Doug118’s “that poor Suburban”

[Doug118]

Let’s start from the beginning. This is going to be just a few pictures from each “phase” of the truck. Started as a $2700 bone stock auction score. 220k miles. Was repo’d from the previous owner and only ended up needing a water pump

 

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Immediately put what was at the time the biggest stereo I’ve done

 

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Ran into electrical issues so I tore everything out and ended up lowering the truck and doing a much smaller stereo setup. Also found some super cheap 24’s with tiny tires. Ended up breaking a wheel in less than 1 mile

 

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went from 3 15’s to 4 15’s and the next day the DOD lifters locked up on the truck. Tore the engine down and rebuilt it

 

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Shortly after that I had the frame notched in preparation for the big build to come. Covered the windows in insulation and rerouted the rear ac to the back of the truck

 

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This is how the truck sat for about 6 months then I did some more upgrades

 

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Did the Escalade cluster and ran into problems with the roof ripping so I swapped the roof for a non sunroof one. I did about 3/8” of sound deadener because putting the new roof on. Much easier this way

 

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Roof swapped and found a cool color for the inside of the box

 

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Got sick of the grey interior so I bought black interior out of an avalanche for $1200

 

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I pretty much live at the junkyard and absolutely score these 26” Dub Baller’s for $500. They didn’t last long on the truck because I hated the 40 point turns I had to make due to them hitting the firewall

 

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Some more upgrades to the stereo. Went from two 5k amps on the subs to two 8k amps. Ran it across the scales just out of curiosity

 

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Finally got the 22’s I’ve always wanted. Also decided to do the back doors and add some more smaller amps since I added 14 more speakers

 

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Truck sat like this for over a year now. I’m very content with the way the audio part of the truck is

 

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The windshield started leaking so I had it pulled thinking the seal had torn. Boy was I wrong. Luckily I have a badass welder buddy across from my work so he took care of all that for me.

Also had a couple of small speaker tops powder coated to match the ones in the rear

 

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This is the current status of the truck. Tried fitting 28’s but I’d need to do a TON of work to make them fit and remain static. Narrowed front control arms and a big firewall tub is what I’d need to do. A big part of me wants to do it but I’m still on the fence

I bought a 08 Escalade ESV for a daily so I can finally give the poor suburban a break. The Suburban is creeping up on 400k miles now. It’s been my daily for 5 years now and has taken me all over the country for car shows

 

[Doug118]

This is a VERY condense version of the progress of this truck. I have thousands of pictures I’ve taken along the way so if you want to see more pictures of anything else, just ask

 

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Oh how could I forget the suspension setup. It’s fairly simple.

Front: stock spring. Stock length strut. Drop spindles. Struts flipped to the bottom of the control arm with a 1” spacer. DJM upper arms

Rear: 6” drop spring. A metric ton in audio. Lots and lots of cutting. spohn panhard bar

 

[89Suburban]

Thanks for making this thread homie.