We've Never Done This on a Ford Truck Before (67 F100 Build)

This is a 1967 Ford F100 and this customer convinced us to do something we've never done before. This is a multi-year build and something we're really proud of. Let's get into it. This is Spencer with Fat Fender Garage. I'm sitting next to a 1967 Ford F100. This customer convinced us to do something we've never done before and it has to do with the paint job. BASF, it's a nice charcoal and it has some really cool pearl in it so if you get it in the nice shop lights or outdoors you'll really see that sparkle come in. I don't want to use the word princessy but I really like that term. It's got some sparkle to it that you don't quite notice but the really cool thing this customer had us do that we've never done on a Ford truck before is a bottom pinstripe. If you'll notice it's subtle but you have a really really magnificent blue color on the bottom and even more subtly you have the thick one and then you have a very small pinstripe on top of this. Obviously it adds a layer of complexity to the paint job when you're trying to paint it. I think the end result on this is perfect. Not only that, some other cool things to play along with the blue is we have blue Wilwood calipers. They match the bottom of the truck and then on all of the trim in small subtle areas we've also included some fun blue like on the Ranger. This was originally a Ranger package. We put the nice blue down in there and then likewise over here on the hood you have the nice Ford built-in blue right here to add a little bit of accent. So the customer's goal of this was a smoky glossy charcoal look so it's a two-tone gray and charcoal. So the goal here on the overall color scheme of the truck was a nice smoky charcoal color with a nice gloss and some pearl into it and then really add some just subtle flares of blue. So we didn't want to go overwhelmingly blue. The goal here is really focus on the charcoal side of things but a really really nice paint job. We're all super happy with it and that was ultimately the customer's goal was get something that they can be proud of and I really do think we're going to deliver a truck that they're going to be really happy with. So all of this here has all been Cerakoted in a gray color and the idea is contrasting colors that are from the same family. So on the body you have our nice door handles for the bump side truck 6772. You have our billet mirrors. These are a new product for us. These are universal. They'll work on anything. They're really nice. Go to our website. We're super happy with how they turned out but that's the overall goal here and so if we want to talk more about the trim side of things all of this has been Cerakoted. So this is the original 67 grill. You'll notice because it's flat all the way across from 70 to 72 they turn into the split grill. So they'll split it down the middle. They'll have more of the grooves on the sides. I'm not really phrasing that correctly but that's the big determination on what model. 6772, 67 to 69 typically has a similar flat grill. Granted they did change every year slightly and then once you get 70 and later you have that split grill. So that's a good way to indicate but all of this has been Cerakoted. If you're not familiar with Cerakote it's like powder coat but it's a little bit thinner. It's super weather durable but the biggest thing with Cerakote is if you're going to Cerakote things like this especially when there are bolts that have to go in if you were to powder coat it it's too thick. So if you go to screw a bolt in after you've Cerakoted it it's not going to work and you're going to have to clean that out. Cerakote is thin enough that it still allows you to reassemble it and not have too many headaches but it's still super weather durable. It can be out in the elements you can beat it up. We're big fans of Cerakote. We use them on a lot of stuff. We're really really happy on how the execution on this particular truck turned out. So coming into the engine bay here you'll notice on all of our builds at least for the majority of them we do a matte finish on the inside. So inside of the cab inside of the engine bay there is no gloss finish here. So that's intentional to give you some contrast without giving you too many colors. We didn't want to just go with just straight black on this. We wanted it to be the color of the truck but you want to be able to differentiate it so matte is a good way to go here. It also hides dirt better. It hides scratches or anything that might happen. You'll notice on the inside of the hood on the inner fenders everything like that we go with a matte finish which is really cool. Now let's jump into the engine bay side of things. We have what seems to be the standard at this point which is the Whipple supercharged five liter Coyote. This is a Gen 4 Illuminator Coyote and a 3.0 liter Whipple. This thing makes about 750 800 out of the box once it's all put together. We haven't dynoed this truck nor will we probably so we're not sure on the final number. A lot comes down to wheels and tires that you're using ride heights a lot of variables but it's safe to say this thing should make about 800 horsepower at the crank and about 670 to about 700 horsepower at the wheels. So really fast really fun we love it. Custom inner fenders that we make we're almost done with these so we can sell them to you guys so we'll keep you updated on that. We've run into some hiccups but that should be something fun we can offer. Really nice cold air intake that we make we do all of the welding here in house and we put that all together. You also have your aluminum wizard radiator fantastic for a supercharged setup you have your dual spall 12 inch brushless fans and they work fantastic. You also have we only work with the best brands that's a big staple for us and how we work. You have Wilwood brakes and a eight inch or excuse me a seven inch tough stuff booster behind it really really good brakes and we make sure that we're very particular about how we bench bleed these so you have the perfect ratio of pedal so when you step on the pedal because they're power brakes you want it to be extremely responsive not too responsive you can't have it so twitchy you've been in cars like that where it just lurches