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Welcome to The Revival Series: Episode 2. Watch as Spencer from Fat Fender Garage takes you on a walkaround tour of our Revival Series setup, including the truck assembly line, chassis assembly line, and upholstery area. Bonus: Get a look at our brand new product, the 1967-72 Steering Column KIt.
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hey guys Spencer here with batf garage
welcome back to our Revival series I
believe this is episode two if you're
following you may have just saw a first
build that we did a F1 we call this Kila
truck fully and copper that we basically
just took the truck off put it on a new
chassis new drivetrain got it plumb wir
driving everything like that so um if
you're here for the first time welcome
if you're visiting after a previous
video we're happy to have you again to
kick things off we're sitting here with
one of our customer trucks that falls
under a Revival series coyote swapped
aftermarket chassis a lot of cool
features on this truck we're just
getting through the wiring stage of
things so come on with me we're going to
go check out some of the trucks we have
in the queue right now and kind of show
you what's up so over here we have a
what they call a bumps side truck 6772
we're wiring on it right now this thing
is a Whipple supercharg coyote swap it's
an absolute demon uh this thing is going
to be a lot of fun to drive when it's
done guys have been making really really
good progress on it so far team's
killing it you see we have the uh setup
on the front here you got your condenser
you have your cooler we actually sell
these condenser brackets as part of our
AC kit uh it's on our website so got
your dryer over here all of your
fittings running it through the firewall
on that side and then through the core
support here so very very cool again
this thing is going to be just absolute
BL to drive when we get down the same
idea with the Revival series not a
painted truck that we did a customer
brought it in already put some money
into it put some work into it primary
goal here is just put it onto a new
chassis with a new drivve Trin
performances the of the game here so um
less to do with the Cosmetics of the
paint job and the body work that kind of
thing this is another really cool one uh
this is in lt4 swapped yes we do do
Chevys believe it or not for a Ford shop
we make a pretty good Chevy so this is
another one of those portal built
chassis uh like I said lt4 swaps Li it's
an H speed that we have in here same as
the other one customer had the truck
painted free bringing it to us so we've
had to do some color matching um things
like the firewall but the rest of the
truck he's just completely pained itself
so very very
cool along with that I know a lot of you
guys have asked us if we're getting a
shop truck is it this I don't really
know but probably a patina body pretty
good condition you look in here the
inner Fender aren't in yet but you can
kind of get a better look at the coyote
and the chassis that we're normally
using so gen 3 coyote sitting on a port
Bel frame you can see the willwood disc
brakes in here the Falcon coilovers a
lot of goodies even with like something
as standard as a Revival series
basically get going to get all of the
premium features performance- wise again
just saving that you know unexpected
cost of the paint job that's a big
variable that's kind of hard to control
so a lot of the incentive of the Revival
series is just focusing on just
performance and their more control
variables that we've dealt with before I
don't know if this is shop truck but
this is not a specific customer truck so
uh hopefully this will be our burnout
machine uh if Jason if you're watching
this it better be please please so if
you look in here on the Revival series
one of the other goals is minimal body
work um so I'll point you in this
direction if you see we modified the
trans tunnel because this thing is going
to be lower however in terms of body
work on the inside of the cab that's
basically it we're going to have some
clean up on the firewall to do we'll
remove any holes but um typically your
floorboard is going to stay the same
your dash is going to stay the same the
trans T will have to get raised and
modified if you're going to be lowering
the truck but primarily it and then for
the rest of the body workor you'll see I
don't know about a hands length I
believe it's about 4 in but we raised
the bed we Dre new uh wheel tubs as well
so you can see where it was originally
supposed to be but we've lined this
whole thing color match it to the paint
I think it looks really good our guys
did a great job on it we cut out for
where the fuel tank is going to sit
normally the fuel Tank's going to be in
the dead center of the bed uh we just
modified it as to why not too sure but
I'm sure that's another one of those
things that Jason figured out new wheel
tubs so every Revival series that we
lower is going to get a raised bed and
new wheel tubs and then typically we
line it to color match the paint or we
can do just like a standard black so um
up to the customer up to their budget
and what they think is going to look
best but that's a really good match I
think hard to tell from a distance but
