Massive upgrades for the Turbo LS Street Truck. Drag Pack

Summary

The video discusses upgrading a turbo LS street truck by installing new wheels, lowering it significantly, rebuilding the exhaust crossover pipe to increase ground clearance, and installing spring spacers to raise the front end. After test driving, more work is still needed to resolve transmission cooling issues before the truck is ready for full power testing. Overall the upgrades dramatically transform the look of the truck.

Takeaways

• 😀 The video sponsor is Factor meal delivery service which provides the host fresh, healthy meals.
• 😋 The host upgrades his turbo LS street truck with new wheels, tires, and suspension modifications.
• 🔧 The truck was too low after installing a drop kit, requiring repairs and modifications to the exhaust and suspension.
• 👀 New 17" rear and 15" front wheels look great but required rolling the fenders to prevent rubbing.
• ⛽ The truck still needs transmission cooling upgrades before it can safely make full power runs.
• 😎 The new wheels, tires and suspension transforms the look and grip of the truck.
• 🛠 The host rebuilt the turbo crossover pipe to tuck it higher for clearance.
• 🔧 Spring spacers were added to raise the front end 1" to prevent scraping.
• ⚙️ The front alignment and camber were adjusted to complement the new wheel setup.
• 🚗 Overall the upgrades allow the truck to put power down and look way cooler, but more work is still needed.

Q & A

What upgrades are being done to the turbo LS street truck in this video?

The major upgrades include new wheels and tires - 17" Weld wheels with drag radials, rebuilding the turbo crossover pipe to tuck it up higher, adding 1" spring spacers in the front suspension to increase ride height, and doing an alignment.

What sponsor is featured and promoted in the intro portion of the video?

Factor meal delivery service is promoted and thanked for sponsoring the video and channel overall.

Why does the truck need new wheels and tires?

The previous 31" all-terrain tires were too large for the lowered suspension, rubbing the fenders. The new 17" wheels and drag radials will provide better grip and allow the turbo LS setup to put power down.

How low is the truck and what issues does this cause?

The truck is very low after the 5" drop kit and old sagging springs. This caused issues with the transmission mount and turbo crossover pipe dragging and scraping the ground.

How is the problem with the turbo crossover pipe solved?

The old crossover pipe from the vet is repurposed and cut/welded to make a new pipe that tucks up higher above the oil pan.

Why are spring spacers added to the front suspension?

To increase front ride height about 1-1.5" so the transmission mount and exhaust stop dragging on the ground when driving.

What further upgrades are planned for the truck in the future?

Planned future upgrades include a transmission cooler, launch control, and switching to E85 fuel along with fuel system upgrades to support more power.

How will the new wheels and tires improve the truck's performance?

The 17" drag radials will provide much more grip than the previous all-terrain tires, allowing the turbo LS engine to put its power down more effectively.

What role does Fitment Industries play in the wheel/tire upgrade process?

Their website makes it easy to select wheels and tires for a specific vehicle based on size, offset, bolt pattern etc. The creator used it to pick the new Weld wheel setup.

Why wasn't the truck able to do any hard acceleration tests in this video?

The transmission cooling needs to be upgraded before launching or hard pulls. The current cooler can't keep up, leading to overheating.

Outlines

00:00

😀 Introduction and sponsor pitch

The video begins with an introduction from the host Taylor, who thanks Factor for sponsoring the video. He praises Factor for revolutionizing his eating habits by delivering fresh, never frozen meals to his door in just 2 minutes. Taylor strongly recommends trying Factor.

05:00

😃 Overview of major upgrades to turbo LS street truck

Taylor explains that today's video will cover major upgrades to the turbo LS street truck. He provides background that he daily drove the truck stock before converting it to a turbo LS setup. Taylor has been unhappy with the truck's wheels, tires and looks but can now upgrade it with new E85 stations nearby.

10:00

😋 Selecting new wheel and tire setup

Taylor describes researching wheels on Fitment Industries to find the right setup for the truck. He settled on 17" wheels in the rear and skinnies up front with radials, his dream setup for the truck. Taylor praises Fitment Industries for making it easy to find wheels.

