2000 NBS Blue Steel Burban Build

[HiHoeSilver]

Haha i get that, the colors and the shiny chromes not for everyone, I am actually pretty much done with all that myself. I still like the neon yellow wheels and might do it again in the distant future. But for now I am switching to black wheels or forged aluminum brushed and sealed. I’m just ready for something different that is hopefully a little easier to maintain on a day to day basis. Gotta say I really like the Denali in your sig gonna look through your build thread here tonight when I get off work, I saw the word “Blown” and I was instantly like “book mark that for later haha.”

Buckle up and enjoy the ride on that one!

 

[Rocket Man]

New wheels will definitely make a huge impact on your truck, looking forward to that. I just bought some 22" black reps for winter and installed Wilwoods so I'm good to go for the bad roads that I know are coming. Fair warning, my build thread is long but it's not too boring. It's been alot of fun for me.

 

[kwOH]

Red’s denali runs higher and jumps faster

 

[Rocket Man]

Red’s denali runs higher and jumps faster

Haha the new guy doesn't know who you're talking about. I'm stealth.

 

[kwOH]

Haha the new guy doesn't know who you're talking about. I'm stealth.

Oops I keep forgetting lol

 

[00'BlueSteel]

Haha the new guy doesn't know who you're talking about. I'm stealth.

Oops I keep forgetting lol

Lol

 

[Tonyrodz]

Keep the mods coming.

 

[00'BlueSteel]

Haha the new guy doesn't know who you're talking about. I'm stealth.

Haha you’ve been outed Red rocket. Barely broke the surface on your build thread and super jealous of the detail already. I need body and paint bad, its not awful but I see way to many little imperfections in my paint. Wish I had a body and paint guy like yours around here.

 

[00'BlueSteel]

Mail call..........

Got my JDM Astar LEDs, amber 194s for the markers, 3030 switchbacks, and 3030 Xenon for the drls.

(I also got 3030 back ups, and brilliant red 3030 LEDs for brakes and rear turns but none of them fit in my aftermarket housing because they have red diffuser/reflector plates built in the middle of the pockets to project more red color from standard bulbs, stupid sypder taillight).

Since I have HIDs in the lows and highs, I have the 4low/6hi mod. The way it is nothing comes on during the day automatically, I have to turn them on with the switch and then all lights come on at night automatically like normal. So during the day I can have no lights or manually turn on the halos, marker lights, and turn signal lights all together. And at night the light sensor on the dash takes over and turns on all the lights just mentioned and the 4 low(drls and low beams). And when I hit the brights it just adds another set of HIDs to the mix. I am probably going to do the light senor mod and put resistors in the plug so the car just thinks it is always day and I can manual control the lights all the time. I don’t like how the sensor turns the HIDs on before it is really that dark and with the new LEDs I really don’t even need lows or his for city driving.

Good shot of the 194 led all light up!

This is halos, headlight markers LEDs, the turn signal switch back and the amber 194 corner marker/turn signal

In this photo the headlight side mark LEDs, the 2 in the top light, look closer in color than they do in person, everything else is like 6k and they are more like 10k. I am going to swap them out for amber ones so it will be a vertical row of 3 amber LEDs.

 

[00'BlueSteel]

This is what it will look like all the time at night, this is 4 low, halos, markers, drls, and switchback turns. Kind of stupid bright I don’t know if I will keep it like this.

This is what it looks like if you are above the projector cut off.

This is what it looks like if you drop below the projector cut off.

 

[00'BlueSteel]

This is everything on.

So the more I look at it the more the different color temps start to pick at my OCD. I am literally writing this post and looking at the photos and saying to myself that’s not good enough. Not sure why the HIs are so green they are suppose to be 6k but oh well looks like I will be swapping those out until I get a better match.

 

[05Single]

Still looks good, I can see the mismatched colors but sometimes the camera makes it look worse
Any pics of the tails ? Or no bulbs fit ?

 

[Rocket Man]

Mail call..........

Got my JDM Astar LEDs, amber 194s for the markers, 3030 switchbacks, and 3030 Xenon for the drls.

(I also got 3030 back ups, and brilliant red 3030 LEDs for brakes and rear turns but none of them fit in my aftermarket housing because they have red diffuser/reflector plates built in the middle of the pockets to project more red color from standard bulbs, stupid sypder taillight).

Since I have HIDs in the lows and highs, I have the 4low/6hi mod. The way it is nothing comes on during the day automatically, I have to turn them on with the switch and then all lights come on at night automatically like normal. So during the day I can have no lights or manually turn on the halos, marker lights, and turn signal lights all together. And at night the light sensor on the dash takes over and turns on all the lights just mentioned and the 4 low(drls and low beams). And when I hit the brights it just adds another set of HIDs to the mix. I am probably going to do the light senor mod and put resistors in the plug so the car just thinks it is always day and I can manual control the lights all the time. I don’t like how the sensor turns the HIDs on before it is really that dark and with the new LEDs I really don’t even need lows or his for city driving.

