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blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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I finally felt confident enough to clear my headlights after reading and watching the videos on GMFS. Sooo glad I finally did this. It's really too simple to pay someone to do it.

 

I also welded on a 5" stainless tip from Summit. I'm not sure the tip location is exactly where I wanted it, but I'm happy with it for now. I have some RC UCAs I need to throw on the truck too. Let me know what you think. As always, ALL opinions are welcome. :thumbs:

I ordered Stealthbulbs but they're a week out, so sprayed my amber bulbs with high temp
silver spray paint and so far so good.

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They look just like Stealthbulbs in the truck

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I may have lost a little light output, but not much

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3" in 5" out stainless tip from Summit

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Daryl LBZ Senior Enthusiast

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Looks awesome! I would love to clear my lights, but I'm to chicken to try it lol! I like how you did the exhaust tip too. :thumbs:

blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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Thanks man. The 5" tip actually deepened the tone a little.

 

And you should totally clear your lights. It's really easy. I used a dremel tool and it's really quite basic. Took me less time to cut and clear the lights than it did to remove the damn things. :banghead:

 

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Soo much better!

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zach1990 Senior Enthusiast

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Looks great man!

 

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zach1990 Senior Enthusiast

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Let me know how you like the stealth bulbs. I've been debating swapping my amber ones but idk

 

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blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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Let me know how you like the stealth bulbs. I've been debating swapping my amber ones but idk

 

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Will do. I expect them here within a week.

blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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Looks great!

I need to do something like this to mine, I like that tip.

What kind of muffler you running?

 

 

Thanks. I'm running a Flowmaster 50 series.

tyhuck Senior Enthusiast

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Looks good.

 

Where were your pictures taken? The background looks super familiar.

Daryl LBZ Senior Enthusiast

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Thanks man. The 5" tip actually deepened the tone a little.

 

And you should totally clear your lights. It's really easy. I used a dremel tool and it's really quite basic. Took me less time to cut and clear the lights than it did to remove the damn things. :banghead:

 

 

 

Soo much better!

 

It's amazing what a difference just an exhaust tip makes when it comes to sound. I need to read up more on clearing the headlights because it looks sweet with the stealth bulbs. Cleared lights will look sweet with my eventual HD front clip.

STINSAN3 Senior Enthusiast

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So many more mods I need to do to my truck.
Seat covers, new muffler, Line-X, gears, new grille, & clearing the headlights I need to do also.

Its a never finished job.
What are Stealth bulbs? I never heard of em & where did you get em at?

cparks555 Senior Enthusiast

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Man you've been busy, I can't get over how nice your truck looks with cleared lights. Amazing how such a simple mod can change the look so much, love the tip also. Did you do anything besides just make a clean cut where the muffler starts turning down?

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