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Old May 17, 2011 | 05:16 PM
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Question New to truck mods

Pardon the ignorance- but this site has an overwhelming amount of information to sift through.

I have a 2006 Ram 1500 3.7L v6 Single Cab, and am looking to start upgrading here and there around the truck. Can anyone provide info on the following?

1) Exhaust set up (something that makes a V6 sound good, not "racey")

2) Leveling Kits

3) Bedliner (any DIY-ers comparable to Rhino lining?)

4) LED Cluster color change (have seen blue mods in dash on youtube and thought it looked sick)

5) Cold Air Intake (DIY vs kits from K&N etc)

6) Replacement seats (whole assembly, current seats are tore up, stained, and perma-stinked from sweaty clothes)


thanks for any help and sorry for the rookie comment!
 
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Old May 17, 2011 | 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by mattdavidson
Pardon the ignorance- but this site has an overwhelming amount of information to sift through.

I have a 2006 Ram 1500 3.7L v6 Single Cab, and am looking to start upgrading here and there around the truck. Can anyone provide info on the following?

1) Exhaust set up (something that makes a V6 sound good, not "racey")

1) Audiologists and experts in acoustics have been stumped since Lancia first introduced the V6 engine in 1950 with the Lancia Aurelia on how to make a V6 actually sound good.

2) Leveling Kits
2) I've found that the most inexpensive way to level the truck is to put a 2x4 under the front tires. Works great until you move! Carry them with you and use them when you park in the mall parking lot for picking up chicks!

3) Bedliner (any DIY-ers comparable to Rhino lining?)
3) I got drunk once and ended up doing this REALLY fat chick in the back of my truck. How fat was she? Her dress lined the bed perfectly.


4) LED Cluster color change (have seen blue mods in dash on youtube and thought it looked sick)
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5) Cold Air Intake (DIY vs kits from K&N etc)
5) Oh lord, do a search there are more posts on this than Carter has little pills...

6) Replacement seats (whole assembly, current seats are tore up, stained, and perma-stinked from sweaty clothes)

6) Kill 2 birds with 1 stone:
 

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Old May 17, 2011 | 06:26 PM
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I'm just messin' with ya':

1) Depends on the sound you want and how much flow you wanna create. I'd do a simple cat-back, getting rid of the factory "Y" and put a decent flowing muffler in. LOTS of YouTube clips with different muffler clips.

2) I'm assuming since it's a V6 that it's a 4x2. Lots of inexpensive coil spacers out there, I'd recommend going with no more than 2".

3) I like the BedRugs, myself. Easy on the knees, nothing slides around and they hold up as well or better than anything else.

4) Somebody else is gonna have to weigh in on this one.

5) Make one, flows just as good as anything else except maybe the Vararam and is a LOT cheaper. There are DIYs on here for it.

6) Try junkyards, I've seen some late model wrecks that had perfect interiors...
 
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Old May 17, 2011 | 11:43 PM
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the led dash is simple, buy the bulbs off of superbrightleds.com pull out the instrument cluster take out the old bulbs, when lookin at them from the back theyll appear as white circles, pull em out and put the new ones in
plenty of threads on here about it
 
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Old May 17, 2011 | 11:47 PM
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Hammer, I just had to laugh at your comment.
 
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