15:01

😎 Mounting new wheels and tires

Taylor shows the new Weld wheels and Mickey Thompson tires. He mounts and balances them with new lug nuts. The truck immediately looks more like a race truck with the new setup.

20:02

😲 Truck very low after installing wheels

Taylor is excited about the new wheels but finds the truck is now too low, scraping on the ground. The turbo crossover hits the ground so he'll need to rebuild it higher up. The wheel fitment looks good but the truck can't drive like this.

25:07

🛠 Rebuilding higher turbo crossover pipe

Taylor cuts up and rebuilds the turbo crossover pipe using scrap tubing to tuck it higher so it clears the ground. He back purges while welding it for quality despite the scrap material. The end result is not beautiful but gets the job done.

30:11

😕 Still too low after crossover rebuild

With the crossover rebuilt, the truck exhaust clears but the transmission mount still scrapes the ground. Taylor concludes the truck is too low due to sagging old springs. He orders spring spacers to lift the front end.

35:13

🔧 Installing spring spacers to lift front end

Taylor installs 1" spring spacers which raise the front end up substantially. He also adjusts the camber. This should make the truck drivable to test out the new wheels and tires.

😁 Driving impressions and future plans

With the new wheels, suspension changes and alignment, Taylor is thrilled about how the truck looks and drives. He still needs to upgrade the transmission cooler before hard launches. The truck transformation is nearly complete and ready to make big power on E85.

Keywords

💡truck

The main subject of the video is Taylor's turbo LS street truck. He has been modifying and upgrading it over time. In this video, he installs new wheels and tires and raises the suspension to make it drivable again after lowering it too much previously. The truck represents Taylor's ongoing project.

💡wheels

A major upgrade in this video is installing new aftermarket wheels on the truck. Taylor switches from 31" all-terrain stock wheels to 17" rear wheels with skinnier front wheels, which is a common setup for improving performance. This transforms the look and capabilities of the truck.

💡tires

Along with the new wheels, Taylor installs new radial tires on the truck instead of the old all-terrain tires. The new wider rear tires combined with the skinnier fronts represent a big upgrade in grip and traction, allowing Taylor to finally put power down and test the truck's performance.

💡suspension

The truck's lowered suspension caused issues, requiring raising it with spring spacers. Adjusting the suspension improves drivability, ride height, camber, etc. Properly dialing in the suspension is important for performance and preventing damage.

💡turbo

Taylor previously installed a turbo LS engine in the truck to build significant power. However, he hasn't been able to use the turbo's full potential due to limitations like the wheels and tires. The upgrades will allow maximizing the turbo power.

💡performance

The various upgrades like wheels, tires, and suspension aim to improve the truck's performance, especially acceleration, grip, and power output. Taylor is excited to finally test the truck's capabilities after the modifications.

💡transmission

Issues with transmission cooling have prevented Taylor from fully testing the truck's performance. He needs to upgrade the transmission cooler to handle launches before maximizing the power.

💡driveability

A key goal with the upgrades is improving the driveability of the truck, since it was undrivable due to being lowered too much. The suspension changes make it functional for daily driving again.

💡testing

With the upgrades complete, Taylor is eager to properly test the truck's acceleration, grip, and power. He wants to do draggy runs and dyno testing to quantify the performance gains from the new wheels, tires, suspension, etc.

💡power

The ultimate goal is to maximize the power output of the turbo LS engine in the truck. The new parts allow Taylor to better put the engine power to the ground and fully test its capabilities.

Highlights

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Transcripts

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out to them uh but that being said we

