This is HUGE!! Taking the Body Off of Val and Steve Morris' 6 Second Camaro Drag and Drive Build!!

well we are back on the Camaro and this body is coming off this video right Eddie that's right I know we said that last video at the start of it but this time it's going to happen now it's pretty short week for Eddie and I this week because uh Friday we got we got to drive that big RV all the way to W them easy easy wamp them W them I just like oh I'm definitely going to be wiing it I I just like saying wamp them I don't know why it's a fun word so if you live up there in Wampum Pennsylvania we going be we're going to be right in your backyard next uh this let's call it Saturday and Sunday because uh Friday we won't be getting there till late cuz we have to drive nonstop all the way through all the way from here to pit International Raceway on uh our pit race I don't know what the official name of the racetrack is but that's where we're headed this Friday but between now and then which is funny CU this video is probably going to come out on th Thursday or Friday probably Friday which while this video is while you're watching this video on Friday we'll probably be driving so anyways we have worked out how we're doing the last bit of the bumper stuff actually I need to get through the intro intro now so we figured out what we're going to do for the last bit of the bumper closeout stuff and uh that has to do with this Zeus Fastener strip that's going to get bolted it's going to get modified first of course I didn't touch your pedal you accused me going to say you turn my welder off I was about to be very upset pedal wasn't pedaling ah you helped me actually so thanks see I knew what he needed huh I knew what you needed need W them all right anyways so that strip I just showed you a second ago is going to get modified and we're going to put more of those threaded inserts in right there which technically it's not a threaded insert um a couple of you in the comments dang it they're on that side of the car uh you're asking about what uh what they were exactly and I'll see if if I can get get it where it's zoomed in we got a good maybe the black background so it's really just a really tiny locking quarter 28 bolt and a few more of you commented and said the battery is going to be in the way of whoever's sitting in here they're going to get shocked no they're not so the seats as you can see are very moved back in the car and I mean and if you can't fit your feet from here to there that's like holy moly that's that's a huge area for you the passenger to put their feet in but obviously the seats are going to be very far back in this thing and the passenger seat will line up generally in the same location as the driver side seat there so no the battery is not going to be in the way of things and by having the battery here it's actually saves us weight because for all the amperage if we were to put the battery where everybody was saying we should put it back in the back of the car well we have to account for all of the battery cable running the full length of the car and that's there's an amp loss for every foot well every inch of battery cable so with the battery being right here by the electronics the starter is right through there so that works out really well to actually have the battery up towards the front of the car and it's actually lighter than if we were to put it at the back of the car so that's going to be that I actually have to start well installing a few more of these cuz there's going to be some up under here where there's going to be a I called it a tree like a lower dash mounting tree and that's also going to have probably the mount on it for the Holly Dash so the fiberglass Dash will be able to be removed and then the Holly Dash will stay mounted to our little tree thing here or I may do it completely separate maybe I do the Holly screen Mount completely separate because then the dash could just be left out of the car and that's totally fine too I'll think about that while I'm doing this in raded insert for the lower tree because there is going to be so I call it a tree but it's going to basically have a bar that you know runs from here over across it'll have a Zeus Fastener somewhere in here to keep the bottom of the dash from flapping around and I'll probably even I just caught my elbow oh is that raining it does sound like it's raining huh wasn't expecting that today but uh yeah my my elbow had a really bad time last week I burned it there and it's still healing there and I just caught it again on that right there so anyway there's going to be a small bar that runs across and it'll have a plate on it for a Zeus Fastener and I will also tie from that little bar back somewhere up there in the middle just to give it some triangulation keep the dash nice and sturdy but I got to get to work we're going to get this done so here we go [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] so I figured I'd start out this time lapse with our normal time lapse music and then go into some of the voiceover stuff and during that little music montage we had actually got a pretty good bit of stuff done you saw me drill and tap the upper X door bars in the front to put the the quarter 28 threaded jet nuts in there or we're kind of using them like a threaded insert so I guess you could call them that even though