http://www.killbillet.com/showthread.php?t=7278 i know most you guys probably wouldnt want your truck this low but i think this is bad ass!!! thought id share it with you.
Pretty Kewl !! I like the name of that site too !!! I often wear my Billet Proof shirt at shows and love the looks I get when people realize that the 37 is mine, and Has obviously NOT been Billet Proofed !!! Seriously, I do like this style of hot rodding and the culture associated with it.. There is hope for the future of the hobby !!! dv
actually the guy was saying he did it all for about $500. He fabricated pretty much everything, ill bet he had alot of the materials lying around his shop, that probably cut the cost way down.
haha, thats funny Dennis. I really like that style of rodding too, thats pretty much how my stuff gets built. Back to basics I call it. Your right though, its really neat to see that there is a future for our hobby. As Im sure youve seen a ton of it in California, theres a huge breed of "rockabilly rodders" out there now that are bringing the "basic rod" back to life. I really like it because you see alot of induviduality in each hotrod and there low budget like back in the day. dont get me wrong, i love "finished hotrods" too.
$5500 is more like it I can't see how this suspension was modified to this state for $500. have you priced air bags, compressors, custom A arms, on and on. I have $500 in mine and I'm not on air. Remember the truck isn't this low while cruizing, just when parked. Air ride is great for styling while parked. It is actually pretty touchy about the pressures that the vehicle rides well. Each vehicle seems to have a little different sweet spot for pressures. Hopefully, but not always, that sweet spot is at the ride height for driving. I can't make the connection with air ride and old style or rat vehicles. Air is new high tech, unlike the design of rods of old. Do I like it? YES.
That is essentially correct. It means much more on the front than the rear though.. I've used air ride for 4 years and 15000 miles in the 37 now. It was setup all wrong at first requiring too much air pressure in the front bags, ( for wheel clearance ), leaving next to no suspension travel. A set of one inch spacers over the front bags solved that problem requiring 20 lbs less air pressure than before. The ride now is extreemly comfortable AND adjustable to road conditions... I'm sold !! All my vehicles from now on will have air ride in them !! dv
when i read the guys statment he said most of the stuff was around the shop already, plus he stated that the a arms werent custom bought, he modified lower ones of an impalla and made the tops, you can tell by the pics that pretty much everything was garage built, not bought. Guys with these style trucks and cars are very savy at building these kind of rides nearly purley out of old iron and steel sitting around. Like myself, i collect nearly perfect parts off other cars and modify them to my needs, cuts the cost way down. I have a complete (minus the compressor) air ride set up off a 97 mark 8. A customer had a bad compressor and wanted the whole sytem redune, so i kept all the good stuff. Thats how you keep the cost to $500. And ya, its pretty obviouse you cant drive a vehicle on the ground unless your trying to grind the bottom of your body off completly. As far as the connection of old "rats rods" and high tech air, i understand were your coming from, the things is, just like one generation to the next, there taking and old idea and adding new ideas to it too.
