Hey all. Well I've had this truck almost a year now so I figure it's time to make a build thread. It may not be anything worthy of a magazine or featuring big dollar products, but it's my pride & joy and I think it's coming along quite nicely. Let me know what you think!


The day I took it home for a test drive last January:



Due to the lease transfer I was in the middle of at the time, I unfortunately had to wait two weeks to get the truck. Even tho I had already had a 2011 5.0 before, for some reason it felt like an eternity. Probably because I was coming out of a fusion.


First mod about 3 weeks after purchase, exhaust. Simply a muffler swap with early side exit. Muffler is a SOLO MR400. 4" tip. Here's a pic that kind of captures the location, and a horrible cell phone video. I need to get a good clip of the note, it sounds amazing.





View My Video


Next mod: HIDs




Hood wrap:





Throw on the company logo for some contrast




Stereo:

2 DD 8"s, 1600w 5channel audio pipe, 4 Pioneer 6x8s, Pioneer 3500 headunit, retained sync ports.








5% on the back 3 windows




So then I wanted a backrack, primarily because I like the look and I wanted to have a system to run flags for football games and other events, but didn't like the BackRack pricetag, so I made my own with a buddy.










Latest: Black plastidipped wheels




Coming up:

Going sunday to pick up my n-fab prerunner lightbar:



Will be wrapping the roof and tailgate stripe inbetween taillights in same matte black

need to do something with step bars, either remove or black out.

would like to get fx4 appearance package badges and do blue flame inside, or may just get ebay overlays.

want to get heads & tails, but being patient with selection. Do not want cheap ebay ones to take on water, but am not a fan of recon's prices lol.

Plan on a level/rear block kit in the near future also. Will determine what tires I want to run once I get the mini lift.

I am sure there is more in my brain, just can't think of it right now. I'll update this thread as I go. Let me know what you guys think!

 

I really like the hood! The box and rest of the system looks good too! Also diggin the beard, man haha the lightbar is gonna look pretty slick. Getting FX$ appearance badges and PTMing the red would look good and would be relatively simple. I have them on my 06 and the red pops out pretty easily. I decided not to PTM initially, but will at some point.

Did you have your red lightning for sale up here at some point? I have to admit that the sig pic is quite . . . memorable and the lightning ad is perhaps where I recall it from?

 

Interested to see how it all turns out. Not a huge fan of big ad vinyls unless it is solely a work truck. It'll def look better when you mod the heads, tails, and step bars. Keep the pics coming!

Sweet beard.

 

Where you from I see your sporting a bills flag. I live by springville and actually work for the bills

 

And by the way love the hood wrap

 

Yeah my lightning is for sale. The 5.0 is the daily driver, can't afford to keep the lightning around anymore, it's gotta go :-\




I'm in Elma. Appreciate the compliments.

 

Got the lightbar today. Should be throwing some lights on tomorrow. Definitly going to black out the white part of it. Not feeling the white right now.

 

Yeah, what the hell were they thinking with the white parts? Either way, looks good!

 

the guys truck was white that i bought it from so pretty sure he painted it lol

 

Ahh I thought you bought it new. My truck is white and I would've left it all black though

 

nope, got a pretty good deal IMO, $250 w/o lights.

 

I wanted that color so badly but ended up with red instead.

 

Truck looks good man!

Looks like you've been doing good!

 

hey guyz.