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Hello,

 

I bought my truck around 4 months ago and really just started doing some mods to it now. Coincidently found this forum because my g/f used it to get advice about buying me an exhaust for it :lol: She gave yall the thumbs up for the help.

 

Here's a quick picture I took after I changed out the grille and painted the bowtie. Excuse the horrible picture, it was raining after I changed the grille and it was night. I'll get some better pictures up sooner or later. I'm installing that new exhaust, Magnaflow #16741, next weekend. Mardi Gras kinda postpones the modifications :thumbs:

 

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Welcome from the Lafayette area. Your girlfriend came to the right place, now your gonna be hooked

 

 

Rain?........Is this an excuse to play off the glitter on the bumper? :thumbs:

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drevin

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Welcome from the Lafayette area. Your girlfriend came to the right place, now your gonna be hooked

 

 

Rain?........Is this an excuse to play off the glitter on the bumper? :thumbs:

 

Sadly, hooked and broke. At least thats what I gather from looking around here :lol:

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Welcome, and awesome truck! So what's next after the exhaust?

 

Funds permitting: Open Air Induction Kit, DVD Navi, Power Commander (Computer Programmer, aka whatever it's normally refered to as) Maybe a lift kit, fender flares, new tires and rims. Not that i've been really thinking that much about it :thumbs:

 

Oh and probably things I get a suggestions.

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Mardi Gras kinda postpones the modifications :cool:

 

At least you got your priorities straight! WELCOME!!

 

 

I managed to make it through another Mardi Gras, and actually just installed my new exhausted last weekend. Crawling under the truck with a sawzall that has a blade too short for the exhaust pipe is neither fun nor feasable. After 4 cuts, a bent up 6 inch blade, a trip to Lowes, and one clean slice, all the stock setup came right out. For the record, the rubber exhaust hangers make life suck when all you want is for the old poopy exhasut to come out. Finally here's some non-glittery pics of my truck with the magnaflow installed. By the way, my girlfriend is incredibly awesome for getting me this for christmas without me asking for it :) The truck sounds seriously mean now!

 

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Oh and now with my new exhaust and some significant changes to driving habbits, I drove around the city all weekend and went from 13.4 mpg to 17.0...Hopefully if I maintain the mpg ratio, i'll be sporting an AEM Brute Force kit sooner more than later :crackup:

 

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