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Old 02-09-2010 | 10:30 PM
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i like your plan bpark... i too have a ton of stuff i need to do to my truck but will do it when my brother moves out and i can take his

do a tint, even at just 35 it looks sick

im getting mine done down to about 10-12% here in the next couple months
 
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Old 02-10-2010 | 12:04 AM
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Anything other than the tint lol... I know people say its cheap but its gotta be done professionally for me. Im WAY to OCD about **** like that. I used to go nuts putting graphics on my motocross bikes. Spent hours getting every last crease out. I can only imagine doing tint. I know with graphics we would always put soapy water underneathe and then once it was in the right spot dry it out with a heat gun and smooth all the bubbles out. Is that how you guys are doing tint?

If its the same approach, MAYBE. But I'm just not big into the whole tint thing. Cops in CT are wicked gay about it too.

Anything else OTHER than the tint?
 
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Old 02-10-2010 | 12:51 AM
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do some new brakes, exhaust (already had the intake on the list i think) cams...?

my goal is to get cams and start on my remote mount turbo build by the end of the summer on my truck
 
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Old 02-10-2010 | 10:20 AM
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Anything other than the tint lol... I know people say its cheap but its gotta be done professionally for me. Im WAY to OCD about **** like that. I used to go nuts putting graphics on my motocross bikes. Spent hours getting every last crease out. I can only imagine doing tint. I know with graphics we would always put soapy water underneathe and then once it was in the right spot dry it out with a heat gun and smooth all the bubbles out. Is that how you guys are doing tint?

If its the same approach, MAYBE. But I'm just not big into the whole tint thing. Cops in CT are wicked gay about it too.

Anything else OTHER than the tint?
I have that sorta ocd thing lol but for me i just had 2 other friends help me it was really easy just clean the window really good and then spray it with a mix of soap and water, get it where you want it then start from the middle and work you way out with a small sqeegee. For my first time it turned out great with no bubbles or anything only took me like 10 min to do. I figured why pay someone to do it when I can get the same result at home.

Anyway to answer your question it really depends what you want to do. Really about the bed liner ive saw it on some lifted up rams and it looks good I think if you did black wheels with bigger tires it would prob look a lot better than what it would with a stock truck.
 
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Old 02-10-2010 | 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by big.bryant
do some new brakes, exhaust (already had the intake on the list i think) cams...?

my goal is to get cams and start on my remote mount turbo build by the end of the summer on my truck
Already have a Hooker Aerochamber on it. And yeah I'm def going to do brakes. Mine are getting soft. I would love cams but way too much money for me. If you haven't noticed everything on my list is fairly cheap lol.

And ramguy, I think it would def look better with the black wheels. I don't think it would look good with the stock silver ones. Still kinda up in the air about it...
 
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Old 02-10-2010 | 08:51 PM
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oh i didn't realize you did your exhaust already (haven't been on here in a while) yeah i mean if you're looking to go cheap idk what else i would say. maybe do a homemade grille insert (i did it on mine and it looks pretty solid) and think about tinting your taillights (i think i saw you had clear corners on your list) or if all else fails throw in some 5000K bulbs n **** to stand out and all that
 
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Old 02-10-2010 | 10:23 PM
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Yeah I was thinking about doing the gutter guard grille and tint the tails. I guess we'll just have to see what comes of the summer. How much I work ect.

I guess the main things are superchips, cragars, spark plugs, brakes, then maybe the cai... don't know. Just know I want to do the cragars and superchips first.

And of course the tb crank which is very... kinda... still need an alignment.
 
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Old 02-10-2010 | 10:29 PM
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Yeah I was thinking about doing the gutter guard grille and tint the tails. I guess we'll just have to see what comes of the summer. How much I work ect.

I guess the main things are superchips, cragars, spark plugs, brakes, then maybe the cai... don't know. Just know I want to do the cragars and superchips first.

And of course the tb crank which is very... kinda... still need an alignment.

yeah i would be stoked about the superchips... i was going to get a superchips but then for me its kinda pointless because the kit i wanna get with the turbo, comes with SCT tuner and tunes so it would be pointless to throw down on the superchips only to get sct and all that

i know i just wanna get my build going!
 
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You said you want to do a remote turbo setup, what made you decide to do a remote setup?
 
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Old 02-10-2010 | 10:34 PM
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its up to me more or less, i will prob go down low just because of where the exhaust downpipe will need to be in order to spool the turbo but it can go wherever

check it out on krcperformance.com Product Code: 6SCQ64U0... or just click on turbo kits for dodges and it lists all about it
 


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