I called it a bolt earlier in the video but after I got those welded in uh and while Eddie is making the bars that support the center piece of carbon fiber in the trunk I welded in the tabs that will support the front of the fuel cell that's what that piece of uh Rod is attaching and basically what I used there was a long piece of all thread to kind of Bolt the tabs to and that keeps them straight with each other and then I centered them on the frame rails back there so that they are in the best location for me to weld them and I've already kind of mocked up where the fuel cell is going to go once we fabricate it and had an idea of where it was going to mount so then after that and actually while Eddie is still working on welding in the tubes at the back of the car I move back to the interior of the car and I am working on making the mounts for both of the pole handles for the fire systems yes there will be two one that is for the driver's compartment and then another that will be for the engine compartment the one in the engine compartment is going to be much bigger since this is a methanol car or a methanol fueled car it will have you know great big system out under the hood well the bottle itself will actually be mounted interior in the car somewhere but then the um all the nozzles will be will will deploy out under the hood these systems are also both equipped with automatic deploy nozzles on them that if either of the bottles gets hot well whichever bottle gets hot that system will deploy so the driver's bottle will be mounted actually right ahead of where Eddie's working right now and we're going to tell you about what he's working on right there but you can see a hole in that frame rail tube but on the fire systems the driver compartment one will be mounted on the dash bar on the driver side right up by the firewall if that gets over 175° it will automatically deploy the interior fire system to protect the driver the other fire system the plan is to mount the bottle behind the passenger seat and then it will have another pull handle that will be you know operated by the driver to deploy that system or if it gets really hot all the way in the interior of the car it will go ahead and deploy that system as well and I'm making the mounts for the handles really sturdy because I never want that to fail if those systems are needed not a lot left on on the list and yeah there's a lot of stuff going on in the background Eddie came over and checked off a couple of things off list which I'm going to show you one that's uh kind of exciting at least I think it's kind of cool and there's the first hint of it which this is just a mockup but follow it down and around and woo look at that goes through a sleeve that we welded into the frame and then it comes out right there and the master cylinder Mount here so what we are doing and Eddie's working on right now yeah I know Eddie Eddie actually working prove prove to the people you're working they they already know look this guy goes right there oh doesn't get better than that that's that's nice that's real nice and then we'll have a flex line from where it comes out there back to here that will allow that pedal don't grab the pedal let's grab the pedal I don't know where that right there it right there I found it so the idea is that the pedal will be movable and not have to pre-bled the brake lungs that's nice so we're going to put just like a line that kind of like loops around yep yeah it have well it'll be pretty tight I think right there and I think if we did like a E8 in to 45 on the master cylinder so it kind of kicks a curve into it yeah and then that way if we we'll make it fit snug all the way back here at the at the last hole and then it'll just it'll allow that uh it'll allow it to just kind of bunch out more as it moves back and the line lock is going to be mounted to this so once we get the body off I'll probably go ahead and mount the line lock line lock solenoid or I'll probably just do some threaded inserts cuz that seems to be what we're doing a lot of on this build but up here we got a little bit more action up here that you saw in the time lapse so this is going to be the pole handle mount for the engine fire system so it'll be a 10 pounder on the engine and then this pole handle is for the driver fire system and the driver fire system will be mounted right here on this bar tucks right in there really nice and then the Pro 600 mounts down here kind of like in this space and if we have to we'll rotate it around a little bit so that it clears the fire bottle and uh the fire system we went with which is somewhere over here in the box has well it's up top there but it has an auto automatic deploy so if it got like a little glass bulb I guess that breaks over 70° so something bad happens driver gets knocked out something crazy and it's getting hot inside the car it will automatically deploy there and the the big fire system the 10 pounder we're going to probably Mount the bottle behind the passenger seat I've kind of mocked it up it's ordered but it's not here yet so we'll get it mounted and installed even after we get the body off cuz there's there's probably a day or so in going around and Welding all of the little spots that aren't welded yet so uh hopefully before this video ends we are going to show you what that looks like with the body off