**Building a Custom Car with Aluminum and Brushless Motors**

The car project is taking shape, and we're excited to share some updates with you. The team has been working tirelessly to bring this custom car to life, and it's starting to look like something special. We've decided to run brushless motors on the car, which will provide a significant boost in power and efficiency.

To achieve this, we'll be using Razer PDMS (Power Distribution Management System), which is a straightforward system that allows us to manage all of the motor wiring. The system comes with a pre-cut shroud that fits perfectly around the fans, making it easy to install. We're also using a lightweight aluminum chassis that will provide improved handling and stability.

**Fabrication Process**

One of the key components of this car is its rear crash structure. To design this, we cut the frame rails off and used box tubing to create a protective barrier. The structure is designed to absorb impact, with a jack point located at the front and a toe tow hook attached to the back. We've also incorporated threaded bungs on both sides of the car that will hold the tow hooks in place.

To ensure that this structure can withstand even the toughest crashes, we've designed it to bend and flex before breaking. This is achieved by using thinner bars than those used on production cars, which will absorb the impact before being broken. We've also included plates with threaded inserts, which make it easy to bolt them into place or remove them if needed.

**Powder Coating**

One of the most important decisions we made early on was to powder coat the car instead of painting it. The team debated whether to paint the car or use powder coating, and after researching both options, we decided that powder coating would be the better choice. Powder coating provides a more durable finish than painting, which will last longer and require less maintenance over time.

We also made touch-up cans in paint to match the powder coat, so if there are any damaged areas on the car, they can be repaired without compromising the overall appearance. This is particularly important for cars that need to withstand rough handling or crashes, as a painted car may require frequent touch-ups to maintain its original finish.

**Future Updates**

We have several exciting updates in the works for this project, including a video update on the 964 and Safari GTR builds. The team has been working hard to get the 964 ready for its first road trip and to start testing the performance of the car. We've also received parts for the Safari GTR build, which will include travel shocks from BC and a rear diff that should be arriving any day now.

These updates are just around the corner, and we can't wait to share them with you. In the meantime, we're excited to continue working on this custom car project and to see it come together into something truly special.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enright guys today we are doing race car things we're going to be getting with Johan and Owen who have been wrenching and fabbing away at the E36 Competition Car uh if you haven't seen any of the other videos this car is destined for Europe it's going to be over there as my Europe competition car and because it's getting shipped overseas we're building and doing a lot of things different we're also taking a lot of knowledge that we've learned from the other E36 to make this the best car we've ever built I guess to start off just to answer a common question question I get why are you building an E36 like this pretty simple really older cars they have thinner metal so they're lighter the power plant for this car is going to be very similar to what I use in my blue E36 which is around mid 800s for horsepower now that should be enough for competition it's a lot easier for me to mentally take away weight than it is to add more power and potentially make an engine and drivetrain program that I know is reliable uh potentially make unreliable by upping the power so lightweight easier on the gear um and obviously it makes the car faster without having to add power it's lighter and then also having economies of scale being able to use the same Parts between the cars if something fails very similar things can be taken in exchange between the cars subframes arms even driv train components possibly even some of the fabricated exhaust stuff uh it'll just be a lot easier to have two of the same car versus different ones E46 also shares a lot of the same ones um but I think uh I'm just a little bit more of an E36 guy than an E46 guy so that's your why and now we're going to dig into some of the details and a lot of the new stuff since the last update uh to kind of bring you guys up to speed another thing you'll see as we go through this car is it's incredibly simple um because of the fact this car is going over to Europe and we don't know who is going to be running it with me at every event it goes to making this car extremely serviceable extremely simple uh is a very core Focus throughout the build looking at the engine bay uh nothing is wildly drastically different from any other E36 I think the biggest thing compared to my other car is that we stitch welded um quite a few areas around here and then These Bars were added uh because this cutout area makes it a lot more serviceable if you have to make a change to a tie rod anything going on with suspension you can see what's going on but obviously when you cut away this metal it's good to strengthen it back up another real cool thing is this pwr custom intercooler we had made I will tell you a little bit more about it in a second um but