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00:10Welcome back to Season 8 of Rides Down Under Workshop Wars.
00:35On today's show, Ron Goodman heads to Berrimack Cars and Coffees to check out some of the
00:41local rides.
00:43We catch up with Aidan from Bespoke Coachworks and take a look at the progress on the Rolls-Royce
00:49Phantom 3 build.
00:51Mark from Dynamotive has a new project underway, this time a pro-stock drag car being built
00:57from scratch.
00:59We head to Styling Automotive where Dave has a workshop full of high-end builds.
01:03Let's continue on the Dodge D100 Tesla project at Sioux Performance.
01:09First up, Valley Grunt Performance head to the Dandenong Rangers to take their Dirty Dozen
01:14Charger for a spin.
01:18This is the Dirty Dozen Charger.
01:28Nicknamed the Dirty Dozen Charger because it's number 12 of this model charger made.
01:34Now, we're taking it for its final test drive before we hand it over to the client.
01:39It's gotten registered again with its original registration, which is fantastic.
01:44So, this charger came to us and it was already a painted body shell and we were tasked with
01:52putting all the pieces back together again, like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
01:56It came with a painted body shell, the motor was out of it, there wasn't a gearbox and boxes
02:01of bits.
02:02Yeah.
02:03It's been a long journey for this owner to get this car back on the road, but it has
02:08been built to his specifications, hasn't it?
02:13Yeah.
02:14So, I'm going to quickly run through from start to back of this car, of everything that
02:21has been modified and changed.
02:22I mean, she still looks, for all intentions, intents and purposes, exactly like a charger
02:29should look.
02:30Really nice, clean lines.
02:32The owner wanted to clean her up a little bit more.
02:36He wanted to put his own touches to it.
02:39So, from start to back, we have custom-made aluminium radiator, 265 Hemi with triple webers.
02:46You've got to love the sound of those webers, especially when you open up the pipes.
02:50Oh, yeah.
02:51A set of pacemaker extractors with modified secondaries, because Shane's running two and
02:57a quarter twin mandrel bent stainless steel system all the way to the back, and he's made
03:04some custom exhaust tips that sort of sweep up with that nice retro style.
03:09Yeah.
03:10So, just basically to make it look like factory charger, you know.
03:14So, the factory chargers, they had an inch and three quarter twin pipes coming out the
03:19back, and so he wanted a bigger system, obviously, because the engine wants to make more power
03:26if it flows better.
03:27So, what we did is we just put a bigger exhaust system on it, and it actually drives really
03:34nice.
03:35It's not super loud.
03:36It's quite quiet, but there's no restriction in the exhaust.
03:40It's got a really good note to it.
03:41It does, yeah.
03:42Actually quite like the twin system note a bit better than the single system with those
03:47webers in it.
03:48So, back from there we've got modern power steering system with a hidden electric pump.
03:53So, we've hidden the pump in the inner guard so you don't see it, and that maintains the
04:00really immaculately clean engine bay that this car has.
04:05We've hidden everything.
04:06There's no wiring.
04:07Well, there's a little tiny bit of wiring just to go down to the alternator, but otherwise,
04:12you look at the engine bay, it's just clean, smooth.
04:14If I could Bluetooth the alternator I would have done that too.
04:17Correct.
04:18But I think I've got maybe four wires in the entire engine bay here.
04:22Yeah.
04:23So, and then on the other side we've hidden the washer bottle because you didn't want
04:26to see that either.
04:27Just to keep that nice clean look.
04:30Inside the car we've got the brains of the motor, the ignition system, so we've hidden
04:35an MSV box as well.
04:37And then behind the motor we're running a Tremec 5-speed.
04:41Yeah.
04:42So that gives him that overdrive as well for that nice cruising when he's out on the open
04:47road.
04:48Yeah.
04:49Back that with an aluminium tail shaft made by GJ Drivelines just to keep it looking neat
04:56underneath as well and of course allow that power to flow through.
05:00Although this isn't exactly a powerhouse of a car, but Hemis are quite torquey and torque's
05:05what usually does the damage to the driveline.
05:08It's powerful.
