She's no Green Death Machine or the Antichrist, but she's a beautiful truck. Nice job on her so far.

Gigantor is three times the size of the GDM. The Antichrist doesnt run much. I am looking forward to taking this on next year's con run.

"Prius eater."

Fucking brilliant.

I am having decals made to warn drivers of Obamamobiles.

That made me laugh out loud. I need some for my car too.

Dat bumper.

its a really heavy duty bumper. I wanted something sturdy. It was expensive.

I haven't known you to do anything halfway.

I tried to keep as much money in Arizona as possible. Iron Bull is up their in Phoenix.

Nice rack!

The rack is large enough for the Karno Roadtrip Isolation Device, or KRID.

A clear tubular device with the following features;

A clear dome for viewing the world around you. A funnel to trap various airborne insects (to eat) it will also trap rainwater (to drink).
Airholes, which can be closed if you no longer deserve to breathe.
A compact, aerodynamic design that ensures that you hands and arms cannot move.
And best of all, as you will be strapped to the roof, where your "gasses" and comments are well away from the rest of us!

We believe that this device, aka the KRID, will open up a new commercial market for the following consumers:
People with kids, people with room mates, prison transport busses, people with kids, anyone who must take furries to conventions, and people with kids.

Nice setup! Love the sound of a good diesel.
My car's not quite as heavy-duty, but I don't think it's anything to scoff at.

Those are good cars! Beastie boys.????

A classic rap group from Brooklyn.
Big fan of their music. :)
Would love to supe up the car, too. Make it more of a force to be reckoned with.

Nice Jewish boys from Brooklyn! Never could get into hip hop, but they did open up the market to rock/hiphop crossovers, and some of their songs are pretty good.

That they did!

That's bad ass, what does the bumper weigh?

A little over 200 pounds.

Well, its prettier that The Beast.
(My '92 Ford explorer.)

But, no gun ring?
How are you going to mount the M2 when the zombies attack?




I need to go shooting again....
Been too long, now that its so hard to find a decent place locally.

-Badger-

I intend to put up sheet aluminum to act as a floor to the rack system, there, several people may sharpshoot the living deas as we go. The rack capacity is over 1200 pounds!

Well, that would hold about one member of the Tucson mob and a barely acceptable amount of ammo, at least.

Gotta build that mobile bunker from walls of filled ammo cans, after all.

-Badger-

Vehicle kill stickers yet?

Not yet, so far, I have an I HUNT TWEEKERS sticker, a BLACK WEAPONS ARMORY sticker (a local gun store) and awaiting Old Glory decal and an Arizona decal. Plus whatever else I find and like....

I have an 1997 F-250 Heavy Duty Extended Cab Long Bed 4x4 with the 7.3 Turbo Diesel. she'd got 280,000 one her, at at least 750,000 left before her overhaul

oh, and my bumper stickers are:

Who Is John Galt?

a FICTION bumper sticker like this one http://compare.ebay.com/like/330418.....s&var=sbar

and a $5 coupon sticker from the local We-Lube-It-For-You place... 17 Quarts of 15w/40 gets Expensive! next time I should just bring in a couple gallons of Delvac from my work truck!

The 7.3 was a great engine. They went to the 6.0, the first ones were 2004, which is what I have. This one is on demand 4x4. I turn a dial on the dash and lock the hubs, good to go.
I had the new oil cooler put in (the Bulletproof system), and a whole bunch of other work.

Yeah, mine is a longbed. Love those! With the new oil cooler for the turbo, it takes 21 quarts of oil.....

Killer rig man, I dig it.

Thanks, I enjoy it

Nice, but what kind of mileage does it get?

I get 500 miles per tank, better than the little dodge dakota I had. Tons pf power. I will be adding an additional tank soon to increase its range.

That's the range, not the gas mileage.

I am not sure, just got the chip flashed, will have to log it and check....

I managed to get 43mpg in a 99 Saturn on my way taking my wife to see her folks in Tennessee, that was nice. Basically I just reset the trip odometer every time I fill up the tank and calculate it that way.

I normally do just that, but I havent been logging it. I rarely go less than half a tank.

Ah, alrighty then.

According to a few quick calculations, I get somewhere just over 25 mpg. Pretty good for such a heavy and fast truck.

I had the read out replaced. Flat out across Texas I got 14MPG.

I'm sorry to hear that.

for all it's power and size, I am fine with that.

Well, hopefully all that power and size does something useful. For instance, 8,400 Erie-built horsepower: http://www.furaffinity.net/full/7797594/

It does what I need it to do. Good enough for me.

I'm just a bit of a loss, figuring out what that could be.

Looks awesome!

What did you do to improve the cooling?

Are you going to install a kilowatt of xenon arc off road driving lights?

I've got a little normally aspirated 6.2 L diesel. Added an oil cooler and tranny cooler. Most important addition was twin huge bypass oil filters to get the sub 5 micron particles.

Diesels retain great efficiency at low throttle; my 6,000 pound rig gets 45 MPG at 45 MPH, so I have a range of 1300 miles without Jerry cans. Keep on truckin.

I had the Bulletproof system installed. It is a larger oil and tranny cooler that replaces the ford factory unit. The factory unit was used after the motor manufacturer ( I think International made them) advised that the unit was too small. This was what led to the poor performance of the 6.1 powerstroke engine which was heavily reported.
The Bulletproof replacement remedies this.

I intend to add a few LED lights to the front bumper, which has space for four of them. I also intend to place a remote controlled turret light assembly to the roof.
Once I have the basket(s) added to the rear portion of the roofrack, I will add a large solar panel to charge my dual bettery system and a set of marine deep cycle batteries for accessories.

Thanks for your info. I had read of the poor reputation of the 6.1L Powerstroke, but had no idea that the reliability problem could be fixed.

Solar trickle chargers are wonderful! I've got a whole fleet of ancient vehicles, and they sure have been a boon.

Guns, Guts and GassGuzzlers keep us safe from raging hippies


I really like the bumper. Gotta say, chrome works nice for city (and you still can nail few short-runners to it instyle) but maan, that one is asking for 50'Cal foglights

I am not a fan of chrome on modern cars. I am gonna blackout all the chrome, replace the grill for better airflow, add some lights and a few vents and a couple other things. The crinkle-coat on the bumper actually stays cool in 110 degree weather.

You sure you need extra cooling for a Diesel? I mean, coolant in thoose things hardly reach even 140F when i cruse. It's not the 415 petrol, where you need extra fans and every hole possible to keep from boiling at the idle.

Since it's a turbo diesel it needs it! The pyrometer regularly records my exhaust at over 800 degrees. I also have dual oil filters and the system carries 21 quarts of oil.
I intend to vent the hood, add some quarter panel vents, and some other bits I can't recall ATM..
International made the 6.1 powerstroke, Ford put a smaller than recommended oil cooler system on it. It also helps cool the tranny fluid, and since it is regularly over 110 here in summer, I will grab every bit of cool I can find.

Okay you're da boss.


Ford put a smaller than recommended oil cooler system on it.

That starting to worry me. After they killed Econoline for slightly bigger version of Transit, and made Explorer 5 with 2.5 EcoBoost sewmachine... they got to ruin some details on nice cars left in producing. Where do this world coming to?

The bulletproof system turns this into a 600.000 plus milage truck, so yeah a good investment.
The Bumper is an Iron Bull custom built unit from the Phoenix area.

That would be good. This thing is over 200 pounds and cost 3k.

I know what you mean about loving trucks and now I know what those brackets where that I saw on the back of your truck were for. T3-Bluedini which I named after my late white buck Houdind did great on the shity icy roads on the way home.

It was great to see you again.