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IRingTwyce said:
By that reasoning, every car on the road should have marker lights in the grille. I stand by my opinion. Stupid design cue.

Still a hot truck.
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no I dont really care for the lights either, but the marker lights are there because of the width of the vehicle. They woulda looked worse on the top of the cab in my opinion. I guess what I would like to see is how it looks in the dark.

Definitely needs bigger wheels though. Bigger wheels would make it look a little more masculine at least, or like something that goes off road. Either way, I still would love to have one.
 
PurpleMystique said:
Oh, I didn't realize that off-road vehicles typically had big wheels. I though that off-road vehicles had large tires and posers rock the huge rimzzzzz.
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that wheel and tire combo looks small though. I wouldnt put big wheels and bandaids on either. just looks huge on top and tiny underneath like that though. Bigger wheels and Bigger tires I guess would have been better to say I guess. But even keeping the overall aspect ratio of the tires and making the wheels an inch or two larger would have been fine for an Off Road vehicle, and would have looked a LOT better and not like some slapped together lifted pickup, its not like its a rock crawler, so you dont need HUGE tires and small wheels.
 
FunInNorthDakota said:
But even keeping the overall aspect ratio of the tires and making the wheels an inch or two larger would have been fine for an Off Road vehicle
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If you increased the overall diameter of the package by a few inches, not only would it require the body work to be designed around it, but also extensive chassis development to cope with the different loads. Obviously, there was already extensive development going on to turn a 150 into this, but it's likely the engineers were pushing up against a price ceiling in terms of improving the structure to meet durability requirements and knew the wheel and tire sizes they could get away with.
 
rollinstylee said:
If you increased the overall diameter of the package by a few inches, not only would it require the body work to be designed around it, but also extensive chassis development to cope with the different loads. Obviously, there was already extensive development going on to turn a 150 into this, but it's likely the engineers were pushing up against a price ceiling in terms of improving the structure to meet durability requirements and knew the wheel and tire sizes they could get away with.
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And then as soon as a lot of people buy it they'll install new RIMZZZZ and TIREZZZZ and mess up everything SVT worked to perfect.
 
PurpleMystique said:
And then as soon as a lot of people buy it they'll install new RIMZZZZ and TIREZZZZ and mess up everything SVT worked to perfect.
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Exactly. I started to mention just that: that they most likely protected somewhat for the aftermarket as well, but figured that could be assumed.
 
They changed a lot to fit what they have already, so a little more wouldnt have made much difference. I didnt meant to say aspect ratio earlier, I meant overall size, soz. New chevy pickups have 18 inch wheels with 265/65 rubber on them, but I would drive the one I got to tool around in through fields all the time, into ditches, through all kindsa crap, never had got stuck. I kinda miss that pickup, almost made the 16 hours a day on the farm bearable. Anyways, making the wheels an inch or two larger, even if the tires stayed the same overall would make it look a little better.

PurpleMystique said:
And then as soon as a lot of people buy it they'll install new RIMZZZZ and TIREZZZZ and mess up everything SVT worked to perfect.
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Yeah thats just silly when people take perfectly good SVTs and change them. Putting on Mircos and Big wheels and 3 liter engines when the engineers went through all the trouble of putting no front splitter 16 inch wheels and a 2.5.

Dont you hate when people ruin the things SVT worked to perfect?
 
it's not all about getting stuck.

and if you were to buy a silverado hd or something to that tune for work/offroad use it'd have 15" or 16" wheels and fat ass tires just like that.
 
no it was a standard cab half ton silverado with the off road package... z71? idk whatever the numbers are for it. We had 3 silverado HDs too, cant remember for the life of me what size wheels and tires were on them.
 
well if you go price out a silverado hd on chevy's website right now it comes with 16" wheels...and a friend got one with the z71 around 2004 and it had the same size wheels.
 
FunInNorthDakota said:
Yeah thats just silly when people take perfectly good SVTs and change them. Putting on Mircos and Big wheels and 3 liter engines when the engineers went through all the trouble of putting no front splitter 16 inch wheels and a 2.5.

Dont you hate when people ruin the things SVT worked to perfect?
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There's a difference between increasing performance through mechanical modifications and decreasing performance through visual modifications.
 
FunInNorthDakota said:
that wheel and tire combo looks small though. I wouldnt put big wheels and bandaids on either. just looks huge on top and tiny underneath like that though. Bigger wheels and Bigger tires I guess would have been better to say I guess. But even keeping the overall aspect ratio of the tires and making the wheels an inch or two larger would have been fine for an Off Road vehicle, and would have looked a LOT better and not like some slapped together lifted pickup, its not like its a rock crawler, so you dont need HUGE tires and small wheels.
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Take it from someone in the Jeep community, your idea wouldn't work too well on the purpose of the vehicle. On the XJ forum I frequent, not many go past 16" wheels. 16" is all you need to run 35" tires.
 
it's the smaller motor i think. i know i've said before i'd liek for it to have more power.

just watched those youtube vids...that's some nice articulation on the suspension for a stock truck!
 
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