Haven't posted an update in a while. Lots going on with the resto-rod. The work on the fuel injection continues but ran into some major hang ups. The previous owner who had the engine built with square port heads decided to use a round port header which resulted in all 8 cylinders having a significant exhaust leak. 4 sets off off the shelf square port headers did not correctly so Sanderson is currently making a custom set for the truck. While we had the wheels off, we noticed that there we not one, not two, but THREE wheel spacers stacked up. None of them were hubcentric, all lugcentric. An absolute disaster waiting to happen. At this point in time I've ordered UMI upper and lower tubular control arms, UMI sway bar, and Viking coilovers with 550 lb springs. In addition to those suspension upgrades, we are removing the 2" eBay s10 drop spindles and installing OEM 2wd blazer spindles which will let me run OEM sealed wheel hubs with 2 piston blazer calipers instead of the 1 piston s10. Last item, the power and ground wires the previous owner used a 4 gauge amplifier wiring kit to wire the truck and stripped all the wire back too far and used no heat shrink so all of the wire is corroded. It's all being replaced by 1/0 welding wire.
Yes, this is very much non-original build and a total resto-rod, but it's going to my and my son's little go-kart for the summer months. Looking forward to Spring.
