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

[Dantheman1540]

My neighbor bought a ‘14 Silverado WT and has been attempting to do some stuff to it. I thought he was doing a lot of work since he’s been working on it for 4-5 days but he only installed a roll pan, chrome tow hooks, chrome grill and chrome wheels. Yech. I stopped by today to see what his plans were and to see about snatching the rear bumper. He said he is having a shop lower it 7/4 (we will see) and he wants to bag it. Then he said he wants to eventually get it down like mine. I just smiled and said cool. The guy doesn’t have a clue on how to do anything and you can see from how he removed the rear bumper. He said he had to cut it all up to remove it and I’m like wtf. He was going to take it to the dump so it was free. The idiot cut through the plastic step pads instead of popping them off. But the rest is fine, so I’ll just have the chrome stripped and PTM and buy new step pads. It has 2 tiny dents that I’ll fill after it’s stripped. I have been looking on eBay and wrecking yards and they want anywhere between 300-500 for one of these. It’s a spring project though. The price was right.

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I thought you liked chrome..........

 

[05Single]

My neighbor bought a ‘14 Silverado WT and has been attempting to do some stuff to it. I thought he was doing a lot of work since he’s been working on it for 4-5 days but he only installed a roll pan, chrome tow hooks, chrome grill and chrome wheels. Yech. I stopped by today to see what his plans were and to see about snatching the rear bumper. He said he is having a shop lower it 7/4 (we will see) and he wants to bag it. Then he said he wants to eventually get it down like mine. I just smiled and said cool. The guy doesn’t have a clue on how to do anything and you can see from how he removed the rear bumper. He said he had to cut it all up to remove it and I’m like wtf. He was going to take it to the dump so it was free. The idiot cut through the plastic step pads instead of popping them off. But the rest is fine, so I’ll just have the chrome stripped and PTM and buy new step pads. It has 2 tiny dents that I’ll fill after it’s stripped. I have been looking on eBay and wrecking yards and they want anywhere between 300-500 for one of these. It’s a spring project though. The price was right.

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Nice score . I’m not really a fan of the step bumpers anymore , too much going on . I like your current bumper ... smooth and simple and clean.

 

[05Single]

Made a deal in an 87 C10 for a project. Plans are for a full custom frame, bodied, bagged with an LS swap. First I’ll need to get it into my backyard which won’t be easy, I’ll need to do a pass-thru in my garage with a second overhead door out the back. This will be a long project. Trucks in pretty decent shape very tiny amount of rust in the door jambs up high. Rockers and floor pans are all good. The 350 has about 11k on it and I’m selling that to another neighbor for $300 because he found the truck for me. The guy wanted $1500 but I made a deal for $1000 so it will cost me $700 after I sell the engine.

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That’s not a bad price for a solid looking truck . The obs rear bumper is not a good look on there lol. Hard to tell in the pics, is it a short bed ? Super jelly

 

[Sam Harris]

That’s not a bad price for a solid looking truck . The obs rear bumper is not a good look on there lol. Hard to tell in the pics, is it a short bed ? Super jelly

Looks like a LB to me.

 

[Rocket Man]

That’s not a bad price for a solid looking truck . The obs rear bumper is not a good look on there lol. Hard to tell in the pics, is it a short bed ? Super jelly

I actually decided to hold off on buying that truck. I decided I needed to have a place to work on a project before actually starting a project so I used that as motivation to start on my garage rebuild. First goal is make it a pass- thru and Sheetrock it, build a new workbench, organize everything. Then install a second overhead door on the back wall and finally build a small shop in the backyard.

 

[Bear77]

I actually decided to hold off on buying that truck. I decided I needed to have a place to work on a project before actually starting a project so I used that as motivation to start on my garage rebuild. First goal is make it a pass- thru and Sheetrock it, build a new workbench, organize everything. Then install a second overhead door on the back wall and finally build a small shop in the backyard.

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Good progress on the garage so far!


