The Nuclear Banana...... Redux!!! Even "MORE" progress pics....

Very nice work Doug.

Doug,

Any updates yet?

Nah, I haven't had much time to do anything on it this week. I'm hoping to be able to get at it sometime next week. It needs to get done too, I plan on it being ready for our Memorial Day parade at the end of next month.









Doug...

gotta love changing plans and ripping it all down, then putting a deadline on it! looks great, i'm sure you get it done and it will squat them rear tires better than ever- hey now you can eat whatever you want you have a couple hundred pounds you can put on and not affect your times

Keep us posted Doug. I'm excited about this. Looks like it'll be nice once it has all of the tube front suspension on it.

70bbftorino wrote: hey now you can eat whatever you want you have a couple hundred pounds you can put on and not affect your times

Well, actually, I'm on sort of a diet myself as well. At the end of last season, I was 196#. Now I'm about 185#. My goal by the start of the season (probably mid June for me anyway) is to be not more that 180#. I'm shootin' for 170-175#






Doug...

Lotsa new parts on order. Stand by to stand by, this may be maybe.








Doug...

Congrats on the weight loss & parts orders.

Wish I could say I weighed 180 lbs I weighed 270 last I checked.

Wish I could see pic's at work! I'll have to check this out!

Ps. Doug I am on a weight loss also! Started at 340 and now i'm down to 310 trying to loss some weight for my truck also!

Good luck on your personal diet Josh. As for your truck, if it's not going to be a driver, there's a LOT you can take off.







Doug...

I am really fascinated with your idea. I 'd love to do a strut front but couldn't figure out how to tie it into the factory frame. I'll have to study what you have done! I guess you can always get lowering spindles and shorter springs if the ride heigth isn't smack on.

Do you think this would work?

Either one of those would work. The 2nd one is "similar" to what I'm doing, but a little different. Today I picked up my brakes, struts, & spindles. The rest will be here Tuesday of next week. After that, it's gonna get busy here.








Doug...

Good work and keep us posted.

AJE makes an F150 strut front end.

http://www.nloc.net/vbforum/faq-section-gen-1-trucks-check-here-first/203273-aje.html

http://www.nloc.net/vbforum/gen-1-lightnings/203312-strut-frt-ends.html

Good install pics here from Copperhead:
http://www.nloc.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=2007