Mullet is LEGAL Again! (We SECRETLY Did something Special for Cleetus)

Hey everyone and welcome back to CJ Racecar's YouTube channel. We got a good video today. We are fixing mullet and we have two things we're doing to surprise Cletus with and I think you guys are really gonna like them and hopefully he likes them. But before we get to the video don't forget our current giveaway ends this Sunday. You only have two days from when this video comes out to get into our giveaway which is $110,000 dream builder of your choice plus a 20-foot tilt deck trailer or this awesome C7 Z06 Corvette that has a Z07 package. This thing is absolutely meant plus $10,000 cash. Or if you win, you can pick $75,000 cash option. And since it's ending this weekend, you still have a shot at the Everlast Cyclone 200 ES. It's going to one random order until the end of the giveaway. Plus every single order until the end of the giveaway over $50 is getting a free sticker and every order over a hundred dollars until the end of the giveaway is getting a free titanium key chain. 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That's a little bit bigger and our standard size keychain that says eagle both made out of titanium right here in house so make sure you go to cjracecars.com every five dollars gets you entered into our giveaway and it ends really soon we can't do these giveaways without your support so we greatly appreciate that let's get to the video danny yeah we're getting it cleaned up yeah mullet's door jams yeah oem legal door jams oh fun stuff okay so this is the outside piece that is the outside piece of spot welds that is part of the quarter panel when they make it the factory that gets spot welded to this okay and so we gotta grind out spot welds and pry it off and break it off and so right now the car basically has this no no basically what the car's got now is uh this this was cut like this this but this is the quarter panel right right so i think this is what's on there now because that's just a quarter panel with a door jamb and then that attaches to it double doubles on there right now yeah when we get when we got the quarter panels it had this piece right side up when we bought the quarter panels it had all of this okay it did it had part of this on it yeah the quarter panel had this on because we didn't put this we didn't take any spot welds off the quarter panels right all we did was this came with a factory rocker that went all the way up i believe we just took and we cut it right okay right along here and did away with all the stuff you see that's gray what i've left this and then i probably ground this down or somebody ground this down to make it like that and then we made our door striker out of metal to the chassis and not to the sheet metal so this is in the car now what i'm hoping we can do is once you get this all cleaned up we can just put this behind what's in there and attach it this way i'm thinking and then it'll it'll be the same basically as what it is you know and then there's turn this around i think there's a we're going to try to get this out too right because we don't need it i just got to go find out where the spot welds are at in there and there's one there there's one there uh i can take that striker thing loose and this thing here I can pry these up that'll come out of there okay cool so the only thing I'll have is this piece of and if you can't get it totally off we could just cut it take this out cut it and just kind of I don't think that has a lot of spot welds on it so you might be able to get off see here you can see how many spot welds there were that's a lot all up through there every one of them you have to grind it out with carbide just sit there and you start grinding around the metal grinding around the metal then you take screwdriver and you pry under it and when it gets real thin you'll see it pop up and that's what's left over the hole you ground out of it yeah that was pretty good getting that off like that that worked out good well they make spot weld cutters but that leaves a hole right and it's like a mini hole saw and hole saws around well if you go too deep now you got a big hole right yeah we don't want to do that no that's a lot of filling and crap we don't want this no this is coming out really good so far we'll get it trimmed up we'll take the car up good and start fitting it to the car again where our striker is now there's some little tubing that runs out to the striker so may have to notch us I don't know yet we'll have to conform this to our striker right stuff possibly yeah all right well we get it finished grinding up we'll stick it in there and see what we got danny got the door jamb trimmed up got the quarter taped in and actually actually doesn't look that bad, Taylor, that's not terrible, no, the tricky part is we got this tubing here that holds the striker we have and right now it's right up against the back but you can see we still have to go back So, I think somehow we're going to have to try to take this door jamb and put it around that stuff, slide it from the back, and then notch whatever we have to around those tubes. So, that may be a little tricky, but at the end, like, hold the top of that. Like, if you come out to where this lines up there, it actually looks really good. Yeah, it's not bad. Look at it. It fits. It fits really good. It's not bad. No, no, no. I love it. I like this a lot. And we got some cool stuff brewing for this thing once it's in there. You don't even see it. Yeah, I don't know nothing about that. you don't know nothing about it yet he's staying out of it all right well with that doesn't look bad again we're gonna let's try to stick it in let's tape up those tubes