Don't need a Honda, the only thing ever made that was unibody that I liked were the F-bodies and the Y-bodies. Those Honda pickups wrinkle the rear pillar if you run them up a RTI ramp. It's worse than Ford's 05up F150's flopping boxsides when the tailgate is down.

I always thought the great part of the SS was the fact it came with a rear swaybar and it got a 6.0L in a 1/2 ton. You could get 4.10 cogs in a half ton. From what I understand (which is quite possibly wrong), the SS shocks aren't even as good as the 46mm Bilsteins on the Z71s.

So, if I get rid of the rear block (likely just going to replace it with a 1" block), throw a beefier front swaybar and a rear swaybar on it and swap in a LQ4 I'll have me a lifted SS. haha. I'll take my crappy 246 transfer case over the AWD (149 is it now?) transfer case. It's not like you really need AWD below 450hp.

I like the look of Tim Z's truck. It's clean and proportional.