The Galloping Ghost

A Chevy That Scares Away the Rest
 

- Matt Emery

When Richard Jaminski needed someone to add bedsides to his 2011 Chevy Silverado, he called the crew at Kibbetech Off road. When he arrived at KT’s Newbury Park, California, shop, he and Ryan Kibbe started talking about the truck and one thing led to another. The bedsides install job turned into a full build.

We’ve featured Kibbetech trucks before, and the reason for that is that they are what we love about prerunners. They’re trick as all get-out, but they are still basically the trucks that someone can really build without needing to be a professional welder.

A great deal of the factory chassis is retained, but the suspension is all Kibbetech. Their Long Travel front-end kit has been anodized gold with billet upper arms and tie rods, fabricated 4130 TIG-welded lower A-arms. The spindles have been nickel-plated and utilize FK rod ends with Kibbetech spacers. Those spindles are equipped with Kibbetech 2.5-inch snouts.

Kibbetech has a penchant for flash to go along with their fast, and this Chevy has a set of custom black and gold-plated King 2.5x12 race coilovers with finned reservoirs, King 3.5x12 race five-tube bypass with finned reservoirs and King 2.5x2.5 bump stops. The coilovers have King 500/750 dual-rate springs. The total wheel travel is 20 inches, and that’s strap limited.

The rear suspension is one of Kibbetech’s “Short Course” style four-link and also use the uniquely styled King 3.0x18 Race internal bypass coilovers that use 200/300 dual-rate springs. The shocks have compression adjusters and finned reservoirs and are again joined by King bolt-in style 2.5x4 bump stops. FK rod ends and Kibbetech spacers are again used. There is 18 inches of rear wheel travel.