got a lot of work to do so we need to

get into

it all right well today we're going to

be doing probably the most dramatic set

of upgrades yet for the turbo LS Street

truck here I am so excited for this this

thing has been so close to being dialed

for a while and it just hasn't been

there and it should be after today so if

you're unfamiliar with the this truck

basically I had this truck for a while I

daily drove it I towed with it while I

built the come and swap Ford and then

after I didn't need to use it anymore we

finally did what I've been planning all

along a turbo LS setup so it's a 6 L

that we put together rods Pistons bottom

end iron block ported heads Tran upgrade

lifters all that stuff it's a really

really good long block that should

handle easy th000 horsepower it's a

pretty solid setup but we haven't really

ever been able to push it because of the

wheel en Tire combo that we've had on

this truck this is what I got the truck

on and what it's still on there's some

you know 31in all terrains and just the

looks in general of this truck have

bugged me for so long and even having it

done I barely drove it so we changed the

exhaust setup I rebuilt it and did a 4

in out the back to quiet it down because

that was one of my biggest gripes and

then we started working on the

Aesthetics so we slammed it and I was

hoping to drive it around a little bit

with the stock wheels and tires but uh

they're too tall for how low it is the

thing is is way too low for this wheel

and tire combo it is is literally

sitting on the inner Fender so it it's

been basically undrivable for the last

couple months and we were torn on what

we entire setup to go with because it

kind of depended on what direction we

wanted to go long term now we finally

have some local E85 stations so we can

get pump E85 close to the house which

that was really The Tipping Point on

which way we wanted to go with this and

you can kind of see where we're going

with this we're going to be upgrading it

doing a new fuel system bigger turbo and

all of that to make more power so I went

on fitment industry's website put in the

PCD and the offset and the size ranges I

was looking for and looked through all

the options you know and we were

debating between you know a 20-in setup

with street tires or a 17in setup with

more drag oriented tires or even going

full drag set up with 15s and slicks and

I went through I debated this a lot

unfortunately fitman industry's website

is incredibly easy to look through that

is my favorite thing I theyve just been

my go-to for wheels for that reason

because it's so easy to C categorize and

see what wheels are available for a

given vehicle and then also know if

they're in stock if you're going to be

able to get them anytime in the near

future or if it's something that's back

ordered so huge shout out to fitment

Industries they' have been great to deal

with for wheels and tires they're super

knowledgeable I would highly recommend

them if you're looking for wheels and

tires for something go on fitment

industry's website it makes it so much

easier so huge shout out to them that

being said here's what we've got here's

what we decided on we went kind of in

the middle and decided with a 17-in

wheel why in the back skinnies in the

front typical setup but radials because

it's still a street truck so radials all

around big tires skinny fronts weld

wheels this is kind of the dream setup

for this truck it's something I've

always wanted to do and we're finally

not only going to get to see the kind of

the end product but also actually be

able to drive it but also actually be

able to finally put some power down and

see what this thing does on the draggy

so this should be pretty exciting I'm

stoked I'm so ready for it we've peaked

but it's finally time to see what the

whole combination looks like and get it

on the truck and see what the truck

looks like so that being said whole lot

of jibber jabber it's time to get to

work I've been ready for this be good

can't go wrong with a good drag

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pack dude look at this I'm so I've on

