TN_Ryan
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Well guys, I figured I'd might as well show off my hard work over the last several months. Picked this extremely clean 2021 4X4 RCSB 5.0 XLT 301A truck with 30k miles up back in early June and this is what she looked like....
Older gentlemen had traded the truck in for a Raptor Ranger of all vehicles...I kindly asked the Ford dealer that I bought the truck from in South GA to remove the brush guard before I drove it home to TN LoL This is what she looked like after removing the items I didn't want...minus the steps, those came off the next day!
At this point I had already ordered some new goodies, the truck did come with a MBRP dual rear exit exhaust on it. Which sounded awesome, but not a fan of dual rear exit anymore. Although, back in the 90's I had my fair share of trucks with dual rear exhaust. Truck also had Katzkin covers on the factory seats...not sure the color, but they didn't match the interior very well. Plus I had other plans...
Ordered a Ridetech 3/5 lowering kit along with some Niche SUV 22 wheels...wheels came in before the lowering kit. So I had to go ahead and get these bad boys mounted up.
Once the Ridetech showed up, it was game on! I also ordered a new blacked out MBRP side exit exhaust...love the sound of the MBRP, not too loud, not too quiet.
I was also actively shopping for new bumpers, grille, headlights and door handles to perform a chrome delete. In the meantime...not sure how these boxes got here....maybe the wife ordered them
After some late night shopping, I found the deal I was looking for. Picked up (2) new 10 way power seats with heat WITH bonus...Katzkin covers that match the slate interior of my truck! Along with the center console, console shifter, 12 screen and APIM and the HVAC controls all for $1600. Couldn't beat it with a stick...LoL Only problem was the junkyard was in Kansas City, lucky for me, I got a buddy that lives just outside KC. So he went and picked it all up for me...we then worked out a deal to meet up over the long July 4th weekend. Since this was a XLT it did have some nice features already, like 360 cameras, dual zone auto climate control and the 8" cluster along with remote start. However, the older gentlemen that originally ordered this truck, ordered it with vinyl floors
And at the time Ford had a national backorder on regular cab carpet. So instead of waiting...I did what we all would have done, and installed all the new goodies anyways 
While I was in there, I added rain sensing wipers, ordered and installed the heated steering wheel harness (from a forum member) along with running a new harness to supply power and the necessary wires for the heated seats to work. From there it was time to focus my attention to the outside again...found a killer deal on some adaptive headlights from a forum member, picked up the HCM and the full harness to make all the features work along with new LED fog lights to complete the look. I also had my buddy paint my new bumpers and door handles, I installed the Ford Performance Side Vents and Grille while I was at it. The blacked out Ford emblems add the finishing touch in my opinion. I also switched from the Niche wheels to the Ford Performance 22's due to the offset...I just wasn't digging the +30mm offset.
Ford finally got their carpet issue resolved, so she now has carpet!
One thing that was apparent once I swapped the stock 17" wheels for the same diameter but much heavier 22's, was the fact that the 3.31's had to go! Since this is a sport truck, the E-Locker had to go as well. I installed a Eaton TrueTrac along with some 3.73's to help with the heft of the 22's. The rear was easy, I've done a million gear installations in my days, but getting that front diff out is a different story. Not impossible by any means...but first time I've ever had to take the front diff out of a Ford F150 LoL
And finally, the icing on the cake! The Whipple install...must say, it's a very nice kit. Couple things I didn't care for, 1 was the 2 back bolts that hold the supercharger down to the heads. And 2, I didn't care for the intercooler pump location, since I trimmed my valance, the pump would have been visible since Whipple mounts the pump to the bottom of the driver side frame rail. It seems Whipple was running out of time and rushed the design/location of the coolant pump on a Friday afternoon. I mounted mine in a different location that is more out of site.
The most recent upgrades have been a tri-fold bed cover...it's been over 20 years since my wife and I owned a regular cab truck, you forget how easy it is to just throw items in the back of the crew cab. Out first several shopping trips out in the regular cab resulted in my wife sharing all the available passenger side floor board with the items we had just bought LoL So a bed cover was needed to keep our valuables locked up in the bed. And thanks to some of the forum members on here, they confirmed for me that the Ford Performance Raptor wheel indeed is a heated steering wheel. So I went ahead and picked one of those up and installed that over this past weekend.
