Cleetus McFarlands Camaro "Eagle" Gets a body!

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hey everyone and welcome back to the

channel today we want to take you guys

out there and show you some updates on

Cletus McFarland's new 69 Camaro we're

doing last time you guys saw it we were

messing with the front suspension uh

we've told you what our plans were

moving forward and we just want to take

you guys out there and show you some of

that also I know the audio was kind of

bad had on our last video we're working

on that we have some mics coming

tomorrow so the next video will be on

point for sure in this video we're going

to turn everything off in the background

it's after hours and we're going to film

it then hopefully that helps we just

wanted to give you guys an update on

cletus's 69 Camaro since last time you

guys watch the video we've got quite a

bit of stuff done and I'll also have

Danny here to help me explain some of

the stuff he's done I explained most of

the front suspension last time we

started on the fuel cell mount which

goes around here we got Ryan drawing a

fuel cell in CAD we make our fuel cells

on the laser we have in house so that's

pretty cool I'll show you that in a

little bit this is all titanium the fuel

cell mount will be all titanium there'll

be a little brace here saves a little

bit of weight and it looks really good

so we do a lot of stuff in titanium as

we told you the control arms will be

titanium the fuel cell will be about 6

and2 gallons and to mount it'll have a a

titanium cage that basically mounts over

it with some quick pins that way you can

take it out if you need to get the

engine out or service anything it's it's

pretty easy to get to so other than that

up front I think we got moving back here

we got the steering column in also

something I want to touch on which we

told you in the last video is uh Cletus

is really big on wanting to fit good in

the car and he's extremely tall taller

than anyone I think we've ever fit in a

car so with that being said we want to

make sure we get him back here and we

fit him in a car so he's really

comfortable if he's driving it it's

built for him it needs to fit them so we

have our uh steering column jig in so

this is basically the column without any

mounts this column is also Titanium with

a delin bushings in the end we'll put a

tube in here 3/4 tube in here which will

be the steering shaft we'll put his

steering wheel on here with his

extension we can swap extensions uh make

a little shorter longer later on down

the road if he wants to change that but

we have this in here so that he can sit

in the car and we can fit him for the

pedals make sure his knees are out of

the way of the column uh all that stuff

we also have a pedal kit one of our

pedal kits out here which Danny has

ready uh these are really nice

adjustable pedal kits that we make in

house we have these out here as a mockup

we pretty much have mockup sets of

everything or two mockup sets of

everything that way when we're building

a car if this gets nicked or scratched

this is not what you get as a finished

product we end up installing brand new

parts at the end so these will just be

from mockup these are the titanium

mounts that'll go for the steering

column this piece is Chromo this gets

welded to the dash bar and then this

gets welded to a steering column you

can't weld titanium tamali so this is

the way we have to do it gets a little

Quin Nas bolt up here at the

top something like this this is not fit

for this car yet this is just a to show

you guys kind of how it mounts so it'll

mount something like this

here and then it'll have one Mount at

the bottom we try to make everything as

light as

possible we got his brake pedal here the

reason we step over our brake pedal

especially in a car like this is our

rails the the farther we move the rail

in for the adjustable pedal assembly the

further we can move it forward so if we

were to mount it over here it would stop

here as we go over here we can get this

a little F farther forward and as we

said in the last video this will the

firewall will step forward here

some just to get him a few extra inches

I mean if we get two or three extra

inches a leg room it'll be big for him

so that's the plan is to get him over

he's going to come over later this week

uh we'll show you a little bit of that

too on exactly how we fit fit these guys

in the car and get them get them all fit

and then we can do all the controls

pretty much from there something else

the seat we were waiting on last week it

came in the very end of last week and

Danny got it I'm going to let you you

explain what you did here Danny cuz what

happened was we we do our seat bar in

line with our uh cross tube for our ex

we always do them like that it always

works out pretty good when CET sat in

the car his head did have clearance but

not as much as we would have liked

yeah so you'll come down if two more

in I want like more than more than that

we we'll Notch it get as low as we can

