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My 2007 SCSB Revival
Hey guys,
New to the Performance Truck forum. Been a lurker for quite a few years. I've had a variety of trucks. 98 Silverado, 07 Silverado Duramax, '16 Denali, '18 Denali Ultimate and now a back in a '07 Silverado SCSB. In October 2021 I sold my 2018 Denali. That tuck was a dream truck but also a monster payment. It was loaded to the gills and I even went as far as to LT4 swap it. Along with a few other tasteful mods. Dual mode exhaust and big 6 piston GMC Accessory front brakes. It is missed but selling it allows me to play in other arenas more often. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...57c4e5f276.jpg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...bad52c337c.jpg LT4 Supercharger on L86 https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...fde244a337.jpg GMPP GenV Intake Setup w/LT4 In November 2021 I found a super clean rust free 07 NBS GMT900 Single Cab Short Box. I have wanted one for a long time. A little rough around the edges but this fit the bill. Equipped with a 4.8L and 4x4, this truck should be a fun daily once its all said and done. There are some maintenance items that will probably come along. But the major planned mods are:
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...f727660516.jpg Cicra 11/2021 https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...dd36e9f680.jpg Condo 2 car tandem garage.... |
Watching...
I see you are doing an LSA swap in the bio but didn't mention anything in your post about engine specifically. Are you going to swap in a 6.2 or a 6.0? |
So a lot has happened since Nov 2021.
Lift is gone. Tires and wheels are gone. Stock axle is gone. I put together a pile of parts to get this going. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...0421a0f8c8.jpg Quick Jacks are a blessing. 2 post would be nice but I don't have the ceiling height. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...a732b70971.jpg New 3.42 axle out of a '01. This will get a new cover, gasket, parking brake parts and disk brake adapters form CTSVBrakes.com. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...2e66e5453b.jpg k2xx 22" High Country wheels https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...2221f494d3.jpg Parts https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...e455d5e0c4.jpg More Parts https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...970b31bd27.jpg I like red brakes. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...23fd1c91a5.jpg 285/45/22 Terra Grappler G2 |
Originally Posted by shakenfake
(Post 5507317)
Watching...
I see you are doing an LSA swap in the bio but didn't mention anything in your post about engine specifically. Are you going to swap in a 6.2 or a 6.0? Should be a nail driver 4.8LSA with mild manners and hoping for 550whp through a 6L80.. |
I know I will get a lot of questions about the brakes.
Fronts is the GM Accessory 6 piston kit. Strait from GM. It bolts on. *Disclaimer* based on my research of swapping K2 and T1 calipers on a 800/900 truck. Some of the older 800/900 trucks had knuckle variance. Bolt pattern is the same but, they may need a washer to properly center the caliper to the rotor. In my case with the MaxTrax -2" Knuckles I didn't need to run one. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...4a163c7ebc.jpg Front brakes installed. Rotors are massive 15.8" https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...7336589287.jpg Braided lines from Little Shop Mfg. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...33f9586b1e.jpg Big. will need 20" wheels minimum and that is still with a grain of salt. Rears are C7 Non Z51 Calipers. The Z51 calipers wont fit apparently. I did not investigate. But I used 2018 K2xx rear rotors which worked well with the factory GMT800 axle park brake. I had a set of Braided Lines made up for any of the rubber lines on the truck. Little Shop Manufacturing hooked me up and was super helpful as it seems its a wash on whether these trucks have standard or metric brake parts. mine was different at both ends. Likely could have been due to a undocumented repair over the last 15 years. Adapter brackets are from CTSVBrakeSwap.com. They aren't listed for the GMT800/900 but they work. https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...7a615e58fa.jpg New Braided rear lines. CTSV Brake Swap Adapters mating C7 Base 4 Piston Brembo Calipers to a GMT800 Axle Swapped into a GMT900 with K2xx rotors. I did have to trim the dust. This truck is living up to its license plate. Twisting up a bunch of different parts from different cars/trucks into one truck. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...33d2f9d088.jpg Purdy... https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...d5cb735c2c.jpg Had to change out the outer fitting from standard to metric. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...9bdc3b3e4c.jpg |
Rear Teardown
This truck suspension basically got gutted.
