1997 Chevrolet K1500 Silverado 4x4 Ext. cab short bed. 350/4L60e/3.73. Green and tan ext. tan int. 265/75/16 Toyo Open Country A/TII standard load 35psi tires on stock wheels. Stainless Steel JBA shorty headers, stainless Magnaflow cats and (pending) flowmaster super 40 dual in/out to 4 inch stainless 45 degree angle cut tips. Downey products (awesome) tonneau cover currently in storage while I run the weatherguard Diamond plate over the rail tool box. Volant cold air intake with an AEM DryFlow filter. AVS vent visors. Lund Moonvisor with clear lenses and Amber LEDs. Smoked headlight, LED parking lights, and corners with upper corner mod all LED. Full HID swap with 8,000k lows and 5,000k highs and 4hi mod. 22" opt7 LED light bar on a custom bracket. It's not the best bracket. The light does wiggle on hard bumps but it's pretty solid. EBay smoked red LED tails with HyPer standard white reverse lights. Wicked bright reverse. EBay smoked LED third brake light. White LED cargo lights. Recon smoked mini tailgate light bar with reverse. Double take archery arrow antenna.
20% front side window tint to match factory privacy deep tint glass. Husky liners in the foot wells up front. Cobra 29 on home made mount. Suburban overhead console. Single line compass temp mirror (still needs hooked up). LED cluster and HVAC in white. A/C is blue recirc is green. Door courtesy is white footwells are white dome and all four maps are white. Pioneer Bluetooth head unit with all pioneer speakers, pioneer amp and JLAudio 12" sub halfway under the back seat in a ported box.
That's the current status. I really needed to update this post haha. Any questions just ask.
The day I bought it. 176,455miles clean title. Minimal rust on tailgate and frame. Solid fenders and rockers little above windshield. $4,000 cash paid.
Bought in late March early April 2010 around a month after my birthday. It's had some bumps and bruises since. I caught a tree while wheeling on some trails and crunched the right fender. Four days after getting the muffler in February 2014 I was rear ended. Exhaust was mangled. Frame was bent. Luckily it was easily mended and looks almost perfect today. Bumper sags just a touch on the right side but a normal person would never notice.
Future plans:
6 inch RCX maybe super lift 6. I'm now torn.
Procomp 1069's or some sort of simulated bead lock bullet hole wheel 17x9 wrapped in 315/70/17 nitto dune grapplers if they are even available at the time. If they aren't I'm going to go nuts trying to find a tire that I like. Winters I will trade the saw blades for a set of GMT900 aluminum 18s with who knows what size tire.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do up front. I don't know if I want to do a brush guard or a bull bar. Maybe a Baja bar that's color matched withal decked out diesel bumper.
Headache rack either custom built or a back rack. I'm leaning towards a back rack. The custom one I wanted is long gone. I'll run an amber Federal Signal Highlighter Solaris LED mini bar on top and hang another opt7 bar from the center section facing rear. Considering a curved rigid to go tuck right up against the bottom of the visor. Not sure yet.
Fix rusty fenders this summer. I have two new ones in primer. The rockers and cab corners will Have to wait. The roof will most likely be next. I need a windshield.
Try a Demold. Chrome trim is already on its way off.
Paint the tailgate with new fenders.
New bed.
I will daily the truck until I get a newer truck (06-07mega cab Cummins). Then it will become a dune toy. I will run it as is for awhile. Maybe throw a set of small paddle tires on it. Whatever blows will get built. If the engine goes it'll be rebuilt as a 383 stroker if it doesn't need boring. If it needs to be bored over I think that'll make it a 396 correct me if I'm wrong. If the block is junk I'm going on the hunt for a 3.9 Cummins and a 4l80e. Keep it simple for awhile and build them as I go.
That sums up the first post. Keep looking as I plan to change this post as things get done or I find new things I want to do. Thanks for reading!
20% front side window tint to match factory privacy deep tint glass. Husky liners in the foot wells up front. Cobra 29 on home made mount. Suburban overhead console. Single line compass temp mirror (still needs hooked up). LED cluster and HVAC in white. A/C is blue recirc is green. Door courtesy is white footwells are white dome and all four maps are white. Pioneer Bluetooth head unit with all pioneer speakers, pioneer amp and JLAudio 12" sub halfway under the back seat in a ported box.
That's the current status. I really needed to update this post haha. Any questions just ask.
The day I bought it. 176,455miles clean title. Minimal rust on tailgate and frame. Solid fenders and rockers little above windshield. $4,000 cash paid.
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Bought in late March early April 2010 around a month after my birthday. It's had some bumps and bruises since. I caught a tree while wheeling on some trails and crunched the right fender. Four days after getting the muffler in February 2014 I was rear ended. Exhaust was mangled. Frame was bent. Luckily it was easily mended and looks almost perfect today. Bumper sags just a touch on the right side but a normal person would never notice.
Future plans:
6 inch RCX maybe super lift 6. I'm now torn.
Procomp 1069's or some sort of simulated bead lock bullet hole wheel 17x9 wrapped in 315/70/17 nitto dune grapplers if they are even available at the time. If they aren't I'm going to go nuts trying to find a tire that I like. Winters I will trade the saw blades for a set of GMT900 aluminum 18s with who knows what size tire.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do up front. I don't know if I want to do a brush guard or a bull bar. Maybe a Baja bar that's color matched withal decked out diesel bumper.
Headache rack either custom built or a back rack. I'm leaning towards a back rack. The custom one I wanted is long gone. I'll run an amber Federal Signal Highlighter Solaris LED mini bar on top and hang another opt7 bar from the center section facing rear. Considering a curved rigid to go tuck right up against the bottom of the visor. Not sure yet.
Fix rusty fenders this summer. I have two new ones in primer. The rockers and cab corners will Have to wait. The roof will most likely be next. I need a windshield.
Try a Demold. Chrome trim is already on its way off.
Paint the tailgate with new fenders.
New bed.
I will daily the truck until I get a newer truck (06-07mega cab Cummins). Then it will become a dune toy. I will run it as is for awhile. Maybe throw a set of small paddle tires on it. Whatever blows will get built. If the engine goes it'll be rebuilt as a 383 stroker if it doesn't need boring. If it needs to be bored over I think that'll make it a 396 correct me if I'm wrong. If the block is junk I'm going on the hunt for a 3.9 Cummins and a 4l80e. Keep it simple for awhile and build them as I go.
That sums up the first post. Keep looking as I plan to change this post as things get done or I find new things I want to do. Thanks for reading!
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