05:09It is.
05:10Just to prove a point there.
05:11It is very powerful.
05:12It's got a lot of torque and it's got a lot of punch in it.
05:27So behind that tail shaft we're running a true track differential with 325 diff gears.
05:34And to make it all work together because there's a lot of extra electronics and systems running
05:44in this car, we've got a fully custom made wiring loom that runs everything.
05:50And of course it's all hidden so that it remains neat.
05:54Yeah.
05:55Now the battery you would have noticed in the engine bay is missing, that's hidden in the
05:59boot as well.
06:00Not hidden with false panels but hidden in an Esky.
06:04And of course after spending so much time and effort on a car like this, it's an absolutely
06:11beautiful build.
06:12You don't want to be driving along these roads and get stone chips.
06:15So this car is basically half covered with invisible bra.
06:20Yeah, it is.
06:21So all of your high traffic areas like the tops of the doors, the bonnet, the nose cone,
06:28even the boot floor is covered in invisible bra.
06:33That way he doesn't have to worry about putting anything in his boot and scratching up the paint
06:38job.
06:39We've also done the wheel arches.
06:42Yeah, so this car is painted immaculately everywhere.
06:47So through the wheel arches, everywhere.
06:50So it's...
06:51It's all the same colour underneath, it doesn't have the stone chip.
06:55So to try and avoid those wheel arches looking a bit worse for wear after he's out cruising.
07:02Because let's face it, we build these cars for our clients to enjoy and we want them to
07:07cruise in it.
07:08But if we can protect the paint work for as long as possible, then so be it.
07:13So we've...
07:14These...
07:15The invisible bra is up in the wheel arches to protect it so that when he's driving,
07:20they don't look really badly with all the...
07:23Real bad with all the stones hitting them.
07:26The film that's underneath the wheel arches is a thicker film so it's going to protect
07:34the body of the car a lot better than just the thin stuff that's on the rest of the car.
07:39It's a bit of a sad day for you isn't it?
07:45It is a sad day because today we...
07:49We hand back Duncan's Charger and I...
07:52I sort of like it.
07:53It's been a while since I've driven stick and I actually quite...
07:57Quite enjoy changing gears, you know?
08:00Look, we like to test our cars.
08:03We don't like to just hand them back.
08:06We like to make sure that there's no little gremlins or problems as the customer drives them.
08:13We prefer to find those problems ourselves and then fine tune it, get it all sorted and
08:19then let the customer drive it.
08:22Every car you build you need to sort of check it out and make sure everything's right.
08:28And when you have a car like this and you've been so in depth in building it, you sort of
08:33become part of the journey and you become attached to the car.
08:37And I know that Shane takes all of these builds personally.
08:40It's like these are his children.
08:42So these cars go back with quite a few instructions for the clients on what they have to do to keep
08:50it nice and clean and running right.
08:58Coming up, we're heading to Styling Automotive.
09:14They've got a bunch of projects going on and we're going to drop in and check it out.
09:17James's Equipment is a distributor for global leading brands such as Benpac, Sturtle Coney,
09:31Byers Bath.
09:32So we supply hoist lifting equipment, specialised testing equipment throughout Australia in all
09:37segments, whether it's a car dealership right the way through to a car enthusiast or a truck
09:42dealership right the way through to truck enthusiasts.
09:45The difference we see with the Benpac hoist is not just with the ergonomical technology
09:49that we use when we're operating the hoist and lifting the hoist.
09:52It's all about safety and longevity.
09:54We can put anyone under the hoist and we know they're safe.
09:57With the Benpac hoist, there's no complicated buttons to use.
10:01When we want the hoist to go up, we press the button.
10:03In return, then when we want to lower the hoist down, it's just a matter of lifting the handle
10:07and that releases the safety locks.
10:09We just press the button and it steadily brings that car down.
10:15In our Benpac range, we have the two-post hoist, which is very, very popular.
10:19But we do the four-post hoist and that's anything from a car to a truck in the four-post range.
10:23So the versatility for whatever you're using in any type of application in a workshop,
10:28we've got the hoist there to accommodate that.
