This Project Snowballed Quickly - Roadster Shop Front Stub & Custom Frame

[00:00:00]So, is this where the project snowballs?

[00:00:03]>> Oh, man. They all snowball from the beginning, man.

[00:00:06]>> I'm just saying you were adamant, man.

[00:00:08]Oh, I'm going to reuse this frame. This is a good frame.

[00:00:10]>> Yeah, it's a shame to cut it away, but [music] uh it's not going to work for us, I don't think.

[00:00:15]>> Sounds like a lot of death wheel fun. A >> lot of death wheel fun, man. That's for sure.

[00:00:24]>> Whoa.

[00:00:26]A little more teetery. Yeah. than my last pieces. But >> that's a death wheel accuracy.

[00:00:31]>> I know, dude. [music] >> We got to give ourselves a half an inch, but in the right direction, [laughter] whatever that is.

[00:00:45][music] Here we are cutting the front part of the frame off of the 1960s wagon. Joe has got the death wheel out and just going through the last few preparatory steps. Putting some safety crossers here on the frame table so that way when he finishes cutting through that frame, this has something to land on and not on someone's toes. So stay tuned for the drop.

[00:01:33]What I'm trying to do now, now that we got all the suspension out of here, is uh there's this little this kind of this uh held the radiator and the condenser right here. This deal that's attached to the core support here.

[00:01:49]Um, I think with my new radiator, it's not, you know, obviously not going to be big enough. So, I got to figure out how to get it out of here so I can get it out of here. Blue, come on, man.

[00:02:01]Um, I can have access to where I need to make the cuts on the end of this frame stub, you know.

[00:02:08]So, basically, I think our goal today, Chris, let me show you what I got in mind here.

[00:02:15]um this geometry right here on the end of the frame basically is going to the only spring in the thing in the front that's going to stay. So I'm going to cut this cut all this out of here up to this body mount I think for now. And uh I want to save this that way all the bumper brackets and everything will be you know kind of stock location. I don't have to remake all that stuff. So, once I cut this here, I'll plate this off and cut this off, too. And then I'll add a little crossmember um support right here. And we'll put the Roadster Shop clip in there and kind of see where our our uh our wheel basease is going to end up and the and the stance and everything. So, that'll be our goal today. Get this out, put the clip in there, put the wheels on it, see how it looks.

[00:03:04]>> Sounds like a lot of death wheel fun.

[00:03:06]>> A lot of death wheel fun, man. That's for sure.

[00:03:10]Yeah, but I got all this stuff in my way. So, I got to be able to I got to be able to uh get in there with the death wheel. You know what I mean? So, now I got this this thing right here. I'm trying to figure out how to get that out of there. And I think I got everything unbolted, man. But it's just kind of corroded in place, you know? So, I'm going to get the hammer out. See if I can make move stuff around. But hopefully we can get that clip in there.

[00:03:37]That'll be a good That would be a good goal for today.

[00:03:40]>> Now I understand what you meant about the frame table being high.

[00:03:44]>> Well, it's nice because if you have a super low frame table, then obviously it's hard to access underneath the car.

[00:03:54]So, but if it's high like this, you got to use a ladder and get up and it's kind of a pain in the ass. But kind of best of both worlds. It's it's at a good height because I can get on top of it.

[00:04:03]But, you know, mainly I'm going to be underneath it. So I get on a creeper, get underneath it, um have room to to move around. Plus, you know, it's obviously it's it's uh I got it welded to the table, so the frame parts of the the body is tacked to the table. So I don't want to uh you know, I don't want the car to shift around. So we tack it down so it doesn't move on the table.

[00:04:25]But, um, then if I really have to get underneath it, I can roll the whole table to the lift, lift everything, you know, lift the frame table up with the car on it and be able to access, too. So, >> Oh, man. You got yourself some new gloves.

[00:04:40]>> I know. How about that, man? Splurge on some new gloves, man. I was tired of the metal splinters and the burns. I try to push them because, you know, it's one of these things. These gloves these gloves are awesome, man. They'll go a good long time, but when they're new, it sucks. The break-in period sucks, you know, for the first few days, they're >> just got to like leave them on the ground, drive over them with the DY, you know.

[00:05:04]>> Exactly, man. Get them worked >> in. They're kind of tough, man. And uh so once you get them broke in cuz you can feel, you know, a new set of gloves at the end of the day, you're like, "Damn, my hands hurt." Cuz you're fighting these gloves. But once they're broke in, man, they're they're, you know, they're good to go.

