Denali on some new shoes

[a4edwin]

imo nali's look way better than the lade's. just smoother looking

 

[Knobz]

Update

Did a few things to the truck over the past week. I installed the new Z71 bumpstops up front (untrimmed) and seem to be working well. It feels much nicer up front now.

And today I pulled my front door panels and did the suede inserts on the lower part of the doors. I had already done the tops along time ago and decided to do the lowers also.

On the lowers I just rough cut a piece. Layed it out and traced my shape with white chalk. Cut my pattern and then applied glue and tucked it. Wasn't too bad. And my door lights have been smoked.

Here's a few pictures

And my next interior project is gonna be making fiberglassed speaker pods for new speakers. Here's a preview.

 

[fire730]

Nice work!

I wish I had some free time to do the 100s of mods I want to do to my vehicles.

 

[03DenaliDriver]

they look good on the truck

 

[05whitenali]

The truck is looking great man. What did you use to paint the armrest handles black on your door panels?

 

[Knobz]

The truck is looking great man. What did you use to paint the armrest handles black on your door panels?

I used some black rattle can spray paint that's made for vinyl. If you use just regular spray paint it will smear off on your arm when it's hot. And just make sure it's prepped well and clean. I wash the pieces like 4 times because if you use Armoral products you gotta make sure you get that off completely cuz it's oil based and you get fish eye in the paint if there's the slightest oil left on the pieces.

 

[dropmech]

Looks great man! Love watching a work in progress!

 

[1Agerry]

she's look's sick man.i will be happy with just the wheels,awesome truck!

 

[Knobz]

Got a bunch of parts today from the UPS guy. First thing I slapped on the truck would be a new Spectre cold air-intake. Installation was super easy and wow this intake is awesome and sounds sooo good. Makes the truck sound mean when I step on it.

And while I had everything apart I cleaned my throttle body (which was suprisingly very clean) and cleaned the MAF sensor also.

 

[05whitenali]

The intake looks good. It is very similar to the kit I have on my truck. They are great and much cheaper then K&N or any of those.

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Have you made any progress on fiber glassing the speaker pods?

 

[Knobz]

The intake looks good. It is very similar to the kit I have on my truck. They are great and much cheaper then K&N or any of those.

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Have you made any progress on fiber glassing the speaker pods?

Thanks dude. Yea, just paying for the name on a K&N kit. This kit was nice. Everything fit perfect and lined up and works awesome.

And on the speaker pods, I haven't started that project yet. Soon though.

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So I got a jump start tonight on my next project on the truck which would be the air helper bags. I did the hose plumbing and mounted my fittings. Here's a few pics of the progress I made tonight.

 

[Knobz]

Got my air helper bags in today. What a pain in the ass that was haha I dropped the rear end and pulled out the springs since I also needed to put in my new bumpstops in the rear also. It's deff much much easier to put the bags in with the springs out of the truck. And on the bumpstops, they're 3/4" stops. I had to drill new holes and make threads but worked out good.

Here's some pictures from todays projects

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Almost forgot to add that those air helper bags sure do make it a lot nicer in the rear. I had like a chattering sound coming from the rear and now with the bags the chattering sound is gone and feels 10 times smoother in the rear. I have 10psi in them right now and it feels good. All I can say is I dont know how I went a year lowered without the helper bags. They make things that much smoother. I would say deff a must have item especially for only $88.

 

[fire730]

[/COLOR]Almost forgot to add that those air helper bags sure do make it a lot nicer in the rear. I had like a chattering sound coming from the rear and now with the bags the chattering sound is gone and feels 10 times smoother in the rear. I have 10psi in them right now and it feels good. All I can say is I dont know how I went a year lowered without the helper bags. They make things that much smoother. I would say eff a must have item especially for only $88.

I'll second that statement. My 04 was very bouncy in the rear until I added the helper bags. I'm only running 5 psi in mine and it made a huge difference. I got a set for my 07 to put in as soon as a put the lowering springs in. I didn't want to have to go back in later.

 

[Knobz]

I know there was a couple guys asking about my speaker pods I mentioned about building... I started a new thread over in audio and electronics.

 

[denalianyone]

Does the tires rub at all? Im gonna switch to 26's soon but didnt want a 295/25/26 tire on these NY streets.

 

[NASTY GM]

Sweet! I just had my front end aligned at that place. They were the only ones I could find to do 26's shyco:

 

[Knobz]

Does the tires rub at all? Im gonna switch to 26's soon but didnt want a 295/25/26 tire on these NY streets.

They don't rub bad at all. I can bust a full u-turn with minimal rubbing if any and I'm running a 255/30/26 which is slightly bigger but perfect. And I'm running a 3/6 drop.

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Sweet! I just had my front end aligned at that place. They were the only ones I could find to do 26's shyco:

Yea same here. I'm over in Santa Cruz and no tire shops over here would touch anything over 22's so I had to go to Cali wheels for the 26's.

 

[Chrisr]

niceeee

 

[g35kid]

nice truck

 

[yates ™]

Why are you running individual lines to each bag? I would have just teed both bags off to a single line and put it buy your plate.