So after our race in Utah during EJS week the car was thrashed and has sat on the side of the house. That was until my dad came out and helped me fix, repair and prep the car for our next race June 14th-16th at RAM offroad park in Co. Springs, Co. Ut was a disaster of a race and broke or dented everything. We ripped break lines, broke inner fenders, lost the battery. So my dad and I had our work cut out for us.
We started with relocating the battery from the busted inner fender to behind the passenger seat behind the fire wall. We had some plate and bent it up then welded it to the door frame, roll cage and tied it into the sliders/stiffeners. We then welded the ballistic fabrication battery holder to that. After that we secured some large 2ga wire and ran new master battery kill switch and battery cable leads. After we picked up some 1ga leads for the winch and stretched all the auxiliary wires as well running everything along the bottom of the cage.
burning in the battery box plate
battery box welded in
Battery and cables. Rear tube door protects and covers battery.
After that my dad went to work his magic and make the bent and twisted sheet metal straight so we could recreate the inner fender.
Once the fenders were lining up we went ahead and welded that up and used some plate to tie the two pieces together and then used some angle iron to tie it in to the frame stiffeners.
missing part of it...
all back together with no heavy battery residing on it anymore. (not the best picture, I apologize.)
view from the top. only thing resting on the fender is the fuse box.
Seeing as my dad and I are not welders or fabricators this was a huge task for us but were super proud of what we were able to fix together. It was a learning experience we both enjoyed, however after that we pressed on to the items we know how to do like swapping all the fluid, replaced and or cleaned all filters. Even beat this dent out of the transmission pan.
The car is fully prepped and ready to go minus our persistent sputtering at a certain RPM. Tired of throwing money at chasing it so learning how to drive with it instead. Next race is in T-minus 6 days!