Challenge Why Wait: Coated By Crimson Tower Armoury

Are you able to imagine we’re arising on six years since I first began Challenge Why Wait? I hardly can and I’ve been the one doing it. However at the beginning of 2021 it’s felt like the tip is lastly coming into focus.

To assist relight a hearth inside the undertaking Jeff Wybrow and I hatched a plan to convey Challenge Why Wait to his store IssyFab Velocity & Engineering this June.

Jeff will end off wiring and firing the truck together with a couple of different drivability considerations his store focuses on. Whereas the #siegmc is gone I’ll convey my mattress in from the yard and begin the metallic restore and refinishing wanted there.

The truck may also take a bit journey to the physique store whereas overseas, however we’ll get to these plans in a distinct put up. Earlier than the truck leaves nevertheless, I must care for the record you noticed on the high of this put up.

Regardless of wanting fairly full at occasions a number of the truck has simply been “put” collectively. A number of gadgets wanted coating, torqueing, portray and so forth to actually be ticked off as full.

This consists of the again half, which ultimately verify appeared like this:

Fairly ‘shut’, however clearly the masking tape, protecting plastic and uncoated Airlift Efficiency tanks needed to go. I went forwards and backwards on what shade to do the tanks. I bated round a contrasting shade, however probably the most

Easiest, however most evident.

Coloration chosen, my subsequent slight hurdle was coating. I needed one thing that wasn’t too shiny or thick however a extra pure end to match the air compressors. After seeing a couple of gadgets accomplished in Cerakote at GT Customized Exhaust Oshawa I made a decision to provide it a attempt.

In case you’re not acquainted, Cerakote is a ceramic end. It’s a lot thinner than powder coat, however nonetheless gives abrasion/put on resistance, chemical safety, and it’s usually more durable than paint.

Right here in Durham Area Ontario Crimson Tower Armoury is the chief in Ceramic Coatings. If it wants coating they’ve doubtless accomplished it. And for those who’re undecided if it wants coating they’ll allow you to determined how and what it wants.

With my tanks being reasonably low on the complexity scale of labor they’ve accomplished they merely knocked it out of the park.

There’s additionally a couple of different gadgets they did for me hanging in my storage. However, we’ll get to these later as I assemble the inside.

The tanks are black now, however the grain of the aluminum remains to be seen, as are the welds and all of the craftsmanship Air Elevate initially put into the items.

Extra importantly, it appears to be like nice subsequent to the entire different black elements. The RCI Gasoline Cell, Viair compressors, and brake strains. Additionally, price noting, in these photographs the chassis is practically utterly wired.

The primary rear chassis harness has been run by way of the body, along with the Airlift fundamental harness run in this put up from 2018.

For the reason that photographs above, I’ve been within the storage no less than three nights every week sniping gadgets from my record. Mid June is about thirty days away and I’ve bought loads of work to do!

As at all times observe me on Instagram for shorter updates on the progress as I transfer alongside.