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[05Single]

I actually decided to hold off on buying that truck. I decided I needed to have a place to work on a project before actually starting a project so I used that as motivation to start on my garage rebuild. First goal is make it a pass- thru and Sheetrock it, build a new workbench, organize everything. Then install a second overhead door on the back wall and finally build a small shop in the backyard.

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That’s a good size project in itself. Hard to pass up that truck but gotta do the garage first. Just shows it wasn’t meant to be at this time. You’ll find something , especially in OR. When I visit family there i see so many potential projects and barn finds all over the place.

 

[Rocket Man]

So I went to make my weekly grocery run yesterday and the battery was dead. As in wouldn’t even unlock the doors dead. So I hooked up the charger and last night I noticed a glow from inside the cab- the stereo was on. I had to manually power it down for it to shut off. It looked like something in the BCM tune was keeping it alive. It got me to thinking about that peculiar feature that cropped up after the tune from BT Dieselworks where the stereo stayed on for a minute or two after I removed the keys and opened the door. Maybe it was now keeping the stereo on all the time, draining the battery. So last night I emailed Ben Tyler and asked him. Amazingly he emailed me back this morning and this is what he said:

“Mark-

Updated tune file is attached. The problem is technically due to the fact that you have an aftermarket radio. The aftermarket radio adapters have pretty sloppy programming, so with the "extended accessory power" feature enabled in the BCM tune, thats probably why the battery went dead.

I disabled that enhanced feature in this second revision of the BCM tune here.”



Ben”

So that extended time after the door was opened was a feature he turned on, even though it was never mentioned. Kinda bothers me that he never mentioned it before- I wouldn’t have had it turned on. Now I have to re-flash the BCM.

 

[Sam Harris]

So I went to make my weekly grocery run yesterday and the battery was dead. As in wouldn’t even unlock the doors dead. So I hooked up the charger and last night I noticed a glow from inside the cab- the stereo was on. I had to manually power it down for it to shut off. It looked like something in the BCM tune was keeping it alive. It got me to thinking about that peculiar feature that cropped up after the tune from BT Dieselworks where the stereo stayed on for a minute or two after I removed the keys and opened the door. Maybe it was now keeping the stereo on all the time, draining the battery. So last night I emailed Ben Tyler and asked him. Amazingly he emailed me back this morning and this is what he said:

“Mark-

Updated tune file is attached. The problem is technically due to the fact that you have an aftermarket radio. The aftermarket radio adapters have pretty sloppy programming, so with the "extended accessory power" feature enabled in the BCM tune, thats probably why the battery went dead.

I disabled that enhanced feature in this second revision of the BCM tune here.”



Ben”

So that extended time after the door was opened was a feature he turned on, even though it was never mentioned. Kinda bothers me that he never mentioned it before- I wouldn’t have had it turned on. Now I have to re-flash the BCM.

Nice. And he blames an aftermarket stereo for his change. [emoji107][emoji3166]

 

[05Single]

So I went to make my weekly grocery run yesterday and the battery was dead. As in wouldn’t even unlock the doors dead. So I hooked up the charger and last night I noticed a glow from inside the cab- the stereo was on. I had to manually power it down for it to shut off. It looked like something in the BCM tune was keeping it alive. It got me to thinking about that peculiar feature that cropped up after the tune from BT Dieselworks where the stereo stayed on for a minute or two after I removed the keys and opened the door. Maybe it was now keeping the stereo on all the time, draining the battery. So last night I emailed Ben Tyler and asked him. Amazingly he emailed me back this morning and this is what he said:

“Mark-

Updated tune file is attached. The problem is technically due to the fact that you have an aftermarket radio. The aftermarket radio adapters have pretty sloppy programming, so with the "extended accessory power" feature enabled in the BCM tune, thats probably why the battery went dead.

I disabled that enhanced feature in this second revision of the BCM tune here.”



Ben”

So that extended time after the door was opened was a feature he turned on, even though it was never mentioned. Kinda bothers me that he never mentioned it before- I wouldn’t have had it turned on. Now I have to re-flash the BCM.

