WHAT GM SHOULD HAVE BUILT

chassis flex when the Suburban is out in the rough stuff. A set of 6-inch lift Rough Country leaf springs were powder coated gloss black then hung on the frame to carry the 2007 GM AAM11.5 rear axle housing that is stuffed with a Yukon Grizzly Locker and 4.56 gears. The ride is tamed with a pair of Bilstein 5100-series remote reservoir shocks installed in custom mounts on each side of the frame. The truck rolls on a set of Bart Wheels 16.5x12-inch

Super Trucker wheels wrapped in massive 18/39.5-16.5LT Super Swamper TSL Bogger tires on all four corners for plenty of traction and ground clearance.

With the chassis fabrication complete the attention was turned to the Duramax and Allison drivetrain to motivate the Safari Suburban. The engine came from a 2007 and is internally stock but the block was treated to a fresh black paint job to make the powder coated orange accessories pop. Spent exhaust gasses are sent through ceramic coated factory manifolds and up pipes to a Linco Diesel Performance Stage 1 64/66 VGT turbo with an orange powder coated compressor housing. From there the spent gasses are sent through a custom fabricated 4-inch diameter stainless steel exhaust system that the LDP crew built that is TIG welded and uses V-band clamps rather than slip-joints. Clean intake air is filtered through an S&B Filters open element air filter and custom stainless steel fabricated piping to channel it to the compressor inlet on the turbo. The compressed charge is then fed through fabricated stainless steel piping to a second gen Dodge Cummins intercooler mounted in front of the radiator core support then carried back to the HSP Diesel Y-bridge and custom intake manifold.

Fuel is contained in a custom fabricated fuel cell mounted in the rear between the frame rails with a G&R Diesel sump feeding fuel to the FASS 165 lift pump and filter system mounted alongside the driver side frame rail. A stock Bosch CP3 high pressure fuel pump feeds the stock LBZ injectors within the Duramax cylinder heads with PPEI tuning to help deliver additional grunt from the LBZ. The Linco team estimates that the engine is making around 550 horsepower with around 1,050 lbs/ft of

The gated Winters Sidewinder shifter and manual transfer case lever dominate the center console while the dash panel plays host to switches, gauges, and a JVC audio/video receiver to control the tunes. Moving inside the cab you find a pair of bucket seats with fresh leather upholstery along with a custom center console to keep the driver and front passenger comfy. A set of Isspro gauges work in concert with an Edge Products CTS2 to keep tabs on the engine and transmission vitals. Looking in through the third door you can see the fourth 6.75-inch MB Quart speaker along with the rear of the center console where the bass from the MB Quart subwoofer is channeled to the passengers as well as the rubber bed treatment used throughout the interior to make muddy cleanup easy.