10:31Yeah, we're really busy at the moment.
10:45We've got plenty of builds on.
10:46Things are happening in the workshop.
10:48We're just coming to completion with this little 911 orange Targa behind me here.
10:53The final stages of just moving through the last quality control checks.
10:57It's had a little 2.7 rebuild.
10:59Hot little motor in it.
11:00It goes like the clappers at the moment.
11:02All new suspension and brakes being put through it.
11:04It handles like a dream.
11:05It's a great little car.
11:07So the car came to us red and in a really sort of poor state.
11:11A lot of panels misaligned.
11:12A lot of non-Porsche features put through it.
11:15So the basic sort of instructions were to put it back to its original colour, which is continental orange.
11:20Go through the whole car and just fix everything that needs to be fixed.
11:24So, you know, engine rebuild.
11:26New suspension put through.
11:27Brakes upgrade.
11:28And so now it's really a good little car.
11:31Look, I really love the bringing me in the wheelbarrow and we turn it into Ferrari type stories.
11:37I just love the way that we can rebuild the car back to its former glory.
11:40The customer gets to drive it and enjoy it for really what they're worth.
11:44And it sort of takes you back in time.
11:46Investing in the old 911 is something that's worth its while.
11:50They hold their value.
11:52They are always going up.
11:54They're a fantastic collector's car.
11:56They're good looking cars.
12:05So the BMW CSL came in for just some basic tidy ups.
12:10It was a little bit untidy around the area.
12:12We ended up having to cut the front guards off it and get into the common rust areas,
12:16which the CSL normally has.
12:18They've all been rectified now.
12:20That's had a full engine rebuild, not by us, but with a partnering mechanic that we use.
12:24The body all been back to its former glory with repair and paint
12:29and putting the slick little stripes on just to sort of finesse the car off.
12:33The newest little 911 that we've started the repair and paint on is this little light green 911.
12:46It's a second owner.
12:47He brought it second hand in 1982 and has it forever and a day.
12:51It's now time for it to have its birthday and all the stuff put into it.
12:56We've got another engine rebuild with it.
12:58I just finished painting it the other night, so it's all starting to come together.
13:01And we'll be into the interior next as this build starts to come together.
13:04So some of the other jobs that we have in the workshop at the moment, particularly with the early model 911s,
13:15is their common rust problems in the front nose section.
13:18So we've got this little one in just to rip apart.
13:21New fuel tank.
13:22The old one's damaged and rusty.
13:24We fix all the new panels, which we just repair and replace.
13:28And then just square the front up again, a bit of paint and the correct stone guard
13:32and see a little work that they require.
13:34Just a simple little rust job, but neat and tidy to get him back on the road again.
13:38With the old panels that are rusted, they get cut off and we replace them with new.
13:42There is some sort of small fabricating, but you can buy a lot of the 911 panels
13:46and we can build the car back to its factory setting, which is really what you want to do.
13:50So our goal at Styling Automotive, when rebuilding the cars, is to make them as good as factory or better.
14:00We can do some minor upgrades and features to just give them that bit of extra boom that they need.
14:06And it goes back to its factory colour code.
14:08And we don't alter the code at all or any of the paint for that matter,
14:12just so we can get them as close as we can to back in the day.
14:20I guess with all the customers that we've built cars for over the years, including the Porsche and the 911 stuff,
14:26they tend to have a bit of a heart for another Mercedes or a little BMW or a Lamborghini.
14:31So we tend to pick up some of those cars and we don't discriminate against any of them.
14:36We love the European brands. We work on all of them.
14:39And it's great that we just get a bit of a variety. The boys enjoy it.
14:42And it's cool to look at when you walk into the workshop.
14:52Up next, we head to Sue Performance to check out their Dodge D100 Tesla build.
15:04So Pacemaker is traditionally known as Pacemaker Headers.
15:08And as a company, we are an exhaust manufacturer.
15:11It has its origins in the 1970s.
15:13As a company, we're bordering on the 50 year category now.
15:16And we've got our origins in our product range that we still make today.
15:19Our exhaust systems are all made from 409 grade stainless steel.