obviously you can tell the radiator is no longer here not only does moving it in the back rule out the possibility of any punctures if I get a little greedy and give someone a Bop um but it also moves weight more to the rear uh as much as I would like to run an Sr in this thing like I said it's the same power plant as a blue E36 Jay-Z's are heavy they're not by any means uh I don't want to say they're not a great engine they're just there's old and heavy and iron and uh they put a lot of weight on the front of the car so want to move it back try to get the weight uh balanc as good as we can freeing up space allows us to run the intercool a little bit farther back and then uh yeah this is a special unit I'll show you if you guys got a high horsepower car you know intercoolers can be pretty heavy I met with pwr at both PR and SEMA and I just talked to him I was like yo could you build me the lightest intercooler possible so this intercooler is big as it is supporting 1,000 plus horsepower put it on the scales and it weighs half of of what my old intercooler weighed which was like half the size so 18 lbs for this giant monstrosity the way they do this what I was told is it's essentially a special brazing process and then the fact that they have years of fabricating experience um helps get it this lightweight it also has louvered air fins and an internal tubulator that helps with heat exchange and as you can see it was custom made exactly for our application Johan basically made a sketch on a napkin sent it over and the same guys that make intercoolers and radiators for F1 NASCAR indie car made a really badass unit from i36 so I'm happy I can't remember if I discussed this when we were talking about the body kit on the car originally I was not a fan of the hgk front bumper It's like a little bit too DTM race car for me however as we started kind of conceptualizing the build using a stock bumper like I wanted would have required us making these uh side pieces to make it flow with the fenders and then we would still need to run the front nose cone which is heavy annoying and many pieces this provides a really nice solution because it's all one piece obviously it's carbon Kevlar but there's not a lot of stuff to move around get pushed broken Etc the biggest thing for me is just the openings on the bumper look weird so what we're going to try to do is enlarg in this opening um to make it look a little bit more like a factory bumper and then probably do the same on these cuz I think there's just so much Blank Space uh even though it makes sense for what it's designed for I think Kristof said this was actually designed for an actual like road race car at the time and then repurposed for drift cars so that would make sense with like the ducting everything but for what we're doing it not as necessary and I just really want it to look cool I'm going to make stickers to make it look like I have headlights we got like headlight blanks here too since we don't need to run headlights that's so cool to me um you notice too we we cut here I really didn't like how the fenders like kind of bowed out and looked real almost um I don't want to say like like Liberty walk as like a derogatory thing but it looked like very like stance car having the fender bow out I like it when the fenders kind of have like a lip here almost like the new GT3 RS so we have here our very first in-house carbon piece Josh was basically given the challenge fiberglass poppy to figure out how to lay carbon so this is one of the very first things that he made uh he still wants to get it better and this is like literally the the start of something maybe much bigger um but this was one of his first pieces and what this will basically do is replace what used to go here that was stock and then kind of flow in with this Fender rather before it like I wish I had the old piece to show you we'll put a clip up of what it looked like before but it just came out really far and I think it would have so possibly cause an issue with wheel clearance where this is kind of radius back quite a bit farther there's a couple different processes for making carbon this would be considered a wet lay uh there's a lot of different processes um but this is probably the best like entry level thing to learn how to start working with carbon but who knows we could see the carbon Department of lzmfg become carbon Department the carbon Department this is your mid video reminder that we are giving away this baller Podium 1 ultimate simulator valued at over $50,000 and $15,000 cash all you got to do is support the channel by buying a shirt hat anything from LZ mfg.com or drifted q.com is going to give you Ander chance to win one of my favorite things on this uh the past day or two I've spent a little bit of time playing dirt uh since my new uh dream is to be a rally car driver it allows me to do that without having to total my GTR learning how to drive in trees and jump so I'll show you exactly what we wouldn't want to do in this farari GTR as I try not to crash hey Michael 50 turn six right of a Crest six left 50 middle of crests 0 keep middle of a jump 15 four right narrow 180 keep middle of a jump J pretty good keep right to Def that 18 a long CR into six left TI Junction 13 my first time on this don't cut left left it's not bad that was really good this is really exhilarating it's really fun I'm starting to learn how the like little commands go I would comment below if you want to see me get in an actual rally car cuz it's something I think I actually want to do G is like cool and all but like I want to go in a real rally car engine package I guess one difference is we are