Project Cocaine

[George C]

How did you prep it?

scotch pad for body, scrapers for frame

[THE BIG KOALA]

I didn't ask you the other night but when do you think you'll be finished with it

[George C]

This year at some point hoping

[PaxtonShelby]

What Rustoleum product did you use? I'm going to be cleaning and painting the underside of the Toronado in the near future. How does the stuff you used compare to, say, Eastwood's Chassis Black?

[George C]

Rustoleum industrial

I used regular rustoleum on my jeeps frame and holding for last 2 yrs it's been built

With the amount of driving this truck will see it should last forever but on a true driver I'd look into other products


Will say with a dap method vs strokes it gave a thick level coat

[PaxtonShelby]

Thanks for the info sir!

[thedak]

Def digging this truck

[George C]

Well got most of my stuff back from powdercoaters

i decided to go back to stock spindles to help gain me some ride height back
went ahead and picked up a Qa1 bumpsteer kit
youll also see my dual caliper brackets
going to give belltech leafs a try with my caltracs

and also you see the 14 bolt all powdercoated

yes yes i have alot into powdercoating since this build started

[George C]

rear is back together and in the truck topped off with a dual caliper setup

[George C]

I tossed on stock spindles to get my ride height back in order, decided to weigh the belltech vs stock and i was shocked. The belltech lowering spindle weighs in at 22lbs and the stocker weighs in at 15lbs



tossed on my QA1 bumpsteer kit, this kit is for a 2005+ mustang. It required very minimal reaming of the spindle



also in those 2 pics you can see the AFCO shocks, if you look at top of shock youll see the rebound adjuster, and if you look under the control arm youll see the compression adjuster


with going back to stock spindle it raised the truck up 2" in front. I know have 2.25" fender height difference between front and rear



and truck will hit the bump stops before it will the bed will hit the tires

and went ahead and painted the rear calipers

[Ares]

Wow that is nuts the weight difference in the spindles.

[GOT SVT]

coming along nicely

I heard your name mentioned with the group from Pittsburgh doing the hot rod drag week, are you going?

[George C]

im not doing drag week

[Dan B.]

I'm brainstorming for drag week. Id love to do it!!

[somethingclever]

drag week - for as close to a real street car as you can get.


Great work George, very professional looking build.

[1320goat]

Drag week would be awesome. I chatted with Jeff Lutz for about an hour at PRP about it. It's too bad I don't own a car that would even come close to competing

[Dan B.]

Drag week would be awesome. I chatted with Jeff Lutz for about an hour at PRP about it. It's too bad I don't own a car that would even come close to competing

I don't have anything that would compete but a week of road tripping and racing would be awesome.

[Tom]

I don't have anything that would compete but a week of road tripping and racing would be awesome.

if we build the fieanger, it would win*


*it would scare everyone away so that we would win by default

[George C]

with trying to eliminate some gauge pods i had from the previous build, i went ahead and stuffed my trans gauge into the stock cluster

[George C]

got around to mounting my chute handle