<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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o contrare my friend z60 suspension kills ur Z71&#39;s suspension, its made for handling not off roading. plus ull need an LQ9 not an LQ4(although not a huge difference). do ur thing i agree with a lot of what ur saying, but in no way could u say ur stock Z has ANY better parts than an SS. if ur talkin off roading fine, but overall id say ud have to do aftermarket adjustments to compete sorry to u Z71 guys