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Page 2- Exterior Photos

Page 3- My Current Speakerbox Project

Page 4- Miscellaneous

 

 

 

 

 

First of all if your gonna come this far as to look at my truck, I would appreciate it if you would take 5 more seconds of your time to go ahead and rate it please.  Thanks.

 

JUST A BRIEF HISTORY

Yeah like i said I've had it now for about 2 1/2 yrs and everything you see done to it is the result of 2 years of work and hard earned cash from working part time after school in a little pizza joint for minimum wage.  NO HUSTLIN AND NO DRUG DEALIN!  I did what i could with an afterschool part time job and now that I am 18 and in college its even harder to get the time and money to do stuff with it.  But once I get done with school and in the summertime, its right back to it.

While it may not look like I have done a lot, keep in mind that I am a full time student and it is still a daily driver for me.  Also my wish list for it is never ending or so it seems, and it will be fulfilled one of these days even if I am 30 or so when i do because I am patient like that.

This is what I have done to it already (my plan is to do the exterior first, then suspension, followed by interior works, and then end it with the performance upgrades)...

New Rear Bumper

IPCW Euro Tailights

Polished Stainless Steel Logo Borders

Chrome Window Visors

20% Tint all around

Chrome 3rd Brake Light Cover

EXtang Bed Cover

Dale Earnhardt Rear Window Screen (with a couple of other peices of Earnhardt trim i.e. coasters in the cupholders, air freshener hanging from the mirror, and a steering  wheel cover)

REAL Chrome Door and Tailgate Handles and Buckets

Y-Piped Exhaust runnin off a Flowmaster 40 Series

K&N Air Filter

the system which is in the process of major upgrades

Duralast yellow top battery

Euro Headlights and Parklights

REAL Chrome Grille

Real Chrome Bumper Top Replacement

REAL Chrome Bumper

REAL Chrome Valance w. billet inserts

In the mean time here is my wish list for the truck in the future...

and if you know where I can get any of this at a good fair price brand new cheaper than what I have listed then please feel free to let me know what the price was with shipping included and where you saw it.

EXTERIOR & LIGHTING

Repair the rusted out cab corners

22"x10" Silverado SS rims wrapped in Goodyear Eagle G/T tires(summertime)-$1,515

16"x8" American Racing Wheels torque style wrapped in Toyo Open Country A/T tires (winter)-$820

Herculiner Bed kit-$90

Air Horns-$50

Hard Top Tonneau Cover-$1,400

LED Underglow (white w. stobe kit)-$156

LED Bed Light kit-$90

LED Fire and Ice Light Bar-$68

LED Flame Grille Light-$87

Chrome Fuel Door (no stick on cover crap)-$121

Door Sill and Kick Plates-$125 & $65

Cowl Hood-$400

Wiper Cowl Cover-$130

Phatty Bowtie Antenna-$35

LED Spiderlite X2 5 arm bulbs-$90/pr.

Stealth Chrome signal bulbs-$30/pr.

Simple body repairs back to perfect condition

Repaint the same colors except take off the charcoal along the bottom and make carcoal racing stripes over the whole truck

INTERIOR & AUDIO/VIDEO

Finish building and painting my custom front firing fiberglass box for 2 12's under the back seat (second one is on the way and for sale when finished)

2 Kicker CVR 12's with 2 Farad Tsunami Capacitor hooked to Kicker ZX 750.1 Amp

Plexiglass Covers for Amp and Cap. w. lots of blue LED's

possibly make cut outs for 6x9's in the rear door panels

mount 2 small interior PA speakers in the headliner in the back just in front of the rear windshield

Galls Exterior PA speaker/siren system (yes the exact ones that are on most cop cars and it is extremely loud.  already tested it)

Visor and Headrest Monitors (6.5" and 9.5")

Nu Image Fiberglass Dash Cover w. tpl. gauge pods-$260

Dark Blue Custom Stitching Velvet Seat Covers

Custom and Personalized floor mats

Suspension

2" drop front

4" drop rear-$450 for front and rear drop kit

still haven't decided which way I'll go about it.