uh very nice quality and you can
actually put stuff in your bed with that
line so if you've been following us for
a while this customer uh was actually
the owner of a 65 C10 that we built
beautiful truck on airbags that he calls
Ruth beautiful deep blue color a great
customer of ours he's local uh and his
name is hoe Kendrick he had a chance to
play the MLB and was a very successful
baseball player so kind of cool to see
some of these types of guys get into the
Ford truck side of things and this guy's
always been a truck enthusias he has
this beautiful I believe it's a 79 F250
which he called pepper and so we're just
focusing on swapping this onto the new
portail chassis so we just yanked this
off of the original frame I believe he
had already done 67 Superduty axle swaps
so we just yanked it off that chassis we
have a new one ready to go for him we're
just finishing up the mockup and then
essentially all we're going to do is
drop it onto the new frame we're going
to wire it all up and we're going to
hand it back to him so uh he's not going
to deal with the paint and I mean why
would you when you have something that
looks as cool as this he should have a
really really sweet truck when he's done
with it but he's still going to pay
homage to the patina style of things so
very cool excited to see what we can do
for you Howe so we're back here in the
body shop this is where we do all of our
body modifications on the Revival series
and our designer series so this is a 67
F250 camper special truck a very cool
customer of ours already a beautiful
patina truck he also had a pretty much
complete interior already done so we've
uh taken that out of the truck we've
taken the truck off of the frame the
interior is sitting nicely wrapped up
somewhere in a safe Corner when we do
the body work and we installed on the
chassis we'll just go throw his interior
back in but if you come over here you'll
kind of get a better idea about some of
the body modifications that we're doing
so you'll notice a lack of tubs right
now uh they're actually working on those
uh inner Fender Wells or those inner
tubs UBS so that will fill the Gap here
and that's something that we're doing on
our Revival series because the natural
you know the OEM stock setup just isn't
going to house all these components the
same way even though we do do some body
modifications in the Revival series
they're very minimal and they blend in
really well with the OEM style of the
truck Whipple supercharged coyote
porterbuilt chassis Falcon coilovers
willwood disc brakes this is another one
of those trucks that's just going to be
an absolute blast to drive and if you
guys at home that are wanting to put
potentially do a build like this just
using your stock chassis this is a great
platform because it's got a long wheel
base uh it's a longed truck it's an F250
so it's a bit heavier so if you were to
use the OEM chassis uh something like
this is a great thing to keep in mind
because you'll eliminate some of that
hop in the rear um but that's why we do
full chassis is because there's always
going to be some things you can't really
ever fix completely unless you go to new
components so we've done a lot of these
Builds on Factory chassis but we've
learned over time that a new chassis if
you want a nice new driving truck is
definitely the way to go that's pretty
much standard on everything that we're
doing here in our Revival series because
if you're going to spend the money if
you're going to invest all this money
into a Ford truck it should be something
that when you get it back you're happy
with how it drives it drives comfortable
you don't want to short yourself on
something as critical as a frame brakes
or suspension if you're going to go to
all the effort to make that coyote fit
in there so I'll show you kind of what
it looks like inside they got the bench
seat mocked up this is uh the same size
frame as the customer's bench seat but
you'll see in there the modified
transmission hump uh we have installed a
new one raised that up because this
truck is going to be lowered you can
also look kind of down in this area we
have our pedal mount bracket already in
we have that on our website we have cut
out a little bit bigger hole for the
steering column we're about to put a
nice new steering column kit in there
and if you look over on the passenger
side of the firewall um you'll see our
Resto mod AC unit installed in there as
well so when this thing's done it's
going to look very similar to how when
he dropped it off but a lot of the cool
features are going to be h hidden in a
very unique way it'll have full AC the
accelerator pedal and the uh brake pedal
will be mounted down low carpet's going
to cover all this it's going to look
very very nice when it's done and if you
look over at the bed here our guy Mitch
cut out the old bed installed the rais
bed kit and then our other fabricator
Ray has been working on the wheel tubs
we'll touch on this more in a different
episode but it's kind of cool to see all
of the little things that go into
building a truck like this cuz final
product a lot of that stuff gets missed
so nice to kind of see it even though it
is messy in the build stage of things um
a lot of the little stuff tends to get
lost in translation so wheel tubs will
