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other thread got too technical and it was moved to the electrical bay. I neglected to introduce myself in that thread so I will do so in this one.
My name is Ryan and I'm from Waterloo, Indiana (DeKalb County). I have a college degree in high performance automotive and my specialty is electronic fuel injection / GM ECM tuning. However, points and carburetors are not new to me; I owned a 1966 Belvedere II for a number of years and that car had the stock poly-head 318 in it.
I recently acquired (long story) a semi-restored 1948 Thriftmaster 3100 pickup truck from a good friend; and thanks to this forum, I'm learning a lot about it. It appears to have a '54 235 inline-6 engine that has been rebuilt (doesn't burn any oil, runs too mechanically quiet to be old/have a lot of miles on it) and a 4-speed manual transmission.
I swapped a 3800 Series 2 Turbocharged V6 into my 1987 Pontiac Fiero and a built (550hp) LS2 into my 1986 Corvette with a TR6060 6-speed manual trans; but my intention is to keep this 1948 Thriftmaster 3100 as stock as I can (since pretty much everything else I own isn't stock). Unfortunately, as mentioned above, neither is this '48.
I'm finding it difficult to decide what I'm going to end up doing with this truck. On a positive note, it runs so good now I don't need to make a decision anytime soon on what to do with it. I can drive it, as-is, and enjoy it while I contemplate the fate of this truck. In the back of my mind I was thinking about restoring it to 100% factory stock (correct 216 inline-6, albeit rebuilt; correct 3-speed manual trans; etc.) so I could enter it in AACA shows. But the interior isn't stock, so things would need to be redone to restore the truck back to 100% factory original (appearing, at least).
