CarMiZa part 35 Trunk Arms Complete
In this video, I show the final work that went into the custom trunk arms that hold the trunk lid. Steel fuel line was used as a loom for the wiring. Thanks for watching, and enjoy!
I’ve been following this build since day 1. I drooled over this car in the magazines in the 90s. It’s so fun watching you recreate it. And even more fun that Earl is a part of it. It must be a great experience for him to be able to relive the glory of this car through you. Next time you talk to Earl, ask him if he was at Planet Hollywood in Vegas on Feb 2. I swear I saw him walking through the casino and nearly chased him down.
Thank you so much for your interest in CarMiZa! I am very fortunate and grateful that Earl is involved, and lives only about 40 minutes from me. I just texted him to ask if that was him in Vegas. He and his wife do a great deal of traveling, so its certainly possible! And he would have loved it if you noticed him. That still happens to him, even 30 years later. IMO, he was and will always be a legend in the 12v community. Thanks again for watching, more content coming soon! UPDATE- Earl texted me back- it WAS him! He said next time, say hi! If you are ever in AZ, you are welcome to come over and check out the car. I can arrange to have Earl here as well!Read more
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how's it going and welcome back to the channel uh this is Cara and if you're not familiar with it it is a legendary
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old school car audio build that I am rebuilding uh in this video we're going
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to continue working on the trunk arms and the wiring for the trunk arms so in
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the last video I did all of the prep and I handed off the trunk arms to James the welder who is my son-in-law uh as a
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reminder he had told me when he looked at it it was going to be very difficult because of how thin the gas line tubing
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was that I wanted to use for the wiring loom um I gave him those pieces and I
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have them back in my possession but first I want to show you some quick footage of James doing the welding
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all right so that was James welding these up and as I supect it the guy is
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absolutely amazing they came out incredible folks um as you can see the
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welds look amazing it's almost sacrificial to cover them up um they
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came out really nice everything is very very solid now what I do need to double check is to make sure that there's no
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blow through again because of how thin this wall is I need to make sure that in
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none of the areas did the the weld actually burn through the tubing which
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is going to cause issues when I try to run the wires so again if you're not familiar new to the build um the way
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that this is set up is these are the trunk arms that install on the car there was a plastic cover from the factory
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that held the original wires that looked terrible and I also wanted to do my own wires on the passenger side so I created
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this out of gasoline again you could see more of the details on the creation of this in the last video These are now
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welded on and we serve to run the wires so I've got that side and then we've got
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the passenger side as well where I can run my wires so all right so at this point we're
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going to continue on and the next thing I'm going to do is try to figure out how
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to identify I can kind of see like this first weld I can see through here and
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there's no issue here but I need to figure out throughout this entire thing to make sure that there is no blow
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through and I don't have any sharp places where the wiring is going to either get hung up or cut so I'll work
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on that now all right so here's what I came up with to be able to test to Ure
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sure that again there's no blockage and there's no sharp edges I wouldn't say
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this is you know the final test is going to be run the wires through um but this is going to get me pretty close this is
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a gauge wire um power wire that is a little bit smaller in diameter than the
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wiring that has to go through this tube there's 14 primary uh 14 pieces of like
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primary wire OEM wiring to go through your hair and if you watched in the last video it barely fits but it's going to
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require some massaging so here I pull this
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through put a little WD40 in there to make it easier and I'll do the same thing when I put the OEM wires I don't
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hear anything nothing's getting cut nothing's getting caught so I think I'm
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good with this I'll do this on the other side to ensure that both sides are good so James did an incredible job as always
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with the wels all right have you guys follow along from the beginning here so
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push the wire through this is a little easier than that factory bundle is going to be but
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uh we'll get through it figure it out may need a little more
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WD40 can see the head
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all right same thing I think if if if it blew through it would get stuck or at
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least kind of drag and I would see evidence of kind of cuts or scratches here um another little trick I did like
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you guys saw this in the last video is this is just 38 in metal fuel line or brake line and I flared the ends to make
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sure that when I do pull the wires through it doesn't shake so I'm going to consider that a passing grade we'll move
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on in the next part okay next thing to do is just a um check post weld here just to make
