🔧 BUILD CMNT's thing is bigger than yours v. cubic inch displacement

[Chester Copperpot]

 

[CMNTMXR57]

You can let your imagination cool off now.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

That’s one hell of a wives hauler!


shipping or driving it back?

 

[DEEZUZ]

Perfect for duramax swap

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

So... I am finally doing a thing. It's a thing I've been talking about for awhile now. I had held off as working for Sears as I didn't want to spend money on a happy meal, much less any big purchases... Now that I am happilly employed elsewhere I figured it was now time to shit or get off the pot. Anyway, I have been looking for awhile and am currently in the process of buying it.

Ok, so what is it?

3/4 ton, 2003 Suburban LT 4x4, with the ole 496'er and 4.10 gears. It has the normal assortment of dings, a door dent, and normal wear and tear of a 17 y/o GM truck, but what sold it was that all this has less than 100k on the clock and the price was cheap. So I wasted no time getting the dealer on the phone and putting a deposit on it before anyone else could. The problem is... The dealer is out in Utah.

I do have some dealer pics I will post when I get on my other computer, But I am so excited to have another Vortec 8100.

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Utah? Road trip, man!

that’ll do what 12-14mpg highway?

 

[Yaj Yak]

Utah? Road trip, man!

that’ll do what 12-14mpg highway?

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

It’s all downhill, plus maybe a 20-30 mph tail wind, no problem. ?

 

[Bru]

 

[CMNTMXR57]

That’s one hell of a wives hauler!


shipping or driving it back?

Shipping. Normally I would go get it, but being new at the job, I just don't want to start off on a bad foot asking for a week off to go out get it and come back.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Perfect for duramax swap

There was a killer looking one down in Florida, LS 8.1, with the newer 2500HD 5-spoke wheels, HD hood and a few other things, that the owner had an LB7 he was selling with it. He was gonna do the swap for himself but decided to go another route. When you posted that Duraburb last week, I got a stiffy.

Right. I think on a good day, my '02 with the 8.1 on the highway, wife driving it, in a tailwind *maybe* got 12mpg.

 

[daturbosix]

but it will get 10-12mpg no matter what is behind it....

 

[Spivitz]

All I see

 

[IceCreamAssassin]

Congrats! What trans is in those? Trucks are Allison’s and avalanche is a 4l80 I believe.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Shipping. Normally I would go get it, but being new at the job, I just don't want to start off on a bad foot asking for a week off to go out get it and come back.

A week? Drive faster.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Congrats! What trans is in those? Trucks are Allison’s and avalanche is a 4l80 I believe.

Yep, 4L80E. The trans tunnel on the burbs isn't tall enough to accommodate the Allison.

A week? Drive faster.

I was gonna stop and see you. And pick up those manifolds.

Seriously though, it would end up being the whole family, and we'd want to do some sight seeing. So I was factoring that in.

 

[Bub]

congrats

 

[1quick]

Look up raylar when you want to throw a cam or some performance at it, nice purchase

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I won't be doing much to it other than bolt-on's.

First thing I will do once I get it, is get the truck side stuff on it for the plow (the frame mount and all electronics). It could also use some new tires, which of course, I will go a little bigger.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Don’t forget some undercoating!

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Yea, after doing the shocks and brakes the past two weekends on the old 'Burb, the amount of surface rust on the frame and chassis parts, I'm gonna have to do something with this one.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Just looking up vids to install the Ultramount truck side frame and these 800's are a fuck ton easier than the 400's I remember having to drill holes in the side of the frame on mine to secure the front portion of the mount.

These just use the tow hook mount point (keeping the tow hooks BTW... I had to remove those on the '99), and then one big bolt on the underside of the frame.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

So they're not just replacing 1 mirror like they initially told me, rather both. They were waiting on them to come in (they were the extended mirrors on this truck), and just got them on the truck today. So it's been detailed, mirrors put on, just waiting on the shipping company.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Also found out a little while ago, that upon it's inspection, they replaced the shocks and the battery.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Post up when you actually have this thing.