well over the last couple of years day one customs and TC panic have had an
increased presence encima and a bunch of really cool custom vehicles this year is
no exception with the heatshield products booth with over sacked NTC
pinning do out of the park
this is an awesome truck so walk us through it well it's been down to the
wire we've done 2931 hours and by the last four and a half months of charge
and the truck layup like saturday night on its way here they went straight
through 26 hours so it's just been a whirlwind getting here but I'm so glad
to be here you and I live pretty close together you help me on my projects
people watch hands on cars they've seen you a bunch I've been on your blog's rb1
customs . com you know we all call it the seam of crunch so gives a couple
stories man well about mid flight of this I came up yawns it's late
absolutely no just completely stressed out of time so you offered to swap out
sometime so you coming up and help me do that funny and I thank you for that
because all that fiberglass working stuff I couldn't get it done in time
without you
they're not only that the front windshield and now we went through like
six six windows two different vendors and we got this window from the glass
guy Chicago no no Friday afternoon my template in three days he met me halfway
in Indianapolis with that window i put it right in there and it fit like a
glove
yeah Brian Harding is the man glass guy in Chicago he came through for you so
that's a perfect segue talk about the way you chopped his top you nailed the
proportion dude that's so hard to do
yeah and I tried to do it without moving the post in so that we could keep the
post
proportional yeah so we chopped it a four-and-a-half inches in the back
I dropped it four and three-quarter inches in the front to give this a
little bit of a break please forward head up high front and the windows and I
want to take that out of it then I took another inch out right here between the
rain god in the top of the road to lower the top yep
then I second it in why did thirty six millimeters and lengthen the 22
millimetres because the footprint got larger as it came down and it made it
look proportional and then I dropped the back window
full-size strike down to have a full-size back window right so when you
look at what distance you really can't tell it's chopped it just no you can't
because like I said you got a good eye for proportion and good after design and
again a nice
detail here that you kind of overlooked and I I knew it had one piece glass
these had a wing factory i refer to DaVinci's rule of thirds all the time
and that's the standard in photography and design but you've captured that here
by eliminating that window you've got a third here the proportions perfect man
yeah and actually when I started the top job i took that we can this windows
first input a black piece of paper behind it right and made that look the
way I wanted the side glass to look together get a good look on the side
glass and built around it and then went up and around and not only doing that in
the front and these are for trucks in front end looks like it's straight out
what you did straight out and high so i cut inch and a half of this fiberglass
bonnet and brought it back in doing so the mouth with smaller so i had to cut
the top of this now lowered it down cut the side of this lowered and drop this
front inch-and-a-quarter so that's all nose and down
yeah and your vents are gone it's so clean there's no side vents here your
center vent
what did you do for suspension on the front i mean i can see it but their
wheels standard and these f100 it was goofy in from the factory
yeah well we did was a commando subprime in here alright have a 74 camaro which
made it really difficult for that big-block forward in the hooker headers
were really tight to get down through there so i got with David steer clear
and he solved the problem with that steer clear comes out in the it and down
yeah then get right back into that Camaro sub frying yeah but this thing
drives so good with that Camaro suprides who was talking about the rear
suspension in a minute because you gotta see it it's pretty impressive but what
I'm looking at right here is the eastwood try flow radiator obviously
it's a universal fit you just made your brackets fit in here but how does it
work how it works great it works better than I thought it would be this big 460
John sharp Beal pushing out like 600 foot pounds of torque so I was more
concerned about overheating so I pulled a 160 degree thermostat in it
well in doing so with the trap lower radiator my the engine morning how to
get to 162 / thermostats don't have to put a 180 thermostat in it yeah butch
drove around town yesterday quite a bit in traffic and it didn't overheat at
also the traffic flow radiator is working outstanding yeah I know johnny
b's use it i know you've used it got one incense and I can't say enough for that
radiator right there you'll notice i have a five millimeter gap on everything
throughout yeah
and only steal front-ends a lot of times they just left them with a big rubber
strap and I didn't want that so I wouldn't gotta latches out of a
