Yes, that is the one. Sounds like one of the largest shows in the country, so it should be fun! Hopefully we will sell like crazy and make some money to pay for the trip

Yeah it is about that if I go straight there, I had planned to go to through Cali first, and make it into a road trip/ Tour but with the delays in time it may be a turn and burn trip. We have another show in Portland after it. I think it will be about 5,000 miles on the truck in 20 days. I know that is nothing for the long haul truckers on here, but a fair amount for a hand built truck built by a guy who has never worked on a truck before

You should come by the show... I may be able to give you a discount on tickets if you want.

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I am thinking about twins for the truck, ran across a turbo that is huge, planning to spool withe the HX35W that I already have from the truck.

SO what are your thoughts on this turbo, good bad ugly?

Air Reseach turbo. Stamped .95 A/R on the cold side, 1.84 on the turbine side. The compressor side wheel is 75mm ind and 97mm exd. Turbine side is 110mm and 97mm.

THANKS!

 

I might just do that. Be cool to check your project out in person. God knows you'll have plenty of room to park it in there! The IX Center is HUGE! 2.2 million square feet!

It used to be a General Motors factory and was used to build bombers during World War II as the Cleveland Bomber Plant. For a time, it built the wing assembly for the B-29, then the experimental XP-75.

It later served for many years as a tank factory. The M41 Walker Bulldog, M56 Scorpion, M114, the MOG Howitzer, and the M551 Sheridan were built there too.

To give you an idea of the size of that place, there's a 125 foot high Ferris Wheel INSIDE the building!

 

That is really cool to hear the history, I knew about the Ferris Wheel, but not the rest. I will not have the truck parked inside, space is too expensive to have that much room... We will be representing my company and selling my products, not truck related.

 

That's too bad. That old Dodge is a rolling sales platform if I ever saw one.

 

Yeah, but it is huge, takes up 2 spaces on a show floor... So the plan for these type of shows is to have it parked outside, booth number on it and hope to have people come by the booth.

 

im bout tempted to buy a plane ticket if i make some good money this month and fly out there to see it

 

Man you rock! Whats up with the people here in Oregon? No one will drive 30 min but you will fly

If we can get it done soon enough it will allow for more time on the trip meaning we can make more stops and show it off to people like you in places out east.

 

id drive up there! and thanks! if u drive it down here we have a get together called the east union valley coal rollers bout 80 of us get together and run around through the smokey mountains or north carolina!

 

At this point it is most likely that the road trip will not happen, but if this show goes well we will be going again next year and make more of a road trip out of it then. I love the Carolinas, and Vermont in the fall.

Ok, got to get back to welding... I have a truck to build

 

AWESOME build! hope everthings going good for ya man!