(grinding noise)
(Matt yelling)
- What up guys?
I'm Matt Field, professional formula drift driver.
(car engines revving)
Except that, was my 2017 car.
This year, we're building a 2013 Chevrolet Corvette.
Welcome to Field Prep.
It's an exciting day.
It finally showed up, I've only been waiting like
two and a half months for this stuff.
I'm gonna unbox it, see what we got.
(smooth rock plays)
Got a nice little message from Rad Dan and Dylan here,
thank you guys very much.
(smooth rock plays)
We've got a lot of stuff.
We've got a firewall, we've got benders,
we've got bumpers, front bumper.
So excited.
Now it's time to get to work.
So we're gonna start with the rear today.
First thing is first, is getting the inner fenders mounted,
Because that's what mounts the outside quarter panel there.
So you can see it here.
It's going to fit,
but of course because I have a cage
and where that all ends and stuff like that
I'm gonna have trim around it.
So first thing first is marking it out with a sharpie
and then cutting it.
This stuff is super strong, so I'm not exactly sure
how well it's gonna cut.
You can kinda see the edges where they cut it
it's rough,
but that's obviously just overhanging extra material.
Cut her down, make her fit.
(smooth rock plays)
So, I'm at the place,
slightly heartbreaking and scary,
I've to cut the firewall.
Up until this point I've just been
like trimming the perimeter,
getting it to fit in the car
and now I'm at the point
where I have to cut it for the cage
and what you end up doing with this,
they even have like cut lines here,
but that one's for their car - this one's for mine.
I'm gonna cut as little as possible,
then you get it to fit
and then they have backing pieces
that are the same shape that you trimmed down
and then put on the back of the panel
and then rivet it in.
That way it actually makes it smooth
and obviously there's no way of getting that in the car
when you have tubes coming through here
that are already welded in the chassis.
So, gotta slice it, slip it up in there.
Here we go.
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It's marked.
It's got the holes.
I'm just crying a little inside, that's all.
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We're partway here.
Gotta trim a little bit more outta here
to get it up.
I'm getting there.
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We've got the firewall pretty much mounted.
Poles in it that look like dicks.
Dick-firewall.
Inner fenders mounted, trimmed,
we're gonna have to trim some more,
but now we're gonna mount the actual quarterpanel
and see.
We're gonna drill a couple holes in it.
It already has holes like marked out where it needs to be
and they already line up with the stockbody,
so drill it up.
Right down the center.
Oh yeah!
(bass guitar plays)
Damn, that's pretty nice.
Pretty good!
Quartepanel is fit.
Inner fender is fit.
It's just got self-tapping screws
before I put rivnuts in it,
but man this thing is rigid and flexible.
We're gonna put that hatch on
before we mount all this.
So the next thing that we need to do
before actually mounting the quartpanels to the inner fender
is get these set, because that's where the hood hinges
sorry the trunk hinges are.
We'll have to drill holes in the firewall,
put the trunk-hinge mechanism up there,
get it all fit,
then we can set the actual width
of the quarterpanels on these.
I'm gonna go ahead and drill it now.
(bass guitar plays)
Literally, as soon as I started drilling
without my glasses on, I got hit in the eye.
(bass guitar plays)
- So the cool thing about the anderson composite
is it utilizes the factory brackets.
So we're able to keep these guys right here,
which will bolt right into the anderson composite
and making installation pretty easy.
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- So I haven't been filming a whole lot
because I'm too excited, way too excited.
Got the rear bumper on,
it's not finished it's just clamped in,
but the rear firewall's in;
the roof ledge is on , to put the actual roof on;
the hatch is here, doing it's thing.
Starting to look like a Corvette here.
We've just got the fenders and everything clamped on.
Front bumper's gonna need some trimming.
So excited.
Trimmed out this inner fender.
I ground the paint off the frame rail
and now we're gonna be fitting this box tube in.
I did grind it out a little bit
so I hope that it fits right,
but let's tap her in.
(bass guitar plays)
So we're at the point where Graham and I,
we're just hammering this thing back and forth
and it keeps moving around .
We need to tack one side, then we can square the top
and then we can obviously square on the bottom
cause it has to be square on the top and the bottom,
but until we actually tack an edge
it's just moving around so
tacksy-daisy.
(bass guitar playing)
Before we can move any further,
I'm chopping up the frame rails and all that,
I gotta weld it in, so
time to weld.
(bass guitar and drums playing)
Alright, box tube is welded.
(speech drowned out by grinding)
- Here, we're gonna cut that off.
It's time, I'm so tired of looking at this.
(bass guitar and drums play)
(frame rail falls to ground)
Hey, you almost took my nuts off!
So we're looking around at how much sand
is in the frame rail here.
And look, there's a straight up bird's nest.
(Matt laughs)
How did he get in there.
The next thing we're doing,
is putting in the airbox runout mount.
This goes up to the bottom of this
and then gets mounted to the frame rail
through the back bar,
gets all sandwiched in there.
So that it holds it sturdy
and that mount actually holds up
the rear bumper at the same time.
We have to kinda figure out our spacing for the back bar
and then we're gonna drill this into the box.
See how it fits.
(guitar and drum plays)
So again, these sheet metal screws are just for mock-up,
afterwards, after everything's all screwed together,
we're gonna drill a proper nut and bolt in there.
In case anybody wants to say some sh-
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- We read the comments section.
- Almost everything is all fit up exterior-wise on the body.
We've already got the front-bumper all mounted,
the hood's just sitting on there,
fenders are mounted,
gaps are all good,
rear stuff's mounted.
We threw on the rear lexan just to take a look at it.
All this is mounted.
Obviously we still gotta work on the radiator stuff.
So we're fitting the fans to the fan trap now.
Kind of a awkward piece to hold,
so we're gonna clamp it to the table
and these are some small fans,
they're supposed to be 1950-CFM each,
so it'll be almost 4000-CFM.
Hopefully, that's enough
and they do just fit on this fan trap.
(bass guitar and drums play)
Hell yeah!
Thank you dude.
I'm off to China.
So Graham and a couple of the guys
are going to handle some business while I'm gone.
So thank you very much to them
and I'll be back on Monday.
See you next week.