CarMiZa part 36 More Trunk Arms Work updated
(Updated to include music during the time-lapse sections) Work continues in the trunk. I am able to run the wires through the trunk arms, and I restore ALL of the OEM wiring in the trunk. Please like and subscribe and most importantly, enjoy!
7:58 “The amount of detail in this build is pretty substantial.”
Transcript
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hello and welcome back to the channel this is going to be another car Misa video trunk details part 36 slowly but
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surely um I wanted to capture this real quick for those who have not seen this
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stuff I had some buddies come over uh this past weekend uh Jim David and Jose
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it was awesome having you guys appreciate you coming by and chatting about the car and catching up um I took
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a bunch of stuff out uh to show these guys most of this is all the mag azines
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that the car was in that Misa was in this is just a fraction of them I also have and someday I'll get around to
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uploading these things probably over a thousand photos of the past builds of
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the car so if you're not familiar this car is a legendary car audio system that
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was once owned by Earl zmer there's Earl on a cover of a magazine there were several of those and I am rebuilding the
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car so as you can see I also have the I put the trunk kind of back together for for those guys to be able to see this is
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a work in progress so there's still a lot of work to do but you can get an idea what it's going to look like it also features an iPad in the trunk lid
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uh which is playing the last video that I posted um this car also from a sound quality perspective was absolutely
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incredible uh featured 13-in woofers in the kick panel which I am rebuilding and
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reinstalling in there and if I go around to this side you'll be able to see the back side
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of the woofer and there's going to be a bunch of of work done to the fender so that it will motorize open and you'll be
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able to see the back of the woer so let's go ahead and get started in this video one other quick thing I want to
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show these are the original mid-range speakers that came out of this car and if you're familiar with it these were
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the ones that motorized out of the dash these are the actual uh drivers themselves these are Bowers and Wilkins
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mid-range thanks again for estabon you know who you are for hooking me up with these um this is the new vers well newer
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um same exact drivers uh these were cut down these have not been cut yet I will be doing some Milling on the drivers but
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you can see the difference in the Kevlar because they Brown over AG these are brand new we barely been taken out of
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the box also this is the Tweeter I'm using uh which is a Bowers and Wilkins
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silver signature there'll be a pair of these that go coax in front of the Tweeter or excuse me in front of the mid
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just as Earl had it all right so this video is um not going to be incred ibly
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impactful in terms of what I'm going to be building and some big cool thing to show you at the end um it's going to
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look just like it does now actually uh with a few exceptions so the main emphasis on this video is going to be to
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hopefully I'm not going to pigeon hole myself and Li again but I want to try to get all the wiring done I got to get the
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wiring into the uh gas lines finish off the wiring from that point you know
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through the rest of the car uh down into the rear seat area and then finish wiring up everything in the TRU trunk
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lid and then there's a whole bunch of tweaks that I want to make as I go through there's little there's probably
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20 little things I don't like I'm going to clean them all up the other big thing is that I need to open this hole up and
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this isn't I didn't screw it screw up here anything this is because I added the gas line This is the gas line here
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you can see it going right in there and I need to widen this to provide more clearance so I'll probably just go
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straight down here about a quter or 5/16 and that's going to give me plenty of clearance for that so the first step uh
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is going to be to take everything out and if you're new to the channel I kind of name things that way I can reference
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them in my to-do list and things like that so there is what I call the Milbert floor those are Milbert tube amplifiers
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I'm going to basically pull all of that out and then from there it'll be pulling all of the hanging rack items which is a
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ton of work cuz you can see the little wings I've made up there these side panels come out the shock Tower covers
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the wings the zap Co lamps the Changers all of this has got to come out um and
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it's all bolted in with Machin Hardware so it's takes a bit of time so uh onward
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upward we
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go Nobert full removed um quick sneak peek here if you haven't seen these
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before some of my earliest videos is where I did some of this work and I have
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like super super low uh view count so I think a lot of people may not have seen this these were the original bus bars
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that Henry made this is a street wires block but Henry fabricated all of this and then I fabricated these brackets to
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hold the capacitors so it's just 1 in uh aluminum bus bar that I built the jig
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for um I heated the aluminum and bent it and that's what holds the capacitors in