back there first that way if we accidentally touch anything we don't scratch it but basically we gotta like oh no it's gotta go it's gotta go like up because you got this one it almost fits there yeah it's got that i mean go back that little bit yeah all right we got a little more trimming to do and we'll try again the other rule that i saw floating around there was a video that popped up that someone well actually we made the video and someone like clipped it and what that said basically was we're trying to mount this little tank we said that the driver's side wheel is two inches farther in front of the passenger side wheel which is true now most of classes we run the rule is plus or minus two inches so if the wheel base is what this is 117 we could run 119 or you could run 115. well with warriors rules it's plus or minus one which we knew and we built this car to i think some people misunderstood what i said it is true that the driver's side wheel is two inches farther forward but it has two inches of stagger but it's only one inch long on that side and one inch short on this side so it is plus minus one it's not plus minus two it is plus minus one and just adds two inches of stagger so we just remeasured it again we don't want to go out there and have any issues with rules and actually we're about three quarter long on that side and about three quarters short on this side so we're a quarter inch in this side might be about seven eighths ish so i'm actually pulling this wheel forward a little bit because it's a it could if the wheel was turned a tiny bit in the car i don't want to have any issues with that so we are going to move this wheel forward just a tiny bit but right now it is within the rules i just wanted to talk about that because i know that's something else that's been going around i've had a lot of messages asking me uh is the wheelbase off and it is not it was legal at that race and it's gonna be even more legal now it's gonna be the most legal it's ever been after we're done adjusting this area it's legal it's gonna be the legalest it's ever been but no that that's done danny's working on the door jams and we're making progress to make mullet what it needs to be yeah might have to nickname this thing grady judd for all the legalization this thing's got now we're gonna it's it's super right straight line straight line now we're walking a narrow line right now which hey it's it's well this has got to be right you know so it's got to be right that was us we dropped the ball on that one but we are making it right and it's going to be super cool we got some cool stuff coming tomorrow for this thing actually we've got some cool stuff going on right now for our door jam situation yeah that looked bad yeah that looks really good yes it looks really cool you'll see it just a little bit right there just cut that straight back just just to here yep yeah i think that's how it was factory right ish that's oemish oemish i mean that is actually really oem this piece we don't have on the bottom was just not there so yeah you have to make it that's all no big deal yeah but yeah that looks killer danny you guys did a good job got it all notched around the uh structure there and that hole right there is for a vent but it's not anymore we got something we got something for that hole right there that we're about to put in there but yeah that looks good and i'm assuming like we'll get this fit we'll panel bond this lip here and then i'm sure carburetor craig will probably like seam seal just a little strip so that looks all factory probably put a little seam seal here but this will just be panel bonded in and then this is attached they did a really nice job it actually fits really good because when we built the car we had this the stock rocker on mullet and it was fit for this so it actually worked out really well yeah and i might even put these in eagle these look these are well i put those in every car we built from now on stock jams no stock uh body by fisher are sill plates i don't think those are gonna work you don't think so an eagle yeah you don't think so i don't think so look how good that looks though that looks really good all right well let's get that cut and then we'll see what we got to do to get that thing in there permanent rc paint and powder coat at your services yeah we at least want to paint the back side because carburetor craig won't be able to get behind there to paint it very easily and we don't want to make carburetor craig's life any harder because he already has to repaint a car he painted you know we've done that enough yeah yeah so um at least the least we could do is this you know he could paint the front side from the outside of the car but the back side would be tough so we just want to go ahead and get rid of it that is oem rust right there that is for sure an oem door jam that's oem as i get yes sir all right well we'll get this thing painted and then we will panel bond it in but it still played in for the final time yeah we got to do the driver's side and then i want to talk about all the rules i want to read every single rule and just double check that we fit every rule on the list okay one by one just to look just to see what we got it really stinks we have to drill into the paint but at least it's on the inside and it's literally just a little eighth inch hole and i did talk to carburetor craig he said it's no big deal they can just dab that touch it up the reason we did that basically you have a few options we have to panel bond between this outer skin and now what's this inner skin and when you panel bond you got to have pressure holding the two pieces together and these act as a pressure pulls the two together