{"id":1181,"date":"2021-05-11T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2024-03-11T11:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:27:54","slug":"project-why-wait-coated-by-red-tower-armoury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/project-why-wait-coated-by-red-tower-armoury\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Why Wait: Coated By Red Tower Armoury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you believe we\u2019re coming up on six years since I first started Project Why Wait<\/a>? I hardly can and I\u2019ve been the one doing it. But at the start of 2021 it\u2019s felt like the end is finally coming into focus.<\/p>\n

To help relight a fire within the project Jeff Wybrow and I hatched a plan to bring Project Why Wait<\/a> to his shop IssyFab Speed & Engineering<\/a> this<\/strong> June.<\/p>\n

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Jeff will finish off wiring and firing the truck along with a few other drivability concerns his shop specializes in. While the #siegmc<\/a> is gone I will bring my bed in from the backyard and start the metal repair and refinishing needed there.<\/p>\n

The truck will also take a little trip to the body shop while abroad, but we\u2019ll get to those plans in a different post. Before the truck leaves however, I need to take care of the list you saw at the top of this post.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Despite looking pretty complete at times a lot of the truck has just been \u201cput\u201d together. Several items needed coating, torqueing, painting and so forth to really be ticked off as complete.<\/p>\n

This includes the back half, which at last check looked like this:<\/p>\n

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Pretty \u2018close\u2019, but obviously the masking tape, protective plastic and uncoated Airlift Performance tanks had to go. I went back and forth on what color to do the tanks. I bated around a contrasting color, but the most <\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Simplest, but most obvious.<\/p>\n

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Color chosen, my next slight hurdle was coating. I wanted something that wasn\u2019t too glossy or thick but a more natural finish to match the air compressors. After seeing a few items done in Cerakote at GT Custom Exhaust Oshawa I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re not familiar, Cerakote is a ceramic finish. It\u2019s much thinner than powder coat, but still provides abrasion\/wear resistance, chemical protection, and it\u2019s generally harder than paint.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here in Durham Region Ontario Red Tower Armoury<\/a> is the leader in Ceramic Coatings. If it needs coating they\u2019ve likely done it. And if you\u2019re not sure if it needs coating they\u2019ll help you decided how and what it needs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>With my tanks being rather low on the complexity scale of work they\u2019ve done they simply knocked it out of the park.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a few other items they did for me hanging in my garage. But, we\u2019ll get to those later as I assemble the interior. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The tanks are black now, but the grain of the aluminum is still visible, as are the welds and all the craftsmanship Air Lift originally put into the pieces.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>More importantly, it looks great next to all of the other black components. The RCI Fuel Cell, Viair compressors, and brake lines. Also, worth noting, in these photos the chassis is nearly<\/em> completely wired.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The main rear chassis harness has been run through the frame, in addition to the Airlift main harness run in this post from 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Since the photos above, I\u2019ve been in the garage at least three nights a week sniping items from my list. Mid June is about thirty days away and I\u2019ve got plenty of work to do!<\/p>\n

As always follow me on Instagram <\/a>for shorter updates on the progress as I move along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you believe we\u2019re coming up on six years since I first started Project Why Wait? I hardly can and I\u2019ve been the one doing it. But at the start of 2021 it\u2019s felt like the end is finally coming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}