That’s annoying. I hate finding and dealing with careless service , it happens almost daily to me I swear. I’m sure he forgot to mention it , but I guess I just expect people to do 100% of their job like I do at mine.
I’d be pissed

 

[Rocket Man]

So I tried flashing the BCM with the updated file but I forgot it needs to be licensed to the Autocal so I emailed it to Blackbear. Who knows how long that will take. Hey Shannon @BlackBearPerf can you look into this? It should only take Justin a minute to do that. Also, I have been thinking about the headlights ever since the last time I built them. The lower (high beams) bowls have bothered me ever since. They’re chrome for one, in order to reflect, and we all know how I feel about chrome. So I priced Morimoto mini H1’s, with the same demon eyes and etching on the lenses like the others and even with TRS’s 20% off Black Friday sale it was over $400 in parts. No thanks. So I ordered Acme projectors and ballasts and HD relays with no demon eyes or etching. I might order the demon eyes later, haven’t decided. It just gets to be a lot of wiring so IDK, might just have the upper set with them. Anyway it was $140 this way and I’ll still have quad projectors and zero chrome. I don’t really need more light but it won’t hurt, right?

 

[BlackBearPerf]

So I tried flashing the BCM with the updated file but I forgot it needs to be licensed to the Autocal so I emailed it to Blackbear. Who knows how long that will take. Hey Shannon @BlackBearPerf can you look into this? It should only take Justin a minute to do that. Also, I have been thinking about the headlights ever since the last time I built them. The lower (high beams) bowls have bothered me ever since. They’re chrome for one, in order to reflect, and we all know how I feel about chrome. So I priced Morimoto mini H1’s, with the same demon eyes and etching on the lenses like the others and even with TRS’s 20% off Black Friday sale it was over $400 in parts. No thanks. So I ordered Acme projectors and ballasts and HD relays with no demon eyes or etching. I might order the demon eyes later, haven’t decided. It just gets to be a lot of wiring so IDK, might just have the upper set with them. Anyway it was $140 this way and I’ll still have quad projectors and zero chrome. I don’t really need more light but it won’t hurt, right?

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I wish I could help but the BCM thing that you did with the AutoCal is a very unique situation that Justin helped you with. I am not sure all that was involved, but emailing Justin is the only way to get assistance on this, and of course he has to do it all in the order received.

 

[Rocket Man]

I wish I could help but the BCM thing that you did with the AutoCal is a very unique situation that Justin helped you with. I am not sure all that was involved, but emailing Justin is the only way to get assistance on this, and of course he has to do it all in the order received.

Ok I sent the file in the email to him so now it’s just a waiting game. Luckily I’m in no hurry. Thanks for getting back to me so fast.

 

[Rocket Man]

My order from TRS came today. That project is on the back burner. My garage retrofit is in process instead.

 

[Fless]

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Looks great, Mark! What do you plan to use for the sliding door handles?

 

[Rocket Man]

Looks great, Mark! What do you plan to use for the sliding door handles?

Holes lol.

 

[Fless]

Holes lol.

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That works! We used to use small finger grips when we needed something nicer, but they can't be thicker than the door material or they'd scratch the other doors.

 

[Rocket Man]

That works! We used to use small finger grips when we needed something nicer, but they can't be thicker than the door material or they'd scratch the other doors.

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I used those on the overhead bypass doors but for these I wanted something that I can pull better with in case they don’t slide super easy since they don’t have wheels. Plus I’m not sure if I can find any 1/4” deep. The bypass doors are 3/4” thick around the edges.

 

[Sam Harris]

Looks great, Mark! What do you plan to use for the sliding door handles?

X2! Very nice!

 

[Rocket Man]

Thanks guys. There’s more pics in my other build thread but here’s a couple glamor shots. I reordered different under cabinet lights, these aren’t bright enough for me. I also got my BCM tune file back from @BlackBearPerf so I’ll be installing that in the next day or three.