Lifting my 08 Silverado LT2

[lastcall 10+ year member]

tired of the 24's so i am selling those.thought i would be happy with the 24s but my last truck was lifted and i miss having a lifted truck. the wheels are TIS 07's with falken 305/35/2 tires. looking for $3000 for the set paid over $4200.i ordered everything for the truck already and the stuff will be installed this friday. hopefully done by the end of the day.

this is all what is going on the truck,

Pro Comp 6" Suspension Lift Basic System

22x9.5" XD Series Badlands

Interco Trxus STS Radials 35x12.5x22

my truck is the one with the 24s, and the other truck is basically what the truck is going to look like. my wheels arent that wide though.

wheels

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[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

So you are going for the look of the off roading expierence? Are you actually going to use this for a purpose or just mall crawl it?

I like the first truck, pulling the boat.

 

[MisterGrubbs 5,000+ posts]

Truck in top picture is an amazing looking truck

Looks like 8" though :9

Anywho, nice choice on rims, I love the badlands

 

[lastcall 10+ year member]

this is just for looks. as was my 04 dodge i had previously. wont see any offroad, just some gravel roads here and there when i go back home to visit. just love the looks of the lifted trucks. the first 2 pics are the same truck, and the lift is a 7" fabtech,

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif That sucks to hear, but I guess if you are putting all that money into it, why ruin it. I just can't grasp the idea of it myself.

 

[lastcall 10+ year member]

offroading is expensive.

 

[lastcall 10+ year member]

another pics with 37s i believe and 8" of lift, same wheels

 

[wannabehero 10+ year member]

good luck keepin your front end aligned. chevys ifs is notorious for comin out of alignment on the newer trucks. also my buddy had those tires on his f35o. the sidewall blew out on him on the highway. interco warrentied him another pair and the same thing happened. just lettin ya know. he had a 37 on a 16 inch rim

a great site to find reviews and stuff on the off road tires is

http://www.offroaders.com

did you look into the Super Swamper M16? i personally dont like them but ive seen them in person on a truck and there not bad lookin. definitly a mall crawl tire.

 

[Psycareyo 10+ year member]

I lifted my 05 F150. I used all Skyjacker components for a 6" lift. It pretty much destroyed any dream of over 6mpg fuel economy with the 37" tires. I even bought a less aggressive tread design via Pro-comp xtremes and it still wasn't very good. It did look cool as hell though and thats why I did it.

Believe it or not, after about 3 months I supersharged the truck via roushcharger and it got a couple mpg better.

I will never lift another truck again. That was a fookin waste of money.

 

[wannabehero 10+ year member]

did you change to a taller gear ratio in your axles? that is most likely why your milage would go down the drain. with a 37inch tire you should have around a 5.13 gear ratio

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

not enough rubber on them....just my opinion tho...

but goodluck..and cant wait to see it

 

[wannabehero 10+ year member]

^^^^i agree. imo a wheel should be around half the size of the tire. i love a big knobby tire with a lot of side wall. also with a smaller sidewayy the ride will be harsher. there is less to absorb bumps and such

 

[Psycareyo 10+ year member]

did you change to a taller gear ratio in your axles? that is most likely why your milage would go down the drain. with a 37inch tire you should have around a 5.13 gear ratio

I didn't. I was 3.73 since I bought it. Changing to a lower gear would have lost me even more economy. I had more than enough ho and tq to rotate the tires. It wasn't terrrible in the city but on the highway it consumed just as much as it did during city driving.

I didn't really bother figuring it out so I could be wrong on the gear ratio thing. You're probably right. The roots supercharger added a bunch of tq so that was probably why my economy was bad before.

 

[wannabehero 10+ year member]

gearing is expensive and it definitly would help. i have 3.73 now with my 36s and im going to a 4.56. yous hould definitly have had a 5.13 it would have made a huge increase in power.

 

[Psycareyo 10+ year member]

^^^^i agree. imo a wheel should be around half the size of the tire. i love a big knobby tire with a lot of side wall. also with a smaller sidewayy the ride will be harsher. there is less to absorb bumps and such

The ride will **** and all that vibration is sent into your suspension instead of being partly absorbed/ mitigated by the tires. Thus your suspension will wear out very quickly resulting in tire cupping and uneven tire wear. You may even be voiding some factory warranty with that extreme a setup.

Good luck finding tires that exact size in the event of a flat.