Welcome back guys. I got an interesting build going on today. It’s pretty normal until you look at everything that we’ve got going on with it. This is going to be a 20121 GMC Sierra 1500. This is an AT4—it’s an all-h truck. We’re going to be doing a set of 37in Toyo MTS on 24×14 KG1 Forged. It’s the Victor is the wheel.
Now, this truck is going on a MGoy kit. It’s 9 in. The important thing about this truck is it was inspired by two trucks we’ve done in the past. One was owned by J Ford—it’s a blue Silverado, and then one is Alvin—it’s a rose gold Silverado. If you guys remember from a couple of years ago, that’s what inspired this truck.
Now, this is not going to be a standard build by any means. This is definitely fully custom. He has every upgrade that MGoy offers for this lift kit—face plates, upper control arms, everything. And he also has lights going into the bars under the truck, the strut tensioners, and the traction bars.
So I’m going to show you the truck first, and then I’ll show you some of the parts that he’s getting put on it. As you can see, how it’s sitting right now is a basic truck. He’s done a little bit of color matching on the front end and a couple little things here and there, but for the most part, it’s a stock truck.
The MGoy kit, he actually learned how to powder coat himself over the last year, and he did his own kit. And I will have to say, this kit looks amazing. There’s your crossmember right there. He has painted the stainless steel inserts in the back of the crossmember here. He has powder coated them orange. This is a face plate upgrade that MGoy sells on their website for their lift kits. Very, very uncommon part to see because it’s so expensive. This part’s probably $600 by itself—just that little aluminum face plate. But it looks really good. I mean, it does.
Then your MGoy logo, both right on top. He has done every single part of this lift kit like this. Absolutely beautiful. Inside this arm right here, he has run lighting. You can see where the wire comes out right there. There’s magnetized rock lights inside the arm itself, which is completely insane. I’ve never thought about doing that, but he did, and that’s awesome.
He’s even gone as far as to customize some of the parts that came with the MGoy kit. This is the sway bar drop on the front. He made these orange inserts in the back himself, and he also did it here. Let me show you the front of the differential skid plate. He has made his own orange pieces to go in the back here, and they fit perfect. They look like they came from the MGoys. Look at that—it’s awesome. So yeah, I’m very excited about this one. I’m sure there are some things that I didn’t touch on, but I will show you real fast the wheels. It’s a 24×14 KG1 Victor. There is white powder coat in between every other spoke, and then the entire back of the wheel is completely white. It’s pretty awesome. So stay tuned for this one.
“What you doing to it?”
“It is… give me a list.”
“Those tires, and I believe a leveling kit.”
“A leveling kit? Try again, buddy.”
“Lift kit.”
“What kind?”
“Getting that 16 in.”
“Wrong. Cognito. Try again.”
This is a nice one, and to my friend Joe Hill that brought me this truck, I wanted to say again, man, I appreciate it. It’s crazy that people drive out here from far away or short distances to give us the chance to do a truck and make it look good and put our work into it. Obviously, we’re going to do a good job on the truck either way because we really care honestly about the end consumer and how the truck is for him.
But this speaks for itself—I mean, the truck looks beautiful. There’s not really any stone left unturned on this one. Joe is from, like, a little bit south of Mon, I guess it is. Probably I’m wrong on this—he’s a little bit away from us, maybe an hour away from the shop, two hours away from the shop. So for him to pass all the other shops he could have passed to get us to do it, I do appreciate it. 24x14s, 9in MGoy lift, and some 37in Toyos—turned out awesome. I’m going to flip the camera around, let you guys take a look at it for yourselves. Just give me a comment about it—let me know what you think. Here it is.
So, as you guys know, when we do the wide wheels, the 14 wides and stuff like that, we do have to modify the fenders. I think this is the best possible outcome considering the circumstances of how big this tire and wheel is actually on the truck. Back here, the mud flap is gone as usual.
Now, a Toyo tire versus a Fury tire—I think the Toyo is a better tire overall. Fury offers more sizes, like 26s, that Toyo doesn’t offer. But the difference really falls down to Toyo—when it says it’s a 37in tire, it is 37in tall. A Fury, being made overseas versus United States, is a little bit different height. It rides about, I don’t know, 36 and a quarter in tall, where you know Toyos do not. So there’s a little bit more trimming involved when you do a Toyo or a Nitto tire because they are true to size. So that’s how we get away with some of the big, big Furies on there—it’s just not a true size tire. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s the case.
This is the 24×14 KG1 Victor. He has the windows powder coated white along with the back of the wheel. Looks awesome. You really can’t see the white as much, but I kind of like the subtle look, you know? Traction bars that we did—gloss white powder coat. The accent pieces inside the traction bar here that are normally stainless steel or chrome, he’s done them in orange. Then he bought the upgraded faceplate for the top in the raw aluminum finish. He went ahead and made it match by doing the front compression struts here. Did the faceplates like that, and then he did the front crossmember as well right there. Also, he did the upper control arms. He went ahead and completed it with the aluminum ball joint cap, and then he did powder coat on these overlays in the same orange that he has on the bars under the truck.
Now, this truck has color-matched spindles and lower control arms. Now, this lower control arm is not powder coated—this is paint because the bush that you see right there will burn up inside the powder coat oven. They may not burn to the look just by the eye, but over time, it will dry out the bushing, and you will get a squeak from it. So I typically do not like those being powder coated, so these are painted white.
Overall, the presentation of the truck to me is wonderful. Looks great. I hope Mr. Joe enjoys this truck. I don’t know how he wouldn’t—it looks awesome. Truck drives good. We just did two test drives on it—I just drove it around the building, and you can’t even feel that thing is lifted, and you cannot even feel the tires. There’s no noise, there’s no vibration or anything. This truck’s a good everyday driver.
So anyhow, let me know what you think about the truck. Thanks for subscribing. Leave me a comment, like something, do anything you want—I appreciate it.
