SILVER SLED

The truck looks like it sits pretty level the way it is.

I have a ccsb roll up tonneau cover that could be bought.

You can get the auto dimming rear view mirror in 20 and 21, but on RST/LT down it came with the trailering outside mirrors.

I see, forgot about the no Z71 having a Silverado on fender. And have no idea why they black out the Silverado on the fender with the black out package, or what ever it's called, but leave the Z71 chrome on the fender of the black out package.

If you don't mind me asking, what 6 emblems are included?

I have a set of "duramax" hood emblems and a black "silverado" tailgate emblem if your interested. They are gm parts. I can shoot you some pics if you like.

I can't find gloss black Z71 emblems either. I've ordered two sets, thinking second one was gloss. It was same. I may spray paint them gloss black and maybe add a gloss clear. It doesn't really look that bad. The only time it looks awkward is in my garage under fluorescent light, the 6.2 on hood is super shiny and the Z71 is not. I also am debating just removing the chrome Z71.

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I have a son driving in three years and the Trailblazer in my signature will be the vehicle he drives.

That TBSS was one of my favorite vehicles. A real sleeper and stop light killer (awd). I had mine revving to 6900rpm in first to help make up for the big lag in the 1-2 gear split in that transmission. I don't think this truck or my 18 6.2 were as quick as my TBSS was, that would make this a 12 second truck.

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I'd like to find someone with a stockish TBSS to run. Milan dragway has a test and tune the next two weekends. I had no intentions and not much time to go there, but I am now kinda curious.

I had an 07 TBSS, white, awd new back in 07. I had Vector Motorsports tune, my home made "cold air" intake, ud pulley. It ran a best 13.08 at 104. I was/am SLOWWHITE on TBSSowners.com. No transmission work, I kinda got lucky on that.

Those times were using the dashhawk. I didn't use it much for times for the TBSS, but it was usually only about a tenth off actual times. Those times are so good I have my doubts as to how accurate it is.

I'm not gonna argue the point. I'm curious how your truck runs. What does in the 1/4 mile and what device are you using. No arguing. Thanks.

I agree. I think my motor makes 420 hp. I don’t think GM spent a ****** ton of money trying to squeeze every bit of power and economy out of a motor to make a 430 hp motor and throw some intake set up that loses 10 hp and loses any economy. Same goes for stock exhaust really. The flapper in these exhausts is technically to increase economy by increasing back pressure in 4 cyl mode, or less than V8 mode. But I believe it flows 420 hp.

I saw the Stillen thing, and there is a thread about it. After reading the thread, I would look into positioning of the air shutters to maybe make the air cooler, but for now I'm probably not gonna bother.

I agree about more air being better, but on a stock vehicle I have my doubts. The GM performance cold air intake kit still uses the same stock sized hole to suck air from, so I don't see how that would gain any. I haven't looked much, but I haven't seen any aftermarket intakes for these that don't suck air from the same whole in the radiator support area. I'm not sure how the new programming in the vehicles operates, but on my TBSS, the ecm would pull timing if the iat got above 84*, so cold air was very important. I actually separated the iat sensor from the harness and moved in into the grill to keep the temp reading down. Not saying it was the best idea, but I did it and didn't have any issues.

I hooked up my dashhawk, that I’ve had since my TBSS, to my ‘21 Silverado. A dashhawk is basically just a sensor and code reader. It was handy to measure intake air temp, timing, coolant temp, torque ****** or what ever you wanted when I had my TBSS. Well it works in my 21, so I decided to check out intake air temps. Compared to my ‘15 and ‘18 Silverado and even my TBSS, it appears the ‘21 Silverado set up works pretty good. I plugged it in after the truck had been sitting for an hour or so and the iat was 81*, ambient temp was 63*. I started the truck, drove down the road and in about a half a mile of driving 35-40 mph the iat had dropped to 66*. With fairly steady driving at slower speeds the iat stays within a few degrees of ambient temp. In stop and go traffic the iat never got 10* over ambient, usually staying 5*-7*. At a steady 55-60 mph drive the iat and ambient would be the same at times and the iat never got more than a couple degrees over ambient. So I’m not gonna spend any money on any gm or aftermarket “cold air intake”. A dashhawk can also measure performance based on vehicle speed sensors using distance traveled and time. I was amazed at how quick this truck ran in the 1/4 mile.

Looks awesome!

I read somewhere that cows, cows alone are more polluting to the environment than the entire transportation industry.

I wouldn’t worry about it. Drive it like you like it.

I remember a study years ago, around when the Prius first came out. It roughly said that a gas car that gets 30 mpg would have to be driven 200,000 mile to equal the emissions of producing the batteries for one Prius.

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