[ProjecT] WhitE SheeP

[Driveway Kustoms]

Hey guys and gals, im new to the forum, and this is going to be my project/progress thread, which will be slow I admit but anyway down to the specs: its a 2000 s10 4.3 5 speed 2wd with 86 kmi, so all the essentials are down. I bought it from a nice little old lady who took amazing care of it, never smoked in it, and she is the original owner!! another thing i was happy to hear was that she lived in FL when she bought it and recently moved to NY where she didnt need it anymore. Well after saving for nearly two years and waiting and waiting for the truck that was just right, i stumbled upon this deal and cold not pass it up, and as the pics can tell... the wait was well worth it.

ONTO THE FUN STUFF!!

whats done:
-2/2 drop using spindles/blocks
-debadged everything
-polished bowtie (not pictured yet)
-silverstar ultra headlights (I work at advanced auto and had a gift card haha)
-smoothed out dash panel painted white
-turned those whitewall shoes inside out
-has factory hopshock
-12 disc cd changer
-air intake

whats to come:
-3/4 drop with JTR blocks, shims and driveshaft realignment kit, belltech drop leafs and front spring, monroe max airs and monroe sensatrac shocks for the front (most is in and will be dropped by the weekend I hope)
-rear roll pan and shave the tailgate handle(have both waiting on $$ for bodywork)
-clear corners
-paintmatched grill and smooth door handles (have the door handles already)
-possibly ss mirrors
-id love eagle 203s in 17s or zq8's or xtreme's wrapped in bfg gforce t/a's
-belltech front/rear sways
-some more smoothed out int pieces and some leds in the dash
-tonneau
-magnaflow exhaust
-pcm tune or just go and get a superchips idk

ONTO THE PICS:

first got her


quickly debadged and moved those whitewalls


btw my bro has a 98 zr2


me with my eyes closed haha


dropped 2/2


some cool pics:










one last note "White Sheep" is a story, im the only one with a 2wd lowered anything in my family, so im kinda ike the black sheep of the family, but the truck being white, white sheep just seemed fitting lol lemme know what you think!!

[GET_LOW]

I like the title. But you should bag it to be way different from anyone in your family.

[Driveway Kustoms]

haha yeaa maybe someday, im leaning towards baggin or lsx swap.....and being a 4.3 already...lsx is appealing lol

[Merritt]

nice man, it will look a lot better after the 3/4 drop

[Driveway Kustoms]

thanks man, im hoping so too, ill post up some pics later of my other projects keeping me busy too. Me n my friend are restoring/modding a 72 cj5 with 304 v8 and 3 speed, which we just got running again. And I also have lil red wagon being bodydropped about 9 inches lol and will end up being a pretty cool welding cart

[HofinaterSS]

more pics of the fullsize gmc!!!

[Driveway Kustoms]

rele the only other pic I have. the truck isnt mine lol i just parked next to it an snapped these couple of pics, its actually for sale somewhere and i kno where it is so nxt time im near with a cam ill get better pics forya

[Driveway Kustoms]

hey hey hey guess whats goin on the truck tomm!!!!





and heres one of my projects lol my welding cart in progress:



and another cool pic i took since every1 loves pics:



just not the rollpan n tailgate relocator lol they're for later

[rebels10]

nice.will look really good once its lowered more. nice work so far. and i like the welding cart.

[Driveway Kustoms]

Thanks, im hoping tonite to get it all in if all goes right

[bmxbang]

looking good so far.

[OneLowSdime]

cool project

[Driveway Kustoms]

welp the drop is coming, I need new leaf spring shackles as mine are looking kinda trashed (thank you new york) but before envy frenzy i hope

[dawgnutz]

Any Updates? That debadging and tire flipped helped out tremenously!

[thingsthatfly2]

i wana shave ur tailgate... im kinda a shavin feen... lol


ill paint it tooooo


trucks lookin nice!!! mby if i see you at a show ill park the car by it lolz they match!

[Merritt]

Your truck's like a 2wd version of mine, let us know how the drop goes.

[Woody22]

Looks really good. i cant wait to see the drop and such

[Driveway Kustoms]

Quote:

i wana shave ur tailgate... im kinda a shavin feen... lol


ill paint it tooooo

lol REALLY cuz im just waitin for $$ to do bodywork lol and i dont exactly feel like gettin into the body work for it either, but i love how they look when there done

well the drop is coming soon, im just waitin on some gas to torch off the hangers cuz theyre lookin rough and while im in there im replacing them btw that reminds me, is there any easy way to replace the bushings in the frame???? Ive been busy with work lately and weekends with sidejobs n such, but I'm hoping before school is back to have it dropped, thanks for the words too guys

couple little updates, I covered some interior pieces with crushed velvet and have an 8 ball shifter knob, pics sometime soon

[Xtremechubs]

looks good i like what you have planned so far and lsx swap that'd be awesome! i like the name to it didn't really make much since then you filled in the story behind it very fitting. all i can tell you about the LSX swap is start buyin parts now and don't touch your truck till you got everything you can possibly think of and another G or 2 lol learn from my mistakes

[Driveway Kustoms]

xtremechubs, yea will do but idk if i put it in here or not but that lsx swap wont be for a looonng time, 6 yrs or so, but id like to collect parts over time, like you said

[Merritt]

lsx swap would be nice

[jman]

nice truck here's my daily

[Driveway Kustoms]

yea see thats why i want to switch things up lol there are three ive seen around here that are all white ex cab 2wds lol but look for an update tonite, ive worked on the int a lil

[dragginbludime]

Good luck with the build......