[00:05:24]>> [music] >> It's like this is the problem, right?

[00:05:31]>> I know. Yeah. [music] So, I It's They're slotted. So, I thought I had enough room, but you know what? I don't think I can. I want to salvage this piece, [music] but those uprightes, I think I'm going to cut them. So, I think I'm going to death wheel them. Just going to cut them off right there.

[00:05:46]Am [music] I hitting it? Uh, you might have been a little close [music] to the front. Let's see, man. Let me get back up here.

[00:06:21]Oh yeah, sure enough, dude.

[00:06:34]That'll do it.

[00:06:37]Damn, that worked pretty good.

[00:06:39][laughter] Holy crap.

[00:06:44]Oh Yeah.

[00:06:46]>> All right, man.

[00:06:52]>> You'll have to call Bama. Come get the scrap.

[00:06:54]>> Yeah. More scrap or Bama to recycle. And when I mean recycle, he'll actually put this back in a car, man. You know what I mean?

[00:07:02]Yeah. That's It's amazing how good this stuff was built back in the day. I mean, look at that. Look how thick that stuff is.

[00:07:11]And just the I mean, that's just to hold the radiator.

[00:07:15]and all the structure that went into it.

[00:07:18]It just makes, you know, it's just amazing, man.

[00:07:22]Now everything's held with plastic clips and ties and brackets, you know, and >> man, the weight of that thing's got to be 10 horsepower.

[00:07:32]>> Yeah. Yeah, that's 10 horsepower for sure. [laughter] >> So, yeah, I'm going to come off a basically right off this bracket right here, man. Cut this flush.

[00:07:50]>> It's crazy how thick that is.

[00:07:52]>> Ain't that wild? The frame. You're talking about talking about the frame.

[00:07:55]Yeah, I know it.

[00:07:57]>> Or wide, I should say. Well, thick and wide.

[00:07:59]>> Well, that's the thing. It's It's just You know how stout these cars were built, man.

[00:08:06]I mean, there's no uh not much crumple zone to this car, man. It's just like go right through a brick wall.

[00:08:13]you know. But yeah, I mean it's it's uh it's just amazing, man. It's a shame to to uh just cuz the geometry doesn't really work for us anymore being that the frame hangs down too low. You can see right here where it's hanging down.

[00:08:30]Generally, I like to get everything kind of, you know, level with the rock, the bottom of the rocker. So, I wouldn't want that hanging down. I want the car to sit pretty low. You know, that's what an inch and a half right there. Inch and 3/4 hanging down.

[00:08:45]So, I got to determine after I get this out what I'm going to do because I may just, you know, look at it. Look how far down it hangs past this this little pinch mark, this pinch weld right here.

[00:08:54]>> You have to make >> I may just make a lip, man.

[00:08:58]>> Well, I may just make a whole new like on the Impala. Just do my own frame. used the roster shop stub to get everything in place and uh off of that just basically that like the 60 Impala um cuz trying to retrofit it, you know, and I could even section the bottom of this frame and box it in. But by the time I do that, I can add a whole new rail. And then when I get to the back, I'm going to put a a C notch in it, a 2x4 out of 120 wall. And uh by the time I do that, most of the frame's built, you know what I mean? So I probably spend more time trying to retrofit the stock frame.

[00:09:40]Um but it's such a great frame. It's super stout. It's just not going to ride where we want it to. It's a shame to cut it away, but uh it's not going to work for us, I don't think. All right. That's about as straight as that's going to get right there. So, that just eliminates a lot of work having to recreate that to locate the bumper brackets, you know. Um, and you got bracketry underneath here. This little piece is pretty cool. I want to save this piece.

[00:10:10]So, if I to cut all that away, then it's just a lot more work for me.

[00:10:15]>> Um, >> especially when none of that's rotted, man. Like where that battery was. It's crazy, man. even where the battery was sitting. Usually where the batteries, you know, rotted them out. Within three years, they rotted out. You know, those old batteries. But man, the car is in such great shape, man. I just want to utilize all this stuff cuz this stuff will clean up nice and um you know, blast it a little bit and then put some epoxy on it, some flat flat clear. Man, it'll look killer.

[00:10:42]Let me remark it down here.

[00:10:49]Um, these back here aren't critical cuz I'm going to I just want to get the stub out so we can line up the road to shop rack.

[00:10:56]>> Yep.

[00:10:57]>> And then from there back, we're going to have to start really chopping things away. Get the rest of that frame out cuz I think I've made my decision. I don't think we can salvage that frame. So to use for our geometry, so we'll get it out of there.