this there legit beat loocks my first

ever

set of beat

loocks we're doing

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it

you can see our djm drop kit here the

thing's fresh man it's ready to go just

need some wheels and tires that a don't

sit on the fender liner as you can see

ours were and B can actually put some

power to the ground for the V8 motor V8

motor the V8 motor motor

think are so tiny little

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donut

all right we got the skinnies

mounted and we got the big old rears

mounted oh we just got to put the bead

loocks on

now

all right well we are fully mounted and

balanced just kidding we don't balance

our wheels and tires cuz as long as you

got a Quality Tire and a quality wheel

you almost never need it anyway dber

jabber mounted bead lock tighten down

man that's going to look good on there

woo are you ready I'm ready I'm

ready let's do it we did have to go to

the part store and get some Cheapo hug

nuts so we're going to have to get some

nicer ones um but it was that or Amazon

which are also Cheapo I want to get some

quality ones so these will get us buy

for now and we they the set was for a

five L car

so walking lug Knight you got to use two

different sockets so that's you know

make makes it locking yeah the thieves

it'll throw the thieves

off I'm not going to look at it yet

going to wait I already glanced at it

but the fitments already looking good on

the money yeah no I I was worried they

were going to be sunk cuz they're so

small but obviously they know what they

they're doing and fitment industries

knows what they're doing it's like I

don't know I'm just so impressed with

fitment cuz it's like takes all the

guest

workout it's like other sites have tried

to buy wheels on you're like you select

a certain PCD or something and you don't

realize that they mixed in ones that

weren't for that and then right and they

usually you go to order them you're oh

they do have this size they're like oh

don't they have a decent variety of cars

on their s like examples yeah they have

like you can go look at like a certain

wheel and see customer photos of that

wheel on different cars which is Al

really cool cuz you might like the wheel

and then realize you don't like it on oh

that's all gone that ain't going to work

is that 3 or half in

uh my God it's

happening it's

happening it immediately turns into a

race truck literally

literally

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thing about that is

like I haven't looked at it I'm trying

not to look at it whenever we do a oh my

whenever we do a project I was trying

not to look at

it drer it

was the RS down it's going probably too

low

oh my God so

low Co truck

now it looks it looks almost cool with

the ratty paint with the baller Wheels

with the polished I've only ever seen

this truck on stock wheels with 31in

alterrain dude look at that woo

we'll have to pull it out to see what

our clearances are but I'm pretty sure I

got to rebuild that crossover oh it's

probably close now oh yeah it's going to

be like touching the ground once we're

off their hemps you

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know

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it's low I was not oh my God it's low

all right well you I mean you can see

better now with the light oh my gosh it

looks so much

cooler

oh I can't wait to drive it but before

we can drive it we've got a problem

which I knew it was going to be a

problem I was just hopeful that it would

be movable as this but barely you can't

really see it but there's a the

crossover for the turbo kit is um very

very close to the ground so I got to

rebuild it and tuck it but you can see

how close the frame rail is to the

ground this thing is

slammed dude that crossmember is almost

touching the ground goodness that's

uh I I don't understand why it's that

low put a leveling kit on it with like w

Springs just to raise it back up

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some

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all right well as you can see this thing

