August '08-'09 Buildoff 89 S-10 Blazer

[TheB1GDude]

Looking hot dude!!

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thanks guys. near future plans include stainless braided heater hoses, MSD 6AL module, Edelbrock 100shot nitrous kit, and traction bars =)

[amorton94]

nice blazer! i have a 1988 blazer with a 6" lift and soon 35" tires and a fresh coat of paint (truefire woo hoo!!!)

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Originally Posted by amorton94

nice blazer! i have a 1988 blazer with a 6" lift and soon 35" tires and a fresh coat of paint (truefire woo hoo!!!)

pics? i have an 85 4x4 blazer w/ a 3" lift in the back yard =P

[TheB1GDude]

You guys need to take better care of your Blazers.... leaving them lying all over the place!!

wanna trade motors

[texan_idiot25]

****in' BA, and the NIN sticker sets it off.

BTW, please to god, do you have any steel S10 wheels? My local junkyards have become hopeless at getting some steelies that fit the firebird.

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old door panels:

*vomits*
new door panels:

yay. i also have black matching arm rests for them and the bezel that goes around the door handles are getting airbrushed with silver biomechanical skulls and all that good stuff...also, the dash panels are getting painted up with biomechanical art. my grille is off to the shop getting powdercoated black, soon the black headlights should be in. this friday i'm going to my uncle's house to get him to help me calibrate my carburetor. umm, oh yea, there are holes in the fender for the OEM "blazer" badges, but they look ***, so i got these...

i know, i know...it's not an SS, but my 400hp says you can kiss my ***.

oh, and here's a pic of babes eating a snack...

new door panels look sick!

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Originally Posted by SPR

new door panels look sick!

they look nice, but their quality sucks compared to OEM. unfortunately, i can't find any brand new oem door panels, especially not in black, but at least these will compliment my leet rhinolinered dash lol. wait til you see the door handle bezels. hawtness.

[texan_idiot25]

Where did you get the panels? Pretty sure LMC has these S10s covered.

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Originally Posted by texan_idiot25

Where did you get the panels? Pretty sure LMC has these S10s covered.

i bought them from LMC directly, got the SS badges from them too.

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door panels installed, still waiting on the door bezels to get airbrushed and some window cranks


phoenix gold 6.5" 2 ways and 6.5" components

SS badges.

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so, started working on the speaker box today that's going to be housing 2 amps, a capacitor, 4 6.5" speakers, 2 10" woofers and a whole lot of wiring.

here's the space it's going to fill...the cap between the fenderwell and the front seats..



the last 3 feet of the truck is going to remain cargo space and this box is going to separate the truck's ****pit from the cargo area. so, here's some progress...

a sheet of 1/2" MDF


mocking up the holes for the subs...



the amp is going to be countersunk into the box so that it's level with the box's face. here's the mockup for that


then i started working on the area for all those 6.5" speakers and the capacitor...here's that getting built.



here it is w/ the face and the mock ups of the 6.5's...



this is just the rough work on the cover, it's going to be padded and upholstered with black vinyl and all the seams are sealed w/ woodglue, they'll be resealed w/ silicone from the inside and all the edges are going to be rounded off and fused together w/ spray foam...more to come next weekend.

[TheB1GDude]

That installs going to be pretty tight dude!! Great job!

[Tmaxxn3]

wowowo son lookin hawwttt but as for the lmc stuff i was gonna order some stuff for my 87 scottsdale and my dad would let me cuz he said the quality sucked balls...but looking great..im inpressed by the speaker box building skills by the way..

[skim4food]

omg dude thats going to sound/ look so sick!

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a little bit of progress....!!!
first off, my current fuel pump is only putting 4lbs to my carb -_- it requires 7-8 so, sometimes when i wind out the engine, it'll bog. well, i got a 130gph 14psi fuel pump in the mail =)
i rewired the dashboard electronics so that everything functions like it should, turn signals, brights indicator, gauge backlights, etc.
i also rewired the electric fans, they were switched on and off by a relay connected to a temp switch which would even keep them on when the truck wasn't running (hence, draining my battery) sooo...they each now have their own 60A relay (overkill, i know) that's ignition controlled.
aside from that, i'm waiting on the grille to get powdercoated black, the only other appearance mod i did was the H4 headlight conversion as seen below.



today i'm working on getting my aftermarket horns working and i'll probably install a new steering wheel, (the mahogany fails)

[stang_racer]

wow ss, looking great! good to see some progress keep us updated!, and if the mahagony fails then what are you planning on putting in there?

[kendallcschm]

sweet ride so far :-)