Project Black Cherry

These are the wheels I ended up going with, paired with 37x12.5x18 Toyo R/T. - Austin at CJC said I shouldn't run into any issues with the 3.5 Fully Optioned E-Venture Kit. Wayne at Hicken has me on his schedule loosely for install when the kit arrives!

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Progress Pictures of the sub box being built!

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Got a chance to experience the Cali E-Venture in person. Dan from Cali, was kind enough to take me for a ride in his 2022 tremor with the full monty suspension, including a speed run through their local test course. I all can say is the suspension lives up to billing - we ran through their test track at a pace that would not be possible in most any truck, and certainly not is a HD truck.

The E-Venture suspension in Baja mode just ate up everthing thrown at it. Truly amazing for HD truck.

Then we went on all types of road surfaces and the freeway in a long loop. Truck rides exstremely well and dips and bumps simply "disappear" to this set up.

The E-Dial gives you so much set up flexibility that you can dial your truck in, just to your liking. No question this is an expensive upgrade, but you use your truck for road, towing and off road, there is no better option available that can allow you to dial in the suspension for each type of use.

This will be by far the best overall upgrade $ for $ you can make for the Tremor. You will benefit from it everytime you get in your truck!

I can't wait to get my system installed, once they start to roll out! If you have the resources - this is the best of the best for the all around truck!

Dan's stereo is awesome as well - the install job is outstanding the sound - well made getting back into my Tremor a reall bummer with the B&O system. Overall takes his truck over the top!

Can't thank Dan enough for taking time out of his day to take me for a ride and give me a full overview of his stereo upgrade, lights etc. He has an amazing truck!
 
Supercup said:
Got a chance to experience the Cali E-Venture in person. Dan from Cali, was kind enough to take me for a ride in his 2022 tremor with the full monty suspension, including a speed run through their local test course. I all can say is the suspension lives up to billing - we ran through their test track at a pace that would not be possible in most any truck, and certainly not is a HD truck.

The E-Venture suspension in Baja mode just ate up everthing thrown at it. Truly amazing for HD truck.

Then we went on all types of road surfaces and the freeway in a long loop. Truck rides exstremely well and dips and bumps simply "disappear" to this set up.

The E-Dial gives you so much set up flexibility that you can dial your truck in, just to your liking. No question this is an expensive upgrade, but you use your truck for road, towing and off road, there is no better option available that can allow you to dial in the suspension for each type of use.

This will be by far the best overall upgrade $ for $ you can make for the Tremor. You will benefit from it everytime you get in your truck!

I can't wait to get my system installed, once they start to roll out! If you have the resources - this is the best of the best for the all around truck!

Dan's stereo is awesome as well - the install job is outstanding the sound - well made getting back into my Tremor a reall bummer with the B&O system. Overall takes his truck over the top!

Can't thank Dan enough for taking time out of his day to take me for a ride and give me a full overview of his stereo upgrade, lights etc. He has an amazing truck!
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It was great to meet you, John. Happy to get out of the office for an hour to talk truck mods and rip the test track! Excited to see yours done!
 
Supercup said:
Got a chance to experience the Cali E-Venture in person. Dan from Cali, was kind enough to take me for a ride in his 2022 tremor with the full monty suspension, including a speed run through their local test course. I all can say is the suspension lives up to billing - we ran through their test track at a pace that would not be possible in most any truck, and certainly not is a HD truck.

The E-Venture suspension in Baja mode just ate up everthing thrown at it. Truly amazing for HD truck.

Then we went on all types of road surfaces and the freeway in a long loop. Truck rides exstremely well and dips and bumps simply "disappear" to this set up.

The E-Dial gives you so much set up flexibility that you can dial your truck in, just to your liking. No question this is an expensive upgrade, but you use your truck for road, towing and off road, there is no better option available that can allow you to dial in the suspension for each type of use.

This will be by far the best overall upgrade $ for $ you can make for the Tremor. You will benefit from it everytime you get in your truck!

I can't wait to get my system installed, once they start to roll out! If you have the resources - this is the best of the best for the all around truck!

Dan's stereo is awesome as well - the install job is outstanding the sound - well made getting back into my Tremor a reall bummer with the B&O system. Overall takes his truck over the top!

Can't thank Dan enough for taking time out of his day to take me for a ride and give me a full overview of his stereo upgrade, lights etc. He has an amazing truck!
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Had a similar experience with Dan. Great guy and company to deal with, he made me grab on for dear life when he flew over a dip to show me the capabilities. Can't wait till my kit is ready for pickup at CJC!
 
Hey BLACKCHERRY , how much difference from the 20's to the 17s? is it night and day or 10% stiffer?

i want to run a ridge grappler type of tire (quiet on the highway and decent on dirt) in a 38 " tall tire. with the 5.5 EVenuture kit.
 
