1984 K10 Scottsdale with plow package.
It's got air conditioning, intermittent wipers, and cruise control. All odd things for a Scottsdale.
305, 700R4, NP208, and 2.73 ten bolts.
You can view the original equipment RPO codes here.
Last July (Summer 2002) I gutted the truck and repainted it. It was stripped down to just the windshield in the cab. It's since gotten pretty beat up in the northern Michigan winter and my romping out in the woods.
Pages 2, 3, and 4 are currently the story (with pictures) of the truck from the time I bought it until around the beginning of April 2003.
ENGINE:
It came with an aenemic truck 305 (9.2:1 compression, 140 ponies) which died not long after its first expressway travel.
It's had a LS9 350 in it with a cam that wasn't meant for a truck. Great for lighting up the tires, crappy for going out in the woods.
Right now it's got a 305 bored .060" over with a 262H cam in it. The 305 58cc smog heads with 1.84/1.50 valves were ported by me. Speed-pro cast hyp pistons and moly rings. ARP main studs.
Hooker headers and plumbing.
All smog has been removed except the vapor system.
Custom electric fan out of a Celebrity/Cutlass Ciera.
Dual batteries.
Custom wannabe cold air intake that sucks air out of the passenger fender while retaining the stock 5" air cleaner and element.
I think that's just about all the interesting stuff under the hood.
DRIVETRAIN/CHASSIS:
Pretty much stock. Unnecessary bracketry has been removed and dual tanks with a fuel pump between them for driver's side filling has been added.
I've blown up the spider gears in the rear before.
Soon it'll be going up 4" and have 3.42 geared ten bolts under it with the rear having disc brakes.
INTERIOR:
Not much here. The vinyl floor has made way for a bedlinered floor. There is no longer a cardboard piece behind the seat and instead has a piece of plastic to keep junk from moving around. There is a fire extinguisher behind the seat. On each door there are maglites mounted.
Dash has been cut for a Jensen MP3510 mp3 player. Right now the stock speakers are back in it because the ones I had in it blew.
There's a CB radio mounted under the ash tray using two of the ash tray's mounting screws.
The instrument cluster has been cut and modified to put a tach where the obnoxiously large fuel gauge normally goes. I did a writeup on this because people kept asking me. Not dialup friendly.
There's 35% tint on the back window and 50% tint on the side windows. Goal was to keep myself from cooking in the sun when on long trips. Prior to doing this I'd get sunburn with the air conditioning on and the windows rolled up.
The cracked to oblivion dash was mother nature's doing.
EXTERIOR:
The truck has two new doors and one new front fender on it. The front clip is off an 89 Jimmy. I wired up a relay to keep all four headlights on when the highbeams are turned on.
The rear bumper is off an 89 Pickup.
There are two 88-98 towhooks mounted to the frame at the back of the truck.
I have four sets of tires for the truck I actually use (in other words I have more):
235x75r15 Cooper Weathermaster IIs on stocker wheels for wintertime driving. We get around 300" of snow each season and good winter tires come in handy.
31x10.50r15 General Grabber APs on stocker Rally 15x8 wheels. I ran the rubber on my Sonoma and now they're my smokesnow tires.
33x12.50 Seiberling Trailsomething or others on 15x10 Western Wheel turbines. I picked these up not long ago and now they're my new street tires. They suck ass offroad but they're nice and stiff so they make a good street tire. They're actually wider than my other 33s.
33x12.50 Medalist Mud Tracks (aka Mud Kings) on 15x10 Outlaw IIs. These are my offroad tires. I like them a lot.
