@@skarnage_tahoe4691 6000k is brighter and you get a bit of "blue". Telling you right now those 8k bulbs are actually dimmer than a new halogen bulb (especially if they're those Chinese bulbs). From experience. I had 8K HIDs, went to 6K HID and much more light and far more usable. Now I run ~5500K LEDs and they're actually brighter than my 8K 55w HID setup.
There are tests here on RU-vid, pitting Harbor Freight's higher end, but still inexpensive, Icon tools against Snap On. The Icon tool very often beats the Snap On.
My first truck I actually jerry rigged a body lift by drilling through solid bricks and installing them with longer lag bolts from tractor supply. One of the bricks broke and my cab started rocking back and forward when I was driving my truck. Ah good times
Reminds me of the time I bought a rust bucket of a ford ranger truck that looked great on the inside, found out after driving 30 miles that the leaf spring in the back was held up by 1x4's of which the ones making it level had wiggled out while driving, only a single 1x4 was left holding the leaf spring upon arrival at home. The suspicious brand new cheap bedliner was hiding the hole the spring made when the bracket failed & the spring went through the bed. I installed a brand-new Leaf spring bracket, next time I drove it, the water pump blew. Fun times when you try to go the cheap route & "make it work". Good times indeed.
Lol I was a little guilty of this. But at least I have actually nice looking LED's with a good pattern instead of those horrendous HID headlights. Those are the ugliest thing known to the car community. I mean unless you trying to totally blue out your car/truck lol
@@maximumchaos01 I have squirrels on a wheel to power my vanity light bar from an old 80's bathroom with the big round bulbs....chicks always breaking their necks when I drive by.
Brother, you got off cheap! Mine hooked up the house(ok...it was a clapped out, pop up camper with bad tires and duct tape repairs in the screens)...at least she left the dog(house trained) and as a bonus, took the cat(not house trained and was allergic to mouse dandruff)...the only good thing in that relationship was the truck(it's in her name, not mine and so is the banknote)...man...I'm gonna miss her(good credit rating)...on a high note, the new one has a fantastic figure (boobs that I didn't have to pay for), and a great job(local strip club), she doesn't sleep with my friends (and all her stripper friends want to sleep with me)...I think I might just be in love(don't worry fellas, I won't screw up and marry this one)...this girl is actually good with money and has made some great decisions about investing...she made me quit my job so that we can spend more time together...were going to the Ford stealership in the morning and to get me a new house (slide in camper) in the afternoon...probably the best thing is that she doesn't want to move in with me...why am I so lucky? Probably because I made all of my mistakes when I was younger and I had a little alteration done by the local plastic surgeon (added some length and girth, not too much)and I had a pump installed (usually old guys do this, but why wait? Never goes soft until you want it to)...you might think I'm crazy, or even a liar, but when I expire, they'll never get rid of the smile on my face, and as long as she can stand the smell, the ol' lady can still ride me until I rot away, or they burn me...warning: some details of the aforementioned comment may have been slightly exaggerated...you decide which ones...y'all take care...đã wõõķìëë
So are fake chromed plastic Buick fender holes. I one saw a 57 Chevy hood ornament on a hood scoop on a Tundra. It also had a rear wing. Crazy stuff they sell at Pep Boys and Auto Zone.
Usually fender flares are meant to be out passed the wheels. They stop the tires from throwing stones and mud?.... Or have i just been miss informed my whole life.
This is really accurate! I’m 19 years old and have ALL those mods on my truck, except the plastidip I refuse to put that on my truck at all, I have two light bars! I also own a Ford Ranger😂
Haven't done any of these to my truck but I remember how cool everyone in the Burger King parking lot was in 1999-2000. Burger King was the truck hangout in Altoona, PA along with Sheetz. Basically they were everywhere.
Love the list guys. The only one I have to oppose would be the cheap light bar mod. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't turn away one of those high dollar light blasting bastards. But I've been running a $30 20" bar I bought off Wish 2 years ago and that lil dude has been solid! Surprisingly bright, no water on the inside, all my led's are burning. No to mention being stood on by my niece as she felt compelled to climb my ARB front bumper. I'm a firm believer of "You get what you pay for" but I trumped the system on that one.
