So I Autocrossed My Silverado This Weekend........

[Tydriver]

Originally Posted by glassman

Nice job!!!! just went through it and love it. I'm doing something similar to my '16 Chev 4x4 rcsb. I wont be autocrossing it but i'm in sales/estimates and spend hours in it everyday and WANT better handling. I've been intouch with McGaughy's and there doing a new spindle as these a arms are a little different than yours.

Watchin!

Did McGaughy's give you any idea on the time frame for this? I have a buddy that is lamenting about the lack of lowering parts for his truck (also a 4WD), I told him it will come, but the aftermarket is slow to respond it seems. I guess only those of us that are a bit offcenter lower a 4WD truck... LOL

[glassman]

Originally Posted by Tydriver

Did McGaughy's give you any idea on the time frame for this? I have a buddy that is lamenting about the lack of lowering parts for his truck (also a 4WD), I told him it will come, but the aftermarket is slow to respond it seems. I guess only those of us that are a bit offcenter lower a 4WD truck... LOL

I look at as "my 4500lb" Subaru with a bed. I use the 4x4 for snow and towing, almost never offroad.

They just said "some time this year". I might see if Ride Tech has anything up their sleeve, as i have their stuff on my Camaro...

[minendrews68]

I was going to ask you where a autocross track was, but when watching one of the video's it says "Blytheville Aeroplex". Really! I didn't know they were doing that there!.. I live in Jonesboro, (used to live in Blytheville when the base was still there). I knew they did the autocross once a year, but do they do it more often?

[Tydriver]

Originally Posted by glassman

I look at as "my 4500lb" Subaru with a bed. I use the 4x4 for snow and towing, almost never offroad.

They just said "some time this year". I might see if Ride Tech has anything up their sleeve, as i have their stuff on my Camaro...

Thank you, I will pass it along to him.

Originally Posted by minendrews68

I was going to ask you where a autocross track was, but when watching one of the video's it says "Blytheville Aeroplex". Really! I didn't know they were doing that there!.. I live in Jonesboro, (used to live in Blytheville when the base was still there). I knew they did the autocross once a year, but do they do it more often?

Honestly, that was the first time I have run there, I just moved to this area about 20 months ago. The Mid-South SCCA group lost their run area (TSA requirements), so there is going to be a lot of travelling for me if I want to continue to run in SCCA. The weekend prior to the weekend of the Blytheville event I was in Grenada MS running at the airport there. Anyhow, the next event is in Little Rock, but I believe they are going to have a few events at Blytheville Aeroplex. You can check out the schedule here: http://www.arscca.org/

Good Luck and say HI if you stop out for an event. I am on hold until I get the sway bar installed so it may be a month +/- before I continue running.. We'll see.

[Tydriver]

+1 for a bolt on upgrade ! I have been playing around with the settings in EFILive, trying to lessen the effects of the fans turning on. With only one fan turning on at low speed it was enough to stress out my charging system, and almost kill the truck at idle.. As luck would have it, GM made 2 different options for alternators for the GMT800 trucks, a small frame and a large frame alternator (I wont get into specific model#s here)..

Of those two options, I had the weakest of the small frame option. My truck only had a 105amp alternator from the factory, and that was in 2003.. They also made a 145amp version for my year, but my truck was NOT equipped with it. They also made a larger frame alternator that is generally rated higher in amperages and an overall better alternator. I was going to get one of the larger framed alternators and upgrade the stator and internals to make it a higher amp unit, but I ended up stumbling on a HIGH AMP version For just a little bit more on Amazon than the parts themselves were going to cost me and there was no core charge !

Best of all, it was literally a plug and play setup. Unbolt old weaker unit, bolt in godzilla alternator and never look back. I also upgraded the charging wire from the small stocker to a 2 ga unit. Fortunately the unit I installed had an overdrive pulley installed that made up for the diameter difference, it left me just inside the 'acceptable' range on the tensioner, win win win !!

I found a test sticker on the unit saying it put out 100amp at idle and 253amps at full load. My volt gauge on the dash never drops below 14v and I can no longer tell when the fans cycle on/off. For $140/shipped from Amazon, I'd say it was a good mod.

[Tydriver]

Regarding the front swaybar, ran out of luck on that today.. I finally got fed-up waiting on Ron Sutton Race Technologies to deliver on what they promised 3 weeks ago.. I felt I've been in communication and very patient. However in the end, it appears that their interest is in educating people on suspension designs vs. providing parts even though I pre-paid $750 towards the custom setup. It all ended well, they were most polite, it just seems too busy to fulfill the order.

Egads I about make myself sick when I think about spending that much $$ for a front swaybar, if it worked however it would be worth it. Back to the drawing board I suppose.. I already have a few leads from another place and the prices appear to be a little more reasonable, time to do more research and rely less on others I suppose.. More updates to follow !

[preston]

Patience is the watch word when working with Ron these days. If they actually promised you a date or implied it would be sent on a short time frame that's one thing but if the sway bar is a unique width then it has to be custom built. If you just needed a typical 1.25" hollow bar they should be available quickly in lots of widths. But as an example I ordered a custom width 1.75" swaybar direct from Speedway and it took 2+ months.

[WSSix]

I know the feeling. Mine was to build the LT or bite the bullet and switch to LS. Just remember, it can all be changed. It's only money lol

Good luck!