- Hey guys, Shawn again from Custom Offsets,
Custom Offsets TV on the YouTube.
I have my boy Kirk here.
Hey Kirk.
- What's up?
- You guys said you want to meet more owners
so here's an owner.
This guy works at Custom Offsets.
He's pretty cool, he does customer service,
he fixes all your problems.
Magic?
- Pretty much.
- It's magic.
He's got his Ford F-150 on eight and a half inches of lift,
35-inch tires 20 by 12’s let's go!
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So I've got a 2014 Ford F-150 EcoBoost.
- 13.
- 2013, but that's why you're here, get it?
2013 EcoBoost FX4 F-150.
Now, you've got eight and a half inches
so I understand a six and a half inch McGaughys.
- Correct.
- So where's the other two coming from?
- I swapped out the stock strut with
a six inch BDS lift strut and then added
a two and a half inch Top Gun Customz on top.
- Here, right?
- Correct, the inner line of strut.
Swapped and then a two and a half inch
popped in custom leveling kit on top
for a total of eight and a half inches.
- So you're stacking a leveling kit on top of a lift kit?
- Correct.
- I was told you can not, should not, and that's a no-no.
- As long as your not stacking the two hockey pucks,
they're called, themselves, the two leveling kits.
- [Shawn] Yep.
- Before this used to have the OEM strut
with a six and a half inch spacer.
- Yep.
- So I took out the spacer, swapped out the OEM strut
for a six inch lift strut and then added
the two and a half inch Top Gun Customz leveling kit.
So I'm not actually stacking any leveling kit,
hockey pucks, which is what they frown upon.
Just adding the two and a half inch to a lift strut.
- But here's the other one I hear is angles.
When you stack a lift and a level, you have problems with--
- The CV angles.
- CV angles, how'd you fix that?
- I did a lot of math and what I found out
is that the front drop bracket drops the truck
the six and a half inches that I need.
So when I added that two and a half inches on top of the six
I'm technically stretching it only two and a half inches,
which is equivalent to adding a two and a half inch
leveling kit to the back free suspension,
which is within it's specs.
- Okay.
- So pretty much all I did was stretching it a little more
than a factory would with that two and a half inch level.
- With a level.
So with this particular truck and the way
this lift kit works, it's okay.
- Correct.
- It's not something that you can do no matter what,
you have to pay attention to those specs, right?
- Correct, if I went up to like a three-ish,
then I'd be pushing the CVs more than I should
and most likely would break a CV axle.
- And then you added the Pro Comp Upper Control Arm.
- Correct.
- That fixes things too, doesn't it?
Because doesn't that give you a different ball joint
and an upper?
- Yeah, it gives it uniball instead of the
whatever the stock comes with.
So it does ride a little smoother,
takes the angle a little better so it's not as
stressed to the factory components.
- Okay, so eight and a half inches.
It's a 13 F-150 and then you're running
20 by 12 Fuel Hostages and I have to do my bill test.
It's part of the plan.
I'll have to move some things.
And then you went with 35, why'd you do 35s
instead of 33s like all the other kids?
- I wanted to shove them in there.
I didn't like the look.
I did have 305, 55s originally
and I just didn't like the look,
so I went with a little over a 33-inch by 12 and a half.
So I just didn't like how it looked,
I wanted to fill up that wheel a little more
and then I actually added two inches to it later on.
- So Junior, it looks like that's about a five inch lift
on the 20 by 12 negative 44 Fuel Hostage.
And then the 33, 12 and a halfs are Trail Grapps?
- Correct.
- So little Trail Grapps.
Now, in act of beefy tires, so how much trimming,
it looks like you had to take quite a bit off the bumper?
- Yep.
- Is that plastic?
- No, that is metal.
- Okay.
- Yeah, so I actually did that trimming before
when I was only at six and a half inches of lift
with just a 20 by 12 and 35s.
And then when it went up, I still needed trim,
I still rubbed, but I had two inch spacers on as well.
- Okay, so you've got two inch spacers all four corners.
- Correct.
- So you're basically running 14 wide, negative 76.
- Yep.
- On a 35 because of the spacers.
And that's where you still had to get into
some trim and trimmings on eight and a half inches.
Anything on the back, does it hit on the back at all?
- Nope, the back is clear.
I should say barely if I turn into a parking lot,
obviously I could catch it.
I could fix it, but it's not a big enough issue for me.
- Yeah, I don't even see any witness marks
and you've had that on there for a while.
- I usually just catch the bottoms right here.
I could take off another inch or two,
but it doesn't bother me enough to do it so.
- Okay, and I know you had the ADD bumper.
Is there any reason you took that off
or you just kind of ran it for a while and you're over it?
- Yeah, wanted to change up the look after I got
nine tickets, well nine warnings and four tickets,
from the Wisconsin police department, I decided
to change up the truck a little bit.
Make it a little more legal.
- Because the bumper just made it look more aggressive?
- Yep, they could tell the tire was sticking out a lot more,
so I ended up going with the Fender Flares.
- [Shawn] Oh, that's right, yeah yeah.
