Quigley 4x4 van build | converting a Chevy Express 6.6 Duramax into the ultimate Overland vehicle

So I'm Jeremy Johnson, the owner of Weld Tech Designs. We are generally just an off-road fabrication shop that have now kind of ventured into building just the super custom vans. Road to SEMA, a 90-day build, started out as just a customer reaching out to us and it progressed and we started kidding around like, hey, we should build this van for SEMA. And, you know, finally I was like, hey, let's just commit to this. Let's get a game plan together and let's see who we could get involved in this. Fortunately, with the help of, you know, Expedition Portal, which has been a huge contributor to our success and this customer found us on there. The van had 197 miles on it. He picked it up, drove it down here from Orange County and like, here you go, here's my brand new van. So he ordered it, you know, eight months ago from Chevy, it went to Quigley, Quigley did the four-wheel drive conversion on it and then he picked it up and two days later brought it to us. Oh my gosh, like if something happened to this, like it would kill me, you know, like if this anything. The Chevy platform is awesome and the Quigley suspension is a great suspension. You know, our first thing was, you know, how could we make it better? So the first thing we did is we got in touch with the people at Quigley. Those people have been amazing with so much information about parts that they use and talking with them and like how we could work together in developing new parts for this. Our goal is to improve the ride of this van. Okay, how can we improve the front suspension? How can we improve the rear suspension? Key things that are going to make people want a Quigley over any other brand. We're adding front bumpers and rear bumpers, rock sliders, you know, the roof rack. We're eliminating the torsion bars on this and going to a full king coilover, which, you know, it's specifically going to be valved for this particular vehicle with the spring rates with the, you know, so we take into account everything that your van has in order to get you the best possible ride you can out of this suspension. We're going to make it so that you can run a 35 inch tire, which nobody else can do on a Chevy van. And we hope to take the knowledge that we learned from this and the design of it, apply that to the two wheel drives and start offering a four inch lift kit for the two wheel drives, a six inch lift kit for the two wheel drives and a coilover conversion for them. So it's really taking that platform that we learned on the four wheel drive and now applying that to two wheel drive and just making those vans handle just as good. We want to just give you guys awesome parts. So, you know, we definitely look forward if you can't, you know, be at SEMA 2016, we hope that you will definitely stay tuned, you know, subscribe to our YouTube channel, watch us on social media, Expedition Portal, you know, follow us on Instagram, Pinterest, and really just pay attention to this build because we want to build stuff for you. Otherwise, we'll see you at SEMA 2016.