Rocket Man's 2008 Bagged CC Silverado Build AKA "THE MACHINE"

[Rocket Man]

I was just out cleaning my gauges and installing a couple accessory plug covers in my dash. The engine was running and I was listening to the stereo enjoying no warning lights and suddenly the traction control light was on....momentary feeling of oh shit not again...then I remembered the button for it was right there by the accessory plugs...I had hit it by mistake. Idiot. I tell you, when you've been driving with those warnings on for what seems like forever (the PO had them for over a year) you get jumpy lol. I hate warning lights.

 

[Tonyrodz]

I was just out cleaning my gauges and installing a couple accessory plug covers in my dash. The engine was running and I was listening to the stereo enjoying no warning lights and suddenly the traction control light was on....momentary feeling of oh shit not again...then I remembered the button for it was right there by the accessory plugs...I had hit it by mistake. Idiot. I tell you, when you've been driving with those warnings on for what seems like forever (the PO had them for over a year) you get jumpy lol. I hate warning lights.

Warning lights are right up there with chrome! Lol

 

[yates ™]

Meet Justin and Jenna at SEMA a few years ago, seemed like nice people.

 

[Rocket Man]

Gathering parts for the headlights. The TRS retrofit order will be here next Friday; they just shipped today. The Depo's will ship tomorrow so they should arrive about the same time. I made my resistor packs for the front switchbacks which came today. These Morimoto's are bad mf's but they should be for $45 a pair. The Acme's are cool too; both are aluminum housings and solid as hell. Oh, and the color match spray paint and adhesion promoter came yesterday.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Gathering parts for the headlights. The TRS retrofit order will be here next Friday; they just shipped today. The Depo's will ship tomorrow so they should arrive about the same time. I made my resistor packs for the front switchbacks which came today. These Morimoto's are bad mf's but they should be for $45 a pair. The Acme's are cool too; both are aluminum housings and solid as hell. Oh, and the color match spray paint and adhesion promoter came yesterday.

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What are you cm'ing?

 

[05Single]

What are you cm'ing?

Headlights

 

[Rocket Man]

I did the front turn signal LED conversion today but ran into trouble trying to use both sets of switchbacks. I had to decide between the Morimoto's or the Acme's and guess which won. I ended up with the Morimoto's in the lower slot and white 3157 LED's in the upper slots. And funny thing is, if the key is turned on but the engine isn't running they still hyperflash. But with the engine running they don't. Unless I run 2 switchbacks on each side. Then they do no matter what. I tried to make the wiring look factory but it may actually look better. I'll get a nighttime vid later. The DS headlight only had one bolt holding it in. It was missing the one behind the grill and the one inside the inner fender. The passenger at least had 2 bolts.

 

[PG01]

Why do leds do that. I noticed my interior lights do same... well not hyperflash but if you hit the map light with no key its dim and flashy but if you turn knob for all it works fine without key. Works normally when running...i think @Fosscore mentioned that also... its just dumb...

 

[Rocket Man]

I thought I had all the LED/ retrofit situation either completed or on order. Interior LED's; license plate LED's; CHMSTL LED's; backup LED's; tail/rear turn LED's; front turn/marker light LED's; headlights will be retrofit HID soon. All check. Tonight I remembered fog lights...and the truck has these weird ones, 5202. Bulb and socket all in one. So I ordered these JDM Astar 6000k ones. That should be it.

 

[01Konvict]

The guys at BlackBear must be busy and working late. Justin sent me my tune files at 8:00 tonight. I loaded them into the autocal and will install then in the morning. I can't wait to see what this 4.8 will do with a good tune and a good IAT sensor. He told me he's never seen one fail and not throw a code like that one did. I would have never known it was fried if he hadn't alerted me to the reading he saw. Anyway it might be awhile before I test the tune since it's supposed to start raining again and I don't want to drive this thing in the rain and have to clean it again. Because show truck lol. View attachment 193675

Boost and lots of it from what I read.

I really like the way this truck sits and boost that 4.8. Get a set of heads, cam, and intake. It will push 600+ to the tires. A friend of mine is getting his bagged 00 ext cab back on the road after cutting out stock tubs for 26s. He's staying with 22s for now hoping some traction can be found when adding turbos after the summer. We got a lot of the parts picked out already.