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Paint the top of the roof of the trailer white, it will help reflect the sun.

Spray the floor with white Rhino Liner, bonds well with wood and it will give it some insulation, it will also make clean-ups easier if the car you are hauling is leaking after a burn-out. Spraying the bottom of the trailer also will help as well, black liner will absorb the heat and make the ramp hot as hell if you leave it down. Also, paint the roof of the trailer with Liquid Rubber (name brand) white RV roof coating, it's solar reflective, it runs around $400 for 5 gallons,I put 3 coats on my RV roof and my A/C run time was cut in half. (South Carolina which also gets very hot and humid)

You might want a snatchblock on the floor of the trailer so once you pull a lower car over the ramp you can get the cable under the bumper

TRick I learned from my dad, if you are parking the trailer on asphalt, get a roll of indoor outdoor carpet to keep the asphalt cool around the trailer saves on keeping it from radiating up through the floor. And you leave less tools behind if you work on a floor covering you roll back up and bring with you.

Try reflective silver paint on the trailer roof to reduce solar heating. Or solar electric panels with an air gap between the panels and the trailer roof.

That hole for the winch is glorious. You should call it the glory hole.

I’d recommend putting a rooftop AC unit on like a camper has. Easy to install and much better units than portable ac units. Great content!

Matt, for 'plugs' for that hole.... you hit on it when you put the hitch in instead of the winch. Weld up a little table to slot in there when deployed, or a coat rack, etc. Endless accessories. Also, safety-cable a hitch pin to the bar in the generator hutch, so there's always one right there to use.

Matt, that interior hitch.. an idea for when the trailer is your office... the generator is RIGHT there, make the 'hitch cover" with a standard 110 outlet and some usb charging ports. Some quick-connects on the inside and you have a hitch cover / power station.

Mikey is a freaking genius. That was a great idea with cutting the panels.

Paint the interior Battleship Grey. It keeps the theme of the Demolitia and would look really cool. OD Green would look good too. And “ Hell Yeah Brother “ it was worth it for that trophy and the memories that come with that trophy. That’s the most important part. You should start a photo album to carry in the trailer. Put photos and trophies from events. Put dates on the back of the photos. This will help you keep the memories in order as you get older and for your kids. They’ll appreciate it one day. Hope this helps. Hope you have a great day with your mom today.

they make a roll on insulation for RV's and campers called Hy-Tech Bus Kote thermal insulating paint get that and roll it on the top it will make a HUGE difference.

Cooling tips. Paint the outside silver, white or some shiny paint instead instead of matte-black. Sure, black looks cooler, but dark matte colours absorb heat like a fuddermother.

Matt no matter what you will need a much bigger AC unit. I have tried doing the same thing in my trailer. Yes insulation helped but needed more AC to keep it cool through out the day.

I agree with the rino lining the floor you wont be disappointed.

The exhaust on the ac unit you were using is 140degrees outside of the hose, get a roof unit

For the winch mounting it high like that maybe good so you’ll be able to start the pull into the trailer but you may want to think about adding a snatch block mount on the floor near the winch so you can redirect the cable lower to be able to keep pulling the vehicles in without damaging them or their trim/paint. Just an idea sir. And hell yeah it was worth it! Burn the tires off 🔥!

Keeping the demolitia and your brothers memory alive.

HELL YAH BROTHER! Thank You Matt, Mere, fam, extended Fam, Dr and Mrs Lee. Thank you Demo and Off, Renovation and Desperado.

Arctic camo for the inside of the trailer. Friend of mine had a 5\8th inch steel plate 2x3 feet, he welded a bead around the top and cut a 1 inch hole for a drain, it made a hell of a good BBQ just threw it down and let the sun do it's thing. You did say it was hot in Texas.

How to paint a box? Just hire or invite the coolest graffiti artists. Let them make you a piece of art inside. You've already started decorating the outside of the trailer.

I just love the crew you have working with you. It seems they jump in on any project Matt dreams up. From office work to grunt work they are there and seemingly having a good time too.

