0:01 hello and welcome back to Cara this is 0:04 trunk details part 13 and in this video 0:07 I will show how I got to this point stay 0:11 tuned 0:14 before 0:16 after if you've been following along but 0:18 watching my videos uh on the last video 0:22 I kind of got my butt kicked by these 0:23 side brackets I have since replaced 0:26 those uh they came out very very good 0:29 very solid 0:30 and on this particular chest see this is 0:32 going to be the finished one going in 0:33 the car I got these screws out because 0:36 I'm about to see if I can get away with 0:39 flush trim routering the entire 0:42 assembly so that's the other side side 0:46 brackets everything come out very good 0:48 there very solid notice I mean it's 0:52 terms of a gap 0:54 there's nothing um I may have to open 0:57 that up just a slight bit when these get 1:00 uh prior to these getting goldplated um 1:03 if you 1:04 see 1:07 here they fit together like perfectly 1:12 this is going to be the side that'll be 1:13 facing the viewer when you open the 1:16 trunk put that too look at that it's 1:19 exact so now what I'm going to do and 1:22 I'm going to use if you notice so what 1:24 I've done again is I've gotten rid of 1:27 the bottom of the this is the P1 the 1:29 bottom of the P1 that's right here and 1:33 the top of the X1 right so if you look 1:35 over here you can see those two pieces 1:39 so it's this piece and this piece I got 1:41 rid of and then you can see where 1:44 there's kind of a a a big seam there 1:47 right so I got rid of both of those and 1:49 then Built My Side brackets instead so 1:52 what I'm going to do I'll pull this 1:53 apart I'll attach this to the bottom of 1:56 the P1 and I'll use this as my test 1:59 piece uh to try routering I've got to be 2:02 really careful 2:05 especially back here with the depth of 2:08 the router because if the bearing was to 2:10 fall into any of these holes these 2:12 should be fine um but I've got to be 2:15 really careful like on these two because 2:17 if the bearing follows that and goes in 2:19 there it's going to just take a big 2:20 chunk out of the chassis so I got to be 2:23 really careful uh so let's see how it 2:26 goes not sure how well this uh comes up 2:30 on video but that works pretty well um I 2:35 think I'm going to be good there so I'll 2:37 reassemble the whole thing and then run 2:40 it around with the router and that'll 2:43 get it a nice clean Edge let's give it a 2:46 shot all right that worked out in the 2:49 words of Clark Griswald I still have 2:51 some trimming to do 2:53 um but you can see like right here it's 2:56 like perfect um I do have to clean up 2:59 the corners a little bit and there's it 3:02 didn't get all of this I'd rather have 3:04 it where I have to trim away a little 3:06 bit than where it got more than I wanted 3:08 it to 3:11 so pretty cool now I'll just go through 3:15 clean it up I'll pull the top and bottom 3:17 off uh let me go ahead and do that and 3:19 then it should look pretty 3:21 sharp all right to clean up the edges as 3:25 I need to a little bit um once again my 3:28 friend the sanding stick and I'll just 3:31 do this with uh a little bit more 3:33 carefully but s it back and forth that 3:36 way it is nice and flat all right a 3:37 little out of order edit here um when I 3:41 last showed the P1 and X1 I was real 3:44 happy with it then I had found an issue 3:48 which is now fixed in this this part uh 3:51 with this cover the cover the sanding 3:54 stick I got too aggressive and I ended 3:56 up sanding this at an angle so you'll 3:58 see it just a moment where I go through 4:00 and redo the cover for the P1 all right 4:03 it's the next morning and I'm not going 4:05 to go an inch further without redoing 4:08 the top of the P1 uh cuz it's the way I 4:10 roll so I went and grabbed the other 4:14 units that I've got I've got three of 4:15 these and I'm going to just pick the 4:17 worst one none of them are in that bad a 4:19 shape which is kind of unfortunate 4:21 they're they're actually quite clean 4:26 um so I'll pick the worst one and 4:29 that'll be the sacrificial cover and I 4:32 will use that it's like going to be this 4:34 guy um somebody looks like got a 4:38 screwdriver uh it wasn't me um and arked 4:41 out the chassis to the 12vt um so yeah 4:47 that one looks to be the worst one so 4:49 I'll use that one and I won't show the 4:51 detail on that but I'll go ahead and get 4:52 that one in routered drill for the cover 4:56 uh open up the holes for the larger 4:58 bolts all of that fun stuff so let me go 5:00 ahead and do that now okay I did a new 5:03 cover just want to show this out in the 5:05 sun where I've got some really good 5:07 light I am happy with that so now I 5:10 still have to drill the holes in the top 5:12 of the P1 to redo the plate and then 5:15 I'll be 5:16 good okay