Roof is off! FINAL tubes going in Cleetus McFarlands "Eagle"

I don't know if you've ever seen someone smoke out of the bed of a pickup truck but Josh was cooking our lunch today and threw it out of the bed of the truck. So we got to leave the keys on this thing in case it catches fire we could drive it away from the building. Sure. Hey everyone and welcome back to CJ Race Car's YouTube channel. Today we're going to show you a few things on Cletus's car. We got some A-pillars fitted in there. Danny's got that going now. Also want to show you guys some other projects we have in the shop. We got some pretty cool stuff going on. But this is Ricky. You ever call the shop? This is the guy you've probably talked to if he didn't call you back. Yep that's the guy. That's me. Also a lot of you have been asking in the comments what engine is going into Eagle. We should be getting the engine pretty soon with that coming up. Put in the comments what engine you think is going in there and whoever comments the correct answer first in this video we'll send out a swag pack. We'll add a few shirts and a hat. We'll announce the winner when we do the video with the engine unveiled. Out here this is kind of where stuff starts. We have our laser. Cuts all our tabs, brackets, motor plates, mid plates, wings, a bunch of stuff we sell. Got the material rack for it. This is our nitrogen skid which is what the laser cuts with most of the time. We are getting a bigger tank for outside because this is kind of a pain. If we cut thicker aluminum these only last about an hour or two which is pretty wild that it burns up these 12 tanks in an hour. Over here we got the CNC area running through some programming on some tube adapters now. We have the first op of some titanium four-lit bar tube adapters running over here. We have window net kit parts running over here on the bell in the fourth axis. Over here is the second op of the titanium four-lit bar tube adapters. So basically it puts the hex on them over here. Does the threading and all that stuff so getting those knocked out. Then over here we're doing our big johnson and our roll bar bearing housings. One of our more popular products. Got a ton of these going on. This is kind of where everything starts. We build most of our stuff we use in-house. We'll go check out the other side of the shop. Over here we have some of our sheet metal equipment. We have a power shear, a stop shear, a roller, finger brake, we have a regular brake. Over here we have a 10 foot brake and a radius brake. So that's pretty much all of our sheet metal tools. We have our sheet metal tools right here because as the cars go in stages it comes off a jig and they end up basically where the Willys is now and we do all the sheet metal here. We have these stands so we can roll them around. It's the right height to be able to do sheet metal on so and you don't have to go very far. This is a Willys. If you've been watching the channel you've probably seen this. This is an all steel Willys. It's a 39 not a 41. 39. Don't be mistaken with 41. And 40 front end. Okay so it's got a 40 front end but it's a 39. Longer wheelbase than a 39. Yeah extremely cool car. We got some more detailed updates coming next week with this but basically it's an all steel body which is extremely hard to find and we made basically a pro mod like a drag and drive car. It's got a gear benders turbo 400. It has a hemi in it with a blower right now. I'm pretty sure he's going to switch engine combinations even though everything's brand new. We found something that's coming out later this year that he's probably going to go with so we'll all sweat paint on that. But we got a titanium firewall going in this. That'll be a firewall on an 80 year old vehicle. 85. 85 year old vehicle so that'll be pretty cool. Troy does most of our tin work here. Does a lot of tin work. Carving tubs. All that stuff. All the all the details and stuff. The easy part. Easy part. Yeah. I don't think any of these. All the window lips. Yeah all the oh yeah and the window lips. They're a ton of work. All right everyone we're back over here with Danny. He's been hard at these tubes. These are some pretty tough tubes to make just right. The A-pillar tubes. So I'm going to let him show you what he's got done. Okay these I always don't look forward to doing them but when I get them done the progress looks like it's really good and it makes it all worthwhile. So you can see we've got both sides in and if you look you can see the fit is pretty close to the roof. We've got to have a little clearance up there. You can't see it because from the inside it's hard to see but you have minimal clearance along the roof. It tucks up front so when it comes down the A-pillar you have clearance in here enough that you can get when we go to put windshield screws in you'll be able to get to them but it hugs it as tight as we can get down through here within a reason it's nice and parallel to it here we have to put the kick in because if it went straight you'd be out here and you can't move this bar in if you did then it would look like a lot of stuff that I've seen that comes down the A-pillar just goes inside and it looks like it doesn't look good it's not symmetrical and I couldn't sleep at night so anyway we put the kick in it and do I do one side and then I take and make up our jig with the sleeves in it for the other side but I mirror that bar I'll lay it on a table I'll lay them down and they'll go off in opposite directions and notches will be turned in different ways but I made up the inner jig did this side bend it up come out great and then we put the roof bar in up here we