We always made a "pan" kinda thing that fills in the space between the radiator and the front of the motor...we actually still have the "original", a thin stainless plate we started using about 1990...We also always fill the gap between the inner fenders and the frame .....My Dad is the king of sealing out the muck..he tried all kinds of stuff......the whole truck could be covered, but the motor....... maybe a couple of specks on it.... .....

in NC 24000 people have lost their jobs in the last 7 months...NC's unemployment rate is 6.9, Iowa's is 4.6. glad to hear not the whole country is in the can.

another Ocracoke sunset and a moonrise just a few minutes apart.

Great pics mike!!
Thanks for sharing!

  lol it sure is! you wanna borrow it? 

i had never seen it done like that till i was up at the Digger shop a couple weeks back and Paul was building Joey a windshield for his Jeep mud truck. he broke it 90 one way then 90 the other within 2" of each other and it didn't crack. then he formed some wings to deflect the mud on the sides with the heat gun. Paul also did Herbie's inner fenders so i'll be pickin his brain soon on how to build mine. i have 3/4 of a 4x8 sheet already. i think one more whole sheet will do it all. the biggest headache will be building the support frame work. thinking of hiding some red led's in the frame that come on when i turn on the parking lights that'll give a hint of red glow around the engine at night that you'll be able to see through the lexan.

here's a pic of the Jeep, the top is gone and the windshield frame and just has the lexan screen.

That sounds COOL!!

It's lookin really good Mike..I have always been a big fan of those scoops for sure.
BTW..I also remember hearing that black engines dissipate heat better so that could be another advantage other than stealth mode....
Keep it up dude....

  thanks fellas!
 
everybody is doing fine on this end Jim, how about yours?

Are you gonna put some kinda good foam or something for a scoop plug?? I had a vision of using a scoop like that once and I was gonna make one of those big pans that mounts under the carb. The kind that seals to the hood when it closes.....coolest air possible then!! 

Everybody is doing good on this end. Summers over out door work on the RC is almost over till spring.
Nice black out on the engine. & that hood/scoop is going to look killer! Are you cutting the hood for air?

Good luck on the new job!!!
The scoop should look cool with the flat black hood & I like the idea of the air cleaner peaking out through the hood. Some lighting hidden inside the back corners of the scoop would be a nice effect also:D.

That scoop has 2 carbs in it!

Hey congratulations on the new job!!

any late 80's early 90's chevy 6.2 diesel truck had em. they use the pressure from the ps pump instead of vac. you just plumb it in line with your ps hoses.

Cool, man ....thanks....."+ 1" 

Did Dodge use something similar with the diesel?

Now that you mention it.."smaller diameter big block one"..I wonder if the one off my 74 model 2 wheel drive would work..it is the truck the 440 came out of. I wonder how it would work with the 1 ton brakes though. Do you guys think it would be any smaller than the 92 1 ton booster?? I guess when I get the chance..hopefully this weekend...I'm gonna take a bunch of measurements to compare if the actual truck bodies are made different..as in the location of the booster itself.....

  congrats on the new job, i like the scoop ideal i think it will look sweet!!!!

thanks fellas, i start monday. i was hoping i would get out of the swamps for a little while and see some hills and red clay but my first job is a boundary survey around Pocosin Lakes wildlife refuge. but hey next week will be the first week in months that i'll have a full 40 hours on a paycheck. and from the sounds of it i'll even get a little ot. i won't know how to act with a positive number in my checking account! 

There is the larger diameter, single-diaphragm, booster used in half-ton trucks.  In 3/4 and 1-ton they use a smaller diameter with 2 diaphragms (creating an extra vaccum chamber) for more boost.  The mc's also have different size pistons/valving if you have the 3500# axle (D44) or 4500# axle (D60).  So you do have to look carefully.  For an RC, however, it will all list the same since they are all 1/2 ton truck frames, and all had the D44 front.

yeah i should have put in there that i was using a 1 ton truck as the constant in that search. just different configs of a 1 ton truck. and for just the booster not the mc. it shows the same booster is used in 1 ton 2 wheel drive and 4 wheel drives, gas or diesel.

thanks Mike, i don't have a set date. the new job will have me out of town a lot, i mean a lot! sometimes three and four weeks at a time. if i can just get it where it'll move, steer, and stop i can farm out the rest of what i want to do to it to Jody and Paul. Paul mostly cause Jody goes back out on tour the first of the year. Jody is supposed to come by tonight and drop off his tranny jack, hoped to get the 727,STaK, and driveshafts back in it this weekend.


here's the new employer's website.  www.woolpert.com

im gonna be doing Lexan inside my truck for floorboards i believe (no more rust out! ). its good to hear that it forms fairly easy.

you had to put that link up there didnt you. now you got me thinking.  Looks like a great company from what i read, and there are jobs close by me too.