My Amazon lightbar works just fine lol. Do I want a nice rigid light bar? Yes!!!!! Can I afford one? No!!!! Lol. And it works just fine on my POS 92 RANGER LOL
Yeah I got a cheap light bar on my truck, had it for 2 years and still works great, still looks pretty clean, but it is getting a slight yellow tint the longer I have it. I'm not complaining though, it's still freaking bright as can be.
Custom offsets: we have 1000 miles on it andddd, it’s stock Firepunk diesel: 200 miles on our limited dodge Cummins, and today we’re gonna ghetto fog it with nitrous
I get that question a ton. Pucks are never a good option. I went with 5100 series 3” taller shocks and icon uniball UCAs and I’m here to tell you, that IS the way to go. I’ve got 35”s on a levelled truck and rides great. ‘17 ram
The “Dip your car” dudes are really good about addressing these issues. If you do the job right, it’s peelable. Those guys are passionate about dipping, so I suggest giving their channel a look. It’s interesting to see what they can do. Dipping gets a bad rap, and it appears to be due to a lack of info.
Took the exhaust manifold off my ‘85 Toyota pickup. Wouldn’t run without the back pressure. Second you left off the gas, dead. But it was loud as hell. Like two dumpsters having intercourse.
@@CHAD-RYAN right now it's a work in progress but we're working hard and strong on it, plus we're gonna release it with the optional "YEE YEE" pack that gives it mud wheels, clearance lights, towing package, ice chest- I mean toolboxes built into the bed, 4x4, truck nuts, and 4 CDs of Luke Bryan, George Strait, Alan Jackson, and Toby Keith, best part is that electric = no emissions = no restrictions so you can let it RIIIIIIIP straight off the lot, you can also get the optional colors of Purty Red, Truck Stop Hooker White, and Alabamy Blue and for free you can get full time AAA just like our batteries, brutha, YEE HAW
When I was 16, my family had a 1987 Toyota Tacoma with a blown motor and sun damage to the paint job, gotta love North Carolina. Plasti dipped the truck but we had a wrecked 1989 Ford mustang with a 5.0 So we took the short box bench seat Toyota, installed the powertrain from the mustang and a adapter kit which was custom made, in the Toyota. 6 inch procomp suspension and a 2 inch body lift on 38 mud tires. Used to lock the front hubs and would bark all 4 tires lol great truck, lot of fun and yeah the mud never came out but it was built for mudding. Original paint was red, and turned pink in some spots, yellowish red in others. Rhino liner the bed, had to spot weld the holes. Plasti dip was desert drab. Exhaust was shot from the original motor and the mustang so my father paid to have a borla exhaust from headers back. Ugly as sin, loud as hell, rode nice on the road, beast in the mud. Prior to motor swap, the 5.0 had a 0.20 over bore, and was a complete rebuild. New crank cam heads rockers push rods valves and seals. It had a 5 speed manual, complete rebuild with a stage 2 skunk short throw kit. Truck was hit by a drunk driver while getting gas. Driver tried to drive away but his vehicle was too damaged. Turns out he was a illegal and no insurance on there truck. Truck was parted out after that. Destroyed the cab but the powertrain was good.
I wanted to get a nice set of locking lug nuts. Instead of spending $500 I decided to go with $80 for the Chinese set. When they arrived I was tickled to death because you could not tell the difference between the expensive set and the knockoff Chinese set. I went to install them with the special locking key, put on 1st wheel, went to the 2nd wheel, installed three more lug nuts. And the special key stripped out. I contacted the company in China and it was like talking to an earthworm here in the USA. After waiting 2 months and driving around with two different style lugnuts.I had to end up buying a second set just to purchase the special key to remove all of the lug nuts that I put on. on the last lug nut the key stripped out as well. I had to use vise grips to get the last lugnut off. I won't ever buy cheap Lugnuts again!!!!
@@rustyshackleford7265 Just my opinion but I can't say don't buy anything made from China because I bought Dodge door striker plates, Dodge seat belt protectors, and a few Dodge emblems that is pretty nice and actually good quality.
Ran tons of Amazon lights on vehicles for years and never had a single issue with any on them. Headlights, pods, bars all used almost every night of the week for thousands of hours.
