With:
Rae Champoux
iZook Guru's Ultimate Project Build Off
- Truck Two
With Rae Champoux
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  If I didn’t know that Scott lived on coffee from the gas station at the end of
the road and No Fear energy drinks I would wonder how he could do so much!! We
pulled in tired and worn out from the drive and what was suppose to be a turn
around trip from Muskegon, Michigan to Kenosha, Wisconsin all in the same night…
you know drive over, drop off the truck and turn right around and come back
home, turned into a 4 hour talk fest… in the middle of the night. We headed back
towards Michigan at around 2 in the morning, had to stop when we got to the
Indiana Michigan border, neither one of us fit to drive any longer.
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  Well the melt came and went, the tin top project unfortunately didn’t end up
making its deadline, and is still not completely done, but look at this cage!!
When I got the first few photos of it, I got the chills from it, and was excited
to see what else Scott had up his sleeve. I got the call a few weeks back from
Scott, to let me know that I could come pick it up. He got it all bent up and
wrapped the truck with it. The cool part, it can completely be removed from the
truck… that is if you have the man power to do the lifting. Which is what I will
have to do once I have it back in my own garage. I am going to finish welding
some spots on the cage that need to be completed. But I just had to drop in on
everyone and let them know that the tin top is still out there, still going and
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  You gotta check out the sweet bumpers on my rig too. The front bumper is from
ShrockWorks. This bad boy tips the scale at over 60 pounds and was about all I
could do to hold it so a picture could be taken of me and it! It is made out of
¼” steel plate and looks fantastic on the front on my truck. There are two tow
points, which will come in handy if we ever need help getting out of a bad
stuck. J It comes with the lights
and everything to attach it to the truck, I was more than impressed upon
receiving it. The rear bumper is from Zuks Offroad. Myron sent this one out to
me and when I got the box I about killed myself trying to lift it, talk about
heavy duty. I love how tight to the body it is. When I first started this
project, I thought that I would make bumpers for myself, you know, get the
experience of it all, but I am glad that I went a different route, I am more
than pleased with the choices to put these on instead of what I would have came
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| Cross your fingers that it doesn’t snow for us in the next two weeks so I can go pick up the tin top from 4X Fabrication and get her back in my garage. I still have a ton to do. Updates to follow. J | ||||||||
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Scott
Yach a.k.a. RockRat, from Rock 4X Fabrication, is definitely one of those
people who you can tell “ Just do what you think will be functional and look
cool.” and have complete faith that the end result will be wicked! I had been
talking to him for a while about the tin top, and he agreed to bend up an exo
cage for it. We talked at length about what I liked and didn’t like about other
cages I had seen on rigs out there on the internet. He talked about the
possibilities to do this and that. Finally, I just said, “ You know, I trust you
to do it right. I will just leave it up to you.” 
07/24/2010 08:19
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