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Probably because it is just so different compared to the factory bumper. every person that walked by as I was doing this that currently has a gmt800 vowed they are doing this, guess maybe it looks better in person.

Hey guys for those of you that have been wondering about fitting a new gen rear bumper on to a 07-13 Silverado It does indeed fit perfectly. the mount holes all align and the bumper fits the body quite well. I work in a GM dealer bodyshop and have been thinking about trying this for some time and had to wait until the day arrived I had bumpers off of both gen trucks at the same time. a complete bumper kit is available from gm but keep in mind some modification will need to be made to the license plate harness as the plug is different. your old backup sensors may work the mount holes look similar as well. The only other thing I should point out is that the hitch no longer mounts under the center of the bumper as the 14 no longer uses the hitch bar reinforcement. all that is under the 14 bumper is the hitch itself. This should not affect the strength of the hitch as it seems it was more of a support for the bumper assembly itself as the last gen was a lot more flimsy. hit me up with any questions or if you want other pics.

The dash is the same, when i looked it up at work it looked as though you need to buy the console housing the pockets the brackets, trim and the lid all separately. I also was looking at buying a truck with the fold down seat with the plan of just ordering the console. it was cheaper to just buy a truck with the full featured bucket seats as an option to get the console. I am in Canada so build lists may be different then U.S.

3rd cat? I thought it was just another resonator. Im kind of sitting on the fence about cutting that out im pretty happy with the sound of my borla cat back. I will post pics maybe this weekend, the roads are getting really messy now so it wont look pretty

Yes it came with the valve but i didn't install it because the Last gen had no valve and it wasn't a problem. I think if you buy it from borla it comes with no valve but mine is a gmpp model bought through the GM dealer I work at. To satisfy the GM enginerds for the borla kit it was added but its at the end of the straight pipe coming off the cat. so I cut my original muffler 1 inch past the front and made the connection at the right in front of the muffler were the borla kit had a flared end and didn't install the front borla supplied flex pipe with the valve. The Borla valve has an additional crossover pipe welded in around the valve as well so im sure it would be a higher flow rate then the factory valve and since I didn't cut any of the cat back kit i can install it at a later date if I see a need too. so far I couldn't be happier with the way it sounds so I don't think I will ever install it. It was nice that borla engineered it that way and install took no longer then a half an hour. Oh yea and you can choose chrome or black chrome tips with the GMPP kit.

I wonder if the ecm and tcm could be swapped out from wrecked trucks as they become available to be swapped back in when warranty work is required? I know how many of the modules in newer vehicles are vin assigned and cant be swapped out the only option is to buy it new plug it in and it marries to the bcm vin. The problem isn't so much issues that arise from the tune as much as problems that may come into play on the new gen motor. direct injected motors do seem too pollute oil quickly and we may end up having problems that are completely unrelated but the flashed ecm gives the dealer the opportunity to flag your vehicle as modified and refuse repair. I want to be sure that if my motor eats the cam its going to get fixed.

I went with the borla dual out one side. very happy with the sound very deep rumble not that loud at idle and when you stomp on it sounds awesome. doesn't resonate at all, v4 has a slight deeper rumble and truck seems more responsive as well now. sounds very much like the corsa vid posted earlier in the posting. Im pretty sure any cat back setup is going to sound good go on you tube tons of vids being posted. I just went with Borla because I was happy with results from my previous vehicles.