Kevin, glad to see you still on board. The big ideas are coming true, but DAM this is alot of work. I've been working all day on just the hook loop and support at the end of the frame. It's kicking my but. But it's supposed to rain all day tomorrow, so I gotta press on. I wanted to have the motor out today so I could have it in the shop out of the rain tomorrow..........dam technical stuff...and rules!

 

Lookin great Cody, you know what they say about rules..... they are meant to be broken lol. My vote goes with the motor pull, but I may be a little bit biased haha.

 

hitch look good! I wish I could do something like that but by rules I'm stuck with a reciever hitch

 

The hitch and loop were easy, making the height adjustable is giving me fits. Worked on it all day, and still didn't finish. Now it's gonna rain tomorrow, and I gotta go back to my night shift job the Sat. I'm frustrated. T minus 16 days, and the motor is still in the truck............

 

get yourself together man... all this negative talk doesn't sound like fun to me brother. haha. i do hear ya on the frustrating part since i can't even find a distributor that will work for my project, but oh well. i took a break and found other things to work on for a bit. LoL. we WILL get this truck together if i have to start coming over after work to help and when it's done all the effort will be more than worth it to you i know. ur starting to sound like me with these slightly negative comments. LOL







plus i need you to finish this thing b/c we got another engine to pull and a turbo setup to build still this year... LoL

 

Holy crap 16 day!!! that is a short amount of time, do you have all the parts that are going into the motor atleast?

Cody don't listen to Travis..... you don't need to build his motor for him, well feel free about mid august haha. Then it will be even funnier come track time lol.. sorry for the hijack going back to the hijacking thread now.

 

That's a nice looking drawbar, do the rules require the zero force member in the middle?

 

Don't now what a zero force bar is, so I'mma say no. LOL You had asked about weight limits. The truck can weigh a maximum of 8000lbs with me in it. I'm guessing it's gonna weigh in about 6500 without weight over the front. Instead of hangin weights, I'm going to cut a Ford oval out of a large piece of 1" plate I have. That alone will probably weigh in about 700lbs. Then I will hang weight behind the oval. Then I think you asked about hp.....I don't know. Some people say 600 with my setup. But I think it's a stretch. I'll be happy with whatever it makes.

 

Thinking of Jared here......... "800!!!!!!!!!" haha. i think you'll be pretty dang close to 600 or at least i hope you are. see ya tonight, we gonna get ballz deep in that thing tonight!!!

 

Ya know, sometimes you work on stuff too much. And you make bad decisions. That was the case this week. I took a day off work so I could get more stuff done on my truck. And I did, and it caught up with me. Let me explain......

I got the front bars done, and moved to the hitch. The morning I started the hitch, I chose to stay home and work on my truck, rather than go watch my Autistic son lead the pledge of alligence in a function for his kindergarten class.

People, you DO NOT get moments like that back in your life, and I was STUPID to miss it. And I've been so eaten up with it, I can't think. So I sat, and looked at a dam hitch for the better part of 8 hours, and got no more than two stupid pieces of metal cut....and they were wrong.

So, yesterday it was supposed to rain but didn't. So I spent the entire day with my three boys, just enjoying them. I felt better, but I'm still pissed I made the wrong decision. So I was having a very hard time calling on my fabrication skills. So I did the only thing I knew how to do. Called my friends. When I can't think clearly, I find it easier to explain it to my friends, rather than myself. So Carl, Travis and Wacey show up, and immediately I find myself explaining to them, what I had done wrong, and how we were gonna fix it. (I didn't tell them about me missing my son's pledge.)

That was midnight, and at 6:30am, I walked away from a finished hitch.

The moral of the story here..........Don't miss the important things. Your family is EVERYTHING, and trucks mean nothing if you can't enjoy them with a clear concience. And second, friends are a great to help you find your way when you get lost. And we all get lost sometimes, so I owe my guys alot for helping me feel better and get back on track. 15 days left.

 

So, sorry for the long winded post. How about some finished hitch pics. But first, Carl and Travis doing their best act like Dorks! Then here we go with the hitch.

 

More hitch...

 

And more hitch.

 

Looks great cody. Hook that thing up to travis' ***** and give em a good pull. Lets see how tough he is.

I was just wondering though.
You don't know how to weld do you?

 

looks good, Only thing I see is I think the rules in some places require the hitch to be solid in all direcitions and I dont see anything holding it down.
that may be especially important if you start bouncing, if that hitch goes up it could snap that pin off when it comes back down.

if you have room to get another pin above it that will probably work fine