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sure everything is good so again if you've not been following along wiring is going to come from the car through
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the tube up into the trunk Li and this is where it comes out you'll see in just a minute I will install the panel custom
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panel that I built and that's what the other side looks like there so I'll grab the panel and get that installed and make sure everything still looks and
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fits properly okay as suspected everything fits good there again if you've not been following along uh the
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three holes in the center will include an iPad in the center and then a couple of system diagrams on either side all
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held in with neodymium magnets so here you can see this panel kind of hides the
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flare uh and again I haven't quite decided yet if I'm going to leave this kind of separated like this or if I'll
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fill this whole thing in we'll see um but yeah the fit is good there
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everything is good no problems on that side as well and you can see where the tubing goes in so On To The Next Step
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all right and here's the test fit on the car I just pop the arms in and as you can see everything looks good I will
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double check um the uh Underside just to make sure where it goes into the car uh
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everything looks good there as all right for my next move I'm going to very carefully and it's almost sacrilegious
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to do but I'm going to grind down any high spots on these welds what I
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ultimately want to do is after I do this I'm going to use filler and basically go
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along this edge with filler so that it ends up looking very similar to this from the factory so um that's what I'm
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going to do at this point so I'll be very very careful last thing I want to do is have a problem so let's give it a
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shot all right if the leting looks kind of funny I've got a headlamp on just to give me a little bit more light
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all right that's going to be the name of the game I'm just going to go really slow very careful take off the high spots and I'll show you what it looks
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like in just a bit okay that bit of the surgery went quite well so again just
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knocking down the high spot so that when I smooth it uh the steel is not poking
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through we're going to use a filler on this so good to go there on to the next step all right my next step is going to
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be to do a little bit more sanding uh of the OEM paint uh so that when I do my
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filler I'm going bare metal to metal I think that's going to give me a little bit better adhesion really nothing crazy
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here I'm using a random orbital uh 5 in with a 40 grit uh pad and to do this
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that's about all there is to it so I'll get that all done and we'll get them cleaned up and ready to start adding filler okay the additional sanding is
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done now we'll just hit it with some allpurpose cleaner wipe them down really good hit them with some air and we'll be
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ready to move on to filling all right we're on to the next stage and this is kind of I think where the magic happens
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this is where this thing's really going to start to take its final shape so what I've got here is uh short strand
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fiberglass um or short strand fiberglass reinforced filler technically is what it
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is take a bit of this we'll mix it up I don't really know how I'm going to do
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this but I I have kind of a vision in terms of what I want it to look like so let's give it a shot if you've watched
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my videos uh in the past on this build you'll know that temperature I find
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temperature to be really important with this stuff in terms of your mix rate not as critical as like fiberglass resin
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that's where you're counting drops per ounce but here uh the garage is 75°
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right now I check that and we'll go ahead and fill so get this mixed up
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really good again I kind of have like a vision I think or at least to Hope in
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terms of what I want this to look like and I think I know how to get there so what I'm going to do is take
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this see if I can uh let me go ahead and work on this for just a quick
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second and I'll show you what I'm going to
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do I think what I want it to end up looking like is kind of close to the factory piece so you can see I filled in
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that area I'm going to take my straight edge drag it along the fuel line and the
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trunk bar itself so that it's basically
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flat and I'm I kind of check it I I'll start
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out with that and um I don't know if that's what I'm going to want or if I
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want to kind of sand that down a little bit in there or um just to try to mimic the shape of the
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factory piece a little bit better so all right I'll continue working on this and I'll report back in a couple of minutes
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all right I've got the filler on both pieces it's ugly right now I get that um one little quick technique I want to
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show you while it's curing up obviously as this stuff uh catalyzes and goes through its reaction um it's going to go