[00:11:12]So is this where the project snowballs?

[00:11:16]Oh man, they all snowball from the beginning, man.

[00:11:21]>> I'm just saying you were adamant, man.

[00:11:23]Oh, I'm going to reuse this frame. This a good frame.

[00:11:25]>> Yeah. Well, you know, after looking at it on the frame frame table, once we got on the frame table and we put the wheels on it, that's the that's the thing is I like setting them up first because being that the car is not going to have air ride. I want to do a static ride on it.

[00:11:39]That's the critical thing. You don't really know. I mean, obviously when I saw the car, looked underneath it, I saw how that frame hung pretty low past the the pinch molds on the rockers.

[00:11:51]>> Yeah.

[00:11:51]>> The pinch welds, you know, and so, um, you know, if that's hanging down, that's just that much more meat that's hanging down, it's going to drag things, you know, so you get all that up.

[00:12:04]So, and I thought, well, if I could save the frame, my 64 Galaxy, I did that. I did a front clip on it, tied it into the stock frame, and then towards the back, did a C notch and tied onto it. But that frame, the way it was designed, it's more like a 4x4 square tubing, you know, where this one's like a 2x6 on this uh this old cuz I mean, it's obviously it's a lot of weight being a wagon and they just wanted it stouter, I guess. Um cuz my 60 Impala frame two door hard top it that frame didn't hang down >> you know. Um so they probably you know think if it's a you know going by 2 by six little it's going to be a little stouter and actually not 2x six it's almost like 4x6. I mean cuz the frame's so tall and about 4 in wide 3 and 1 half 4 in wide.

[00:12:58]>> Um but it just hangs down too much. So once I get it on there and I can eyeball it and on the table, top of the table simulates where the road will be and where I want the car to ultimately ride.

[00:13:10]Um, I determined then there's no way. It's I only got 3 and 1/2 in. I'll be dragging every speed bump. I'll be dragging everything. It's not it's not going to work. So [snorts] I don't want to put car in air ride.

[00:13:23]>> I want a killer static ride. And um so we got to build a new frame.

[00:13:29][laughter] Um so if I go that way, I'll have room. I have that way, that way, that way. Think I'll have start with a bottom, I think.

[00:13:55]>> [music] [music] >> Whoa. Oh, >> almost death.

[00:14:11]>> Death wheel, dude.

[00:14:15]Look at that. Kada.

[00:14:18]Kada got chills, man. See that?

[00:14:25]Yep.

[00:14:27]That's why um safety glasses and a hood, man.

[00:14:33]What's Where's it moving, man?

[00:14:36]>> I think there's just so much weight in here. See, it's dropped so much there.

[00:14:39]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This that that doesn't matter. This can fall. This is going to fall out. I just didn't know if that's what was grabbing your >> This is >> Well, probably.

[00:14:48]>> Yeah, >> it definitely is. Yeah, it's definitely contributing to it.

[00:14:52]>> Um the uh um long as this doesn't move.

[00:14:58]>> All right. Yeah. No, that's >> this can do whatever it wants, you know.

[00:15:02]>> Let me see though, man. You might You're probably right. It's probably It pinched the not even Yeah. Like it's sort of like when you're cutting down a tree, you got to do that wedge.

[00:15:11]>> Exactly. Right. Cuz man, there's still a good amount of What do you got? Like an inch inch of material left.

[00:15:17]>> Yeah. Let me uh let me get a be better angle in here. Man, it's cut pretty good. So, I just hate being in direct alignment with it. You know, the cut [laughter] line in case the blades do come apart.

[00:15:38]Oh, here we go, brother.

[00:15:50]All right.

[00:16:01]Heat. [music] All >> [music] >> right. Now, man, what's the plan with that? Oh, yeah. Good, man. I got a good Got an easy one right here.

[00:16:19]>> You got just a little bit on the bottom of this side. I >> think I'm going to do the bottom one first, man.

[00:16:23]>> Yeah.

[00:16:24]>> You know, I need to do cuz like you said, put a little jack under cuz I think about the whole weight coming from the back.

[00:16:33]You know what I'm talking about?

[00:16:37]the whole Well, you know what though? The It's still tied [music] to the body though.

[00:16:43]Like >> it's tied to the body.

[00:16:44]>> It is tied to the body, >> but I'm going to put a little pressure on it.

[00:16:48]>> Save the wheel.

[00:16:49]>> It ain't It ain't going to hurt nothing.

[00:16:51][laughter] >> It'll actually take pressure off that blade, you know, just like you're saying.