be in probably today's Thursday probably
by tomorrow or Monday so we'll touch
baseed on that when there's a little bit
more to go off of and it should be
something that our guys will only have
about a week or two of actual labor
hours on before it's complete granted
that'll be stretched into about you know
three or four total weeks it won't be
something that we'll have three or four
guys on all the time labor wise only a
few weeks left before this thing is is
ready to go back to the customer so very
cool and I guess I failed to mention but
on the firewall there's a lot of holes
that we had to cover that's very very
very rare to find a truck that's
unmolested obviously by unmolested I
mean somebody hasn't cut into it before
done their own motor swap try to put a
new component in there so the one
variable on the Revival series that's a
little bit difficult to nail down is
bodyw work because people will ask us
well how much am I going to spend on the
bodyw work well how nice of a condition
is your truck in that really is what it
comes down to if you bring us a truck
that is Barn kept unmolested untouched
not a single hole in the firewall
everything is in perfect condition you
can probably scape under in a fairly
decent budget where there's almost no
body work other than the trans tunnel
however the odds of that happening
fairly unlikely so uh when it comes to
body work a lot of the time we just need
to see your truck in person to really
get an understanding of how much we're
going to be doing to the firewall that
kind of thing so hopefully that makes a
little bit more sense so sitting right
here next to me is one of our fully
loaded porterbuilt chassis um the way
that we describe it is it's only lacking
your body before it's uh a complete
build basically pretty much every Bell
and whistle you could ever dream of has
been included in these packages we do
sell these individually so if doing a
full building house with us is too
expensive for you you can get a package
like this fully done out ready to go
where you just need to get it to you get
it to your Builder and then you're just
down to doing the body work on your
truck installing it Plumbing it wiring
it but all of the headache that you
normally deal with on a build like this
is taking taken care of initially up
front part of not only our chassis
program but also our Revival series is
ride hey we had a lot of questions every
week about what ride heights mean a lot
of people know what they're looking for
they just don't know what to call it so
they'll reach out to us and they'll say
hey I want something just ever so
slightly lower than stock but I don't
want a super big drop um or you'll have
guys that are like I want a nice lower
truck but I don't want it like on
airbags on the ground so we have options
for all that I'll kind of explain that
to you this right here would be what we
call a level one chassis if you notice
the c Notch here almost completely flat
there's a probably like a 2in raise here
which is pretty common just so you can
fit the rear end and all the components
but you'll notice it's relatively flat
doesn't raise much using a level one
chassis this will put you an inch maybe
two lower than your stock ride height
but no uh bed modifications required
your rear wheel tubs are going to work
your bed's going to work just fine no
cutting in the bed required if you're
going to keep it at this ride height so
again about 1 to 2 in lower than a
factory ride height on these trucks for
most guys that's perfect you're going to
be able to drive it around you're not
going to have to worry about clearance
anything like that it almost gives you
more of like a stance than the factory
trucks did so it's a little bit less
awkward the way that it sits but
relatively close to your stock ride
heights very very nice looking truck
once all put together so this is kind of
the starting point so level one that's
how we view that would be just barely
lower than ride height and I mean just
too many great vendors that we work with
to really name but I'll give it my best
shot so you got a boid welding fuel tank
they make aluminum fuel tanks they're
typically 21 gallons approximately um
this is a bumpside truck so it'll be a
center fill tank we can also set you up
for a side fill if you have a a dent
side a 7379 truck or you just want to
relocate it have something a little bit
cleaner not cut into your bed we can
definitely do that so boid welding fuel
tank like I said porterbuilt chassis um
the only thing we don't actually do here
in house is powder coat we send that to
our guys at Tac Industries they're local
they're fast they're effective they're
very good at what they do
and so we're grateful to have them and
they're really good at getting us good
turnaround times on all of our projects
it's possible we powder coat in the
future it's not really a need that we
have cuz we have good vendors that are
local that help us out with that kind of
thing you have all of your Curry rear
end components back here so you have
your housing you have your axles I'd be
willing to bet these are 35 spline
you're going to have your third member
here your yokk in the front to run your
drive shaft and that's about the only
thing we haven't done yet to this