going to experiment and see kind of what the differences gains or losses are with going from a stock intake manifold to a plasma man plenum typically when you go to like a bigger plenum you'll lose a little bit of torque in exchange for top end power but the idea is by doing this makes everything a little bit more uh simple serviceable we do have to get rid of a brake booster which is a pro and a con I've kind of gotten used to it on the other car but we're going to try it see how it uh feels feels and everything is technically reversible to where if we wanted to go to stock intake manifold and go back to a brake booster we have that option and we know that it works on the other car I said that it's the same power package as the other car to make it really really simple essentially we got a BC crank 3.4 uh BC cams internals it's essentially a BC 34 stroker kit nothing super fancy it is a CNC ported head but in terms of 2J stuff and a lot of the wild things that you can do it's really simple not a dry sum thankfully on E36 is it's rear SU so you don't need to really worry about that so yeah just a really really simple 2JZ package targeting like mid 800s for power I'm going to Yan take lead to kind of talk through some of the middle of the car um but one thing you will notice the trans tunnel on these cars we don't need to modify I'll be running a GeForce uh four-speed dog box my favorite transmission ever literally we figured out what works in the E36 uh in clutch kickers never skipped to be very very little maintenance never missed a gear sequential are cool but four speed is all that's really necessary for drifting so we're going with the same setup and very very little modifications necessary this plate is more for serviceability than like needing clearance for actual trans stuff but um I'll let Johan kind of talk to you about some of the stuff he's been fabbing up on the inside so what we have done with the um radium Fu cell is enclose it in an aluminum case mainly because we won't have a firewall behind the main Hoops so we had to enclose the the fuel tank it's in totally different pieces this is so that the fire sleeve go goes over the fuel neck so that it's inside a enclosed compartment and then this comes off like this then inside we have the radium uh cell here this thing you see here there's a hole in there and that's where the lines will go through for the return and fee so this is the enclosure we'll use some foam around the the flanges where it's going to seal and then it's independent from this piece it's good you don't have to like like well anything together we got all electrical here so we will make a bulkhead for the the case so that connects to and it seals in everything in the fuel compartment as you know one of the other I'd say interesting things on my other E36 is that I kept a factory fuel tank and we were considering doing the same on this but we did run into some issues with fuel slash uh other wiring things and Gremlins that you can have with a stock tank because this is a pure competition car you essentially refuel after every two laps so it's okay to go down to a little bit smaller cell but the biggest thing here is rather than putting a fuel cell in the rear which a lot of people do I wanted to keep the weight as forward as possible because you start to get a pendulum almost like rear engine effect when you put too much of the weight behind the rear axle so it's cool that we were able to put it here um Chelsea I got to give a shout out to this is kind of like his go-to spot and he really um pushed Us in this direction something I wanted to do already anyway um but uh usually I'm hesitant to just because of the fact that you lose a little bit of fuel capacity with the radium setup though their internal surge tank you don't really need to worry you could essentially run this thing bone dry until you run out of fuel we're not going to do that um but their surge tank setup is Next To None the quality of everything you make is really good and um it should look sick when it's all said and done as you noticed um the radiator is no longer in the front we decided to move it to the back again like what Adam said with the um weight and then crash um sew in the front is limited to piercing the radiator and then being a close call where we will make it back out so with the radi in the back that means we have two lines going to the back of the car under the chassis I decided to cut away in this section uh of the chassis where the lines would stay fully flat through the whole way down so I don't have to do any bends to them um there will be just aluminum tubing that runs through here and then right behind here there will be uh two connections a in connections where one will go to the pump and then the other one is coming from the radiator and then the palum is right here everything mounts there and everything is accessible everything is just uh being service easily if you got to remove the lines it'll be you know two mounting hardware the four um connections the lines comes off the same for the pump everything is pretty straightforward so that we could work on it as efficient as we can from there the lines will come up through here uh there will be a bulkhead uh with some electrical connections and plumbing for the coolant then the coolant will go through the firewall down here there'll be two bulets there to Route the lines through the firewall and get them to their locations which is on this side radiator there'll be- 16 lines there's plenty of space in here for that and then we have a bleed out for the radium Universal cash can cooling cash can and that will go somewhere