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  1. robvas
    I have better pictures in the leveling kit thread if you want to dig through there, look for the time around last summer
  2. robvas
    The whole red area is the 'over extended zone'
  3. robvas
    Think of it this way. Put your truck up on a lift and let the front wheels come all the way down. Call that "fully extended". Anything past that is "over extended". As in the truck was never designed for the suspension to be pushed that far out/down. Now install your spacer kit (whether it's a strut tower kit, or control arm spacer kit, doesn't matter). You've just pushed the suspension down another inch or two. You are now past what was "fully extended" and you are now, by definition, "over extended" The blue drawing in the Bilstein picture is the exact opposite. Imagine you put your front suspension all the way up as far as it can go, under the front fenders of your truck. That's your full range on the compression side. Now stick that one or two inch spacer in there. You just lost some travel. I don't know if you call that "under-extended" or what.
  4. robvas
    Anything past factory is 'over extended'
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  6. robvas
    It's only about 100lbs difference. I remember a crate LS1 weighing like ~450lbs. A 4.3 would weigh about 3/4 of what a V8 weighs.
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  8. robvas
    You lose some suspension travel and will need the truck re-aligned. Also your suspension will always be a little bit 'over extended' compared to where it would normally be, so it may wear slightly faster. You know when you jack your truck up the wheels come down a little bit as the truck goes up? That's all your doing, is pushing the truck UP or pushing the control arms DOWN, depending on how you want to look at it.
  9. robvas
    Rear didn't look any higher on mine. I went with the RC 2" fron tleveling kit with the additional 1" in the rear
  10. robvas
    IMO that's too much gear for just 33" tires Is there an official list of what gears are available for the the rear end that comes with the 6.2? They had 3.23, 3.42, and 3.73 available in 2014 from the OEM. There's at least one guy out there with 4.10's isn't there? What aftermarket support is out there?
  11. robvas
    You could try driving around in M5
  12. robvas
    that's how it's supposed to work. If the front tires are sliding in sharp front turns like that, I wouldn't be surprised because of how big your tires are
  13. robvas
    Sounds perfectly normal to me.
  14. robvas
    Can you put up a video of it so we can see how bad it is?
  15. robvas
    Why don't you guys just install them on the highest setting, and if the rear is too low, just stick a bigger block in the rear? Rear blocks are cheap. And higher is always better am I right?
  16. robvas
    Looks like a typical 200k SBC timing chain
  17. robvas
    Big differenece in between phones and trucks - most of the car parts are made in Canada, USA, Mexico All the parts in a phone are made in China. Makes more sense to have the phone factory there.
  18. robvas
    Better computer controls really helped cars get better mpg and less emissions
  19. robvas
    Gonna be pretty close - see if you can get at tire shop to mount one up and see.
  20. robvas
    Mine has done this 3 separate times. I turn the AC off/on, switch vents from floor to windshield, eventually it starts to blow cool air again
  21. robvas
    Yup
  22. robvas
    Maybe not as bad as you think, if you haven't corrected your speedometer. 5% bigger tire so if you've went 100 miles according to your odometer, you've really went 105 miles. Lets say on a 15 gallons of gas you went 300 miles (according to the odometer), the dashboard says 20mpg But really, with the taller tires you went 315 miles, so you really got 21mpg
  23. robvas
    I would get the 65's if I could do it again
  24. robvas
    same here, but i got the BFG's the day after I got the truck ;)
  25. robvas
    Yea, any handheld tuner can do it
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