yeah pretty exciting stuff so we get back to work we'll see if we can get the uh steering column mocked up and then after the steering column is mocked up it's ready to come out this or the body is ready to take off which we've got to go through and take all the bolts out you see we got to take all take all these bolts out take the engine back out take the K member back off because this part right here this tube is a part of the main chassis so it'll be a little bit of an adventure to get the body off but I think we can think we can do it so anyways I better stop talking so we can get back to work so I didn't document what we're doing very well right here but will was down at the shop doing some other work for us and we got him on making some of the carbon fiber interior panels for the back of the car and I needed to climb up into the back window to hold the carbon down with a piece of wood while he drilled through from the bottom to start putting some of the mounting holes in the carbon fiber and I thought it was pretty funny clip even though I didn't really get much of the other footage of what we were doing there or show the carbon installed in the car and a little bit of a spoiler alert it looks amazing but that um was a part of something that needed to be done and we had some time to work on that while I was working on some of the things at the front of the car and Eddie's working on another part of the car will wanted to help out so we put him to work on making some carbon fiber pieces and now we're actually into the next day of filming onto the car where Eddie and I took the back bumper off and there was quite a bit of little welding that needed to be done with the wing strut mounts like the lower wing strut mounts as well as the parachute anchor mounts so he's doing a little bit of welding on all of those and we're using real low heat real small filler Rod there so that nothing moves and he's welding just a little bit on each one so that none of it gets super hot and before we took the bumper off we had four good tack welds on each of those pieces to hold them in their location sometimes if you only put like two tack welds on a tube when you weld it with the next weld it will pull the whatever the tube that you're working with it'll pull towards the direction of that new really hot weld so we try and get some good tack welds in multiple planes to hold those tubes straight when we come back and really you know put enough heat to them to stick them permanently and that's just another part of this project is getting all that little stuff welded at the back of the car and we do decide to go ahead and make a bar that you can see Eddie holding right now that kind of makes a 90° sweep from the I guess you could almost call it the the rear parachute anchor the horizontal bar there and that 90° sweep that he's welding in that is going to be um am mount for the the burndown Box on the driver side of the car and on the passenger side of the car it's going to mount the air pump and the air tank that's going to be mounted over there in that corner and then we're going to have uh flange for a leash Electronics wiring board that will be back in the trunk with four relays on it that way they'll have some spares hopefully they can just move some wires around if they need to if one ever fails I haven't never really had one fail that wasn't the cause of another major problem in the car so that we're going to make sure that it's real easy to just jump over to another circuit kind of build in some spares and kind of one of my theories with spares is that if you bring a spare you never end up needing it so that's kind of the method we're working on with this and definitely chipping away on lots of little bitty projects on this thing and before before the end of this video the body is coming off all right so lots of different stuff happening got all the back bumper off welded up all the pieces here which I used some silicon bronze right here which this isn't the greatest example of it but the Silicon bronze wets in at a really low temperature which I think I may have said before and it makes it to where you can weld stuff to sheet metal and it not did not like warp the sheet metal real bad I didn't do a very good job of it right here you can see a little a little warp in there cuz I actually don't know how to weld I actually got it kind of hot because that was 8 in steel that I was welding to the sheet metal there so Edd's in here working on the steering column Mount which really is the last thing to do before we pull the body off of this thing and the reason we have to do the steering column before the body comes off is because the lower part of it that kind of determines everything the lower part of it is attached to the body that will be unbolted from the chassis and this looks a little weird maybe but we have a reason for that you can actually see we've got the pedals mocked up in it to make sure all of that clears there are very highly Tech techncal uh mockup brackets that we're doing uh we actually did have a laser in the car to verify that that was square but this uh these are our infinitely adjustable steering column bracket supports Eddie designed those himself all right good call me an engineer you know I'm talking about the wood right the wood you're you're engineering is engineering Okay so the last thing