looks sick but is way way way too low

the rear is fine the rear is great the

front is just too low so as you can see

we've already scraped this thing up now

I knew this was going to be a problem

and you know I knew it was going to have

to get resolved immediately so I'm not

that's not really a surprise however it

is so low now that I'm pretty sure the

transmission mount is even grinding on

the ground those look fresh to me so I'm

thinking even with this tucked up we're

still going to be too low now I I

believe the problem is while this is

only a 5- in drop kit which would

probably be okay the Springs are the

original Springs with you know 240,000

Mi on them so they've probably sag quite

a bit so I think that's really causing

the truck to be a bit lower not to

mention the at the weight we've added

with the turbo setup the intercooler all

those things so I think what we need to

do is either get a new set of Springs

some longer Springs or what I've ordered

is a spring spacer like a leveling kit

basically to raise the front up an inch

and a half we're going to see kind of

where that puts us and then go from

there I'd like to get some potentially

stiffer Springs but I need an idea of

how much higher we want to go before I

try to track down the right set of

Springs so we're going to start with the

spring spacers I got those order they

should be here in a day or so so we can

get that knocked out but first things

first we need to rebuild this crossover

I have the old crossover from the vet

it's funny enough it's going to get

repurposed here and I've been saving

this not knowing if I'd ever do anything

with it and it is now it's time to shine

so we're going to cut this up we're

going to cut that up and try to make a

crossover that does not hang 2 in below

the oil pin that's the plan at least

some good old fat work my favorite so

I'm going to qu you jabberin we're going

to get to it so the first step was to

determine how much I needed to cut and

try to mark Mar these to where I could

cut them both evenly if one's cut way

higher than the other then it's going to

be harder to make them meet up with the

same number of pieces so I got them cut

apart and then went ahead and put the

pieces back in place so that we could

start looking at a route from A to B now

this is going to be tricky with what we

have you know this is we we don't have

much we can't really afford to make any

mistakes here make any wrong Cuts we've

got to use pretty much every one of

these bins that we have left over from

this old crossover so I went head and

cut the wastegate side a little bit

shorter just to give me a little more

room to make the curve and then started

cutting apart the old crossover from the

vet and cleaning up all of those pieces

again this is not ideal this is not the

way I would choose to do it but it's the

only two and a quar material I got and I

think it's looking like we're going to

be able to make it work so we've got to

just keep cutting out every single bin

we can scavenge out of this old

crossover so that we have as many

options as possible to play with here to

try to get this right and the way we

want it one of the big important things

is also cleaning out the inside after

you cut them you end up with a lot of

junk in there so the last piece we could

scavenge was these bins off of the old

crossover that was on the truck get

those cleaned up get those ready to go

and then we've got every bin that we

could possibly scavenge out of both of

these setups to work with and hopefully

we can get from A to B so I start using

my pet tape this is a high temp powder

coating tape and it's great for the fact

that you can weld and it won't just

instantly melt away but it's not the

stickiest stuff so I was having trouble

with the pieces trying to fall apart

after I would tape them up and it was

just it was getting challenging now I

like to try to tape this stuff up all

the way before I weld anything so that

way I don't box myself into a corner but

in this scenario we just we had to get

these things tacked to keep moving

forward I couldn't add any more pieces

to these without them trying to fall

apart on me so that's kind of one of

those things it's a it's a balance that

you got to find where you're you're

either attacking and committing to kind

of what you've got but at least it's not

going to fall apart on you and you have

to start from scratch because there's

nothing worse than getting pretty deep

in in uh having some bins put together

and you've got it going where you want

and then they all just fall off and hit

the

ground all right well this has

definitely been challenging with just

having these scrap pieces to work with

but I've got the first side where I'm

happy with it it's pointing straight now

the key is going to be if we can get

this side to point straight I'm hoping

we can with all the pieces we have get

this pretty straight and then we'll just

make a middle piece um but I went ahead

and tacked all this together I'm

committed to this now unless I want to

cut these tacks so I have to be able to

make the other side match it I'm going

to rotate this a little bit and then see

if we can't uh get these two to to join

up but if we do which I'll figure it out

one way or another we're pretty much

above the oil pan now which is good

there's plenty of other stuff that hangs

lower so we're getting there so with the

first set of Curves more or less settled

it's time for what's going to be the

harder part and that is the second set

of Curves now this is trickier because

we don't have as much Freedom as we did

with the first set the first set just

had to go in the general area whereas

these need to go in a way where they're

going to match up with the first set so

it's it's a little bit we're in a little

bit tighter constraints with what we can

do here and how creative we can really

get so I went ahead and got those tacked

pretty early on I was just tired of

fighting the P tape and we've got we've

got it pretty close you know we're

pretty much where we were looking to be

we actually only needed two bends on

that side so I cut a straight piece and

it's just wasn't quite right so I cut

another one and started working on

trimming it and grinding it just trying

to get the right combination of angles

in because the the two sides aren't

perfectly square with each other so it's

it's really not an ideal scenario but

we've got it fitting close enough to

where I'm happy with it we don't have

any huge gaps it's not the most

beautiful looking piece of anything I've

ever made but it's going to work and

functionally it's tucked up where we

want

itoo stacking stuff in the vehicle on

the vehicle it's always

challenging a lot of

contorting but we got it done got from A

to

B not terrible gaps pretty good gaps

honestly it's just the shape is kind of

ugly but we're still almost fully above

the pan so I'm I'm good with it for

scrap pieces being all we had I'm good

with

it

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so with all the cutting and fitting and

tacking done and out of the way we've

got our back Purge set up in and it's

time to weld this out now you would

think with this being kind of junk

material that we wouldn't bother back

purging it but for me anything pre-turbo

needs to be back purged this keeps the

oxidation off the inside of the weld

because those little pieces can break

off and go through the turbo probably

wouldn't be a problem but that's like my

my personal rule is if it's pre-turbo

always back Purge if it's post-t turbo

it's kind of at your discretion but

really it's worth the effort so we're

playing around with some pulse here I

normally don't bother with pulse because

because you know it's good if you're

doing production runs of a bunch of the

same thing because you need to take some

time to get it dialed in but in this

scenario I just wanted to make it a

little more interesting uh welding this

thing out so we decided to do it with

some pulse and all in all for some scrap

pieces not too bad went pretty

quick I got to say it doesn't look too

terrible now that it's all welded up

back on the truck really not not awful

this is what bothers me the most this

whole these are look all right this

looks all right uh just Connecting the

Dots here does not look too great but

other than that it does the job it's

functional now our drain plug is above

it so it won't drain right onto it it's

tucked up there nice and high so problem

solved put the wastegate back on fire it

up try to take it off the lift again

though I am pretty confident that uh the

transmission mount scrapes but we'll see

how it

is this thing down to do

this yes if you never put a waste skate

on you might not know how challenging

that

is cuz of the ing he basically had to

compress the wastegate spring to get it

onto the flange I didn't get a new bolt

our old bolt was corroded which I want

to say I already replaced this bolt so

means my bolts

suck hello what's up what up at my Tes

oh I didn't see I do not remember but I

could try to

my we might have clear uh it's going to

be pretty close but you can see our

crossover is uh nowhere to be found it

will not be a problem any longer so

let's back this thing off the ramps and

see if it's

drivable

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all right well the transmission mount

