1969 F-250 7.3l IDI swap

[F350camper]

I am going to get a short alt belt to spin it down and relocate the fuel filter to the fender.

cool, thats not too bad to go through.

 

[ihf-350]

Got to drive her for the first time tonight. Sorry for the video quality I ran out of day light and my wife must have shaky hands lol. Still need to do the wiring no lights yet I just had to hope not to get pulled over I was driving it tonight no matter what.
First drive in the 69 - YouTube

 

[seawalkersee]

So, before you get too far into it, would you like a set of long tubes? I was under the impression this was a turbo build. Do you need one of those too? If you ARE going to turbo it, I would not go so steep on the gears. In fact, I would go taller with NA as well.

SWS

 

[ihf-350]

It is staying n/a and the 4.10s were already in it. Headers would be nice but this is a budget build sorry I haven't posted in awhile but no fun and interesting progress just working on the jungle of wires the po left under the dash and all the damn bare wires so no pics so far. But to feel like I am making progress I have started on the wooden flat bed that it is going to have but no pics. It is raining today and not much of that done just needed a break from the wiring headache.

 

[ihf-350]

Got the frame of the flat bed finished today used 3/8"x4 1/2" lag bolts recessed for flush surface

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[seawalkersee]

I like it. I'm surprised I have not seen your 4 door rollin around tho. I'll be watching for the 69 now.

SWS


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[ihf-350]

She has been parked I was using the batteries in the 69 lol but I started driving her again this weekend

 

[ihf-350]

Well I scrapped the flat bed idea since it was just temporary until I found a real bed which I did and went to pick up last weekend. I also got a matching set of the factory steelies and tires and painted them here she is now

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[seawalkersee]

sweet

 

[ihf-350]

Sorry it has been awhile but I have gotten a lot of work done ok so here is the truck as it sits before paint

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This is after the paint

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And this is the turbo installed and the custom 3" sch 10 pipe intake I made and the second picture is the tunnel for the up pipe and down pipe

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And here is the exhaust

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[jhenegh]

Hey look, a turbo

 

[ihf-350]

Yeah I got a deal on it for 250 shipped

 

[laserjock]

Nice.

 

[jhenegh]

What did you use to adapt the 4" air intake pipe to the turbo inlet?

It all looks really nice. I'm surprised you have a 2-piece driveshaft.

 

[fastbrianman]

Since I got my 1989 I have been thinking about this swap. Thanks for the great tutorial.