Jim's Little 460 AND 2000 RANGER

Managed to get alittle done I got the bed skin fiberglassed and repaired and the right side doors lighten up.Got the inside of the bed skins and door jams painted

You are doing a great job, it looks amazing. Are the bed side majority fiberglass? Is a step side the same length as a fleetside? I got an excab 99 that was a step side but I did not get the box and now I am trying to figure out what it was

Yes the step side are fiberglass the skins wait is about 35# each if that much don't have anything to wiegh them, the say on the in inside splash and had the part # but I painted over the sticker. The splash and regalur step sides have the same bed but not sure on if they are the same as fleet side in lenth or not I have sent the rest of the bed to the scrap yard.

Lookin good Jim

Just a update got some more parts this week 4 link kit,wheels for the rear welds pro star 15x12,4150 850 dp holley,new flex plate,oil filter relocation kit, now to get the 9'' dug out and get it ready to go under it after building the rearend it will be time to start the sheet metal until I save enough for lexan for windows, rear shocks and springs, seat, seat belts, shifter,stall conveter, front wheels,tires,and so more I can't think of right now.
Tires on the wheels are for mock up and rolling the truck around until I get ready to carry to the track my brother gave them to me the are late model tires

looking good Jim moving rite along

Lookin Good Jim

Well we got alittle done yesterday and today got the new flexplate on shift kit installed motor and trans back in .Put the wheels on for my wife could see how they look on it,looks like the 9'' will have to be 10'' narrower than the stock rear is. Here are a couple pics the first one has my wife and nephews the pit crew.

Changed the intake today going to have to trim alittle under the winshield to clear for the carb hat.Look like it has enough room in the pics but I only have about a 1'' of clearance and the carb hat want work.

hope to fire it up in the next 2 weeks

some serious engine set back

She alive finaly fired right up run about 3mins and shout off my dizzy don't have 12vts it don't fire the battery was low from bumping it over getting everything ready to fire up aleast that what hope it is. Could let it charge for a few mins and it would fire right back up and would shout off when I would turn the fuel or water pump on.I try it again tomorrow after my battery gets charged and get a vid of it the batteries was dead to day forgot to charge it.

I use to own a 99 ranger exactly like yours! I always thought that was the best looking Ranger they ever made. I would love to build a tube chassis Ranger and use that body style one day when I hit the lottery.

OK got the vids up finally my photobucket is slow on uploading vids the first one was at the end of the 2nd run. The motor has 35mins run time out ,I bought $4.00 the 1st time at $2.86 a gal for 93ot ran the 1st 15 mins 2000 rpms shute it down and let it cool down. In the 2nd 15 mins at 1500rpms run it ran out of gas about 5 mins in bought $5.00 this time and ran for another 15 mins and have about 3/4 gal left so she loves gas.Checked the headers with my infer red throm all the tubes was with in 5* so I now all the cyclinders are running about the same temp.It would get up to about 190* at about 15 mins.I had alittle blow by the 1st run but on the 2nd run it was almost all gone I do not have any evac on it right now never put the pipe in the header for the evac blub. I think it would handle alittle bigger carb it has a 850bp on it now.On the last vid it ran outy of gas again the hose wasn't down in the gas far enough.Ok heres the vids everytime I paused it it gave me a black pic so I made it 3 different vids.

Jim ! Way to go......I cant believe how far you have come with your hotrod ! Lookin Good Bro !

It looks stock from the outside.

Jim bo sounds good thats going to be a mean little truck.Those s-10 boys will be like shit what was that

the rear skin is dirty the pollan is falling like crazy here

heres some mock up pics

here is a few pics of mock up on the rearend got to cut a horse shoe out of the middle of the tube for the drive shaft and add some 1/4''x2'' flat bar up the side of the tubing to the top of frameto cap it off and help tie it in ,will be adding to the front of it to the frame with a gusset and adding another tube under the top of the frame for the top of the bracket and add the tube for the shocks

Looking good dude!

man the way you are going you will be ready for the bash !!!! looking sweet jim