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place just realized too a lot of you newer folks in the car audio may not really know what these are they're giant
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onef capacitors which we used to use uh to act as a kind of a reservoir for
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current um which helped out the base performance of the car I don't even know if people are doing it these days some
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of you may say oh those aren't necessary or whatever they were in the original build these are actually the original
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ones I will test them to make sure things like the ESR are all proper and they're up to snuff but I wouldn't think
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of not using these because they were part of the original build and that's uh again what I'm trying to maintain all
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right now for the fun part I'm going to remove all the rest of this um the build
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is quite serviceable but because there's a bunch of machined Hardware it's not super quick um but uh here we go wish me
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luck [Music]
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all right decided not to do the whole thing just yet because I've got to going to very carefully think about how I want
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to do these normally what I do is remove one strut and then I can remove the
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strut inside the shock Tower cover and get that out and then put the strut back and then do the same thing in the other
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side I'll probably do that it makes it easier to get the the zapco I think I call it the zapco 1000 so this is two
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z600 and then I had uh a spare chassis that I sliced 2 in chunks out of
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creating an end cap a center cap and another end cap and again for those of you who are new to my channel into this
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build here's what I did I had uh bus bars basically welded in this is a/4 in
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by 1 in aluminum plate bus bars that I had welded in and then I tapped and
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created threads for um my brackets or in
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the brackets basically and the amps are glutted right now there's no boards in there yet so everything's just Hollow so
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over here the Sony stuff as you saw hangs off of this so here's the way I
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did this I I made aluminum plates and then um these brackets hold the
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equipment in these also are mockup Changers um they are Hollow right now
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they're not going to be the F they're the final model but not the final actual Changers I have a pair that are brand
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new never been installed these are also gutted just to make it light for mockup but you can see where the
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hardware goes in for this notice I even like beveled this Edge the the amount of detail in this build is pretty
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substantial I also made sure that when I do this you can see I use like a
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furniture style bolt here there's plenty of room with the suspension in the changer uh so that won't be an issue and
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I figure 64in bolts should be plenty to hold each changer so did the same thing
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excuse me on the P1 and X1 Sony processor if you're familiar with these these normally have like a base like a
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kind of legs I did a lot of Milling work on this aluminum I cut the legs off and
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then I created this filler piece and I built built cleats inside of the housing
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to make sure that this was strong enough so all of this is machine Hardware this will all be goldplated the Changers will
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stay their original color um but once this is all in I think it's going to look pretty sharp and you can see I use
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a router to router this Edge this again is um I took the bottom and made it the top and just flip them over and
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therefore I get a nice cool little sandwich there so kind of a unique look that's the way Earl had it um they used
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a jigsaw they didn't use a router um and then I came up with the idea of doing
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this filler plate as well so all right continuing on all right decided the next thing I'm going to do is pull off the
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trunk lid cover and the panels you'll see where I use a little hook tool um I added a little teeny tiny hole right
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there which will not be visible once it's all upholstered and that allows me to get a hook tool in
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there and pull these panels out you'll see the magnets and then I'll pull the screws out and get that panel off I'm
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trying to figure out my daughter and her boyfriend uh should be home I believe shortly and they can give me a hand pull
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in the trunk liet itself because I think I've determined that I've got to pull the trunk lid at this point to be able
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to get the hanging shelf hanging rack down just because there it's too tight
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so um that's what I'll do I might knock out the amplifier as well and get that
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[Music] out all right and there's the iPad panel
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trunk lid panel whatever you want to call it uh removed if you've been following along you know that I did
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magnets here uh these again are just going to be some um display panels and
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then the iPad in the center everything is held in with Neo magnets uh and also here you can see the trunk bar detail uh
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this is also something I did in a recent video which is the um fuel line This is
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the fuel line that we welded my son-in-law James welded to the trunk bars and this is what will feed the
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wiring which is one of the big things I'll be doing in this video so got it on both sides so all right on to the next
