Now for something really different

I’ve almost have the sides welded up. We couldn’t stand it any longer so we put it back on the truck to get a look at the body lines and see how the bed tops line up. We are very happy with the results! Hopefully this will give you a good idea of the final look I am going for. The next thing is to figure out a tool box top for it. Right now I am thinking about cutting up a weather guard box for the top. Unless anyone here wants to offer the mad skills to make something for me.

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I think it would look good with a gull-wing style tool box lid set on it like it was actually a full box but when the lifs are open it just goes into the box. Either way it is turning out awesome and incredibly unique!!
 
I had considered just lengthening the bed. My concern was should something happen to the bedside you would play hell fixing it. The down side to the bed box is if something happens to it there is no replacing it. Just will insure it and drive the wheels off of it. At least the main bed is replaceable with stock parts.
Pennsylvaniaboy said:
With all that welding, why not just add it to the front of the bed? not a criticism, just curious. Kinda like the superhauler concept truck....
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I am in the finishing stages of the box. I have the Weathergard tool box at the shop just waiting on the opportunity to it it up. I know you guys are probably tired of seeing pictures of my box, pun intended, so I will spare you box pictures. I will, however, share some bling pictures of my new intake manifold. I decided to a tad over the top with it.

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What are the cam specs in that rig?
 
I was asking out of curiosity to see if the intake matched the cam at all.
 
I was thinking that a TBSS or NBS intake would have let it make more torque since they have much longer intake runners, but that'll probably be fine.
 
Croatan_Kid said:
I was thinking that a TBSS or NBS intake would have let it make more torque since they have much longer intake runners, but that'll probably be fine.
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I had a 4th gen intake but decided to go with this intake instead. It has good performance numbers and some very long runners. It also looks awesome when you tilt the cab forward.

I am not sure what the horsepower is going to be on this thing but I am hoping north of 400. It is going to have a nice load to the idle and when I get the exhaust built it should sound very nice!
 
Those are actually fairly short runners...only anout 5.5" long. The ones in a stock truck intake are 11" and a TBSS/4th Gen are 9.5".

It'll work just fine and they do look cool. It's just going to move the power band up to the top end of the RPM range and lose a little of your average horsepower and torque. If you're gunna hoon the truck all the time, it'll work :D

I'm not saying don't use it. Just that it may not be the best match, that's all.

Here's a pretty cool link if you feel like checking it out.

20 LS1 Intake Manifolds: Tested!
 
Buffy said:
Time for a box update, well actually more like a box lid update. I purchased a Weathergard single lid tool box and promptly cut it up and am working on fitting it all together.

Laying out my cut lines

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I can safely say I’ve voided the warranty!

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Fitting it all together

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It looks good but any way to use only the lid so it's lower profile?
 
Stuntman Autoworks said:
It looks good but any way to use only the lid so it's lower profile?
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There’s so much structure in the box it wouldn’t be worth it. However, once the box is sitting on the truck and next to the full bed it will look pretty good. I was wanting the taller lid to separate the box from the full bed. I still have some figuring to do to get it to sit all the down like I want but I am very close!
 
Alright I am tired of showing you sickos my box.... so now I’ll show you my wiring.:D

We started tonight working on mapping out the wiring. We installed the new intake and started playing with the injector wiring. While we were at it gave some thought to fuel line routing.

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I decided to go with Genesis Off-road dual battery kit. Have the battery box in the “box” and are mapping out where we are going to route everything.

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The solenoid determines which battery gets charged. It also prevents the secondary battery and accessories from draining the main cranking battery. You can also jump start your primary battery from the secondary at the push of a button. Pretty neat system.
 
Here is the heart of the Ron Francis harness. We connected it to the side of the top with the ECM being behind the white panel. Works out very well, the wire bundles are not rubbing against anything so I am happy. Well almost, after 30 minutes standing on my head mounting the thing I proudly stand back to a not so level install. Sooner or later my OCD will win out and I will fix it.

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