chassis is run the drive shaft it's one
of the last phases of the build uh but
something very cool that we're going to
do this is on a rear four-link setup so
you're going to have your brackets here
you're going to have your four link bars
and then your four-link bracket is going
to be welded just straight to your axle
housing so we sell this as a kit too um
we sell a full rear four-link kit for
these 6772 trucks and if you wanted to
buy something like that it would come
with your bracket to weld on here or
excuse me a bracket to bolt on here your
four link bars a bracket that you'll
need to weld onto your axle and then of
course your Falcon coilovers and the
bracket to mount those as well and I
might must have skimmed but Falcon is
who we use for all of our coilovers they
do a fantastic job very sporty coilover
similar to like a Corvette very high-end
stuff very sporty good traction on the
road we've been super super happy with
them so far so you'll notice we have our
brake lines all fully plumbed U this is
a very popular option that most
customers will do for us and then
another really cool feature is if you
look down there you'll actually see the
fuel lines and your regulator and
everything are ran in inside the the sea
channel of the frame most customers
decide to do this when they're getting a
chassis from us and every Revival series
that we do does this it cleans things up
it removes the headache of you having to
route that stuff yourself and our guys
are very very good and very fast at what
they do so it's a very effective process
that we've established and I definitely
don't ever see us backing away from
something like this so Plumbing for fuel
and brake lines is totally up our alley
and Airlines is definitely something we
do as well here is a Whipple
supercharged coyote as you've seen we
have a lot of them in the shop but I
wanted to get into a little bit more
detail about what actually goes into
this soz I don't think people fully
understand the amount of attention and
detail that's required when building a
chassis like this so like we were
talking about earlier this is the
Baseline for all Revival series that we
do obviously the Whipple supercharger is
a cool additive to have but minus the
supercharger what you're looking at is
basically where every Revival Series
starts porterbuilt chassis willwood disc
brakes um standardly 12 in but we can do
13 or 4 in pretty easily caliper you can
do red or black or a custom color of
you're choosing typically 5x4 and 3/4
bolt pattern is what we go with we can
also do 5x5 Falcon coilovers these are
also some really cool non-rop spindles
that we get made for by a company called
little shop manufacturing uh they do
phenomenal work they help us make a lot
of our parts that we sell but a really
cool one of them is our private labeled
non-rop spindles it's Chevy technology
so these will work on our pville chassis
or if you have a Chevy um these will
odds are work for you and they'll
connect nicely to your control arms so
very Stout system here and then when you
come to the coyote I can walk you
through some of the things that we deal
with so coyote we've set ourselves up
with the same track width as the OEM for
chassis specifically for the reason of
not wanting to do any unnecessary
cutting or body modifications unless we
absolutely have to so there's some
pretty key components we have to adjust
to actually make that happen so track
width like I said is the same as a Ford
Chassis and so originally your oil
filter
it's going to be located right there and
what we have to do is we have to
relocate that right here because if you
notice that's just not going to clear on
the rack and pinion the same way and if
you have a factory frame a lot of times
that hits the uh the factory saddle as
well so we make a kit that relocates
that you can put it on your frame rail
on your radiator core support just
wherever you have the most room uh we
make sure to cross these over so that
oil flows the way that it needs to but
relocating the oil filter is one
component this is a serpentine kit that
um helps relocate thing we have two
different ones we use if you're Whipple
supercharging we recommend one uh that
we've put together we use a power by the
hour alternator relocation bracket and
then put together a nice new AC
compressor power steering pump reservoir
all that stuff if you're not doing a
Whipple supercharger we have a great kit
from a company called TurnKey engine
Supply called the roadr runner
Serpentine kit definitely recommend you
check that out same general concept your
alternator is going to stay down here
just a little more tucked in you're
going to get a new s an sd7 AC
compressor and either a PSC power
steering pump or if you go this rout
route a GM type 2 power steering pump so
very high-end components um all with the
goal of making fitment as perfect as
possible your headers as well this is
something that we sell across all
platforms for either our portail chassis
or for factory frames as you'll notice
these things are very very tight on
fitment while they need to be your
factory manifolds or your headers are
going to stretch all the way out here so
whether you have a Portu chassis or a
factory chassis it's going to hit the
frame rails so new headers are a must if