take it down to the frame then sandblast and powdercoat the frame and underbody

Performance

AirAid Cold Air Intake-$277

PowerAid TBI Spacers-$125

Cool Cover Tube Wrap-$65

Tornado Air System-$70

Granatelli Mass Air Flow Sensors w. billet housing ends-$460

E3 Performance Spark Plugs-$72 for 8

Granatelli Plug Wires-$210

Electric Fans-$500

Electric Water Pump

Hypertech Max Energy Tuner-$380

Polished Differential Covers-$150

Stainless Steel Brake Lines-$50

Alumnasport Rotor/Caliper System by Baer (front and rear)-$2,700

Blue Caliper Paint System-$40

Magnaflow Hi-Flow Cats.-$710

JET Lo-Temp. 180 degree thermostat-$60

Transmission Oil Cooler kit (4 row 12,000)-$50

Polished Billet Ignition Coil Covers-$220/pr.

Stainless Radiator Hose-$125

Chrome Underhood Detailing kit-$80

Fitch Fuel Catalyst-$178

Gibson Headers w. AIR injection(stainless steel ceramic coated)- $820

Underdrive Pulleys

Re-do the exhaust for true duals (dual magnaflow cats. to Flowmaster Super 44 Series out to 3 1/2 or 4" angle cut tips coming out behind the tires and angled down

Overhaul the 5.3 port and polish and paint about as much under the hood as i can

then eventually I'll say screw it all and throw a procharger on their while I'm at it

 

THE RACING SIDE OF ME

As for right now the 5.3L is still pretty much all stock with 120,000 miles and while it runs great and gets me around just fine, I have to say, it is pretty slow even compared to other trucks of the same model and engine or even the 4.8L, with a 0-60 time of about roughly 9.1...OUCH.  The only thing I've ever truly beaten in a street race was an old 4 banger S-10 and a couple of fullsize V6 F150's and 1500's and even they were pretty close and gave me a run for my money!  Other than that I have lost everything else.  I dont know my exact record other than it is 2 wins and a bunch more losses.  But I cant help not to when they pull up beside me and wanna show off so i wanna see for myself in comparison out of curiosity just to see what they've got.  And sometime this summer I'm gonna start running it down the local 1/8 mi. track just to get an official time of what it can actually do.  I predict an 11.8 to 12.0 based on what I've seen from others.  Some of my memorable losses include a couple other V8 full sizes, a Lincoln Continental (which i did not know had a V8 at the time), my dads 3.0 V6 Accord coupe, 4.0 V6 Mustang, Jeep Cherokee 5.2 w. 38" swampers, 4 cyl. PT Cruiser, and a 4.3L S-10.  I dont want to sound like I am proud of this or I am bragging about it but I just instead use it as motivation to one day have my truck running in the upper 8's at the 1/8 mi. track and beat any SVT Lightning, Sport Trac, or Tundra that crosses my path.  I hate those things.

UPDATE: 12/27/08

I finally got a decent day in late December of all days to run my truck at the local 1/8 mi. track.  After about 6 or 7 runs, my best time came in at a 10.51 but with a bad reaction time of 107 at about 68 mph so I really feel that with a little more practice I can have it down to a 10.4 or so.  I was pleased with the results considering its still stock and faster than most trucks I've seen run there so I am very hopeful and optimistic for the future once I get some more upgrades.

UPDATE: 1/3/08

On a sprinkly day, the track was just a little wet after a slight shower moved in but before that i was able to get in a few runs.  My first run was against my buddies Ford Sport Trac 4.0 V6 with several engine mods. like an intake, chip, tuned, exhaust, and a couple of other things.  Our first run I got him off the line really good and beat him.  Then he got me by 1/2 a length the second run but I got him on the third by 1 and a 1/2.  My second competition was my other buddies Silverado 1500 Southern Comfort.  Our  first run was close until I hit second and thats when he pulled away.  I always lose my races when it hits second gear.  But the last race was extremely close and I think I got him by a bumper.  Because of the wet, my best run of the day was only a 10.8 but this gave me my first win puttin my record at the track at 3 wins and 8 losses.

NOW A FEW PICS.

This is how my baby looked right after I bought it!

BONE STOCK!!!

 

And this is how it looks today!!!

.....aint it a beauty haha

I will get more pix of the interior uploaded once I get my new speakerbox finished painted and installed and more exterior when I aint too busy to just go take some more of them lol.

 

 

Page 1- History/About Me

Page 2- Exterior Photos

Page 3- My Current Speakerbox Project

Page 4- Miscellaneous