it rides pretty good, its a little stiffer then it was stock but i dont mind that at all, i drove a lifted jeep around for 5 years lol, it does have a little steering wheel shimmy but thats cause i never got an alignment yet, i need to bad before i destroy my tires, and for the paint i really like the stock color and its a two tone with like a metallic charcoal gray at the bottom and i was thinking of doing that color on the new bumpers when i get them and then painting the rest of the stuff like door handles and all that flat black, and yeah i know about the leaky intake manifold gasket and the fuel spider, my stepdad had a 97 2 door tahoe and he had to replace his manifold gasket at 190lk miles, he bought it with only 85k lol, so hopefully i can make mine last too