Coyote Pickup Truck 5.0L POWAH!

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New visitors here might not know, I'm doing a '50 Studebaker pickup and powering it with a Mustang motor & trans. It's got a custom frame and it'll act like a sick fast race car! 

Translation: New visitors here may be not aware that I am building a 1950 Studebaker truck and powering it with a Mustang Engine and gearbox. It's got a bespoke chassis and it will perform like a proper racing car!

Anyway- Have a looky:

[cdwood2010]

Loving it. Did you see the pics of the combi with the viper engine? The guy started it up, people ran.

[manitou]

Jun 11, 2018 22:09:09 GMT grenade said:

Translation: New visitors here may be not aware that I am building a 1950 Studebaker truck and powering it with a Mustang Engine and gearbox. It's got a bespoke chassis and it will perform like a proper racing car!

Bespoke, such a funny word the english use. It's right up there with 'trousers' - thats a word that I thought belonged in Enid Blyton stories about Mr Pinkwhistle.

Funny english, how dare ye useth funny words.

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That guy- I like his thinking! Wish I had a viper motor...

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So I had to finish the Hemi Studebaker before I could get going on this one again.

(There is also a 1965 Chevy pickup in the works, but that one has a bad engine and as it turns out- we're going DURAMAX Diesel power on that one, so stay tuned for that monstrosity)

This Coyote truck, the steering column is mocked up, the pedals are in place, the shifter arrived- Once I made sure there were zero structural alterations- I pulled the cab off the chassis and welded up and sealed the seams on the bottom. Then gave it a coat of rust inhibitor black.

[cdwood2010]

Man you weld good.

I'm always amazed at how you build some of these from air and awesomeness.

Genius.

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First- THANKS BUD!! I will say that welding is all about clean and shiny metal, slow wire speed and knowing when to let go of the trigger. There are better welders out there that will say I'm shit and they're probably right, but I'm not welding an aircraft- it's the floor of a rusty truck, so it's perfect hahaha!

I like to say that in welding, when I have a couple 1" sections that are very nice, I call them "Moments of brilliance" lol

I get started on something and I let the vehicle tell me what it wants. Then I tell it to fuck off because I've only got a little bit of money and even less time- so we compromise and I call it ART.

Hahaha... Guess what today is? - Back to Effing work today. You know my motto- "F#UCK plumbing".

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Some proper heat & sound insulation:

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Finally back on this thing! Here's a few pictures!

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AND THEN: Pictures anyone?

[byrney1984]

That looks like a beast. I would love to do an American truck. But the cost would be insane over here. Does the engine bay have space for the shoe horn you used to squeeze thay mulp in there lol

[cdwood2010]

I'm just amazed at how matter of fact it all looks, like it's just being reassembled, and not morphed from a rattley old farm vehicle into something cool as fuck and show worthy.

Imagine rolling up in this.....

:-0

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This:

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So there's this:

There's very little left to install in there. The radiator and the AC lines will all be hidden under the one cover, but the radiator itself will fill up the front nose area of the truck.

I was feeling creative, I had this vision of "what if I did the air filter halfway sunk into the cover"..
So I did it. It takes fresh air from the front grille- I'm adding two big circle shaped holes to the front of that core support, to take in fresh air. It's half of a real "Cold Air intake" lol

[byrney1984]

Looking nice. A real wolf in sheeps clothing