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"Halfway Up The Mountain"
Well, after a little browsing, I found some pictures of a truck same as mine, just lifted already. It's right about the same height I'll be going for before springing the major cash for my massive lift.
Pretty isn't it? I'm planning on a slightly brighter green for paint however, not quite so dark.
Now for TIRES...I"ll be going with 38.5x14.50-16.5 Super Swamper Thornbirds. Decently quiet on the road, or so I'm told, and great traction and all around performance off-road. Sand, mud, dirt, they're just awesome.
Not bad, eh?
Well, all of this lift will be accomplished with a 6" Skyjacker lift and a 3" Performance Accessories body lift. Body lift's main reason is to expose the frame, so I can get better angles for the exocage to be welded to the frame. I'm working on mapping the exocage out in Paint (primitive visual program yeah, but I haven't had the time to figure out PhotoShop or anything else) and once I get it just the way I want it, I'll post it. Also with that will go a custom front bumper, that design is kinda drawn into the exo stuff too. The headlights will be relocated into the bumper to make it pass headlight height laws with the large lift that will be coming, and 7" H4 halogen off-road lights will reside in the headlight buckets. I'm thinking either Dodge Ram headlights, or maybe the thinner Chevy lights, like out of a fairly recent Lumina, or even an early to mid 90's Chevy/GMC truck, long, thin, and composite. Whichever I go with, they will be recessed into the bumper prolly about 1/8"-1/4" to protect them off-road. Either way, a winch will be put inside the bumper, haven't decided on what brand, but it will most likely be a 12,000lb capacity, just cause this thing is gonna weigh a LOT. A lot of this stuff I can find pictures for, like the shape of the headlights and maybe a rough idea of what the bumper will look like, so when I get around to it, I'll post them too.