chevrolet car fabricating this layup make this top where it shuts like a drum
I mean I've gotta pull release inside to open it up so yeah it worked out real
nice very cool
well let's take a look at the suspension alright let's go the first thing you see
on the side is this ridiculous dish will I had an apartment smaller than that
when i lived in Los Angeles years ago this is sick tell me about the wheels
well Chris kind and good friend of mine want to help me out with these wheels
most wheel order to get it for the larger you know the 22 is now that you
don't get many orders for the 15 so we have to take two rooms cut the lip off
welcome together but insert in them to come up with an 18 inch wide wheel for
these 20-inch wide tire so we got a total of forty inches wide rubber in the
back of this truck when you see it from the back in it's just impressive and
you've talked to the inside these are fiberglass reproduction fender yeah baby
bop made these their outstanding three inches wider gap and the quality and
we're so good all that everything is an epoxy with these words epoxy and and
then pine them
yeah they're really really nice very nice that's a new bed yep grows big babe
yeah you i love your taillights a brushed finish on the taillight and it's
just like I said it's very simple it's very businesslike and he does the job
well I learned that from you
these are just a your economy aftermarket but when you stand them with
that a scotch-brite and put flat clear on them yeah it makes them look it makes
them look so much nicer yeah so and the other thing is neat is the front grille
and the rear bumper
they're shiny everything else is flat on this thing yep that's a new Eastwood's
news ceramic opine ok and that's always deal with I love shooting spray that
stuff is just single-stage carried on there and let it happen
yeah okay tell me the thought behind leaving the bed open
well as we start doing the back I want to do something different usain bolt on
hard to everywhere
yeah these trying arms come out the seven chevrolet truck of course springs
yeah when I started working there me and it looks so needed reminding out for
winter something back in the day when I was a kid so i just want to show all
that off then i went in here with the larger tires only got like 10 millimeter
clearance on each side of the tire so I needed an exact centering method so
that's the watch link there a panhard bar doesn't send it as well as that one
link thanks very much like yeah you can see how that operates so you got really
precise heim joints and you're perfectly centered and you can dial it into the
truck arms well as an industry standard NASCAR still uses the truck arms but and
they are from a truck a reason that's right but but you have refined it with
an upper mounted walks link and i don't think i've ever seen that are hot right
before yeah most of our mat on the rear and i want to show it off so well yeah
we mounted on the top of their also solved the problem of of space and
confinement fit your call / springs with your watch like you'd have to move your
coral overs and you mess with that geometry so now you can keep everything
we're supposed to be
yeah I don't know how well done man well thought-out yep worked out good then
yep and you got tons of heat shield product stuff on your DB shield you've
got the lava wrap on it and it's not just to show it off the stuff works
yeah yeah it works really well especially the baby shield that I've got
on the dollars those doors real teeny sounded and you put that on there and
it's just dead solid sound when you when you tap on it now so what the big thing
here is the flat paint you walk around see more this year especially flat paint
is where it's at and it's a really neat look it's a soft look very mean and it
fits the bill perfectly but it's no joke to spray some of the challenges with
flat paint are streaking modeling things like that but you know you think your
way through problems so talk to us and maybe educate the people watching this a
little bit about some techniques on spraying these two flat clear
well one of the things with spraying the flat clear is you need the humidity to
be loved and his beloved below thirty percent or less because it will cause it
to flash off to sing yeah and when you come off of that painting needs to be as
wet as possible with the slowest reducers possible because you need the
best of the planning agent to come to the top evenly yet so if you do if you
don't let it come the top table and leave a streak ended that streak is
gonna be there so what some people think that humidity is going to let the paint
it's going to take the paint longer to dry because that's how it does with
latex paint just moisture in the air
the water is the solvent with latex paint so when you're painting a house
that's true but with automotive paints their moisture cured so more humidity in
the air it's gonna flash off faster like it and and people need to be reminded of
that when they're doing a project like this yeah but it won't let out gasps so
what I'll do is just make it to our Milky kind of foggy because I just trap
all those solvents in the dying hot-rodding in the fifties started with
a bunch of guys put a bunch of parts together from a bunch of different cars
