We Welded My R35 GT-R Back Together 5 Inches Shorter!

hey what's up everybody welcome to another episode of b is for build in today's episode we're going to be focusing on taking the two halves of the r35 gtr and uh and you know putting it together welding at the seam and then making it look like we never cut the car in half in the first place so a little bit of technical moving around of seat mounts center console stuff like that that's what's in store for today's episode stay tuned [Music] my raptor's cold start is oddly high after we change the transmission which i have no idea why that would be anyways we're getting a bit of a late start today i had to go to the doctors this morning a little bit of uh weird news on that front a little bit of bad news which i will talk about at the end of the episode uh so oscar's been um cutting away already so let's get to the shop and see what he's done just casually walking through cars let's walk right through the middle of the gtr all right guys let me get you uh updated on some of the progress that we've made one of the biggest things has been done is the second cut has been made so 4.75 inches away from that original cut the second cut was made oscar has came in and started prepping some of the surfaces to be welded back up and then we've got our little strips this is the amount of like these are small strips of the the pieces that have been taken out we're going to use these to do some nice overlap work now you see this uh this is sound editing stuff on the tops of all of these pieces there's some right there there's some right here and there's some right here and we have to get that off by using dry ice so we're finally getting to play with some dry ice in the shop if you guys don't know basically you just cover your stuff with dry ice to cool it down a lot and then once you hit this stuff with a hammer it'll pop off of the surface underneath so we're going to chip away at our 10-pound block of dry ice before we have fun with it and then chip away cover all this stuff right here and then we'll knock that sound deadening crap off of there [Music] we've got all the metal now prepared to be welded you guys saw how we threw the dry ice on here and let it cool the sound ending down and you just hit it with a hammer and that sound deadening stuff will pop off and then we used a wire wheel on our grinder and that also got a lot more of it off so it is now prepped to be welded together we got to scoot these sides together and start welding [Music] hey oscar got the car back together again so this morning what we're working on is inserting so this is a main frame rail support it runs all the way through the front there and then eventually ties into a frame rail going forward so we wanted to reinforce this and it'll help us with the vertical load so this rail and that rail the trans tunnel and then that rail will help with the vertical load so there's a piece of 120 wall that's the same wall that you use for a roll cage rectangle tubing running right through this now that we're gonna be um you can see we'll weld into it here we'll weld into it here we'll probably drill a few holes here and there and weld into it in those spots just really reinforcing that frame rail now we've got the car back together it's lined up pretty dang well on both of these sides so what oscar's going to be doing is lining these things up getting them adjusted and then starting to weld different seams together when they look good and we'll be kind of walking over like working working the way through this welding different things when they match up right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right well oscar's working on the welding it's time to take a shift into drive shaft world so this is the main drive shaft that runs from the front to rear i believe it is a carbon composite we're going to find out in a second when we cut into it but it's definitely a composite material that this is made out of so we can't just cut it and re-weld it 4.75 inches shorter this carbon material has to be replaced with in this case a steel like a steel tube traditional drive shaft so luckily for us that's not exactly rocket science that can be done we just got to cut this carbon composite off of these joints right here so we're going to be marking their top point so we keep them balanced with each other uh so we got our paint pen right here to mark that and then i just got to cut all this carbon composite this slips into here about that far so i got to cut all of this off and then we'll be left with these two things and then we can start getting a new drive shaft machined to accept these two ends [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] got the drive shaft all cut up i made a mistake i didn't measure the length of the drive shaft before i cut it into pieces so i had to go find all my pieces and tape it back together we're gonna have to add a little bit of distance for the amount that the saw took off but this is a plunging joint so there's a little bit of uh grace period in here so this is what they look like when they come out of this carbon fiber so basically this ring grips onto that carbon fiber so it can't push off that way and then these uh splines forgot the name for splats these splines help it with the rotational so what we're going to be doing now is we've measured this we're going to take 4.75 inches away from this and then we're going to go to a machine shop and have a steel drive shut i don't know what drive shafts are made out of as far as what i'm a type of steel i will find out from a drive shaft expert we're going to get that machined so it's like a push fit press fit over these