Installing A Widebody Kit On My C6 Drift Corvette!

You guys can't figure out how to make it work. Look who's back in town. I was just trying to ask them to load a box on here. They're struggling. Oh you guys should know what this means. Big box usually means body kit time. Let's see what we got. Oh oh unfold. Okay actually never mind. I thought we had to unbox this right here at the old warehouse because that box wouldn't fit in the truck. Boom wow. This looks way more intimidating. Dude if we were little kids this would be the best little fort. We would be climbing all up in that. You come on this side. Make a spaceship. Oh yeah your cockpit's right there. Where are your controls at? Oh no he's drinking. Oh oh oh he got the arm. I can't pull him. Wait. Let's tape him up. Get the tape. Get the tape. How did you cause this much chaos with an empty box? Wow well my brothers are in town. I don't know what that was. We got a body kit in the truck. Finally going wide body with the Corvette. Once we get to the compound I'll finish unboxing this so I can show you guys. It's not what I originally planned to do. It's not the kit I was originally going to have. It's not even one single kit. I actually have a kit for the rear and then something different for the front. So everything will be the compound and I'll talk more about it. I just wanted to film this adventure that we went on. Good job guys. What's up? I wanted to take a moment and thank the delicious sponsor of today's video HelloFresh. HelloFresh is America's number one meal kit company delivering amazing recipes and fresh pre-measured ingredients straight to your door. Making cooking at home fun easy and affordable. Go to HelloFresh.com and use my code ColetteDavis12 and you'll get 12 free meals including free shipping. I will admit a really big problem that I've always had is remembering to eat. It is very common to be at the shop till midnight 1 a.m and during the day you just get caught up in what you're doing. 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Now we're gonna do some unboxing and I'll explain a little bit about the wide body kit situation. So in that box is the rear wide body kit for the car and covered right here and right here are the wide body front fenders. Let's just open these up first. Please ignore the wrapping. It has nothing to do with what's in there. Boom. Here are the front fenders and if you can't notice already these are stock Z06 wide body front fenders. I had them repaired because these were used and damaged and I had it blocked off where the Z06 badge goes into but that's what I'm going to use for the front. I got these super cheap because they were damaged. They needed repair in a few different spots but our friend Billy already repaired them and prepped them for paint so that is sick. So that is what we're doing for the front of the car and then I'm going to unbox what we're doing wide body for the rear. I just pulled it. Unbox her up. You guys ready to wide body this thing? She's gonna be big. She's gonna be a fit girl now. Dang what you got there Juju? I got a butt piece. Oh my god. Here hold her up. A little lower. There you go. A little angled back. Wait angle it up. So this this line goes right here. Angle it down. No you down. You down. Hold it right there. Hold it right there. Let's see. Dang. Yep. Wait let me look at it from the back. Okay. Okay. There we go. She got hips. She got hips now. So this is a Trufiber rear panels. I ended up seeing this kit in person during a clutch checkers event and really liked it. I was confused though because the one at clutch checkers had huge rivets in it and I thought the places to put rivets was indented but they must have done that themselves. So we're gonna have to figure out how I want to install this but I saw these rear wide body panels in person. Loved them and at the time I had already sourced these Z06 ones. Mostly because I did not want to wait for the kit that I was originally planning to put on this car to arrive from overseas. I gave a bunch of hints about what direction I was going with the wide body for this car. I was talking about it being overseas and I really excited about it but it's still awaiting shipment overseas because they were shut down. I think they might still be shut down so they got really behind on orders and I just didn't want to keep putting this off because I want to get this car prepped and ready for a comp as soon as possible. So at first I sourced the Z06 ones and then I got the rear wide body kit and honestly I think I'm just gonna rock this and go with this and ditch the idea of having the other kit. The other kit I was looking at was the Loma GT2 wide body kit and it is so cool but it wouldn't be here for months and I gotta get this thing ready. After I put the kit on I'm also gonna be prepping it for paint and now that I have front fenders that are wide I can swap my front hubs onto this car that are 5x114. I've been waiting to do that because I didn't have any wheels that would fit with stock body. Now I have a wide body so tomorrow or the next day I'm gonna finish my 5x114 hub conversion in the front. Probably throw on the Z wheels for now in the front if they fit and go from there but I'm stoked to make this girl a wide girl. She drove me sick. Honestly I thought it would be wider. I mean it is a lot wider I think it's stock but I don't know what I was expecting maybe it to be super dramatic because the Loma GT2 kit that I was initially looking at that is wide. If you see a photo of a wide body regular like Z06 car next to the Loma GT2 kit it is so wide but I do like the way this looks and I do kind of like how it's rocket bunny-esque especially once we get it fully riveted on. Put some spacers on make her a wide girl. There's some 315s on the back. I mean it's a lot wider. Yeah. It's a wide body kit. I like her. Now that I finally have a solution for the wide body I can start prep for paint and get this thing painted. I've already decided I'm gonna paint the car. Originally I was considering getting it wrapped but now that we have a freaking paint booth on the compound it'd be so much easier to repair a panel and just repaint it versus trying to re-wrap it. I cannot wrap things. I'm surprised I've laid down like these stickers halfway decent. Wrap is not my thing and neither the paint booth. Anytime we have to do a fiberglass repair we just bring it back to the booth and re-spray it. So that's the plan and the sooner we get this kit on the sooner we can prep for paint. So I am kind of learning as I go. I've never put a wide body on a Corvette before but I know the front's gonna be super easy. What's awesome is it is one panel. There's look one full panel you take this one off the entire thing and boom put that on so that is gonna be easy but because of the kit that I got these aren't the full panel. We're actually gonna be riveting them on so we're gonna do the rear last