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I have a spare door which I wont be using that I used to mock up my mirrors and make the bracket. Even though the door wasn’t going to be used I didn’t want to cut a big access hole in the door to make it easier. That being said taking the measurements and making the bracket was a real pain in the @#$%^&&&&.
The bracket consists of three pieces, two side plates and a plate to bolt the mirror to. First I made the two side plates, then I attached them to the door temporarily with self tapping screws, I then welded 2 flat bars across them while they were screwed to the door. The 2 side plates and the temporary plates
Tack welding the parts together while they were inside the door shell and stick welding through the top of the window opening slot was exceptionally good fun. NOT !!!!!!
But I eventually won ! Just enough space between the wing window and the door hinge pocket and just above the window regulator
After I had the three pieces tacked together with the mirror bolted to the bracket and fitted correctly, I then took everything apart so that I could weld the bracket correctly and remove the temporary bars. Unfortunately Iforgot to take pictures of the completed bracket. Mounted. The door is plumb and the mirror arm is level The position with the mirror folded
Whew, what a challenge on your motor choice.
Giuven the rarity of the A/C option on your truck, I think I would have gone the Cummins 6BT route and added A/C compressor to keep your rare A/C and be done with it (Just me).
Nevertheless, the powertrain will be stellar once the bugs are eliminated.
Great project, congrats to you.
Oh, and as for your occupation in specialised metal fab and installation, awesome work there too.
Congrats, Pete
I haven’t died yet and I haven’t stopped working on the truck yet. I have not been able to work on it nearly as much as I want and need to unfortunately . But I have made some progress . The motor is finally assembled. Last week I had the motor on a dyno for tuning and it exceeded my expectations!!!!! It is a torque monster!!!!
I will let the pictures speak for themselves. THE DATE ON THE DYNO SHEET IS WRONG! There is a glitch in the computer the dyno is hooked to as regards the date.
This was the best pull. 620 HP at 5500 rpm and 661 Torque at 4200 rpm
I was going to post a video but the site wont load them ? After the engine was tuned and making its best power I had the dyno operator do a pull as low as the dyno would go. He could only go down to 3400 rpm but that was low enough to show me what I wanted to see. At 3400 rpm it was making 650 foot pounds of torque and on that pull it stayed over 600 # from 3400 to 5400 rpm so it has a BIG FAT and FLAT torque curve.
Super happy with the results and this should light the fire on this project for me.
I was going to post a video but the site wont load them ? After the engine was tuned and making its best power I had the dyno operator do a pull as low as the dyno would go. He could only go down to 3400 rpm but that was low enough to show me what I wanted to see. At 3400 rpm it was making 650 foot pounds of torque and on that pull it stayed over 600 # from 3400 to 5400 rpm so it has a BIG FAT and FLAT torque curve.
Super happy with the results and this should light the fire on this project for me.
That's awesome, great numbers, will move the big old ford nicely. A super stout FE for sure!
fe390pc
I think that my drive train will be up to the task. Up front is a Dana 60 snofighter disc brake axle. For a transmission I am running an built NV 4500 which gives me overdrive and is only a few inches longer than the stock 4 speed . Next is a divorced NP 205 with billet input and output reinforcement sending power to a built limited slip Dana 70 with disc brakes.
David
08-12-2021, 06:14 PM
