Complementary Service
By now you’ve noticed how well everything on the truck fits together from a visual perspective. The credit for that goes to a local shop called CJ’s Automotive Customs. According to Jordan, “He pretty much put this whole truck together. Every bit of mechanical work outside of motor work was done by him.” All of the components underneath the truck that really pop and stand out would normally be the kind of thing you powdercoat, but Jordan says they went in a different direction for this build. “That’s actually all a coating called Raptor UPOL. It’s like a Line-X product, so it’s a little more durable than powder coat and it can be touched up really easy. The cool thing about it is if anything does get scuffed up or chipped off, I just drive over to CJ’s and he hits it again and it’s good as new. With powdercoat, you have to pull the whole part off. We wanted something that was going to take a beating on the road for a long time. Things go wrong and nothing’s bulletproof, right? So something that was easily fixed was nice.” The color scheme Jordan went with is a really nice balance of highlighting key components with the ice blue color that’s prevalent on the rest of the truck, while leavening the standout nature of that color with a nice neutral silver color elsewhere. Of course, that same theme extends to the wrap on both the truck and trailer, which Arctic FX did themselves, with the vinyl supplied by Wensco Sign Supply.
One really neat thing about the truck is the Arctic FX emblems on the radius arms. “CJ was thinking we should do something with that because we didn’t know what to do,” Jordan says. “He has a plasma cutter and made a two-part plate and coated them. He then mapped out the shape of that radius arm and made a plate that would fit in there.” The resulting plate looks so nice on the radius arms that Kelderman is actually producing their own version. “It’s neat that they liked it so much they added it!” Jordan says with a laugh.
There’s a tuner mounted to the left of the steering wheel that might look a little odd, since it appears to be a smartphone. “That [is] a phone, but it’s also the tuner,” he says. “It’s working great; I love it. It’s called Auto Agent Easy Link. It’s new for the Fords.” It’s a tune that you load up through the OBD port, but there’s a box that permanently plugs into the truck’s OBD port and gives off a WiFi signal that then links up to your phone. The app lets you view all the gauges and everything else you might want to know, such as pressure, fuel rail pressure, RPMs, and more. There’s also a 5-position switch that allows you to switch your tunes more quickly than going into the app to do so.