but we'll start with the front and see how she looks. This did end up being a little more complicated to take off just because some mounting points were broken right here for example. So there was a few extra just self-tap screws underneath as well as a wire being used to also hold on the front fender. So I just had to kind of figure out what had been sort of hacked together here and we'll see if I'm able to just add some self-tap screws where they need to be in order to make the new wide body front fender go on easily. Not too bad though also just cleaned it up a little bit. I know it doesn't matter but it's really dirty. We might run into a little issue since I'm trying to mock it up with a stock body Corvette front bumper versus the Z06 wide body front bumper which I still have not sourced yet. That's one potential problem but first I need to get a bunch of self-tap screws. Before I go do that let's see what the boy's been up to. We got Juju over here. He's been detailing this bike, the barn find motorbike. He's been doing a little detail job. Now there's not grease and oil and fuel everywhere. It's cleaning up pretty nice. Less grease. Less grease. It's not actually as rusty as I thought it was. I thought there was way more rust everywhere on it. Look at that. Yeah so after riding this thing around yesterday it started pouring out some fuel so Julian was cleaning it up and then I'm gonna have him probably take the carburetor off and maybe clean that or look at it. It could also just be a fuel line right here because it was leaking out of there and then looking at it now it does look like maybe it's just this line so if we throw a fresh line on and if it doesn't leak maybe it is good to go but first thing that had to happen was him cleaning it and that's looking good. What are you building back in Indy? What type of bike? See I don't know anything about bikes. That's why Julian comes here he sees the motorbike and he's instantly wanting to like do something to it so I was here. Here's brake cleaner and go crazy. And what are you trying to figure out how to do right now because you're asking me what the best way is to make a fuel tank you're trying to make one from scratch can someone who knows about that like comment below what would be the easier way he's trying to either he wants to make his own custom fuel tank for his bike but he doesn't know if you should make a mold with fiberglass or what's the other option like 3d print dimension send it to the fabricator and have them like press out the parts or something ah together yeah I know nothing about custom fuel tanks but if you guys if you guys know in comments below tell him what he should do probably whatever is faster what are you looking for faster cheaper just get it done yeah it's his first ever build okay okay and then Chris has been in here detailing the office now I have not even wanted to go in here because there's no lights it smells good now it does and we took the hurricane shutters off starting to come together in here and at least with the hurricane shutters off there's more natural light in here so it's not as intimidating what do you think so far is it clean enough like I got yeah yeah no it looks good in a little bit we're gonna go explore the attic so maybe I'll just tune back in when we're gonna go up there before we go in the attic though look at all this underglow on the cabinet Chris just installed even though this is only my temporary home Chris is still helping me make it have some good vibes in here and we got that corner light in there who's going in the attic first you are julian you you look like an addict kind of boy I don't even know what that means okay good luck tell me if you see anything up there if I fall you need to catch me if I fall I forgot there might be mice up here you found a huge cylinder I think it could be dang what is it let me get an angle that shows how long this is what is this shearer special order it was ordered in 2011 oh it's just a whole bunch damn we thought this was something special it's trim it's trim oh wow jackpot needed some bulbs a few of the lights in here are out got some wood what's we got we got some we got some ghetto wiring is it really big I mean it's just bright which is nice got a lifetime supply of bulbs which is sweet yeah it's gonna be hard to figure out if there's mold where it was leaking over there you can't see anything so we can't see if there's mold we're gonna have to send someone up no treasure up here so here's our ecu that's always been flapping around it was zip tied previously in a bunch of places but I just undid this bracket and like turned it so that was pressing against the ecu bracket and tightened it and now it at least is not flopping anywhere so this is at least a little more secure for now until I end up going standalone in the future that is good to not have an ecu flying everywhere both sides are off we are still on the hunt for some self-tap screws at the main shop all that we are going to get to today got the front mostly fitted and what I mean by that is that we still probably should make a bracket for the fender to kind of push it out a little bit more here but I don't want to start making brackets until I get an actual z06 front bumper I have been looking for one for weeks they're hard to come by and I hadn't ordered one because the ones I did find would have taken weeks to get here and by now if I would have just ordered it it would have probably been here I do need to adjust the hood a little bit on the other side there's a I also need to source the z06 plastic that goes right here ducting and then also look for the trim now I might be cutting a lot of that I gotta fit wheels first but I'm sure there is oem stuff that I can order for that and I need the trim on both sides the front fenders are officially on and it looks a lot better than I was expecting especially for not having an actual z06 front bumper I'm gonna be doing the rears probably in the shop tomorrow or the next day I realize that I 100% want this thing on a lift because I'm gonna have to trim a good amount of the stock fender gonna be riveting that on as well so it was just already really annoying trying to work on the front of the car having to continue to go back and forth to the main shop to grab tools a lot of my tools went missing so for now until I find my tools or get a new complete tool set I think I'm gonna move over to the main shop to at least finish the rear wide body that will be in the next video she's getting a little thicker a little wider making some progress there's a lot up once we get this wide body kit on it's gonna be prepped for paint and also prepped for a full cage coming up very soon I don't know if I've mentioned it in previous videos but the series that I wanted to compete in requires a full cage there is a lot coming up from this car that is it for this video and I will see you guys in the next one