thunderstruck
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Took a few pictures of my old 1995 Chevy C1500 Silverado, unfortunately it got a little dirty on the way to where I took the pics. Oh well. The paint is really starting to go but at least it still runs and drives great.
The TYC Elegante lights are starting to show their age.
I bought some clear corners from a seller on eBay, but not really sure I'm going to keep them. They didn't fit all to well and tend to get fogged up.
New exhaust, straight 3" exhaust with a hi-flow catalytic converter and a 3.5" slash-cut tip.
New tail lights, also from an eBay seller. Unlike the clear corners, these fit and look great. Plus they do away with those shitty circuit boards that the factory taillights plug into. I think nubuilder and/or BHB has a set of these too.
The 1999 Suburban dash I installed a couple of years ago
2000 Escalade cluster with blue LEDs
Small mod, but worth mentioning. I hated having the USB and auxiliary cables from my headunit hanging out behind the dash, so I replaced my cigarette lighter with a USB port and added a 3.5mm input next to it.
A little info about the truck:
It's a 1995 Chevrolet C1500 Silverado, extended cab, short bed. It has the TBI 350/5.7L motor, 4L60e trans, and 3.42 gears. My mother bought this truck brand new back in 1995. Towards the end of 2001, she was broadsided by someone who ran a red light, which explains why the paint is in better shape on the hood and drivers side. I started driving the truck in March 2006 and hit a deer with it in September. Fortunately, the truck only needed a new grille and parking light. Replaced the 4L60e around December 2006 when it lost reverse around 158k miles. After high school, I bought the truck from my mom in May 2008 and slowly started modifying and restoring it. Finally had to replace the original fuel pump at 204k miles around September 2010. The truck currently has about 216,700 miles on it.
The exterior is a bit rough, the paint is faded and the clear coat is peeling off everywhere on the roof, tailgate, and passenger side. There's also a bunch of scratches, chips, and dings thanks to bushes, careless douchebags, and whatnot. For that reason, I've held off on doing any major mods to the exterior until I address the paint. Fortunately, the interior is in excellent shape, although I did have to replace the original dash with one from a '99 about two year ago.
Here are some of the few mods I've done:
Exterior:
Removed the Chevrolet tailgate badge, chrome fender trim, and Silverado badges. I've thought about removing the molding, but considering the difficulty I had removing the hardened adhesive left behind by the badges, I'll wait until the truck gets repainted.
Colormatched the bowtie emblems on the grille and on the door badges
Precision billet grille inserts
TYC Elegante headlights and parking lights
Eagle Eyes tail lights
Clear corner lights
Toshiba HIR high & low bulbs with quad-beam relay
Tinted windows, 35% I think
Interior:
1999 GMT400 dash
2000 Escalade gauge cluster
Blue LEDs throughout dash and interior
USB and 3.5mm audio inputs flush-mounted in cigarette-lighter's stock location
SuedeMat dash cover
Audio:
Kenwood eXcelon KDC-X791 headunit
Kicker ZX850.4 four-channel amplifier
PPI 356cs 6.5" component speakers
Dayton Audio Reference H.O. 10" subwoofer in an underseat enclosure
Sound deadened doors
KnuKonceptz wiring
Performance:
Harris Performance (tbichips.com) HOT chip
Corvette servo with longer pin
Open-element air cleaner
Hi-flow cat. converter with single 3" straight exhaust, exits in front of right rear tire with a 3.5" tip
Suspension/Braking:
Belltech 2" rear drop shackles
Centric slotted front rotors
Energy Performance sway-bar bushings
Monroe monotube shocks
As of now I'm mostly just concerned with keeping the truck maintained, but I would like to have it repainted soon and find some limited edition 5-lug Tahoe wheels for it. Maybe drop it some more and do some motor work too. It's all a fWONkin' pipe-dream as of now though.
The TYC Elegante lights are starting to show their age.
I bought some clear corners from a seller on eBay, but not really sure I'm going to keep them. They didn't fit all to well and tend to get fogged up.
New exhaust, straight 3" exhaust with a hi-flow catalytic converter and a 3.5" slash-cut tip.
New tail lights, also from an eBay seller. Unlike the clear corners, these fit and look great. Plus they do away with those shitty circuit boards that the factory taillights plug into. I think nubuilder and/or BHB has a set of these too.
The 1999 Suburban dash I installed a couple of years ago
2000 Escalade cluster with blue LEDs
Small mod, but worth mentioning. I hated having the USB and auxiliary cables from my headunit hanging out behind the dash, so I replaced my cigarette lighter with a USB port and added a 3.5mm input next to it.
A little info about the truck:
It's a 1995 Chevrolet C1500 Silverado, extended cab, short bed. It has the TBI 350/5.7L motor, 4L60e trans, and 3.42 gears. My mother bought this truck brand new back in 1995. Towards the end of 2001, she was broadsided by someone who ran a red light, which explains why the paint is in better shape on the hood and drivers side. I started driving the truck in March 2006 and hit a deer with it in September. Fortunately, the truck only needed a new grille and parking light. Replaced the 4L60e around December 2006 when it lost reverse around 158k miles. After high school, I bought the truck from my mom in May 2008 and slowly started modifying and restoring it. Finally had to replace the original fuel pump at 204k miles around September 2010. The truck currently has about 216,700 miles on it.
The exterior is a bit rough, the paint is faded and the clear coat is peeling off everywhere on the roof, tailgate, and passenger side. There's also a bunch of scratches, chips, and dings thanks to bushes, careless douchebags, and whatnot. For that reason, I've held off on doing any major mods to the exterior until I address the paint. Fortunately, the interior is in excellent shape, although I did have to replace the original dash with one from a '99 about two year ago.
Here are some of the few mods I've done:
Exterior:
Removed the Chevrolet tailgate badge, chrome fender trim, and Silverado badges. I've thought about removing the molding, but considering the difficulty I had removing the hardened adhesive left behind by the badges, I'll wait until the truck gets repainted.
Colormatched the bowtie emblems on the grille and on the door badges
Precision billet grille inserts
TYC Elegante headlights and parking lights
Eagle Eyes tail lights
Clear corner lights
Toshiba HIR high & low bulbs with quad-beam relay
Tinted windows, 35% I think
Interior:
1999 GMT400 dash
2000 Escalade gauge cluster
Blue LEDs throughout dash and interior
USB and 3.5mm audio inputs flush-mounted in cigarette-lighter's stock location
SuedeMat dash cover
Audio:
Kenwood eXcelon KDC-X791 headunit
Kicker ZX850.4 four-channel amplifier
PPI 356cs 6.5" component speakers
Dayton Audio Reference H.O. 10" subwoofer in an underseat enclosure
Sound deadened doors
KnuKonceptz wiring
Performance:
Harris Performance (tbichips.com) HOT chip
Corvette servo with longer pin
Open-element air cleaner
Hi-flow cat. converter with single 3" straight exhaust, exits in front of right rear tire with a 3.5" tip
Suspension/Braking:
Belltech 2" rear drop shackles
Centric slotted front rotors
Energy Performance sway-bar bushings
Monroe monotube shocks
As of now I'm mostly just concerned with keeping the truck maintained, but I would like to have it repainted soon and find some limited edition 5-lug Tahoe wheels for it. Maybe drop it some more and do some motor work too. It's all a fWONkin' pipe-dream as of now though.
