Daily Driver Build
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:41 pm
So I am making this thread more to document for myself what I have done and what I want to do with this car. I bought the car December of 2017 to replace my F250 (a bit of a change I know). Its a 2011, 6.0, retired Antioch, IL squad car. It had just over 88 thousand miles and was in relatively decent shape save a few small dents around on the fenders. My intentions for this car were to keep it stock for as long as possible and just use it to commute to school. This lasted about three days when I started messing with the exhaust to try and hear the damn thing. This and drivers around me acting like complete cretons led to my giving up of the "keeping it stock" approach and started my list of upgrades. This is the car a few days after bringing it home:
I immediately started to rid the car of some of its chrome with plasti-dip (I'm going to properly repaint now that it is warm again).
Interior-wise I bought two used seats from a fellow forum member (dauderm1, super nice guy) and combined the best parts of all four seats to make a good pair. It had the Nenno center console already when I bought it and I love it. I put an always-hot trunk switch in as was documented on another thread and made a phone holder ( I drive for uber and can't stand suction cup holders that block half the windshield).
My plans for this car are:
lower it with the Eibach G8 springs
JBA long tubes
some sort of header back setup, maybe custom if I can get it on a lift
modified stock mufflers (well that makes no sense )
light window tint
new wheels
better intake
small cam, maybe just ls3 or ls9
So, you know, exactly what everyone else does... This will be a challenge however, as I have almost no budget being in school and having my only income be drill pay from the guard (not that much). It will be my daily driver the whole time but hopefully will also see some track use (I live about 5 min away from an 1/8th mile strip).
I immediately started to rid the car of some of its chrome with plasti-dip (I'm going to properly repaint now that it is warm again).
Interior-wise I bought two used seats from a fellow forum member (dauderm1, super nice guy) and combined the best parts of all four seats to make a good pair. It had the Nenno center console already when I bought it and I love it. I put an always-hot trunk switch in as was documented on another thread and made a phone holder ( I drive for uber and can't stand suction cup holders that block half the windshield).
My plans for this car are:
lower it with the Eibach G8 springs
JBA long tubes
some sort of header back setup, maybe custom if I can get it on a lift
modified stock mufflers (well that makes no sense )
light window tint
new wheels
better intake
small cam, maybe just ls3 or ls9
So, you know, exactly what everyone else does... This will be a challenge however, as I have almost no budget being in school and having my only income be drill pay from the guard (not that much). It will be my daily driver the whole time but hopefully will also see some track use (I live about 5 min away from an 1/8th mile strip).