New Guy from Minnesota

[Ilija Kovacevic]

Hey there been checking out the site off and on for a bit now and figured I should do the introduction so here goes.....


I am 39 father with 1 son and I have always been a gear head, I grew up around cars all my life and I am finally in a spot in my life where I have been able to build a few cars. This is my daily driver and I have had it for a couple years now. It's a 1988 C1500 standard cab and started life as a W/T model. I have added all the interior pieces it didn't have and repainted all of it. Truck came to me in a trade for work I did on a guys '64 El Camino. I have lowered it with a 5/7 drop repainted it and just recently swapped out the 4.3 V6 for a 461 big block chevy. There are more plans for more mods in the future but gotta save up some cash after the engine swap.

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[kennythewelder]

Welcome to the forum. Very nice work transforming your WT. You now have a very good looking truck. I had a 93 WT with a 4.3L that I bought for $3200 in 1999. I bought my 97, Silverado 5.7L in 2002 for the wife. After the trans went out in my WT in 2009, I told her I wanted the 97, and bought here something else.

 

[sewlow]

Welcome!

 

[Ilija Kovacevic]

Welcome to the forum. Very nice work transforming your WT. You now have a very good looking truck. I had a 93 WT with a 4.3L that I bought for $3200 in 1999. I bought my 97, Silverado 5.7L in 2002 for the wife. After the trans went out in my WT in 2009, I told her I wanted the 97, and bought here something else.

Very cool!! Yeah I am having a blast building the truck

 

[Ilija Kovacevic]

Welcome!

Thanx!!

 

[kennythewelder]

My 97 was repainted in Oct. 2013. I has always been a fan of the rally strips, so I had them paint those on as well. The truck was white before, but I think the strips give it a much nicer look. As for performance, well after I took it from the wife, I started tweaking the vortec 5.7L Shorty headers, gutted the cats, true dual exhaust with 2 old school glass pack mufflers, no restrictions at all in my exhaust system. shaved the throttle plate defuser off, and replaced the stock air filter with a high flow one. tuned it and I'm sure several other things i forgot to mention. Most recently, I dropped the back about 3 inches to level the truck. With the blue tooth stereo, 680 watt amp pushing 1 Sony explod 10 in a box behind the back seat, and the viper alarm system with keyless entry and the Silverado factory options that all work it makes for a nice daily driver.

 

[twomanymontes]

Welcome Aboard!! That looks awesome!! Got to love a big block!

 

[Ilija Kovacevic]

My 97 was repainted in Oct. 2013. I has always been a fan of the rally strips, so I had them paint those on as well. The truck was white before, but I think the strips give it a much nicer look. As for performance, well after I took it from the wife, I started tweaking the vortec 5.7L Shorty headers, gutted the cats, true dual exhaust with 2 old school glass pack mufflers, no restrictions at all in my exhaust system. shaved the throttle plate defuser off, and replaced the stock air filter with a high flow one. tuned it and I'm sure several other things i forgot to mention. Most recently, I dropped the back about 3 inches to level the truck. With the blue tooth stereo, 680 watt amp pushing 1 Sony explod 10 in a box behind the back seat, and the viper alarm system with keyless entry and the Silverado factory options that all work it makes for a nice daily driver.

Damn bro sounds killer!! A buddy and I were tossing around the idea of building a 383 stroker but then he asked what I was gonna do with the big block I had laying in the corner of the shop and the rest is history lol. Don't have much for stereo right now just the 4 small speakers and a cheapy reciever. Future plans are to do 4 link and bag it.

 

[Ilija Kovacevic]

Welcome Aboard!! That looks awesome!! Got to love a big block!

Thanx!! Yeah I am totally in love with the performance and the sound of it for sure!!

 

[kennythewelder]

Damn bro sounds killer!! A buddy and I were tossing around the idea of building a 383 stroker but then he asked what I was gonna do with the big block I had laying in the corner of the shop and the rest is history lol. Don't have much for stereo right now just the 4 small speakers and a cheapy reciever. Future plans are to do 4 link and bag it.

If I had a big block just laying around, I would do the same.