you want to relocate things and not have
to do a bunch of cutting a lot of this
stuff its only purpose is to provide
function and put you in the right spot
where when you go to drop your cab on
this thing you're not going to run any
uh oh moments where something doesn't
clear you have to cut into something
avoiding that at all costs is the goal
for us so we just showed you a level one
ride height as you can see this is not
the same this is what we call our level
two for those guys that say I want a
nice lower stance on coilovers um where
I can be sporty sexy drive it around
have a good time but I don't want to be
on airbags this right here the level two
is the solution for that so um as you
can tell a lot less seep level one will
put you right about here this C Notch is
much higher in terms of height it's
about 4 to 6 in lower than your stock
ride height it gives you a very nice
sporty feel to the truck it'll lower you
you still have your Falcon performance
coil over so you're going to have a very
40 ride to it um but this is a good way
to really lower the truck you might have
to worry about clearance a little bit
but only in like a very big speed bump
most of the time driving daily driving
you're going to be just fine on a ride
height like this all the other
components stay the same but like you're
seeing here this is your level two Riot
height so it'll drop you about 3 to 5 in
more than your level one will oh check
this out GT500 motor this thing is going
to be
sweet so last but not least is our level
three ride heights so as you can notice
a somewhat similar C Notch it's a little
bit taller but very similar um in height
to the level two big difference here is
going to be your airbags no coilovers
level three is going to be airbag only
and the goal is you're going to go from
laying frame more like laying running
board you're like a quarter of an inch
off the ground so very very nice ride
height thankfully to Porter built Porter
built is fantastic at what they do
they're very very good with all Ford and
Chevy trucks but they made their name
for themselves about 15 years ago doing
Chevy kit and so um they're no stranger
to lowering a truck and getting it on
basically a perfect ride height I feel
like Chevy trucks have always been a
very popular thing to put on airbags in
Lay frame with but seeing a good Ford
truck whether it be a bump side a fat
fender I mean I just think you can't go
wrong with this we use ACU a air ride
suspension and your viair compressors
it's a very highlevel air management
system that we install here um so you
can see here all the plumbing on that
similar to your fuel lines very very
clean Plumbing on the air channels we'll
put them in inside the frame for you so
it'll be hidden if you want to raise
your bed and see the chassis in the rear
end underneath the truck if you want to
do a show truck it's not going to be
filled with all of these wires and this
mess it's very clean it's very composed
here you can see what it looks like
actually going into the airbag in the
chassis so um our guys are second to
none not just Porter built making our
frames but our actual guys that do the
assembly on these things are are just
top tier and they're very their
attention to detail is unbelievable so
you'll see these are running board
brackets I believe this is a 53 to 56
truck so should be just an absolute
blast to lower on the ground I think
this customer I don't want to misspeak
but I believe he's doing a very very
high horsepower U motor he's got a lot
of vehicles that are already pushing
over 1,000 horse so I think he wants a
56 F100 that's going to do the same
thing so luckily on our chassis it's 316
steel plating it's a little bit thicker
and a little bit heavier and we did that
on purpose because the idea is if you're
going to put that much horsepower behind
something if you have a frame that
weighs about the same as your factory
chassis that thing is just going to
slide every everywhere you're going to
have some hop in the rear so making our
chassis a little bit heavier so that way
you're grounded it really just keeps you
just weighted on the road the way that
you need to be for lack a better term
I'm sure you guys have a better way to
describe what I'm talking about but
again this guy I think he's planning on
doing a coyote or some higher horsepower
build we've heard plus a th000 horse so
I don't want to put him put his head
against the fire or anything like that I
know originally we talked about us doing
the drivetrain I think that he's now
going to handle that but again don't
want to misspeak so either way he's got
a chassis that's going to handle all the
horsepower that he could throw at it so
very very cool setup that he's
got check this out FC series Builder
guide you got Casey Matthew on the front
Casey's paint shop they got a pretty
sweet F1 with the supercharge this one I
think is his son's called ly I don't
know if it's Godzilla or coyote swap
it's mean whatever it is and they've
actually used this to pull their trailer
before pretty sweet liting in the back I
know that uh Ford era Solomon lunger had
a lot to do with putting this together
but very very cool good friends of ours
buil beautiful trucks granted old Casey
you know more horsepower than
