New Skin for an old Dodge....

[customizedcreationz]

Wrapped my Dakota in yellow with a flat black hood. I have the same wheels and I am powder coating them high gloss black and will put those on for some pictures and then put these wheels back on for winter. New black headlights and a roll pan are coming next. Gotta clean up the wire mess in back for the hitch as well. Then heads, cam, intake and maybe a 150 hp shot of juice on it. Or I might build a 408 stroker motor over the winter. Either way I am shooting for around 400-450 hp at the wheels if I decide to really take the plunge and build it. I would just like a solid 12 second shop truck:biglaugh:

Couple of quick cell phone pictures.

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After

 

[Tex85]

Looks like a brand new truck, nice work!

 

[one2dmax]

Nice

 

[thepretender]

Looks good, My Dodge could use a facelift (2001 Black clearcoat 40% gone, approximate cost?

 

[Olds Guy]

I think I need to do something like this to my shop truck - it's a lowered 1998 S-10. but it is a little crusty and I dont want to fix the rust...

Truck looks cool....for a Dodge. Lol

 

[KJShover]

Looks great!

You'll love the stroker motor unk: But it will love the gas even more. I get about 8-10 around town and 16-18 on the highway.

On my '83, I used a kit from Campbell, An edelbrock cam, Headman headers with dual cats and mufflers that exit on the sides of the truck, and topped it with an Edelbrock 790 carb and a plate system for the squeeze.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN1vr2pF8mg

 

[frank5079]

Looks nice, but if it were mine, I'd lose the "Altezza taillights" and get this hood instead....of course a built Magnum 360, 6 speed transmission, and maybe a custom stepside bed with twin exhaust stacks to give it a "retro" Lil Express Truck and really make it stand out.....

 

[customizedcreationz]

I wanted to go with this hood, but at $1200+ for the setup, not gonna happen.

The tail lights I traded my stock ones for these. Not really what I would have bought, but free, they looked better than stock.

Maybe these headlights.

Or these with the LED's.

This hood is around $500. Which is more than I would want to spend, but it looks decent.

 

[deathpulse]

Looks nice, but if it were mine, I'd lose the "Altezza taillights" and get this hood instead....of course a built Magnum 360, 6 speed transmission, and maybe a custom stepside bed with twin exhaust stacks to give it a "retro" Lil Express Truck and really make it stand out.....

Wow!!!! That was my first car!! A 1978 dodge d100 stepside. Course mine was a straight 6 with 3 on the tree....

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[frank5079]

3 on the tree......man they were interesting to shift to say the least...I think for me the worst kind was shifting gears on a '73 Ford F-150 pick-up with a 4 speed and a granny first gear, which was basically a regular three speed with a very low first gear....I hated driving that thing until my dad told me not to use first gear.

 

[customizedcreationz]

That's kinda how this thing is. Granny first gear. Lots of times I give it a little mote clutch and start in 2nd.

 

[leecifer]

Looks good Todd. Let us know when you take it to the track and maybe we can ride out and meet you. My dad had a late 70s power wagon and always thought it would have been a cool truck to fix up but it's long gone now.

 

[customizedcreationz]

I took it out once this year. Ran 14.76 with it. All stock so far ( save for headers into single exhaust ). It spun badly and hopped like crazy. I am pretty darn sure that I could run a 14.00 with it if I had some traction and it didnt hop. I think I am going to build some type of link setup for the rear so I can hammer on it at the track and it wont hop.

I ll take it to the track for sure next year. I might have some mods done to it by then.

Todd

 

[BigIke]

What does it cost to wrap a vehicle?

 

[davesax36]

Www.dipyourcar.com

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[customizedcreationz]

Something simple like this with no graphucs $2200 area

 

[BigIke]

****! I'm going to Dip my racecar! Thanks for that link, i spent the night watching his videos.

 

[davesax36]

I talked with Nick Einatsch about plasti-dip at the Dallas MC show. I'll probably end up doing more parts before my bikes are running.

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[frank5079]

I talked with Nick Einatsch about plasti-dip at the Dallas MC show. I'll probably end up doing more parts before my bikes are running.

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Back in 1993, me and a couple of buddies rode out to Willow Springs to see Nick Ienatsch race his lone TZ250 against a bunch of FZR1000s and GSXR1100s; the 1000s and 1100s would catch him on the straights, but the 250 would lose those big bore bikes on the curves.....