jjorgensen52
NHSTE - I'm the only one!
Figured it was about time to create a thread with all the details of the restomod on my Ty 
Before:
After:
Parts from the following, thanks for helping bring this truck back to life
Race Proven Motors -- TurboTime -- JS Manufacturing -- Detroit Turbo
NAPA -- Summit Racing -- Borgeson Universal Co -- Flaming River -- Gilbert's Driveline
Kenwood -- 700Raptor Transmissions
R&R Machine of Derry, NH -- Kustom Kars of Derry, NH -- The New England Rod Shop of Bedford, NH
Warmpancakes -- Captian Morgan -- QBNKiller -- Jersey 91/93 -- SonomaGTLover -- Nolan (10SecTy)
And of course, thanks to everybody on the board :tup: ... I knew next to nothing about these trucks when I came on board 3 years ago
Time frame for this project, as most of you know, was August 2003 to May 2006 working nights and weekends around school, and not in the summer. I estimate that I have between 950 and 1050 man hours (personally) into the truck during that time period. I did as much of the labor myself as possible.
Body:
-Completely stripped and disassembled, body mounts rebuilt
-New GM licensed front fenders, wheel wells and core support
-Tailgate stripped and redone
-Filled roof seams
-Roof rack removed, holes not shaved but plugged, retained chrome rails
-New non-wiper tinted rear glass, with defroster
-Paul's select front bumper with 2nd gen crystal lens foglamps
-Plate brackets courtesy of Captain Morgan
-Black gloss firewall, wheel wells and core support
-4 coat GM Dark Spiral grey metallic, 6 coat DuPont clear
-Heavy duty headlight harness
-Custom drivers side relocated battery using stock cables
-Stock style silver decals
-NASTE decals
Interior
-All plastic panels removed, sanded and repainted in black (including repair of holes in console)
-Visible screws in trim replaced with stainless
-10 disc Kenwood MP3 capable changer in console
-92 tape deck
-Dakota digital hidden antenna
-New charcoal carpet set from ACCMats.com
-Remote mirror switch relocated to left of cluster bezel, foglamp switch replaced with Astro switch and relocated below dash, gauge pod installed under right side of bezel with digital temp, switchable between oil and trans
-Speedhut black and silver reverse glow gauges
-Non cruise wiper stalk (cruise deleted)
-Weathertech (Cannon) floor mats (just like the originals the local GM dealer included with the truck) and cargo liner
-Rear wiper switch deleted
-Rear ashtrays replaced with carbon fiber panels
-Rear overhead panel replaced with non-wiper version (all wiper hookups still present)
Engine management
-Low impedance injector driver modified ECM
-Custom tune by Nolan running through moates switchable chip adapter
-Innovative LM-1 wideband
-3 bar MAP
Engine
-Stock block, bored and decked @ 4.030
-4 bolt mains, ARP studs
-JE pistons
-Eagle rods (stock oil pan was swedged for clearance)
-Stock crank, magnafluxed, polished and internally balanced
-Melling high flow oil pump
-Edelbrock double roller timing chain
-Comp cams 415 ( changed from 422, too much cam for the build)
-Vortec heads, 3 angle valve job, light polishing, stainless 2.01/1.64 valves
-Crane 1.6 Gold series self-aligning rockers
-Vortec modified SyTy manifold, polished by RPM
-75# PTE injectors
-Currently using cheap 4.3 distributor
-Accel 8.8mm plug wires
-Autolite race plugs
-MSD blaster GM coil
-BBK 58mm throttle body
-HKS SSQV blowoff on custom throttle body mount (Renz's favorite :lol: )
-ATR stainless headers, rewelded and ceramic coated by JetHot (original heat wrap failed)
-Fluidamper neutral harmonic balancer
-All stock GM accessories
-Has a stock waterpump, swapping back to an Edelbrock aluminum eventually
-Garret GT-35-R turbo (ball bearing), .83 A/R SyTy housing, 3" compressor
-RPM air to air front mount intercooler
-PTE internal wastegate downpipe
-ATR full 3" high flow exhaust with cat
-Walbro 255lp/h in tank pump
-Volvo electric fan with custom relay controller
-JSM frame pads with Moroso solid mounts
-195* thermostat, OEM Jimmy waterneck with fan control sensor installed (160* stat was causing problems)
Driveline
-Built 700R4, 700Raptor shot peened input and output shafts, kevlar clutches, 5 gear planetaries
-9.5" Billet converter, 2650rpm stall
-Gilbert propshaft
-rebuilt front / rear axles
-Eaton 7.625 carbon positraction differential
-B&M HiTec Trans cooler, 13 x 9", sans fan.
