Project: Quickshift (2005 GMC Canyon)

[MattO]

So I've kinda been lurking on here for a long time. Watching some of the coolest cars in the world come together. It's a great way to kill an hour or two when you can't sleep at 4am.

This is my latest project, a 2005 GMC Canyon that I bought from my grandma after my grandfather passed away in December of last year.

When I bought it, the truck was already sporting a Belltech suspension kit with a 2/3 drop, sway bars, and 18" wheels with Toyo Proxes tires.





First things first, being young, impressionable, and having a fascination with shiny objects that make noise, I brought he truck to my friends at Auto Radio Stereo and just let them go nuts. WE started things off with a top end Pioneer AVIC unit, which feeds signal to an Audison BitOne processor, and then from there it flows into an Audison LRx5.1k 1600w amplifier. The amps feeds a pair of Hertz HSK 165XL components in the doors, and a pair of Hertz HX300 12" woofers in a custom ported box. The system is set up for sound quality and can competed in MECA and IASCA competitions, but also manages to hit 142.1dB

[MattO]

After having my fun with the stereo and showing for the shop on several occassions, I was content, bu as we all know, this wasn't going to last. An opportunity at work came my way that I could not pass up, so I left for Texas from my home in California and began working 14-16hr days for the next 5 months straight.

All this over time allowed me to do alot of fun things while in Texas, and offer an opportunity or two for friends back home. A good friend of mine volunteered to do the fab work on a one-off STS turbo system and once all the parts were gathered, I sent the truck off to Fresno to undergo some surgery.





Some small things have changed since these cellphone pictures. I'll make sure and get some better photos soon.

It's at this point that we ran into a snag with a tuner in Fresno. He didn't really know what he was doing and I got to pay for it. Several weeks of frustration went by before I finally drove down and took the truck back home to a shop that I know and trust and we subsequently went through the truck and undid all the work done by the tuner. Low and behold, once this was done, the truck fired right up, idled like stock, and actually drove home...



As it stands, I'm going to be working with another, much more trustworthy shop here in Sacramento and finally get this truck running as it should.

Next step is to get some new wheels/tires, and suspension under the truck, then the exterior.

And now, finally, the rendering.

[nitropyro]

what type of power you plan on making from this setup?
Danny

[MattO]

All fingers point to 300rwhp on 7lbs. The truck is my daily driver and I love it to death.

The main issues with putting forced induction on these stock motors is the high compression (10.3:1), weak dome pistons, and an inept computer.

I'll post dyno results and video once everything is done.

This motor should make a few people go "WTF?" at shows. It's not every day you see an inline 5 with a remote mount turbo

[rjsjea]

Fun daily driver

[nitropyro]

cant wait to see the dyno sheet!
Danny