DDenali
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Holy shit Red she's ah hauling ass man congratulations bud all the heartache and hard work definitely paid off
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Rocket Man's 02 Denali Build Thread AKA "THE BEAST"
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Oh. I have a 3-piece engine cover that I took off but there's no way to make even one piece work with the blower on. I looked at maybe trying to make just the driver side work but it would just look like crap after I cut it out around where it runs into the blower. So that's why I'm going to make the engine look clean without them.
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Cleaning up the engine bay a bit more. I removed the valve covers and coil packs, painted the valve covers red and the coil packs and brackets black and used some split loom on the wiring harnesses since they were really ugly. They sell nice billet aluminum coil brackets and custom wiring harnesses but that will have to wait; I went the cheap route with a couple cans of engine enamel. The valve covers were horrible and I didn't try to sand them smooth since it would have taken forever. I'll just deal with the imperfections of the castings. All in all it came out pretty nice. Here's what I started with.
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Here's what it looked like when I was done. I decided to replace the coil pack mounting hardware with stainless steel because the original hardware didn't look too good even after wire brushing.
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Looks good man.
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Tonyrodz
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Looks really good, best part was it was cheap! How's your back doing?
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It feels better every time I punch the throttle!
Tonyrodz
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Hell yeah!!It feels better every time I punch the throttle!
jcevans7
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I was out of pocket for a month missed the whole build but Damn good. Worth the read. Told the wife this was important she had to wait tonight.
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Wow. Thanks!
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Yesterday I replaced the front swaybar bushings with the new greaseable Energy Suspension poly ones. Not sure why the DJM one split in half- it was a poly bushing too. I also pressure washed the front wheelwells and suspension after these pics but forgot to get a shot until after the wheels were installed.
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Looks great can you get a close up pic on how you routed the SS lines? think you mentioned you used the old brackets somehow
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Maybe the djm one was a little thicker and tightening the bracket put too much pressure squishing it causing it to split?
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Here's some from when I did the install. I just used the one bracket you can see and still needed a zip tie.
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But the bushings came with the DJM swaybar so they were the correct size. Maybe it was just throwing this thing into hard corners like I do.
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Thanks I like that it's a lot cleaner then mine I've got two zip ties and a zip tie for the wheel speed sensor
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Today I cleaned the engine bay a bit more and sprayed it down with Chemical Guys Silk Shine. Then I decided to install the 150 A fuse on the 0 gauge cable I installed from battery positive to alternator when I did my Big 3. Just in case.
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Come do mine please, I'm way too lazy and that looks damn good... I love what you've been doing.
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Away!
Agreed. You are building a legendary thread here, buddy.
