Nice man! Looks like it is coming along nicely

 

Done except the grill and facia! Took it for a spin this evening. Fwiw leaving at idle it eats the tires in 2wd until it goes to second with 900 lbs. in the bed and pulls hard. Weight ~ 6100 with me in it.

 

How's the full throttle kickdown?

 

I'll know more later but last night I did a 20 roll kickdown and it went to 1st and hit the rev limiter before it had time to shift so I need to be careful. Also I know kickdowns aren't really recommended with FI but I used to do it all the time in my 07 with a locally well built 4l60.

 

I have to say the worst part of my maggie install was putting the actual blower/manifold assembly on the truck solo. wound up getting it on the front crossmember, getting myself *** on the cross member with my feet on the frame rails and wrenching my back out getting the friggin thing in there. (took out a quick disconnect T into the heater core/rear heat lines, but on first look, I dropped a million F bombs thinking I was doing a heater core, vs searching for an oddball 9 dollar part)

Would have been easier with the hood off, but hey I did it all solo.

 

OMG I hear ya! After I saw how much work was involved doing this there was no way I was asking my mechanic friend for help. My old body is beat up. Don't think we would've been friends after this lol!

 

I lol'd at this.

I'm already scoping out tires. LOL. My 420's are still like new but I'm sure that will change.

(I still have a week before I can pick my truck up.....lol)

 

If you're 2wd yeah you'll need something especially with the power yours will make! Mine is just a stock 5.3 and there is no way it would hook without 4wd on stock tires. I know the week will be a long one but believe me you made the right decision my friend

 

I know this is late to the party, but mine really hasn't been that bad. With the stock/included pulleys and whatever it was perfectly fine and easy. It got harder when I wanted to do an 8 rib conversion and have fancy idler pulleys on all that. But as far as the whipple itself being difficult that's not true.

TVS vs Whipple, I really doubt you could do a blind test and tell a difference. Ive had both and they both come online faster than you know what to do with.

Looks like its going great!

 

Thanks Atomic! Good to hear sir. I'm still settling in but it sure as hell isn't laggy from what I can tell!