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from super soft to hardening up uh while it's still kind of tacky if you will uh
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I'm coming in here with a metal scraper and just kind of scraping down the high
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spots I want to be really careful I don't have to be it's not like tissue paper or anything but I want to be a bit
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careful when I sand this uh fuel line that I don't blow through it that would
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really stink after James did all that great welding work so I feel bad enough as it is covering it up with filler but
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um so let me just go ahead and get this again you've got a bit of an open window the softer it is the easier it is to do
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this and then you know I was to do this tomorrow um it's going to be kind of rock hard I could sand it but this just
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makes it easier to come in here um so let me give me one second here and
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I'll show you we're going to have a you know a bit more sanding to do obviously and more
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filling but kind of getting the drift of what this is going to look like um this
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is what it would look like uh excuse me yeah like that this is the driver side
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so kind of filled in like that I'm still wish you guys were here to tell me what
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you would do here do I leave it like this and leave a gap and you know obviously I'll clean this all up or do I
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close this whole thing up I want people to know I want to say hey I use fuel line to run the wires and then if you
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look have it be kind of obvious so um yeah I'm liking it that hole right there
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is Factory there was another hole on one of these that someone drilled and I did fill that but uh I'll keep continue
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filling this again I might come in here with sandpaper and just kind of slightly
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bevel this a little tiny bit just so you can kind of you know it accentuates the visibility of the fuel line so I'll keep
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working and I'll check in in just a bit all right so here we are after the first round of filler and just some
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basic scraping you can see I still have some there just roughen it out at this point and um I think I have an idea so
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let me work on something here and I'll report back in a few minutes all right I've sanded it down and I've got it to
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kind of mimic this same shape from the factory piece uh you can see that's my
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inspiration um mine's got a more of a curve to it here which I think is going to be cooler than this kind of an edge
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um I've also made um hope your answer was the same as mine but I've decided
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I'm going to fill this in um you'll be able to tell if I tell people hey this is fuel line you'll be able to kind of
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figure that out um this to me looks kind of sloppy it doesn't look very finished off and I think if I have this all as
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one piece it's going to look a lot cleaner so um did that side did my
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sanding and I've got I just basically took a 40 grit sandpaper and kind of went in like this I've got some more fillings to do but um I think that looks
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really cool getting there same is true on the other side very symmetrical as well um and kind of coming along so um I
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think I'll probably do uh I'll definitely do kitty hair I'll probably do some long strand Kitty hair which is
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better for filling in big gaps like this and I'll slowly kind of work up to this get this area all done finished in I've
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got a little bit more obviously certainly more fill in to do but I'll do this with Bondo um and then keep going
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at it but I'm digging it uh hopefully you guys like it as well I think it looks really cool so I'll continue on
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and I'll check back in a little bit okay for this area I need to fill in you might be thinking well you should have just had James weld some steel in there
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possibly but again that puts this fuel line that's paper thin at more risk so what I'm doing you notice there I've got
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some tape and I'll now pull this out and I'll back fill that with long strand
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fiberglass to get that shape and then sand is needed and it'll be a nice tight mold into this area all right I know it
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looks a little messy but I want to show you what I did here so I did the kitty or the long strand fiberglass I've got
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my backing tape and I did this over on my little work table um as it was curing
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up I popped the arm onto the trunk lid and then I took once again my scraper
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and basically just came in and scraped this these high spots out uh just so it's less sanding and I also if you
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notice previously I marked where the panel is going to go the panel kind of goes back here so this will be good I'll
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just do a little bit of sanding and more filling here and that part should be good I've got again some other sanding
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and filling to do but General shape is there we're getting there I've done this side as well and I'll get a vacuum and
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clean this up and continue on all right so there's a long strand fiberglass on the top side really durable and strong
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and good for closing up big gaps but now we've got kind of a nasty looking area
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back here so what I'll do is take short strand fiberglass resin filler and mud
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that area up and then I will have got tape down I'll put the the piece back in