around here and then that just helps with getting all the air out of the system and it bleeded out into the Soro pot yeah it's pretty straightforward one other thing that you can't see going on here if you look kind of down in this crevice I actually have a photo of Johan underneath the car we had the car in a rotisserie and uh using my old E36 and all the places where the chassis continually cracked as kind of a guide Johan uh was able to weld up a lot of areas and kind of strengthen um potential weak points of the car uh one other thing too talking about adding fuel you'll see over here in this uh quarter window this is radium's drrive BR you can refill a car in what like I feel like it's like 3 seconds yeah it's pretty fast the 36 with the stock tank it bent out pretty well so that means it sucked all the fuel fuel in pretty fast so this is should be even better so I think the E36 took us like what 10 seconds fully empty to like 5 gallons in yeah so that's good for a stock system what helps is the bleeder on the uh stock tank is the require size for the tank to vent out so it allows for the air to escape and the fuel to come in if you have a smaller hole the smaller it will take to for the fuel to go into the tank one other cool thing uh same windows that we use in all the other cars these are from plastics for performance over in the UK uh not only is there stuff like literally made to direct fit onto the cars but it also has all the factory um like black and like paint and stuff so you don't need to do it yourself this stuff's super durable it doesn't really scratch they offer like anti-fog Coatings and stuff um but I'm stoked more than anything we're still going to have somewhat of a rear window I hate when you have no rear window whatsoever when the firewall comes all the way up I guess it's more so for like just not running over people in the pits cuz like it it sounds ridiculous but when you're you're in your helmet and like especially you have a Hans and you have like a Halo seat it's hard to see or like look around um so it's nice to be able to have something especially with kids it's is really stressful backing up the car and kids are excited so they're not thinking to move but but you can't see them so yeah they're racking it's funny a couple Pro cars again this car is going to be simple so we're not going to add it to this one but I've seen a couple Pro cars where they actually have like the rear view mirrors that have a backup camera and they have a backup camera on the drift car that's pretty cool unnecessary for us but this is really cool too this is another thing that hgk makes uh cool solution for the fan troud just like a nice carbon piece instead of having to make something out of aluminum yeah we we will be running brushless setup on this car and wired through the um Razer pdms uh in control by that pretty simple straightforward they give you the whole shroud uncut so that the fans fit to size like you get the fence you mark everything up you cut it and everything is perfect for the fence that you decide to run with and it's lightweight and it you could set it in two different configurations and you know this one will just blow out there will be holes on the trunk so all the all the air hot air will get escape the trunk like I said Owen's been wrenching on this car real hard too he's been a large part of a lot of the fabrication process in the car and I'm going to let him kind of fill you guys in on this rear crash structure and kind of the whole idea behind it so we cut the frame rails off here and we got this box tubing out here so if it's in a crash and it gets to this point it's out this far so it won't actually get into the car we also have a jack point down here we'll have a toe tow hook back here too there's like a threaded bung right here that'll have the the tow hook on it as well then the bash bar it's kind of modeled after um rtrs bash bar s after seeing them you know get crashed a lot crashed a lot by Adam and Chelsea and Von so designed it after that the um these bars are like a little bit thinner so when they hit they'll in theory this will bend and give before anything else in this structure we designed these plates this the part that's welded into the chassis is like his threaded inserts that Johan welded The Backs side of and then this plate is that exact same plate just thinner uh with the same holes So It Bolts right into the inserts it makes it easy to like unbolt them and it's easy to like make them again if you have the plates that are like consistent and everything so it's easy to like jig them up and everything uh Johan taught me how to use the Bender so it's my first time actually using it this my first time like welding something that was like structural like it's actually going to get hit and stuff so it'll be fun to looks really good see thanks it'll probably be the one one scenario where Owen will be excited when I crash the car cuz he'll be like did it hold up did it is it good is it legit I'm sure it will it looks really good so um no it came out super cool I guess the uh the other main thing to kind of talk about with this car obviously it's not the prettiest form right now we're waiting on the roof and a couple other little things to get all the final metal work done and then the chassis is going to go off to powder coat I see a lot of people kind of debate and talk back and forth about you know is it better to paint a car is it better to powder coat the painters argument is it's usually a little bit more accessible if you don't have a place that can dip or sand blast or get a car prep for powder coat also they say oh well you know if you