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Have you heard from Penny lately? My RC is still in pieces I just have no motivation right now it needs so much.
actually got an idle/rev video a few weeks ago - my wife realized we didn't have one from after the cam swap & got the kid to send me one for my birthday.
looked like he got the bed fixed, too, as well as slapped some chrome 20s on it.
Originally Posted by dantheman1540
I can probably find you a reman 6.0 short block that's smoking
guessing blue smoke instead of white if it's only a short block...
How them UCAs coming? . I finally got the front end alignment in spec after the coilovers then realizing I needed the Belltech alignment bushing kit. Now I just need the driveline angel corrected and I can get back to burnouts.
Originally Posted by _zebra
actually got an idle/rev video a few weeks ago - my wife realized we didn't have one from after the cam swap & got the kid to send me one for my birthday.
looked like he got the bed fixed, too, as well as slapped some chrome 20s on it.
guessing blue smoke instead of white if it's only a short block...
Not chrome 20s! I'll forever imagine it trudging through the snow down Ellsworth st. with the 16s and 33s.
hmm... looks like i never did a write-up on it (installed about a year before i actually signed up here)
being freshly-graduated from college & still unemployed, i simply:
- grabbed a cheap pair of lights from wally-world
- measured where they fit best without being obstructed by the emblem (not much tolerance, mind you)
- unbolted that aluminum cross brace
- went at it with a drill press
- bolted the lights on
- wired them up using the switched radio power circuit
- aimed them through cyclic iterations of adjust, install grille, remove grille, adjust again, reinstall grille, remove grille, adjust some more, etc. because the slats actually masked the top & bottom of the pattern - shaping a sweet spot i was aiming for between the low & high beam elevations that actually did well providing add'l down-road illumination without blinding oncomers
they do need to be pretty thin housings to fit without trimming the inside of the grille (or doing a billet insert swap), though, and that lends to having zero HID or LED retrofit options in a traditional H3 bulb fixture... so my recommendation nowadays would be to get an actual thin LED fog setup (because this ain't 2008, so good ones exist for < $1M).
ain't sure where'd be the best place to mount some behind a chebby grille because round ones in the center clearly ain't happening (stupid solid bar), but i reckon some small rectangular ones might work with a creative offset bracket solution. i've seen a couple done that way in passing but never saw how they were mounted (and didn't really care either because they didn't look as good as mine! )
hmm... looks like i never did a write-up on it (installed about a year before i actually signed up here)
being freshly-graduated from college & still unemployed, i simply:
- grabbed a cheap pair of lights from wally-world
- measured where they fit best without being obstructed by the emblem (not much tolerance, mind you)
- unbolted that aluminum cross brace
- went at it with a drill press
- bolted the lights on
- wired them up using the switched radio power circuit
- aimed them through cyclic iterations of adjust, install grille, remove grille, adjust again, reinstall grille, remove grille, adjust some more, etc. because the slats actually masked the top & bottom of the pattern - shaping a sweet spot i was aiming for between the low & high beam elevations that actually did well providing add'l down-road illumination without blinding oncomers
they do need to be pretty thin housings to fit without trimming the inside of the grille (or doing a billet insert swap), though, and that lends to having zero HID or LED retrofit options in a traditional H3 bulb fixture... so my recommendation nowadays would be to get an actual thin LED fog setup (because this ain't 2008, so good ones exist for < $1M).
ain't sure where'd be the best place to mount some behind a chebby grille because round ones in the center clearly ain't happening (stupid solid bar), but i reckon some small rectangular ones might work with a creative offset bracket solution. i've seen a couple done that way in passing but never saw how they were mounted (and didn't really care either because they didn't look as good as mine! )
That's pretty much what I thought you did lol. I wouldnt do it to mine, the big stupid bar is totally in the way. But the 408 Yukon Denali owner wants something like that, plenty of space behind that grill.
Steve sent me some pics of his light setup and I thought it was pretty dope. Thinking about driving the SS down to Orlando next week. Got to get the hell out of this place for awhile. But im disappointed there wont' be any burnouts cause your truck isn't together.
04-29-2021, 03:43 PM
. I finally got the front end alignment in spec after the coilovers then realizing I needed the Belltech alignment bushing kit. Now I just need the driveline angel corrected and I can get back to burnouts.
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