[00:17:00]>> Perfect.

[00:17:04]Just a touch of pressure on it.

[00:17:06]>> Yeah, >> right there.

[00:17:14]Still kick down.

[00:17:20]This side doesn't have to be measured. I just need to cut it off, you know. So, I'm just going to lop it off right here.

[00:17:28]Um, >> final answer, not using this frame.

[00:17:30]Yeah, we're not going to use the frame, man.

[00:17:35]Put a little sting. I can just I can just put one in to just rest. I have to really weld it in there. Actually, just a little kind of take relief off cuz of the frame hanging on the body.

[00:17:46]I don't want to put stress top of these fenders or anything weird, you know. So, let me get a quick measurement on that.

[00:17:56]3 and a4.

[00:18:00]All right, cut these down these in. Man, >> I think they can just pressure fit them in because, man, I got to get the rest of the rails out later, you know. So, >> I think I'm just going to put them in, let them kind of rest in there and um hold a little pressure out while, you know, once this is released, all the weight of that frame is going to be kind of hanging on the body. Of course, that's supported, but just so there's no weird binding of the fenders. You know what I'm saying?

[00:18:58]So, since you snowballed and you don't care now, if this had have been the original concept, where would you have cut the frame?

[00:19:08]>> Well, that's a good question. So, I probably would have cut it.

[00:19:11]My plan was if I was going to save it, I was going to save it right at this body mount right here and box it off.

[00:19:18]And um and like my Galaxy, I did the same thing. So I boxed this up, trimmed it up, got a box in really nice and solid, and then came along here and cut trimmed a little of this off cuz the car had a little rake. I was able to get more clearance, but that galaxy frame didn't hang down that far. Um that was kind of my plan. Just right here, box it off and then save, you know, obviously all the body mounts. I don't have to recreate that stuff and then tie the clip in. And if only this frame was didn't hang down two inches right here, I would have kept it. But it's just so much work.

[00:19:56]>> Yeah.

[00:19:57]>> And to get the ride height and then to get the clearance, get the car sitting nice and and have the ground clearance.

[00:20:02]It's just no way. You know, you would think it's going to go like this, man. Cuz look at it's opening up the bottom.

[00:20:12]>> Probably cuz we got the jack in the front, right?

[00:20:14]>> Well, we got the weight there.

[00:20:16]Um, yeah, I got the jack there.

[00:20:19]And, uh, probably the weight of this car is just kind of settling out a little bit, too, you know. I mean, settle, you know, the the weight in the back the back of the car from the firewall back.

[00:20:29]>> Um, >> you can try letting >> I guess I should let that jack down a little bit. Yeah, probably should.

[00:20:35][clears throat] >> See what it does.

[00:20:40]>> Oh, yeah. It's closing up.

[00:20:42]>> Is it?

[00:20:43]>> Yep.

[00:20:45]Okay, good, man. That'll be uh Let's see. I got to think.

[00:20:51]I think I can put a little something across here. Just a bar to catch it when it falls, you know.

[00:20:58]>> Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, >> cuz that thing's heavy. It's going to land on some toes, man.

[00:21:09]>> Yeah, we'll flip it like this, Chris.

[00:21:11]It'll make it higher.

[00:21:12]>> All right.

[00:21:13]There we go. Perfect. Dude, >> you want to grab another one and just set it?

[00:21:19]>> Probably ought to.

[00:21:29]>> Oh man, that's perfect. Look at that, man. Perfect, dude.

[00:21:33]Chris, give me those tanks, [music] brother.

[00:21:37]A cool tank, man. That's cool, man.

[00:21:40]>> You put that on a bike.

[00:21:42]>> I know, dude. You could, man. You're a mini chopper, dude.

[00:21:47][music] All right, I'm [music] going to do a quick clean up, man. Chris, let's put that down, dude.

[00:22:07]And uh that should sweet, man.

[00:22:12]I'mma sweep this crap out of here, dude.

[00:22:18]Damn, Kub came loose, man.

[00:22:24]There we go.

[00:22:34]Wonder if we can bang it down. See if the back's close. Oh, now we're on this one.

[00:22:41]>> Oh. Ha.

[00:22:43]Yep.

[00:22:48]Kind of leave it right there. Safety.

[00:22:50]>> Yep.

[00:22:51]>> All right, dude. Let me Maybe I can smack this sucker.

[00:22:57][music] >> Ah, that is close.

[00:23:06]>> A little bit overlap.

[00:23:08]>> What? Smack your side, Chris. Maybe uh >> maybe it'll kind of dislodge it or some >> Oh yeah, dude.

