Might as well make this more of a saga thread kinda like Eric's...
Got the thing in December of '13 if I remember right so right around christmas, it's green and came with a red canopy which got it dubbed as the "christmas tank" since it's huge and loud... and hence the one stencil I made up to paint the passenger fender (never got to the drivers side, the wally world paint is still there
). Not long after that I moved and ended up with a big pickup bed camper so I pulled a spring up front and put F250 blocks in the back which dropped it like an inch in the front and 2 in the back. Since I was towing with the camper and cheap I made a home brew "super hitch" with a crossmember forward of the hitch (since I don't have a spare in the factory location) for the lower bar to push up on some and pinned for side to side, I've since gotten shorter campers so have cut that ridiculous hitch extension down to about 18" from almost 4'... At one point while towing the HPOP gave out 20 miles from home so I had to get a coworker to drag my trailer up to get it, drove it on and off the trailer with the starter (forgot to mention, before this I'd put on one of the fancy bigger '03 starters). A friend offered me a free engine so I couldn't pass it up, wish I hadn't sold it super cheap to another friend (stuff's expensive, he still got a screaming deal, I was kinda hard up at the time and wasn't as close as he is now). I've been fighting an issue where it runs hot when driving up hill for a long ways, the radiator was original from the looks of it so I got a fancy aluminum race radiator which helped some but not all (the old one was plugged inside and out so not wasted) so I got a replacement Borg Warner turbo ($700ish, wasn't too bad for a new name brand turbo) which did wonders but not enough...
I think that's the bulk of what I've done so here's some random pics in no apparent order: