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Old blue

TheOtherNick

TheOtherNick

The mod from over yonder
Timing to start a thread for old blue, now that I am working on it again. It is a 78 dodge d-100/w-150/80 dodge adventurer Frankenstein.

It is powered by a 400 H/O b series big block. Power is transferred to a torque flight 727 trans and a np 230? IIRC divorced transfer case. Has a spool in the rear and a Detroit locker up front.

The plan for the next month or so is to lower it down some. Swap out the 38" tires for some 35" tires I have in the shed, then pull it. Progress is as follows.

Just got a new hei distributor put in along with a new holley carb to get it running good. Before It had horrible issues with cutting out when WOT. Just tonight I got my new 16" 2500 cfm electric fan wired in to free up some power from the old clutch fan and to provide better cooling. Tomorrow I plan to get my custom gauge panel made and to clean up the spark plug wires.

Will update tomorrow with fresh pics and other magical things.

Old pictures of the truck
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i did the electric fans on my 03 gmc, and you do notice a small power increase off the line, i had 2, 16" pro comps cost 25 each, the relays, switches and wiring cost another 30, and they wanted a 160 for a new clutch fan. f that!

this was the 3 rd clutch fan and the warranty ran out.

the truck ran 1 deg cooler, and the a/c blew ice cold like never before, and i gained maybe 2 mpg, if i drove it nice.

have fun with Frankenstein, when trucks were still trucks.
 
Yeah this is a pro comp fan also. I got two of them off ebay for $60 with mounting kit. the fan seem to hold up good?
 
yeah i had it for 3 years no failures, i think i had the 8 curved blades, you could feel it sucking air into the grill.

i would always turn them off if i hit deep water, i live in a flood zone, so 3 feet of water was the norm, so they took all that. had it up to the windshield one time too lol.

the pro comps even worked better when i had my plow on while on the high way, the stock fan i would over heat if i went over 65 and was in the gas, i would have to light foot it on the highway if you know what i mean.

you may need 2 fans for that, if the radiator is a 32 long, for the price you cant go wrong.
 
id put one on the left as a puller and the one on the out side right as a pusher, or vise versa, which ever way they fit. that should work.

don't know if its got ac, but you may need a bracket to hold the outside fan, the mounting zip tie things are to fat to fit through a condenser. at least the ones i had available to me were.
 


I only have about 4 inch on each side of the fan now so they would have to be stacked pretty much. No a/c on this truck Even if there was I would have ditched it, no need Its not a long distance thing gets about 4 mpg in town.
 




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