[00:23:21]Same dude. Okay, maybe hit in the back, man. Cuz maybe in the back we can Okay, there we go. Loose. Oh, there we go. Right on.

[00:23:34]>> Watch your toes.

[00:23:35]>> No [laughter] Okay, I may have to jump in there. Let me jump in there. Let's see. Let's see, dude.

[00:23:45][clears throat] >> Oh What's this? Hold on.

[00:23:53]>> Oh, there we go.

[00:23:54]>> Oh, good. Right on.

[00:24:01]>> Got it, Kdub.

[00:24:02]>> Yeah.

[00:24:03]>> Ain't as heavy as I thought. That's good.

[00:24:05]>> There we go. Where do we want this?

[00:24:08]Right here.

[00:24:32]>> But [music] you can definitely grind that off. I'm going to leave a little extra hanging. Yeah, [music] I need two of these then. And I need two of these. Let's go pick out our big.

[00:24:49][music] We got a smaller piece of that.

[00:24:54]What's this one down here? What do you got, [music] Chris?

[00:24:59]Think this one might be it.

[00:25:02]Or is this is this one thicker? I just can't tell cuz it's all butchered up.

[00:25:07]Might be a little thicker. Oh yeah, dude. Perfect. Let me get my glove. I'm going to drag that out.

[00:25:21]Look how your frame play.

[00:25:22]>> Oh yeah. No, that's just kind of like uh just a angle the way the frame is.

[00:25:28]>> Was that line right here? Yeah, that's fine.

[00:25:33]>> Dude, this weather's perfect right now, too, man.

[00:25:35]>> Yeah, nice little breeze, man.

[00:25:39]Let's see. Somewhere right in here, man.

[00:25:41]So, somewhere right at that 20 in.

[00:25:52]So, I put this dude slide that thing down, Chris.

[00:25:59]And what I'm going to do, Chris, there's a line. There's a center line, right?

[00:26:01]See if you can line it up with that, brother.

[00:26:02]>> Okay.

[00:26:08]>> Right on. Okay.

[00:26:24]All right, man. This is probably a heavy bastard, man. Just heavy bastard, dude.

[00:26:28]I can't remember. Oh, that's not too bad, dude. It's not too great either, but >> could be worse.

[00:26:35]>> No >> Okay, I guess Mattress, let's go on since we're closest to this side.

[00:26:40]>> Yep.

[00:26:41]>> We'll just slide it across there if we can. Oh, camera angles.

[00:26:47]Where's Kub? Kub.

[00:26:53]Uhoh. Keep rolling. Keep rolling. Keep rolling.

[00:26:58]There we go. All right. Set that sucker up on there cuz I'm going to go over there and catch it over there.

[00:27:07]Let's see. Dude, let me hold this side up.

[00:27:13]>> Hold this side here, man. I'm going to jump in there, Chris. Let me jump in there, dude. Got it.

[00:27:30]Okay, this going to be funky cuz I forgot these control arms.

[00:27:34]>> Oh yeah, we're resting on that.

[00:27:35]>> Let's see, man.

[00:27:37]See the lower coil arm or the coil uh shock brackets right here. Like that.

[00:27:42]Right there. It is.

[00:27:43]>> I'm going to try to rest it right here.

[00:27:45]So, if we can rest your side, I need to make a measurement.

[00:27:48]>> Okay.

[00:27:48]>> And then we'll let it relax again. And I'm going to cut some stansions.

[00:27:51]>> Okay.

[00:27:52]>> Hopefully we can get it the ride height just about where it needs to be.

[00:27:55]>> Gotcha. [clears throat] >> All right. So, >> you may have to tap yours just forward just a tad bit. Chris, see it?

[00:28:01]>> Yeah.

[00:28:04]>> Now, will it tilt back a little bit?

[00:28:08][clears throat] Okay. It's going to be a little tricky, man. It's Kdub over. You see Kdub over there?

[00:28:13]>> Kdub.

[00:28:15]>> Actually, Jimmy. Jimmyy's right there.

[00:28:17]>> Yeah.

[00:28:17]>> Oh, you know what? If we get something underneath a rack in the front.

[00:28:22]>> What's that?

[00:28:22]>> If we get something underneath this rack.

[00:28:24]>> Well, here's what I got to do, though.

[00:28:27]I got to find this measurement. I got to be a 12 and an eighth to the center of the hub.

[00:28:34]And when I get there, I got to figure out my little uh my little spacer in between the table and the bottom. You know what I'm saying?

