Beautiful truck Bill. I'd drive it just like that.:hail: :hail:

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Man that is going to be an awesome project. When I started my T/A I thought nothing could beat my 455HO I had a friend telling me about this truck he owned he was so proud of it when he finaly brought it over I was not impressed, he offered to take me for a ride in it my god it was so fast it weighed 4200lbs and just looked like an ageing truck it had an LQ9 6.0Liter at that moment it changed the whole dynamics of my project the 455HO is just sitting in the garage I am now the proud owner of a 2002LS1 twin turbo I'm sure if you ride some BB lovers around that LS6 will make them see the light good luck.

hey mike its ppg del fleet (factory pac semi) it worked nice , single stage, easy to spray. bill

Same story--2 years ago I saw the lite!!! BB chevy still in corner of shop!! jim

hey guys ,i havent got a tire smoking ride yet but im close . i will say everyone i talk to that has done an ls conversion says theyll never go back to a carb set up. ill give my opinion soon. (hopefully) thanks for checking in bill

few progress pics thanks for checking in. bill

Looks great Bill!

Love the detail in the top!

You're killin me Bill. That just looks Bad A$$! How much snow did you get?

thanks guys, we got about 18in of snow(i love it) bill

few update pics,i call it my redneck induction. it looks pretty cool. i was trying to avoid the hum drum air cleaner. thanks for checking in. bill

Nice Bill! What's redneck about that??

I assume you're planing on using some kind of foam filter material in the "box"?

Was there a reason you didn't want to just stick a cone style filter on the end of the intake tube??

It turned out pretty cool Bill, Cant wait to see what you do with the engine cover.

Bill, very nice addition might I add. One question though, I see on the induction boxes you have those mesh grills for air inlet. Are you going to leave them like that or are you going to cover them up with some type of cloth or breathable paper to keep bug particles and dirt from getting into your motor? Or did you just fab the boxes up to the exact specs of a squared air filter? Maaan, that truck is sick.:faint: :faint:

the filter boxes hold a filter from an 05 grand cherokee. i mainly put the grille on to tone down the filter visability a little. im also fabing up grilles from expanded alum. kind of like street scene grilles. thanks for checking in bill

It looks good. Nice job.

few update pics,still working on close out panels for under the hood. the truck is running good and i have the drive by wire stuff working together. ive been super busy w customer work & have had no time to spend on this project . hopefully soon ill be able to spend some quality time on it. thanks for checking in. bill

WOW. been a while since i checked in, that's fascinating... that shot of the dash gives me the sweats just thinking about having to sort all that out. isn't that the gauge cluster out of the Cad?

--rick (Chris' dad)

the guages are caddy ctsv,i almost have every thing working. rick dont let those wires scare ya, they just look intimadating. when you add the circuts 1 by 1 before you know it you have about a mile of wires. thanks for checking in bill

It's really looking good Bill. Now that the Blizzards are hopefully over, I really want to get down and see this thing. Oh, and let me know if you need anything modeled. Happy to help a fellow Keystone Stater :thumbsup: out.

the caddy guages are simular to most late model guages, you will need a schematic of the guages to figure out what wires are what. then pick up the signal from the computer terminal. (thats avail from street & perf website) the tricky part is getting the message centre working in the cluster. i used the data wires from my dlc connector. then each time you ground the stearing wheel controll pin it advances to the next message. it takes a little research but wasnt very expensive. thanks bill

if you would go with the basic silverado w/no message center its pretty simple,actually less wires than individual guages. a whole lot of info flows thru the green wire in your data link connector. (class 2 serial data) bill

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heres a few progress pics. i took a good break from working on the truck due to youth travel baseball and softball,so my pics dont show that much progress. im currently in the shake down phase. everything is working good and im super impressed w my ls set up. thanks for checking in bill

Oh man that looks awesome.:thumbsup: nice very nice.

All I can say is WOW! Now I know I need to get down to see you. That is awesome. :thumbsup:

Looks great Bill! I love this truck! :thumbsup:

Other than the cowl panel what is left to finish?

windows, interior,a/c hooked up. still alot of headaches but atleast its driving.thanks bill

love the truck the only thing i dont think flows with it is the side mirrors they just look to big and bulky. I love everything else about it tho.

Great truck!! :thumbsup:

I have to agree. I just read the build again, and love most everything about it. The mirrors are killing me too.:wow:

The thing w these mirrors is that they act as the front channel for the window. My last two builds, my mirrors looked cool but I couldn't see crap out of them. I guess that's why I could see so good out of these ,there to big. I think the missing Cowl panel makes them look bigger. Thanks for the feedback. Bill

What's the latest Bill? We need an update.

just been driving & debuging. its running good, finally happy w the ride,it took a lot of tweaking till i liked the ride on these rough pa roads. my newly made tempered glass is ready to install. ill post some pics this week. thanks for checking in bill

I searched for more details, but can't seem to find the answer. Can you elaborate on this once more. What brand are the wheels, and what backspace did you run. What brand are the tires?

The truck turned out really nice. I like the paint scheme.

I know you'd prefer to hear the answer straight from the source but I'm pretty sure I know what the tires are at least. The tires look like Nitto NT420S front and NT404 rear. My guess on the wheels are Boze Apex.

I believe you are right. Unfortunately it's not what I wanted to hear. It seems Nitto has dropped the 305/40/20 from its line up, and no one else makes it.

I can't find a 305/40/20 or 315/40/20 anywhere.

The reason being is a tire that wide is strictly for performance only and a sidewall of 40mm is too tall. I'm with you though. For our trucks, we need a taller sidewall though. 305 and 315 widths are usually for Porches, Vipers, etc. Therefore, a 40 sidewall would look very awkward on a sports car sitting low to the ground with a taller tire. I guess is the gift and the curse, huh? Nitto more than likely dropped it from its lineup due to low sales and not a demand for it.