before the body comes off yeah and then once the body is off I will work on mounting the screen we've got all the different spots to T touch up where we can't really weld all that great like out here isn't finished welded yet so there's lots of me there's probably a day worth of welding and actually Eddie and I leave tomorrow headed for Pittsburgh no we're not going to Pittsburgh we're going to where wam that's the greatest word ever if you live in wam congratulations cuz that's just a cool City and uh yeah anyways I'm going to stop chitchatting and get back to work so we can make this happen in this video so this last time lapse here you're going to notice kind of some switching around and the first thing that happened was I bent up a tube because Eddie had a very important phone call to take something we'll talk about probably in another video but it's very exciting and you'll notice that Eddie is working on the steering column Mount and in the middle of him starting to work on that CJ and I start doing some of the stuff that's going to be required to take the body off so we start taking the K member off there's all of the bolts that run down the the side of the car to the pinch weld we need to take the doors off so we're kind of moving through and going through all the little pieces and the bolts and stuff that you know Bolt the firewall to the mid plate tube and then the the outside firewall to the outside frame rail section and then the um there's some bolts that are up in the roof of the car that tie the roof to the roll cage and then there's these bar or these kind of tabs and aluminum filler plates that bridge between the roll cage and where the door closes so different things like that just to tie the body to the cage in a lot of places to try and keep it as sturdy as possible but also keep it sealed up you know as nice as we can within reason like you could really get this car sealed up really really well if you wanted to like just by taking once we put the body back on the frame obviously but just to go around in a couple of small spots like around where the the panels bolt to like basically the body panels bolt to the chassis you could put a little bead of silicone in there and this thing would really be sealed up well because it's going to still have the factory weather strips and the doors power windows are going to work like all that kind of stuff is going to make this car I think very enjoyable as a street car and it's also going to be set up to go super super fast so hopefully with the extra effort that we're putting into the car with making the different driver controls making all of them adjustable you know the throttle pedal can be moved for and a the seat can be moved for and a as well as up and down the brake pedal assembly can be moved for and a in the car and all of that stuff we're hoping that anybody that decides to get in this car it can be set up for them and then you know it fits them well it's not just something that you know you hop in a car and you're really tall or something or you're really short and it's uncomfortable for either one of those now obviously there's an end of that Spectrum somewhere where it's really hard to fit somebody that's 7t tall in a car that will also accept someone that's 5T tall but this car has a pretty broad range of drivers that it can fit and fit well so this is a pretty unique steering column Mount and we're going to explain more of that later but we kind of ended up doing something in a new way that we've never done before but we do make sure that it's going to be plenty sturdy and where we would normally use like a 7/8 Chromo tube to triangulate the steering column we used inch and E tubing here so it's even more Overkill and there's another reason we used that size tube which I'll show you here in a few minutes but it has to do with some of the wiring in the car so that's kind of another unique feature in why the steering column Mount ended up the way that it did but hopefully it all works out you know I've got a pretty good idea of what's going to happen by the end of this and how it's going to end up working out so you know we'll see how all that works out once we do finally get to completion but now that that steering column is mounted it's time to get this thing rolled over into the lift so that we can first remove the engine and and the mid plate and the motor plate and then once that is out of the way we're going to go ahead and remove the whole car from the our fixture that we had made to you know to kind of build the car off of so just four bolts holding that together knock the bolts out take the spacers out and then this is the first time this car will be will have been off of this fixture in in over a year so you know the project kind of got put on hold and then Steve and Val ended up buying the car and now we're trying to get this thing wrapped up for them for SI week 2025 and right now we're trying to get the body off but we're realizing that we've got a problem that's not letting it budge and I kind of get it figured out and I made one mistake on how things were going to come apart and notice we're kind of all focusing on this front section of the car so little chop and a grind to take one piece well two little pieces out of the way and then this is what happens [Music] next all right we ready to do this yeah it going to