Truck 1 99 Chevy Siverado 12" lift

This is the first truck I built for the new company. Not the ideal first truck by any means. This fool came in with just a 3 inch body lift, and purchased another customers 12" Bulletproof kit. We had to remove the 12" kit from the 2nd Silverado and basically swap suspensions. The donating truck had to be put back to stock condition because he was trading the truck in, and the dealer wasn't ready to accept a truck with a 12 inch lift kit.

This first picture shows the front end built. Notice the optional dual shock set-up. These are upgraded Fox shocks with the external reservoirs. Looks nice, but lots of extra labor and money. The shocks connect the upper control arms to the frame-mounted shock hoop. These shocks had to be recharged with about 150 psi of nitrogen gas. Custom compression strut mounts had to be fabricated by me, not shown in picture. Marginal fab job at best. :(

This second picture shows the rear end components installed. The entire rear axle was swapped from a donating truck which already had upgraded to the 5:11 gearing. This makes the truck accelerate like it had before the lift was installed. The rear also has the dual Fox Reservoir shock system, which required removing the stock upper and lower mounts, and welding in new tabs for the shocks to mount. Not fun, not easy. Did i mention good luck returning this one to stock? I also installed this cat-back exhaust, with 6 inch chrome tip.

This is the completed project. Truck has the 12" Bulletproof Kit, with a total of 8 chrome Fox Reservoir shocks. Stacked with the 3" body lift, shes sitting at 15 " total lift. Tires are 44" Super Swamper Truxus tires, which make a ton of noise on the street. Wheels are by RBP, chrome 18s. Fun to drive around in, but tough to see little cars stopped in front of you. Nobody cutting you off is a major perk also. Girlfriends and moms would have problems getting into this one.

After just a week of driving, this customer received 3 tickets for the lift being too large. He has since installed semi-truck mud flaps to the rear to limit road debris from being thrown onto other cars. Notice the balls hanging under the hitch,, nice touch, real classy. Below is the truck sitting next to a stock Toyota Tacoma,, big difference.

http://www.bulletproofsuspensions.net/

http://www.btwperformance.com/

stay tuned, more to come..