redid the 5:20 P1 and now I'm very happy I 5:24 think it's still there's aspects about 5:27 it that are maybe not totally perfect 5:29 perfect 5:30 but again based on uh just doing the 5:34 stuff in my garage with hand tools 5:36 things like 5:38 that um my Fisher Price SL Harbor 5:41 Freight stuff not going to blame the 5:43 tools but uh I think that's as good as 5:46 it's going to get if I try to screw 5:48 around with that anymore I'll only make 5:50 it worse so all right so now P1 and X1 5:54 are done let's get the Changers mounted 5:57 all right first St with the Changers is 5:59 is to determine where I can mount the 6:02 screws and drill 6:05 into the case so it's kind of tough to 6:08 see in here but I have marked this blue 6:11 Mark basically represents as far this 6:14 way as I would want to go and I did the 6:16 same thing here there is a gear in there 6:20 but I've got plenty of room to work with 6:22 cuz the bolt head it once again is less 6:24 than an eighth of an inch I'm using 6:25 these 6:26 bolts uh these are the same qu 20s that 6:29 I use for the P1 and X1 and I'll be 6:31 doing six per changer once again quite 6:34 Overkill but you can see in there um 6:38 when this 6:39 is this back in that basically 6:42 represents bottomed out that's what 6:45 those limits are but normally it's kind 6:47 of 6:48 floating um so I've got plenty of room 6:51 and I'll go ahead and get my holes laid 6:53 out on this piece just to be completely 6:55 safe here is a piece of quarter in MDF 6:59 it's really tough to see inside of there 7:01 but with that bottomed out it's barely 7:04 just rubbed on the top of the gear so4 7:07 in versus 0.1 in I'll be safe the next 7:11 step for the Changers I have them double 7:13 side tape to the on zapco 7:16 Bottoms um they're really solid on there 7:19 so they shouldn't move around um and I 7:23 put a straight edge against the two 7:25 Changers measured the Gap to the P1 next 7:30 one um everything is good there the 7:32 strage on the Changers is straight it's 7:36 straight compared to the fins on the 7:41 amplifier um I made sure that the Gap 7:44 you know was exactly the same it's it's 7:47 kind of tough to see there but it's 1 7:50 in between each changer and the P1 or x 7:53 one so placement of these items is final 7:57 now at this point so 8:00 um now I'll go to the next step now I 8:02 have both Changers pulled apart where I 8:04 just have the top cover and the uh ones 8:09 that go bottom so excuse me I've got 8:13 it's tough to see there see my mark that 8:16 I put on the one zap go bottom that 8:18 again represents as far to the left and 8:21 right as I want to go I put the same 8:23 marks just little pen uh Sharpie marks 8:26 on the one zapco now when I pull this 8:30 out I can do the same clearance check 8:33 because I'm going to have the nuts are 8:35 going to be mounted inside of the amp 8:38 and if you notice if I was to draw a 8:39 line here and look here tons of real 8:42 estate the middle looks fine I've got 8:45 the Caps which won't be in the way and 8:48 then here I'll probably go in between 8:52 this line and these caps and this here 8:54 is 3/4 of an inch deep so no problem I 8:58 thought for a second there I might have 8:59 to get out the plexiglass template but 9:02 uh no problem at all so now I'll get the 9:04 holes laid out on the 9:07 changers in case you're wondering I am 9:09 using a square and getting this laid out 9:12 nicely I have both Changers laid out I 9:16 did a center punch for each hole again 9:18 there'll be six bolts holding each one 9:20 in now time to bring these to the drill 9:22 press and get all right once again 9:24 probably an Overkill uh step here but 9:27 I'm using an E8 in drill bit to sure 9:29 that I hit my mark uh that I have Center 9:32 punched and then I'll upgrade it without 9:35 moving the drill press to that's I think 9:37 a 1764 so slightly bigger than a quarter 9:41 gives me a little tiny bit of place 9:42 should I need it so let's go ahead going 9:44 Ride Along go ahead and get this one 9:48 drilled and also obviously I'm still 9:50 double side tape to the zapco 9:54 bottom sorry for damaging your 9:57 instructions there Sony 9:59 a little tricky to do with one hand 10:14 here all right we are 10:17 through now shut it off change out the 10:21 bit and I'll be good and then I'll 10:23 repeat that 12 times between the two 10:25 Changers okay all holes are drilled came 10:28 out very good 10:29 now I'll pull these two pieces apart um 10:33 the cover from the uh changer and deur 10:38 and then use the hardware to get it all 10:41 uh mounted together and then I'll test 10:43 fit those into the zapco and make sure 10:46 they look good stand by changer chassis 10:48 are bolted together bolted to the bottom 10:52 I I haven't mounted this yet I just 10:54 wanted to make sure everything