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Man you have my attention with that lift in the garage! Which one is that and have you had any issue mounting it to the slab of you house? Are you ceilings standard 9-10ft?
What’s your overall impression on the spikes kit? Any fitment issues?
My only qualms with the kit were
Wastegate being dumped to atmosphere. Had to fab it into down pipe
Wrong MAF tube and they wouldn't replace it with a correct slot style piece. Fortunately for me I had a slot style MAF from other vehicles so that negated being forced to purchase one.
It fit just fine with no banging/hacking involved.
Originally Posted by ZO6Ted
Loving this thread and very glad y'all are ok! My shoulder is 98-99% 5 yrs out so just take care of it and you'll be good for life!
Thank You and I so HOPE you're right (on the shoulder). I'm about 4 months post op and I'm slowly getting my Range of Motion back, though as I'm sure you know, it's still a bit painful when doing full articulations. But, I knew all this going in and would rather the pain from healing than the pain from it being torn (It was hard to hold my arm up with the tear).
Originally Posted by Jake75
Man you have my attention with that lift in the garage! Which one is that and have you had any issue mounting it to the slab of you house? Are you ceilings standard 9-10ft?
It's an Atlas lift. No issues with the slab at all (it's a 9" slab pour). It's been up for close to 3 years now and it's handled everything I've thrown at it. Hell, it survived the fire (save for the hydraulic pump and a hose)!
My ceilings are right at 9' 10" and the lift post clears
It's about the best $1900 I've ever spent - in relation to cars!
Okay, so I was able to remove 1 of the Bullet mufflers (rear most 1) and installed Magnaflow 17223 muffler
Oh gawd - It Sounds Awesome!!!
Truck went from sounding "bbblllaaaaaa" to nice and mellow hhhrooommmm. My buddy has a high dollar Borla cat back on his truck and I swear mine now sounds similar.
Took a road trip from Houston to Columbia Mississippi over the weekend. I was concerned about the possibility of “drone” but there’s none!
The truck is so quiet and smooth it makes you forget it’s even got a hair dryer on it ... Well, until you crowd the pedal a bit and it starts to whistle!
So I grew tired of limitingthe truck based on the stock aluminum can drive shaft (never drove it over 95 mph).
I ordered a 2 piece unit fom Performance Driveline about 3 months back and finally got around to installing it.
The hardest parts of the install were cutting about 4” off the muffler hanger on passenger side (see pics) and drilling through the frame (it really plunked my drill bits). I don’t know how people did this on jack stands (must of had plenty fresh drill bits) but I’m thankful for having a lift in the garage, that’s for sure!
Rides smooth as stock and I’m no longer worried about the driveshaft exploding every time I crowd the loud pedal.
Finally got the tune decently ironed out - not perfect but it runs/drives fine.
At 14#s above atmospheric pressure it made
546 HP
634 Tq
This was on 10 Gallons of E-85 with the rest of the tank being 93.
Not too shabby for a stock 5.3, VSRacing 78/75, 80# Deka, E-85 sensor and a STOCK flex fuel pump!
Dec 10, 2017 | 12:19 PM
