[Shook]

This custom Silverado supposedly cost $350,000 and it was featured in 8-Lug Magazine.


YouTube - Truck Jump[/URL]

 

[WarSurfer]

at 2:30 (bottom vid) you can see the problem. very weak mounting points for the coilover setup

you have chosen... poorly

 

[BJ]

I love the silence.

 

[Shook]

Yeah, compared with the Raptor it's got really weak looking bracket

 

[Nacho]

I like how they Tarantino this failure. I'm surprised those brackets even held that truck up at a stand still GEEZ.

 

[Raptorguy21]

Speechless.......that was a badass truck

 

[smbundy13]

wow. thats a lot of truck to be jumping.. and some serious body damage now.. hope he saved the receipts on that fab job for the shock mounts..

 

[SuperRaptor]

Yea that truck is a POS.

 

[TimeForMudd]

That truck is also featured in the March issue of Four Wheeler mag. One would think @ $300,000 + that those things wouldn't happen, but from what I read, the build of the truck was rushed & incomplete. It's a really neat show truck, but I would have went another direction with that amount of money.

The Raptor is also in the magazine & was tested for truck of the year, its a good read.

 

[Quiet Lunatic]

Man, that looks like it hurt! Poor setup indeed!

 

[KTM RAPTOR]

Ouch! should've bought a bunch of raptors instead...

 

[rprice]

Awwww, surely Obummer will have Government Motors warranty the thing - -

 

[reddog]

Jeeeze, talk about wiping the smile off your face, eh?
Reddog...

 

[scott]

articulation???????????????????????

 

[GT]

Pathetic engineering of those brackets. . . P A T H E T I C. . .

 

[MD]

The whole thing is a joke! Badly designed and engineered truck jumping a little berm. Truck is way top heavy and way too lifted. Spending the money on a Monster Truck would've resulted in a better looking, better performing truck.

A Raptor obviously would eat that truck's lunch at everything except cost to build and attention getting.

 

[Utahraptor2002]

Could have bought 1 raptor for each color with that piece of junk...

 

[Sgt Raptor]

My old ('08) Mustang could have handled that jump better....and it's over 10X less expensive. Classic....

 

[Mayhem]

That's what you get for putting flames on a truck that cost that much! !

 

[GOODLIFE]

Surprising! I know there's gotta be other people on here like me that did way more reckless things in vehicles that were much less equipped and they held up much better.

Good job Midwest Four-Wheel Drive in Hazelwood, Missouri. In the article it says that they spent 2 weeks on the trusses for the axles. I assume that didn't include the coilover mounts.

Here's the link to the article in 8-lug.
[url]http://www.8-lug.com/features/chevy/0905_8l_2008_chevrolet_silverado_hd_duramax/index.html[/URL]