<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(wrath &#064; Aug 21 2006, 10&#58;46 AM) [snapback]61836[/snapback]</div>
Don&#39;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&#39;s worse than Ford&#39;s 05up F150&#39;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&#39;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&#39;ll have me a lifted SS. haha. I&#39;ll take my crappy 246 transfer case over the AWD (149 is it now?) transfer case. It&#39;s not like you really need AWD below 450hp.

I like the look of Tim Z&#39;s truck. It&#39;s clean and proportional.
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I beg to differ on the shocks. My 99 NBS Z had a rough as hell ride. My SS rides like a Cadi. If you plan on dropping your Z and doing all that stuff it wont be a jacked up SS. Simply bc the SS is only 2 inches lower than the 4 x 4 chevy. and sits up higher than a 2WD truck. The all wheel drive is awesome. Especially if it is raining. No I dont need it all the time. But it I has 2 WD i would smoke my tires when I punched it at the line. with the AWD there is no was to not grip. Just a matter of preference i guess.