🛠️ What have you done to your F150 Tremor this week?

[MidlandTremor]

Mind sharing a link to the lights & also a picture or two of how you wired them up? Looks good!

 

[Cranbery]

What are you getting for 0-60 times since tuning? And what are you using to measure?

Haven't really measured, been using the butt Dyno method for now.

Where did you get it for $700? It’s $799 on livernoise sight. Just curious.

It is $799, my mistake.

 

[Bannerman]

Added this bag for under the backseat. I specifically did not order locking storage because I'll have carseat(s) back there for the next few years and can't easily flip the seat up. But this keeps things organized and quick to access. Seems very high quality especially for the price.

 

[Yeti]

Added this bag for under the backseat. I specifically did not order locking storage because I'll have carseat(s) back there for the next few years and can't easily flip the seat up. But this keeps things organized and quick to access. Seems very high quality especially for the price.

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Don't you mean a rear gunner's seat?

 

[Bannerman]

Don't you mean a rear gunner's seat?

Haha, I'm def calling it the tail gunner seat from here on out!

 

[Cheif2Slo]

I’m running a similar one but a bit smaller, it’s the size of the port gunners seat. Love it!

 

[High_Country]

Mind sharing a link to the lights & also a picture or two of how you wired them up? Looks good!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G4Y5B2D?tag=f150tremor-20

They're just cheap LED's. Nothing special really. I went with the yellow color (as they look more amber in person).

As for how I wired them, I followed the same method as shown in the F150 LED youtube video for installation of their vent lights. You essentially are tapping into the positive and negative leads on each parking lamp wire.

And here is their installation manual for reference:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1754/7317/files/2021_Vent_Lighting_1__watermark.pdf?v=1623940814

 

[Bannerman]

Also added 1UP tray to my Diamondback HD so I can carry my bikes. Was nervous to drill into my brand new $2500 bedcover but very happy with how it turned out.

 

[1warmtremor]

Added a few things over the past 7 days!
F150LEDs raptor style in white
CVF titan 2
Turbo smart BOV
V1 cut scuff guard

 

[Fozzy]

Also added 1UP tray to my Diamondback HD so I can carry my bikes. Was nervous to drill into my brand new $2500 bedcover but very happy with how it turned out.

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HaHa, bikes worth more than the cover. Got to have it mounted solid. If my bed wasn't 6' off the ground I would love to have the DB cover.

 

[Bannerman]

HaHa, bikes worth more than the cover. Got to have it mounted solid. If my bed wasn't 6' off the ground I would love to have the DB cover.

Hell I've got 1/7th the cost of the truck in that bike.

 

[Cheif2Slo]

Hell I've got 1/7th the cost of the truck in that bike.

Yup, and I think about that every time I slide my poor bike down a rock face and just hear the rock digging into the Carbon….and then I do it again and again until I clean that section

 

[Bannerman]

Yup, and I think about that every time I slide my poor bike down a rock face and just hear the rock digging into the Carbon….and then I do it again and again until I clean that section

This frame is actually a warranty frame, I got a very early version that had a bad batch of glue in the carbon, so I cracked the seat post on a jump. But they swapped it out right before PMBAR in 2019, where I promptly bashed the carbon on a rock. Haha

 

[FaKtor34]

This frame is actually a warranty frame, I got a very early version that had a bad batch of glue in the carbon, so I cracked the seat post on a jump. But they swapped it out right before PMBAR in 2019, where I promptly bashed the carbon on a rock. Haha

I had a diamondback welded carbon frame back in 1996, rode it for about a year and half, came off a small jump and the whole front snapped off. After that I've stayed clear of carbon for mountain bikes, they warrantied it with the same type of frame Cadel Evans rode in the 1996 Olympics, still have it, I also have a custom built Santa Cruz Blur, sadly I can't ride like I use to.

 

[Bannerman]

I had a diamondback welded carbon frame back in 1996, rode it for about a year and half, came off a small jump and the whole front snapped off. After that I've stayed clear of carbon for mountain bikes, they warrantied it with the same type of frame Cadel Evans rode in the 1996 Olympics, still have it, I also have a custom built Santa Cruz Blur, sadly I can't ride like I use to.

How do you weld carbon?

 

[Miker]

I installed my Extang Exceeds flush mount tonneau cover. Love it, it’s a tri-fold with a one piece rubber type of mat over all of it.
Also installed my TuxMats. These things are some kinda’ sweet as well. I had Weathertech in my other F-150 and these IMO are way nicer.

 

[FaKtor34]

How do you weld carbon?

They used carbon tubes attached to a steel lug, it was ahead of it's time, unfortunately too far ahead. The steel lugs allowed it to have the stiffness without making it too thick, the carbon tubes gave it the compliance and dampening that carbon is renowned for. The problem was the joining of the two was not worked out as well as it could have been and caused catastrophic failure when it did fail. They dropped the line after only 2-3 years. If they could have worked out the joining issue I would probably still be riding them, but it ultimately lead to them having to be bought out.

 

[Bannerman]

They used carbon tubes attached to a steel lug, it was ahead of it's time, unfortunately too far ahead. The steel lugs allowed it to have the stiffness without making it too thick, the carbon tubes gave it the compliance and dampening that carbon is renowned for. The problem was the joining of the two was not worked out as well as it could have been and caused catastrophic failure when it did fail. They dropped the line after only 2-3 years. If they could have worked out the joining issue I would probably still be riding them, but it ultimately lead to them having to be bought out.

Interesting, that was before my time I guess but not surprised it didn't do well. Joining dissimilar materials is always a challenge. Like a chain, the joint is only as strong as it's weakest component and I could probably crush the end of a CF bike tube in my hand. I guess you could try to reinforce the ends with lots of layers like they do with head tubes but that would add so much weight and stiffness it would cancel out the benefits of CF.

 

[Badmothertrucker]

Made it do truck things

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I have the same color scheme lil brother version Ar-190, looking good

 

[Fozzy]

They used carbon tubes attached to a steel lug, it was ahead of it's time, unfortunately too far ahead. The steel lugs allowed it to have the stiffness without making it too thick, the carbon tubes gave it the compliance and dampening that carbon is renowned for. The problem was the joining of the two was not worked out as well as it could have been and caused catastrophic failure when it did fail. They dropped the line after only 2-3 years. If they could have worked out the joining issue I would probably still be riding them, but it ultimately lead to them having to be bought out.

I’m old enough to remember those. I had a Specialized Stump Jumper made out of the M2 Duraclan or what ever it was ( aluminum and ceramic). Toughest, stiffest and lightest bike I have ever owned. I have always been to big and reckless to own anything carbon.