- 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.
We're gonna be working with some of the wiring
and electronic stuff; I have to mount the MoTeC PDMs;
gotta figure out the actual components to the wiring.
So, the clock is ticking, and we're gonna have a ton to do.
Stay tuned. I hope you enjoy this episode.
We've got most of all the wiring things figured out.
So we're gonna start figuring out where
to place our PDMs.
These are really, really cool because this takes place
of all the relays in a car.
So you have your inputs and your outputs and basically
you run the outputs of these to the things that you
want to turn on, and there's all kinds of sick parameters
that you can put, turn on doing this at this point,
all this stuff, stuff that's way, way out of my working
range of my brain, but I know we gotta place them
and I can definitely do that.
Drilled my first hole, gonna put the one end there,
so then I can smash and mark the other one.
And then after that I'll probably start drilling the hole
in the firewall for the bulkhead fitting.
This car already came with a crap ton of Rivnuts
and I see people's comments talking about investing in
Rivnut stock,
you got it.
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Crap, I stripped a bolt.
I stripped the bolt that I was using to rev nut,
now I gotta get it out.
I'm gonna try to get it out with vise grips.
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Dead.
There she goes.
We're back in business.
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Alright, so now I'm gonna put it in, make sure all of these
bolts line up, hopefully.
When I go to install this for the final time I'll have these
really small rubber washers that are meant for these
five mil bolts.
Probably put it in between the PDM unit and the chassis,
so it gets a little bit of insulation.
I don't know if it needs it at all, it might just be a waste
of time, but I think it looks cool, or I think it's doing
something cool.
Got something pretty cool here, steering angle sensor.
This connects to the AiM digital dash, which is the data
acquisition software and unit that I use for the car.
What you do is you mount this up somewhere, wrap it around
your steering shaft, and as you turn left and right,
the sting moves in and out and that actually shows,
and plots on data, your steering angle.
I broke a lot of these with the S14 because the one downside
to this is it goes this long, and that's it.
So if you overextend it, you rip it and you break it
and then it's screwed and you gotta get a new one,
and then they're always not the funnest things to change out
because they're right on the firewall.
But, I wanna make it easier to change out
and I wanna make it so they don't break anymore.
So I figured out exactly where the steering angle sensor
is gonna go.
This is where I'm thinking of mounting it, since there's a
nice flat place right here on the firewall.
And, of course, you guessed it, more Rivnuts right into
the firewall.
And I figured out how I'm gonna attach it to the
steering shaft because the pull cable needs to wrap around
the steering shaft.
I've got this little shorty five mil bolt.
I'm gonna weld this to the steering shaft and then this
eyelet's gonna loop over that with a nut and I just kinda
wrapped it around and figured out the right location
that it needs to be in.
So now I gotta go ahead and pull the whole steering
shaft out, take weld that, put the sheering shaft back in,
then check it all, and mount the steering angle sensor
to the firewall.
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I've got it marked where I wanna weld on that stud,
that bolt right here.
So I'll go ahead and weld it, put it back in again.
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Got the steering shaft together.
It's kinda pain in the ass.
That joint right there, its splines are just like
so perfectly, you gotta get it perfectly lined up,
and I'm like hanging upside down.
It's just, wasn't working well.
I'm at steering angle sensor now.
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So, to hook this thing up, this is obviously gonna go around
and come on here, but what we wanna do is turn it
all the way to the left and then it's gonna hit full lock.
Then, I will attach this right here.
That way I know, when I go right all the way, the string
is gonna wrap up and I'm still gonna know that I have
this much slack left in it, so it's never gonna max it out
this way, or max it out that way.
Alright, let's see if it works.
Alright, that's full lock and we still have some slack.
We're good.
Got the bulk head that's gonna go through the firewall.
This is what our engine harness is gonna pass through.
Gotta drill it.
I just went and picked up some M4 hardware for it so that it
can be bolted into the firewall.
You can see we already have it marked up.
I'm going for this hole, that was just a test hole
to see where it came through on the firewall and where
it poked through, but our hole saw
is gonna take care of that.
So I just gotta hole saw it, I'll smooth it, and then drill
the four holes.
There she blows!
So and inch and a half hole saw is perfect for this.
But you can see it's got the little nuvs that the locking
car locks on, so I'm gonna have to go ahead and hit that
with a file in a couple little places so that this just
slides through, cause it's a little tight.
Alright!
So, I'm gonna put this in, test it out, see how it looks
on the other side.
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Been figuring out what I'm gonna do to breathe the valve
covers into the oil tank.
A.R.E. says that you have to either T the valve covers
together, or run them both to the oil tank here.
This is where the valve covers go.
So I've been trying to figure out what's going on here.
And Nitrous Express has sent me my new intake manifold
that's plumbed for the direct port nitrous.
But since it's not here and I'm trying to figure out where
this dash ten line, crossover breather line is gonna go,
and like looking at pictures and figuring out how far it's
gonna go and like laying stuff down.
So I figured out where I'm putting stuff on
the valve cover, finally.
I'm gonna weld a half in. PT bung into this valve cover.
A half end PT to two dash ten fitting is gonna screw in here
and then two valve covers are gonna connect
like you saw before.
So I'm gonna go ahead and weld this up.
I cleaned it.
Then I'll put the valve cover back on, make sure that
that lines are gonna be good, and then weld the dash ten
directly opposite on the other valve cover.
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Alright!
So now I just need to figure out where directly across is,
so that I can weld this, dash ten bung, cause we're gonna
come out with the straight fitting, go into our T
right here, that T is gonna thread in there,
these are gonna run together.
I just really hope it clears all the Nitrous stuff.
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Alright, I just prepped the two surfaces, filed it clean,
chamfered it, got this cleaned.
This is actually a pretty cool thing that I figured out
a little while back of how to hold this centered on the hole
cause sometimes if you do start to weld, or you touch it
with the rod, it'll move or whatever.
So you get a centering punch.
Put the centering punch in there, clipped it on there.
Then you know it's centered on your hole and if you do jab
it with the rod a little bit, whatever, it won't move.
Let's weld it up.
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Great, now this looks like death.
Guess it was the tungsten that I was using wasn't liking it.
I switched back to that purple E3 stuff and it doesn't look
the greatest now that I had to go over this part that
exploded, but at least it doesn't look like total hell.
I hate that.
Something that's like on top of the motor that you're gonna
see and now it's gonna be that way for life!
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