Brandon's Build and BS

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Well I love these headlights but they've been a pain in my ass. I feel like I have wired them a million and one different ways and only my drivers side turn signal hyper flashes

Also ordered white led turn signals and parking lights from jumpersLED and white led's from oznium to replace my amber led raptor light mod. I wanted to run the halos amber all the time but i found out shortly after I installed them its supposed to be bad for them. Now I'll have all white led's up front! My truck is going to be like a shadow with a bunch of bright ass lights in front ha

 

How you liking those taillights, my buddy got a similar pair for his colorado and they look good! Did to seal them with clear epoxy or anything to play it safe?

 

I love them! Zero issues, didn't bother sealing them.

 

Bringing my build thread back to life... I've done so much I can't even keep track anymore haha

 

Powder coated my wheels last week and got new cooper xlt's in 285/70/r17

Also painted my old matte bronze hub caps flat black so the wheel looked finished, but probably will end up buying new one's from SCS. iPhone pics for now...

 

How do you like the Cooper’s compared to the BFG’s?

 

Hey man sorry never saw your message, I love the coopers way more then the BFG. Much more plush ride and wayyy better traction in the rain. I feel a little more flex/roll in the tire on sharp turns, but not in a bad way... Probably just didn't get much with the K02

 

Photo Dump

 

I’m getting ready to buy tires, deciding between Michelin and Cooper. My KO2’s have about 20,000 miles on them and they suck.

 

Yeah I always thought I liked them till I switched to the coopers and then was like holy crap what a difference!

Honestly I don't have anything bad to say, only have about 8,000 miles on them right now but they look brand new

 

So how much was your custom bumper? Also did you roll your fenders out at all?

I am curious how much fender I will get if I take out the added lip which reveals all the holes.

 

I built the bumper myself using a tube bender from harbor freight, I paid around $80 buck for the metal and $250 for powder coat. I’m also running +2 McNeil fiberglass now but in the past when I had the oem fenders, I only removed the fender flares because I didn’t want to trim the crap out of them for nothing. I figured I would just remove them and sell them for some extra cash

 

Did you end up pinching the tubes on accident? It looks like they are flattened out on the corners?

Are you still running 33" If not did you regear at all? Cost of regearing?

How hard were the fenders to install? Did you make the wheel well fender liners?

And lastly what grill did you end up getting?

Thanks again for the answers. I just love the look.

 

No problem man glad to help, I didn't know what I was doing at the time when I built my bumper. It was my first time doing any type of metal work and welding, I've been learning as I mod my truck because I enjoy having projects to work on over weekends... Looking back I should have spaced the bend out instead of doing it all in one spot. It is a harbor freight bender though so no matter what it will flatten out a bit.

Im still running 33's, will bump up to 35's on my next set of tires but that will be years away because I just bought new tires last summer. No reggae but I will when I go to 35's.

The fenders were easy to install, just have to be patient to make sure everything lines up well. You can't run a fender liner with fiberglass, most guys use a thin abs plastic and use self tappers to secure it. You can use a heat gun to help mold the plastic.

It's a grill off of customcargrills.com
I believe it's $50. it comes with instructions, you just trim back the black plastic and use "Automotive Goop" to secure it

 

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Bro she looking bad as hell!! I loved that pic of half and half

 

Thanks man tryna keep her looking as stealthy as possible while not over doing the gold accents!