PileHouse is starting to shape up and we can now envision what the truck will someday look like when it’s “done”. But I still felt that the front end needed “something more”. After staring at it over lunch one day, I decided that the truck needed a custom bumper to […]
Tag: Custom
Running Board Fabrication, A Front Bumper, and an Engine
In one of our last small updates we hinted at the running board project I had started on Project Pilehouse. Fast forward a little and we have just about completed the passenger side running board, complete with the outer skin we formed with the Eastwood Bead Roller, Electric Metal Cutting […]
Stretching the truck bed of PileHouse
When we last mentioned how we were lengthening the bed of PileHouse we had just cut the bed apart and braced it to fabricate the new panels. This was not an easy task, but it was made much easier after the project had spawned some new prototype products. Many of […]
Eastwood 2012 Summer Classic and Street Rodder Amsoil Road Tour Coverage- Part 1
With our first Summer Classic show being such a success last year, we were extremely excited for the 2012 show and we knew the bar had been set high. We listened to all of the suggestions, and tried to make this year go as smooth as possible. This year we […]
How to Fill and Shave Unused Holes in Your Project
When building a custom, or resto-mod vehicle one of the most common modifications you can do is to “shave” or fill unused holes in the body of the vehicle. While I was waiting on metal to finish the Custom Running Board Build on Project Pile House, I decided to start […]
Rebuilding front Suspension with a custom twist Part 2
In the last entry we showed you how to disassemble the front suspension on the S10 chassis that sits under Project Pile House. Once we had it all apart we began fitting the front air suspension. Air bags will allow the truck to drop all the way to the ground […]
Imperial Speedster Wins the Go For the Gold Award
Murray Pfaff recently took home one of the largest prizes in the Hot Rod community. The Starbird’s Go for the Gold award! He beat out the 2010 Riddler car “Gold Digger”. Eastwood was happy to donate and sponsor this build along the way with many products including Rust Encapsulator, Underhood […]
Whole lot of cutting going on in here
Late last week I spent some time cutting the bed apart to stretch it to give a more “balanced” look when viewing the truck from the side. I know a lot of people aren’t agreeing, but I think in the end it will be hard to tell it was lengthened […]
Sitting outside with bed height determined.
Today we got the bed sitting at about the height we want it at. We welded some more tabs in place out of round rebar to sit the bed on top of, but allow us to still move it side to side and front to back. It is close to […]