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part all right next thing I'm going to do is pull out the zapco stuff um this
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part kind of sucks because there are bolts that go through the amplifier into
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the rear deck there are a ton of them um just because of the way I built this later these bolts will be converted to
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studs that'll be welded to the amplifier so this will be a lot easier should I need to service it so here we go
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[Music]
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that was a good time um if you notice I was kind of fighting the second amp on the way out the Dynamat these holes are
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exactly the same size everything is very very uh Precision lined up so the holes
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are exactly the same size as the bolts and there's no tolerance there's no room
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for error and the Dynamat if you notice was kind of sticking in there so I'll go in with a punch and I'll cut away the
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Dynamat around those areas just to make sure it doesn't stick I want to show one other detail too so and imagine here's
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the bottom of the amplifiers they these also are um media blasted so they're not
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painted or anodized yet that'll come a little bit later um but this I just
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wanted to show some detail for those of you who may not have seen this those are the um pieces of flat bar that I had
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weled in then I drilled and tapped and then this is that Sony piece
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upside down right so as if it's hanging for the rear deck and then that's how that goes same
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thing there and then the Changers go here and they've got a meate kind of a piece there so there's two bolts per
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side so just wanted to show that detail again this stuff you don't even really notice it and there's a ton of work
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machined this plate as well um for the end cap and that's going to hide all of
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the wiring and controls okay and that's what the area this area looks like with the amplif fire out uh anything that is
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flat is made of 8 in aluminum even the parts that are curved there those what I call shock Tower covers are made of 8in
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aluminum um which is very solid but a lot of work right all the machine Hardware uh everything was CAU with a
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router so uh a lot of work if you have not yet and you want to get caught up there's plenty of videos on the channel
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That go through all that detail so I think the next thing is going to be pulling the trunk lid I'm waiting for my
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daughter's boyfriend to get here and he's going to give me a hand [Music]
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okay trunk liit off making progress next thing is going to be probably the trunk arms um that's
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going to be it's tricker of the egg but I'm thinking trunk arms all right it's a couple of nights later had a busy last
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night and a crazy busy work day today but um it is Thursday evening I have
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tomorrow off and I've got the full weekend so I plan on getting quite a bit done on the car so without further Ado I
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think I'm going to try to Time Lapse the rest of the removal of all of these parts
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[Music]
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piece of cake um a little bit of Dynamat residual there this piece up top the
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hanging rack and that piece are effectively permanent uh once I put them in for their last time the carpet is
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going to go over that I'll upholster those all in the car and all is one piece of carpet um and those won't ever
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come back out there'll be holes where the wiring goes through the rear deck uh for some different wiring uh but those
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are kind of permanent you might be also thinking well why didn't you just cut the panel to make room for the trunk
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arms with the thing in place and get like a caught off wheel or something like that in there I certainly could have done that but it would have been
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pretty messy I'd rather take it apart and do it right so at this point I can do the cuts on the hanging rack okay so
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the hanging rack is definitely messy on the underside uh that's where all the Dynamat was sticking in the rear deck um
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which again I'm not too worried about I'm not worried at all about that's the actual side that the amplifiers Mount to
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so this goes up in there I dynamed everything so you're getting some
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residual which is fine so uh I've got this laid out I decided to go 38 of an
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in wider which would be plenty um I'll go ahead and cut this I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this and film this cuz it's getting pretty dark out so
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let me go ahead and get this done okay I cut one side with a jigsaw and my intent was to come behind with a router and
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with a flush trim bit and clean it up um it's really tough to see because it's dark out the cut is
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like very accurate car this the whole thing is going to be carpeted so I think I'm kind of splitting hairs here I think
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we'll be okay uh so I'll go ahead and cut the the other one and I'll bring you along for the ride hopefully it looks
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okay with the bad lighting I got out here all right if you miss my earlier videos um this is 8 in aluminum which is
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a little tricky to cut so I've got a uh Diablo metal cutting blade so a good quality blade but a really cheap this
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thing's like 30 bucks skill saw variable speed down to speed two so it's nice and
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slow I also spray the blade with WD40 and just go really slow and take my time so let's go ahead and get this cut all
