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

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In my opinion, if the Tahoe sub box with an 8" sub sounded worse than your bose sub, you did something wrong. Either a mismatched sub with the wrong impedance (you need 2 ohm on the stock amp) or a cheap sub. Also, the stock LUX amp isn't strong enough to power any sub very good, you need to run a good sub off a good matched mono amp. If you put that in a Tahoe stock box in the rear compartment it will rock. But hey this is my build thread so....next!



You were right I had a small ground on my 200w amp, I'm not using the stock amp on the 8" but the amp I am using is a old school 200w clarion that's really more like 500w I upgraded the ground and now it sounds:devilfinger:. K/up tha good build
 
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Today I made the hard decision to go with a blower. I narrowed all my choices as to which one, what injectors to use, what else to do while I have the intake off, and how to obtain the tune. After a dozen emails with Justin at Black Bear, talking to members who have blowers and 4l60/65E transmissions and starting a thread regarding blowers, I decided to go with the Whipple 2.3L in black using Delphi 50 lb/ hour injectors which are bigger than the marine 8.1L injectors that come with the Whipple kit which are 42 lb/ hour and more expensive. I had to order wiring adaptors for them but those were only $20 so the injector total was less than $150. Whipple wanted $390 for the others. I'll have room for more boost later if I want it. I also ordered knock sensors and harness, valley cover gasket and oil pressure sending unit so I can replace those while I have the manifold off. My trans is a 4L65E which is the HD version of the 4L60E. It's been rebuilt and has a shift kit and a Corvette servo. I believe it will hold up but time will tell. I emailed Justin and told him I'm ready to order so hopefully he'll call me tomorrow and we can get this going.
 

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Here's the new carpet. I also ordered a bit extra carpet and did the bottoms of the front door panels. The carpet was not too bad, cutting it was a ***** due to the mass backing I ordered it with. I opted to just cut slits where the bolts came through so the areas around the seats looked cleaner, instead of making cutouts like the factory stuff had. I was able to get the nuts started and then tighten things down. It came out real clean. I ended up buying a matching rug that fits the rear cargo area perfect. I needed the cutouts because I use my 3rd row seats occasionally. At this time, I also removed the speaker grills from the door panels and painted them with matching SEM 17163 paint.

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Where did you order the carpet from, and how much of did it take?
 
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Ok, I just ordered the Whipple supercharger from BlackBear Performance. I was also informed by Justin that I need to do an EGR delete so I ordered block-off plates off EBay. I didn't even know I had EGR.
 

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