and it's uncomfortable you want that balance so you have to get it down to the hundredths of a centimeter on dialing in that brake setup so it's a science and it's really fun we have other youtube videos about brakes and how that works if you want to learn more about that you can tune into the channel. We also have our fat fender garage hood hinges these are kind of a we've really developed a formula if you will with these bump side trucks where ultimately a customer can really make it their own but we're putting them into almost like a templated box where there are some preset options they can pick from and the overall goal is not to overly drive up budget not to overly drive up timeline really give them a truck that's personal to them but it's all been engineered to a science it all works fantastically so this is this is really the template right here these have worked out fantastic for us and we know from experience that this thing should drive amazing anyways we've covered the engine bay that's all really cool now to dive into the wheels these are shot wheels these are the drift concave wheels they look so bad you've cerakoted these to match and of course you have your 14 inch willwood brakes you're going to have four piston and excuse me six piston in the front four piston in the rear these things stop on a dime big on willwood most people in the industry will tell you the same thing it's a reason they're a household name they make the best brakes we're super super high on them in the interior not much to cover yet because we're just getting started but you'll notice we have a high hump transtonal because this thing's lowered we have some dakota digital rtx gauges in there as well and we've already outfitted his retro sound radio and his ac controls so we've done a lot of the pre-meditated work in here to get this ready now we're just getting to the point that we're getting started to do interior i'm not sure if this is final scope but my understanding was we were going to put some nice mustang bucket seats in here and do a nice apex uh outlaw leather color so more to come on that not sure if that's still confirmed what we're doing with it but should be a really really cool driver uh for the customer and his family to drive around my understanding is this might be in parades so really really cool and we're about to jump into the wood bed which is what you'll see here is kind of blank so we're going to cerakote bed strips to match the color of the cerakote everywhere else on the truck um for wood color i'm not 100 certain but i'm willing to bet we're going to go more of a charcoal color more of a gray hue to kind of play under the colorway of the truck um so that's really really cool now coming back here because this is a lowered truck the bed has been raised about this much it's usually about four to six inches and then this is where the battery goes so the cool thing is you can flip the battery on or off at any point that you want to if you were to go out of town you just got to kick the battery off and if you ever needed to jump start it get power to it you just got to drop your tailgate um so this is the easy answer to work around this so yeah i mean aside from there this gives you a really good angle at the paint job so you can really see that pearl come out in that charcoal so it's almost like a multi-faceted paint job that it's kind of deceptive on the eyes and i love it um i'm really really big on the colorway that the customer picked out they're particular about it up front think it's being executed really really well and i think it's going to turn out awesome that being said those are the next two big updates on this build is we're going to be doing full upholstery in this thing that'll run into our upholstery department we'll be doing a wood bed on this thing and then from there you're down to test miles you're just down to fine tuning working out all the bugs and making sure when this customer gets it back it's exactly how we wanted it forgot to mention the chassis side of things of course this is sitting on a level two coilover chassis this is a performance coilover chassis this thing is perfect for street sport we're going to be calling this the ffg sport chassis because it's lowered it's sexy it's on performance coilovers we get these from ride tech and it's a very very engineered and dialed setup so it's crazy because you build a truck like this and it looks aesthetically pleasing this thing performs or will perform fantastically it'll be something if the customer did want to take it to the track it'll perform at the track wanted to do some light autocross with it they're built for this if you've seen previous builds we've done like for example the gt500 swapped truck that we just did this is sitting on the exact same platform that that is it just doesn't have a drift brake and it doesn't have dual piston brakes in the rear so aside from that same frame same engineering this thing will perform amazingly and we we make the best the best product in the industry we make the best chassis and whatever this guy wants to do this truck he'll know that it's fully capable of that so anyways that's about we all we have to cover right now mostly on the paint aesthetics this is i think the first time we're showing this truck reassembled in its own video so you'll see more of this as we get it closer to completion but anyways we're really grateful to have this one to be a part of it and you're going to see a lot on this in the near future as we get closer to finishing it so anyways if you have any questions drop them in the comments anything that you wanted to see that you didn't see any ideas that you might have for us we're producing content at a rapid rate and we want you guys want to hear your feedback on what you like and what's going well so drop a comment below like subscribe tell everyone that you know to come to the channel if you haven't been to the shop come to the shop you know who we are you know how this game works my name is spencer i'm here at fat fender garage this is one of the baddest 67 f100s on the planet and a build that has done something we've never done before thanks again for joining we're so grateful to have you look forward to seeing you next 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