Hey Matt I insulated my trailer also, I used weight lifting / exercise rubber mats to put on the floor they interlock, 1/2 inch thick works very well to keep heat/ cold out.

Congrats on the dominating win! You are blessed to have such good people around you to bring your dreams to reality-- Clint and Jenna, Mikey the Madman, the Holden Bros, and the Camera Meister! (I'm sure I'm missing someone... hey, get in the video if you want to be noticed!). Thanks for continuing to include us ordinary citizens in your projects and endeavors...

Big bonus, the inside of the trailer will be much more pleasant noise-wise at a race track. Someone else mentioned the white frp they use in commercial kitchens for the inside and i agree. Also mentioned is the white roof and lighter colored exterior base color. Makes a huge difference.

Need to insulate the floor too. Lot of heat radiates up from the concrete/blacktop. Can use polyurethane expanding spray foam (waterproof) from underneath maybe?

Matt, consider Rhino Lining or similar your entire trailer roof and down the curved corners halfway or so, it would greatly reduce the overall heat radiating to the inside of the trailer and making the headroom area when someone is standing up a lot lower. And actually doing thin galvanized steel layer on the entire interior wood floor and then a thick coat of white Rhino Liner would greatly reduce the radiated heat coming up through the floor from blacktop, concrete, even a gravel parking lot in the summer. It's definitely worth thinking about since you use your trailer a lot and you do take it to some very hot places. ;)

Put a mini split in for your A/C. Plenty of vids on RU-vid of people that convert cargo trailers to campers. They mount the mini split condenser to the front of the trailer and put the trailer door unit up on a wall.

_HELL YEAH BROTHER!!_ Totally worth it!!

HELL YER BROTHER! Totally worth it. If you really want to make it feel cool inside paint it with a nice beach scene, might feel hot but then it'll feel like you're just kicking back on the beach. Just a bunch of blue waves, some sand and a few green palm trees.

BTW: we LOVE our RAYCONS! Bought a set for my daughter in 2020 for college ~ she graduated 4 days ago and the RAYCONS are still running strong!

Paint it white, don't be like Disney!

Mikey with all the good ideas on this project

painting the rooftop white would help heat quite a bit, but a game changer will be chrome paint or a chrome wrap, that will cool it significantly.

I would hire a muralist and have them paint some realistic outdoor scenes. Likes hills and grass and trees and mountains in the distance, some real bob ross stuff. Blue sky up above etc. itd make it seem like your space was bigger than just a normal trailer size. Plus, how relaxing would that be?

White walls with big red horizontal stripes (opposite of ranchtang with a blue floor to ceiling demo ranch logo in the middle. Would look sick.

Paint the roof white itll do wonders for deflecting heat instead of absorbing it

For the hitch receiver if you are using say a 2”x2” HSS, it should pass through a 2”x4”x1/4” HSS and be welded on both sides. That way it pulls on both sides of the HSS under load instead of just one side. This is one of the strongest structural connections. Just my advice as a ticketed welder. Cheers.

When Matt said "light color", my first thought was mint green and 2 sec later he said it 👌🥹 hope you go with the mint green 😉

Matt if you put air ride suspension in the ranchtang you can raise it when transporting and then lower to desired for burnouts

Did the cave colapse?

I love that the whole team jumps in no matter what the activity is.

Fun stuff. I'm a bit of a trailer nerd. Love the stuff. That said, I suggest an RV style roof air unit. You could even run it on the highway if you wanted. Start it up at your last fuel stop before the event and pull in the lot with a 70 degree trailer.

The amount of difference vinal wrapping the black parts white on the trailer will make in the direct sunlight is HUGE. I just went thru it with my heavily insulated truck camper. The insulation will help, but the white paint or wrap will help more. And white will be cooler to the touch than silver for sure, I tried both.

From someone who did the exact same thing for insulation on a Florida trailer. Insulate the floor as well. Spray foam insulation from underneath works well.

