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My 2011 Escalade Project


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that will be a great blower for a tow rig. speaking of tow rigs im going to pm you some questions on how to slam a dually with out loosing its towing capacity .

 

no prob i do the 5/8s all the time on buddys truck that tow to the street races with the belltech helper bag kit and your golden.

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who buys an escalade and wants it to sound loud as ****? **** that

 

After the big choppy cam on her black tbss she wants some noise.

 

 

Well I cut the resonator off and a few things. 1 the escalade has a 3.5 inch cat back set up which will be perfect for my whipple 2.3 and the resonator is totally different then the tbss. Its pretty much solid inside and just one hole in the middle.

 

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and the new spohn bar.

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48 Miles on the truck I couldn't take it anymore Had to lower it

 

i wanted to do steps on the truck just to feel the difference.

 

So today i did the front belltech spindles

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Front swaybar

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and rear shock extenders

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Even with my alignment off the djm front bar and spindles make the truck feel a lot more in control. In the rear im really suprised how better it feels. Its not as jarring and more smooth and this is with the stock rear springs in only thing added was shock extenders. Im guessing the shock angle is better so has a better chance to work.

 

I cant wait to put the rear belltech springs along with the djm trailing arm relocators' date=' spohn panhard bar, lower spohn a arms and last the rear djm swaybar!! Thing will feel so much better.

 

 

riht now

FRONT 33 7/8 from ground to fenderlip

REAR 37 7/8 From ground to fenderlip

 

 

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LAST but not least!! esky 24" chrome replicas with 305 35 24 Yokohama tires

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just ordered this

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and this

http://www.magnaflow.com/02product/displayapplications.asp?partnumber=15044

 

the set up was $184 bucks shipped from summit also i wanted 3.5 inch exhaust from cat back like factory. There is a kink over the rear end and for 55 bucks the 3.5 piping you cant go wrong.

 

So a true 3.5 inch cat back set up $184 dollars

 

 

Lots of aftermarket mufflers are 3 inches and really dont want that. The muffler above is a 5x11x22 which is pretty mellow but when adding headers should wake it up more plus its full 3.5 inch thru the muffler

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the center consoles of these trucks suck cant put anything up top

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so ended up buying the platinum top half much better now you can put your phone in there

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bumpstop bracket cut with new short one installed and belltech 5305 coil

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spohn bar vs stock bar

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Rear djm swaybar along with shorter endlinks

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brakes are on more pics tomm

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this truck by far is the best 07 up gm suv ive ever done. The truck handles so good!!!

 

tonight i put in the del sphere spohn arms and just by doing that i feel the truck handles better.

 

Im going to try to do the upper ones once i get my welder back down the road

 

Stock piece was weak and stamped. The rubber bushigns on one side were already cracking.

 

Here is stock vs spohn

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Grease it up well and you will see this

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dont forget locktite

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on her

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