-Custom 3/8" aluminum trans lines with inline filter
-DeRale deep trans pan
Chassis
-Completely stripped, sandblasted, torsion bar crossmember removed, damaged torsion bar holes welded, 2 layer powder coat 80% gloss black (including spindles, bumper brackets, tank straps, trans crossmember and shackles)
-All Energy Suspension bushings
-Flexaform 2" drop rear monoleafs, stock spring rate
-RPM coilover conversion
-Hypercoil front springs
-QA1 12 way adjustable front shocks, KYB Monomax rear shocks
-Belltech upgraded front and rear swaybars
-LS1 rear disc conversion with custom p-brake cables and brackets
-CBR front LS1 disc conversion
-Inline Tube custom bent fuel and brake lines, stainless
-Turbotime braided stainless rear brake lines
-Summit proportioning valve
-All Moog 2nd design front end parts
-GM ZQ8 12:1 steering box (AGR box locked up on me, I won't buy anything AGR again)
-Borgeson aluminum steering shaft
-Flaming River clearcoated stainless steering u-joints
-New fuel tank and sending unit
-New front bearings, non abs version (ABS deleted :tup: )
-Napa MaxDrive halfshafts
-ROH Snyper wheels, 17x9 with 18 and 52 mm offsets
-Avon Tech M550 A/S tires, 275/40ZR17
-17" 5 spoke spare from a 2005 GTO
Before:
After:
Parts from the following, thanks for helping bring this truck back to life
Race Proven Motors -- TurboTime -- JS Manufacturing -- Detroit Turbo
NAPA -- Summit Racing -- Borgeson Universal Co -- Flaming River -- Gilbert's Driveline
Kenwood -- 700Raptor Transmissions
R&R Machine of Derry, NH -- Kustom Kars of Derry, NH -- The New England Rod Shop of Bedford, NH
Warmpancakes -- Captian Morgan -- QBNKiller -- Jersey 91/93 -- SonomaGTLover -- Nolan (10SecTy)
And of course, thanks to everybody on the board :tup: ... I knew next to nothing about these trucks when I came on board 3 years ago
Time frame for this project, as most of you know, was August 2003 to May 2006 working nights and weekends around school, and not in the summer. I estimate that I have between 950 and 1050 man hours (personally) into the truck during that time period. I did as much of the labor myself as possible.