reliability so here we got a
6772 bump side is what they call them
F100 because of that body line that runs
down but if you look here this is a
really cool kit that we've been working
on you have your gen 3 coyote motor a
lot of the fat fender stuff that we sell
on our website but new thing coming out
you can see you got your steering
linkage we already sell this as a kit o
it's a little worm this thing just got
driven so you have your DD shaft you got
your joints here to connect everything
but the cool piece is what we made right
there I'll give you a little bit better
angle at it this is a Flaming River 30in
steering column 30 in your factory 1's
32 in so that'll put your steering wheel
about here if you had the factory
steering column so kind of uncomfortable
you can see there's not a whole lot of
room there for space so I'll hop in
there in a second so you can see what it
looks like but you have your 30in
Flaming River steering column this one's
column shift we sell a kit that will
connect the column shift aspect to your
transmission and then the new stuff if
you look here is uh this plate there's
actually a mount welded to the column
underneath this and uh we sell them in
Black we'll also eventually sell them in
polished as well but you'll buy the
steering column from us with the bracket
already welded on and this plate will
cover it so that you can match it to
your truck and it'll look very OEM
original this is our AC Valance actually
below it as well so this will extend the
dash so you can put things like this in
here and not actually have to cut into
your factory Dash so if you notice when
I get in this truck and the bench seat
is about far back as it can go I think
there's a speaker box back here but
you'll see 30-in column I'm in a pretty
good spot uh still close to me I got
full control over the wheel but as many
of you know and I'm a shorter guy so a
lot of you bigger guys out there might
be a little bit closer but if you have
the 32-in column you add 2 Ines of this
I mean that wheel would be sitting where
I could just about put my face into it
so a lot more ideal having it a little
bit shrunk back some of it has to do
with the wheel that you choose a lot of
times this is more of a factory wheel
but a lot of times when we do a wheel
it'll be a little bit more recessed
anyways like a little bit less forward
and more flat this is the column here
this is column shift uh we sell them
column shift or floor shift if you do
column shift we can sell you a shift
lever linkage and uh the module for the
Dakota gauges for 10 r80 or 6 r80 if
you're doing coyote swap column shift
works really well and this plate right
here is something that we sell if you
were to take this off there's actually a
bracket welded onto the column that
bolts into the factory holes so then
this uh piece covers it makes it look
pretty so this all comes together you'll
get your two pieces your column the
bracket welded onto the column and then
what you can't see that we'll get some
footage of is right where the column
goes through the firewall very high
quality Billet piece there that covers
that Gap so it's just a complete system
otherwise there's not a whole lot of
great Alternatives if somebody wants to
run a new steering column in this truck
there's going to be a big hole in your
firewall for that thing to go to and
there's not a whole lot of good ways to
clean that up so using a nice Billet
piece and this full kit once this is
painted to match I mean you're hardly
going to be able to tell that anything's
after Market but literally every single
component in the steering side of things
has been ran through so by the time you
do the new column you can get your
joints your DD shafts um if you want to
do rack and pinion if you're doing
something aftermarket like a Crown Vic
aftermarket chassis it'll work great
with the new rack and pinion otherwise
we sell all the stuff too where you can
just do a single ujoint and connect the
end of this column coming through the
firewall straight to your factory
gearbox so all of this stuff will work
if you have OEM power steering like if
you have OEM steering it'll work great
or if you're going to have have more of
an aftermarket like I was saying a Crown
Vic aftermarket chassis something that's
going to get you p uh rack and pinion
steering excuse me it should just make
that super seamless so when we run your
AC vents we'll put them into this
balance you can see it's a very nice
clean fit loops around the steering
column here so it's a good way to extend
your dash and put vents in there without
actually having to chop in anything
original plus not a whole lot of room to
begin with you have to decide if you're
going to remove this this is where your
bezel is going to go for your radio and
your AC controls you can technically cut
one over there but honestly cutting into
the truck in general is not ideal unless
you're really doing something custom so
extending the dashboard it's just all
going to stay Factory is a pretty big
thing for us and it covers up nicely the
restom mod AC unit you look in there you
can kind of see some of it they've been
in the middle of Plumbing it but um good
nice AC unit that uh will cool the cab
very very nicely we usually use the