[00:28:44]>> Yeah.

[00:28:44]>> So, um it up.

[00:28:49]>> Let me think. Hold on a second, man.

[00:28:52]Okay, that's two two and 78 plus five.

[00:28:59]>> So, seven and >> 78.

[00:29:01]>> Seven and 78. I need a seven and 78 spacer on each side, brother. Okay, now we can relax. It looks like it goes back in the well and looks stupid.

[00:29:10]>> Yeah.

[00:29:11]>> And when you like with air ride on a factory frame, the wheel comes back and looks dumb, dude. Looks like you hit a curb real hard. You know what I mean?

[00:29:19]I can't stand it, man. It makes me crazy. Okay. You see my center line right in the middle of that deal right there?

[00:29:24]>> Yep.

[00:29:24]>> Let's do a measurement. I want to see how true it is. All right.

[00:29:29]>> Yeah. Okay. That's about a foot wide.

[00:29:38]So, um I wonder, man, can we scoot this thing? Can we scoot this clip forward, dude?

[00:29:48]Okay, I'mma tack him on and we'll stick stick it on here. See if we're close.

[00:29:52]There we go.

[00:30:06][music] All >> [music] [music] [music] >> right.

[00:30:36]Oh, yeah.

[00:30:38]Oh, hell yeah.

[00:30:42]Oh, it stays there. It stays. It stays.

[00:30:46]Is it resting there good? Yeah. Are really? Yeah. It's because it's not on this anymore. Oh, that's right. That's right. We got a flat surface.

[00:30:58]>> Oh, the sway bar. Oh, the sway bar.

[00:31:00]Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:31:04]Yeah. Control arms down. They need to ultimately be [music] >> But that is your droop. That's your droop right now technically.

[00:31:13]>> So, let me see something here.

[00:31:16]I may have to cut that. The center of that hub, Kub, >> that's closed right there. Yeah.

[00:31:28]>> Yeah. So, that's 12 and 5/8 >> to the ground.

[00:31:38]>> What was the wheel?

[00:31:40]>> So, it need to be 12. Um, the tire is uh the overall diameter of the tire is 12 and a >> I'll just bring you the wheel >> a quarter. I mean 24 and >> so it's 12 and an eighth. 12 and an eighth from the center of that.

[00:32:02]So yeah, 12 and 1 eigh right here. Just look.

[00:32:11]12 and eigh 12 and a quarter somewhere in there. That tire didn't have any air on it in it, but it's holds its form pretty good. So that means we're at about 12 and 5/8.

[00:32:31]12 and 5/8. So >> And that's at droop.

[00:32:37]>> That's at droop, meaning So compressed. I forget. file. They're probably all a little different, but >> put some struts in it.

[00:32:51]So then you know that's where >> Yeah, you're right, Kdub. I sure do, don't I? Damn right, Kdub. I got to put struts in there.

[00:32:59]Got to put struts in.

[00:33:01]>> I think Jerry has a little grill.

[00:33:03]>> Does he? Cool. Cool.

[00:33:05]Doesn't that make sense, Chris? Right.

[00:33:07]>> Yeah.

[00:33:09]>> So, I put the strut on.

[00:33:11]Put the solid strut on there. And that'll simulate about where this car needs to sit because Yeah.

[00:33:20]Yeah. There's no way it's going to sit that there's no way to sit that high. It It needs to be about 2 and 12 inches lower at that point. You know what I mean?

[00:33:27]>> It's like that short piece I grab.

[00:33:29]>> Exactly. That might be Yeah. [laughter] Might be what we need to do.

[00:33:34]>> We go.

[00:33:35]>> Right on. Kdub, what is the length of them? Kdub, let me see if that >> I can't remember what they were.

[00:33:41]>> Let's see. 13, I think.

[00:33:44]>> Yeah.

[00:33:45]>> Yep. Sure enough, Kub, right?

[00:33:50]>> 15.

[00:33:51]>> It's almost perfect, man.

[00:33:54][music] Heat [music] [music] up [music] here.

[00:34:33]>> [music] [music] >> Well, this side's going to be that bottom left corner. There should be extra material if anything.

[00:34:48]>> Like this side right here. There should be some hanging. Is that what you're saying?

[00:34:51]>> The bottom left corner.

[00:34:52]>> This one?

[00:34:52]>> Yeah. Right there. It was kind of poking out a bit.

[00:34:57]>> Be about as close as it right there.

[00:34:59]Which that's fine, man. That's fine.

