New Member From In

[tamartin]

Hey all!

 

I've been on this site for a few weeks now but haven't posted anything yet. I just bought my Silverado SS in late February from a local dealer. I wasn't even planning on buying one, but I would keep my eye out from time to time and a dealer my family has been doing business with finally got one in. I persuaded my wife to let me take my 05 Envoy in to trade. She used to work at the dealership, so we met with a salesman she talked to you a lot. He gave me a good deal so before I knew it, I had myself an 03 black SS. First ever "sport" vehicle I've ever had.

 

My SS has some scrapes and even a dent in the rear bumper but nothing a little paint on the front end and a new roll pan for the rear won't take care of. It also has dual exhaust (haven't crawled underneath to find out the type of muffler yet), dark tinted windows, and an Extang tilt bed cover on it. I just ordered a Volant CAI and ram air scoop just yesterday from New Level Motorsports (had best price, $20 instant savings, and free shipping).

 

So far, I absolutely love the truck! It's a blast to drive! It's my daily driver though, so I have to be somewhat careful with it. One day I'll pay it off and buy another vehicle, so I can park it in the garage and get some real work done to it. Until then, I'll rely on bolt-ons that I can do on the weekends when I'm off work. I've got big plans for the truck, but they will be down the road when I can park it for longer periods of time to get the work done and have more money as I (hopefully) progress through my career to make more of the green. This is my first "sport" vehicle but I'm not a beginner when it comes to modifying things. I've ridden sport ATV's for over 10 years now and always had to do some modifying to them. I even worked at a motorcycles/ATV/UTV dealership for 4 years as a parts manager through college. I've also modified vehicles I've had as well. Just simple stuff though like air intakes and throttle body spacers. I always have to change things even just a bit to make them my own to try to separate myself.

 

This is an awesome site by the way! The CAI shootout was a nice article. It made me re-think buying the Volant but I've read so many good things on it plus I think it's just cool that you can buy the ram air scoop to make one of them functional. I had an AEM intake on a ZR2 S-10 I had for a few years. I was not impressed by it, but I'm sure AEM did not want to dump tons of money in R&D into an S-10 intake when they had high performance vehicles like SS's and Corvette's to build one for.

 

I look forward to chatting with everyone and learning a few things as I am not a master mechanic by any means! I'll get some pictures up as soon as it quits raining here in southern IN to get a good day to detail the SS.