is good 10:55 with play nothing's rocking back and 10:58 forth no no issues 11:01 there little bit Overkill um again 11:05 that's kind of 11:06 mymo um and 11:10 then got the other one this is the 11:12 driver side looks good everything is 11:15 solid there plenty of room and again if 11:17 you look at T to tell 11:20 here where they where those bolts come 11:23 into play they just miss that auxiliary 11:26 board no issues there and then I'm away 11:29 from those large capacitors so no 11:31 problem there so at this point um got to 11:35 reassemble the Changers again we're just 11:37 going to have the shells cuz I want to 11:39 see what this whole thing looks like in 11:40 the car so let's get those put back 11:42 together 11:44 next all right this will be or this is 11:48 the final check of these items before I 11:51 put the one zap coat back in the car and 11:54 then put the bottoms on for the Sony 11:57 part that'll be the first time 11:58 definitely a milestone that I will be 12:00 able to see what this stuff looks like 12:02 in the 12:03 car um taking a look at 12:06 this just one last check everything is 12:09 bolted in now you can see that 12:12 definitely turned out exactly kind of 12:14 what I had envisioned it's going to 12:16 allow for real quick easy 12:20 servicing and hopefully no issues so I'm 12:23 going to go ahead and get the one zapco 12:25 in and we'll get the Sony Parts in as 12:27 well I know there's still a lot to go 12:30 but for me this is definitely a 12:32 milestone to finally be able to 12:35 see would went from my vision of trying 12:39 to replicate what Earl had initially in 12:42 the car like that and by the way I just 12:44 talked to him on the phone I had never 12:47 seen the car in person with this setup I 12:49 only saw the original setup that Henry 12:51 did uh before the gold and before the 12:53 two c1s so um I did I did manage should 12:59 get a bunch of pictures from Earl at 13:00 some point I'll upload those too there's 13:01 got to be a thousand of them of the 13:03 build when he did it this way but um 13:08 very happy with everything I did manage 13:10 to go through there was some some 13:12 aspects of the um brackets on the P1 13:16 andx one I didn't like and I said I 13:18 wouldn't mess around with it I did of 13:20 course um but I am very happy with that 13:23 I think that looks really cool with um 13:26 the deletion of the bottom of the P1 in 13:29 the top of the X1 and it looks very 13:30 clean like it was meant to be um this 13:33 lighting this is just a little shop 13:35 light I got sitting in here but that's 13:37 kind of the Shadow type of lighting that 13:39 I all had um there will be once again 13:42 the dioic lights in along the back side 13:45 of the trunk wall so it's going to cast 13:46 the light the same way and give you the 13:49 Shadows um keep in mind again everything 13:53 is very rough right now the one zap code 13:55 still needs to be repainted uh that is 13:58 just um uh media blasted at this point I 14:02 know it looks like it's painted Earl and 14:04 I again just got off the phone he 14:06 thought I had painted it already that is 14:08 just media blasted and it's an anchor 14:10 profile it's called and that again is 14:12 what allows the U material to be strong 14:15 enough or or prepped for proper adhesion 14:18 for paint um but it looks like it's like 14:22 almost like a metallic paint the C ones 14:24 also these again are just uh couple of 14:28 spares that I have that aren't in great 14:30 shape again you can see all the 14:31 scratches there but it allowed me to get 14:33 everything mocked up these are um Hollow 14:37 and again um one thing here I had to be 14:40 very careful to make sure that I could 14:42 open these and you can without any 14:45 problem very solid latch on those things 14:49 um the P1 and X1 brains those are going 14:53 to be goldplated once again and 14:55 obviously you know no guts in the milts 14:57 or anything like that but all in all 14:59 being able to sit back and take a look 15:01 at what this thing is going to look like 15:03 is make it my day I got to tell you so 15:07 all right let me uh give you some more 15:08 details here and then I'll go ahead and 15:10 close out this short video here's the 15:12 view from a little bit further back 15:14 again I think that looks really cool um 15:18 all right so closing out this video uh I 15:21 am I just wanted to provide some 15:23 information kind of where I'm at with 15:24 the build so far I am currently at like 15:28 within an hour of 1,000 hours on the 15:31 build I know it doesn't look like much 15:33 but if you've been watching this series 15:35 and you see the level of detail the 15:37 amount of time all of this is taken uh 15:40 you know why I'm at 1,000 hours I'm at 15:42 400 hours so far in the trunk um also my 15:46 father's