restro mod Vapor 3 or the rest of them
mod Vapor 2 when we're doing these AC
kits we get lots of cooling power we're
here in Arizona so super hot so we're
able to run the coyote run our AC and
everything else and it cools the truck
down great so that's how we do it if you
get a full AC kit from us it's going to
come with this Dash extended piece uh we
might have one of our own that we make
as well um that might be something down
the line but as of right now we lean on
the guys from M Speed to uh make these
for us out of fiberglass so you might
have to reglass this a little bit if
something's not straight on your dash um
but that's kind of why it's fiberglasses
it doesn't pigeon hole you it gives you
the option like I was saying with the
steering column this is a new kit for us
so have your blinkers here very high
quality steering column Flaming River is
who does all of the column stuff for us
they provide us with a 30-in steering
column non- tilt or tilt up to you um
you can pretty much customize it any way
that you want but normally from us it's
flaming rubber 30-in steering column
with the bracket pre-welded to it we do
that here in house you can't see the
bracket cuz it's covered by this nice
piece that's provided so you'll
basically install the bracket you got
two holes on the underside here and then
uh you will install this piece onto the
bracket so it'll clean everything up for
you it'll look a lot nicer if you look
down here you'll see this nice Billet
aluminum piece here it's like a cylinder
piece very very thick very sturdy
completely with the goal of stabilizing
the column cleans up your firewall it's
going to fill that coal perfectly and if
you get it it'll come with a cutting
template and all the hardware and
everything like that so uh much more of
a straightforward process than just
getting just a steering column and
figuring out how you're going to put all
of it together and make it look clean so
very very cool you'll see a lot more of
these on trucks from us in the future
but good example of just some some ways
that had we not had the ability to 3D
print and Weld and fabricate and make
all this stuff I mean you just be stuck
to just oneof just every truck Case by
case basis so standardizing some of
these little annoying things um big help
for us so this truck is a 67 F100 um
with every year frame of Ford truck
whether it's 5356 5760 6166 6
772
7379 typically and I just learned this
the other day actually but the first
year of the new body style is usually
unique compared to the rest of them so
what I mean by that is this is a 67 Port
truck there's a lot of things on this
truck that are unique to a 67 but not a
68 to 72 Ford did it the first year the
trucks were available and then changed
it afterwards so um while that does make
things a little bit more complicated
when you're building it actually
provides a cool amount of originality to
these trucks I have always liked that
obviously they're harder to work on but
every truck is a little bit unique I
guess if you think of it that way so one
of those differences your door panels
here so these door panels your armrest
is here then you have your handle and
then your window cranks over here
whereas on 6872 door panels you're going
to have your handle that you're going to
push like this and then the armrest is
going to go around it and then your
window cranks so um if you're trying to
order door panels from us we'll always
ask you up front if you have a 67 or
6872 because we want to know where
placement is so just kind of one of
those unique things so if you ever see
this out in the wild just know that's a
67 or somebody that went to the effort
to change it to a 67 so pretty unique
here we're in our upholster area it's
nice and clean for the weekend these
guys are getting wrapped up so they can
head out uh it's Thursday afternoon most
of our guys don't work Friday they put
in their 40 hours Monday through
Thursday so Friday's a bit of a skeleton
crew so looks like these guys are about
wrapped up you have your nice sewing
tables here so we do all kinds of
upholstery Pro projects um we try to
keep it more Chevy Ford truck Interiors
honestly anything these guys are capable
of for sure just depends on how creative
you want to get and uh what we can do
for you but a lot of what we do are
interior kits so um like I said your
sewing tables are back here we're going
to have threads on the walls look over
here actually we have all of the
Interior bags for our full kit so if you
order a full kit with us you'll get a
cool little cleaning bag uh with some
Maguire's cleaning products in them we
filled the bag full of cleaning supplies
but that was actually a complaint we
didn't really think about uh until
people brought it up that it's really a
big bummer to have a nice custom new
interior and you just have like a
plastic bag sitting on the seat for your
cleaning supplies like it's just not
doesn't add to the effect of anything so
just something fun uh if you get a full
interior from us you get one of those
little bags all match to your interior
so that way it kind of Blends in so this
is the tables where the magic happen you
can see here we're actually doing some
work to a 3D printed center console that
we've made so really cool stuff we're
