Project : BluePrint

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Appreciate the comments. Surprisingly the ride is friggin awesome as it sits. Able to hit bumps and still have a lot of room for suspension travel. Stiff enough to be responsive, smooth enough to forget you are that close to the road.

I have a few plans for the next month to get this thing looking right as rain in my eyes but as it sits right now, I fall in love with it each time I see it, which was the goal all along.

there is something about those front lights that hurt my eyes :P but i like what youve done with this!

The projector retrofit? There is a trick with them, but I have to rework the entire light to get it to actually work. A close friend passed away and the headlights were on his truck. I was very lucky to get them when the truck was sold. Have to pull it all apart and replace the lens at least to something new since they are pretty beat up, same with the DRLs up top...

[P78]

i wasn't sure about those wheels, so i waited till you got the mounted

looks good!

[R32SilviaTech]

Truck looks clean. That fitment looks great with the stock flares. Looks like some kinda factory sport edition. Good work!

[cus]

there is something about those front lights that hurt my eyes :P but i like what youve done with this!

[alohaTruck]

Dope Chevy man, love all the DIY in this thread. Finding the perfect stance on a truck can be a little tricky; hoping to close the wheel gap soon on my Ranger like you did. Looks great!

[Tomahawk]

Beautiful!
Sits very nice on those wheels.
Loving the wide lip on those babes

[VTECHTHIS]

Looks killer

[aLaFleur]

That looks great man!

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And one more update (as it will probably be the last one in for a bit) from last night...


I hauled a little bit of weight today (dirt and rock) for the back yard and ended up rubbing on the inner lip of the rear wheel well. So... I decided that I needed to (re)move it.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a ton of room without taking off the wheels and I was hungry and pizza was being ordered, so I didn't bother removing the wheels.

My son and I looking over what we had to deal with...



Talking to my son to figure out how to go about it...



Working out the kinks, my son calling me a wimp and telling me to hit it harder.



Then (after the bed was unloaded) I tightened down the helper springs some more to get it to sit just where I needed/wanted it to sit...






and tucked in nice and snug for the night.

[Belvader]

damn those wheels look killer!

[mike-81-240d]

Looks so good on the new wheels.

[TheTynosaur]

Looks awesome!

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[no vtec 4me]

Looking pretty damn good dude. The new wheels really brought it together

[Nick475]

Damn. Looks pretty slick man

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And wanted to update this thread since I have done a lot of work recently since I got back home...

8/03/2013
Bit of a small mod that has been sitting for a long, long time...

as the truck sits now.


and installing the extend-o light thing.









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8/08/2013
And just wanted to add this as I am starting to get excited lol...



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8/12/2013
And this afternoon...







They are back up on the wall until I get the garage cleaned up. Still have to put everything back together from my tearing it all apart. Once I get it organized, these will be fitted to run on the truck.

20x9.5 with 275/30s...

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Today: 8/17/2013
And today was the day of glorificationess and fantasmicalism. Yes, I just made those up...


First and foremost, the comparison. 18s on the left/top 20s on the right/bottom



Started off with simply sticking the fronts on last night to see just how the new wheels and rubber would sit on the current suspension...

The "current" setup.


and on to the new...






As you can see, they fit a little snug. I had to pull the front fenders a bit to get everything to sit without rubbing and I found out today that I can rub on the flares at full lock when I hit some hard bumps but other than that, everything clears up front with very minimal rubbing with people in the truck on the passenger side.

Then this morning, on to the rear of the truck. Darek made a showing and helped out a bunch with fitting these.. REALLY appreciate the extra set of hands.


Got the truck up on jack stands and replaced the blocks, thanks to Ace X for the replacements! Then we pulled the rear flares off so that I didn't break them when I dropped the truck back to the ground.



As you can see, there was a little dirt in there.


Then, with the axle repositioned with the new blocks (shifted to the passenger side like normal) and the truck on the ground, I could see just what it was going to take to get the flares to sit where I needed them to...

Passenger side (as this is ALWAYS the one that sticks out)


Then me pulling it with my supervisor telling me where I needed to pull next. Yes, this is how I pulled the bedsides. I didn't cut the brace on the inside, just wanted to see if I could get away without having to do it and also was really easy. Took about 30 minutes to an hour to pull the bedsides this much...


And the final product, sans flares.


Then, we trimmed more off the inside of the flare to give it less inner lip and then rounded it out a bit to get rid of the sharp edge.

This is how the flare sits and it clears as it flexes. Ecstatic with how it sits.. and now my truck has some "hips" as Darek put it so eloquently. :lol:



And of course, we went for a drive. Waiting on some rolling videos from him that he shot, but here are two photos that I took outside Duncan Donuts.