Dusty
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Here's a few pix of a Bronco we've been working on here at WCB, its turning out pretty nice. When it first came to the shop it was a basket case abandoned project. We deleted or re-did some of the previous work then set out to turning it into another great WCB build.
It showed up as shown here. Goodies it already had were a pair of Dynatrac Dana 60's, an incomplete 393 stroker and Atlas II.
Some body work had already been done, some of which we would have to re-do later. It had some aftermarket radius arms and hoops, another brand of springs, a pre-fab cage from one of the vendors. All of these would be taken off, sent back or sold. First to come out was the cage, which we replaced with a WCB custom 6-point family cage.
Next up a set of WCB radius arms and a custom version of our tubular shock hoops:
The inner fenders were removed and a custom tubular core support fabricated. I don't have a photo of the core support at this stage but you'll see it later after powdercoat.
A Wild Horses "Buckaroo" hood is going to give this hot rod an aggressive look:
A custom WCB tubular pre-runner style front bumper came next.
Then we fitted a set of our extreme duty rocker guards.
With most of the major fabrication completed we pulled the body off the frame, as this is going to be a ground-up frame-off build. We flipped the body over and prepped it for spray-on liner:
It came back from the liner place looking great. The entire underside, fierwall, wheel wells, etc was done.
While the body was at the liners, the frame was at the paint shop and all of the fabricated items were at powdercoat. Once everything was back at the shop it was time for the first stage of re-assembly.
The frame was painted gloss black, and the shock hoops, radius arms and most other items were done in metallic Silver Bullet.
The cage has frame tie-ins at all 6 points.
Next we began setting the drivetrain back in, starting with the stroker.
Soon the built C6 and Atlas II were back in, as well as the Dana 60's and the rolling chassis was back on all 4's.
Next the body was placed back onto the frame and the tubular core support, now powdercoated Silver Bullet, installed.
The cage had been powdercoated silver gray as well, and the front and rear bumpers gloss black. We did a quick assembly of all the major parts to see what it would look like just before sending it to paint.
At the paint shop it got the remaining body work done, and a striking coat of fire engine red. This thing is starting to look awesome.
We had the inside of the tub spray-lined after paint. The liner goes all the way up the firewall.
We also had them line the step areas of the roadster inserts.
At that point the re-assembly was put on hold for a while, as we were building and moving into our new shop. With that done, we recently went back to work on it and have made some quick progress.
The cage looks awesome in silver bullet, against the bright red paint and black bedliner. I didn't note it before but the cage also has an integrated rear tire mount (inside the bed), seat mounts and a center console for the Winters shifter.
The Buckaroo hood looks awesome in fire engine red.
Under that hood it looks even better, with the powder-coated hoops and core support, aluminum radiator and Trick-Flow topped stroker.
The custom dash we built features all Autometer Pro-Comp gauges. The speedometer is GPS-driven. The dash was also powdercoated silver bullet. Nick's Trix column bezel and Flaming River polished column finish out the dash.
The fabbed cover on the right end of the dash houses the motor for the low-mount wipers.
The rocker guards were powdercoated gloss black. The WH Guerilla Warflares fit snugly to the top of the rocker guards. We used stainless steel socket head cap screws instead of rivets to attach the flares.
WCB Rockcrawler power steering box. Deaver coils powdercoated Silver Bullet.
We even powdercoated the custom crossmember. The underside of this thing looks as nice as the exterior (well except maybe for that scuffed up trans pan)
And that's it for now. Thanks for checking it out. This one will be up on our website soon along with our other build-ups, in the "projects" section. I'll post up more pix as we button it up further.
Dusty
It showed up as shown here. Goodies it already had were a pair of Dynatrac Dana 60's, an incomplete 393 stroker and Atlas II.
Some body work had already been done, some of which we would have to re-do later. It had some aftermarket radius arms and hoops, another brand of springs, a pre-fab cage from one of the vendors. All of these would be taken off, sent back or sold. First to come out was the cage, which we replaced with a WCB custom 6-point family cage.
Next up a set of WCB radius arms and a custom version of our tubular shock hoops:
The inner fenders were removed and a custom tubular core support fabricated. I don't have a photo of the core support at this stage but you'll see it later after powdercoat.
A Wild Horses "Buckaroo" hood is going to give this hot rod an aggressive look:
A custom WCB tubular pre-runner style front bumper came next.
Then we fitted a set of our extreme duty rocker guards.
With most of the major fabrication completed we pulled the body off the frame, as this is going to be a ground-up frame-off build. We flipped the body over and prepped it for spray-on liner:
It came back from the liner place looking great. The entire underside, fierwall, wheel wells, etc was done.
While the body was at the liners, the frame was at the paint shop and all of the fabricated items were at powdercoat. Once everything was back at the shop it was time for the first stage of re-assembly.
The frame was painted gloss black, and the shock hoops, radius arms and most other items were done in metallic Silver Bullet.
The cage has frame tie-ins at all 6 points.
Next we began setting the drivetrain back in, starting with the stroker.
Soon the built C6 and Atlas II were back in, as well as the Dana 60's and the rolling chassis was back on all 4's.
Next the body was placed back onto the frame and the tubular core support, now powdercoated Silver Bullet, installed.
The cage had been powdercoated silver gray as well, and the front and rear bumpers gloss black. We did a quick assembly of all the major parts to see what it would look like just before sending it to paint.
At the paint shop it got the remaining body work done, and a striking coat of fire engine red. This thing is starting to look awesome.
We had the inside of the tub spray-lined after paint. The liner goes all the way up the firewall.
We also had them line the step areas of the roadster inserts.
At that point the re-assembly was put on hold for a while, as we were building and moving into our new shop. With that done, we recently went back to work on it and have made some quick progress.
The cage looks awesome in silver bullet, against the bright red paint and black bedliner. I didn't note it before but the cage also has an integrated rear tire mount (inside the bed), seat mounts and a center console for the Winters shifter.
The Buckaroo hood looks awesome in fire engine red.
Under that hood it looks even better, with the powder-coated hoops and core support, aluminum radiator and Trick-Flow topped stroker.
The custom dash we built features all Autometer Pro-Comp gauges. The speedometer is GPS-driven. The dash was also powdercoated silver bullet. Nick's Trix column bezel and Flaming River polished column finish out the dash.
The fabbed cover on the right end of the dash houses the motor for the low-mount wipers.
The rocker guards were powdercoated gloss black. The WH Guerilla Warflares fit snugly to the top of the rocker guards. We used stainless steel socket head cap screws instead of rivets to attach the flares.
WCB Rockcrawler power steering box. Deaver coils powdercoated Silver Bullet.
We even powdercoated the custom crossmember. The underside of this thing looks as nice as the exterior (well except maybe for that scuffed up trans pan)
And that's it for now. Thanks for checking it out. This one will be up on our website soon along with our other build-ups, in the "projects" section. I'll post up more pix as we button it up further.
Dusty
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