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let it cure up and it'll give me a nice mold of the back side and we'll get both sides finished okay I've got both pieces
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kind of back mudded and I put this in just to see how we're looking here obviously I'm going to have to reshape
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this a little bit I'll fill this in I'll knock this down make it one nice consistent Gap here same thing on the
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other side but very easy to do uh I know a guy so uh we'll get that tweaked and
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good to go I definitely like I don't know about you guys but I really hope that was your same philosophy here was
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to fill this in I think it's just going to look cleaner so all right we'll keep going I just noticed something here this is going to be kind
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of tricky to see depending on your angle but and it's kind of dark but this is going to look so much nicer than if I
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had the tubing split so I'm glad I made that decision okay I'm going to pause here for the night and um this video I
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started this video this same evening so it's been about 4 hours um doing all the stuff that you saw uh after getting
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these parts from James so so not bad uh I don't think and again I'm really
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digging it I think it's going to be cool um um and look really good so I've got the garage doors opened uh for as my
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buddy David would say the WF wife approval factor I think it is uh just because it smelled a bit like uh resin
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with the kitty hair so that'll be it for tonight and I will check back in with you tomorrow is Saturday um should be
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doing some work on the car tomorrow evening but certainly Sunday my wife's going for a horse ride with her friend
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so I'll be out here pretty much uh most of the day until the afternoon so that's
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going to be for now see you hopefully tomorrow I am back and it is Sunday wasn't able to make it out here last
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night but uh continuing on at this point so uh moving right along what I need to do is some more cleanup work here where
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this again is where the tube enters into the trunk let area as you can see uh on Friday night I did that little mold and
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you can see what that did there I will now shape this kind of get it you know properly shaped I did realize too I'm
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going to back um I'll just take a wire wheel on a drill and kind of clean up
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the paint around this Edge because I find that this stuff sticks a bit better to bare metal and then I'll
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just back fill this so I'll continue working on this um get it shaped and
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kind of that's the next thing on my list is to kind of tweak this area and get that part finished so on we go okay let
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me show you this little detail here as well so as you can see I took the wire wheel and got rid of some of the paint
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here so I'm down to be metal then I put the panel the iPad panel on the trunk
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lid marked where the panel went this was kind of sticking out with my kitty hair I kind of cut it flush I'm trying to
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determine how far up here do I want to finish this off and I'm basically going to go flush with the tube here so next
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I'll take this and get this area all nice and prettied up okay I've got some uh another coat of kitty hair on the
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trunk arms letting that cure up it's about 70 or so degrees out today so not bad uh I got to love Arizona um now
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because I've changed kind of the way the shape of that whole area is going to be uh I'm going to modify this so if you
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notice I had a designated area for the tube to go into doesn't need to be quite this High I went a little higher than I
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needed to but I do want to kind of hog out this area so I'm going to open this up bigger than it needs to be back fill
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it with Kitty hair and do the same kind of procedure uh where I've got I'm going to put kind of a filler piece over the
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top of the trunk arm put this on and get a proper mold so first thing is to remove some of this to do that I'll just
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use a
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trouble doesn't have to be perfect cuz it's just going to get mudded back filled anyway
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I'll do the same thing in the other side and show you what this looks like in just a moment okay on both sides I've
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got my shape good I like what that looks like um kind of tough to see but you can
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see underneath there I think it's nice and clean looks as if it was Factory and now at this point I just need to go
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along and take care of all these little Bondo fill-ins I'll use Bondo for this and get these uh basically sanded and
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final prep for primer so uh I'll work on that now all right just show you a quick
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check in here working on the Bondo um for this what I did is mixed up the
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Bondo and with a glove on just took my finger and went down along like this just to make sure I get a nice even coat
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you can see kind of like some detail there in doing so I'm going to have some leftover um which for that again I'm
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going to use the razor and just basically scrape this stuff off uh while it's curing up it's nice and easy to
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work with there as you can see it's like peeling a apple um and this puts less stress on the tube to