really tight all the way from the top to the bottom the only other option would be to run a bunch of clamps and well there's not really room to clamp it and then there's not a lot of room so that was the only option that was the least invasive way we could really attach this you know if we welded it or tacked it or anything else we'd have some really burn up paint yeah you would uh you'd run the risk of warping something out here yeah that wasn't an option if it was right here this can get touched up with this being painted and you'd never see it right but you wouldn't want to have anything happen out here no you definitely don't want anything to happen out there so that could be that would not be good no so that's uh that's what we got so now basically what we're going to do now that we have all the holes drilled we'll take it back out oh we do got to put one more hole here to attach the front to the silica. Once we have that we'll take the clecos out, take the piece out, prep the back side of the quarter panel. This piece is already completely de-aged so ready for panel bond. We'll lay some panel bond in there, cleco it all back together and let it set up. I might want to take a 36 thread sanding disc and really hit that. Yeah just to get it roughed up so it grabs good. That's as rough as you can get except for having on the grinding wheel yeah 36 oh yeah all right well we're gonna get this last one drilled here at the bottom get it taken out get some panel bond added and the first side will be done we got mold in just a few days ago because it didn't have door jams we had to add door jams we went a step farther by adding the factory body by Fisher sill plates we even have the stickers so after carburetor Craig paints the door jams he can install the factory GM stickers and we did one other thing that we want to do custom there's a vent hole in those door jams from the factory and usually there's a plastic vent there we don't have the plastic vent and it doesn't need anything to fill that hole legally but we wanted to do something cool so we scanned the hole and Ryan designed something that was really cool that fit it and this is the back side so this is the size of your plastic vent and then the front side says OEM door jamb factory preserved by CJRC that looks so now Cletus has jam in his door jamb not to be confused with jam or jam this is a jam in the jam jam in the jam jam in the jam so now we are totally legal this is the final piece going into the door jamb sill plates are on the door jams are in and the vent piece that is now billet is going in now yeah you know if you really think about it if people complain about this this this is billet no they won't complain no i'm just saying if someone wants to say it needs all the pieces i know but you know if it says it needs to be plastic but i'm just saying billet that's adding weight so this is heavy this is a disadvantage yeah exactly disadvantage but it's cool it looks killer yeah looks good sill plates my favorite i think eagles are getting sill plates i'm gonna be honest yeah i like i think we got to put the sill plates in here we might even put door jams an eagle it does not need them by the way it doesn't need any of that it can even be a carbon fiber body for the classroom run so we're like way way legal it doesn't need headlights it doesn't need taillights doesn't need any of that stuff yeah also something i want to talk about mullet i know it didn't have door jams but mullet's probably the only car in that class that's running that has two 15 gallon tanks in the back two fuel systems a radiator an alternator and like could drive on a street like mullet really was built to be a street car and it's heavy yeah it's a it's a real deal car i know it didn't have that metal in there i'm sorry again i let you guys down and that happened in the finals i would love to see cleatus win but it's racing and it is what it is isn't it the rule uh you know didn't go in our favor that time but it will now because we have all the stuff we need and world cups just around the corner and i can't wait to see uh hopefully Cletus take the win up there also don't forget during this giveaway we've given away a rod or piston every single day this entire giveaway so if you order between now and the end of the giveaway we're still giving away a rod and a piston every single day in one random order we got mullet done and hopefully legal we did address some stuff up here with the turbos we put a new v-band on here we got Cletus an extra v-band to go in the car and we did what it came here for and that was putting these door jams in it actually came out really good you can even see our little door jam vent plate oem door jam preserved by CJ Race Cars this thing came out really good seal plate i think is my favorite part still it goes good so good with the black and the darker chassis fits really good really clean had to notch it up here for the wires but it looks good and hopefully this will dry and either carburetor Craig will come over this weekend or he will go over to Cletus's shop next week get this stuff all painted we painted the back side so it doesn't have to get back there because that would be really tough and we painted just a little bit here so if he doesn't get right up into there they don't have to take all this stuff apart and get into there but i think overall it looks really good it looks really factory man i'm kind of upset we didn't do this to start with it just makes the car look really real now but that's it i mean this thing's done i think they're coming to get it Monday start doing some testing for world cup this side looks just the same you didn't have to notch it for this but came out pretty good