Project PT-57 By Hot Rod Jim's

LQ4 6.0L from a 2003 2500 Truck backed by a T56  
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Nice, I bet that has a ton of torque behind it.  

Should be 550-600 RWHP and 600+ RWTQ with a the flattest curve we can get. We should see 7 PSI at 3200 RPM's with no load and keep it all the way to 7000 RPM's

I forgot a few photos from the last update and I have a few more for this one.

Brake pedal rendering and the gas tank I forgot to post last time. You might also notice I got the LQ4 model for the truck instead of the LS7 better info for the firewall bits.

   

I’m working on the gas tank and brake pedal and found out the new bottle of gas was bad. That’s the main reason the welds on the brake pedal look so chunky. I might re-cut it but only time will tell.

   

Jim’s working on the front grill inserts to make the cross hair mouth.

   

And the inter coolers are here.



-Russell  
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Is the filler neck going to be on the side of the truck or in the bed?  

The filler will still be on the cab. We're trying to keep the stylized period parts on the truck so the old filler with a typical army style logo of FUEL over the top.

Update

People with big feet - (Darren, Brianne, and I, well everyone but Billy really) our feet wouldn't fit with the last pedal system so we rear arranged a few things and moved them under the floor.

Clutch
 

Brake
 

Intercooler caps are done and out to the cutter with the brake parts



TURBOS!!!!
Looking evil. and the tubing for the compressed air is in too. All mandrel bends in aluminum. It'll start 2.00" at the turbo after a few gentle 45 degree turns it goes up to 2.25" up over the front tire turns into 2.5" and then goes into the intercoolers.

   

 

Stack gauges are in. I've always used Autometer and with stack being bought out by them I think Autometer will learn something from tack. WOW the are some of the best built gauges I've ever seen. Aluminum housings, electric steeper motors full 270 degree sweeps and the tack. Oh the tack, this is all built in 2 programmable gauges, speedometer, odometer, and sequential shift light. Just wow, Huge thanks to Stack for these bad boys and the simple black and white fits the plane theme perfectly.



Later
-Russell  
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Those twin turbos look sick. Frame looks awesome too.  

Update for the mad dash to SEMA Come see Hot Rod Jim's with the PT-57 in Booth # 24695

Some pics and I'm back into the shop

Frame back from Powdercoat and going together,

   

   



Pulley System from Vintage Air, The new differential adapter plate, more parts on the frame and the trucks back from paint.

   

   

 

The Fun update. Brianne our driver came down and too some photos for us after we got the body on the frame. I too the other ones but my good lens is gone so they don't look so hot.

   

   

   

   

   

   

Later
-Russell  
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See you at SEMA Russell.  

Yep, fine job, I guess I'll get a closer look at it at SEMA.   Catch ya lata  

We did make it, we pushed the truck into the SEMA Show Monday for setup and drove it our on Friday after finding and fixing wiring problems.


We put down 567.13 RWHP and 506.27 RWTQ at 4:00 A.M. Saturday morning on the Dyno at Wicked HP with the Help of Chris. When we got to the track we were still locking down a few little things and needed to finish bleeding the brakes. We were given an extension at Tech but ended up missing our deadline when the front wheels with the race tires high centered on the calipers.  I had ordered them because I was told they would clear the Z06 Calipers but such had been our luck for the last 2 weeks (Turns out that wheel guy is out of business now, go figure). I'm working on a full report sorting photos and a video. Sorry, but for now you'll have to live with these.

After we missed our dead line we had all been awake for 36+ hours and not have had any good sleep in weeks we all wanted to just go home at that point. We we're told we will be aloud to compete next year because of our efforts this year. The wiring harness was the major last stab that slowed us down. 2 bad sensors wired so we didn't get it running before we left and ended up spending 30+ hours finding and fixing a $700.00 harness. I will not release their name because they did make the harness for me in 3 days and for that I am grateful and by my research they've never had this problem before but I can say I'll never buy another wiring harness from those guys again after the indigent response I got when asking about the problem.

-Russell

http://special-reports.pickuptrucks.com/2009/11/the-most-awesome-truck-at-sema-hot-rod-jims-pt57.html

 
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Glad you got it fired up.  

Sorry I haven't gotten anything posted in a while, sick for a few weeks and I'm catching up my customers projects.

A little article on the PT-57

http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2010/01/shark-bite-we-drive-the-amazing-project-pt57-hot-rod-pickup.html

-R^3  
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It's going around, I just got over a bug myself. Hope you didn't get bit by the swine.  

Sorry for my long absence been busy catching up the customers projects and getting sick for almost 2 full weeks doing nothing but sleeping and now I'm trying to recover my strength. Nothing like knowing a month ago I just picked that rear end up and put it on the table, now I can't budge it.

For those who missed it there was a little article on the PT-57, lots of its wrong but hay who's counting.
[url]http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2010/01/shark-bite-we-drive-the-amazing-project-pt57-hot-rod-pickup.html[/url]


For the fans, I just got around to taking these today so you all can see how she's come out so far. I'm still playing with the HDR's.

 

 



I'm still experimenting with differential mounts and brackets so I haven't gotten a chance to put it on the track yet. I'm also going to do a major renovation of the firewall, steering column, steering linkage, and pedal system.

The steering column ended up a little lower than I would have liked so we'll be moving it up to better clear my huge size 13 feet and I'm going to give a little extra because I have 2 friends / customers who wear 16's. I want a little more leverage on the brakes, I can just barely lock up the street tires the way she sits now and that mean's I have some grip I'll loose out on with the Slicks so a little more leverage  on that end and a little different pedal design too.

The fire wall is going to get a different look to make it more of a factory design instead of the overly common slick everything. I want to make the motor compartment look and feel more like the inside of a bomber / fighter than a tricked out show car. We're also going to ditch the inter coolers since they only show very little cooling compared to the intake air temp. On the dyno the ITA was only 5+ ambient and that was no air moving across the rest of the mandrill tubing under the car. The pyrometer on the end caps was only showing 8-10 degrees drop across the IC’s and they had a fan blowing on them directly so they go and with it some weight too.
 
 Later
 -Russell  
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Great looking truck.Pics under the bridge are awesome!
 Mike  
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