have to repair something then then it's harder to touch a powder coat we powder coated the S15 and that build has lasted I don't know what it is 5 or 6 years now and the powder coat still looks brand new it's extremely durable um and it still looks amazing so thought process with this is do the same thing we had touch-up cans made in paint to match the powder coat on the other car so that way if there is something that's damaged or something you need to repair uh yeah you'll have a few areas of the car that are painted versus powder Co but it's the difference between the car lasting 10 15 years before needing to get redone versus is painted cars I feel like you got to repaint everything like almost once every 2 or 3 years so uh more of a longevity thing and I think it's going to look really good that's pretty much it for this I want to give you guys an update the guys have been busting ass in the background and the car has come a long way since you've last seen it in other news the 964 will probably have a video out sometime next week uh just been doing some maintenance stuff getting it ready for its first road trip and then Safari GTR we finally got some parts in that we've been waiting for even longer travel shocks from BC uh rear diff should be coming in any day now and then that car is essentially next step of performance we'll be able to test so that's it for this video hope you guys are excited and more details to come extra extra long slow we stop the hereright guys today we are doing race car things we're going to be getting with Johan and Owen who have been wrenching and fabbing away at the E36 Competition Car uh if you haven't seen any of the other videos this car is destined for Europe it's going to be over there as my Europe competition car and because it's getting shipped overseas we're building and doing a lot of things different we're also taking a lot of knowledge that we've learned from the other E36 to make this the best car we've ever built I guess to start off just to answer a common question question I get why are you building an E36 like this pretty simple really older cars they have thinner metal so they're lighter the power plant for this car is going to be very similar to what I use in my blue E36 which is around mid 800s for horsepower now that should be enough for competition it's a lot easier for me to mentally take away weight than it is to add more power and potentially make an engine and drivetrain program that I know is reliable uh potentially make unreliable by upping the power so lightweight easier on the gear um and obviously it makes the car faster without having to add power it's lighter and then also having economies of scale being able to use the same Parts between the cars if something fails very similar things can be taken in exchange between the cars subframes arms even driv train components possibly even some of the fabricated exhaust stuff uh it'll just be a lot easier to have two of the same car versus different ones E46 also shares a lot of the same ones um but I think uh I'm just a little bit more of an E36 guy than an E46 guy so that's your why and now we're going to dig into some of the details and a lot of the new stuff since the last update uh to kind of bring you guys up to speed another thing you'll see as we go through this car is it's incredibly simple um because of the fact this car is going over to Europe and we don't know who is going to be running it with me at every event it goes to making this car extremely serviceable extremely simple uh is a very core Focus throughout the build looking at the engine bay uh nothing is wildly drastically different from any other E36 I think the biggest thing compared to my other car is that we stitch welded um quite a few areas around here and then These Bars were added uh because this cutout area makes it a lot more serviceable if you have to make a change to a tie rod anything going on with suspension you can see what's going on but obviously when you cut away this metal it's good to strengthen it back up another real cool thing is this pwr custom intercooler we had made I will tell you a little bit more about it in a second um but obviously you can tell the radiator is no longer here not only does moving it in the back rule out the possibility of any punctures if I get a little greedy and give someone a Bop um but it also moves weight more to the rear uh as much as I would like to run an Sr in this thing like I said it's the same power plant as a blue E36 Jay-Z's are heavy they're not by any means uh I don't want to say they're not a great engine they're just there's old and heavy and iron and uh they put a lot of weight on the front of the car so want to move it back try to get the weight uh balanc as good as we can freeing up space allows us to run the intercool a little bit farther back and then uh yeah this is a special unit I'll show you if you guys got a high horsepower car you know intercoolers can be pretty heavy I met with pwr at both PR and SEMA and I just talked to him I was like yo could you build me the lightest intercooler possible so this intercooler is big as it is supporting 1,000 plus horsepower put it on the scales and it weighs half of of what my old intercooler weighed which was like half the size so 18 lbs for this giant monstrosity the way they do this what I was told is it's essentially a special brazing process and then the fact that they have years of fabricating experience um helps get it this lightweight it also has louvered air fins and an internal tubulator that helps with heat exchange and as you can see it was custom made exactly for our application Johan basically