Let me know what you guys think...any thoughts on future mods?
Older gentlemen had traded the truck in for a Raptor Ranger of all vehicles...I kindly asked the Ford dealer that I bought the truck from in South GA to remove the brush guard before I drove it home to TN LoL This is what she looked like after removing the items I didn't want...minus the steps, those came off the next day!
At this point I had already ordered some new goodies, the truck did come with a MBRP dual rear exit exhaust on it. Which sounded awesome, but not a fan of dual rear exit anymore. Although, back in the 90's I had my fair share of trucks with dual rear exhaust. Truck also had Katzkin covers on the factory seats...not sure the color, but they didn't match the interior very well. Plus I had other plans...
Ordered a Ridetech 3/5 lowering kit along with some Niche SUV 22 wheels...wheels came in before the lowering kit. So I had to go ahead and get these bad boys mounted up.
Once the Ridetech showed up, it was game on! I also ordered a new blacked out MBRP side exit exhaust...love the sound of the MBRP, not too loud, not too quiet.
I was also actively shopping for new bumpers, grille, headlights and door handles to perform a chrome delete. In the meantime...not sure how these boxes got here....maybe the wife ordered them
After some late night shopping, I found the deal I was looking for. Picked up (2) new 10 way power seats with heat WITH bonus...Katzkin covers that match the slate interior of my truck! Along with the center console, console shifter, 12 screen and APIM and the HVAC controls all for $1600. Couldn't beat it with a stick...LoL Only problem was the junkyard was in Kansas City, lucky for me, I got a buddy that lives just outside KC. So he went and picked it all up for me...we then worked out a deal to meet up over the long July 4th weekend. Since this was a XLT it did have some nice features already, like 360 cameras, dual zone auto climate control and the 8" cluster along with remote start. However, the older gentlemen that originally ordered this truck, ordered it with vinyl floors
And at the time Ford had a national backorder on regular cab carpet. So instead of waiting...I did what we all would have done, and installed all the new goodies anyways
While I was in there, I added rain sensing wipers, ordered and installed the heated steering wheel harness (from a forum member) along with running a new harness to supply power and the necessary wires for the heated seats to work. From there it was time to focus my attention to the outside again...found a killer deal on some adaptive headlights from a forum member, picked up the HCM and the full harness to make all the features work along with new LED fog lights to complete the look. I also had my buddy paint my new bumpers and door handles, I installed the Ford Performance Side Vents and Grille while I was at it. The blacked out Ford emblems add the finishing touch in my opinion. I also switched from the Niche wheels to the Ford Performance 22's due to the offset...I just wasn't digging the +30mm offset.
Ford finally got their carpet issue resolved, so she now has carpet!
One thing that was apparent once I swapped the stock 17" wheels for the same diameter but much heavier 22's, was the fact that the 3.31's had to go! Since this is a sport truck, the E-Locker had to go as well. I installed a Eaton TrueTrac along with some 3.73's to help with the heft of the 22's. The rear was easy, I've done a million gear installations in my days, but getting that front diff out is a different story. Not impossible by any means...but first time I've ever had to take the front diff out of a Ford F150 LoL
And finally, the icing on the cake! The Whipple install...must say, it's a very nice kit. Couple things I didn't care for, 1 was the 2 back bolts that hold the supercharger down to the heads. And 2, I didn't care for the intercooler pump location, since I trimmed my valance, the pump would have been visible since Whipple mounts the pump to the bottom of the driver side frame rail. It seems Whipple was running out of time and rushed the design/location of the coolant pump on a Friday afternoon. I mounted mine in a different location that is more out of site.
The most recent upgrades have been a tri-fold bed cover...it's been over 20 years since my wife and I owned a regular cab truck, you forget how easy it is to just throw items in the back of the crew cab. Out first several shopping trips out in the regular cab resulted in my wife sharing all the available passenger side floor board with the items we had just bought LoL So a bed cover was needed to keep our valuables locked up in the bed. And thanks to some of the forum members on here, they confirmed for me that the Ford Performance Raptor wheel indeed is a heated steering wheel. So I went ahead and picked one of those up and installed that over this past weekend.
Let me know what you guys think...any thoughts on future mods?
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