What up guys?
I'm Matt Field, professional Formula Drift driver.
Except that,
..was my 2017 car.
This year we're building a 2013 Chevrolet Corvette.
Welcome to Field Prep!
What up everybody? Welcome to this week's episode of Field Prep.
This week is gonna be kind of one for the mind.
We're gonna be working with our ECU,
a fuel filler neck--getting the fuel to the fuel cell
and work on the front window,
get the window brace in since we got the window installed last week
Alright we got the fuel cell tucked up in there.
I'm gonna mark out where we're gonna cut out
top up here so we can get our fuel to feed, then start building our crosstube.
I got the top plate marked,
know where the fuel cell filler hole is gonna be.
I'm going to go ahead and cut this,
put the fuel cell back in, and see what we got
Hopefully figure out where the next hole needs to go
So you can kind of see the top of the fuel cell now and get a general idea of
what we're gonna be doing. Got some silicone couplers and aluminum pipe from
CX racing. We're gonna try to get this through here inside of here where the
stock actual fill runs, and get it out to the other side.
Hopefully it fits
Aight, let's put it on!
Lil' fighter, that sumb*tch!
Well alllllright.
So we trimmed down the cast 90, we trimmed down the 45.
We're gonna see if it fits and then that basically gets us to here
once we tack it together then we can start building the other side
We began working on the other side of the fuel filler so Ty threw the
quarter panel on and he's starting to bring the aluminum piping up into the
quarter panel. Got a couple of 45s in there that we got to work together you
can see this is where it's gonna come out because the hgk carbon Kevlar panels
have the stock fuel filler set up in there this is where the two pieces are
gonna come together got two 45s up in there got to make a little pie cut for
that then you can see that's where it's going to come across and connect to our
other side in there and while he's doing that I'm gonna work on the front window
I got some window braces from like some round around stock car stuff so I'm
gonna start fitting this up before the front window making a bolt in piece and
it's sick because it's just lightweight aluminum already has some foamy on
there should be pretty straightforward to be formula trip legal if you have a
lexan or polycarbonate window, it has to have at least one brace in the window.
Pretty common for all race series--to have that brace if you have that type of window.
The braces that I got was for like a roundy-round car, so the window was much shorter.
I'll have to make a small extension here that I'm going to then mount the brace
to and then this will get mounted to the chassis here and here so I got to go
ahead and put a rib nut here to mount this bracket that I just made
So many people ask me why I don't use a nutsert tool.
and it's as simple as this:
Because I don't like them. I like to feel the exact amount of tension that I'm putting on
the bolt. PERFECT! and those other tools the rivet thing, NAH! Dont like em.
So this is what we got going on right here
I have the window brace which fits in here
this is a piece that I just made that I riv nutted to the chassis. we've been
figuring if we're gonna weld it or rivnut it or whatever but what i think
that i'm gonna do is drill it all the way through the window through the piece
that i bought through the piece that I made a nut and bolt it right here so
that we can cinch it up to the window and then it's going to be firm hold
itself against it and then I don't have to grind all this powder coat off of
this and then weld it and screw with the foam and stuff it'll just be good to go
and done so that's all figured out it's kind of figure out where this hole lines
up and then drill the hole in the front we'll be good to go
all right so I have to like line this up and then pretty much drill through the
top of the window now
so there it is it's in there it's flush against the
window it's easy to take in and out this piece I'll get it powder-coated black is
good I've been stoked to do that piece for
ever since I saw him online I don't know why I was like so pumped to do it yeah
all right so today I'll be working on mounting the ECU so the plan is to build
a bracket going to these brackets here build a wire frame from the trans tunnel
underneath to hold this a little bit elevated to protect it against heat from
the trans tunnel and make sure it's accessible
all right so I've got my first two pieces here welded in place tacked in
and then I'm gonna add another diagonal for strength and then I'll be able to
kind of finish weld around the corners and into the body and this side of the
track it'll be nice and complete and sturdy and then I can pull the ECU off
and finish the other side as well
nice and sturdy!
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