Love em or hate em they will always be around. They come is all manner of styles... Are there any AR members that have built, drive, or own a rat rod of any type? I would love to see some pictures of your rats.

Ok, I'll go first. Here is my creation. It's still a work in progress.

specifics on the engine please....

The motor started life as a MK-VI 454 ci big block Chevy. Bored .040, decked, line honed, with all ARP studs. Forged lightweight internally balanced eagle crank, H beam rods, Mahle flat top blower pistons, 8.5:1 compression. It's now just short of 500 ci. Aluminum heads, full roller cam, roller rockers, electric water pump, and a 6-71 blower. Not pictured are the 2 Pro Systems 780cfm carbs and the Methanol injection. It's set up to run at 12lbs of boost. It's connected to a monster transmissions Th-400 with a 3000 rpm stall converter. The rear end is a Dana 70 with 4:10 gears in a fully adjustable parallel bar 4 link rear suspension. I'm thinking it might have just enough horsepower to turn those 35" tall duals into smoke.

You'd best fix that bed, so you can dump a load of concrete in it to have a chance of hooking it up!
P.S. You are truly sick! I like the Dually axle.

Awesome

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Originally posted by lee440:
You'd best fix that bed, so you can dump a load of concrete in it to have a chance of hooking it up!
P.S. You are truly sick! I like the Dually axle.

Why thank you!

Waterboy,

You're a sick sick man.

Please keep us posted on this build.

Dirk
How is the rat rod coming along?

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Originally posted by lee440:
I like the Dually axle.

+1

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Originally posted by cal30 1906:
Dirk
How is the rat rod coming along?

It's still coming along slowly. I do not have a lot of time to work on it. Making a few changes to make it better/safer to drive. I had drum brakes on it for the mock up but needed to switch to disc. I fabricated a disk brake set up for the Dana 70 rear and the front now has discs as well. Willwood dual master cyl and petal set up. Thought it might be handy to be able to stop... I pulled the motor and trans, made new motor mounts to drop the motor a little over 2" and move it forward 3". I did this to get more room in the cab. I am extending the cab by using a cowl off of another truck. I am sectioning it and attaching it to the existing cowl. Should look crazy with double cowl vents..
Blower belts and pulleys are on. It will be 18% overdriven to give me about 9lbs of boost. Sooo many things to do and so little time. It's not like it is on tv that's for damn sure!!

Id love to see that beast run thru the gears.