- It's here!
Ooh!
(rock music)
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.
It's here!
New motor, straight from CBM.
I can't wait.
Ooh!
So this is a RHS block, 427 aluminum engine.
CBM Pro-X heads, but she's sealed.
Got the dry-sump oil pan all on there and ready.
We got seats!
Straight from the UK.
Custom embroidered, custom fit for me.
Had them make some changes to the pads
so I could get a little bit lower
since the Corvette doesn't have a lot of headroom.
A little bit tighter.
Look at this detail.
Carbon, falcon scalloped.
Oh man.
And they got even the stitch color is just perfect.
First sit in the new seats.
Oh yeah.
We're at the point, gotta take this motor,
transmission, gearbox, everything out.
Gotta lift the chassis up like we've been doing it
so that we can put in the new bullet over there.
Then it's time to get to work.
Motor, separated from torque tube.
And what I'm doing now is going to measure the air gap
between the tilt and slave and the ACT clutch.
The air gap is super important in getting it right.
Point two two.
Perfect, right on.
Now that the torque tube is out and the slave is all set
we need to finalize this.
This is a clutch delay valve
and it really helps prevent
drivetrain shock and all of that.
And we are hooking this up here,
and then this is gonna go to our Stäubli bulkhead
so that when we wanna pull the torque tube and everything
quick disconnect, don't need to bleed the clutch system,
all this stays nice and dry,
but this is gonna stay fixed to the chassis.
(hammer bangs)
Right now I am going to figure out how
we want the fuel lines to run.
This is all Earl's Ultrapro hose.
You can see that it's a convoluted style
and it's really lightweight and super flexible.
Like, you wouldn't be able to do that with
a normal Dash 10 hose.
But I gotta figure out where I'm gonna get this all
clamped up ahead of time before we put the torque tube in.
(bass guitar music)
Just got this fuel line ran from the tank
up underneath here tucked out of the way
so that when we do put the torque tube in
it's good to go.
Got a lot going on right now.
Andy's getting the new motor ready,
with this sea of parts that came off of
the mock-up engine.
Graham and I are working on torque tube stuff.
There's ACT clutch.
So kind of all over the place.
Lot of stuff going on.
Motor's looking good, this is looking good.
Gonna put the ACT clutch on,
I've already set the flywheel on.
Put some assembly lube underneath the head.
I'm gonna red Loctite the bolts.
(soft rock beat)
It's time to put on the bell housing.
Just got it all cleaned up, look at that thing.
Shiny.
I am going to put on the valve covers.
It's an unfortunate time now,
I have to cover up these beautiful scalloped valve covers
with the coil packs and the coil pack brackets.
So, these go on here all the way down
to hold the coil packs.
But before I do that I have to put these bolts in,
put all those on, then I can put the valve covers on
and then I can do the coil packs and everything.
We're gonna attach the engine to the torque tube,
hopefully for the final time.
Just fit up the blower, Graham is fitting up the seat.
Yeah that's pretty good.
Ooh!
Right now I'm doing the fire suppression line.
I just got this little guy bent up right here,
so I'm gonna go ahead and mark it, flair it,
install it and then I have to build from
the bulkhead here back to the bottle.
Doing a little trick that one of my guys
actually did for me, Daniel Treadway.
He actually came up with this whole scheme.
Cut a wrench, weld it to a steel fitting.
That way when you're changing the nitrous bottle,
it's always there, and it just clears the bottle.
Absolutely brilliant.
Today is the day for plumbing.
Alright, so the first thing that I'm gonna do is
get the lower portion of the fitting,
put 'em on here.
I wrapped the line with PTFE tape so that it wouldn't fray.
And this stuff you can actually
pull this back, and then that's where you put on this
olive piece right here.
I could thread it on by hand,
you can use pliers if you need to.
You want it to stick out about a sixteenth of an inch,
and then I'm gonna cut it flush.
Then take off the PTFE tape,
scrunch it back up.
Boom.
Then, I always just use Lucas Toolbox Buddy,
cause it's just easy to apply.
Push these two halves together, and this will obviously
fit inside of the Teflon, and it'll make a positive contact.
Go together so well too.
Boom.
Done.
So go fit this, mark the other end,
do the same thing over again.
What I'm gonna do is
take the fitting apart,
it's gonna help me figure out exactly how much
length I'm going to need.
I can see where the line actually needs to stop.
I have a silver Sharpie.
Hold it here, give myself a little bit of
flex room in there.
Mark it where I think it needs to be.
Perfect.
Take this fitting off and then,
go about the whole process over again.
Now, to only do like 50 other lines.
Look at this thing.
Massive.
Putting the water line in the car.
The first interior water line.
Now that's a pretty extensive bulkhead here,
what we got going on.
We got cold water, hot water,
steam port, ya know, bleed.
Nitrous, nitrous bottle pressure,
and then this is the fire suppression system
out to the fuel tank.
So, been a lot of stuff going on as far as
on that bulkhead so, it's pretty cool to be able
to put that first water line on.
Alright, you can really see how this stuff
is starting to lay out.
Now I gotta figure out how this all goes.
They gotta criss-cross right here so they
can lay flat on this panel.
Then I'm gonna go ahead and mark this fitting,
and plumb it up.
My dad's back to help,
we are doing the rear diff mount setup.
You do have to drill the subframe to accept this rear
diff mount, the CNC stuff from HVK.
So you can see what he's got going on right here.
These are the rear diff mounts, you have to drill this
section right here to get that mounted in.
He's got it all laid out.
This is where this piece goes,
and it's got a rubber bushing in here
and it lines up just like that.
I'm doing brake lines
and my dad is getting this finished up.
You can see what this all kinda worked out to be,
and it seems to be working out really well.
So my dad is working on this side, the hole is drilled.
But this is all going to work out really well,
and these pieces came out really really good.
Alright, that's it for the week.
Thanks for watching and make sure you stay posted
for the last few episodes.
We're getting close.
Ugh.
We're gonna be doing a sweet reveal once the car's all done.
And you don't wanna miss that, trust me.
Lemme know what you think, be sure to hit the like
and subscribe button, and I'll see you guys at Long Beach.