always leave a little straight section here that way we have room for our for our gussets we have to put in uh specs call for a four inch minimum outside at the longest point we do six and it's a one inch bar so we put eight gussets total up in here we have four in the top corners and then four down in the bottom so we have eight little gussets and then and then the roof gets X'd also so that's the next step is for me just pop the roof off of this thing and then I can get up in here and start doing all the little gussets and doing the X and that pretty much takes care of the roof there is a bar now that goes from the back side of the main hoop here that runs right up to that junction right up there of those tubes and that bar can get put in now there's another bar that comes off of here that goes to the same general area but we don't put that in till the tubs go in because it determines where the tub is as to how far we can lower that bar and that does it for the bars in the back in that general area I don't think there's anything else camera wants to add we've got that elliptical piece that goes across the upper part of the funny car cage above your head that I can point in with the roof off and that pretty much takes care of the funny car cage totally we've got some bracing under the seat to do yet uh I can do that either on the jig or off the jig doesn't really matter but we all the plating we do in there we'll do with the frame flipped upside down so we can really get to it easy because that's an involved job and then it's onward to possibly doing the uh foot box sort of up here for the firewall we weren't worried about tall people we would run a bar straight from this area down to here and there'll be one that runs up through here down there'll be like an X in here and a bar but since we're going to give them more pedal clearance the bar is going to come off of here but it's going to come out like this and then at somewhere in this general area here and then it'll bend back in and we're not sure just how far we're going to do that yet but we got to figure out those bars and get them in and then we can do pedals steering column onwards and upwards this he's an intern for the summer he is a mechanical engineer engineering student at usf so he's here he uh he helps the guys on a cnc he's doing some programming and some design stuff for some of our new parts and then one day a week he works over here to learn some chassis stuff so pretty cool very smart and uh he said he's ready to take over for danny already so over here we have jamie very similar to cletus's eagle except for instead of a 25-2 this is a 25-1 chassis few of the bars are smaller and the reason for that is is because it's going to be a nitrous car it's a lot lighter car and they don't make the torque so we're going 25-1 on this uh this car is also getting close firewalls getting close on it they're going to be bringing a motor in the next month or so so we can do headers and finalize some of the stuff up front and this thing will be finishing up about the same time as eagle or a little bit before we have an escalade over here a few of you guys have mentioned uh asked about it in the videos and we'll take you over there look at it we don't usually do stuff like that customers been awesome though and basically we're putting a 10-point cage in it titanium parachute mount some rear suspension stuff but uh it's pretty cool it's a it's a pretty fast car it drives in a lot it's got a twin turbo ls in it with turbo 400 let's go check it out this is the escalade that we've been working on it's getting a cage the cage is almost done believe it or not these street cars with full interiors are actually a lot harder to do a cage than a full chassis we could probably do that whole chassis in about a little bit more time than it takes to do this 10-point cage we got the parachute mount uh going on the back all titanium parachute mount for this thing taylor just got that wrapped up pretty cool deal damn yeah we got a cage going it's got two hoops very very interesting to do a cage in this car nothing's the same side to side way the air vents run this this pillar here is wider this one's narrower that's totally different so it's been a pretty pretty fun uh unique project and it's getting close to being finished up i think we got one more a pillar a windshield bar and some welding looks like it'll be be knocked out but really cool build you don't see many twin turbo escalades and it was a sleeper before we put a titanium parachute mount on it it's kind of a giveaway yeah that parachute's a dead giveaway we got taylor eating a donut our cook's filming the cook's filming he's supposed to be cooking if it ain't ready at noon it's his fault yep and over here we got andrew he's welding up some titanium steering extensions this is where the magic happens okay can't be unsupervised over here so this is serious stuff you got you got to keep an eye on absolutely so he's got some steering extensions going together titanium we do a ton of titanium here all lightweight stuff all the good stuff we're just showing you guys a laser these are some flanges you got one of those plans right now just cut a bunch of these flanges off yeah we can it's nice now that we can cut a bunch of stuff in house and andrew just stays over here welding just welding away i just stay in the corner just stay in the corner well i do pretty much all right everyone that's it for this video as you can see cleatus's car now has no roof so we can do the rest of the bars we'll be doing those next week thanks again for everyone that's been watching make sure you like share and till next time