More Lighter = More Better: Carbon Panels on our Duramax Swapped Camaro // Knuckle Busters 2 Ep.14

welcome back to Knuckle Busters last time was a question. I just asked a question. Welcome back to Knuckle Busters. Well, welcome back to Knuckle Busters. Last week, we actually drove the car, so this week we'll focus on a little

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. of cooling to finish the wiring we're trying to run at the end of this week, so we want to at least test it, so we'll take it to Irwindale. Our goal is to do a lot in terms of doing that. a car so today we have body

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, some cooling stuff and Jose is going to continue cleaning the wiring and some interior things that we've been working on for the last few days and we got pretty far and Jose you can see it destroyed .

The interior here just made a big mess, but he also built some really cool stuff, so we put the board back in. He did a little thing to cover the ECU. Now he's working on a fuse panel because we just didn't like the way the wiring was. It looked like it was a mess, so José has been working on it and then I've been working from the beginning with some of the conduits so you can see this is a new piece here and this took a lot of thought I guess. what and a bunch of paper so I made all these templates out of paper that's what we had here so you can see I have this as a starting point and now I have this that should come out if it doesn't work. hooked onto each hose so you can see here, we don't have ducting, but with this we can direct the airflow up over the engine.

Well, I'll continue with this today and to do that we'll need to attach the body

panels

. and we have everything placed here, we have Anderson composites, so we have

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fiber fenders, we already put the rear deck lid on, we'll show you that in a moment, but we also started working on this, we have kind of an idea of what we want to do to fit the hood removal so we already cut that out because the engine is so big we had to cut some of the turbo stuff here and here and then we have the side exit exhaust so we've adjusted that a little bit, but we still have

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to do and then we have this, uh, we have this bumper, just a factory bumper, I think, and then an April splitter for the front, so we have to figure these things out today. make the thing look like a car so we can drive it on the track, we need to put some glass on it, we'll probably have a lot of work to do tomorrow, so how do I think about things like this, that when you first look at it?

It can be a little intimidating, we knew that tilting it forward after talking to Batam we knew that tilting this board we were going to vent this thing out of the hood and the hood is huge, we have a five inch hood, but the engine is still very big. that we had to do a little bit of cleaning up with the hood to even get it to lay flat and the hood is not completely installed but we still have to put pins in and stuff but we cut it out so we could get an idea of ​​where it's going to go and then you can see the space we have here.

I like to think of it as more like you just make a box with the space you have to take it out so you know what areas we can start from like on the bottom max we had like three inches from here to this right direction and then you have basically 26 inches like 25 and three quarters in this direction from here to here and then we know that we have a stop right over here and I don't remember the exact measurement, but it's like 15 inches, so we know those three things and then you basically draw a triangle of what you can operate within that and see which direction you can tilt it and then you start from there and continue.

Continuing with the curvature of the hood, we're going to want to vent everything here knowing that in trying to get here we don't want to block everything in the engine compartment because if we have a problem on the track we want to be able to work on it, so to try to do something less invasive, I took another tube and just cut it in the small spot so it would fit. We don't have a break here either, I have a veneer break so I had to make some relief cuts and then I bent it. I literally just stood on it and bent it with my hands, so these welds are here and then, you can see it cleans up this wiring and the intercooler pipe, but for today, what?

I'm going to start right now. This vent has to go from here to there, so I'm going to have to do all this in one box, so I have to put the front bumper on and then start doing. All these ideas are coming up, something is happening up here, I don't really know what, but these tabs here are holding this back. I wanted to sit right inside this so I didn't have any air gaps, so basically I wanted this to sit. here, but I forgot they're here, so I'm going to cut them off. In fact, you could place it on top.

I don't know, so we have a top piece that goes up to here and I. I'm going to make a bottom piece from here down and then we'll just attach the sides and then I'll make a plate for the rest that will screw on here, everything has to be removable, that's what a process like that is. putting this car together and taking it apart like there's a sequence for every single thing we have to do in this car because everything is so tight in space, all right, this is what I came up with now that I have everything laid out on paper.

I'm going to transfer that to the aluminum and start a little big so I can trim it down. I want everything to fit together really nicely, so I'll have a little bit of overlap and then I don't really know how I want to attach it yet, so I'll leave it a little long and we'll work on that, but once I have a little more structure, then I'll be able to have a

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idea of ​​how much needs to be trimmed and things like that. I'm going to start with that, Jose started rewiring things and the fuse box we got just wasn't the right one so he's going to run out and grab another one and we'll turn it on at the end of the day again and make sure it's okay.

All good, but I'm going to start making metal things, so the idea to get this to fit correctly is to bend these lines here, this should go around the lines for the trans cooler and this just needs to rest. flat so as not to block the whole cooler, so if we fold this line it's going to be flush with this and it's going to have kind of a nice curve to it and the same thing with this as well, so this is going to come up here and we're going to bend it. In this direction, then I'll have a nice fascia on it, then we can make some kind of lid to enclose everything and then we'll just glue the sides together so something fits, so once this is folded, we'll have a

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idea but we don't have any breakage. sheet metal so I'm going to call 10 and see if I can stop by bvi on the way home fold these put them tomorrow but to continue moving forward we will start putting body panels on the doors, what not, we no longer need to have the car on the lift right now so let it drop, bring it forward, the doors on the fenders, take the hood off and then we can see what we have to do up top so these are not the original doors these are fiberglass doors from anderson composites, so that's where we start, we'll start with the doors, then we'll put the

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fenders on, we haven't even had the doors on this car, the factory door, but these are not going to fit right, but we have to put them on first to Don't cover it with the fender and then the bumper and then the hood.

It should look great. We've already teased the front end a bit like it's just the fender and hood just to make the right cuts for the turbo stuff, so all this turbo crap like the exhaust was in the way and this here , even though the hood is like five inches, it's just that this engine is so wide that it wouldn't fully fit under it, so we had to make a couple of cuts and then obviously we made the side exit exhaust, so we had I have to make a little cut for that with the fender that's scary, I hate cutting carbon fiber, that's really nice, it looks.

Great, feels amazing, fits great, definitely didn't want to cut it, but this type of project is fine, simple, move on to the next, opens and closes sometimes, when your day isn't going well you just have to do a few things easy, make you feel. Better a sense of accomplishment, now it's got fender doors, no buddy, yeah, no, it's not going to work, so okay, we gotta take it off, grab the tube or maybe if we let it go, twist the tube, yeah, loosen it, turn it. Yeah, don't put too much pressure on this thing because now we're going to cut your finger off, yeah, okay, at least to start and then I'll rotate, this goes in, it'll rotate that, look it's a car.

It has doors It has body panels It's the most Camaro looking it's been in months It looks great The Anderson composite is great It looks fantastic It's nice to have the car back together for once and it makes you a little more excited because now it feels as if Actually, we're going to drive this thing this week, so we have a few more things to do as far as finishing the deck. Jose has to do a bit more wiring to power it up, we only have a few more days so we're really pressed to get it done.

To do this, we have a few more Anderson body panels to mount, but we're not going to use them for testing because we don't have the right hardware to mount it really well and we don't want anything coming. off and that's really nice, we don't want to break it before we can use it. I'm happy with today, it looks great and next time we should drive it. José doesn't move yet, you don't have any. coffee this morning I need coffee look how happy you are Jose