I plastidipped my wheels and I freaking loved it. Had no regrets. $35 bucks to black out my wheels for two years. No problem taking it off. Best investment i made on my car. 10/10 would do again.
I've done wheels on several vehicles and never had an issue through winters or car washed or anything... and they painted their avalanche incorrectly...plasti dipping, done right, is no different than a wrap and comes off super easy
@@trenthatcher4051 we say screw headers straight manifold louder too we enjoy flooring it threw the dealer ship lots and watching how many car alarms light up
Plasti Dip rocks I've done 2 trucks one of them was my GMC Yukon hunting truck that went thru south Texas brush like a champ. And when I sold it it peeled off in big sections and the paint looked great under it. Instead of blaming the product you need to claim responsibility for a shitty install.
There I was, 17 years old, 99 Ford Explorer 4 door V6 275k miles Cranked torsion keys Cherrybomb glasspack with bad welds 12k hids in headlights and foglights AutoZone special off-road lights mounted to stock roof rack bar Plastidip on my rims Two 12 inch subs in the rear and a PA behind the grill, of course it was blasting whatever was playing through my radio. I can't cringe any harder right now 🤣 this video was completely spot on for someone who grew up in texas
I was in Corpus Christi a few months ago... Let me tell ya, not much has changed. It's BroDozer central down there - I even saw a "Salt Life" sticker on a early 00's Kia Optima!
@@IbanezPlayer124 me too, and trust me when I say, I drove that sucker HARD! Pulling out of the high school parking lot fish tailing in a cloud of white smoke from the one wheel peel hahaha It was all fun and games until my transmission started to fail, sold it to a guy in my driveway for 600 bucks. Still miss it though
Man i wish all truck owners (or anybody modifying a vehicle) was forced to watch this. Sooooo many squatted truck where i live with fully gutted exhaust, blue led head/foglights and light bars on public roads being complete dbags
You should definitely do a collab vid with DYC regarding plasti dip. It'll be good viewership for the both of you and you will most likely find a new love for plasti dip! Cheers
He should actually read this and then go watch dyc's response video to this. It's sad how negative he is about his own failure to correctly use the product.
Since the few times we've dipped entire vehicles on personal projects hasn't gone as well as we hoped for we've decided to stick to wheels, tires, and suspension, and let Fonz remain king of dip. We are stoked to visit his facility in April and learn the RIGHT way to do it, from the expert himself!
@bobwatters Whoa, pump the brakes Bob. Since you mention semantics, let's start with this, scavenging does not equal backpressure, and backpressure is not the same as scavenging. Clear enough? In fact, scavenging creates a vacuum in the cylinder, quite the opposite of backpressure... Now look back at previous comments and tell us who said scavenging is bad?
I was literally just gonna type that further up. I cant believe people still believe that an engine needs restriction. You only lose power when you go too big and lose gas velocity
An oversized exhaust will not move gasses through as fast as a smaller exhaust would. Straight pipes are fine, but it has to be the right size for your application. If you straight pipe your stock truck that makes 250 HP with a 3 inch tube, then it's going to hurt performance bc the air is moving slower causing it to be more turbulent, and creating flow issues. But if you have a 2 inch straight pipe on your 250HP stock truck then the air is moving fast enough to have a more laminar and less turbulent flow. This creates the correct amount of back pressure and flow for your engine. The correct amount of back pressure will help suck exhaust gasses out of the cylinder as when the valve is open.
I am over 60 and have done mods on every truck I have ever owned. I also made every mistake. Tires and wheels make the biggest improvement for the money, with a proper lift, you are half way done. I am retired and a disabled veteran, so I have to pay my truck off before I can do any mods over a few hundred dollars. Onboard air compressor, airbags, tires, and a bed mat are all that is done so far on my 2017 Tacoma. All for function over appearance, for now.
The cheap LEDs off Amazon actually work pretty good. I have a desert race track in Colorado and they have held up well I bought piaa hella and rigid over the years and they work great. But I've been surprised how well the cheap ones work as well.
