Author Topic: Polishing a turd!  (Read 14764 times)

Offline blue beast

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Re: Polishing a turd!
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2010, 10:46:33 am »
i wanna give ya props on the bed side.you did a good job welding that back up.truck looks good man
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Offline eventhorizon66

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Re: Polishing a turd!
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2010, 12:13:54 pm »
I'm with you on the late model front end.  I have never understood why people like it so much.

Silver bezels all the way.  And how about nice clean aluminum grille.  I've never been a fan of any of the factory grilles.
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Offline 1LOW4X4

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Re: Polishing a turd!
« Reply #17 on: November 24, 2010, 08:42:03 pm »
Thanks guys.

I've decided I'm going to keep the black bezels...for now.

 

Had to replace the Lower A-arm today because a few days after I got the truck I put it in a ditch trying to turn into my neighborhood. We had a freak rainstorm come up, and with limo tint/bad headlamps/no defroster working, my windows fogged up and I couldnt see. Put the truck in a ditch hit a culvert, sheared a mounting bracket off for the sway bar and really messed up the a-arm so that the wheel sat crooked. Fixed that today.

 

The next mod I'm going to do is beef up the exhaust. It has headers with 3" collectors, and then it steps down to a 1 3/4" pipe, then flows into a glasspack muffler and turns down before the rear end. It does this on both sides; true duals. I thought about going dual 3" from the headers like my '01 but think I'll stick with 2.5" and some nice flowmaster mufflers. That should let her breath better, those pipes are tiny.



Offline stepsideclyde

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Re: Polishing a turd!
« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2010, 04:33:57 pm »
Fantastic job,  Just goes to show with talent and some time you can get classic good looks for a reasonable amount of moola... very envious of the job you have done. (personally, I like the silver bezels)

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Re: Polishing a turd!
« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2010, 04:51:42 pm »


"you can't polish a Furd but you can throw glitter on it!"

I'm for silver bezels but thats some fair work dude  :)
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