🔧 BUILD Gav's 2020 AT4

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

 

[IDAFC21]

Sounds good! That pancaked Y pipe...Oye........

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

I have exterior clips coming soon. Have to try and stretch the content ?

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

 

[IDAFC21]

I think thats got a pretty good tone to it w/out being too overly aggressive. I'm actually not sure if I'd wanna remove the resonators (god I must be getting old.)

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

I feel your pain.
Interior noise is minimal but over 3k Rpms it sounds like a turbo Buick.

I went back and listened to my old truck videos... Has more of the overall note that I would be going for.

Time will tell

 

[Dave M]

Why no X or H pipe, unless I missed it.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

The exhaust the was found on YT was a dual in dual out single muffler set up with no X or H. I wanted something similar but opted for the 2 muffler set up.

 

[Dave M]

The exhaust the was found on YT was a dual in dual out single muffler set up with no X or H. I wanted something similar but opted for the 2 muffler set up.

I assume you have MDS, how does it sound when it activates on a true dual system? I went with a single in dual out on my Lamb, and the MDS sounds like a badly tuned 2 stroke engine

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

It was more noticeable on my 2016.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

New videos to follow

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

 

[IDAFC21]

Yeah I like that.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

There's a gator SRX bed cover there somewhere

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Felt wheel well salt sponges are now rhino Lined

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Should come from the factory like that, especially if it has the off-road package. Would have helped out my 07 a lot.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Plastic liners would be fine. There is no increase in road noise or general noise in the cabin, so the felt liners are pointless.

I've spent too much $ on this truck already ?

 

[IDAFC21]

But all quality of life improvements. That's how I felt about my ST when I bought it, and that was supposed to just be my "buy it and drive it" car. But then came all the "it should have come like this" parts

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

I think I'm done for now.
Have a couple cosmetic items for Barney over winter.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Winter washing ?
Rinse, foam, rinse. Drive home.
Wheels were foamed with brake buster and a long handle boar's hair brush used for tires and wheels faces. Door jambs and wheels were towel dried.
Obamanotbad.jpeg

 

[Shawn1112]

Winter washing ?
Rinse, foam, rinse. Drive home.
Wheels were foamed with brake buster and a long handle boar's hair brush used for tires and wheels faces. Door jambs and wheels were towel dried.
Obamanotbad.jpeg

You took all your own stuff to the car wash? I got caught by my house and kindly asked not to do it again lol

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

I took the big and small foamer and a brush. I rinsed the truck in the stall, foamed all 4 wheels/ tires. hit them with my brush, then used the big foamer to walk around the truck 2x.
rinsed and backed out of the stall. dried wheels and door jambs.

I would not attempt a full bucket wash there... at least during the day. The attendant is there ALL THE TIME. He drives a red Tacoma, so it's obvious when he's there.
This is in Hampshire... not many people there today. The guy in the next stall had a bucket and a milk crate of supplies etc. Younger kid with an older BMW, he gave no fucks.

if you looks at the lower sections of the doors, you can see the truck is still dirty.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Hit a new PB this morning.
And DEEZUZ for those hours:

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

1st week of May, neighbor's HS nephew and his friend were throwing the football around in the driveway. Why is there " no ball playing " signs / rules for where people park their property ? Who knows, anyways, the football found it's way onto my hood. Dennis does dents came out to look at the damage, 3.5 weeks later, I went to his work place to have it fixed ( this is when the driveway was being redone ). He worked on Barney in the garage then we headed to Elk Grove.

After a wash, inspecting the damage:
Notice the distortion in the siding

as if that was not bad enough, there was a 2nd dent right along the body line:

Here is a better look at the one on the body line. Hi-tech PDR lighting:

This was later the same day when the truck stayed at my parents while the driveway was paved:

After almost 5 weeks, the truck was washed, pictures @ home with siding to show a true before and after:

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

So I think my truck is defective.

I bought touch up paint from automotive touch up, used it on some minor rock chips on the front bumper. Noticed the next day that the paint dried darker than the truck.
I bought GM touch up paint for the 2016 and it did not match. Purchased from automotive touch up and it was perfect. I have used them for about 5 other vehicles and every time the paint has been spot on.
So thinking it was a fluke, I ordered another bottle. Looked the same in the bottle, so I put some paint on a white piece of paper.
brush stroke and 2 "dots" or dabs from the brush tip. They look pretty close. The original paint looks correct at the end of the brush stroke.

I ordered a touch up pen/ bottle from GM / AC Delco. Same thing. too damn dark.

There are 3 paint codes for the Satin steel Metallic when on the AT website but when the order goes through it comes back with 464C
Which is on the GM paint pen as well. New cars do not have the RPO codes listed on the stickers, there is a QR code to scan.
What's at the bottom of the codes ? 464 C

FML