Ok yall have all probably seen the Fast and Furious movie where at the first they steal some fuel trailers and one of the pickups they have is a 69 maybe a 70 chevrolet pickup but with a semi rear end under it and they built 2 one with a 454 to do the stunts in and one with a Cummins not sure on size though but I was thinking. I wanna build one just like that, a 70 chevy cuz the rear frame off, build my own, put a semi rear end under it, drop in an 8.3L CAT and maybe a 10 spd or a 13 spd and paint the truck copper head orange and put 19.5's on the front and 22.5's on the rear and stretch it out and put the full fiberglass rear fenders over the rear tires.......... What ya'll think? I know where a 70 chevy is out behind a guys house he's willing to sell for nuthin I live close by a semi salvage yard so getting the rear end or trans would be no big deal I have a buddy that went to diesel school to and works on semi's and he is willing to help me for beer and you can get those older pepsi or beer truck those little short wheel base single axle day cab trucks for like $10,000 with good motors still in them and trans and maybe even use the rear end out of it too and they'll have those smaller CAT motors and Cummins in them along with all the air stuff and everything else. What ya'll think????

That would be awesome! I want to build the same thing now

On paper it sounds easy but i'd have alot of frame work and id have to custom make some crossmembers but besides that i think itll be easy the air brakes might be a pain but besides that just your basic rebuild and install

Frame would be a lot of work but i think it would be worth it. I've always wanted to put a Caterpillar in a pickup

It would be sweet but by the time you got done it would be a $20,000 project but BADASS!!!

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You would basically have to build a new frame to be strong enough because i would definatly tow with it and put air ride too so you could drop it

i have thought about a project before to. However my idea was to take a fl70 or ih4700 frame,engine and all the goodies and put the cab of a dodge or chevy on it. I saw a truck that was a square body suburban with dually bed on a fl70 frame with the 5.9 and a eaton 10sp for sale on craigslist one day

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/2733581548.html

You almost wouldn't be able to put a Cat in that exact pickup from Fast and Furious. It sits way too low to the ground, you'd have a big ol' cat sticking out of the hood right in your line of vision. It would still look just as cool if it was lifted enough to get the motor under the hood

Yeah that would be the main prohect would be building the crosmembers and motor mounts to fit the tall motor and trans you would really have to be creative on that and the prob with puttin it on the FL frame is its too tall for what i want. Yes it would be easier but not the look im goin for but i think it could be done. Maybe a high cowl hood would help or sumthing and you'd def have to custom fab the floor pan in the cab to fit the high trans aswell

That would be sweet man. Hope you do it


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If i do ill make a post on here and it might be this summer!!!

The two things I would love to build include a 85 Dodge 350 with a Cat 3306PC and a 1952 Studebaker M35 deuce and a half with either a Cat 3208T turned way up, or a 3406B. I already own the perfect 52 Studebaker M35 for the swap

Start with straight frame rails from a big truck...build a custom A-arm front suspension so you can lay frame and have little to nothing in the way of the motor...build a dry-sump oil system and low profile oil pan for the motor to keep it low in the frame...SUPER heavy duty motor and tranny mounts to both isolate the motor and prevent frame spread/twist due to lack of immediate crossmember beneath the motor...doghouse and firewall from a "medium duty" version of whatever cab you use...then Z the rear frame rails up and over the rear end...link-n-bag it...throw in a shifter that is about 6 inches away from the roof of the cab for that gorilla arm hot rod look...and start truckin!

The air brakes should actually be easy if you use the pedal cluster from the "medium duty" brother of whatever cab you use. Just a lot of fab work to make it happen, but it would be sweet!

A compromise might be to use a two-speed air brake rear axle (to get the look you want)and a "medium duty" version of the 5.9 Cummins with the air compressor (in place of the vacuum pump on the pickup versions) and the big Eaton 6 speed or whatever else you want to bolt up to the SAE adapter plate. All of that would fit easier and be essentially bolt in...if you could sacrifice the novelty of running a "big" diesel. Just food for thought...

Ive thaught about doing it like that but what i had in mind is removing the frame from the truck and setting it on the floor in the shop and using it as a guide to go off of for the cab mounts and A arms and shocks so ill have the same cleance for the fenders and wheels. Build a whole new frame out of 1/4 in steel from the front to the rear o the cab then come up with the frame and build it with box section tubing from rear of the cab to the back then custom make the A arm front end with air ride and for crossmembers you wouldnt have room under the motor but you would under the radiator towards the front and under the trans build a removeable crossmember so you can have access to the trans then for the rear end i'd use the 2 speed and build a ladder bar system for it with air bags and for the trans id go with a 10 or 13 spd because if you went with a 6 your top speed would be low because more than likely the rear end out of those medium duty trucks would be to low and would only be around 65mph *and of coarse thats way to slow for a hot rod diesel an yeah the low oil pan would help alot! But i think if you build the suspension just high enough to keep the oil pan from dragging and build the frame high enough so the highth of the hood and cab and all that would be tall enough to fit the big CAT and the motor mounts low enough to keep the motor sittin down in there enough i think you'll be fine with fittin maybe cutting out some of the under hood bracing would help with an inch or so or maybe a cowl hood but another problem is having a radiator and fan set up big enough to keep that big sucker cool! You'd defenatly have to have a custom radiator built and HD fans for it but i think it would all work just alota fab work but the good thing is you can get every part for the old chevy through LMC truck to make it look origanal inside and out and wiring harness from Painless as well so its really just fab work but i think it can be done!

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Fast & Furious 1967 Chevrolet Truck on Inside Line

There's a deal on it i found