work it's going to work we going to find out we going to find out right now oh yeah go my piece of wood we go forward yet what's the B um it's just tight keep going oh it's moving the whole moving the whole chassis forward here can someone moving the whole chassis forward I know but it's like it's almost clear this one if pull back on chassis maybe yeah hold on okay there it is [Music] that is so cool good need help grab there we go there all right we going for the I think I think the back pivot your way and then perfect you can go forward a little bit too you me to move this or just going to rest it up here yeah I'm wor we have to go more more backwards no it's where it's lined up no of weight but that's all it's got stick in there oh that's freaking sick that is that is really wow that is insane it's like a freaking Pro Mod all right hold up we got to come more forward on my about fall off right here put your foot on the on it and Y there you go [Music] a little I mean I think it can just hang something like that right oh I actually hang yeah can you put it can you put it on the the second bar down it's caped in that to move it down so [Music] I can see it yeah like it doesn't need to be it's not like wanting to flip forward E it's not not okay that's aot heavier everybody nobody touch nobody tou nobody bre to that yeah we'll pack we'll tack that and then we'll bolt it up here like it was that's okay that's pretty cool is that 253 Kevin or 253 here was another problem it was catching this what is it a dash no I mean the CH 253 and it'll 252 and actually 251 if I'm reading the specs right really depending on the weight yep y obviously we got some got some weld going to be days it's going to be there yeah make sure it's on the feet [Music] right so just curiosity see oh gosh to get on back you guys want up actually this to lift it up so I'm not so low I'm good there all right ready wow that's sick that's sick think like what 600 no not even 400 what the scal up it's it's less actually I guess let's wait till we put W it all so it's all right well you guys saw I left it real time right there because I thought you guys might like to see us uh the real experience of pulling the body off this thing we did have to cut the tabs off right here because the that's the one mistake I made they were in front of it right so it was capturing the body and we couldn't lifted up just because of how things had moved and flexed and so we'll redo the tabs on the body to be on the front side and probably you know how we can fix that is we'll just make these spacers a quar inch thicker oh yeah cuz that's well no it'll be a/ inch thicker from going behind here to being in front of it which actually works out okay I think that'll be that'll be all good there so anyways check this thing out it's what she looks like with the body off obviously we've got to come in and and do uh lots of little welding polishing it up finish welding our tabs finish welding these finish welding out here finish welding that finish welding the little spots down there weld around our brace for the floor close outs there looks completely different outside of the car outside of the body that is just cool and I teased you guys earlier on the weird shape of this extra steering column bracket right so there's still some tabs that are going to go here that will be give us the adjustability for the steering column and part of the reason that it's done like this is just to make it easier to keep the dash in one piece because we don't have to like the steering column goes under the dash so there was no need to make the steering shaft or the steering column go through the dash and mess all that up but this is going to be the wiring for the steering wheel buttons and they will go down and come out right there and then go over to where the ECU is over [Applause] there so little tricks we're trying to do to keep this thing as clean as possible and I don't know that's just you excited Eddie very I did a good job on that huh that looks good yeah oh yeah deeron looks awesome looks mu Bueno mu Bueno mu Bueno see so this is the flange here where it bolts to the bottom of the firewall bottom of the floor This Is Where It Bolts to the firewall and then down the whole side It Bolts down there so when this video first goes live Eddie and I will be headed down the road in this rig think you can handle that big thing we're going to wamp them wamp them W them it's become our new favorite word so if you see this rig going down the road tomorrow I think we head up 95 up through Charlotte and then other ways to get up to Pennsylvania but uh that's where we will be tomorrow while this video first gets posted or when this video first gets posted and um yeah you see us or if you're nearby to wam Pennsylvania and want to come watch some Trans Am racing there's going to be some of that this weekend so I think that's going to wrap it up for this video appreciate everybody watching subscribing following along let's getting really exciting on this build isn't it so won't be long before we're off to powder coat and then once we're back from powder coat it's time for assembly again thank you for watching following along see you guys next time [Music]

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Length: 40min 0sec (2400 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 07 2024