15:23It's a 1.5 mil wall thick, all fabricated and built here in Australia.
15:28Pacemaker have developed advanced technologies in our mufflers and our cats.
15:33We have a very special high-flow cat setup.
15:35And Pacemaker also use long-strand fibreglass in our mufflers and double-skinned walls as well.
15:40There's a gain in both performance and economy.
15:42Economy is picked up because the engine is not having to work as hard as what it once was before to remove the exhaust gases from the engine.
15:49But obviously by doing so, that frees up the engine and allows the performance to improve.
15:52Each vehicle is different, but you know, across the border, set of headers can generally pick you up, you know, around a 10% gain.
15:58And it can vary depending on what you do from there.
16:01All reputable exhaust shops and mechanical workshops and performance shops stock Pacemaker products and you can get yours there.
16:08So the EV Dodge D100 is coming on nicely.
16:32We've got heaps of the roughing stuff down.
16:34We've got a small list of things that still need to be completed.
16:38Just fiddly little bits, you know, like in the engine bay where the front motor is.
16:42We've mounted all the coolant tanks.
16:44We've got the coolers that are actually going to run the fluid for the battery and the front motor all mounted.
16:51Sheet metals all done.
16:52We're just trying to finish finessing all the joins and the fitment of everything.
16:56And then from there we can strip the front end down, get stuff in primer and start really body working and making the engine bay look really pretty.
17:04I've had Trent doing a heap of work with the finessing.
17:10He's really dialling in all the joins, all the gaps where all the sheet metal joins or comes into contact with one another.
17:16He's welded all these edges in.
17:18We put extra beads on certain edges so we're just not stuck with a skinny sheet metal section.
17:22We've got a nice fat edge, looks really professional and it's nearly done in the engine bay.
17:31Today I'm working on the D100, so the Tesla project.
17:34So what I'm working on so far has been installing like the coolers for the motors in the front of the engine bay.
17:41So I ended up fabricating up like a cover for those which will blend into a cover that Brett has already made.
17:48So it's just like rectifying, making sure it fits.
17:53With the main engine cover that goes into the cooler cover, what I've been doing is putting like round edges on it,
18:00which in hindsight it makes it look a lot nicer, but also it serves another purpose.
18:06So basically like when we start bolting things up with freshly coated paint, you don't want like a sharp edge which will chip it.
18:13And also it makes it look ugly as well.
18:15So that's why we put round bar where we can to round off the edges.
18:20And then basically what we ended up doing on the back edge where it gets a bit tighter was just make it sort of look like a door skin where it folds back on itself.
18:29Where it gets a bit tighter, unfortunately you can't put round bar in because our bead roller will not do a depth that deep.
18:35Our round bar is three millimeters.
18:37The max that we could probably get on our bead roller is maybe one and a half mil.
18:42So that's why we had to use sheet steel, make it look like a rolled edge basically.
18:47And then we just weld up the whole edges, grind them smooth.
18:50The purpose of it is just to protect the paint.
18:53It makes it look nicer too.
18:54It's just all about the detail work and the dressing it up.
19:04So today I've had Brett welding the back end in.
19:07He's ground it all down, looks really nice, it's a really seamless look and it should be awesome when you lift the tailgate down.
19:14Today I've been working on the EV D100.
19:17At the rear of the truck we've got all this framework and bolted to the framework we've got the EV charge ports.
19:23So once the charge ports brackets have been welded in, we've got a rear panel that's going to cover them all because it all looks a bit ugly.
19:31So I'm in the process of welding in the panel that holds the charge ports and the infills where the charge port handles will go.
19:38Anything like this custom works always got a fair process behind it.
19:42So we started off with measurements and CAD design and then the panels got cut on the table then they get folded.
19:48All the plug holes got cut while it was on the table.
19:51The charge port plate got fitted and tuck welded and then we made sure everything was going to be right.
19:56Once we knew it was right then we could weld it in.
19:59This panel probably had 30 or 40 plug welds in it as well as we welded the top of the panel to the framework for that seamless look.