Im not saying you dont know what ur talking about, but the 12v fan in the air intake tube, I mounted one in my cavalier, and hooked it to a toggle switch with a cheap, 20 dollar chip connected to the mass air sensor. All the chip did was read the extra air and manipulate the fuel being pushed through. But anyway, I flipped the toggle switch to turn the fan on and I could feel an ever so slight improvement on the throttle response, and a major increase in fuel economy when not punching the pedal to the floor. It added about 10 mpg when I was driving sensible.
All your plastidip problems are from user error. Properly applied product will do none of those things you’ve mentioned. I would recommend you and everyone that has a negative mindset about plastidip to go check out DipYourCar. The plastidip world has evolved so far it’s incredible and DYC makes it as simple as possible for a DIY product. When it’s applied correctly, you will achieve results you didn’t think were possible.
Yeah if you had problems with your plasti dip it's from user error. Having problems taking off is either from not enough product or not prepping correctly. Off road wise your completely right diy products definitely not meant to be. If you want a removable dip that's gonna hold up the best and be damage and chemical resistant look into autoflex is so much better of a product. Is not diy friendly and should only be installed by professionals
Plasti dipped my Grill badges and rims. Rims held good for a while but i feel they just have to many spokes, stock 04 wj limited rims. But Less spokes easier the job and it holds up a lot better. My badges and grill are still dipped 3 years later. Actually been thinking of peeling my grill and redoing it for something to do!
Its been proven that a 4 stroke engines (all cars today) dont need back pressure from the exhaust the valves are all shut during compression. Its better for performance to remove all the restrictions. You only need back pressure in 2 strokes motors which is literally no cars today.
At 17 i got a 2003 5.3 Silverado, and I put a cam, headers, cut the muffler off, cranked up the torsion bars, put a k&n kit on it, put some bright lights from oreilys on it, and eventually put moto metal 970’s on it about a year later. Well fast forward 4 years later I own a 2013 f150, and I still have the Chevy and it is exactly the same and I still love every bit of it.
I bought my light at on Amazon for 50$, came with the wiring harness and everything. I bought it in 2017, had it on two different cars and it still works and looks new to this day surprisingly.
You didn’t mention how crappie the rough country lift kits are in the long run. Cheep is not always better , the bolts shear easy and I’ve pulled a lot of them off because the have broken welds or just because they suck driving... just saying
My top 5 worst Truck Mods: 1. Truck Rice (Flashy Wheels, Thin Wall Tires, ect.) 2. Lift kits with stock wheels/tires 3. Wheels Too wide For Tires 4. Cheap light bars just for show 5. Almost all offroad mods that are never used to off road
He probably did light coats and the dip had texture. You’re supposed to do wet coats to have a smooth surface but wet coats can lead to runs so ppl play it save with super light coats.
I’m 17 and have a 2000 Chevy Silverado 1500 4wd and I’ve either done half or thought about half what’s crazy is I was looking for a way to jack up my truck and stumbled across this video🤣🤣🤣
Don't do it! Get a small body lift (2-3") and larger tires. Automatically increases truck height by 6" or more and it still looks porportional. Also won't have HP and torque issues.
I assumed the cheap cold air intakes would suck so I went with k&n. The K&N cold air intake is cool. It sounds and looks really good. For me the sound/hum kicks in at about 2000 RPM. Worth every penny and "so far so good" on my engine temps during towing. I've had it a few weeks ago we'll see what happens.
You guys are ridiculous, these mods are awesome. I removed one lugnut off each tire to reduce weight and I can feel a performance improvement already. Hahahahaha! I'm only kidding great video I can honestly say I'm guilty for 2 of these and I was about to do a third till I seen this video about the light bar haha I was going to go cheap on Amazon but after what i just heard, I'm spending that extra dollar
Only 1? Come on man you only really need 2 lug nuts at most. Get that rotational weight down and feel the extra throttle response you get! If you wanna get really fancy you can Swiss cheese your tires, especially the sidewalls. Just drive fast and the rotational force will push the tires out, no need for air and no need for that extra rubber either!
Wow, it's always interesting to see what new mods, (and I use that word sparingly), the younger generation is doing to their vehicles. In my day, (70's - 80's), it was traction bars that did not have a strap on the front ends, to stop them from virtually digging into the asphalt under hard braking at speed, and literally tearing the rear end right out from under the car. Or the air shocks that we installed to fit larger wheels/tires under our fenders in the back, which not only made the vehicle ride stiff, but also changed the front to rear center of gravity, causing it to be able to spin the tires much easier but also adversely affected handling.
