Bradan Joins as m3 post sponsor

[Bradan]

Each main frame rail is fully welded in a single pass. Every other bench on the market is stitch welded to avoid warping or cracking the low quality steel....

[Bradan]

This is the actual pull post that straightens out accident damage. Every post is made start to finish in the factory and quality tested before shipping.

[Bradan]

This is the actual jig post that takes most of the stress during pulling. Most manufactures bragged how theres is solid steel and how strong it is. The problem is the pulling power of the pull post is stronger then the jig post. So if you bend a post you have no way of knowing so every car after that is pulled to an incorrect tolerance.

Carbench made a cast hollow post that intentionally breaks if the pulling force is exceeded. I love the engineering Carbench puts into every single part of the fixture.

[Bradan]

This is a completed main frame of the jib bench. Lorenzo and his wife own Carbench together and proudly knew every design feature start to finish.

In this photo Lorenzo is showing me that you can see all the machining marks and welds on the finished product. They dip every bench is a Galvanized bath to prevent rusting. Every other manufacture covers there steel in paint to hide all the imperfections.

[Bradan]

This shows the original Ferrari 360 modena front frame structure jigged to the bench. When Ferrari originally built the 360 chassis with Alcoa it was solid Aluminum. Carbench had to reverse engineer the chassis and section is to make it repairable in the future.

[Bradan]

This is a completed jig bench in there training center. The cars under the covers are all brand new Ferrari and Lamborghini chassis there teaching OEM repair classes on and writing repair manuals. I got to meet the engineer that writes Ferraris manuals and bring up a few issues I had over the years.

[Bradan]

Pisa was near by so I stopped by to visit the leaning tower. It really made my jaw drop when you walk around the city wall and see the tower in the distance. Look at how worn out the marble stairs are. From the top you can see the mountains in the background that they pulled all the absolute white marble from.

[Bradan]

I had to make a pit stop at Ferrari when driving north. Driving on the Autostrada is similar to the autobahn but you have a NYC taxi driver tailgating you beeping and brighting you no matter how fast you drive in a tiny economy car.

This is my 4th time doing the owners tour and it blows my mind every single time. It's has to be on your bucket list if your a Ferrari owner.

[Bradan]

Ferrari museum tour
-Enzo Ferraris office
-First Ferrari engine
-"primo Ferrari"
-Wire frame used to beat the 250 GTO panels on.
-Earlier wood styling buck
-LM prototype body
-599/612 wind tunnel scale prototypes

[Bradan]

Juan Manuel Fangios D50 and Sennas race cars on display

[Bradan]

Visting USI Italia spray boothes in Verona. We got to see our actual booth packed up and ready for its ocean trip. The factory is almost fully automated down to even thewarehouse is run by computer.

[Bradan]

Even the burners are built in house and tested before shipping.

[Bradan]

We went with the Master series booth with a 3 sided mixing room attached to the side. This will allow the painter to mix paint and step right into the booth avoiding contamination.

[Bradan]

We paired our frame jig with a digital measuring system.

The contact evolution from Carbench allows us to measure pre and post accident chassis data to make sure its brought back to factory tolerances. What I really liked about it was the 5 axis travel to measure difficult to reach areas. This will guarantee maximum precision and extremely low tolerances on every single check point of the frame and body.

[Bradan]

I had a hard time deciding on what welding system to go with. I narrowed it down to Cebora and Weilander and Schill based off there OEM approvals. Both companies had booths at SEMA show in vegas so I figured it would be a good place to try them out in person. With more cars switching over from traditional steel to High strength steel, aluminum, Boron, etc I wanted a welder that was modern and easy to use. In a production shop having an easy to use system that consistently produces factory production assembly line quality welds is very important. We ended up going with a Cebora Techna smart plus resistance spot welder. It can recognize what material and thickness is being used and self adjust giving you a perfect weld. For mig welding we picked the Cebora Jaquar welder that can do steel and aluminum. Both are OEM approved by Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, and Bentley to name a few.

[Bradan]

If anyone gets a chance I highly recommend going to the SEMA show.

[Bradan]

Carbench data sheet showing attachment points to the chassis. The tech support from Car bench is great, they are able to provided chassis data sheets back to the 60s.

[Bradan]

Grinding the center of the shops floors and detail bays. Snuck some little munchkin hide and seek in.

[Bradan]

Our Car bench 4.2 Muraena with scissor lift, jig kit and pinch weld clamps in from Massa, Italy.

[Bradan]

Fresh off the boat from Verona!! Our USI Italia Master series spray booth with mixing room. It's a fully heated downdraft booth.

[Bradan]

Floor grinding done. Now power wash and vac.

[Bradan]

Spray booth "basement" assembled. We did an above ground installation with ramps to avoid cutting the floor and building a pit. The booth is a full downdraft system that pulls the air down into the floor, through filters, heats it, and recycles the heated air back into the booth.