[00:35:01]Give me plenty plenty of surface to weld to. Um, that's plenty, man.

[00:35:10]All right. All right, boys.

[00:35:14]>> All right, Chris, you ready to go up, brother?

[00:35:16]>> Yep.

[00:35:28]Let's see. Kate up.

[00:35:30]That's pretty damn close, man. At least just to get an idea of >> this thing is slammed.

[00:35:36]>> It's super slammed out. It's like it's aired out now, ain't it?

[00:35:39]>> Actually, let's go forward, too. Okay.

[00:35:41]I'm want cuz I'm going to have to push I want the wheelbase forward as far as it'll go. It may start tipping.

[00:35:48]>> Straight tipping.

[00:35:51]But you see my center line.

[00:35:54]>> This is where you want the >> 15 and 5/8. And so we needed to be at 12 and an eighth.

[00:36:01]So where does that how much we got to take off of this? 15. And what was it, man? 15 and >> 5/8.

[00:36:08]>> 15 and 5/8.

[00:36:11]Um, it needs to be at 12 and eight.

[00:36:14]>> Two and 3/4.

[00:36:15]>> Two and 3/4.

[00:36:18]>> What's that? Five and just over five and a quarter on that.

[00:36:23]That's pretty damn close, man. Let me see, [laughter] dude. Holy It's two and a half.

[00:36:31]>> Oh, no >> dude. Look how close [laughter] that is.

[00:36:35]That's awesome, man.

[00:36:38]>> Yeah. It needs another quarter inch shorter and it'll be just right.

[00:36:41][laughter] Okay. Well, >> you sure you don't want the quarter inch?

[00:36:49]>> I think I do.

[00:36:50]>> I'm death wheeling.

[00:36:51]>> I think so.

[00:36:52]>> Do you know what you're going to?

[00:36:54]>> What do you think? Think we should go with that five and a right here.

[00:37:00]So that would be >> So what's the difference there?

[00:37:03]>> That's taking two and 38. Taking two and 38 off of these.

[00:37:11]>> So you're raising the car 2 and 38.

[00:37:20]And our math here was 2 and 3/4.

[00:37:24]Right.

[00:37:25]>> Yeah.

[00:37:27]>> So, if we go to 38, >> so if we stay higher with this block, it's better than going too low.

[00:37:40]As far as this cross, >> the higher you go, the lower the car stays, >> which means the more adjustability in the coilover versus the other way.

[00:37:52]So, we just need to we got to give ourselves a half an inch but in the right direction. [laughter] >> Whatever that is.

[00:38:05]>> Oh man.

[00:38:10]>> Final answer. Kub >> K's like, "Hell no." [laughter] Kayla's I don't I don't want to say >> Call her a friend. I'm calling you.

[00:38:20]Whatever. Damn.

[00:38:25]Five and 38. Five and three. Pretty close. Pretty close. Okay, here we go, brother.

[00:38:38][music] >> [music] [music] >> All right, Chris, that's good to go there, brother.

[00:39:10]Pretty damn good to go.

[00:39:14]So, man, we can put our clip back in there.

[00:39:17]Get another measurement going here.

[00:39:21]>> It's easier now that they're shorter.

[00:39:23]>> I know it, man. I know it. Damn sure is.

[00:39:26]>> All right.

[00:39:27]>> Little more teetery.

[00:39:28]>> Yeah.

[00:39:29]>> Than my last pieces, but >> that's that death wheel accuracy.

[00:39:32]>> I know, dude.

[00:39:37]>> Let me tune it a little bit more. Chris, can tune a little bit more.

[00:39:39]>> You want to go to the front?

[00:39:40]>> Let's go to the back, man. Let's go to the back. I had a little more sand and room there. Let me see here.

[00:39:54]Damn. Looks pretty flat. I >> think right here.

[00:39:58]>> That little coin. Oh, yeah. I see it, dude. I see it. Sure enough.

[00:40:03]I see that bastard.

[00:40:11]If I can tack it and I can move it around. You know what I mean?

[00:40:14]Okay. Here we go.

[00:40:18][clears throat] Okay. Let's see, man. Let's see here.

[00:40:22]Kristen, let me get Let me get Kub in here. Got it. You got it for a second, Chris.

[00:40:28]>> Yeah, I got it. Let's see something here.

[00:40:35]Let me see something, Kub.

[00:40:37]I got to find the center of this thing.

[00:40:43]So, this thing is 10 and 3/4. So, okay. Now, I want to look at Let me measure this right here.