You should paint your floor the same color they paint the concrete floors inside nuclear facilities. It’s almost a 69 GTO orange color. Makes it really visible for if you drop something, and then do a gray or a similar color for the walls and ceiling but light enough to make light reflect around in there. Otherwise you’ve got a solid trailer! Can’t wait to see more stuff!

Paint the trailer a Sunset with red on the bottom orange in the middle yellow on the top

Matt, paint the insides with light turquoise. Awesome color.

Paint the roof and sides white!!😊 And YES! TOTALLY WORTH IT!❤

Use the mesh tarps from Harbor Freight as awnings for shade on your black trailer. The mesh doesn't catch the wind too bad and you don't have to roll them in every time the wind comes up, and if your roof is black paint it white. It'll still look cool.

redo it with led lights while you have the wood off of it! will lighten that thing up soooo much better.

You might want to mount the winch a LOT lower so you don’t rip up the front of whatever you’re pulling into the trailer.

For interior trailer colors, you could do a light gray base with the brown/orange Desperado colors/logo or the olive/black Demo Ranch colors/logo on top of it. Orrrr.... you could do Desperado on the outside and Demo Ranch on the inside or vise versa.

Hey Matt, we have a darker house because of the way the windows are facing, we went with a light sky blue and that makes it so much much brighter inside.

Hell Yeah BROTHER Totally worth it. Congratulations 👏 on winning the burn out Competition.

Recommendation Matt regarding the set-up of your air-conditioning unit. I had a similar style of air-conditioner that I bought for my house with accordion plastic duct work that runs from the back of the air=conditioning unit up and out the window, in your case some exhaust port in the roof of your trailer. I got rid of my portable air-conditioner because the accordion plastic duct work was poorly insulated and the hot exhaust air was heating the plastic and releasing the warm air back into the space I was trying to cool. To reduce that heat transfer inside the trailer you need to develop a plan to insulate the accordion plastic duct work maybe with R20 pink insulation rapped around the duck work with a covering of plastic and duct tape or something else that will give you excellent insulation around your portable air conditioning accordion duct work. Remember wherever you install your air conditioning unit, it needs to be clear of your winch cable.

I like the solar panel roof idea.

I was thinking maybe paint the inside silver, but I realized that if you put El Chromino in there, you might not be able to find it... But seriously, you need to put a couple of roof mount RV type A/C units on the trailer. No setup; just fire up the generator and throw the switch.

Paint that thing maroon and be proud! Gig Em👍🏼👊🏼

Matt, you can get insulation that is like foil, meant for brick walls, put that on top of the floor, and then put some thin flooring on it, like laminate, so it doesn't get tore up, it will help a lot.

That wench set up is gonna rip this trailer apart 👍

Paint the roof with EP Henry Tropi-cool, reflects like 97% of light, used it on our warehouse roof and it makes the building feel air conditioned in the dead of summer in NC

Mikey is having a lot of great ideas.

Plus try to keep the heat down is if you take that chalky black off the off the outside

BACK IN YOUR CAVE! NOW

Waiting for Matt to post again is always sad. I’m a new mum and his videos are keeping me going. Half an hour or so to myself when the baby sleeps 😅

I definitely agree with all those comments. Painting the roof either reflective, white or even solar panels with an air gap. But you're getting so much heat from that black roof.

We need more! Lol thank you for the updates, they are addicting!

How about mounting shade cloth sail panels across the roof of the trailer? Air gap plus blocking the sun. The shade cloth could be mounted on a similar system dump trucks use to cover loads. And white FRP panels for the interior of the trailer and you can get it from Lowes or Home Depot. Used on walls in commercial kitchens.

Matt, I do HVAC for a living. Not only insulating will help but that hose that comes off the back of the portable AC is very hot... if you can get that to come out the side of the trailer and a short run that will cause less heat. Also just as a rule of thumb, every 400 square feet of not well insulated area, you need 1 ton of cooling or 12K BTU. With that back door open, I'd double it, whatever your number it.. Hope it helps ya.