A 6 inch lift is the worst thing I ever done. My dad tried to warn me but I didn’t listen. It worked great but it ate ball joints like candy. I got sick of replacing front end parts. I drove it for 13 years and when I bought a new truck I vowed to leave it total stock. There’s a reason grandpa can drive the same truck for 30 years lol. Now I’m the old guy trying to warn the kids to leave things alone just like my dad lol. Age has a way of changing our thought process 😎
I will admit to many of these mods, first thing I did when I got my 2000 silverado was cut the muffler out and told the muffler shop to weld in a piece of pipe, definitely didn’t make it faster but it sounds pretty great if you ask me😂 also the $40 eBay cold air intake, I don’t see how K&N’s are any different, it’s in the same place and it’s a piece of tube. And of course, I put an Amazon light bar, I do use It though and it still works good. Lastly I’ll admit to being 18 right now and doing all these within the last year😂😂 but if it makes you feel better I just got headers and I’m about to have a full custom exhaust built for my truck, then a tune.
Back when I was 17, I bought a 55 GMC farm truck. The mods I've done to it are an Accel Super Stock Ignition Coil, Custom Dual Exhaust with Thrush glasspacks that I built in my highschool shop, whitewall mud and snow tires that are staggered in size (215/75R15 front - 235/75R15 rear) and put on some baby moondisc hubcaps. Now I'm currently building a custom rear bumper and trailer hitch combination because my original rear bumper is missing.
I've never done those. I was always taught it's better to do it right the first time. My current truck, a 2006 Silverado 4x4 has full length headers, no cats, 3 inch exhaust from the collector back with a flow master 40 series muffler, texas motor sports cam, true cold air intake from k&n, 4l80e transmission, 4.56 gears and 2500 stall converter. Plus more to come
I bought a 1969 Ford mercury Monarch from AM track for $1.00 from my uncle 1992 has the drops to go on the track . We did drop on the track a couple of time and go by traffic with the gate Down . Young and dumb But I was the first of our group to get freedom a car. The neighbors called it the cloud car. Primer with blue. Tomato can to line exhaust system and we pass the emissions test. We did everything to keep it running see bands go places and so on. When I got rid of it I was going to a dealer ship in Weymouth to get my S-10 Chevy pick up. And a officer pulled was smoking and officer was going to give a ticket and I said I need this to make deal ship to get $500 traded in. And you can double ticket if I don’t fo there. He followed and to dealer ship car was smoking and made it. Officer was happy it was off the road. Then a week later I was informed the a person bought the car to enter in Brockton Fail for Demolition derby so me my friend went to go cheer the car on went to police station to let officer know about it. He didn’t go. But we had sign and cheer on it won 1 st. Place I introduced my self as former owner got take pictures with trophy and smash up car. Sending out film made copies for my friends for a good time. Think we did can’t get away now of days
Great video!! We have indeed all "been there"...after a lot of vehicles and a lot of mistakes...I've really adopted "stock is best" as my base philosophy...lol
I cranked down the torsion bars on my 86 Toyota SR5 and added rear add-a-leafs. Installed a 7" suspension lift and 3" body lift, with 39" Monster Mudders. That thing pounded the teeth out of your head. At one point I was moving furniture and halfway down the highway my bed started sliding off. That truck was so stiff it broke all the mounting bolts.
