I ended up getting some good deals on some stuff and modified the truck a bit. Enjoy the pics below:

Before:


After:


Hell Bent Steel 3" spacers:


Suspension Connection 1.5" Blocks and Custom Ubolts (uboltsdirect.com):


We had to do a bit of modifications on the blocks, I called the guy and talked to him to see if the blocks were universal or truck specific and he assures me that they are universal. However, our blocks have TWO line up points and these only had ONE. So we notched the bottom side of the blocks to get them in-between the two line up pins and then shaved the one pin on the top.

All in all not a bad experience putting them in, bruised my pinky though from dropping the strut tower on it and pinching it between the tower and the control arm (I don't recommend dropping those on your pinky to anyone else).

ALSO:



We cut out the stock muffler, which no joke probably dropped a good 30-50 pounds of the truck weight, and replaced it with a muffler off of a Lexus. All in all it sounds pretty good. My friends and my boyfriend now say that I sound like all the 5.4 mustangs running around town.

Hope you enjoyed my adventure, thanks for looking

 

muffler out of a lexus! And by 5.4 mustangs do you mean 4.6 V8 mustangs or 5.0 mustangs. Looks great

 

shelby gt 500?

 

Lexus mufflers and 5.4 Mustangs. Just where do you live?

 

I live in Newnan, GA. Believe it or not in our small whole in the wall town we do have gt 500's. One is had a turbo on it and it sounds UNBELIEVABLE!

and I meant to put 4.6 mustangs. Sorry I was all excited from all the new things I didn't read it before I posted :P

 

Looks good!

Hope your pinky is doing better.

But a lexus muffler?
Just giving you a hard time.

 

Truck looks great. Didn't you have a red FX4?

 

That's what I was thinking. TOTM winner if I remember correctly.

 

that was 07FX4Chick.

nice truck.

 

^Yes exactly.

 

Now I remember, thank you for clarifying. 07FX4chick is married and FX4Chick has a boyfriend. Damn just my luck. Like girls that drive trucks.

 

very nice

i managed to score a set of HBS 2.5" spacers for my truck and a set of 1.5" blocks for the rear off ebay for less than 100 bucks, so after I get my new shocks / struts, I will be a few inches higher. How do you like the HBS spacers?

 

Welcome to the site neighbor. I'm from Douglasville, go to school in Newnan though.

 

Much better stance on the truck now.....

But how in God's name did you end up putting a Lexus muffler on -- I'll guarantee you're the only F-150 running that set-up.....

 

awesome, let me know if you ever wanna meet up.



OK so since everyone is cracking on me for the lexus muffler this is how the story goes:

my boyfriend and one of our good friends work for a body shop so they're always bringing home random things. So I was talk about how I wanted to do something different with my exhaust and I had found videos of a f-150 on youtube that was running a 4" straight pipe diesel exhaust and thought it sounded really good. So anywho, our friend one day comes by and says he's got an exhaust for me. Of course it was the entire exhaust off a lexus he was working on at work, they ended up having to put a new one on for some reason, so instead of them scrapping it he threw it in the back of his truck and brought it home for me. We decided to put it on just to see what it sounded like, once we welded it up and welded on a new exhaust tip the hangers for the original muffler lined up in the same spots welded them to the lexus muffler and there it went. We then celebrated with pizza and beer.

the end.