spline sides that'll get it centered right on here we'll be able to weld it because this is all steel so then we'll weld that on there and then we'll go get it balanced and that will be our rear drive line rebuilt the drive shaft that goes up to the front of the vehicle is a little bit more technical so we're actually going to send this one out to be done but we'll be able to drive the car with just the rear one in rear wheel drive until this one gets done it really won't take that long but that's something that we needed to have done out of town so it's kind of cool opportunity we get to work with the guy that made the drive shaft for my 2jz swap brz which i still have show you guys that not too long when we build this new shop over here uh but yeah that's pretty cool so oscar's done welding the car in half let me show you his handiwork i said welding the car in half unwelding the car in half re-welding the car from halves so you can see on this side a little bit bigger of support strips lots of spot welds going through here he came in and welded that metal beam that we got going through here and uh this thing is together now we have one piece of a car once again so now that the car is back together we want it to look like we didn't cut it in half because remember the interior is the keeper part of this vehicle so we're going to start with the first spot which is where the seats mount up so these seats on the gt-r it's pretty weird there's one back here there's one right here and then as we come forward you have this this structure and this structure so one way up here and one up here now this is 4.75 inches too close to each other we need to move them forward this vehicle the rest of the chassis moving forward is relatively similar except for this bump right here so this one's going to be more of a pain to slide forward this one should be fine and the other side should be totally fine so what oscar and i have to do is get these structures out of here so we can slide them forward and weld them back in you can see they're just spot welded on here with a bunch of different spot welds we've done a lot of different videos with drilling out spot welds before we just hit them with a center punch in the center of it drill around it with the spot weld drill bit and then kind of pry it off and pop it off so we should be able to get these structures out of here slide them 4.7 inches forward and weld them back in we'll have that nice lateral support and the seat mounts just like oem let's get to it oscar [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well this is for sure the coolest part of our day it's dry's time uh so you can see like oscar's got that section out there i mean this all kind of just looks like a jumbled up mess right now but progress is being made oscar's got that section out then he just needs to cut his top section out i've got my section out right here and i needed to get this section out but we had to get some dry ice so it's the next day we bought dry ice in the morning busted all this stuff out so we didn't really get to show the process very well last time but you just let it sit on this stuff until you hear it popping and cracking and then i just hit it with a hammer and as the metal flexes basically the sound deadening stuff won't flex it'll pop right off of there so that exposes my last few spot well drill out spots gonna go ahead and drill those out remove this and then i get mine's pretty simple just move it up 4.75 inches we'll mock it up with the with the seat and then we'll be able to tack weld and then fully weld it in there oscars is a little bit more complicated because we're cutting a piece off but we'll get everything off first and then start test fitting some seats [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right we got everything out our beautiful blank canvas to work with this is one of my pieces another another half of one of my pieces is over here there are places there's the other half we need to get the seats in here so the original mounting spot for the back of the seat relative to the back of the car is all still the same so the seats are gonna be the same distance away from the back seats and all that stuff we took out basically the front leg room area uh because i set the seat back i measured i had plenty of extra space so that's where we decided to kind of take out from so seat bolts in in the back original spots and then we need to see where the seat wants to land to do that so now to do that to access the bolts and the seat mounts you have to move the seat forward and backward and their electrical seats so we have to plug the seats on in and turn the car on with like none of this stuff around so we may run into a problem or we may not we just need to get it onto the accessory mode and get it to send power to the seats so fingers crossed sometimes the gauge clusters have stuff that relate to the keys that won't let you do this but i'm hoping that without too much trouble we also have to plug in all the grounding wires so we'll plug in a bunch of grounds plug the seats in cross our fingers and hopefully we can move them forward and backward and get them in here [Music] [Applause] [Music] great news we got the seats in there and you can still fit comfortably as a human being in there without being like way too crammed into the dash i mean we did our measurements but you're never sure until you're sure right so both the seats are in here and they're just bolted into the stock back bolts and then now what oscar and i are going to be doing is taking our pieces right here massaging them so they will fit like for instance this piece goes just like this and that that