Project SuperSnake

[SuperSnake]

I have a 85 F150 that my son and I have been slowly working on for a year. So far we got a 302 and my son and a fellow member here at FTE rebuilt it for me. My oldest son also rebuilt all my fuel injectors. I did all the cleaning and painting so far. Here is a few pictures of when I got my truck.

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Here it is after we got it home with the camper removed and cleaned up,some used wagon wheels for 40.00 that I bought.

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the next thing we did was work on the interior. The carpet was free and I also have a sliding rear glass I have yet to install.

Here is the dash before we cleaned and painted it,but it needs to be replaced.
I also painted the plastic main dash ,door panels,and all plastic trim,sun visors with Duplicolor. that was a waste of money. Now I am going to have to repaint everything with SEM so I am going to change the color again.

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Here is the engine we bought and was surprised that it ran when we got it. So I tore it down and you will see the results.

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Here is the engine back in the truck.



A video when it's first fired.

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I removed the grill and headlight doors and painted the rad support.




I seen the headlight doors were mixed matched one had the black paint around the headlight and the other was argent silver. Also the chrome was peeling off real bad so I painted them.

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This is my next project is a Mark VIII E fan and exhaust system.

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After the E fan and Exhaust is done. I plan on swapping the rear brakes from drum to 4 wheel disc brakes and plan to look for all the parts from a late model Explorer including a Tru Trac rear gears for the rear.

[phydough]

Nice job, however when I saw your sig pics I was hoping to to see an SVT crate engine go in.

[SuperSnake]

That will come this is a rolling project for now if you see the engine picture in my sig that is what is going in.That engine is a lot of $$$$$ si I am going to get everything done before order it.

[phydough]

Yeah, big bucks, but I also am planning on a Ford Racing 5.4 DOHC supercharged crate engine for my '02 Super Duty. $45k for a new truck, $45k for a new GT500 or $18k into a paid for truck. 500 horses here we come!

[SuperSnake]

That is the engine I want. the wiring harness is another 1,000. I only paid $300.00

[GLR]

Your "open air" garage looks like mine.

[SuperSnake]

I went to the u pull it to day and got all this stuff for 1/2 price out of a 86 Bronco.

[fabmandelux]

Great looking project Cliff! Man ain't it great building rods with your son....I'm lucky that I get to build with my son, and my son-in-law! Problem is they are both into Ford Trucks, and keep trying to talk me out of my "goodies"