so i'll attach that panel bond that's in there is really really serious stuff so that's good do good and then obviously it's attached here to the sill plate that's it oh and we got the stickers we got the stickers for this thing let me see where these things are at look at this once carburetor Craig puts that nice black paint job on there we got the GM mark of excellence metal sticker that goes on there and we have the factory sticker that goes on there i mean this thing is super official now mullet is officially a race car with door jams or well it's kind of a street car so it's a street race car with door jams door seals and it's time to race some starlets all right mullet is done and we've had a ton of questions about does mullet fit this rule or that rule is there a rule about this so i'm going to read all the warriors rules that pertain to the body or anything that we would have anything to do with the engine and turbos i'm sure uh you know Cletus has that stuff under control so the first rule is car must retain its original appearance profiles and dimensions it definitely has all of that that is all factory dimension body functioning headlights and taillights are mandatory does have all that and it has more it's was built to be a street car drag and drive it has multiple fuel cells and fuel systems and everything no aftermarket one-piece bodies doesn't have any of that stuff OEM door jamb and quarter panels must be used we fixed that does have that now no modified front ends to achieve maximum NHRA overhang must stay within original body dimensions what that means is in the NHRA from the farthest spindle forward in the center of the wheel to the front of the front end can be 45 inch overhang on this car definitely is a lot less because these G bodies are short up front in front of the spindle but based off that rule you can't add anything to make it longer to achieve that 45 inches which does not have that it is factory up there other than a small valance which we'll get to in a minute must retain factory body lines removable composite components permitted hood front bumper front fenders doors deck lid got all that that's all good any beam tripping devices are prohibited aka pecker extenders we don't have any of those that would be something we would put on a car like this if we needed the 45 inch overhang allowed by NHRA but above it says we can't use that and then it says again you can't have any of it aftermarket front bumpers cannot have more than two inches of overhang over stock bumper dimensions failure results in disqualification basically that means if the car is at ride height and you have a square and you put it against the bumper the factory bumper nothing can stick past that bumper two inches we put a square up there i can't remember exactly what a measurement was i think it was either minimal quarter inch half inch or maybe it was nothing but we're definitely nowhere near two inches so that is totally fine aftermarket wings and spoilers are permitted we do have wing and spoiler it's legal hood must be used scoop or hood must cover entire induction solution exceptions throttle bodies on NA and nitrous engines and intake manifold throttle bodies on boosted engines may protrude through the hood for clearance forward facing hood scoops turbochargers and supercharger inlets are permitted and then they did clarify that for clarity forward facing turbos can protrude through the hood line but vehicle must have hood does have a hood and it does have turbos that stick through the hood which is legal oem or lexan windows are permitted the car does have lexan but that is legal front ends must be within the spirit of the rules legality is at the discretion of the race director again that car is all factory dimension body there's the only difference on that car is the balance on the bottom, and it has a cowl hood, which is totally fine. Firewall must originate in stock location. Factory firewall can be modified. Aftermarket firewall is permitted. And if you watch the videos when we built this car, one of our main concerns was, as we had to go by this rule, and we did go by this rule, I would have loved to move this engine back about six to eight inches to make the car work better. But we didn't, and that's why we put the turbos up high so we could get the weight to transfer, because ideally the engine backfarther would have help. So the firewall does start in original position. That's why it's far forward. The window's not notched, none of the above. And that is all there is for body rules. So we fit all of them. As far as I see, I've sent pictures and videos to all the people that are going to make the decisions. And they seem to think that everything is fine. So we will continue sending more pictures just to verify way ahead of World Cup that we are okay to race at World Cup because we don't want to get there and be sent home. That's a long trip. Don't want to get sent home. and we want to have a shot at winning that up there so but that's it mullet is done and it's headed back to cletus next week he's got a race with a bunch of starlets and some cool stuff coming up with that bunch of tests and other stuff that's going to do it for today's video make sure if you haven't go to cjracecars.com there's only two days left to get into our giveaway 110,000 our dream build plus 20 foot tilt deck trailer or C7 plus 10,000 cash or 75,000 cash really appreciate the support in these giveaways you guys getting in these giveaways watching these videos the only way we can make this content go racing and do all the stuff we love to do so thank you very much for that thanks for watching make sure you like share and subscribe we'll see you on the next one