It does look good, I just couldn't quite figure out what year(s) it was......lol.. ...especially like your exhaust 'stacks' mate ....

Al

 

Very Kewl! I love the stacks! What color(s) are ya gonna paint it?

 

Thanks BIGR! I notice that you have great taste in F350's also! Gotta love that "I mean business" look on the front end/grilles of these trucks.

Lot's of really nice trucks in this thread of all types. You guys give me some ideas about what I want to do with my trucks.

Just ordered an HEI distributor for that F350 today. I read somewhere else (Possibly here) that these folks at Ebay had HEI distributors for Ford V8's. They had their phone# on their listing. $85.00! New. So I called and ordered it and a small cap type for an 84 Dodge D250 Flatbed 360cid I have. The small cap is good because of clearance with the firewall.

Hopefully the shaft is true and the parts are quality. It may be prudent to use some GM parts on it from a junkyard HEI and/or new coil/chip/ cap&rotor. We will see....... I'm not gonna trash the original ignition until I can trust this HEI fully on this engine. The stock Motorcraft ignition is kinda weak and I really don't trust it long term. I hope to squeeze a few more horsies outta this beast also....... The ignition is a weak spot. No matter what else I think of GM..... I think the HEI system was the best mass produced electronic distributor type ignition system design there ever was. Simple, rugged, easy to troubleshoot, 50,000 volts......

Hook up twelve volts and just go...........Vrooooooom................

 

At 1st look, I thought the light post was coming out of the roof of your truck like a big Dairy Queen ice cream

 

I'm hoping to get it painted flat black this summer.

 

You mean it's not a big vanilla 3 scoop mounted on the cab?

 

Flat black....There's a new concept..... a Ninja truck!

Nice work...... I'd love to see some detail pics...........Especially of the exhaust system/mounting. Please?

 

There's a couple pics in my gallery.

 

Duh on Me! I looked. Yep, looks like you had to run the pipes outside of the frame most of the way like I figured. I have a Dodge 250 flat bed with a 360 I converted and I have the stacks & headers for it. Because of the twists and turns needed to hook up the stacks it looks like I'll have to run 3.5" all the way to keep the flow from being overly restricted and use 2.5" adaptors at the mufflers for proper back pressure. It's gonna be a tight fit. I'm hoping somebody has a great way to run these with the least bending.

I hope nobody coughs up a hairball over me using the "D" word on this forum............

 

Nice! I like them all.

 

OOOooo.....Dodge, he said

Now,sycostang, what size pipe did you use to hook-up to 5" stacks mate, or did you just put smaller pipes up inside the 5" stacks and let the exhaust blow straight up them?

 

It's 2.5" pipe up to the stacks. A plate was welded to the bottom of the stacks and a 2.5" hole was cut. Then 3 small holes were drilled and tapped so a header collector flange connects the pipe to the bottom of the stack. That way the sound is amplified all the way up through the stack.

 

I see, "good old American ingenuity" right? It sounds like that would make a lovely sounding truck...........I'm going to use 2" 90o bends,small, short Cherry Bomb glasspacks, then 3" pipes secured to the mufflers, stuffed thru the bottom of the bed,then straight up for stacks. (just barely above the cab, with 'rain-caps' on).

 

New GT40 5.0 crate motor with SVO heads and supercharger going in soon.I will document my progress. When I start.

 

Wow your truck looks killer. Would love to hear what you went through to lower it, etc.