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make sure I'm not sanding through it so um all right I'll continue working on
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these and hopefully get them if not ready for primer close to primer before the next time I check in with you all
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right sanding complete and because these are going to be painted I went to 180
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grit um and we're going to do an epoxy primer because we're down a bare metal on most of it and then a high Build
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primer over the top of that that's where I'm going to leave it for now again until I actually paint the entire car
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um but you can see everything it's looking at it like this that's why I've got it on the tripod you can see
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everything lines up really nice really nice and symmetrical I made sure my lines everything looks good in here uh I
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feel good about it so um one quick thing too I realize this might not be everyone's cup of tea and maybe
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everybody doesn't agree with my process here and I totally get that I completely respect everyone's opinion um but I was
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laying in bed one night trying to figure out how I was going to do this and I came up with this idea and I ran it out
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so that's kind of the way I work uh I'm confident with it I think it's going to work great and I think it looks super
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cool especially when this is all painted it's going to look really nice I think so um I'm going to see what I can do
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it's currently uh Monday evening the weather looks a little bit cool coming up um I'm trying to figure out and it's
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it's a work week obviously so I'm trying to figure out when I'm going to be able to Prime these these are 100% ready to
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go I just cleaned them I wiped them off with a I do like a soap and water uh before I
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put the primer on they're 100% ready to go so I do have to work on the shape of
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the um the lid panel uh where these go into so I might work on that um see what
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else I can get done this evening to try to get some some more progress going but I'll definitely be spraying these in the
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next couple of days so all right let me take a look at my list to see what I've got and what we'll work on next here's
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an another view just kind of giving you a quick walk around you can see I think it came out
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nice looking good all right onward and upward all right so I decided to um deal
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with this I'm pretty tired it's late but uh I want to get this car done some days right so I got to keep pushing so uh as
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you can see uh what I'm going to do again as I did earlier I kind of just roughed it out but I'll take more material out of here it's going to be a
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bigger Gap than what I want but I'll show you again how I'll kind of back mud it and get that to be the right size uh
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same is true on the other side uh but again check out the bars on there think
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that looks really cool all right continuing on okay I dremeled out what I needed to on both sides uh so now we
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prepare to back fill that with some kitty hair all right so here's the way I'm doing this I took a piece of scrap
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ozite carpet this stuff unbacked which is approximately the same thickness Maybe touch thinner than the stuff I'm
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going to use but that's fine taped it in place now what I'll do and I did that on both sides now I will take some kitty
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hair and kind of slobber it up in this area and then I'll put the panel on screw it down and that's going to give
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you a nice proper uh shape here all right there we go and now all I'll do
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once this cure is up I'll let it cure up overnight I'll just take my razor blade I'll slice this off to a little finish
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sanding I don't doesn't bother me the fact that I've already primed this this I wanted to get this shape proper so did
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both sides did plenty where it kind of oozed out that's exactly what I was looking for if you've been watching my Series this is a technique that I use I
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did it on like the near wall um in a recent video so all right that part is good on of the next part change of
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plance I decided to cut this off now while it's still curing up again this makes it pretty easy see if I can do
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this onehanded all right here we go
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once it hardens up it would not be this easy to do trying to watch the filming and do
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this and this I'm going to do a little tweak into to so we're good all right on
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to the next part okay it's a couple of nights later uh sorry I didn't take you with me but I shot these with an epoxy
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primer so I went down to Bare Metal so um I again I'm not a painter right so
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I'm new to this but I do know that when it's bare metal you want to hit it with epoxy primer I'm going to let this cure
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that's still wet uh it's drying and I've been fighting wind in temperature and
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all of that so I don't want to sound like I'm complaining but I need minimum 60° and it's been um mid to high 50s when to go to
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shoot paint which isn't going to work so tonight I was able to do it I'm going to let these cure up in the garage
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overnight and then tomorrow night I will hit them with a high Build primer uh so that they're the same kind of color the