still scrapes but the

exhaust is good we got plenty of PL so

uh we're for sure going to have to raise

the front before we can actually drive

this thing but that's good cuz the tire

is a little smaller in the front it's a

27 versus a 28 um so it'll be good to

lift the front up an inch inch and a

half that should put us at a decent spot

I think we might almost need to go 2 in

cuz that's not even

settled but boy does it look good it'll

look perfect I think with the front up

some it's a little too nose down for me

at the moment but wow first time seeing

it in the sunlight and holy moly dud it

looks good oh hell yeah oh that's it

working

this kids that's why you should never

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load all right well we got our spring

spacers in I'm hoping these are enough

I'm worrying that I maybe should have

gone with two in but I think this will

get us out of the weeds enough to drive

the truck around maybe do a

hit um but we won't know till we get

them in there yeah cuz these are like an

inch which I was thinking about that cuz

I was like I wonder if these are

measured as an inch and a half at the

spring or at the wheel because where the

spring is on the control arm that an

inch and a half at the spring would

actually be more than an inch and a half

at the wheel these are about an

inch yeah we're right at an inch

hopefully that's enough I think that'll

be enough I mean better than better than

where we're at downside is we got to

unbolt the whole front suspension to

drop the spring down to get these spring

spacers in there so it's not going to be

the most fun quick little project but I

just want to drive this thing I'm so

ready to feel the grip and traction of a

radio I've never had a car with a radio

on it so this is a big moment if we can

just get this thing off enough to not

just drag the ground everywhere

oversight on my part should have got new

Springs when I got the DJ and wering kit

but didn't think about

let's get back to

it so the last thing standing in our way

of driving this is these spring spacers

so I'm really excited to get these

swapped in hope that everything fits and

works and hope that this gets the truck

high enough to be drivable you know we

put all the other work in to get

everything else done and this is this is

really the last thing standing in the

way so I start tearing apart the front

suspension which was kind of painful

because we just did this front

suspension not too long ago however the

benefit is it's not stuff that has

hasn't been taken apart in 20 years you

know where everything is going to fight

Us in theory it should be pretty

straightforward so I got the suspension

disconnected enough to drop the spring

down enough to get the spring spacer on

top of the spring and then start putting

everything back together now the

trickiest part of this is the shock the

shock is matched to the stock spring

size so now that we've made that longer

the shock does not want to fit in Bolt

in correctly so I had to get a little

bit creative there and come up with a

solution but once I got that out of the

way it was really just buttoning

everything back up putting everything

back together and then seeing the result

all right spring spacers are in

everything's hooked back up uh we also

took the time while we were in here to

pull some camber out we had just

eyeballed it at about mid-range when we

put this together originally and it had

too much negative camera in the front so

we got some camera pulled out we should

have some ride height back and hopefully

the combination of those two things

means that we can actually drive it

around and see what happens so

so moment of truth let's get these wheel

STS back on set this thing down and see

where we're at ride height wise I really

hope we don't have to take it back apart

and go even bigger on the spring

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space it definitely seems a lot better

that's like way

better

yeah but that's good though yeah that's

like where it needs to be honestly and

it'll probably settle a little bit we

might be we might be on the money

finally

got like 3 in at least to the

transmission mount

now and it's sitting kind of level maybe

slightly up in the front which is what I

would want and it should settle some in

the front I would

imagine see we got some room now to them

out you can see how high the crossover

is you can't even really see it so as

long as this doesn't settle an extreme

amount we should be in good

shape driv smooth now dude compared to

the 31s stock suspension I don't know if

the toe is right cuz I don't even know

if I eyeballed it was so long

ago

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all right well we got to go back home