Hey Matt, instead of walking all the way outside to put the pin in the winch, just put a hinged door on the inside so you can reach through to put the pin in.

Might as well have the trophy mounted in the trailer

28:10 DUDE! Do a electroluminecent custom paint job! If you know somebody who can do that, you could have different layers that'll light up with different switches!

I have the exact same winch setup, super versatile. Not only for front or back of any vehicle and trailers, you can also put receivers on the wall or floor of your shop to pull broken vehicles in. Might not be necessary with the size and layout of your shop but someone else can take this idea too

The sun doesnt shine on the bottom, however wherever you park, the heat will radiate up. So even if the blacktop is covered by your trailer, the surround blacktop will radiate to underneath and continuously heat up from below. I would use some spray liner, maybe something like rhino. Or you could use something like corebond and spray the underside of the trailer.

Epoxy the floor black, a nice Harley orange for the walls, and flat(?) wrap the ceiling with something cool like a Demo Ranch and Despardo Ranch combo logo.

28:00 so "black is cool", 28:08 and "white is lame"? Do you work for Disney?

I miss ranch life. There is always a project to enhance your ranch and life...

Put refrigerator coils into your water cooling tank on the Ranchstang. As far as finding a plug for the trailer hitch in the front of the trailer, they sell all kinds of cool looking ones for them.

Had a 79 Ford van all black down in Texas in the 70s. Had it sprayed out with polyurethane foam. That’s the best way to do your trailer. The dash AC would keep the truck cool in the hundred degree heat and the humidity of Houston.

28:08 so "white" is lame and "black" is cool? You sound like Disney! Paint it white, it will look by far the best and be most functional!

Love the cave videos Matt!

Hell ya brother White ceiling, sunny yellow for the walls Black floor

White. Easy to touch up, brightens the interior the best, and reflects heat instead of absorbing it. You can also paint a mural or do a signature wall or something cool

Hey you should put in horse trough hot tubs . No electric needed. Run a stainless steel coil out of tub to campfire and back to tub

Henry’s Tropicoat makes a HUGE difference on the roof. It’s made for trailers and RV’s. Then put Solar on top of that.

You should paint the interior using the same light gray as your Demo Ranch cap! Would look very nice!

You could paint the ceiling in green digital camo, so it's a warmer color when you look up and the walls in FDE, so it's a bit brighter to reflect light.

HELL YEAH, BROTHER!!! Good job on the trophy. Ranch Tang did Ranch Tang things!!!

Kelly green reflects light the best. That’s why at places like Mount Vernon (Washington’s home), the dining room was a very nice Kelly green.

Haze Grey…gives you the option to have anything on the walls and it won’t clash… and definitely need to paint the floors with the rhino/truck bed liner of your choice. Don’t forget the ramp. All that work will go to waste if the ramp is rotted out from getting rained on or messed up from car fluids. Painting the roof with a good RV paint does help with the a/c. We had to redo our rv in 2019. And I’m gonna say “Hell yeah!!! Definitely worth it!!” No matter what you go through, the fun you have is worth the work you’ve done; trophy 🏆 or no trophy.

Matt I’m the idea guy , Matt we all have crazy fun ideas , the difference is , you have a crowd funded fortune , that you you can use to make those ideas a reality .

You should paint the inside of the trailer a big mural of your burnout cars

Also make sure the type of light bulbs you are using are leds that run cool. One 100 watt light bulb puts out a lot of heat.

Trailer can sport a Desperado wrap with a lite brown will help cool the skin temperature. Plus you can place the trailer on the hiway as a sign at the entrance to the Desperado Resort.

That racing video was so exciting. I loved it. Congrats again Matt for a job well done. Relective silver on the outside of the trailer. Especially the roof.

That predator generator has a 12v battery charger built into it. You can use that to charge the battery.

You could totally do the inside walls white again, and then have people come in and paint sections of it, so you have a wicked mural on the inside.

If you chuck some solar panels on the roof it’ll help to shade it from the sun and generate power at the same time. Paint it pale pink.