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same gray as what you see in the rest of the panels so uh not much else going on
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uh other than the place is trashed um and I'm back to if you've watched my
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video on the C90 illumination I'm playing around with that thing tonight if I find anything cool with that I'll
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report it back but otherwise I'm going to continue on the trunk arms tomorrow
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night and I'll keep you posted one other miscellaneous thing I'm doing tonight and that's kind of what the night it is
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um is running the car I don't run the car enough I'm trying to make sure I run it at least once a month um just to keep
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it healthy uh before I bring this thing out and bring it on tour and all that
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again it's going to have a full paint job different wheels and I'm going to go through the entire car from front to
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back mechanically I've actually got all the parts to do it and it's not going to take as long as the build so um things
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like brakes suspension fuel Spark all of that will be be addressed and the car will be like perfectly new from a
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mechanical perspective as well um if you're not aware the car has a I'll call
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it a new transmission and motor um when Earl moved out here uh late '90s early
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200s the car developed an issue which they had on these which had a nicasil
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block and there was a recall so BMW at the dealership replaced the entire
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engine and transmission so that was about 10,000 Mi ago so um other than
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sitting for a while the car is basically the motor is very healthy I did a compression test everything is really
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good these cars normally are kind of rattly but it is very quiet so we've got
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a good foundation there and then again I'll go through everything mechanically but just thought I'd share that with you
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uh this evening okay um I did some more work and I didn't take you with me apologies but I'm dealing with wind
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temperatures and now a little bit of rain too so I had to I wanted to knock down the epoxy primer just a little bit
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I had a couple small runs um and then hit these with the same buildup primer
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that I've been using for the rest of the install and they didn't came out quite like I want uh they came out better I'm
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loving these things guys uh I think they're really cool and again here
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is what the factory had and my objective was to try to mimic that but do it a lot
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nicer so as you can see and my integration I think up into the trunk
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lid area here I think that's pretty cool it's going to have some nice it's got some nice curve to it and I got to do a
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little sanding here still obviously this is still kind of a rough DFT but um when this is painted I think it's going to be
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again I think it's kind of an elegant solution um and then obviously this piece will be carpeted carpet will roll
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up underneath here so looking good the trickiest part now is going to be um
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getting the these into the rear deck uh and mounting these because I've got my
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uh hanging rack I call it uh which is a piece of aluminum and I have just enough room to be able to get there's it might
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even rub if I'm if I close the trunk and I'm not careful uh which for now I'm
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okay with this is just I put buildup primer on this mainly just to get it to match and so that it doesn't rust until
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I paint the car but really happy with it um I think it's going to be super cool
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and being able to run the wires through the fuel line I think is pretty trick so one other quick thing too um this video
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I was hoping to be able to get all the wiring done uh show you all of that and everything and in typical Precision Mike
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fashion it's not going to happen in this video um I am having a really good
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friend of mine uh Jim osterhout Jim if you're watching what's up buddy uh he is coming in to town uh from the Albany New
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York area uh this weekend and I want to get the car back together to show him
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he's got a couple of co-workers coming in so I am going to basically take uh
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it's Thursday night now I'll take tomorrow night and sometime on Saturday to get everything kind of reassembled
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I'm going to do some tweaking I'll get the trunk lid back in the iPad those panel covers um and basically just get
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everything kind of tidied up for those guys to be able to check it out so um after that and then I'll show you that
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because um I'm kind of excited to see what it looks like with the lid in there and the trunk arms and everything um at
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least in primer so uh let me get all that together uh for anybody that hasn't seen it I'll have the milbert's in there
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I'll have the 845 display tube I'll probably even put the caps in the power inverter the voltage gauge that goes in
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that hole I have this really nice goldplated analog voltage gauge kind of a classy looking piece so uh got some
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work to do in here obviously uh but uh it won't be too bad to get everything put back together all right trunk arms are
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mounted this again is kind of assembly for when my buddy Jim comes over uh I will have to do a little bit of surgery
