Thread: 2002 Impala: On it's way

Dont got any ideas right now other than have you done HIDs? LED lights on the Interior and Turn Sig might make it look nice and a nice white led for the License plate.

Originally Posted by SF9777

Dont got any ideas right now other than have you done HIDs? LED lights on the Interior and Turn Sig might make it look nice and a nice white led for the License plate.

I'd like to do white leds. I don't want to put hids, but I want to do a projector retrofit in my tinted housings. I'm not sure what projector I'd go with, but it doesn't have to be bizenon and it can be pretty big

Retrofit + HIDs = Awesome night time driving

Some Leds in the will do nicely to get you that nice white look, put em in your reverse lights too and they will bright up the back when backing up or parking in the dark. especially if you got tinted windows.

Originally Posted by SF9777

Retrofit + HIDs = Awesome night time driving

Some Leds in the will do nicely to get you that nice white look, put em in your reverse lights too and they will bright up the back when backing up or parking in the dark. especially if you got tinted windows.

Yeah I'm tinted somewhat. Never really noticed much output from the reverse lights haha. I'll probably buy leds from superbrightleds. I hear they're a good company.
I've wanted retrofits for awhile. Just a decent chunk of money and time I don't have at the moment

Any other interior, exterior, or suspension ideas?For suspension, i have gmpp rear sway and rear moog end links on the way. Also have engine and Trans spacers coming. Oh and also a 3 gauge pillar pod. I'm looking at getting the dorman front sway because it looks to be beefier than the gmpp front sway. Is this a good choice, or should I go with something else? Also want to get rear trailing arms. I see gmpp tubular is not available anymore. What would you guys suggest? If greaseable bushings are better I'd definately like those. I'd like to build the suspension just once and have it last a long time.

I have umi ta's and love them

Originally Posted by barnettimpala

Yeah I'm tinted somewhat. Never really noticed much output from the reverse lights haha. I'll probably buy leds from superbrightleds. I hear they're a good company.
I've wanted retrofits for awhile. Just a decent chunk of money and time I don't have at the moment

Ya the retrofit is really expensive but i thinks its harder to do but ya. Check out DDM Tuning for LEDs, i got the License plate LED from them and its really bright and its a little bulb and pretty bright and its just one bulb where as you guys have two. Im sure they got really bright ones for the reverse too them

I was gonna get an hid kit from ddm tuning till I decided I want to do a retrofit instead.
The umi trailing arms look great just a little pricey. I mean its the price of front AND rear sways. Not sure the benefit would be worth the price. Do the trailing arms really need to be that big? I know that the stock 06+ ss uses fully boxed arms instead of the u shaped stamped ones that came with mine. Do you think there would really be that big of a difference between the two in real world handling?

I noticed quite a difference in them. I think they were around $110 ish for both.

What exactly did you notice an improvement in?

The rear felt more planted through corners. I just put them on my comp g on monday and they feel so nice.

Some shots from the last couple days. Car isn't clean but stance looks better than before.



Probably my favorite:

I know poelple told you this already but just reminding, take off the SS stickers and it should look much better. Oh and the mufflers are ok but id say putting in dual exhaust tips on them. Ones like on the GP GXP, should make it look really good. Or even do full cat back with those tips too.

I took the SS stickers off. Will post pics soon. I like the exhaust so its gonna stay.
Here's some pics from a couple weeks ago


Short vid of the exhaust in a parking garage You really need a subwoofer to hear these

Here's a couple vids of the exhaust way back


This is just an idle and showing how tight it was to fit the crossflow:


And more pics from the other week:

I like those rims.

Originally Posted by jmdc692

I like those rims.

Thanks. I do too. I gotta get plain center caps tho and get an overlay made for them. Kinda wondering what I wanna do for the overlay. Accent color is now red