http://chadcopeland.com Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:56:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I met a guy several months ago when I took my Soarer to a car show. I told him about my Datsun project and he was intrigued. I ran across him again at an Old School meet and he snapped this shot of the truck. One of the best shots ... http://chadcopeland.com/kevin-bandy/ Apparently someone got a quick shot of the Datsun when I was at the Varsity on the first thursday of December. It was so frikk'n cold!! I don't think the temp was that bad, it was just the wind chill. It felt like it was around 18 degrees with the ... http://chadcopeland.com/the-varsity/ It's been a bit since I've updated the site. Actually it's been a while since I've updated anything. Chris has been the one that's been keeping things up to date lately. So here's some from me. We got the truck done and on the road. FINALLY! We had quite a few ... http://chadcopeland.com/update-from-before-christmas/ I got these on yesterday among some other stuff. http://chadcopeland.com/brake-yoself/ A few updates. Can't explain a lot of them. Just pics of things as we SLOWLY wrap it up. I swear this thing is going to be the death of me due to stress!! We had to recut the intercooler for a second time. I know the bay looks like shart. Went with ... http://chadcopeland.com/recut-the-intercooler-dash/ Ok, More updates. I'm to tired to write about stuff. So just pictures. I'm going to install this as soon as I get back from our 5 day camping trip to Heat Stroke Island. Tempted to make it a push brake. There's not very much room next to the shifter. http://chadcopeland.com/peaking-her-out-of-the-garage/ Ok, a few updates. Played around with MS paint or one of the programs on my laptop: I"ve got a long weekend to work on this thing and I've got a lot of stuff planned to do so hopefully I'll have some good updates to post on Monday. http://chadcopeland.com/the-ratson-is-starting-to-take-shape/ Nothing real new. I've been working on this thing but the footings on the cage took quite a while because I wanted them to be solid but yet removable incase I ever need to remove the cab at some point. I completed the tunnel yesterday and today I have to pop ... http://chadcopeland.com/transmission-tunnel-taking-shape/ Ok, I havent posted anything in a bit so I figured I would put up some more stuff. Time to make the firewall and tunnel remembered that I needed to make the tranny mount and do the exhaust before finishing the firewall and tunnel. Added one more x-frame for support and was able ... http://chadcopeland.com/tranny-tunnel-and-roll-cage/ Scott and I slapped the cab on. Had to cut the inner fender almost all the way out for the strut towers. The truck seemed to get smaller as we put it on. Here's Scott standing next to it to give a reference. The wheels stick out a little bit. I still have to ... http://chadcopeland.com/cab-placement/