- So I pretty much changed the entire truck
to make it look more legal than it did before.
And I haven't been bothered since so.
- And how much would you say you stick out?
Probably, if you have to see in Wisconsin,
it's under two inches, right?
- Correct yeah.
- (Laughs) If we were to actually look at it though,
it's probably four, five?
- [Kirk] Yeah, if you count the sidewall, yeah.
- Even out past the--
- Yeah, so before I didn't have the Flares,
so obviously it was sticking out about seven inches or so,
so they definitely could see that.
- Okay, so I think that fitment,
it's an eight and a half inch lift,
20 by 12, negative 44 by 10, two inch spacers
so it's closer to like a 14 wide, negative 76.
And then 35, 12 and a halfs, did take some trimming,
especially up on the front bumper.
So that kinda does fitment.
Now, why don't you tell us, I mean you've done everything?
- Yeah.
- You wanna just kinda walk around and tell us?
Are the tow mirrors stocked?
- No, they are not.
I added the tow mirrors, I added the
Rigid Industries SAE approved fog lights.
I really like the pattern of them.
I added the A series Rigid Industries as well.
- These guys?
- [Kirk] Yep, they're amber lights, make it
kinda look like a Raptor.
- [Shawn] And those are super bright, I've seen those.
- 400 Lumens a piece.
Putco 20-inch single roll light bar in the grille.
- It's like tight in here, Junior, check that out.
- [Kirk] And then also the 40-inch behind the grille.
- That's hiding way back there, Junior.
I like that you did the tuck away.
You used to have the 50-inch up here?
- [Kirk] I used to have a 50 and a 40 DRL.
- Why would you dump the 50?
- Legality reasons and they just kinda went away.
- Where they messing with you for a cover?
- Oh, really?
- They said that because it was above the center line
of my headlights, it needed to be covered.
And I just had it for two years and decided to
change it a little bit.
- Yep, I think I've seen that where the 50s
are kinda fading out and then the behind the grille stuff
is becoming more and more popular.
And I think you said this was pretty simple, wasn't it?
- Yeah.
- Using one of our brackets?
- No, sock brackets, it found it perfectly in there.
- Right off of what?
- It looks like the grille bumper guard.
Those two little bump stops in there.
- Oh, straight up and down.
- [Kirk] Yep, so I just unscrewed them, used the
stock bolts that were behind there, and it fit
in there perfectly.
- Those aren't typical light bar mounts though?
- [Kirk] No, the Putco comes with the
really short, stubby ones.
- Okay, which is a lot like the custom GMC ones we have.
- Exactly, we were gonna use those, but the stock ones
actually ended up working for us.
- Okay, so that was a dual row with the
typical Chinese feet?
It would need the specialty brackets.
And then headlights, those are stock, right?
- Yep, those are the factory.
- [Shawn] Hood?
- Cervini hood, it's direct actual Ram air,
wide open in the front and has the coolers
in the back wide open.
50 percent windshield tint with a five percent visor.
20 percent on the side windows.
- [Shawn] Nice.
- [Kirk] The decals were made by Justin here
at Custom Offsets.
This is actually a three layer Custom Offsets decal.
And then if you can see the ghost stripe,
that came from factory from Ford.
- This one here?
- [Kirk] Yep.
Track bars are from Pro Comp.
It also has a one and a half inch add a leaf
from Pro Comp in the rear as well.
- [Shawn] So what is the rear?
It must be only six and a half because it looks
like it's level, isn't it?
- It is perfectly level, yeah.
I had to figure that out because a six and a half
McGaughys lift actually sits slightly lower in the rear.
- [Shawn] It does?
- Yeah, so then when I bumped it up two and a half
in the front, one and a half in the rear
is what I needed to level it out.
- [Shawn] And then it ended up level.
- Yep.
And then the tail lights were custom built Kevin Dwayne.
Retro Customs completely.
- [Shawn] These function with the blinkers, don't they?
- Yep, the C bar and then also the OEM bulbs
work as well with the blinker.
Just some crazy design I came up with
that actually worked out pretty awesome.
Just LED cubes underneath, they're hid in the wing in there.
- Oh yeah, see you got the Black Labels hanging under there.
- Yep, those are Black Label lighting reverse cube section
mounted perfectly on there and then I also have
LUX Lighting complete underglow kit.
- Okay, and you have it in the grille too, don't you?
- [Kirk] Yeah.
- Cool truck, cool truck, very cool truck.
- [Kirk] Besides that, that's the main thing
that I could think of.
- And you've messed around with some tuning and whatnot
and you've said that is a functional RAM air.
- Yep, that's a functional RAM air hood
with AIT stage two intake, unleashed tuning,
91 performance too.
- Very cool, sexy truck.
When are you getting wheels?
Fuel Hostage has been around forever, bro.
- As soon as I get paid a little more.
- We will not be giving Kirk a raise.
That's all we have here for our spotlight
of this 2013 Ford F-150.
Hope you guys liked it.
Let us know what you think about hanging out with Kirk.
We can definitely get rid of him if that's a problem.
Peace!
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