What up guys?
I'm Matt Field
We're here at my shop, Drift Cave.
And I wanted to introduce you guys to something kinda cool.
kinda the next step in my drifting career.
my new car.
2013 Chevrolet Corvette
oohhhh, would you look at that.
So today's the day that I'm gonna be rolling it into my shop,
starting the tear down process.
Starting to build this thing.
So I think I'm going to start tearing out the interior,
Cause it's gross, moldy.
The seats are out..
This is literally the worst part about building a car.
Taking all the stock crap out.
Thank God, that only took 2 hours.
Alright, we're gonna take out the rear here..
Alright it's looking like it's getting torn down now
Making some progress.
So we're starting to work on the front end now.
The interior's pretty much as stripped as it's gonna be.
Got some helpers here.
You guys wanna introduce yourselves?
**whaddup, my name's Cody.**
(Matt) My name's Cody..
**Ty Milner.**
You guys all know T-Bird.
I've been trying to get this blower motor out..
for like an hour now.
And it's about to come out.
Raymond and David are here to pull the window
What do you think? You gonna break it?
Yeah?
**We got it.**
Alright
So this car was a flood damaged car,
Came from Atlanta.
He just found a shell buried down in here.
What the hell?
Was this thing in the ocean?
Pretty sure this is not how Chevy wanted you to get this out...
Well we got it up on the lift now.
Ty's sawing off the exhaust.
We're gonna pull the motor and the trans and subframes and everything
like drops down on a Corvette
chassis goes up.
Alright, we're at the point where we're starting to lift the body off the
tube and wheels and stuff
Well there's a chassis, and everything else.
We had to disconnect the A-arms
obviously we just clipped like the ABS stuff
Clipped the fuel lines
But I mean, other than that, this thing...shocks
other than that it's literally four bolts on the front subframe
four bolts on the rear subframe
It comes out.
Alright, it's the end of Day 2, things are looking pretty good.
Sweeping up the shop, we've got the engine, down to pretty much just that.
with the torque tube and the trans and the dif in the back
and then the chassis.
So tomorrow we'll get this all broken down
Get the chassis outside, get it pressure washed
cause there's like
buckets of sand still left in the chassis.
Then we'll start going.
Gonna start taking the engine apart from the rest of the
Torque tube/corvette penis
Transmission, trans-axle setup.
Pretty straightforward, and after we're done with that,
start taking the fuel lines, all this crap out of the chassis.
drop the gas tanks.
aaaand
blast it, clean it up, get going.
So we got it apart.
Like an hour later, cause we're idiots.
K, it's mostly broken down!
Time to start working on the chassis.
Alright so we dropped the gas tanks,
There's one
There's the other one over there
Cody got gas all over himself
No use letting this gas go to waste I guess
So that was like, 6 gallons of E85 from the S14, and then
another 6 gallons of 91 from the Corvette
So Pro-Tip, from Chelsea Denofa,
Told me I can go ahead and put the E85 from my racecar,
into the daily driver if they are a BMW
because it already knows.
It's just that brilliant.
Blame it on Chelsea if your sh*t blows up
but we've done it a bunch and it's been good
Ohhh, listen to her purr!
**still runs**
Ho woah!
Alright so we have the chassis pretty much where it needs to be
getting ready for washing
Ty's vaccuuming out all the leaves and crap and sand
And gonna start cleaning up the body
So we're trying to take
this off.
It's all fiberglass,
it's bonded to the steel chassis
it's a lot,
But I don't really know how to do it
but I've just been shoving my pry bar in here.
Heaving on it
and breaking it away!
Just gonna keep doing that for a while and see how it goes!
Got all this free
the back part free.
but this corner is just gnar.
Underneath the car, trying to get rid of the floor here.
Ho woah!
**oh sh*t**
You doing your leg lifts today?
Alright, well got the back mostly off
Almost all the glue is out
epoxy, gonna try getting this off with the torch
Got a lot of sound-deadening and seam sealer out
the back's off.
We're pretty much done.
And I'm tired.
Finally getting to work, it's been a long day full of phone calls,
dry sump stuff, header stuff.
supercharger stuff
Grinding all of the glue,
and epoxy and stuff.
Gonna wire wheel it all, get the seams all clean.
And then at that point once the whole car is all seamed and cleaned,
ready to go,
then we will start fabrication. Building boxes,
building the hoop, go from there
but got a lot of hours of wire wheeling to do.
So I just finished grinding sound deadening and glue,
and crap.
And now gonna hop on the Maximum Driftcast,
Talk about the Corvette build,
It's nonstop, but it's going good!
All the seams are clean.
Almost there, almost ready for fab work.
That's a wrap for the week.
Got the chassis torn down, all the useless crap out!
Thrown away.
And next week we're gonna start fab work.
Gonna start building our roll cage,
getting our seat fit up,
making filler panels to cover up the firewall,
so be sure to check back in next Tuesday,
and let us know what you wanna see more of!