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right I just realized how sketchy the uh lighting is out here so I'm just going to do a little bit just to give you an
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idea and just spray the blade I've got the piece clamped just to make sure it doesn't move on me and here we go
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[Applause]
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that's pretty much it it cuts really nice with the right setup quick Pro tip if you're going to
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use your jigsaw a to cut aluminum or your router um blow it off really good just to get metal filings out of there
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in case you cut some kind of fine wood after that you don't want to scratch it up and I also wipe everything down with some roving alcohol just to get the
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residual WD40 off the Saw okay hanging rack mods complete opened up those holes
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and now it's time to reinstall it all right so at this point I installed what I call the wings to the hanging rack um
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those are the side pockets that basically cover up that area I'm going to try to install this with those
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attached I don't know if I've done this in the past if not I may have to take one side off I also pulled off the trunk
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gasket to make sure I don't tear that with this piece going in um it is not
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impossible to get to the hardware once this piece is once the main pieces up there but it is a little tricky so
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hopefully this goes well all right hanging rack is back in everything went great I was not able to do both Wings on
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the hanging rack and get it in the car it simply wouldn't fit it's just too wide so removed one put it in the car
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and then added the second one and it went pretty smooth so uh I've also taken
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the um trunk arms and just kind of held them up there just to make sure Tri triple check to make sure that the
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clearance is good and it is indeed very good so from here I'll go to the next
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part of the reassembly all right I decided to do the shock Tower covers next and from here I'll do the zapco
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1000 zapco 1000 in place time for the Sony parts
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and the Sony equipment is installed uh I've got to say putting all of this stuff back in everything lines up
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exactly the way it should um the for example the bolt holes in the rear deck
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for the hanging wreck are exactly the same size of the bull I intentionally did it where there's not a lot of slop
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or play and everything lines up really nice so this is a ton of work a ton of
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time I'm over a th hours in the trunk but um I'm liking the results so so all right on to the next part all right I'm
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going to wrap up here for the night it's uh like after 10:00 so I just put the um
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Milbert floor in there just mainly to protect it I don't want to like step on it or have anything happen to it um and
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then I've got just things kind of back together this is mounted the iPad panel
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even though the the arms aren't in there got the milbert's on the bench and I've got the trunk arms on the bench I'm
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either going to run the wires in these tomorrow first thing or I'm going to
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work on kind of the miscellaneous tweaks that's mainly fitment like the for some reason the side panels the Gap is not
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correct um I'm off by like a 16th something's going on there I've got I've got to figure out what's going on it's
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not going to be a big deal I'm sure I can get it back but that's something that's been bothering me so uh with that
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I'll wrap it up for the evening and I will see you tomorrow okay it is Friday the next day and uh while I had my
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coffee this morning I went through and figured out a plan of attack here to get this from where we're at right now to
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kind of the wiring complete and all the loose ends in the trunk currently so um
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again I'm off today which is great I took the day off and I'm going to go pretty hot and heavy I think here on
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Misa today so um the first step is to prep these wires to get them into the
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tube so it's going to be some work I get that I know it's going to be a challenge but I've got a plan so um basically what
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I'm going to do first is clean the wires and then I'll use some 3M electrical tape because it's really thin to tape
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them together [Music]
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[Music] okay so I got all the wires cleaned up I also kind of straighten them by doing
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that as well um I started to tape these up and I think I'm going to go with a
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different plan I just kind of put this into the tube and I think it's going to get hung up even with this tape what I'm
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going to try is just take the whole bundle without tape I've got some silicone spray uh silicone the tube and
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just try to slide it through there let's see how go all right I got good news and I got bad news you guys know I'm a
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straight shooter so everything about this build even the things that maybe other people would hide so here's a deal
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the good news is I got the wires through uh if I was to pull on these they're slack they move freely everything's fine
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bad news is two of the wires wouldn't fit um
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these are the two largest gauge wires from the factory wiring and this is the White and the blue blue so what I did is
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ran them through the passenger side I'll extend these by a couple of feet run them over the rear deck and I'll be fine