been sending me updates on the 15:48 zebrawood he's probably he's again he's 15:52 86 years old be 87 in January so he 15:54 doesn't work Works a little slower than 15:56 I do if you can believe that but but he 15:59 is um probably a couple of weeks away 16:02 from being able to ship that to me when 16:04 I get it I will put that in and I will 16:07 mount everything even before I finish 16:09 the wood I'm going to I'll be doing the 16:11 staining and not sure what exactly yet 16:14 epoxy clear coat I'm still going to do a 16:16 bunch of testing on that but I'll show 16:19 that it is coming out amazing guys it 16:22 looks incredible I can't even imagine 16:25 this with you know everything done with 16:27 that zebra wood it's going to look 16:29 really cool um I'm also just so everyone 16:32 knows that's been following I'm going to 16:34 do my goal is to do like a short 16:36 overview video maybe 10 minutes or less 16:39 for anybody who's kind of new to 16:41 following the build and I'll post that 16:43 on like some Facebook pages probably on 16:45 milbert's um web page and it'll just be 16:49 a 10-minute video of where I'm at with 16:51 the car kind of just a short recap so 16:54 keep on the lookout for that probably 16:56 hopefully get that done in the next week 16:57 or so I'm also going to be taking a 16:59 short break from working on the car I 17:02 wanted to get to this point before I did 17:04 that I've got some other cars and other 17:06 things to do my garage is a mess you 17:08 guys probably saw my bench is totally 17:11 disgusting the uh my workbench I I 17:14 noticed this the other day when I was 17:15 shooting some video it's not dirty it's 17:18 just worn I do a lot um beyond the BMW 17:23 I've got other cars I work on we have 17:26 horses so I'm constantly using this to 17:29 fix whatever gets broken around here and 17:31 again I've got to get like I've got this 17:34 Mercedes um E55 AMG had a windshield put 17:37 in two months ago I haven't driven the 17:39 car since and I've got another one 17:41 outside that needs some work as well so 17:44 I'll take a short break um hopefully 17:47 maybe a couple of weeks tops and then 17:49 I'll be back on to the BMW from there 17:53 I've got to figure out what I'm going to 17:54 do next I've got you know basically the 17:57 way I see it I'm calling and this the 17:59 the Milbert rack this bottom part that 18:01 is roughed out meaning I've got 18:03 everything figured out with all the 18:04 mounting and all of that still a bunch 18:06 to do I've got to get you know I'm going 18:08 to finish off the bracket the Shroud for 18:11 the 845 tube I've got a lot to do with 18:14 the milbert's um you know I've got some 18:17 brazing to do with like those brackets I 18:20 made I've got to get those 18:22 goldplated I'm going to recap everything 18:25 in the zapco the two zapco recap all the 18:28 Sony's um new DC to DC converters uh if 18:33 I haven't swapped them out yet in all 18:35 the Sony components so there's still you 18:37 know a lot to do even with and then this 18:40 part I'm calling the hanging rack so 18:42 hanging rack and the Milbert floor still 18:44 a bunch of work to finish that off and 18:47 get it completed but I think I'll hold 18:49 off on that stuff that'll be the last 18:51 detail stuff I think the next thing I'm 18:53 going to start working on is what I'm 18:55 calling All trim panels so on these 18:58 sides of the trunk I'm going to build 18:59 like fiberglass walls if you will that 19:03 will curve and they'll be symmetrical 19:06 and then I'll do you know I've got to do 19:07 the spare tire area the floor so I might 19:10 start mocking that stuff up next and 19:12 that gives me kind of the general 19:15 overall shape and and you know uh form 19:19 of the trunk itself then I can go 19:21 through every piece and then do the 19:22 detail so if I do these next it'll be 19:26 they'll just be fiberglass ready to a 19:28 poster um there's some cool things that 19:30 I'm working on for these two side panels 19:33 Earl had a really really cool idea it's 19:35 subtle but it's going to be it's going 19:37 to be like the cherry on top and I'll 19:39 talk more about that you'll that'll be a 19:40 surprise you'll see that when that comes 19:42 so um that's going to be it for this 19:44 video I know it's a short one I'll go 19:46 ahead and close this out thank you very 19:49 much for watching I appreciate um any 19:51 support and in uh encouragement it can 19:54 be uh lonely and long uh nights here in 19:57 the garage but uh it's starting to 19:59 become really worth it I'm seeing the 20:01 fruits of the labor and I'm really 20:03 excited so uh if you have not yet I 20:06 would appreciate it if you subscribe 20:08 like the video and tell your friends 20:10 thank you very much I will talk to you 20:11 soon 20:12 bye-bye