and roll the fenders cuz we almost

destroyed the tires

already messed them up pretty good down

here let hard squat back to the

house here now we got a

half

all right we got our fenders rolled it

should be enough you know a lot of times

the biggest thing with rolling them is

just taking off that sharp lip that

wants to cut into the tire you know a

smooth edge rubbing on the tire is not

the end of the world but a sharp lip

will just cut into the tire like it did

with us but luckily it seems like it's

okay super added some extra grooves you

know uh so now we need to align the

front I don't recall if I ever did the

toe in the front and with changing the

camber that's going to have changed the

toe so perfect time first real use of

the alignment stands we built a week or

so ago you can leave in

place that's kind of

cool I said that wasn't

planned n dude it was all

planned

here's a quick look at this thing up on

the stands we built like I said this is

really our first time using the

stands not just testing them out the

little chalks worked out pretty perfect

I guess they are kind of digging into

the tire a little bit could stand to

make those maybe a touch wider

but overall it

works alignment stands doing the thing

dude so nice to be able to look under it

with it like this this is the benefit of

alignment stands when I was looking at

my axle to exhaust clearance is with

everything drooped but this is with it

at ride height and you can see we still

got about an inch just got to hope this

old 12 bolt hangs in there for us for a

little

while yeah definitely driving straighter

now

definely doesn't spin now the next thing

we got to do to be able to enjoy this

thing is the transmission

cooler where we at it's not overheating

but it's it's just steadily

creeping yeah it'll go it hasn't even

offered to

spin what we a button oh God

damn what a

button like a launch button yeah

yeah yeah yeah we need like I want to do

it on the this overdrive

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button ah man it looks so sick from back

here now that it's all settled I'm take

a gander from back

here it's got the meats oh where you

just see the Whip and the tire

fitment what a rig man totally

transformed the look of this thing still

a little low we're still kind of

scraping the transmission mount in

certain scenarios but I mean I think

that's just the nature of the Beast like

we want to have it this low think if

anything we need to go bigger on the

front tire i' pick it up a/ inch to an

inch but for right now it is totally

drivable that transmission mount just

hangs really wellow I mean worst case if

I really feel like I'll just rebuild

that whole Mount like cut the mounts off

the frame cuz that's the problem it's

like the mounts on the frame go down and

then the mount itself is real big I

think I could redo that mount very

simply and fix that so that being said I

really did I charged the draggy and

everything I wanted to do a dragy run

may maybe I will tomorrow daytime when

it's not rush hour everyone coming home

the biggest problem is we really need to

go a decent bit away from the house to

be able to do this where I live is this

not a great place to be doing anything

illegal on the road you know obviously

we would go to Mexico but you know what

I'm saying so uh it's just we we need to

go we have an area that we can go to and

that we want to go to to do some test

hits but we still don't have the

transmission cooling dialed yet you know

we started with a cooler in the front it

wasn't working great uh put it in the

back wasn't working great put a bigger

one in the back with a big fan and

shroud all built in still not working

great it just it slowly creeps up as

you're driving around um even if you get

into converter lock up that's like the

only time it'll stop gaining temp so I

need to resolve that I need to put a

bigger cooler and and put it in the

front so it's getting air flow while

we're cruising to keep the transmission

temps in check cuz by the time we would

get over there unless I started at ice

cold the transmission would already be

too hot to be doing a launch in a pool

anyway so I kind of forgot about that so

my apologies no major pulls today but

the wheels and tires are on the

crossover's redone the suspension is

dial we've got the alignment done we've

got the ride height pretty much exactly

where we want it all of that is is good

and well this thing is about ready to

rip we got to add a transmission brake

which it's not really that but a launch

button which I want to do off the

overdrive button better transmission

cooler test it out on pump gas kind of T

spicy and then then we can do e and see

what we pick up so that'll be the plan

fix the odds and ends to get this thing

truly drivable so we can actually take

it some distance to a spot and go do

some test hits and then put that dorks

fuel system in it and put it on E and

see what this thing will really do so

anyway that being said we out of time so

I'm going to go into here but I do want

to say thank you for watching thanks for

subscribing and I sure hope I'll get to

see you next time

goodbye I mean that come back we'll be

here all right goodbye