This is my 2002 Dodge Ram that I personally built, or should say building. They are never done. It is lowered 3/6 with a Doetsch Tech lowering kit. I have done all of the work myself, with the help of some friends, and on a college student budget.
^Before I bought her at the Dealership
I didn;t like the look of the grille in the air at the shows so I decided to flip the hood. Took a little of my engineering degree to figure that one out.
5.9L V8 Magnum
Crew Cab SLT Shortbed
5.9L Magnum V8
Color: Black
2wd
Automatic
Exterior:
Halo Projector Beam Black Headlights
Halo Projector Beam Fog Lights
Mopar Fog Light Kit
Billet Grill with matching bumper insert.
Fender Flares
Custom made JM Design Hood Flip
Custom made 5.9L Fender Badges
Custom made RAM ROD Badges
LED Smoked 3rd Brake Light custom tinted by Magill's Auto Body
LED Black Taillights custom tinted by Magill's Auto Body
Lone Wolf, No Club Plaque
Personalized LOW RAM license plates
Bed:
Century Fiberglass Tonneau Cover
17” Widescreen Pyle Monitor
Custom carpet liner
Engine:
MAC Stainless Steel Air Intake
Optima Yellow Top Battery
Billet Ball Milled Optima Battery Box
Billet Ball Milled Fuse Box Cover
Billet Power Steering cap
Billet Brake Reservoir cap
Billet Handles on Oil and Transmission dipsticks
Stainless Steel Radiator Hose
Polished Aluminum Coolant Overflow Tank
Flowmaster 40 Series Exhaust with custom side exit chrome tips
Hypertech MaxEnergy Power Programmer
Suspension:
3” Front 4” Rear Doetsch Tech Drop Kit
2” MaGaughtys Drop Spindles
1” Daystar lift Spacers
1.5” Lowering Shackles in Rear
20” Chrome Eagle Alloys
275/45R20 Falken ST/Z-04
4 Wheel slotted and drilled brake rotors
Interior:
15% Tinted Windows by Supertints
Billet AC Knobs
Painted Dash Insert
Billet Window Switch Panels
Billet Door Reflector Inserts
3rd Strike Billet Door Lock Pins
Chrome interior door handles
Jensen VM9511TS In-dash DVD player w) 7” Flip-out Touch Screen
6x9 Pioneer 4-Way speakers in front doors
6.5” Sony Xplod 4-Way speakers in back doors
Custom fit under rear seat dual 12” subwoofer box
(2) 12” MTX 5500 series Subwoofers
1200 watt Sony Xplod Amplifier
Future Modifications:
Frame Notch
Custom Engine Cover
Air Ride Suspension
More billet items for interior and engine bay
Motorize hood
Repaint Bed
Side Swing Open Tailgate
Suicide all 4 Doors
Performance mods to the engine
Since the time of these pictures I have updated several items. Modifications Not Shown in pictures yet includes:
OEM Fender Flares
2” MaGaughtys Drop Spindles
Different Halo Headlights
The Billet Caps and Dipsticks under hood
Stainless Radiator Hose
The LED 3rd Brake Light
Century Fiberglass Tonneau Cover
Custom Carpet Bed Liner
17” Widescreen in Bed
This truck may not be a radical custom, but for southeast Missouri it can stand it’s ground at many of the car shows. It has placed 1st or 2nd at the majority of the shows I have taken it to. Plus it is my daily driver. I will continue to customize it as time and money becomes available. This is the 1st 2wd I have ever built. Until now I have always built lifted 4x4’s, which is my true passion, but I decided to try something different and venture out of my realm when I built this truck.
I chose to use a 2002 with the 5.9L simply because everybody goes crazy over the HEMI. I love the HEMI too, but I just thought it would be cool to be a little different. From my experience most people didn’t even realize this body style ever came with the 360. Another reason for the choice of trucks is that I graduated high school in 2002, so the year kind of has a meaning to me also.
As you can see in the stock picture, she was completely stock the day I bought her from a dealership in St. Louis. The only modification was a drop in factory bedliner, which I have since removed. I knew how I was going to build the truck before I made the purchase. I have slightly differed from those plans as I had planned to black out all chrome, smoke all lights, and run black wheels. I have since become kind of fond of the stock trim look. Again just to be different than the custom rides most people build.
I have done all of the modifications myself and on a very tight budget. Including the purchase of the truck I have invested LESS than $20,000 all together in it.
One of my favorite mods has to be the hood flip. I didn’t like the look of the grille raised in the air at shows with a plain view of the radiator. I was inspired when I looked at a model I built when I was a 13. It was a blue Dodge Ram SST, and I could never get the hood hinges to work so I made the hood flip forward because there was a tab on the bottom of the grille that fit between the bumper and radiator and it supported itself. I then began examining the 55 Chevy truck hood flip from No Limit Engineering and began to build a similar design to work on a Dodge hood. Plus I saw a unique opportunity to hinge a hood at the bottom of the grille. I have had several people ask me to build one for them of help them build one. While I love the compliment of it, I would kind of like to stay the only Dodge with it. Although 2 months after completing the flip, I did see another Dodge on the internet with a similar conversion.