Good shot of the 194 led all light up!
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This is halos, headlight markers LEDs, the turn signal switch back and the amber 194 corner marker/turn signal
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In this photo the headlight side mark LEDs, the 2 in the top light, look closer in color than they do in person, everything else is like 6k and they are more like 10k. I am going to swap them out for amber ones so it will be a vertical row of 3 amber LEDs.
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You'll probably have ballasts burn out if you don't disable the auto headlight feature. Mine did, I went through 3 ballasts before I figured it out. It seems that if the voltage is low due to the starter cranking, that's not the time you want your ballasts trying to fire up. Since I switched to turning them on after the truck starts, no ballasts problems for over 2 years now.

 

[Rocket Man]

This is everything on.

So the more I look at it the more the different color temps start to pick at my OCD. I am literally writing this post and looking at the photos and saying to myself that’s not good enough. Not sure why the HIs are so green they are suppose to be 6k but oh well looks like I will be swapping those out until I get a better match.
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Oh man I took forever matching the color of all my lights in the front. Even with smoked lenses I could still see the differences. And nobody's Kelvin numbers match as far as actual color.

 

[00'BlueSteel]

Still looks good, I can see the mismatched colors but sometimes the camera makes it look worse
Any pics of the tails ? Or no bulbs fit ?

Yeah the rear bulbs didn’t fit, gonna have to find shorter LEDs like halogen bulb height or go back to stocks, candy stocks don’t sound bad right about now.

You'll probably have ballasts burn out if you don't disable the auto headlight feature. Mine did, I went through 3 ballasts before I figured it out. It seems that if the voltage is low due to the starter cranking, that's not the time you want your ballasts trying to fire up. Since I switched to turning them on after the truck starts, no ballasts problems for over 2 years now.

I don’t know if it’s a Suburban thing or if it’s that I always use my parking brake, and I mean always. But my lights don’t come on when I start it, they come on when I disengage the parking brake or I turn them on with the switch, it only autoswitches on the low beams when it’s dark enough, but that still doesn’t happen until I disengage the parking brake.

And I know what you mean, I say 10k and 6k cause that’s what the package says Incase people want to order the ones in this post, but the whole matching colors and the vast variations in Kelvin tempture charts presented by light companies is just mind numbing. It’s a giant cluster ffff. I usually just try to buy all the bulbs at the same time from the same brand.

 

[05Single]

Yeah the rear bulbs didn’t fit, gonna have to find shorter LEDs like halogen bulb height or go back to stocks, candy stocks don’t sound bad right about now.
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Get these. So simple so clean. Low maintenance. Plenty of room for any bulbs you desire lol

Then sell your old ones

 

[Rocket Man]

Yeah the rear bulbs didn’t fit, gonna have to find shorter LEDs like halogen bulb height or go back to stocks, candy stocks don’t sound bad right about now.



I don’t know if it’s a Suburban thing or if it’s that I always use my parking brake, and I mean always. But my lights don’t come on when I start it, they come on when I disengage the parking brake or I turn them on with the switch, it only autoswitches on the low beams when it’s dark enough, but that still doesn’t happen until I disengage the parking brake.

And I know what you mean, I say 10k and 6k cause that’s what the package says Incase people want to order the ones in this post, but the whole matching colors and the vast variations in Kelvin tempture charts presented by light companies is just mind numbing. It’s a giant cluster ffff. I usually just try to buy all the bulbs at the same time from the same brand.

It's the parking brake. I never use mine but if you do they don't come on until it's released.

 

[05Single]

I guess I got lucky with my lights. All matching 6000k with less than a 500k variance between them. All 3 different companies lol. I have hids and generic switchbacks. My cousins Silverado has jdm astar switchbacks and they're a 5000k that match almost perfectly with his 5000k lows and fogs hids

 

[00'BlueSteel]

Get these. So simple so clean. Low maintenance. Plenty of room for any bulbs you desire lolView attachment 186912
Then sell your old ones

I do like those, I much prefer the smooth profile over the stock.
And now i’m conflicted cause what I want is the 6000k you have, and not the 5k that my new switchbacks and drls came in. Lol sad part is I already wanted new headlights and now I want tail lights and all new LEDs . Guess I’ll send all the LEDs back expect for the 194s and get different ones, and then get new taillights and then new headlights. Lol and I know once I color match the front end I am going to want crystal clear chrome headlights not smoked blacks like I have now.

 

[Fosscore]

Truck is looking good.