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these three wires I've have added these are going to be used for my ground uh a charging uh cable for the iPad and also
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for the lighting so these also now the mine mine are at 16 gauge so they're pretty pretty heavy duty and these also
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if I was to pull on them they pull fine there's there's good slack so um that was going to be the plan all along if I
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ran into an issue with the wires being too fat on this side which is definitely the case so no problem I'm totally fine
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with it next thing I'm going to do is a test and I'll show you what I'll do not that I suspect any problems whatsoever I
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am very confident uh if you recall if you've been watching the series when James did the welding I was concerned
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about did he go through the wall of the fuel line if he did it would have been
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impossible to get the wires through it all so I'm very confident there's no problem at all and I'm very confident
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none of the wires are chafed another good reason why I did the flare at the end um but just to be 1,000% safe I'll
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strip the wires back I'm going to test continuity between each wire individually and the other wires and
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also the trunk bar itself just to make sure I've got a an area here where when
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I put the bolt on the paint kind of came off which is totally fine this was just a quick code of primer but this way I
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can make sure that there's no problems with the wiring and everything is good okay the nity test as suspected was a
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success no issues whatsoever so the next step is to move on to adding plugs to
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each of the wiring uh harnesses to do this I'm using these Deutsch connectors
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which is German for German um and shout out to Mark at car audio fabrication uh
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if you're not familiar the guy's got a young man he's got an awesome YouTube channel super knowledgeable in 12vt and
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um he recommended this whole kit so basically I've got the kit here and I just realized too that I'm going to have
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to double up on this kit cuz there's only one of each type of connector uh so I ordered a new one and the new one
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second one will be here tomorrow I won't need it till then anyway I've got his suggested crimpers and these are going
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to do a center crimp if you look in there it's actually pretty cool as you crimp down they do a fourway crimp so
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pretty cool there I also ordered these brackets which I believe will work with these connectors although they're
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a different brand I believe they will and then these will come in handy um when I go to actually Mount the
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harnesses themselves and then finally he's got a uh pick tool basically like this tool here which allows you to
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remove the pins from the socket so we're going to crimp the pins and then you assemble this whole kit and then you end
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up with a really nice proper connector but should you need to repin it this
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tool will allow you to do so so uh I'm going to actually do a little bit of research here he shows on his YouTube
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channel how to set this up and I'm going to follow his instructions and get to work on this all right quick thing here
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if you're doing these and you go to use this bracket when I initially grabbed this bracket I said all right this is
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cool but it doesn't work it doesn't lock into place and as you can see it does
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not if it goes that way the bracket goes the other way like that and it will click into place you can see it's got a
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little Ridge there which goes over that little bump uh also shout out to my buddy Jason he is actually the one that
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turned me on of these connectors and um for that I am grateful so I think these
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are definitely going to be the right solution um they're not super cheap um and it's a decent amount of work but
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it's going to give me a nice proper connection uh at both the trunk lid and also uh at the car section okay I'm not
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going to cover uh every inch of this just because there's some good online tutorials but um like Mark's video
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there's a couple of others that I found on these Geor connectors but a couple things to be aware of there is a female
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plug which is the larger one and then the male plug the female plug uses male
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pins and the male plug uses female pins uh also um you want to be cognizant of if
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you're going to use the bracket which where is the bracket going to go and therefore the the bracket goes on the
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female plug uh so you want to consider that and then that way you know where
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put this the beauty of these these whole things you crimp the the crimper the the
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end here the terminal onto the wire and then it's completely interchangeable and rebuildable you could literally swap
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your male and female ends if you wanted to later after the fact which really is a great feature of these also you'll
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notice uh on your pin that you will put in there's a little tiny sight hole and
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you can make sure that you're in far enough with your wire prior to criming it uh also the these are the crimpers
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that I got again these are the ones that Mark suggested they are adjustable um which is kind of a
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fine-tune adjustment to how much of a crimp they do uh I'm using 16 gauge
