Well I really wanted to get most of my mods done before I joined a forum. Most of my experiences with new vehicles and forums are... Hey I LIKE THAT, MUST BUY IT... :lol1: Being as young as I am, Owning a small/decent sized Personal business I really should be saving the money rather than spending thousands at a time... Rather spend it before it gets taxed out of my pockets... *COUGH*
Anyways I will start off with what I traded in for this car. My first financed vehicle. 2012 Ram 1500 Lone Star. I had SOOO MUCH done to this truck... I am a truck person at heart, and only ever owned them. I just thought it be best to get what I wanted, as I broke the ONE RULE of a truck... DON'T DROP IT...
Bone STOCK
Yea it was a FULL SIZED CREW CAB Truck on 22s with 32 inch tires pushing 90+ pounds a wheel.. And it did low to mid 5 second 0-60s... LOL
- Truck was the only 1500 to have a rear end gear swap in a 2012. Put 4.10s and LSD in it.
- ARH Long Tubes, Full Custom Exhaust with Mag x and two 14 inch mag mufflers
- Intake, Custom Bore TB, And a custom tune. I embarrassed some punks that is for sure.
- Exterior wise, I Custom mounted the Billet upper/lower Grille, Color matched a lot of it. Tinted the LED tails with my OEM paint color with a 70/30 Thinner/paint mix
- Had a buddy of mine retrofit projectors into the housings and paint them.
- Interior was all custom painted ETC.
- FULL interior/exterior LED swap. I MEAN EVERYTHING.
- Rear was bagged
Here is an exhaust vid
2012 Ram 1500 American Racing Headers Longtubes - YouTube
Good 14 grand into that truck for sure. Missing a good 70% of the little things I did on that list but that is the gist.
I Traded that beauty in for a 2013 5.0, Hadn't even put 10k miles on the truck before i got bored of it LOL! First when I was getting the car I decided to get mostly lower options, besides the interior, as I knew the exterior would be completely redone. I also wanted 3:31s over the 3:73s as I am going to be running some form of boost in the future.
2013 5.0 GT Premium (None Track Pack) with 6 speed in Sterling Grey
BONE STOCK (Day I picked her up) Dealer Installed Tint Limo On the rear and QP windows, and 20% on the sides. Made a HUGE difference.
As you can see this thing had the most HIDEOUS set of wheels I have ever seen on ANY car. Not to mention its almost monster truck height that Ford Insists on with all their cars...
First to go on was a set of AMR Black Rims with SUMO tires. (I KNOW everybody runs these) How ever, Weight was first priority, Looks were second. I did not want to add ANY addition rotational mass. Weighing these new tires in the 19x10.5 in the rear with the 275s compared to the stock 18x9 with the 235s there was a 1 pound difference between the two. Of course the fronts with the 245s around the 19s weighed less than the stockers.
After that I had to deal with my OCD of OEM Yellow standard bulbs. Everything on this car is LED except for 3 spots... The Map lights, Trunk Light, AND the LP lights. NOW when I order LEDS I light to have good quality AMERICAN made. How ever I do not OVER PAY. Ordering MOST of my parts from AM I did notice once thing.. The raxiom LED bulbs are being REPACKAGED AND SOLD AT 400% mark up. I ordered ALL of my bulbs, MAP lights, Trunk LIGHT, AND LP lights for 13 dollars + 3 dollar shipping from Superbrightleds(dot)com Not only are these great LEDS they ACTUALLY HAVE CORRECT TEMPS. I hate OEM Yellow, I also HAAAATTTEEE RICER BLUE. Most Led companies lable their "white" bulbs as "Pure LED White" Which is false as they ALWAYS have a 20%+ blue tint to them. NOT Superbrightleds... Their bulbs are 100% PURE WHITE. As you will see in the picks. It just looks amazing. ESP at night on the LP.
Now after my LED OCD was handled I went on to other little BS things I needed to handle. Such as the Chrome 5.0 Badge and the Pony Logo on the front end.
Now to start getting into the real mods! My first time at the track in this car was right at 1100 miles on the ODO. All I learned on that night was this car spins at the top of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th... You get my over exaggeration... :burn: NOT only the spinning, but the HORRRRID WHEEL HOP I was getting. It was scary. People watching me do the runs were saying they could see my car almost dog legging down the track... Safe to say I stopped after the second run because I felt as if the rear end was going to explode.
With this learned I went ahead and got some Eibach Lowering spings, their adj Panhard Bar, and J&M extreme Join LCA's to help things out. :burnout:
Then it was time for some photo's!
One of my favorite. 08 C6. Have personally done 180 mph (On youtube) in that car. Is geared for 60+ highway pulls with cars pushing 200+ more HP.
After all that was done it was time to get into the performance aspect of this car with a few starter bolt ons! Including the greatly built Airaid CAI, DS Trinity (Custom Bama 93 tunes), Simple custom axle back muffler delete, and Barton IND Shifter Bracket!
Only real plans I have left for this car are all coming at the end of the week, which are rear seat delete, (So people stop asking for rides, NOBODY EVER gets my interior dirty or I will murder them), Dynamating the ENTIRE trunk, GT500 Mag Quad muffler deletes (in black) *Will make them fit* With a gt500 rear valence, Lethal OR H pipe (So it doesn't sound like raspy crap), and some better performing brake pads... For some reason my stockers are already squeaking BAD at 1800 miles...