made a sketch on a napkin sent it over and the same guys that make intercoolers and radiators for F1 NASCAR indie car made a really badass unit from i36 so I'm happy I can't remember if I discussed this when we were talking about the body kit on the car originally I was not a fan of the hgk front bumper It's like a little bit too DTM race car for me however as we started kind of conceptualizing the build using a stock bumper like I wanted would have required us making these uh side pieces to make it flow with the fenders and then we would still need to run the front nose cone which is heavy annoying and many pieces this provides a really nice solution because it's all one piece obviously it's carbon Kevlar but there's not a lot of stuff to move around get pushed broken Etc the biggest thing for me is just the openings on the bumper look weird so what we're going to try to do is enlarg in this opening um to make it look a little bit more like a factory bumper and then probably do the same on these cuz I think there's just so much Blank Space uh even though it makes sense for what it's designed for I think Kristof said this was actually designed for an actual like road race car at the time and then repurposed for drift cars so that would make sense with like the ducting everything but for what we're doing it not as necessary and I just really want it to look cool I'm going to make stickers to make it look like I have headlights we got like headlight blanks here too since we don't need to run headlights that's so cool to me um you notice too we we cut here I really didn't like how the fenders like kind of bowed out and looked real almost um I don't want to say like like Liberty walk as like a derogatory thing but it looked like very like stance car having the fender bow out I like it when the fenders kind of have like a lip here almost like the new GT3 RS so we have here our very first in-house carbon piece Josh was basically given the challenge fiberglass poppy to figure out how to lay carbon so this is one of the very first things that he made uh he still wants to get it better and this is like literally the the start of something maybe much bigger um but this was one of his first pieces and what this will basically do is replace what used to go here that was stock and then kind of flow in with this Fender rather before it like I wish I had the old piece to show you we'll put a clip up of what it looked like before but it just came out really far and I think it would have so possibly cause an issue with wheel clearance where this is kind of radius back quite a bit farther there's a couple different processes for making carbon this would be considered a wet lay uh there's a lot of different processes um but this is probably the best like entry level thing to learn how to start working with carbon but who knows we could see the carbon Department of lzmfg become carbon Department the carbon Department this is your mid video reminder that we are giving away this baller Podium 1 ultimate simulator valued at over $50,000 and $15,000 cash all you got to do is support the channel by buying a shirt hat anything from LZ mfg.com or drifted q.com is going to give you Ander chance to win one of my favorite things on this uh the past day or two I've spent a little bit of time playing dirt uh since my new uh dream is to be a rally car driver it allows me to do that without having to total my GTR learning how to drive in trees and jump so I'll show you exactly what we wouldn't want to do in this farari GTR as I try not to crash hey Michael 50 turn six right of a Crest six left 50 middle of crests 0 keep middle of a jump 15 four right narrow 180 keep middle of a jump J pretty good keep right to Def that 18 a long CR into six left TI Junction 13 my first time on this don't cut left left it's not bad that was really good this is really exhilarating it's really fun I'm starting to learn how the like little commands go I would comment below if you want to see me get in an actual rally car cuz it's something I think I actually want to do G is like cool and all but like I want to go in a real rally car engine package I guess one difference is we are going to experiment and see kind of what the differences gains or losses are with going from a stock intake manifold to a plasma man plenum typically when you go to like a bigger plenum you'll lose a little bit of torque in exchange for top end power but the idea is by doing this makes everything a little bit more uh simple serviceable we do have to get rid of a brake booster which is a pro and a con I've kind of gotten used to it on the other car but we're going to try it see how it uh feels feels and everything is technically reversible to where if we wanted to go to stock intake manifold and go back to a brake booster we have that option and we know that it works on the other car I said that it's the same power package as the other car to make it really really simple essentially we got a BC crank 3.4 uh BC cams internals it's essentially a BC 34 stroker kit nothing super fancy it is a CNC ported head but in terms of 2J stuff and a lot of the wild things that you can do it's really simple not a dry sum thankfully on E36 is it's rear SU so you don't need to really worry about that so yeah just a really really simple 2JZ package targeting like mid 800s for power I'm going to Yan take lead to kind of talk through some of the middle of the car um but one thing you will notice the trans tunnel on these cars we don't need to modify I'll be running a GeForce uh four-speed dog box my favorite transmission ever literally we figured out what works in the E36 uh in clutch