doing most of our KPS we're doing V
seats but at some point in the future we
might add the option for Center
consultant bucket seats obviously price
is going to be a lot more just cuz
there's a lot more that goes into that
but we'll update you we'll keep you up
to speed with what we come up with and
then a lot of your materials over here a
lot of panels CNC cut wood with metal
backing and so that's the cutout for the
6 and 1/2 in spok house speakers that
we're normally using we're going to have
a speaker systems available as well to
complement these Interiors but then it
comes over here and it gets wrapped uh
our guy Andre actually just wrapped
these today there's a customer that
ordered kick panels for a 6772 F100
truck you can see he's got magnets
installed here so he's just going to
install it put Fasteners in here and
then he'll put the speaker cover over
top of this um and hopefully he'll have
a 6 and 1 12 in speaker in there as well
but very cool very clean you can see
just understanding that it's wood
they're very solid solid they're very
very sturdy um and that's the biggest
difference that pictures just have a
hard time showing for us we have people
that just naturally assume that these
are just Factory replacements definitely
not there's a lot more that goes into
that kind of stuff so if you'll kind of
look in this general area these are all
kits that we just recently finished up
um if you know our guy Andre who does
our upholstery work no one has ever put
more packaging material on anything that
Andre has our interior kits I swear I
think he spends six seven hours per kit
just wrapping it and I know that because
one time I had to take a picture of one
and I had to unwrap it and it took me
probably just as long um just to
unstring everything so these all get
nice packag wrapped up well and then we
just build a nice wood crate for it all
to go into so it can ship Freight we're
comfortable we know that it's not going
to get damaged during shipment that was
a big concern is if you're going to
spend a few grand on an interior to
really soup up your truck just don't
want it shipping in a cardboard box
that's going to go on a freight truck
because as you know anyone that's in the
hot rotting industry brake trucks are
your worst enemy a lot of times where
things get smooshed they get stepped on
and that's the thing we do not want to
happen is you spend four to six weeks to
build a custom kit spend a lot of money
get excited about it and it shows up on
your doorstep and then your bench sheet
is cut in half because somebody decided
to put an engine on top so Andre has
spent several hours and his main focus
is he'll put foam in here anything to
just soften things so there's nothing
scratching U we want to take very good
care of the leather or the vinyl that
you're using and then from there our
guys in shipping they'll put it into a
nice crate put some extra foam around it
uh we'll nail down the top and then it's
off to you we get these seats from
Snowden bench seats they do a really
really good work they make bucket seats
as well so we get them in here our do
the foam workor on them meaning like
bolsters that kind of thing this
customer requested inner and outer B
bolsters if you want just outer bolsters
you can do the outer bolsters to kind of
uh cushion your butt and kind of keep
you from sliding around too much but if
you really want to put somebody in that
middle seat you don't have to do the
center bolster we have guys that have
done just flat bench seats we actually
had a truck leave today that was a
completely flat bench seat so you can do
completely flat outside bolsters outside
and inside it's totally your call this
is a good example of an inside outside
bolster bench seat so this is all Apex
leather um Apex does amazing amazing
stuff and we're just so grateful to have
partnered with them so this is their
Renegade Leather So a distress look to
it this is the saddle color and this one
I believe they call Prison Break which
is pretty cool we made this interior
about a year ago for a customers one of
our first kit and so we put pictures on
the website and then another guy reached
out and said I want that kit exactly and
so it was awesome because we had the
blueprint ready to go we were able to
just get it ready for him so this
customer is actually going to meet us in
September at the F100 supernational show
in Seville Tennessee so we got this all
ready for him um we're going to package
it somewhat lightly we'll put it on our
trailer with us we're going to bring it
out hand it off to him and then it
should only take him about 2 three hours
to install all of it into his truck so
very nice they come with the brackets
for the floorboard they use mostly
Factory holes you may have to drill like
one hole but we tried to keep things
fairly original so they're not doing too
much work to get them in and we also
have another video about our interior
kit so if you want to see a full
installation uh go to our YouTube make
sure to check that out it's very cool
our guys did a full install on probably
like 30 45 minutes um father son could
probably do it in about 4 hours do the
whole thing so yeah super cool stuff hey
guys thanks for tuning in to another
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