Nick Cannon's Van Lift & Bumper | West Coast Customs Delivery and Tour

The Auto Geek
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3 Video Views·Oct 23, 2022
Wait a second. Wait a second. Who are you?
You got to introduce yourself first. Like hey, I'm Jeremy from Weld Tech Designs and
Okay, good now you can tell where we're headed where are we going today?
So we're going to West Coast Customs to drop off a bumper and this lift for Nick Cannon's van.
Dude killed it. I got nothing else to say, but I guess today's a road trip day
We are headed to the world famous West Coast Customs to deliver some awesome Weld Tech goodies
Which include a 5-inch suspension lift for a Chevy Express van and a killer aluminum front bumper
So we're gonna head up there and go deliver some parts have some fun check out what they got going on, right? Let's go
Yeah
Jeremy
Good nice for making the truck down to us, but this is our crazy van and now we're ready to make your van
Just as crazy. Excellent. Well, that's what we're looking for. We're looking for these
you know
Custom unique fitments that
No one else is really willing to tackle. It looks like you nailed it on the head, right?
And that's what's gonna be great about this is when we're all done
It's gonna have the same sort of lift is what is on here
So it's gonna sit really nice when we're all done with it
So you guys are done with it with all of our suspension on the front and back
It's just gonna look killer so
Where do you want us to unload that show me a little bit of my truck
So what this started off is is a
2016 Chevy Express two-wheel drive. We did a four-wheel drive conversion on this
We've completely converted the front end box lower control arms billet upper control arms
Full coilover suspension on the front of it and then in the rear we did custom leaf spring
This thing has 24 inches of articulation
So it's not just the mall crawler like you could actually use this thing off-road and have a good time
But what the best part about it is is I got four kids
So it's the seating inside it all luxury seating for all the little monsters
Inside but then as you see like full roof rack on it ladder, that's where Caden Caden
Where's your favorite spot to hang out on this thing?
Yeah, he's always climbing up there on the roof rack. So this is Caden from growing up garage
Always at the shop. He always usually says he's the boss so
We gotta listen to what he says. No, so it looks cool and it's functional it is it's totally functional
Okay, it's uh, I mean and you can tell by
How much we've torn these Toyo tires up in the rear just from this thing getting so articulated that
The tires had nowhere to go, but so now we gotta do more fun stuff like that. Well a good time
We'll see how giant this is. I mean we had to like take out a seat just in order for it to fit in here
But this is it and then all wood flooring in here
all on track so then that way
It's all fully adjustable. All the seats modular inside here, which is really cool
Excellent. What's that little man? Oh
It's it'll stay open and this is the trick thing right here
If you guys don't know, you know that the doors open more than 90 on your van. Have you messed with that at all?
I don't think we've tackled that yet
So this is the trick thing if you close the door and pull the lever the door will open all the way
So one thing definitely to share with your customers who have it because a lot of times that's frustrating
You're like my door doesn't open all the way. I need more. Yep
So that's gonna be for the front, but now let's check out how we're gonna make this thing sit so nice
So those are the three-inch lift spindles right there
That's what's going to give it half of its height right there in order to clear the bigger tire
So awesome part all chromoly all TIG welded things are a beast
And then also finish it off. We're gonna do Fox shocks all four corners, which is gonna be awesome
We'll let him carry the bumper. He can probably handle that on your own to go one step further
I'm gonna meet you around back. All right, perfect mom. Sounds good, right? Let's do it. Let's see you guys over there
Put it right next to those spacers, would you?
Well constructed that was gonna be like death to smooch
And then these are gonna be the big bolts
It'll all drop through on the front and then these are all the hardware. So
If you're really gonna get carried away, so these are the big bolts that we run on this
And it's because we're using the existing old so same thing
You're gonna open up the whole little bit and I mean now so if you are using it with the winch in there
I mean, you're not gonna break these bolts, you know, but that's the the biggest thing is how it all slides together
Yeah, you break that you broke the whole van like you got bigger problems now, but so it's gonna you'll hear it click back in
So now it's not gonna open all the way. So now get it to about there now pull that little latch
This right here. So you see so once you yeah pull it towards you
Boom like
Something so silly
Dude I would come on be like, hey, why aren't you guys opening this door all the way?
