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Project Kaoss: Bagged and Bodied 620.


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  • 8 months later...

Back from the dead!!!

 

The D21 is leaving my garage tonight. Either this weekend or next weekend I am going to get the frame to the 620 and bring it back to my house. I have everything I need to bag the front, so that will be first on the list. After that here is the short list:

 

Notch the rear

4 link

Bags for rear

Replace frame rails under the cab

replace floor boards on the cab.

Put the KA24E on the frame.

Bolt cab back on.

Relocate gas tank.

Get the damn thing running.

 

About 2k and hopefully the middle of next summer I will be able to drive this thing once again!

 

I've scaled this project down quite a bit. I don't know if I am going to enjoy driving it being that I am 6'5", but I just have to build this thing so we will see how far it progresses. Yes, the "original" paint is staying. If i get to the point of paint, I am going to recreate it exactly.

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Yes, the "original" paint is staying. If i get to the point of paint, I am going to recreate it exactly.

 

 

Big thumbs up on that statement! :thumbup:

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  • 5 weeks later...

What I am working with.

 

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I scored some of tires of a more fitting size then the ones that were on the truck for next to nothing. So like a mad man I decided to take the 30 year old tires off the original wheels and mount the "new" tires on myself.

 

6 hours of work later...

 

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And that's how that is done ha ha.

 

The result.

 

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For anyone that has ever mounted your own tires, take pride in your work!!!

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Got the front all the way torn down.

 

From here it is cut city boys.

 

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I wish that I could separate the spindle assembly from the lower control arms, but without a replacement king pin set on hand, I'll just have to work with this.

 

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Going to take a break from it the next couple of days and then fire up the grinders on Sunday night!

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The current to do list:

 

Stage 1:

 

Bag front.

Triangulate lower control arms.

Relocate front shocks.

Rear cross member

4 link rear

Bag rear

Notch frame

Mount shocks for rear.

Mount gas tank

Mount air tank

Lower cab mounts

Replace frame under cab

Clean up KA24E (my motor that i'm swapping in this thing)

Install 240sx intake on motor

Put KA24E on frame

Build new Tranny mount/cross member

Build new carrier bearing cross member

Get drive shaft made

Run new brake and fuel lines.

Replace floors in cab

put cab on frame

tub cab

paint firewall

wire motor

hang sheet metal on cab

mount compressors

run air management

Rebuild brakes

Install stereo and some speakers

Tag and sticker.

 

This will give me a fully operational mini truck, i may do a few odds and ends to it like repaint the wheels before i go on to the next stage of the build.

 

Stage 2:

Body drop the bed.

Mount bed.

Reupholster seat

Lay sound deadning material in cab

Lay carpet.

Repair/Replace Dash.

 

At this point I will know if i like the truck or not. If i do it's on to this:

 

Stage 3:

Shave seems on bed

Roll pan with led lights

Shave holes in fenders from emblems, marker lights, and gas filler door.

Replace front blinkers with led lights

Body work

paint (exactly like it was, oh yeah.)

 

Then the real fun part:

 

Stage 4:

Turbo

Bigger injectors

LSD

5 lug swap

side ways burn outs.

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Well, I'm an inch short when it comes to laying out the front. My options are:

 

1. rebuild the front cross member, allowing more room for the lower control arm to move up.

2. Swap the truck over to a Nissan HB ball joint set up and run drop spindles.

3. Run a smaller tire.

 

I'm going to go with option #3, it's the cheapest and easiest.

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Thanks. I try to keep things clean. If I were you I would use a narrowed 92ish toyota front clip, this thing is a bitch to bag.

 

first and only truck i bagged was my 77 620, and i didnt have the front all pulled like yours and it is a bitch to bag i agree, and i made my own brackets from scrap metal. can wiat to see yours done gonna be sick

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  • 3 weeks later...

Damn this thing is a bitch to bag. Second time around for the driver's side, the frame section is better this time then the first attempt.

 

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Still have the bottom bag mount to tack in, then gusseting. The passenger side will come out a lot cleaner, since I've mostly learned what not to do.

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  • 4 weeks later...

I've had a lot going on lately, vomiting family, divorcing in-laws, Halo, Star Wars Marathon on Spike, you know the usuall stuff. I snuck in a couple of hours over the last week and got the channel for the frame welded up and built one gusset for the upper bag plate.

 

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And my new 18" wheels.

 

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Yeah, those are 18" Titan Steelies. I'll probably just sand them down and paint them back silver. The Datsun dog dish caps look right at home on them, but it'll take some tricks to get them on there. I may just find a set of the stock Titan caps and throw on there.

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Ha! Weekend just started and I've already set out to do what I wanted to get done!

 

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Doesn't get much better than this. It gets good lift also about 2" below stock height. If anyone ever saw me cruise the mazda, normal ride height was about 1/2" off the ground.

 

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And my awesome wheels. It looks like an inch and half Z is in store for this thing in order for it to get to lay.

 

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