[00:40:51]Measure this sucker, dude. Turn it. Uh, I need to turn it this way. Let me get some um Yeah, let me get some ch Let me get some uh plywood real quick. Turn it. Um, hold what you guys got, man. Let's see here.

[00:41:07]Pretty damn good right there.

[00:41:11]Um, >> should we tack it, Kayden, and just see what it does?

[00:41:19]Tack it and put a wheel on it.

[00:41:21]>> Okay.

[00:41:22]>> We can cut the tack. Yep. Okay.

[00:41:25]>> Yep.

[00:41:26]>> 15 and a half.

[00:41:30]About low. It's going to go. I don't know. It's going to Yeah. Just to the right of it, Kub.

[00:41:35]>> Yeah.

[00:41:39]Yeah. And you're just to the left of it in the front here.

[00:41:43]There. And the front's good. Um >> quarter inch.

[00:41:48]>> Quarter inch. Which way, Kaya? Towards you.

[00:41:50]>> To the right.

[00:41:50]>> Oh, to the right.

[00:42:03]Is that I just want to make sure. Can we measure that?

[00:42:06]>> What are you saying? What are you seeing?

[00:42:09]>> Feel like I I don't know if I'm looking at the right line, but I almost think it needs to come that way.

[00:42:14]>> Are you looking at the Roadster Shop impression?

[00:42:16]>> No, like underneath it where your line is, cuz you marked it, right?

[00:42:19]>> I put a little I put a little white >> I think it's a little to the left of the laser.

[00:42:24]>> Oh, okay.

[00:42:27]That's centered right at the center of the grill, too. That's perfect, man.

[00:42:31]>> What a trip. Okay, let me tack it. Let's see. I want to play with the I want to make put a wheel on it.

[00:42:37]>> Yeah.

[00:42:44]>> All right. See what you got, Kd.

[00:42:56]>> 15 and a quarter.

[00:42:58]>> What is it?

[00:42:58]>> 15 and a quart.

[00:42:59]>> 15 and a quarter. Okay.

[00:43:07]15 and a quarter.

[00:43:08]>> No way.

[00:43:09]>> Yeah.

[00:43:09]>> Yeah.

[00:43:10]>> Damn. Badass, dude. Okay. Well, let's put a wheel on. See what happens.

[00:43:34]Ah, that's perfect, man.

[00:43:41]That's perfect, man.

[00:43:44]And then with a rotor, too, the wheel will come out. The wheels set in there pretty far. The rotor will >> kick the wheel out, you know.

[00:43:51]>> That's Man, >> that channel is almost in line with your plate, too.

[00:43:57]>> Oh, it damn sure is, man. Look at that.

[00:44:00]My bar can almost come over and make a straight direct line into that horizontal line right into that plate.

[00:44:05]Man, >> that's kickass. Holy, that saves a lot of time there, man.

[00:44:10]>> That was a good day.

[00:44:11]>> Five.

[00:44:14]>> Next week, we'll start getting some gussets formed. Tie the front the the bumper, you know, the frame horns, the factory into the new stub.

[00:44:26]Get that tied up, tacked in place. Then we got to start cutting the whole frame away. You know, [laughter] >> the snowball.

[00:44:34]>> The snowball effect.

[00:44:37]>> Yeah, dude. It's center all the way down, man. Look at it up there, too, Chris. Look at it right in the center of the windshield. See it?

[00:44:42]>> Yeah.

[00:44:43]>> That's awesome.

[00:44:45]>> I'm pretty confident about the center centering of it, you know.

[00:44:56]Oh, that's so cool, man.

[00:45:00]Wow, dude. Right off that plate, man.

[00:45:02]That's so awesome, man.

[00:45:07]Awesome, man.

[00:45:12]That's the way to go. Use that spec that spec chassis clip, you know, cuz it's it's so stout, man. And You know, I mean, if you got a little bit of welding skill, you can kind of build your own. Yeah. Using the roster shop clip, build your own frame, save a little money.

[00:45:32]I mean, you got to put a lot of time in it, but [clears throat and laughter] [music] ready to roll.

[00:45:51]Yeah, >> almost.

[00:45:52]>> Almost ready to roll in the front. Almost, you know.

[00:45:59]>> I sure wish that factory frame would have worked out, but >> it's really just along that rocker section, >> man. I know.

[00:46:08]Yeah, >> to your point, like it doesn't seem like it'd be that much work to just kind of section it out, but it it's I've done so many, man, but it just look dude look how there's just no ground clearance, man. Look at that.

[00:46:23]>> Yeah. There's >> no way, dude.