Rear axle swapped. Rear flip kit. New Hangers. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...9e381349f0.jpg Only god knows how old this fluid is from this new to me 3.42 axle https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...5d5ba2beb4.jpg Enhance. Bolts are temporary as ARP is slow to ship. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...3416c1ae82.jpg This was easier than I thought but also still pile of work. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...f2842a74c4.jpg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...9b393db5e5.jpg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...2d1af73f70.jpg Also, this is a picture that probably should have sent me to the quick stop for a lottery ticket. all 4 rear hanger bolts came out. were they stubborn, yes. But I did not have to cut them. 1 bottle of propane, 1 industrial size can of PB Blaster and 3 impact batteries later. they are out. https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...c44b211678.jpg Bump stop removed for the flip kit. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...419e7fc109.jpg China freight tools put in some work. Say what you will. They work. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...fdbd07b43c.jpg OE Rear hanger gone https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...295fc97416.jpg new invisible rear hanger installed https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...1b52d9e60a.jpg China Freight outlasted this..... https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...e3ec21afed.jpg |
Front Teardown.
The front suspension came apart. So thats good. Issue was that it needed pretty much ever ball point replaced.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...ca5f924a86.jpg Stuck bolts require some "finesse" https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...ce2718d931.jpg The things you find on a 15 year old truck with multiple owners. Rather than do the correct NORCAL Truck fender mod they just started cutting. Sigh.... This will have to be remedied. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...847e5096e1.jpg this is why you don't do lower spacers. shaft boot touches the shock and then you get a tare. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...1e6edce24d.jpg 1st casually. ABS Sensor wouldn't come out on the Passenger side. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...e837cd2773.jpg get a 15 y/o truck they said. They are cheap to fix.... while lying on your back eating a hearty amount of aged iron oxide... https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...e09f8f4fbd.jpg I cant be mad. Axle bolt came off. and 4 hits later the knuckle was off. https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...f310e16194.jpg of all the bolts to break. Lower shock mounts on the driver side were the only to give way. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...21b412da83.jpg here comes the drill https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...3032e484cb.jpg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...44a01ca54e.jpg This was mildly uneventful. Upper nut was of course galled in place. the only way to twist it off was to hold the shock shaft which required some improvisation. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...70061e7fb3.jpg Axles out ready for rebuild. Thankfully they weren't dry. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...f4fe637caf.jpg Front stripped. Next up upper control arms. Lower ball joints and inner and outer tie rods. This truck did have some undercoating done at some point. I have plans to do some rust conversion on the frame with VHT Rust Converter. I am skeptical but also in the why the hell not mode. Then hit the truck with another layer of undercoating. |
Rear Assembly
Now the fun part begins. Installing new parts!!!
The 2/4" MaxTrax drop is actually adjustable so I set the new MaxTrax rear hanger to -4 as a start. Which will now have the axle flipped up on top as part of the flip kit. Initially I was very confused as the kit was labeled as a 7-9 drop and then it came with a 4-5 lift hanger. But it worked out well. https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...a41206d362.jpg Pre Assembly of the rear shackle with plenty of anti seize https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...334caa3fd9.jpg New Shackle and hanger installed. I set it up if I have to do some towing i can simply drop the lower bolt out and lift the rear of the truck up an inch for some help. But likely will do helper bags in the future. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...cf2a077d1e.jpg Flip installed. New C7 Calipers installed CTSVBrakeSwap adapters Little Shop MFG lines. Opted to get new u-bolts from Dorman. The ones on the truck were to long to use. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...e3eb20f706.jpg Axle in its new home. Waiting on the 1330 conversion u-joint to show up. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...92d5a145ca.jpg this kit is really well made IMO. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...310aaf92f3.png we all know. |
Front Assembly
For the fronts there was a bunch of new parts. I originally tried to just install the MaxTrax parts. That was a failure as the upper ball joints were bad. lowers weren't far behind and once those were getting replaced. it was value added to do the tie rods as well.
All together it got: Inner and Outer tie rods New upper control arms New lower control arm ball joints New MaxTrax -2" knuckles New ABS Sensors New Rotors New to me 6 piston brembos Plus new hydraulics in the shocks while reusing stock springs and mounts. https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...75edf9d3b1.jpg New shocks New upper control arms from Detroit Axle New outer CV Boots https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...aab698c595.jpg New lower control arm ball joint from Detroit Axle https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...415cfe9fc2.jpg Here you can see the new knuckle and CV joint boot. Part of the process is cutting the holding feature of the upper ball joint off. otherwise it wont clear the CV. So that should be fun to disassemble in the future. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...4af9e61150.jpg Little Shop braided lines. These guys were super helpful getting the information i needed to make this swap work. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...e47b7aa718.jpg Big brakes are the best brakes https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.per...03e820be69.jpg Brembo FTW. |
That is one hell of an opening thread. Nice work.
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