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wires the largest and then down to probably the factor are about a 20 gauge 22 gauge and some of the real thin stuff
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on the other uh trunk arm so I'll let you know if I make any adjustments there
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uh and again I am waiting on the other package to come tomorrow so my objective is to get the plugs taken care pair of
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on the trunk lid side which is this side and then um unfortunately not until
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Sunday uh which is fine I'll get it done Sunday uh will I be able to finish the car side I did also order some tan heat
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shrink and tan Loom that I'm going to be using um you really won't see it but if anybody ever looks way up underneath
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there I want to be able to hide that and I didn't want to use a black Loom so I ordered that as well so all right I'm going to go ahead and get crimp in and
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I'll show you how this works in just a moment okay got these crimped uh so far
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very impressed with the quality and the engineering going on here uh you get a four-way crimp on this which really
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offers up a great connection so at this point from what I understand you take these pins and push them through this
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orange insulator it's kind of a um water gasket if you will um also these plugs
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are numbered so if you uh I believe once you get to a certain there the numbers are tiny
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though yeah these this one's number so um for this one I've got five wires I'm going to use a six pin connector and
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then I'll also draw a diagram you know basically just list out one through six and which of which my colors are that
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way I'll uh I'll maintain everything and make sure it all lines up properly on both ends so um once you push these in
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they're going to let's see let's give it a shot you basically push this in from what I'm
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told and you're probably barely seeing this but the connector comes in and it clicks in into place man I'll tell you
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these things are really the quality is phenomenal uh you can tell it's
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definitely German engineering I think so uh you do that for all of them and then
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this this little cap goes in locks into place and this will uh keep the pins
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from pulling out and again should you need to make any adjustments definitely recommend getting this tool you don't
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want to put this all together and then realize you have an error and then not have this tool and then kind of have you
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know have to wait for Amazon so all right I'll continue on okay first one done piece of cake and this little
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orange plug again just clicks into place that also holds this uh water gasket uh
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water seal in place as well uh but I got to say man I'm I can't remember the last
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time I was this impressed by a product uh just super well thought through um
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and again the fact that you can dissect them and addon or change plugs or do whatever you want super cool so all
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right I'm going to do the same thing to the other side which contains all of the OEM wires and then once that's done
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we'll move to the trunk lid itself okay another little Pro tip I just thought of as I'm going and I didn't hear anyone
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mention this um in this case where I have 12 wires um you want to be careful
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to plug these in such that they don't become all twisted and gnarled up
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doesn't really matter where I put them at this point um so long as they mate on the opposite side so again I'm prepared
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to write down what color wire goes into which hole for anyone really paying
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attention you may have noticed that there are some uh wires in this harness that are the same color BMW does this in
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this car I ran into this I rewired the entire car and um this I've got four of
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the same color my guess is that's power for the uh parking lights for the four
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parking lights so um just wanted to point that out all right both plugs on I
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am a complete uh Deutsch plug Fanboy big big fan awesome awesome connectors um
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again I went through and inventoried each of the wires so I know where they are notice again where I don't have any
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twists because I was careful of as to where I plugged in each of the pins and
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I've got both sides ready to go so uh at this point I'm going to go to the next part and uh I'm going to look at my list
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and I might kind of shift gears and do a couple of other things in the trunk um and take a pause from wiring so let me
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take a look at my list and I'll let you know okay I decided the next thing I'm going to do is all of the OEM trunk
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wiring that comes into the trunk and um this is mainly just cleaning things up
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and running it I may need to extend the loom uh because of the side panels but
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I'll uh kind of dig into it and check and see what I've got I'll pull out that uh shock Tower cover it's Poss possible
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to get it out even with the zapco amp in place I'll pull the floor pull the wiring through and just kind of assess
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everything and and figure it out Okay I lied I had to take off the end cap for the zapco and the and to get to that I
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had to take the changer off so now I've got a nice open spot you can see that's the factory hole right there where the
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factory wiring comes in here is the factory wiring glom in question and as
