Thread: 1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn Build
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07-11-2013 02:23 PM #11
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- Car Year, Make, Model: 40 Ford Deluxe, 68 Corvette, 72&76 K30
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I had one of my buddies paint an old style shop logo on the door because I've always thought it was cool. He did an awesome job!

My brother sanded and polished my valve cover, then repainted it.


I hated my first trans cross member and after we boxed the frame it wouldn't work. So, I built this instead.


New trans mount

Cross member installed. This was a lot of drilling.


The intercooler was up too high in the radiator support and hit the hood latch. We had to cut the lower portion of the support out and add metal so we could get the intercooler low enough to retain the stock hood latch set up. Then we added gussets to the support to add strength to it.




Due to these changes, my intercooler tubes were now too short. So we fixed that too.


Welding up rear axle and boxing air bag upper mounts.



Finished upper pan hard bracket.

Added another cross member for support under cab.

Added gussets to keep frame from moving in a diamond shape. (I doubt it'd ever do this anyway)
Ryan
1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR Stage 3 cam, SuperT10
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