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to what I call the hanging shelf as you can see there um I added some space with
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the fuel line so I'll have to open that up a little bit but I'll deal with that later um I think this looks really cool
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I think basically if I didn't say anything it just looks kind of like Factory but then if I say hey there's
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fuel line there you can kind of see it and then say oh wow cool um anybody who's a BMW E34 fishing a will probably
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know it's not stock but um pretty cool and again here comes my flared end for
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my wires that will come into the trunk liet so at this point I'm going to continue to reassemble the trunk and uh
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for those of you who are new to the channel I'll give you a glimpse as to what that looks like okay it is the next
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morning I've got to be a a little bit quiet cuz people are still sleeping and still early um I just wanted to show
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this if you've been following along you may not seen this view or this part of the install um there's a set of 1 farad
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Street wires capacitors uh do have to measure the ESR make sure everything's good there you can see the distribution block kind of
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the backside and then that's the detail on the bus bar setup that Henry wherea
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made and that is still intact and will be used and then I've got a power inverter there as well and you'll be able to see that through the ski hole
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I'll show you that in just a bit all right so at this point I've got the car all cleaned up and ready to go for gym
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um obviously you know it's going to be repainted and all that but when sum's coming over I like to take the time to
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prepare it and basically show them where where I'm at thus far so this goes for anybody too that's out there if anybody
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is in the Phoenix area and you want to stop by and check out the car and talk old school car audio I am totally Gam
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for that so let me do a brief kind of a walk around uh with the car so far so
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there's the engine bay um again the motor's been replaced uh it's only got
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about 10,000 mil on it but I'm going to go through the entire thing mechanically uh taking a look at the
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inside I've got one of the woofers in so there is one of the 13in hours and wens
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and you can see it's flushed in there very nicely here's the other side the driver's side kick panel and if you
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notice it it's got a very very slight kick out at the firewall it's about a quarter of an
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inch difference so effectively it's flush but that allows you to see the baffle quarin plate steel that my
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son-in-law James welded in uh it's all threaded for machined Hardware that tube
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you see is the sunroof vent uh notice also all the the factory
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wiring completely redone Molex plugs removed bypassed to allow for room for
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giant woofers um obviously nothing else in the
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interior so far uh looking at the back seat area here is a bunch of wiring I still
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have to do the wiring for the trunk area so that's where this is still basically a hot mess um but looking back
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here this is what this will look like the backs are not on the milts but those will be everything there is going to be
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goldplated and kind of give you an idea there there's the capacitors with the original bus bars that Henry
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built and then looking at the trunk kind of give you
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a full picture here um and right now I just have the 845 that big display tube
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just kind of sitting there and you can see the zap go hanging from the rear Deck with the Sony equipment bolted to
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them and basically that's it so give you a little bit closer look at
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the finished trunk bars with my fuel
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line as my run for a wiring still a lot of little tweaks I need to do before
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upholstery but the bones are there right it's like a fixer upper but uh it's
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coming along guys little by little My Buddy Joe shout out to Joe New York told me he's like you should do
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kind of a progress update video uh to show everyone where you're at and I think that will help kind of with
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motivation and he nailed it I put this whole thing together I'm like wow I did do there's a lot I've gotten done so far
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still a long road to go but it's been uh it's coming out really good beyond my
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expectations and I think I'm adding a lot of really cool things that I didn't originally think of so let's go around
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one other shot at the 13 in the kick panel like it was built for it and you
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can see the steel baffle welded in welded to the car
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and even the spokes of the woer kind of wrap around the car like that that's the way the woer built it's pretty wild but
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excuse me all right so that with that that's going to wrap up this video thank
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you very much for watching uh stay tuned there's more Misa coming soon and also more AMG content as well on the channel
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if you have not already please like And subscribe and I will see all of you in the next video thanks again bye-bye
