What did you do to your Gen3 today?

DietDodge · Apr 13, 2016

Robert Leon said:
If you can post some picture of your lights if possible. Thanks!

Ask and you shall receive, sorry for the sideways-ness of the picture.

Robert Leon · Apr 13, 2016

Nice! Thanks a lot. Are they bright at night?

2005 Dodge Ram 1500 2wd
5.7 Liter Hemi
4.5 Maxtrac spindle lift
315/70/17 **** Cepek
17" Method Double standards
K&N cold air intake
New Remanufactured 5.7L Hemi
Rebuilt 4.56 rear all American Chrysler bearings and gearing.
Fox Performance 2.0 shocks

DietDodge · Apr 13, 2016

Robert Leon said:
Nice! Thanks a lot. Are they bright at night?

At night they work decently well at being headlights nothing fancy but it is a conversion to projectors, at night id give the lights a solid 7/10 for brightness. the halos at night are super bright though if you get the CCFL halos. I got my headlights at Christmas and I haven't had any problems with them fogging or breaking or anything. They were easy to wire but not 100% plug and play.

EWC88 · Apr 13, 2016

Some people will even take apart those headlights and replace the projectors with better ones, always have that option.

How do you like your fox shocks?

Robert Leon · Apr 13, 2016

Ok thanks! I like them a lot compared to the stock shocks that were way over due to be replaced. Nice soft ride. Really wanted the HD bils. But they said they don't make them for the 05[emoji1418]

2005 Dodge Ram 1500 2wd
5.7 Liter Hemi
4.5 Maxtrac spindle lift
315/70/17 **** Cepek
17" Method Double standards
K&N cold air intake
New Remanufactured 5.7L Hemi
Rebuilt 4.56 rear all American Chrysler bearings and gearing.
Fox Performance 2.0 shocks

tourdemon · Apr 13, 2016

Brakes are on there way!

Also, I am having a custom Borla Atak exhaust system put in.

JimsRamTruck2012 · Apr 13, 2016

Just drove it last night. :sleepy10:

Rampitt · Apr 13, 2016

DietDodge said:
Ask and you shall receive, sorry for the sideways-ness of the picture.

how are these working out for you? thinking about getting a pair. how were the connections?

Bullitt5339 · Apr 13, 2016

Ordered more parts.........

I'm starting to get a 3rd Gen parts warehouse instead of an office. One day, I'll be ready to put all of this stuff on.

DietDodge · Apr 13, 2016

Rampitt said:
how are these working out for you? thinking about getting a pair. how were the connections?

They were pretty easy to put in, the hardest part was figuring out which wire was the park lights so I could wire the halos to them. But as for the connections everything connects pretty good and I haven't had any problems with the lights at all except the fact I forgot to aim them before putting them in so one beam is completely off. They're good quality especially for the price and they look great at night. Just remember to aim them before they go on the truck.

EWC88 · Apr 13, 2016

Robert Leon said:
Ok thanks! I like them a lot compared to the stock shocks that were way over due to be replaced. Nice soft ride. Really wanted the HD bils. But they said they don't make them for the 05[emoji1418]

2005 Dodge Ram 1500 2wd
5.7 Liter Hemi
4.5 Maxtrac spindle lift
315/70/17 **** Cepek
17" Method Double standards
K&N cold air intake
New Remanufactured 5.7L Hemi
Rebuilt 4.56 rear all American Chrysler bearings and gearing.
Fox Performance 2.0 shocks

Yea I got them for my rear, was going get the front real soon. With a block in the rear you can't really judge how it feels since lift blocks make it feel like crap anyway. You think the HD Bils would of been better then the fox?

Robert Leon · Apr 13, 2016

From the price difference I was told the fox shocks were better. But my brothers runs bils on his Silverado and loves them more. I don't know them are my first set of new shocks so anything is better then stock blown shocks. Yeah your really can't tell with the blocks. Looking into a leaf pack.

2005 Dodge Ram 1500 2wd
5.7 Liter Hemi
4.5 Maxtrac spindle lift
315/70/17 **** Cepek
17" Method Double standards
K&N cold air intake
New Remanufactured 5.7L Hemi
Rebuilt 4.56 rear all American Chrysler bearings and gearing.
Fox Performance 2.0 shocks

hotkarl · Apr 13, 2016

Matte blacking out my truck. Quarters are done, started driver side doors today.
Using the Rustoleum "Roll on" method.
Coming out great! And that coming from a retired pro body shop painter. It kinda went against everything I've been taught about doing body and paint but screw it, gave it a shot and it's coming out sweet. And probably won't cost more than a hundred bucks by the time I'm done. Once you get the technique down and the proper mix it's just butter. Barely any masking, no overspray or dust all over everything. Great.

stev0n · Apr 13, 2016

After internally struggling for 7 year on what color of orange to paint my Nissan 240, & a year now of struggling with the same problem about my ram, I finally decided....

2006 Go Mango for both vehicles! So I mixed up a couple ounces of it in envirobase waterborn paint & sprayed a couple of interior parts off the 07 today.

I'll spray some clear over them in the morning. I have to strip & repaint the cruise covers, someone came into the booth and knocked them both off while the paint was wet.

I also did some airbrushing on a mailbox for a - umm "friend". A gorgeous woman who happens to be a big music fan & Killswitch Engage fan. The Shure 55 microphone is actually a tattoo I have on my arm that I just looked at for reference to create. The blue flake you see on the mic & the blue tint on the rest of the mailbox is actually a Harley-Davidson pearl only put on a limited run of CVO bikes in 2012. $112 a half-pint!!

I

rocket · Apr 13, 2016

been rockin the exhaust

usaf2006 · Apr 13, 2016

stev0n said:
After internally struggling for 7 year on what color of orange to paint my Nissan 240, & a year now of struggling with the same problem about my ram, I finally decided....

2006 Go Mango ...

I

Killer painting dude! I take it you're no amateur lol.

Demon-HeMi · Apr 14, 2016

Robert Leon said:
Wash her all up and installed tail gate assist. Next I'll be ordering new head lights. Anyone have any good suggestions and brand?

here is a set I highly suggest, its 100% plug and play, if you get the CCFL ones they are very bright, even with halogen they are a good usable projector headlight, there is no wiring to do at all, they plug into your existing turn signal wire and that's it, the halos work as your parking light and then your turn signal is separate, also unlike any other aftermarket projector, they are easy to adjust, they have the same adjustments as OEM does which means just open your hood and turn a screwdriver vs taking the light off and on numerous times

Demon-HeMi · Apr 14, 2016

here is a shot of the projector output with a LED bulb in it, I was testing it in my back yard and had great results

JPT · Apr 14, 2016

Demon-HeMi said:
here is a shot of the projector output with a LED bulb in it, I was testing it in my back yard and had great results

Something doesn't look right with that picture you attached. Shouldn't the ground be illuminated from the cut off all the way back to close to your front bumper? It seems almost like you have a gap of light in front of the bumper...

EDIT: unless you are simply holding it in your hand as you are testing...

hotkarl · Apr 14, 2016

Ok so what brand are those lights? I'm gonna be changing mine soon as well.
I've had decent luck with Ebay stuff but there seems like millions of listings for headlights.
Don't know which is what and such.

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