kickers never skipped to be very very little maintenance never missed a gear sequential are cool but four speed is all that's really necessary for drifting so we're going with the same setup and very very little modifications necessary this plate is more for serviceability than like needing clearance for actual trans stuff but um I'll let Johan kind of talk to you about some of the stuff he's been fabbing up on the inside so what we have done with the um radium Fu cell is enclose it in an aluminum case mainly because we won't have a firewall behind the main Hoops so we had to enclose the the fuel tank it's in totally different pieces this is so that the fire sleeve go goes over the fuel neck so that it's inside a enclosed compartment and then this comes off like this then inside we have the radium uh cell here this thing you see here there's a hole in there and that's where the lines will go through for the return and fee so this is the enclosure we'll use some foam around the the flanges where it's going to seal and then it's independent from this piece it's good you don't have to like like well anything together we got all electrical here so we will make a bulkhead for the the case so that connects to and it seals in everything in the fuel compartment as you know one of the other I'd say interesting things on my other E36 is that I kept a factory fuel tank and we were considering doing the same on this but we did run into some issues with fuel slash uh other wiring things and Gremlins that you can have with a stock tank because this is a pure competition car you essentially refuel after every two laps so it's okay to go down to a little bit smaller cell but the biggest thing here is rather than putting a fuel cell in the rear which a lot of people do I wanted to keep the weight as forward as possible because you start to get a pendulum almost like rear engine effect when you put too much of the weight behind the rear axle so it's cool that we were able to put it here um Chelsea I got to give a shout out to this is kind of like his go-to spot and he really um pushed Us in this direction something I wanted to do already anyway um but uh usually I'm hesitant to just because of the fact that you lose a little bit of fuel capacity with the radium setup though their internal surge tank you don't really need to worry you could essentially run this thing bone dry until you run out of fuel we're not going to do that um but their surge tank setup is Next To None the quality of everything you make is really good and um it should look sick when it's all said and done as you noticed um the radiator is no longer in the front we decided to move it to the back again like what Adam said with the um weight and then crash um sew in the front is limited to piercing the radiator and then being a close call where we will make it back out so with the radi in the back that means we have two lines going to the back of the car under the chassis I decided to cut away in this section uh of the chassis where the lines would stay fully flat through the whole way down so I don't have to do any bends to them um there will be just aluminum tubing that runs through here and then right behind here there will be uh two connections a in connections where one will go to the pump and then the other one is coming from the radiator and then the palum is right here everything mounts there and everything is accessible everything is just uh being service easily if you got to remove the lines it'll be you know two mounting hardware the four um connections the lines comes off the same for the pump everything is pretty straightforward so that we could work on it as efficient as we can from there the lines will come up through here uh there will be a bulkhead uh with some electrical connections and plumbing for the coolant then the coolant will go through the firewall down here there'll be two bulets there to Route the lines through the firewall and get them to their locations which is on this side radiator there'll be- 16 lines there's plenty of space in here for that and then we have a bleed out for the radium Universal cash can cooling cash can and that will go somewhere around here and then that just helps with getting all the air out of the system and it bleeded out into the Soro pot yeah it's pretty straightforward one other thing that you can't see going on here if you look kind of down in this crevice I actually have a photo of Johan underneath the car we had the car in a rotisserie and uh using my old E36 and all the places where the chassis continually cracked as kind of a guide Johan uh was able to weld up a lot of areas and kind of strengthen um potential weak points of the car uh one other thing too talking about adding fuel you'll see over here in this uh quarter window this is radium's drrive BR you can refill a car in what like I feel like it's like 3 seconds yeah it's pretty fast the 36 with the stock tank it bent out pretty well so that means it sucked all the fuel fuel in pretty fast so this is should be even better so I think the E36 took us like what 10 seconds fully empty to like 5 gallons in yeah so that's good for a stock system what helps is the bleeder on the uh stock tank is the require size for the tank to vent out so it allows for the air to escape and the fuel to come in if you have a smaller hole the smaller it will take to for the fuel to go into the tank one other cool thing uh same windows that we use in all the other cars these are from plastics for performance over in the UK uh not only is there stuff like literally made to direct fit onto the cars but it also has all the factory um like black and like