to make what they wanted to be a car right yeah so you've done the same thing
this is pure hot-rodding talk about the seat it's not a ford f-100 seat now this
is having 90 model Chevrolet trucks eight as long with the firewall the
firewall come out of 90 model Chevrolet truck as well the rest of it we did try
to get like a skeleton typer into your system as far as panel . so there's no
door panels there's no interior panels it's all the actual metal from the
vehicle so we did a BB shield over this and heat shrink it and shot a semi-gloss
only get my ceiling that's the actual skin of the roof up there
yeah but the lava lava shield on that then inside you can see I just takes
your code to the metal and then semi-gloss call the Brian again all
business least the integrated floor mats I've never seen that before you get the
rapture liner on that and it looks like a floor mat sitting in there but man
it's it's it's it's it's upcoding yeah that's a PVC plastic got shared in
strips and then you take a heat gun and heat in place and then glue it to the
floor and spray rapture line right over top of it it's a the floor mat very cool
nice touch on the paddles very industrial the wood panel pedals is at a
low car gas pedal
oh yes that is low car gas pedal and and you saw outside with a steer clear
yeah so you can see in here where my steering column goes straight away and
it gives me enough clearance and real estate for my pedals so that my steering
column is not right there where your feet go
yeah and then that goes along with my hotrod theme and underneath my dash you
can see my sportsman x-fi fuel injection my MSD so everything is hot rod and
everything was this decided without writing this is a real functional
beautiful you've got a heater and you're no air-conditioning
really needed with and I always make them to drive so everything from the
camshaft to the tower hi to the gear ratio is set to wear this thing will go
down the interstate 70 miles an hour about 2,000 rpms the camaro stuff right
gives you a nice ride nice breaks very dependable runs cool i mean this could
be a daily driver
yeah yeah a lot of fun a lot of yeah but I got away from me on the way out here
and I thought I better get this home so we can get the same
uh-huh before you bend it yeah i know a few quarters
yeah it's interesting to me that you use the model car for a rendering because
that's what I get that's the vibe i get when i look at the front of this it
looks like in a large boy car and are like a model of some kind and the way
you did that was really smart i thought the little of marker lights that usually
go under the the headlights of an f-100 in this year they're gone
just makes it look a little bit animated yeah that's what we're shooting for
and if you'll notice when I right when I lower the front and well within the
marker lights i lowered the griot in the center of the opening of the mouth of
the bonnet and then he noticed the eastwood ceramic-coated like on the back
bumper really really looks nice on there
mhm and then all that work you did for me this thing had a recess for bumper
miles and do I a marker lights we flatten this out just using basic
double-sided fiberglass repair techniques and flatten it out here
smooth everything smooth this up behind so it looks like the grill is lifted off
thats all real simple techniques that are good DIY techniques but the
interesting thing is what it does it creates space here the grill is now
floating and i don't know i mean that the thing that I learned in my studies
of fiberglass repair is the the magic bullet the ceiling the M&M shell on the
end of every fiberglass repair is gel coat and it creates that skin on top of
it and its really really important for guys to remember and that's what we did
there and it was really cool to have my hands in this project so I was nice to
be a part of it and i really liked that joke technique in the past I've done
epoxy and stuff like that but turn method with the joke i really like that
fiberglass down get to where the solvent can't come up through that fiberglass
especially on aftermarket fiberglass stuff that stuff can work out from on so
you know having said that there's Eastwood coatings Eastwood products all
over this truck how did Eastwood help bill
over stacked well it would help that with the flat road clear this is even
got a high metallic midnight black base coat on it that outside that it's just
the flight is just incredible but not only their products the base of the
plasma cutter i love that i'm using plasma cutters for years but i guess the
technologies gotten up in our like he's the tip i use one tip over and over and
over where they used to really burn them up so the plasma cutter was super
helpful with this
yeah and then the ceramic coating the the radiator the the primers the epoxy i
love that epoxy i use that poxy for everything even uses sailor before .
reduce it down a little more and use the Sailor so a lot of great part products
on here for me to it yeah well I know we're proud to be on your vehicles and
again
beautiful job congratulations for making it to SEMA this is TC panic from day one
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