2004.5 LLY My Build Thus Far

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ndblack3893

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I purchased my truck back in July of 2012. Just your normal LT from 2004. Everything was stock on the truck when I purchased it. This is what she looked like:



I took it home and ABSOLUTELY HATED the interior, so I began stripping it all out.



And I got rid of all the tan:



I got myself some glowshift gauges, a touchscreen, and I installed blue LEDs throughout the entire dash, hvac controls, window switches, 4x4 selector, all of it. If it had a bulb behind it that was white, It changed to blue LED:



Got myself a set of smoked LED taillights:

 
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Then I did truck bed liner down the side and added some smoked headlights and corner lights, and tinted the windows and put a brow on:



Got a new 3" downpipe:



Took the front bumper off and started building my bumper in my chassis fab class:







 
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Then, I raised the front up 2 3/4" with keys, changed all the lighting up front to clear lenses, and installed the bumper for the first time:



Got myself some light bars for the bumper:





And rolled it out to go align it on the alignment rack in our next shop over. I also installed tow mirrors and leveled them:



Then I took it to some stupid mechs at Sears for my wheels and tires to be installed because our machines at WyoTech suck:





 
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ndblack3893

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I decided that since I have a perfect daughter....I don't need any more children for a good while. This led me to thinking that the bench seat in the rear needs to go, because I had a sub box behind it and it was taking all of my gun storage space. So I began searching for the perfect set of bucket seats. And started building a custom console for between the two seats, that will also hold my subs:



I stole the cupholder from my bench seat, don't worry the bezel will cover the ugliness within:







Sealing it all up with silly-cone ha:



 
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I just had to choose today of all days to get the subs installed in the console and put in the truck huh. Gotta love PA, only not really!:



Got the amp and subwoofer terminal installed:



And the subs:



Got the whole thing installed today and set up:





 
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Yes, I realize the seats don't match and that I have one door panel left to convert from tan to dark gray. But, it's a work in progress. All in all, I have thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. The seats fold up perfectly, I'm not sure why GM didn't offer buckets in the back because they are far more comfortable! Now my system is back to sounding good, and I have every bit of space back behind my back seats! I love it.

I ordered the material last week, and it came in on Wednesday. The week after Valentine's Day my trim shop is installing black leather on all of my bucket seats, as well as, wrapping the console! So, I will keep everyone updated on that as it comes along.

The only performance mods I really have:

3" downpipe
5" turbo back exhaust stripped free of the muffler
K&N Cool air intake setup (GARBAGE!)
and EFI Live by Kory Willis
I have dyno'd 420 to the rear wheels. I ran a 14.1 on the quarter mile with the infamous limp mode about 50 yards before the finish line. Hopefully I can build my trans before too long.
 
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