Welcome to Field Prep, I'm Matt Field, professional formula drift driver. This year, we're building a Twenty-13 Chevrolet Corvette.

Something really exciting is coming in this week. The intake manifold from Nitrous Express is all direct-port, plumbed, and perfect. Ready to drop on and can't wait to see it. I'm gonna mess with the fuel cell again. I'm sure you guys are tired of seeing it. I'm tired of messing with it but I need to put my aim fuel pressure sensor in the top of the fuel tank so I can see what the pod pressure is inside of it.

I'm gonna do some stuff like door opening cables because you gotta be able to get out of the car and the Corvettedoor-handles are kinda crazy. Drill some bulkheads. Slam some stuff throughthe firewall, mess it up. Then we're finally gonnamove to the back of the car where I'm gonna do the fuel-fillersince I got the dry-break from Fuel Safe and I know where the fuel tank is placed.

I'm gonna get the fuel-filler line up to the dry-break and then, I'm gonna finally start working on my rear frame-rail section cause I'm ready to chop that off. I'm so tired of looking at it. This is how you open the door on a Corvette. It's kinda strange because normally, the mechanism is on the door itself.

Like in there, on almost every other car but on a Corvette, the mechanism is on the actual chassis, the release. So the door handles are an electric pop-button that works the motor in here. But I'm not gonna have any of that. This is how actually get out of the car. So what I'm gonna do is attach this to the outside of the car, right up here on this b-pillar so that you can open the door this way to get in and out.

But I don't know how FormulaD is gonna feel about that because the rules state that we have to have a pull-cable inside the car. A way to get in and out. No more reaching out of the car to try to open it. But Chevy's pretty cool. It gives you this other release. I don't even remember where this thing was.

It's a pull-cable just like you would do on a door to get in and out. So what I'm actually gonna do is weld some tabs off the cage here and here to hold it, so when I do wanna get out of my car myself, I just reach in and pull on this cable. I have some little pre-fab tabs. Then I'm gonna drill these things out, put some 5-mil hardware in here, weld it to the cage and then my release will be done and we'll be legal.

Needed to round out that tab a little bit so that it sits on the door bar properly. So we should be good. Fit them up in the car. Drill out the pieces, tack them on. And you can see, there's the cable in there. It's doing everything it needs to do. Simple. Just taking this off. I'm gonna weld it up.

Something simple but efficient still takes so much time. I have to drill and tap for a fuel pressure sensor because we're putting a fuel pressure sensor to see what the two fuel pumps are doing inside the tank. Some other tweaks and trims and messing around with the fuel cell, so might as well take it out and do it now.

This is where the two fuel pumps feed into and then this is where the 10-psi relief valve is inside. I'm gonna have to take this apart so I'll show you guys some more. But basically, I need to figure out where that pressure sensor is going to go because I wanna see what's going on inside here.

