so two weeks ago I went out and bought a 2017 f-150 I really wanted to get a
rafter but after looking at the prices looking at what I could do with a stock
basically XLT 2017 f150 it just wasn't worth it for me to go and spend $80,000
MSRP you know crazy markup on the rafters right now so I basically bought
2017 f150 two-wheel drive with the 2.7 liter EcoBoost and I'm going to turn it
into a raptor and I'm explain how I'm gonna do it but I'm also gonna talk
about in this video how I got my truck on 237 s with 17-inch wheels and kind of
talk about where it's at right now I've had it for two weeks I've got all the
parts ordered but it's kind of slowly coming into parts and kind of break it
down what's going on with this build right now so stay tuned so for the front
suspension I'm running the 4.5 max track spindle lift kit that's all I'm running
in the front and then I'm adding the icon coil over so basically I'm think
I'm sitting about 7 inches maybe 6 inches after the coil overs after the
spindles in the front it only take about 2 hours to install also what we did it
was he cut the front crash bars off and I'm only running the stock upper control
arms right now cuz I'm waiting for for the upper control arms to be shipped and
delivered soon so once I get those on there I'll get the upper control arms
upgraded as well but right now I'm only running the spindles and the coil over
also you can see in the front I've got a new bumper there I found this bumper on
Amazon it was a totally this random company it actually looks pretty good I
paid about 400 bucks with an actual light bar but I think I'm gonna run the
light bar light bar just looks kind of cheap
I like the bumper it's got a skid plate on it it's simple it's easy it makes the
truck like a lot more aggressive and gives me a lot more ground clearance you
can see kind of looking at the fender wells
I removed the inner fender well I removed some of other parts I don't
think I really needed to do that but I'm going to be upgrading to the McNeil
Raptor fiberglass so I was gonna do it anyway but I think you could get away
with just leaving the stock fenders in there and it's kind of leaving like it
is you can see I'm not having any rubbing at all I can get full turn left
right no rubbing driving bumps all that stuff I drove it over 300 miles so far
and I'm not having any issues with bumps or any kind of rubbing with running a 37
s the truck drives fine obviously a little bit slower than
normal because it's got 37th and I got the stock gear stills but I need upgrade
the gears I'm gonna be doing some tunes to it's like that but overall the truck
handles are 37 fine it drives on the road perfectly straight these are the
Toyo 37-inch mud trains 13 fives with a 17 inch method wheel 17 by 8 5 wheel so
you can see they fit they fit in there a lot of people thought they wouldn't fit
but they fit I think with the stock bumper it would have required some
cutting also in the back I'm running 2 inch blocks and that's all I added with
the two-wheel drive there's no blocks in the back so I added the 2 inch blocks
and then I added some icon 2.0 shocks in the back as well for the 2 inch lifts
and it fits it's really tight I kind of jumped up and down on the back tailgate
we got about 3 or 4 guys they didn't rub and haven't had any issues yet I've
looked at the tires benders are real round and you can fit the 37 in there no
problem I think that probably got away with stock if I really wanted to be
really really tight there but two inches works out I might add a one inch shackle
in the back as well we'll see what happens but I kind of want to break down
what I got going on right now with this truck I replace the front grille I
replace the rear taillights so far my plan right now is to replace the front
hood with the McNeil Raptor hood I'm gonna replace the fenders and the front
the front plastic pieces that are underneath the headlights those
headlights also will be replaced with the black style LED headlights in the
front there so that way the whole front is kind of blacked out and looking a lot
cleaner instead of having those stock chrome headlights I'm also gonna be
upgrading to the toe mirror so I think this looks a little bit beefier a little
bit a little bit different but overall I really love the way this truck sits
right now with these 37 s I would always get thirty fives and I would be like man
I really wish I had 37 so finally to get 37 on this truck I'm pretty excited
about that after about two weeks having on 37 s and kind of looking mean and I
like it so right now I'm gonna be waiting for the new fenders to come in
and after that I'm working on getting a wrap on it I kind of figured out some
kind of cool colorway or something to do hopefully you guys enjoy and stay tuned
for more videos more updates on the truck build so far it's only been two
weeks we'll see what happens about two months from now