Rocket Man's 02 Denali Build Thread AKA "THE BEAST"

[mmeachem]

A few more shots of the paint. He repaired and repainted my license plate holder too, along with the complete front bumper and he blended and repaired the paint on both front fenders. there's one spot left that he found, and I had forgot about- a scrape on the rear bumper that he is going to take care of one day when I stop by. That will do it for paint, it will be pretty much flawless at that point.

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Looks great man


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[OhioHoe]

The roof rack looks awesome man

 

[Tonyrodz]

Looks great color matched!

 

[05Single]

Hell yea that looks better than expected!!
Nice view from the drivers seat too!!

 

[Ridculous]

Another cowl hood brother...great build boss

 

[Rocket Man]

Thanks guys. I do like the look, even more as time goes on. I used to have a Dodge Dakota 5.9 R/T with a cowl hood back in the day, and I missed that look from the inside especially. There's something about that combined with a nice loud V8 that makes it a bit more fun to drive. I can hear the intake a bit more now too, with my CAI.

 

[08HoeCD]

@Red Rocket hats off to you, brother. Great build.

 

[Rocket Man]

@Red Rocket hats off to you, brother. Great build.

Thank you.

 

[Rocket Man]

Washed it today and used the free Trinova Paint Sealant. Also remembered to reinstall my DDU lower grill.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Around this time I started looking at the front end and started changing things here and there. I wanted a bumper grill that matched the main grill. Anybody who has tried to find one knows what I went through, after Denali Down Under stopped making these. I found one, one of Eugene's last ones. It was black powdercoated so I had it PC'd in a chrome look. Later on this will go to black again after I go to the Dark Side. Much later. I also found something else that's about impossible these days- an Escalade cowl piece that doesn't have the cutout for an antenna. It was NOS and a dealer in the Midwest charged me 3 times retail for it. I think the mod fever was hitting about this time.

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Was just curious , what did you do with your antenna? How's your radio reception now?