This is an aim zero to 150 psi pressure sensor. You can see a super-small, compact. This is actually gonna go to our dash which is gonna data-log the fuel pressure back here. Up at the front of the regulator, The Holley is going to data-log what's going on and what's actually going on, going in.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- I made these andI dropped one down there.(beep)Now I got my littlewelding wire fishing lineand I'm gonna try to fishthe piece out the bottom.(upbeat blues music)(piece lands) Success!What up, guys?I'm Matt Field, professionalformula drift driver'(engines revving)Execpt that...Was my Twenty-17 car.This year, we're building aTwenty-13 Chevrolet Corvette.Welcome to Field Prep.Something really exitingis coming in this week.The intake manifold from Nitrous Express.It's all direct-port, plumbed, perfect.Ready to drop on and Ican't wait to see it.I'm gonna mess with the fuel-cell again.I'm sure you guys are tired of seeing it.I'm tired of messing with itbut I need to put myaim fuel pressure sensorin the top of the fuel tank so I can seewhat the pod pressure is inside of it.I'm gonna do some stufflike door opening cables'cause you gotta be ableto get outta the carand the Corvettedoor-handles are kinda crazy.Drill some bulkheads.Slam some stuff throughthe firewall, mess it up.Then we're finally gonnamove to the back of the carwhere I'm gonna do the fuel-fillersince I got the dry-break from Fuel Safeand I know where the fuel tank is placed.I'm gonna get the fuel-fillerline up to the dry-breakand then, I gonna finally start working onmy rear frame-rail section causeI'm ready to chop that off.I'm so tired of looking at it.This is how you openthe door on a Corvette.It's kinda strange because normally,the mechanism is on the door itself.Like in there, on almost everyother car but on a Corvette,the mechanism is on theactual chassis, the release.So the door handles arean electric pop-buttonthat works the motor in here.But I'm not gonna have any of that.This is how actually get out of the car.So what I'm gonna do is attach thisto the outside of the car,right up here on this b-pillarso that you can open the door this wayto get in and out.But I don't know how FormulaD is gonna feel about thatbecause the rules statethat we have to havea pull-cable inside the car.A way to get in and out.No more reaching out ofthe car to try to open it.But Chevy's pretty cool.It gives you this other release.I don't even rememberwhere this thing was.It's a pull-cable just like you would doon a door to get ina and out.So what I'm actually gonna do isweld some tabs off the cagehere and here to hold it,so when I do wanna getout of my car myself,I just reach in and pull on this cable.I have some little pre-fab tabs.Then I'm gonna drill these things out,put some 5-mil hardware in here,weld it to the cageand then my release willbe done and we'll be legal.(upbeat blues music)Needed to round out that tab a little bitso that it sits on the door bar properly.So we should be good.Fit em up in the car.Drill out the pieces, tack em on.So I've got it tacked on.I'll just be sitting here, bam bam bam.And you can see, there'sthe cable in there.It's doing everything it needs to do.Simple.Just taking this off.I'm gonna weld it up.Something simple but efficientstill takes so much time.I have to drill and tapfor a fuel pressure sensor'cause we're puttinga fuel pressure sensorto see what the two fuel pumpsare doing inside the tank.Some other tweaks and trimsand messing around with the fuel cell,so might as well takeit out and do it now.This is where the two fuel pumps feed intoand then this is where the10-psi relief valve is inside.I'm gonna have to take this apartso I'll show you guys some more,but I basically need to figure outwhere that pressure sensor is going to go,because I wanna see what'sgoing on inside here.So this is an aim zero to150 psi pressure sensor.You can see, a super-small, compact..This is actually gonna go to our dash,which is gonna data-log thefuel pressure back here.Up at the front of the regulator,The Holley is going todata-log what's going onand what's actually goingon, going into the engine.It needs to know that,this needs to know this.Trying to figure out whereI wanna put this sensor.I've had the gas tank inand out like five times.Can't decide 'cause I have to think abouthow I'm gonna be tightening the fittingswhen I put it up inthere for the final time.The vent's the farthest away,then the feed, then the return,so I have to figure,OK, I need to tighten one,then the other, then the other,but if I put this in the way,I'm gonna make my life Hell.I've found, That's what building a caris kinda all about.Trying to think about howyou're gonna screwyourself and avoiding that.You gotta try to think four steps,five steps ahead so if you say:"If I put this right here,"am I gonna screw myself in the future?"You can see that there's a lot going on.This is the vent.This is the feed.This is the return,Fuel pump wiring, and then, the fill.I think if I sneak itaround back right here,and it will fit, I'll still beable to tighten the fittingsthrough this little holein the chassis, right here.One, two and three andthis will be able to stay,and stay out of my way.I think I got it.Just gotta pull it apart and see,make sure that's within theperimeter