I really need to update this more often. I got a promotion and a raise at work so I could quit my other job. Now I work eighty hours a week at one job. The new truck just recieved a bitchin sound system. I got some of the best stuff Pioneer makes and some MB Quartz component speakers for the doors. Stereo shop guys are almost as morally bankrupt as car sales men and crack addicts. It seems that anytime someguy wants to invade my private space and put his arm around me and call me buddy he's just looking to stick it to someone. I go to one place and the guy says this brand and model rock and the model numbers don't mean quality it is what you pay pretty much. exerpt...well you have the $200 model and those are ok, but they sound like crap compared to these $600 ones. (seriously I'm replacing AC delco paper cone woofers, I know what sounds like crap and I don't think I could tell the difference between component speakers unless I was outside with the windows up) I got all my stuff on e-bay and sourced through friends and Dec. 30th my buddy Aaron and I stayed up till 3.30am freezing our asses off and we only mounted one subwoofer in the custom box that we didn't cover as it needs some modification for final fitment. my seat is locked in the bus driver position, but it vibrates like crazy. I told mo about the first headache i got that wasn't alchol related and when pressed why I didn't just turn down the volume I had to admit it was a great back massage. (even with the bass up and treble down those mb quarts titanium tweeters hit tones only dogs can hear)
The system was a bad idea finacially as it has turned my lump of cash back into paycheck to paycheck and school starts on the 17th so I wont be turning in the overtime i had been. I am down to a 4 day work week with 2 12's and 2 8's scattered through the week to make it impossible to plan anything. I also bought another engine I am piecing together for..something. I only have 6000 miles on my truck, but I got spanked going up the on ramp today by a front wheel drive cadillac from the '90s. I picked up a gen III 4.8 L for $150 minus w/p and harmonic balancer, and two holes in the pistons. thank god for e-bay. pistons w/ rods for 5.3L $60, crank to make it work $140, computer to fire the mix $90. I'm going to be out the door under a grand at this rate and have one of the most powerful trucks in the neigborhood. I got the goods I need to button this puppy up on e-bay right now, but I'm not done researching this enought to touch a bolt yet. I bought the wrong computer, chevy has the wiring harness plug in's color coded and I got the wrong one, I will need to reflash it anyway so it will be a while. I'll keep buying as money and prices allow till I have a smoker on the patio. It is so awsome to have all this racing technology trickle down the the humble production truck engine. Aluminum heads, roller rocker and lifters, cross bolted mains, long tube intake runners on a raised plenum pholnic intake with a 80mm fly by wire throttle body, coil on plug ignition(DIS). I really don't care what this goes in, its going to be mean. Until more parts come in and there are 30 hours a day, consider this project shelfed, I do have 94K left on my warrenty.