Finished up the truck.... for now.

RiceWagon

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So I had the SS apart for the better part of 2 weeks to finish up the spring mods, mind you I only was able to put about 12 hours in here and there each weekend. This is what I accomplished.

I grabbed this center vent cluster from a member on TBSSowners.com who made 5-7 of them total, I wanted to add a couple interceptor OBDII gauges but didn't want them pillar mounted, so this mount worked pretty good for me. I also wired my remote N2O pressure gauge into the open hole in the dash where the 4x4 selector goes in the reg. TB's.
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With the N2O gauge I had to back it up so I installed a harris speed works 92mm wet plate kit. I mounted the bottle to the in floor storage cover and reinforced the door with a sheet metal underside to prevent it from breaking loose. Still have couple more odds and ends to wire up such as the bottle heater, and I need mount the other piece of the remote opener on the bottle to.
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I built the switch panel and MicroEdge tuner for the kit into the center console while I was at it.
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All I need still are my 275/40/17 MT Street ET's for all 4 wheels, and hopefully I can finally hit the 12.0 I'm looking for before I attack the heads, cam, exhaust mani's.
 
doubt it will be that soon. I'm still waiting on my tires for the track and I have done zero tuning for the spray yet, and still need to tune my TCM for the built tranny and 3600 converter that was installed over the winter. Probably gonna take me a few trips to the track to get it dialed in safely. Plus I wouldn't mind staying closer to home until I have it running right and safe, doubt 4 hour tow home would be cheap, especially across the border. But I def will make it to Milan by the fall, perhaps September?
 
BTW this is what it looked like a year ago while launching on the stock converter and fairly stock motor.
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Hopefully those front wheels will be closer to take off this year! Oh yeah, its AWD too. ;)
 
nice trailblazer, is that guy still making those gauge mount vents?

Yes I believe he is, but only special order. Basically he wants cash in hand first and he will build whatever you want. Mine was about $300 IIRC and about 8 weeks to make. PM ForceFed on TBSSowners.com that's the guy.
 
Yikes!! We use to actually rent that track and party in St. Thomas the weekend of.. Ahhh the good ole' days lol
 
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