Body:
-Completely stripped and disassembled, body mounts rebuilt
-New GM licensed front fenders, wheel wells and core support
-Tailgate stripped and redone
-Filled roof seams
-Roof rack removed, holes not shaved but plugged, retained chrome rails
-New non-wiper tinted rear glass, with defroster
-Paul's select front bumper with 2nd gen crystal lens foglamps
-Plate brackets courtesy of Captain Morgan
-Black gloss firewall, wheel wells and core support
-4 coat GM Dark Spiral grey metallic, 6 coat DuPont clear
-Heavy duty headlight harness
-Custom drivers side relocated battery using stock cables
-Stock style silver decals
-NASTE decals
Interior
-All plastic panels removed, sanded and repainted in black (including repair of holes in console)
-Visible screws in trim replaced with stainless
-10 disc Kenwood MP3 capable changer in console
-92 tape deck
-Dakota digital hidden antenna
-New charcoal carpet set from ACCMats.com
-Remote mirror switch relocated to left of cluster bezel, foglamp switch replaced with Astro switch and relocated below dash, gauge pod installed under right side of bezel with digital temp, switchable between oil and trans
-Speedhut black and silver reverse glow gauges
-Non cruise wiper stalk (cruise deleted)
-Weathertech (Cannon) floor mats (just like the originals the local GM dealer included with the truck) and cargo liner
-Rear wiper switch deleted
-Rear ashtrays replaced with carbon fiber panels
-Rear overhead panel replaced with non-wiper version (all wiper hookups still present)
Engine management
-Low impedance injector driver modified ECM
-Custom tune by Nolan running through moates switchable chip adapter
-Innovative LM-1 wideband
-3 bar MAP
Engine
-Stock block, bored and decked @ 4.030
-4 bolt mains, ARP studs
-JE pistons
-Eagle rods (stock oil pan was swedged for clearance)
-Stock crank, magnafluxed, polished and internally balanced
-Melling high flow oil pump
-Edelbrock double roller timing chain
-Comp cams 415 ( changed from 422, too much cam for the build)
-Vortec heads, 3 angle valve job, light polishing, stainless 2.01/1.64 valves
-Crane 1.6 Gold series self-aligning rockers
-Vortec modified SyTy manifold, polished by RPM
-75# PTE injectors
-Currently using cheap 4.3 distributor
-Accel 8.8mm plug wires
-Autolite race plugs
-MSD blaster GM coil
-BBK 58mm throttle body
-HKS SSQV blowoff on custom throttle body mount (Renz's favorite :lol: )
-ATR stainless headers, rewelded and ceramic coated by JetHot (original heat wrap failed)
-Fluidamper neutral harmonic balancer
-All stock GM accessories
-Has a stock waterpump, swapping back to an Edelbrock aluminum eventually
-Garret GT-35-R turbo (ball bearing), .83 A/R SyTy housing, 3" compressor
-RPM air to air front mount intercooler
-PTE internal wastegate downpipe
-ATR full 3" high flow exhaust with cat
-Walbro 255lp/h in tank pump
-Volvo electric fan with custom relay controller
-JSM frame pads with Moroso solid mounts
-195* thermostat, OEM Jimmy waterneck with fan control sensor installed (160* stat was causing problems)
Driveline
-Built 700R4, 700Raptor shot peened input and output shafts, kevlar clutches, 5 gear planetaries
-9.5" Billet converter, 2650rpm stall
-Gilbert propshaft
-rebuilt front / rear axles
-Eaton 7.625 carbon positraction differential
-B&M HiTec Trans cooler, 13 x 9", sans fan.
-Custom 3/8" aluminum trans lines with inline filter
-DeRale deep trans pan
Chassis
-Completely stripped, sandblasted, torsion bar crossmember removed, damaged torsion bar holes welded, 2 layer powder coat 80% gloss black (including spindles, bumper brackets, tank straps, trans crossmember and shackles)
-All Energy Suspension bushings
-Flexaform 2" drop rear monoleafs, stock spring rate
-RPM coilover conversion
-Hypercoil front springs
-QA1 12 way adjustable front shocks, KYB Monomax rear shocks
-Belltech upgraded front and rear swaybars
-LS1 rear disc conversion with custom p-brake cables and brackets
-CBR front LS1 disc conversion
-Inline Tube custom bent fuel and brake lines, stainless
-Turbotime braided stainless rear brake lines
-Summit proportioning valve
-All Moog 2nd design front end parts
-GM ZQ8 12:1 steering box (AGR box locked up on me, I won't buy anything AGR again)
-Borgeson aluminum steering shaft
-Flaming River clearcoated stainless steering u-joints
-New fuel tank and sending unit
-New front bearings, non abs version (ABS deleted :tup: )
-Napa MaxDrive halfshafts
-ROH Snyper wheels, 17x9 with 18 and 52 mm offsets
-Avon Tech M550 A/S tires, 275/40ZR17
-17" 5 spoke spare from a 2005 GTO
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