1FORDy3rd said:
How much longer until the Dominator kit is ready?
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Made some progress - should have the prototypes here in short order. Been a LONG road to get to this point. No matter how quickly we finish, still a year or so on produciton. Guess the answer is, no time soon but we're on it!
 
Brenford2005 said:
Hey BLACKCHERRY , how much difference from the 20's to the 17s? is it night and day or 10% stiffer?

i want to run a ridge grappler type of tire (quiet on the highway and decent on dirt) in a 38 " tall tire. with the 5.5 EVenuture kit.
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I HATE Ridge Grapplers - they're the worst riding tires out there. I bought into the hype and ran them on my Ram and they lasted 800 miles before i pulled them.

That's not the question you asked but worth noting. The 20 to 17 was a huge difference on the highway. I would say 20-30% if i had to throw a number on small bump compliance.
 
oh wow; i had them on my superduty and Raptor and thought they were decent but didnt run them very long

ok so ill stay with the 18" then as i do plan on putting a camper in so I feel little less sidewall would be better . anyone got any recomendations for a 38" tire ofr 18" rim?
 
BLACKCHERRY said:
I HATE Ridge Grapplers - they're the worst riding tires out there. I bought into the hype and ran them on my Ram and they lasted 800 miles before i pulled them.

That's not the question you asked but worth noting. The 20 to 17 was a huge difference on the highway. I would say 20-30% if i had to throw a number on small bump compliance.
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Surprised. Everyone else seems to absolutely love ridge grapplers, for the looks and what they claim is a very quite ride at speeds. What didn’t you like about them, i’m very curious.

I’m trying to make up my mind between falken wildpeaks at3 and ridge grapplers.
 
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Alpoba said:
Surprised. Everyone else seems to absolutely love ridge grapplers, for the looks and what they claim is a very quite ride at speeds. What didn’t you like about them, i’m very curious.

I’m trying to make up my mind between falken wildpeaks at3 and ridge grapplers.
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Worst riding tires I've owned. I rant them to 25psi and they were still hard as rocks. Makes sense why people see 40-50K miles out of them. Also, they SUCK in the dirt. Don't hook-up at all.
 
Brenford2005 said:
oh wow; i had them on my superduty and Raptor and thought they were decent but didnt run them very long

ok so ill stay with the 18" then as i do plan on putting a camper in so I feel little less sidewall would be better . anyone got any recomendations for a 38" tire ofr 18" rim?
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Toyo MT
 
Alpoba said:
Surprised. Everyone else seems to absolutely love ridge grapplers, for the looks and what they claim is a very quite ride at speeds. What didn’t you like about them, i’m very curious.

I’m trying to make up my mind between falken wildpeaks at3 and ridge grapplers.
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No experience with the Ridge Grapplers, but I had the Wildpeaks on my Land Cruiser and they're a great tire. When my OEM Duratracs need replacement, I'll be going Falken.
 
BLACKCHERRY said:
So begins the B&O Delete. I'm bummed, honestly. I bought a Lariat as I didn't want to touch the truck beyond a few basics and the premium SONY sound in my wife's Expedition is tolerable. Well, the B&O is garbage and i couldn't take it anymore. I ordered:

(Qty. 2) JL AUDIO 99022 – C3-650
(Qty. 2) JL AUDIO 92193 – 10TW3-D8
(Qty. 1) JL AUDIO 98632 – VX1000/5i
(Qty. 1) JL AUDIO 98128 – DRC-205
(Qty. 1) JL AUDIO 90346 – Roll of Power
(Qty. 1) JL AUDIO 90350 – Roll of Ground
(Qty. 1) JL AUDIO 90258 – Fiber Optic Cable
(Qty. 2) JL AUDIO 90364 – Distribution Block
(Qty. 2) JL AUDIO 90461 – Fuse Distribution
(Qty. 1) ZEN Module

I was looking into the stealth boxes and the 13" was a little low on power while the (2) 12" was perfect but wired for 4ohm - i needed 2ohn for the VX1000 to really shine so i ordered the (2) 10s in D8 to accommodate this. My installer said the enclosure would be a piece of cake.

I got everything but the subs so i got the truck to my guy to get started. First step, clean it up and deaden my soda-can doors.

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As you can see from the above, he deadened the inside of the door and the outside of the door, then build panels and sealed them to enclose the door and deadened the panels.

Next up, threw the speakers in and added the soundmat foam to the outside to seal the speakers to the door panel ensuring no loss into the door:

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Next up: Tweaters.
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Amp Rack, distribution blocks and ZEN:

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Wiring power and ground to the battery because tin-can truck.

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That's all for now. I am still waiting on the subwoofers and was told they could be "several months" but my buddy had time to get it in and get it started so i wasn't going to waste any time.

Next up, finish wiring and Sub Enclosure.
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So with this setup you aren't replacing the dash unit?
 
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