of that pressure pod.Forgot there's nuts on the inside.Need a wrench!So you can see what's insideof this pressure pod now.You can see the two tubesthat fill from the fuel pump.You can see the pressure-reliefvalve on this tube,when that the actual overflow,or return on this pod.You see the sump pick-upwhich is down here,and that's where thispick-up tube goes down to.It looks like my mark'sgonna be right insideof where the pressure pod is gonna be,so I think we're good.So I got the fuel cell top plate all done.You can see here I gotmy pressure sensor in.I changed out for a dash 10 pick-up.I had to trim this down a little bit too,for the fuel filler to be the right hight.And then other than that,it's ready to go back in.Got the pumps in the tank.These fancy fittings fromWaterman to go back in there.I'm gonna go ahead andput this back on shortly.Hook up the fuel lines to itand then the fuel cell is done.Hopefully this will be the last timethat it comes apart, for a year.I got something pretty exciting in today.The spare fast lsxr 102 intake manifold,but it's all plumbed up for thedirect-port nitrous from Nitrous Express.Yeeesssss!So we chose to go direct-port this yearbecause its just thatmuch more consistent.You know that each and every cylinderis getting the same amount of nitrous,and Nitrous Express does agreat job of plumbing this.I was thinking abouttrying to do it myself,and then when I looked at their websiteand saw how nice they do all of this,I'm like ya "mine's nevergonna come out that nice."Might as well let the pros do it."So these are their two nitrous solenoids,'cause we're doing a dry set-up,so you notice that each one of thesefogger jets has only nitrous in,'cause we're adding fuelwith the fuel injectors.And this is their purge.So this purge set-up allowsyou to get the nitrousall the way up to the solenoidso that you know there'sno air in the system.And we'll run this purge outthe hood or out back, or whatever.I'm trying to figure out where to havethe nitrous line comethrough the firewall.So I have my bulkhead fitting.Trying to figure out what I wanna do.I know Nitrous Express reallylikes you to use the "y".I kind of initiallythought that I was gonnause a "t" fitting on the firewall,like behind the intake manifold,and then have two singlelines run up here and here.But now that I got the "y" andI see how it's all laid out.Looks actually really good.Since all my bulkheads in the firewallfor any kinda fluid oranything is right here,thinking about right here,and then running it up on top of these,and then sneak it right in there.I think that'd give me the most room.I just welded the bulkhead in,like I had all the other fittings.So now everything going to the firewallis coming through right there.You can see where I just welded that.I'm gonna put thebulkhead back in and thenat least the front side of thenitrous bulkhead stuff will be done.I just got these battery lead bulkheads.Since the battery is in theback underneath the car,we have to find a wayto get it into the carto power the p.d.m.s, power the e.c.u.,power the starter, thealternator, all that stuff.So the battery is gonnacome from the back, there,through rear firewall with one of these,come inside the car then toget through the front firewall,I've got another one.I'm gonna mount it right here.So that makes the leadcoming from the battery postto the starter and to thealternator as short as possible.I decided to go with the bolt-in styleversus the screw-togetherstyle 'cause on the S14I had a couple of issueswith the battery postturning when you tighten it,or the backing screwbacking out a little bit.And every time,if you've got a freshlypainted firewall or something,you gotta tighten down onthe rear bulkhead nut-thing,you're gonna scratchsomething, regardless.So this is just a simple 2-bolt style.Goes right through there.Gotta drill a one inchhole with the hole-saw,and then bolt it in.Go ahead and do it.This piece came with nuts butthey were just standardnuts and non-nylock.I figured since it'snot real big hardware,it's like 10-32,that I would ditch that,get a 5-mil nut that's anylock and put it in here,since the whole car is metric hardware.All the rivnuts, everything is all metric,so I wanna try to continue that.This was bought from Painlessso it's got a standard hole sizethat the nut jams in thereso that it doesn't twist,so you don't need to get tighten,you know, get through bothsides of the fire wall.So I'm just gonna go aheadand press these in here,and then I'll have metricnylock nuts in the bulkhead.Maybe I hit with hammer, first.(falsetto) Perfect!