[built2rail_1]

Good luck bro. Nice truck to start with.

[Driveway Kustoms]

thanks .....still no update im sorry guys lol lets just say sooner or later..and thats all ill say and just post pics when its done. but in other news.... i talked my two friends into lowering their cars and were starting our own club so thats exciting

[Driveway Kustoms]

SHES LOWERED!!!!!! and lots of pics to come tomm, we took today and did it all, but the front sits up a lil high. I seated them correct and double checked and heard them fall in, but im just assuming that theyll drop themselves....anyways lots of in progress pics for some how-tos for newbies,and some updated pics of my interior

check back tomm nite

[not_possible]

Looks like a good start...looks like the pass side rocker is bent up. you fixin that along with the rest of the bodywork you're going to be doing? mine is bent up a little further back and i've just been ignoring it for about 6 months.

[Driveway Kustoms]

this springs its gettin fresh paint, and yes the lady before me smacked up the rocker and rear section of the bed, itll get fixed with the rest of the bodywork...this spring, i dont feel like messing with it til its time ya kno?

[not_possible]

thats what i've been saying, y do it now when i can do it later...nah but i just got a lot of bodywork to do. i have to replace the whole extended cab panel on the pass side and straigten the door jamb so i'm waitin til i do all that at once with the rocker. im always puttin off bodywork too i hate it.

[Driveway Kustoms]

eh its not that i hate it, i have a friend thats good at it, but im just saving for materials now, and were going to do it at one time, i dont like half-assed half done jobs, rockin primers cool...just not my thing

[dawgnutz]

sweet man I'm excited to see it!

[Driveway Kustoms]

The last pic before the drop



Heres the front apart, stock spring in, swaybar off, shocks out



heres the comparison to stock springs (1")



One of the safer ways to put a coil spring in



...yea cutting a shock out of the drivers side....lol wear a mask!!!!



the back before we started



comparison with stock springs...i checked and apparently i have z85s?? lol



all the new stuff put in:







andd some done pics....now it sits a lil nosehigh but i know that they are seated correctly and i heard them pop in along with checking to make sure they were in the lil humps...so im hoping that theyll settle in a lil bit





and some int pics, ill get better ones later, but my 8 ball shifter and my crushed velvet on the pillars and glovebox and soon to be back ...piece? lol





well thats it for now, I have a set of hid fogs going on soon, and maybe start my paint/bodywork but ive decided that this spring its going to be repainted pearl white...

lemme know your thoughts/opinions and ill get better done pics when i clean her up

[dawgnutz]

Nice man!

I have the 2in Dropped spindles and the 3 in blocks in the back, I think mine was a Z85 as well, but I have leaves out of a friends truck in there now, (long story), mine is a bit nose high as well.

I dig the shifter!

[91rebuilts10]

uh oh, are those stacked blocks i see?

[dawgnutz]

Probably the JTR pinion correction blocks. They're CNC Aluminum and work fine for the applictation, actually better than the usual cast blocks without the pinion correction.

[Driveway Kustoms]

Quote: Originally Posted by 91rebuilts10

uh oh, are those stacked blocks i see?

yea....no, and dood i spent the money to get leafs, shackles, i already have spindles, new springs and shocks all the way around....money wasnt a real object here so would it rele make sense to stack blocks lol??? not bein mean jus sayin

BTW it started to settle nd its lookin better already

[Driveway Kustoms]

my nose is still sky high, anybody know why, i thought i put them in right, put the end of the spring in the little pocket?? is there something I missed? plz chime in

[556mm]

Quote: Originally Posted by 91rebuilts10

uh oh, are those stacked blocks i see?

no

[Driveway Kustoms]

bump

[eriley]

did you get the right springs for your engine size?

[Driveway Kustoms]

yep 6 cyl springs from summit

[Kiko]

I like the velvet. I thought about putting some in mine but didn't know if it would turn out good.

[Driveway Kustoms]

it was actually very easy to work with, it stretches like crazy and girls love it lol do itttt youll like it

[Gibson]

makes me want to do my interior in all leather and a 3/4 instead of a 2/3, but i dont want blocks.

[Driveway Kustoms]

well a lil bit of an update, on Dec 22 I was hit by a subaru, which didnt do much damage but since she was gonna be in the body shop my roll pan is being put on, and since these pictures, some sonoma rims painted black are on it with some cheepy snow tires

sorry no pics from the accident but expect pics on friday!!

And coming up for my bday is a set of polished 17s

[Bootylicious]

you still got that red bench seat?

[Driveway Kustoms]

holy crap, yea i completley forgot you wanted it

[Driveway Kustoms]

welp shes back from the shop, all cleaned up and looks good but onto the pics...



my favorite pic so far



Grant Kustoms pan with the compound curve



and my wheels

[556mm]

lookin good man. i wish you were closer that bench seat is exactly what i need.