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Like the title says I am starting a k30 crew cab long build!

It’s just natural progression with a hint of craziness. See I’ve already built a regular cab short bed k10, a regular cab long bed k20 with both of them using Mod19rc parts from shapeways, for this I’m going to attempt to design my own completely from scratch.

Now some of you may know that this conversion is actually available, it was previously on Etsy and I think it’s still on eBay in Germany. I did try to order it off Etsy and let’s just say it ended in a refund. So I contacted the seller to see if I could buy the files for personal use only and they declined!

From the research I’ve done on these trucks the wheelbase isn’t correct with that conversion anyway so I will fix it.... hopefully!

For this build I picked up the rc4wd blazer body set and chopped the body in half, of course not very straight so yay more body work. Then I used a dremel and completely removed the lip on the top of the cab. Next I will be tracing the inside and outside of the cab onto a sheet of graph paper. I am doing this so I will have an easier reference when I go into fusion360. The next step will be to design the base of the part, meaning the part that will eventually be attached to the body and get the transition from plastic to 3d printed part as smooth as possible. Once I’m happy with that I will get the dimensions for the cab and everything as close as I can.

Here is what I have so far!






Now for interior, the rc4wd interior is great for a regular cab, but for a crew cab it’s not going to work at all. So I will be using the stock interior as a base and will be printing my own floor pan and rear seat!

As far as the chassis goes I picked up a gcm cmax chassis and extension. The body and cab mounts will be based on gcm shapeways mounts that I will be designing.

As far as the rest of the parts it is still to be determined, but it will be on leafs


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