you have to go what we did moving

forward is uh we got our seat in and

I'll let Danny explain what he did here

we knew we wanted to get the seat down

the bottom of the seat about even with

the bottom of the frame rail so to do

that we had to uh I had to make a bunch

of lines inside there I just drew some

lines under the seat alongside the rail

so I knew what direction it was going

that way and we have a crossbar so I

kind of marked that off and then I just

took a sanding drum that we have it's

about the same size as in 582 and I just

started cutting and you start sanding it

sanding it until you get a hole and you

sit the seat see if it lines up good you

just keep going more on each end more on

each end more just keep going until the

seat kept dropping down and I had blocks

of metal underneath there to block it up

so it was nice and even while I was

doing doing this so now we've got it to

where it's with the bottom of the

frame that gives him quite a bit of room

I mean if we have to go a little lower

we're going to have 1 in tubes to go

under the seat anyway but we can even

drop it lower if he wants to a little

bit that's just a matter of just

extending those notches we have out and

it'll just drop down but that's uh a

starting point you see uh you see you

have a tube sticking through the seat

that won't be that way in the real world

we're we can carbon fiber over that to

cover it all up plus he's going to have

a pour in seat and so the pour in seat

will just go right around that and he'll

never even feel it it won't it won't

even be seen one of the biggest updates

you might notice since the last video is

we started getting a body on here uh

Troy's been working on that we made the

rocker panels we you can use a factory

rocker but they're pretty heavy so we

make a rocker that's pretty much a

similar Dimension height-wise as the

factory rocker except it doesn't have

the second Bend which works good with

our sheet metal and it also looks good

flowing with the quarter panel so the

first thing we did is we made this

rocker uh with a hem on the top and a

and a brake on the bottom to tie in with

our sheet metal and then we get the

quarter panels align with this fasten to

that you can see we we've been working

on today getting the the roof all Cleo

on getting the correct space up there

and just working with that it's a pretty

big process to get all these panels to

work exactly how you want them to work

and look good and to add on to that then

you have to make carbon fiber

aftermarket doors and front end fit the

factory stuff so it's a pretty big

process we're getting close on that once

we get the exact alignment we'll start

mounting the body from the back to the

front once the body's mounted then

there's a lot of tubing and a lot of

other stuff we can do the seat's not

going to be just sitting here like this

when we mount it there's a tube that

will go between this between the rail

and uh frame rail and The Rocker bar it

will go back until it touch which is the

seat that will be where your crotch

strap Mount is welded to then there'll

be a slot cutting the seat for that to

come through we also have to cut slots

with uh seat belts and this here may or

may not get trimmed back it all depends

on how he feels with it and then once he

we've got this cut to where we want it

then we use like there'll be like a

piece of/ inch chrome mly that's offset

notched all the way to the inside

that'll run right along the seat welds

here and welds there then like we have

one here that bends around the seat goes

across it'll Bend up it'll weld into

this there's even going to be something

on the other side of this panel over

there that will go up along the seat and

it will have Zeus Fasteners on it so the

seat's going to be held in with probably

anywhere from 9 to 10 Zees and it locks

it in position to where it conforms to

all the rails

and right now it's real crude we're just

starting the process but when it's all

done it just goes in real slick

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fire bottles something else we got done

since the last video that you guys

haven't seen yet is Danny got the fire

bottles mounted obviously that's a

extremely big important part of the car

safety is is number one so we've added

uh these are just mockup bottles also so

these are not the actual

bottles the actual bottles are a lot

nicer but this is a 20 PB fire system

which is is what's needed really for a

car like this with a turbo deal on a

nitrous car we can get away with one

10lb bottle and this car will have two

now that these are fully mounted we get

a few pieces of sheet metal in Danny is

the one who does a lot of the fire lines

so you guys will see that also fire

lines pretty cool a lot of a lot of

detail on those but they'll run around

the fire lines will be one at your foot

here on the on the inside of the car

there'll be some on the outside toward

the fuel rail and one closer to the fuel

tank so

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