Anyways I will start off with what I traded in for this car. My first financed vehicle. 2012 Ram 1500 Lone Star. I had SOOO MUCH done to this truck... I am a truck person at heart, and only ever owned them. I just thought it be best to get what I wanted, as I broke the ONE RULE of a truck... DON'T DROP IT...
Bone STOCK
Yea it was a FULL SIZED CREW CAB Truck on 22s with 32 inch tires pushing 90+ pounds a wheel.. And it did low to mid 5 second 0-60s... LOL
- Truck was the only 1500 to have a rear end gear swap in a 2012. Put 4.10s and LSD in it.
- ARH Long Tubes, Full Custom Exhaust with Mag x and two 14 inch mag mufflers
- Intake, Custom Bore TB, And a custom tune. I embarrassed some punks that is for sure.
- Exterior wise, I Custom mounted the Billet upper/lower Grille, Color matched a lot of it. Tinted the LED tails with my OEM paint color with a 70/30 Thinner/paint mix
- Had a buddy of mine retrofit projectors into the housings and paint them.
- Interior was all custom painted ETC.
- FULL interior/exterior LED swap. I MEAN EVERYTHING.
- Rear was bagged
Here is an exhaust vid
2012 Ram 1500 American Racing Headers Longtubes - YouTube
Good 14 grand into that truck for sure. Missing a good 70% of the little things I did on that list but that is the gist.
I Traded that beauty in for a 2013 5.0, Hadn't even put 10k miles on the truck before i got bored of it LOL! First when I was getting the car I decided to get mostly lower options, besides the interior, as I knew the exterior would be completely redone. I also wanted 3:31s over the 3:73s as I am going to be running some form of boost in the future.
2013 5.0 GT Premium (None Track Pack) with 6 speed in Sterling Grey
BONE STOCK (Day I picked her up) Dealer Installed Tint Limo On the rear and QP windows, and 20% on the sides. Made a HUGE difference.
As you can see this thing had the most HIDEOUS set of wheels I have ever seen on ANY car. Not to mention its almost monster truck height that Ford Insists on with all their cars...
First to go on was a set of AMR Black Rims with SUMO tires. (I KNOW everybody runs these) How ever, Weight was first priority, Looks were second. I did not want to add ANY addition rotational mass. Weighing these new tires in the 19x10.5 in the rear with the 275s compared to the stock 18x9 with the 235s there was a 1 pound difference between the two. Of course the fronts with the 245s around the 19s weighed less than the stockers.
After that I had to deal with my OCD of OEM Yellow standard bulbs. Everything on this car is LED except for 3 spots... The Map lights, Trunk Light, AND the LP lights. NOW when I order LEDS I light to have good quality AMERICAN made. How ever I do not OVER PAY. Ordering MOST of my parts from AM I did notice once thing.. The raxiom LED bulbs are being REPACKAGED AND SOLD AT 400% mark up. I ordered ALL of my bulbs, MAP lights, Trunk LIGHT, AND LP lights for 13 dollars + 3 dollar shipping from Superbrightleds(dot)com Not only are these great LEDS they ACTUALLY HAVE CORRECT TEMPS. I hate OEM Yellow, I also HAAAATTTEEE RICER BLUE. Most Led companies lable their "white" bulbs as "Pure LED White" Which is false as they ALWAYS have a 20%+ blue tint to them. NOT Superbrightleds... Their bulbs are 100% PURE WHITE. As you will see in the picks. It just looks amazing. ESP at night on the LP.
Now after my LED OCD was handled I went on to other little BS things I needed to handle. Such as the Chrome 5.0 Badge and the Pony Logo on the front end.
Now to start getting into the real mods! My first time at the track in this car was right at 1100 miles on the ODO. All I learned on that night was this car spins at the top of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th... You get my over exaggeration... :burn: NOT only the spinning, but the HORRRRID WHEEL HOP I was getting. It was scary. People watching me do the runs were saying they could see my car almost dog legging down the track... Safe to say I stopped after the second run because I felt as if the rear end was going to explode.
With this learned I went ahead and got some Eibach Lowering spings, their adj Panhard Bar, and J&M extreme Join LCA's to help things out. :burnout:
Then it was time for some photo's
! One of my favorite. 08 C6. Have personally done 180 mph (On youtube) in that car. Is geared for 60+ highway pulls with cars pushing 200+ more HP.
After all that was done it was time to get into the performance aspect of this car with a few starter bolt ons! Including the greatly built Airaid CAI, DS Trinity (Custom Bama 93 tunes), Simple custom axle back muffler delete, and Barton IND Shifter Bracket!
Only real plans I have left for this car are all coming at the end of the week, which are rear seat delete, (So people stop asking for rides, NOBODY EVER gets my interior dirty or I will murder them), Dynamating the ENTIRE trunk, GT500 Mag Quad muffler deletes (in black) *Will make them fit* With a gt500 rear valence, Lethal OR H pipe (So it doesn't sound like raspy crap), and some better performing brake pads... For some reason my stockers are already squeaking BAD at 1800 miles...
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