that white headlight beam shot tells me that you have the wrong bulbs in that truck, if they're still there. its all over the place. same exact problem you have with hids, just not as bright. it may have the cutoff, but its messy underneath it. one hotspot in the middle, with a mostly even fade out to the edges. not that.. mess. get some morimoto 2stroke leds specifially for your bulb type or another decent brand. i have no idea what those are, but if that's what they output in a halogen housing, they're trash. if the led isn't placed _exactly_ where the filament hotspot is on a halogen bulb of a given type, you get scatter. with 3-4 emitter leds (around/on top of the housing, not next to each other on the pcb) its just worthless and those should be avoided at all costs. headlight revolution has a lovely little video they made to show the difference between good bulbs and terrible ones. the dip thing has been addressed. anything between the intake start point and your engine itself that doesn't free flow or have massive amounts of forced induction (turbos/scs) is a bottleneck. full stop. don't put it in. if you're gonna cheap out, avoid the silly looking knock off K&N filters and buy an actual K&N filter that fits your stock air filter box. then save up to get a proper cold air system. everything else is snake oil. douchebag exhaust is douchey and people will hate you for it at some point. and frankly, in most cases, serves no beneficial purpose. if you ain't racing it, leave that crap alone, or get a variable tune muffler if you just gotta have the noise. open it when you're away from people, and close it most of the way when you're in the neighborhood. one of the previous owners of my truck slapped on a high flow mangaflow 3.5 inch muffler. the exhaust itself is a 2.5OD. with the particular type of truck it is, going too large with the exhaust actually causes power loss. someone was an idiot.
I'm definitely the light bar guy. I had 3 light bars on the front of my old truck and I had one on the back of the bed so when someone was driving behind me with their brights on..... wow. I'm surprised I didnt get ran off the road lol.
I've done pretty much all of this in younger years... Pretty satisfying to know I wasn't the only one. Definitely avoid all of these if you can but at the same time I think doing what you can afford at a young age sets the stage for keeping interest for better ideas with experience. If I hadn't body-lifted and put HID's on my '99 Explorer I don't know if I'd be looking at full suspension lift systems and LED headlights for my newer F-150 today. Great video and thank you
@@infantrycountry4593 And here I thought straight pipes is when you remove the muffler(s) and put a pipe back in and extend it out from under the passenger compartment vs open headers where there is no exhaust piping after the headers and they dump about where your feet are. Lots of noise and fumes inside the passenger compartment. I guess myself and all racers who don't use any type of extension pipes after the headers are dumba$$es too. Thanks for edgumacating me.
The stupidest mod I made was adding 38.5 inch Ground Hawgs to my F250. Bias ply tires are wonderful off road and in deep snow, but, simply don't work at high speeds on the road, nothing but thump thump all the way home. Stay with radials folks, or you are going to hate your truck. All my other lifted trucks used BFG radials, and the truck drove great on the road.
i have defiantly straight piped before. my desmoged 4runner had a pipe that came out the drivers side fender and that was my exhaust... it was loud and slow. i had done it after ripping off my stock exhaust on a stump once and then about 2 months later landing badly in a rock crawl and smashing my cat shut.
Idk about that hole exhausted thing. My buddys truck 79 Chevy Bonanza $200 headers then 3 inch straight pipe all way back sounded sooooo dam good yes loud but man that old truck with the loud exhaust was a perfect combo.
I’m 16 and I’ve got a 1980 K10 without a bed and with a straight piped 350 small block and 35 inch tires. I’ll look back and think I was stupid but I can’t imagine thinking it’s stupid right now
Basically my dad beat the topics of this video into me from a young age and I actually listened. Best advice, if you don't have the money to do a mod right, you don't have the money for that mod full stop. Save the money, do it right, which doesn't mean the most expensive thing you can find, but there is a difference between doing something right and something half assed and you will thank yourself for having a bit of patience.
I’m 17 now and have a 03 Sierra that has the torsion keys cranked, cat back straight pipe, and 52 inch curved bar on the roof and 2 4 inch pods tucked in a custom bumper I built
Literally been through all of them. You forgot adding color changing lights under neath your truck! Lmao or the tail light and headlight tent that came in a rattle can!
I agree with pretty much all of these, but I've plastic dipped my roof and its been pretty much perfect if you know what products to clean it with, I've also had a $50 52 inch curved amazon lightbar on my roof for about 3 years and its still working good as new and there's no water in it whatsoever. guess I just got lucky with that lol
Every wheel I've ever plasti-dipped came out decent. I've also gotten rims professionally powder-coated for about $75-$100 per. If you like the shape and size of your rims I'd definitely recommend it if you just want a different color.
I had a 2004 Ford Ranger and I had 2 spot lights on my truck. I drove alot out in the country and worked on farms alot. They were very handy to have and I used them alot especially in the winter with those long winter nights.
