Rocket Man's 2008 Bagged CC Silverado Build AKA "THE MACHINE"

[01Konvict]

I like the plans for the lights and agree with painting the strips. Not sure if painting of the headlight bowl outside edge near turn signal or not. I need to see a shroud in front of it with painted marker section. The morimoto switchbacks should give the correct glow and demon eyes sounds good for the truck.

 

[Rocket Man]

I painted the parts of the headlights that I know for sure I'm painting. I still have to clear coat them but they were out of the good stuff so I put that on hold.

 

[Rocket Man]

The TRS stuff came in so I started on the retrofit. Holy crap it's a handful. I started on just one side for now , just to get my feet wet. First was modifying the lens to accept the projector. I had to open the hole up so it would fit through, then grind part of the mount out of the way so it would slide back all the way. Then the nut on the back wouldn't tighten far enough to install the hardware so I ground down the rear of where the bulb used to mount. Then of course there was the wire for the shutter so I drilled a hole for that. I installed the projector and mounted the bulb and shroud and I was so happy. Then I realized the demon eye needed to be mounted on the projector before it was mounted so I removed it all again and used my air grinder to enlarge the hole for the demon eye wires.

 

[Rocket Man]

I mounted the projector and started hooking up the massive amount of wiring. I kind of got overwhelmed with all the wiring at this point. The instructions are for each different item, and I had to keep looking up one more set of instructions after another. It's a lot of wiring for a headlight. The main harness is actually for both and so is the RGB computer but still...

 

[Tonyrodz]

Those Demon Eyes look so badass.

 

[Rocket Man]

Sorry for the sideways and upside down pictures but this site does that to me and it's a hassle to fix so this time I'm not going to. I ended the day by hooking up the demon eye and downloading the ap to my phone, then attempted to color match the projector to the truck. I can get it pretty close. Also, I just messed around with it a bit. Kinda cool, and I definitely like the eyeball etching on the projector.

 

[HiHoeSilver]

Sorry for the sideways and upside down pictures but this site does that to me and it's a hassle to fix so this time I'm not going to. I ended the day by hooking up the demon eye and downloading the ap to my phone, then attempted to color match the projector to the truck. I can get it pretty close. Also, I just messed around with it a bit. Kinda cool, and I definitely like the eyeball etching on the projector.

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Too cool.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Sorry for the sideways and upside down pictures but this site does that to me and it's a hassle to fix so this time I'm not going to. I ended the day by hooking up the demon eye and downloading the ap to my phone, then attempted to color match the projector to the truck. I can get it pretty close. Also, I just messed around with it a bit. Kinda cool, and I definitely like the eyeball etching on the projector.

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I likes it yo. Pretty cool.

 

[Rocket Man]

I found some good clear at O'reilly's so I finished that. I think they came out pretty good, considering I'm not usually good at painting.

 

[Rocket Man]

Well it looks like things are on hold. The Beast decided to start running rough yesterday and threw code P0400 and a flashing CEL for a few seconds after a WOT run. I'm going to try plugs today just to see if they're the problem but I'm pretty sure the small intake leak that Blackbear told me about last year turned into a bigger one and the blower needs to be R&R'd. I wish I knew how Justin can see the leak from a data log because I should be able to use the Tech 2 to see it. Anyway the blower is a bear to install so I hope that's not it but I fear it is.