Bought a 2010 Tahoe: Build Thread

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bfonz91

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Bought this beauty and plan to make it a bad-@$$ kid hauler. Having my first kid in a couple months. I plan to soup this thing up a bit, doing budget fixes and upgrades, and enjoy every minute of it. 2010 LT 5.3 RWD, black leather, no sunroon, no air-ride, and 3.08 gears. It's got 205k miles, but is in REALLY good shape. I'm going to try to document everything here, so I guess this is my build thread.

Some of the upgrades and fixes I'm thinking:

Debadge
Tune/AFM delete
Headunit, backup camera
LEDs everywhere
Belltech 2/3
Captains chairs
Regear ~ 3.73 or 3.90
Intake/Exhaust
6.2L swap? Don't tell my wife.

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Bought this beauty and plan to make it a bad-@$$ kid hauler. Having my first kid in a couple months. I plan to soup this thing up a bit, doing budget fixes and upgrades, and enjoy every minute of it. 2010 LT 5.3 RWD with 3.08 gears. It's got 205k miles, but is in REALLY good shape. I'm going to try to document everything here, so I guess this is my build thread.

Some of the upgrades and fixes I'm thinking:

Debadge
Tune/AFM delete
Headunit, backup camera
Belltech 2/3
Captains chairs
Regear ~ 3.73 or 3.90
Intake/Exhaust
6.2L swap? Don't tell my wife.

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3.90s would be cool but I have not found a set of good quality ones in a long while. The 6.2 Sierras love 3.73 gears and if you go with a taller tire would use the 3.90s or 4.10s to make up for the taller tire.
 

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Bought this beauty and plan to make it a bad-@$$ kid hauler. Having my first kid in a couple months. I plan to soup this thing up a bit, doing budget fixes and upgrades, and enjoy every minute of it. 2010 LT 5.3 RWD with 3.08 gears. It's got 205k miles, but is in REALLY good shape. I'm going to try to document everything here, so I guess this is my build thread.

Some of the upgrades and fixes I'm thinking:

Debadge
Tune/AFM delete
Headunit, backup camera
Belltech 2/3
Captains chairs
Regear ~ 3.73 or 3.90
Intake/Exhaust
6.2L swap? Don't tell my wife.

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Sounds like a good plan.
 

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3.73 gear would be easy to obtain for sure. With the 4.whatever gear in the 6l80 would be epic anyways. I went from 3.08 in my burb to 3.42 in the new 11 denali and its a night and day difference in some ways, plus the 6.2 loves to pull torque is beautiful.
 

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Welcome.
Mighty fine looking Family Truckster you have there.

Will be watching this thread as I am soon the replace the H/U from my 07 Denali as it lacks BT anyway. Or that is the excuse I am going with as I believe there is a $100 solution via module.
 

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