Wouldn't it be easier to work on but you can do that with both doors, you know, so, you know
Still get a ton more room now. Now. You're like, okay now we can get in and out where we're not just stuck
so
One of the super well tech secrets right there. But yeah, no, I mean
You're changing yeah, so I want you to see all these cool rides so
Absolutely, welcome to West Coast Customs. Let me show you some pretty cool rides
What do you think about this one in pink? Is that is that cool for you?
Or you want something a little bit more wild?
All right, what about a spaceship on wheels
You like that and I want better for you. Follow me. You ever seen a Ferrari a lot Ferrari
very rare very fast
special flagship edition Ferrari
and this right here is something that we're building this is a
from scratch roundup build that we're doing and it's to replicate and take the theme of a
Fiat Jolly, it's an inspired Fiat Jolly. Then we do everything. We'll go through here. We do four by four
This is an original equipment Mercedes-Benz four by four squared
Kind of like all the off-road stuff you do but this one's from the factory
That Ferrari is almost like your go-kart so Caden races go-karts, but you think you could race the Ferrari
Or maybe you're gonna race the Ferrari side-by-side. Oh, you want to race the Ferrari would that be fun? Yeah
This is where we do our magic. We do everything from painting cars building cars
fabricating
everything that
You guys do but we just build anything you can imagine
This is where we paint so I'll show you inside here
Where we paint all the cars patient system
So you don't smell all the paint and then it heats up to the right temperature so that the paint cures properly
If you could paint anything Caden, what would be the first thing that you painted?
The mini-dwarf, we need a paint job on that
1949
Do you know what it is?
Is it off-road suspension on it? Yeah, I don't know how good that would look. You like hot rods. We're good in a hot rod
Yeah
Not right now, but we're in the process of building
Kind of weave our way through here
Old cars to new cars to all these cars. Do you have a Hot Wheels collection?
This is like a real Hot Wheels garage right here
All the cool toys back when magazines were the thing to do
So a lot of a lot of the cars are still I mean still here are still relevant, you know, it's one way or another, right
I can set you up with the parts that you're gonna need to do that to make that like so much better
Nice to meet you
Nice to meet you. He's been super pumped to meet you. So nice. How old are you?
Wow, and you're already racing
You know
So
He's always in the shop. So we started this which is growing a garage and basically it's we're gonna
teach kids how to use tools and
Educational stuff for YouTube and that's like that. So I feel like a lot of kids do not get that. Yeah
Yeah
Yeah, if you were telling us you were the boss of the cadence
So what is it about West Coast Customs? You've been watching all their videos. You love their videos. What is your favorite one?
Yeah, yeah, so it was a good build yeah, and then we knew locks me because we were a spot off so then okay
Back because Dana and general tires and all of that. So then we were sponsored by general tire also at the same time
So yeah, that was a bummer. Yeah
fast, yeah, like
so
But yeah, no, thanks for
Time. Oh good. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for driving. Yeah
If you guys have any questions when you guys go to install any of the parts hit me up
I'll be happy to walk you through it and
Like I said, if you guys start doing any more of these vans or buses or ambulances, I mean that's our specialty
So we've been down ambulance. We should probably try to figure out. Well, that's what I was telling you
We have a whole kit for the front of that. So it's like no-brainer plug play
done like
Even like steering stabilizer everything on there. That'll just go right on and make it really easy to
And you'll be happy you won't be cussing at it fighting it. Yeah
Yeah
Yeah, nice to meet you buddy
Keep up the good work. So yeah, check out my youtube channel. That's it. Check that out. Yeah
Well now the fun part of driving home. Well, not really the fun part about that
Caden's having fun
West Coast Customs, we're on our way home back to San Diego Caden still watching West Coast Customs a big
Thank you to all the guys at West Coast Customs for giving us a killer tour of the place
What did you think of it, buddy?
I have to agree with what he said some really cool cars
So hopefully we'll be working with them on some future projects coming up. So
until the next video
I gotta drive now. You guys gotta get out of here. Make sure you guys smash that subscribe button, right Caden?
Right there
He said it all I got nothing see you guys on the next one