20:06That weld was over a metre long, something you've just got to take your time with, do it slowly, cool your welds to avoid warping the panel
20:14because we don't want to have to load it full of filler later on.
20:17If you take your time it makes the future process easier.
20:23So next on the list we've got to mount a rear coolant tank so that the batteries and the motors have coolant running through them.
20:29We've got to mount the coolant tank at the rear.
20:31We've got to finish off the lift gate and then measure to put the timber for the top.
20:36Once all the fabrication work's done we'll pull the body and the tray off the chassis.
20:44We'll complete any welding we've got to do in the hard to reach places that we couldn't reach when the car was together.
20:49And then we'll prep all the bare metal areas, all the chassis, the sheet metal and everything and we'll get it all in epoxy primer.
20:55Once I had it all welded I got Lovie to come in and do all the grinding for me while I worked on something else.
21:03I mean he did a great job grinding.
21:05It looks really good.
21:06The rear end of the car is nearly done.
21:07We've got all our wiring and all our conduit set.
21:10It's all looking really good.
21:12We've got, again, just a small list of stuff to rough in.
21:16One of the headaches is going to be the bonnet hinges.
21:18Now they've made huge tubs in the front so we've got to work out bonnet hinges.
21:21But we've done a few bonnet hinges now so it should be good fun.
21:24Coming up, we head to Bespoke Poachwork where we check out their Rolls Royce Phantom 3 build.
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23:12Yeah, so we got the buck in for the Rolls-Royce Phantom 3.
23:15And yeah, we just got straight into working on that side of the car.
23:18So we had already completed the left side of the car.
23:20So then with the buck, we were able to create the right hand side.
23:23We just started off with the quarter panel section.
23:25At the back, the big reverse curve and then started making our way through.
23:28We've got the quarter panel, the boat tail, the door skin, the bonnet side.
23:32It's all been finished.
23:33We're just in the process now of piecing together the running board and guard.
23:37A lot of the pieces have been made for it.
23:38And it's all a matter now of joining pieces, putting in details.
23:42The shape is quite radical.
23:44So there's a lot of reverse curves and compound curves, a lot of transitional type shapes.
23:48So having the buck has been very beneficial for that.
23:51So we can try and get those pieces as accurate as possible.
23:53There's always a funny mix between doing the first side.
23:56You get to sort of work freely, so you're not trying to copy anything.
23:59So you've got time in design and you're working out how to do it.
24:02But the second time, you always have that contrast of trying to replicate it as best as possible.
24:06So some areas will go very fast.
24:08But then some of the more complex areas actually go a little bit easier the first time around.
24:12So you've got more time on the second side trying to replicate.
24:19On the bonnet, there was a bit of a redesign that we'd done to the original to try and make it work with our design.
24:24Quite a basic sort of style of hinge, but it was very difficult to be able to mark and get things measured up correctly when there was no access to really getting there.
24:32So I had to climb into the engine bay and put my fingers through small little holes to try and mark things.
24:36And it was quite difficult.
24:38We had to make a little bit of a concession, I guess, with the comfortability of it.
24:42So on the Rolls Royces, they are right hand gear shift.
24:45And we wanted to narrow the design of the body up quite some to make it a little bit more sleek, not as heavy,
24:52and make it more of like a sports roadster more so than a heavy sort of limousine car.
24:56Bringing the car in, it means that we ran into the problem of having the gear shift and the door quite close together.
25:02So we've made a bit of a unique feature of the door on the driver's side, which gave us a little bit of a pocket for the gear stick and the handbrake to sort of live in.
25:10The right hand drive and right hand shift has caused, not caused problems, but created problems.
25:15We have had to put a pocket in the driver's door so you can actually physically change gears in the car as well as operate the handbrake.
25:22It is quite unique in that aspect. It was quite a common thing back in the day, being that most Rolls Royce or Bentleys and the like were chauffeur driven cars.
25:32So what it was designed to do was to stop people from trying to get in on the driver's side and steal the vehicle,
25:37because the person couldn't physically get past the shifter and the handbrake.
25:41While I was working on the right hand side of the car, Tom was working away on the inner structure for the cow panel, the floors, the inner quarter panels, the inner doors, all that sort of thing.