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you can see this is still pretty dirty uh needs to be all raped
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and then this goes into the main fuse box right here so uh first order of Ops
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is going to be to um dry run this so I want to take a look at where everything
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goes and try to figure out um where do I need to mount it especially with the
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side panels all right so the first thing I needed to do is determine how much slack I have and kind of where I have it
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because there's things that kind of root off of this that go in certain directions so hypothetically if this was
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to be pulled relatively tight I've got to make sure nothing's in the way with the back seat um when we look in the
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trunk I can see it coming along this um side right here it'll go back behind the
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shock Tower there is a factory screw right here which is where this this harness went to it was basically uh like
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zip tied there I can do that I can hold it up against that side and then here's kind of where things start to split off
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and tie in and there's all kinds of slack there's uh there's a ton of slack
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I've got plenty to work with here um it's not hair trigger as to where stuff
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goes and then I just have those two things that plug in so now that I've got that assessed what I'll do is pull the
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wiring back out clean it all and then redo all the new test of tape and get it
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all cleaned up [Music]
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okay so that was about half an hour of cleaning the wires um I did not take that kind of detailed
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video when I did the rest of the entire car but it was 145 hours of that
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cleaning soldering retaping and getting everything to be exactly the way it should be so um the next thing I'm going
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to do is go through and see what's going on with some we'll call them
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modifications that were made um things like this Brown in this car is a ground
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um that appears to be aftermarket uh somebody may have done that so I'll go
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in and check that there's a few things like that um I don't know you couldn't tell during the time lapse but this had
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overspray on it from when the car was painted in the rear driver's side corner the plug had overspray so I used some
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reducer to get rid of that uh just clean it up that's the kind of detail again that I go through this thing goes goes
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into the um basically the the near wall area and then goes to the underside of
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the car the bumper area and it looks like this might have been
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extended but anytime I find something like this that looks Factory is I'll
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pull it apart and just check it all and make sure it's perfect I found another somewhere in here yeah there's a
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little kink in this wire I want to make sure see if that's exposed if so our
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solder it heat shrink do all of that and there was also this plug looks like it got hot or
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something at one point it looks a little melted um it plugs in and holds but um
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I'll check my parts bin from my parts car and I probably have another one of these if so I'll cut off the plug and
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solder and heat shrink a new one on okay any repairs that needed to be made are complete um that's actually factory
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wiring it the factory does some really weird stuff in this this car but whatever um so at this point I'm going
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to tape it all up you will notice I'll time lapse this too I'll use superg glue at the ends of the tape just to just to
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drop a super glue where it terminates just to keep it from unraveling um and yeah that's it uh oh
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there was one thing too I didn't have a replacement plug for this I didn't have
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the right color harness but I did have a plug I don't have a MOX extraction p
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tool so I ordered one I'll have that tomorrow and I'll SWAT that plug out which I can do after the wiring is all
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cleaned up [Music]
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all right here we are and you can see why it took me 140 hours to rewire the whole car uh that included a lot of
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splicing and all of that so here's my main piece coming off I've also kind of retap some of this cuz I had to separate
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it when I went to pull this stuff apart uh so there is my line you can see EX
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exactly the same way the factory did it uh with kind of the same kind of Gap they used the 9 mm cloth tape as well so
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it is Factory restored if you will so now I'm going to dry run it through the trunk and then figure out how I'm going
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to mount it so that when I put the panels in and out I don't uh disrupt the wiring okay I'm starting on this end
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this is the stuff that's going into the trunk arm so that'll be um we'll do that
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a little bit later and here is the new piece I just did and I've got these zip ties that are um got basically a loop on
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them I pushed it on there I have I would have all I could do to get that off and it's just a threaded stud same thing
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here so basically the tension is holding it it's extremely tight that's not going to go anywhere I'd probably have to take
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a panel popper to get it out and then I took the factory rubber piece uh put that back in place Dynam it over
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everything I've got a couple of spare holes should I need them and that's it so now I'll focus on the inside of the