part of the the seat needs to bolt into right there that part where it has a bolt so i'll just kind of sneak that in behind there and get it in there and then once it's there we can bolt the seat down to it and tack weld it into the frame and then we can take the seats out and fully weld everything out [Music] we've got the front seat supports tacked in so you can see that we bolted it to the seat let the seat kind of designate where it lived and did a little bit of trimming to make everything fit and then tack these guys in so that's mine going across there that's oscar's over there and so now the process is like getting everything nice and flat everything level with the sheet metal below it and then welding this whole thing out now these were just spot welded in here before we'll add a ton of ton of weld so they're in here stronger than they ever were before [Music] oscar got the supports all welded in we only caught the car on fire just a handful of times that's why we always keep our fire extinguishers at the ready so now it's time to test fit our seats back in here we got to lay the wiring harness down one more time so the seats have a power to go forward and backward and then we'll be able to bolt them in moment of truth really [Music] all right guys the car is welded together jump test it's not going to break in half seats are in here strong oh i'm not going to jump on those that's just rude but uh yeah this is okay i got a handle i got a panel in my way here that would normally be like buttoned up here but this is like honestly i probably need to move the seat forward a little bit so we're good there great driving situation i'm very happy about our five inch shorter gtr i think they should just make them from the factory like this great job oscar no back seats no well we will still have the back seats because they just they clip in and they stop right here so um just like the original gtr no one would ever be able to fit in them but we'll have them we'll have all this back interior the speaker cover all that rear quarter paneling the back seats the rear deck it'll all be here look like oem we could have very easily just originally boxed out and built aftermarket frame rails for aftermarket seats but we're doing a body swap like this i think having like the factory seats and everything is just going to make it look cooler and given what color we're thinking about doing the outside i think the seats are going to match well but we're not 100 sure on a color yet so i know everybody wants midnight purple but that's why all r34s are midnight purple 71 days till sema big yikes it's pretty hard to see but we've got the off-road corvette that we built we stole the engine out of it got that loaded up on the trailer this is going off to long-term storage because we're making room to build the shop the new shop what's up guys the next morning we moved into our new house i'll give you a house tour uh in the end of the next episode or like just a house update i guess anyways i wanted to tell you guys about what happened but i also want to give myself some time to like process it over the last few days so a couple days ago i went to the doctor i had this thing like going nuts on my back that i was pretty sure it was skin cancer it's been there for like a long time and i did not pay attention to it very well i don't know if i was using work as an excuse because i didn't want to go get bad news or if i was really just that busy but it kept being oh we got to get this done and then i'll make an appointment oh now we got to get this done oh we got to hit this deadline so i told myself as soon as we got done doing our mid-400 testing i would go so i went and the doctor's like you have skin cancer and that looks bad and you need to go get an appointment and get it cut out right right away so um so i i went online and i did some research and and like i i screwed up like when as soon as i knew something was some something was wrong i should have been going to the doctor and uh and who knows so i'm kind of upset because now i whatever treatment we have to do i'm pretty far behind the eight ball and i have no idea how bad it could be so this could suck or it could be like absolutely nothing so i'm trying not to freak out or anything i gotta go to the doctor so we go to a specialized doctor who should start cutting in like a couple days like three days from now so i don't think we'll have any news by the end of the next episode but the next episode we should know one way or another like if i have a longer term uh problem that's gonna go down the road or if it's just you know something we got cut out so i wanted to let you guys know that just so you can kind of know what's going on with me in case you don't see me as much as as usual if i if i'm dipping out for certain sections of the build or something just no that's that's what's going on in the background and the other thing i guess i would just say is a little bit of a psa a little bit reminder to everybody just take care of yourselves you know if if you need to take time for yourself to go do something for your health like do it because i'm very frustrated that i put work before my health and who knows what may happen because of that so that feels really stupid but life lessons and we learn from them we move on so that's it for this episode the next episode i will show you guys around the the house i'll probably hang some artwork right here and i'll see you guys then peace [Music] you

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Length: 18min 25sec (1105 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 20 2021

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