah toyota''' you get alot of strange looks then when you start up and and they hear a nice purring powerful engine, they say oh SR of CA or something like that and then say NO toyota 4age. its rather interesting how often i come across ""car people"" that think the only 4cyl engines were ever made were nissans and no other engine or manufacturer exist.

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in regard to noise level, its a Ford F100 with a 4.1 Xflow with extractors and 3inch exhaust with only one high flow box, i don't think a little bit of induction noise is going to matter. but also I think having a big ugly pod filter in the engine bay will mess up the classic look that I'm going for but depending on what height i go for there may hae to be some hood mods to make it fit as there current filter is only 2cm away from hitting the hood

yeah thats the plan

where do i get one?

i don't really want to use a pod filter unless i make up a CAI for it, which i might do depending on how creative i get, or i'll just use the square type that spencer has shown

is there actually a reason why they are illegal? ive been told a few reasons, and when i asked the tradies when i was an apprentice they just said they were sh!t but couldnt actually tell me why

yeah exactly like that. wanting to install them on the effie running twin SB carbs

just wondering is it legal to have flat type filters mounted on top of the carbi. or is it labeled the same as pod filters and illegal to have them open to air, and must be enclosed thanks in advance

the amount interstate wanky car drivers that stop in my town to help the local economy which i think is great but i wish they would LEARN TO PARK!! the main street is all reverse angle parking. clearly signposted as well as lines painted not ot mention the 500 others car that are parked that way. but yet atleast twice a week i see someone parkes nose in. I ""politely"" told a victorian the other day what i thought of his parking. his reply. I didnt notice the signs and its just a small country town no one needs a parking spot that important. well that sent me steaming. i abused him again but he walked off. gotta love having a mate with a tow truck. it was quickly removed. i just went and sat on a bench near by and waited for him to return. he started freaking out thinking it was stolen he called the cops. he told them how it was parked. they gave him a parking ticket, then they rang the tow company and he got his car back after paying towing fee and discharge. fee. maybe he has now learnt don't f@ck with us country folk because we have nothing better to do