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trunk okay so that's where the wiring comes through the trunk with that rubber gasket and then you can see I've got
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those adhesive zip tie clamps that I put in place I got another one of these studs this one I did put the nut on just
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to be safe and I'll show you in just a second where I notched the um shock
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Tower cover all right and there is where I notched the uh shock Tower cover I knew I was going to do this from the
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beginning I just wasn't sure where also notice that I ran the wiring in between
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these two layer kind of sections of bolts just to make sure that um the wiring didn't rub
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against the backside the nuts that are in there just to make sure that there's no issue so uh now I'll work on the side
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panel and I'm going to continue running my wire here okay quick update um did
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this area as well if you notice this is a different style of bracket for this I used this
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style where it's basically screwed in with a stainless steel screw uh I made sure there is actually like a double
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pocket in the car all the way along this back side even along the back side of the bumper uh so I was able to drill
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into there without any trouble and these work much better when it's kind of a high stress area uh along there it's
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fine uh because it's otherwise just kind of laying there um and I'll probably do these throughout the back wall here as
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well the near wall so coming along all right what I'm calling trunk
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OEM wiring is complet uh so as you can see again I'll just give you an overall preview here notched
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the um shock Tower cover I did put the side panel in to make sure everything fits properly and you don't see that
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hole I also noticed I have the zebrawood floor in because um I wanted to put the
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pull floor in and the KN wall and make sure everything fit properly I'll show you that as we go so there again is the
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wiring very very solid bracket about every 5 to 6 in even like right here
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there's a bracket right here there's a bracket just very Overkill but I want
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nothing to Rattle or ever come loose you can see this is where it branches off
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here and then here it is along the near wall I had to be careful here to put
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this down low to make sure that I have room because I'm doing a bunch of lighting in this back
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wall and uh needed to make sure I wasn't going to hit and then also needed to
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make sure that the near wall panel fit in here without getting pushed out and
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it did it just fit so there's the OEM plug that goes out to the two marker
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lights on the bumper but that's basically it very
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solid and done in an o m way there's even a bracket see you can't even see it
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I put one back there and another one over here like this stuff is not going to move and again there's no base in the
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trunk so um all the bases up front where it should be so all right that is that
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part on to the next part okay actually I just finished uh walking you through the
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wiring the OEM wiring in the trunk and I took a quick look at how much content I've got for this video and despite my
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best efforts I got to keep I keep saying that oh yeah in this video I'm going to do all this stuff and it never turns out
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to be the case but um sorry to disappoint if you're disappointed but uh
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I'm going to cut the video here I have most of the day tomorrow and uh which is
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Saturday and Sunday I'll probably get in at least 16 to 20 hours between the two
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days give or take so I should be able to get all these Loose Ends wrapped up that I want so in the next video uh this is
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the factory wiring that goes into the trunk lid this will all be kind of restored like I did with the trunk wires
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uh we're also going to go in and I've got the two WI I need to extend those
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are going to get wrapped up in there um the blue and white wires that go over to that trunk arm and then there's that
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wiring I need to deal with that's going to be pretty quick and easy and then we got to do all the
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plugs um get the rest of the plugs on the trunk arm pieces so still quite a
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bit to do um but I'm optimistic I can get the rest of what I want to get done in the next video in this weekend so
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with that uh I thank you very much for watching again if you made it this far thank you very much um there will be
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more AMG content coming as well I really want to do an intro video on this car to
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really kind of walk everybody through all the details all the specifics uh if you haven't seen this one so we can do
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this with one hand it's got a very cool engine bay
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that I customized uh the car is really clean it's got a lot of um it's it doesn't have a lot done to it it's got a
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really nice set set of wheels uh it's lowered I did a full paint correction and a lot of mechanical work so uh so
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anyway with that there will be more content on the AMJ stuff but obviously more on Misa as well if you have not yet
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please like And subscribe and I will see you in the next video thanks again bye-bye
