News: I'am working on flipped rod end's, intercooler, 2.85 gears with one off custom PTO to work with it +++ want's bigger tires and 3" bodylift

Yes, Nitteburg, now send that over here, piece by peice.. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

nitte??? can you send your old PTO over this way??

I would LOVE to use it!! Matter of fact.... I will BUILD a truck around it!

Cool pics nitte!!! Sorry but I haven't received the pics i promissed. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> but please stay tuned <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Stuff I have in hand now unless i've lost it someplace:
New (NEW!!) 14G turbo
everything efi/turbo from the donor but MAF/aircan lid
stuff, cruise harness, alternator (see "stuff I need")
cruise computer, vac pump/reservoir/switch/lines/chk valve
intercooler and hoses
oil cooler and hoses

Stuff I need:
MAF/IAT/air can lid
cruise harness
alternator
to get the tools moved to the garage and the hoist assembled
kill the mice
go to Puerto Rico and find a Cabrio and import as "off road
only-unliscensable ever, or we send you to Gitmo with
the rag head rabid dogs" and import same
(OR, just go to Norway and steal Nitte's)
motivation to do more than spend money, and time to
exercise said motivation. I've driven 402mi and worked
16hrs {not countin' drivin' time) so far this week,
startin' mon. at 4:45pee em . .... ..
ending 30min ago...

I'm thinking that I get someone to carefully cut off all the relative points of fitment and I reinstall. Then it will still be my original VIN, etc. I'm thinking if you cut them off down to the horizontal seam that runs around the body, you'd be in good shape to put them back on in the right place.

And I'll bet shipping would be much less...

Whole body shell firewall back - you still keep the same VIN (in GA, anyway) and don't even have to get a new roadworthiness inpsection because you only replaced one major component. If you started from a first vehicle with a salvage title, it wouldn't work because of the State patrol roadworthiness inspection. All that assume that the first car VIN tag just happens to jump over the the new body shell while the new windshield is being installed (why ship a heavy windshield that you are going to replace?).

I saw a Cabrio version with a hard fiberglass removeable rear roof section AND the folding rag top. That's what I want - been too many miles with a ragtop booming at speed already for a steady diet of the same again...