(gravelly) Oh, money!Got the battery bulkheaddone in the firewall.Looks pretty good.I might have to trimthis back a little bit.This looks a little long,but I'll know once I start stackingmy battery cables on there.I'm kind of an idiot, though,and I just continued to drillwith the hole-saw this way,and it totally splintered the firewall.Hopefully they can cleanit up in the body shop.I have something prettycool and interesting herethat I just purchased.This is a CARTEK battery isolator.Normal battery isolatorsare those big on/offkillswitch that you have,that Formula D makes us mountit up in the right side cowl,by the hood, fender hood area, whatever.And they're always just big and clunkyand battery cables runningto it, and obnoxious,and I was thinking therehas to be a better way.There's a better way.A much more expensive waybut definitely better.So this is a solid-state battery isolator.You basically run thisin-between the negative poston the battery and yourground on your frame rail.So instead of goingright to the frame rail,you come to this, and what this doesis it actually cuts thenegative battery cableinstead of cutting the positivelike most people do withthe battery switches.So this allows you tode-power the whole carso none of the car has power.And it has a place foryour battery negative,battery positive and thenyour e.c.u. or your ignition.This will kill your e.c.u. power,which will shut everything off,and then it also disconnectsyour ground from your battery,so it's completely done.Got your kill outsideand your on/off inside.I got this from Pegasus.Awesome if they have it in stockbecause this is a U.K. brand.Its all F.I.A. approved, so it's sick.I'm just pumped that somebody had it,and that I figured out that therewas something even more bad-assthan just the regular "ka-chunka" switch.Made myself a mount for this.I'm gonna weld this rightup next to the battery,underneath the car where I can get to it.I was gonna just bolt it to the frame railbut the frame rail's all round there,so I made a nice flat panelso that I can bolt this to it,weld that to the car.This is where it's gonna go.This is the battery sothe battery cables aregonna be able to jump rightto this battery isolator.Tack it in and then I'll weld it all up .(funky bass line)We have the dry-break placed,with the plate and all that stuff.It's good to go, in the quarter-panel.I'm gonna go ahead andmake this portion of it.That side already goes, itconnects about right thereso I'm gonna make this portion,fit in whatever straightwe can possibly fit.And then we're gonna coupleit right in the middle.So I'm gonna go ahead and startgetting my bends together,weld some stuff and start building it.So it's been kind of an inconvenienceto get from here to here.Much more than I would havethought it was going to be.There's not a lot of roomto get tight, down in here.I actually had to trim this back.I got crazy angles cut into these pieces.I think it's gonna work.Just trying to manage allthese pieces all at once.I'm lucky that Ry ishere to help me hold up,watching the inside or elsethere's just no way I'd be able to do it.Got the first piece tacked together.You can see that's a crazy shape.I'm trying to not pie-cut things'cause I just hate that.I hate doing pie-cuts butit's so tight up in there.It has to drop down andup and everything, so.You can see what we got going on.It's a bit of a mess.Alright, this thing is going in.Hopefully it all fits together.That one goes in, thatone's mounted over there.(falsetto) Woooooo!I have this piece ofbox tube, three by six.I need to get it to fit in here.There's no use in havingall this back here,especially in a drift car.We want as much crush room as possible.And the rule book states thatas long as it's behind the rear-mostsuspension mounting pointwhich is right here at the sub-frame,you can chop that off.Probably gonna be cuttingit somewhere in here,but I won't know until my panelsand everything show up from H.G.K.'cause kinda wraps around andmounts right at the end of the frame rail.So I just need to get this fit,get ready for that stuff sothat when it does show up,I can drop this in andbasically be good to go.I'm just gonna clean it up,grind the edges a little bit,get it to slide in and thenI get to wait for thecarbon/Kev-lar bits to show up.I made these for the topof the frame rail, here.You can see it's gonna go like thatand tie the frame rails all together here,and I dropped one down there,which is normally not a big dealbecause you just take the piece out,but the piece set perfectand everything right now.So now I got my welding wire fishing line,and I'm gonna try to fishthe piece out the bottom.(beep)(piece lands on floor)Success!Alright, I'm gonna trynot to do that again.Alright, I'm gonna goahead and tack these in.Alright, it's tacked.Might as well just weld itwhile it's right on here,then I know it's notgonna warp or anything,and I can tap it flat.Still sitting flat.Now the box-tube has a stopwhen I go to get it in there.There's no point inleaving it in now, though.I might as well just take it out'cause I'm gonna have to figureout fitting everything el-I guess I can leave itin, I don't even know.I just want the carbon-fiberpieces, already.The car is gonna end upgetting cut about right here,and my plan for it is thatI'm gonna cut it flush, here.I'm gonna get a piece of metal.I'm gonna get it laser cut orsomething with the holes in itFour holes, basically for a bash-barand that plate's gonna goaround this frame rail,but also come into here,so that it ties this frame railfurther into this box tube as well.Since it is a bash-bar,it's going to take a hit,so I'd like to try tospread the load across it,as much as possible.And that plate that's also gonna havethe nuts and everything welded in it,where the bash-bar boltscoming into here isgonna really help that.You have no idea,I can't wait to cut theback of this car off.I hate it.It looks like some stuffstraight off of a train track.That's the same materialthat they build train tracksout of, I'm pretty sure.