Robmonster117's Little Monster Build Thread

I feel like they should have put a huge clove of garlic to jump over in the gap. Miss driving through there on my way from SLO to SC / SJ...

 

subd

 

Not how I prefer to fix it but shes got 4wd. Just in time for some camping.

the true solution would be alot of work, that may be made worthless if I somehow find 2 more cylinder in the near future

 

soooo how'd you fix it?

 

had to suck-in the alignment to the max and move limit straps up and remove ~2.5” of down travel to keep the cv inner joint in the cup, kinda lame. But I kept the other strap points down low when I wanna go 2wd yeet mode

 

The real fix is just to beam it

 

Damn 2.5 is a lot. That sucks

 

If my leafs could talk, they would be screaming

 

TEDesigns Finally made a 1st gen cage

Going to be ordering this bad boy in the next month or so

 

you could try to get a single +4.5 shaft from btf to see if that will let the wheel droop out better without destroying itself on compression

 

I saw the extra cab cage. Hoping they'll make a double cab cage as well eventually.

 

Interesting Idea

im sure if you asked them nicely they can mod (or tell you how to mod) the xtra cab one for the dblcab. My friend has their cab cage in his ranger. it went together like butter & toast. I was using their ranger cage as reference to design mine. Then they go and make it easy for me and release this thang

 

Also I have zero patience/will power so I sent payment yesterday

Looks like top ramen and dino-nugget meals for the foreseeable future

 

Cage acquired. This should be interesting.

side note: 8ft bed on the 250 is the smartest decision I’ve ever made.

 

Internal or exo?

edit: Nevermind, I see the post above with tbe example photo.

 

Any LS familiar people/gurus watching this shit show? I got a line on a dirt cheap LS2, or an even dirtier cheap LQ9, what would you choose if given the option? Is an aluminum block worth while? Net weight savings is ~60lbs

 

What's your long term plan? Alum block is nice for weight savings but can't take the boost so easily. But if you're not running boost the LS2 is the clear winner for NA.

 

Long term turbo would not be out of the ball park I do tend to lean toward the boosted applications. And either way I go, the engine is going to be shoved into the cab to balance out the weight. As much as possible. Current foreseeable goals are for a solid~400-450 crank. Should be able to net that pretty easy with standard mods/ upgrades before applying boost

 

An LS2 will have no problem getting there NA and can take some boost, but high HP boost (800+ I'd pick the iron block)

 

Look on badlinesgoodtimes - lots of ls guys over there

here are a couple builds with them

https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/threads/project-g4-aka-quasi-ghetto.87/page-16

https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/threads/dont-call-it-an-s10.24/