paint and stuff so you don't need to do it yourself this stuff's super durable it doesn't really scratch they offer like anti-fog Coatings and stuff um but I'm stoked more than anything we're still going to have somewhat of a rear window I hate when you have no rear window whatsoever when the firewall comes all the way up I guess it's more so for like just not running over people in the pits cuz like it it sounds ridiculous but when you're you're in your helmet and like especially you have a Hans and you have like a Halo seat it's hard to see or like look around um so it's nice to be able to have something especially with kids it's is really stressful backing up the car and kids are excited so they're not thinking to move but but you can't see them so yeah they're racking it's funny a couple Pro cars again this car is going to be simple so we're not going to add it to this one but I've seen a couple Pro cars where they actually have like the rear view mirrors that have a backup camera and they have a backup camera on the drift car that's pretty cool unnecessary for us but this is really cool too this is another thing that hgk makes uh cool solution for the fan troud just like a nice carbon piece instead of having to make something out of aluminum yeah we we will be running brushless setup on this car and wired through the um Razer pdms uh in control by that pretty simple straightforward they give you the whole shroud uncut so that the fans fit to size like you get the fence you mark everything up you cut it and everything is perfect for the fence that you decide to run with and it's lightweight and it you could set it in two different configurations and you know this one will just blow out there will be holes on the trunk so all the all the air hot air will get escape the trunk like I said Owen's been wrenching on this car real hard too he's been a large part of a lot of the fabrication process in the car and I'm going to let him kind of fill you guys in on this rear crash structure and kind of the whole idea behind it so we cut the frame rails off here and we got this box tubing out here so if it's in a crash and it gets to this point it's out this far so it won't actually get into the car we also have a jack point down here we'll have a toe tow hook back here too there's like a threaded bung right here that'll have the the tow hook on it as well then the bash bar it's kind of modeled after um rtrs bash bar s after seeing them you know get crashed a lot crashed a lot by Adam and Chelsea and Von so designed it after that the um these bars are like a little bit thinner so when they hit they'll in theory this will bend and give before anything else in this structure we designed these plates this the part that's welded into the chassis is like his threaded inserts that Johan welded The Backs side of and then this plate is that exact same plate just thinner uh with the same holes So It Bolts right into the inserts it makes it easy to like unbolt them and it's easy to like make them again if you have the plates that are like consistent and everything so it's easy to like jig them up and everything uh Johan taught me how to use the Bender so it's my first time actually using it this my first time like welding something that was like structural like it's actually going to get hit and stuff so it'll be fun to looks really good see thanks it'll probably be the one one scenario where Owen will be excited when I crash the car cuz he'll be like did it hold up did it is it good is it legit I'm sure it will it looks really good so um no it came out super cool I guess the uh the other main thing to kind of talk about with this car obviously it's not the prettiest form right now we're waiting on the roof and a couple other little things to get all the final metal work done and then the chassis is going to go off to powder coat I see a lot of people kind of debate and talk back and forth about you know is it better to paint a car is it better to powder coat the painters argument is it's usually a little bit more accessible if you don't have a place that can dip or sand blast or get a car prep for powder coat also they say oh well you know if you have to repair something then then it's harder to touch a powder coat we powder coated the S15 and that build has lasted I don't know what it is 5 or 6 years now and the powder coat still looks brand new it's extremely durable um and it still looks amazing so thought process with this is do the same thing we had touch-up cans made in paint to match the powder coat on the other car so that way if there is something that's damaged or something you need to repair uh yeah you'll have a few areas of the car that are painted versus powder Co but it's the difference between the car lasting 10 15 years before needing to get redone versus is painted cars I feel like you got to repaint everything like almost once every 2 or 3 years so uh more of a longevity thing and I think it's going to look really good that's pretty much it for this I want to give you guys an update the guys have been busting ass in the background and the car has come a long way since you've last seen it in other news the 964 will probably have a video out sometime next week uh just been doing some maintenance stuff getting it ready for its first road trip and then Safari GTR we finally got some parts in that we've been waiting for even longer travel shocks from BC uh rear diff should be coming in any day now and then that car is essentially next step of performance we'll be able to test so that's it for this video hope you guys are excited and more details to come extra extra long slow we stop the here\n"