26:02Making new doors is quite a time consuming effort. It required re-supporting the hinge.
26:07The hinge bracket actually moves slightly forward, so the door is physically shorter than the original.
26:13Then making the original hardware work in the new door was quite a time consuming process,
26:18because we have narrowed the front to more flow with the design.
26:21We've used the original Rolls Royce hinges, which were originally like a double acting hinge.
26:25They actually swung a rear door as well as the front door on one hinge.
26:29It took a little while to clean them up and get them to free up as well, because they were quite old,
26:33and the original rear door had been sat, froze for however long.
26:38We've also used all the original Rolls Royce mechanisms inside the door, inside and out.
26:43Yeah, it's been quite a rewarding process to get it to just close very nicely.
26:47It has a nice solid thud to it. It opens very smoothly. It doesn't feel heavy in the hand either, despite it being an aluminium door.
26:55It also has a steel X-frame inside, which helps brace a lot of the door and gives the door a lot of its structure.
27:06We've actually kept with the suicide front doors. It's quite a traditional thing with the Rolls Royce.
27:10The back door would have been standard like a modern sedan these days, but the front obviously opens to make better access for people to get in and out of.
27:17When we did the passenger side of the car at first, the handle has ended up in quite an original spot and quite a more traditional feel.
27:23It's not far back on the door. It's not too high or too low.
27:26That created a problem with the driver side door because of the right hand shift.
27:30So we've had to physically move all the hardware inside the door up, but we need to create a set of linkages and rockers.
27:37So the handle is in the same spot on the external of the vehicle.
27:41Once Aidan has got the rest of the body together, that will then give me a chance to do the outer door skin.
27:49Also the front guard mounts, the rear body mount for the external of the car, running board mounts, the inner guard for the front guards and the inner guard for the rear guards as well.
28:01We're going really well with the car.
28:03It's at a really good point where all the pieces are starting together as in that puzzle.
28:07So we've got two swinging doors and things like that happening.
28:11So it's getting to that point where very shortly it's all going to really just piece together as a car and we're just up to sort of buttoning it all together.
28:18We're just finishing the body on this car.
28:20So we will obviously fabricate all the pieces, weld things together, get things set with temporary rivets, and then it will go back down to Victoria to the owner.
28:28And he has another shop that will be doing the restoration of the chassis.
28:32They will do all the paint and organised trim and things like that.
28:35So they will do all the final setting of rivets and things like that.
28:37We may possibly go down and help them.
28:39But yeah, there's still a whole sort of restoration to be done after we get this body built.
28:44Next up, Ron Goodman heads to the Berrimar Cars and Coffee Show.
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30:29We've taken half a day off work. Sunday morning, last Sunday of the month, we're heading to the Berrimer Cars and Coffee.
30:36But before we do, we always stop in at the Mittabrew at Mittagong for a coffee and some breakfast and then head down to Berrimer.
30:43The first guy we come across today is Jeff. He's here today with his Porsche and mate, it is amazing.
31:02Jeff, can you tell us a bit about it?
31:03Yeah, this was my first project. It's a 1974 Porsche 911 that I've controversially backdated so it looks older than it is.
31:12But I did everything myself in my garage. I sewed the interior, I painted it, I rebuilt the engine, I wired it, I did everything.
31:20And it's a comfortable, drivable car that I use. I've driven it to Adelaide, I've driven it to Tasmania.
31:25I use it regularly and, yeah, it's got air conditioning and cruise control and it's a comfortable, usable car.
31:34Yeah, I must say, I've looked at it a couple of times at different car shows and what you've done is amazing.
31:38Like, I build the cars and it's as quality as what we do so it's really, really good.
31:42Thanks, Ron.
31:51The weather ain't good here today as we've seen but, you know, like, we're here now with Nathan.
31:55Nathan started this whole event off many years ago. We've got a lot of diehards here today and mate, it's an incredible event.
32:01Last Sunday of every month.
32:03This is actually our 24th meet here in the Highlands.
32:06I actually inherited this meet from a couple of local car enthusiasts who started this in Bowral probably three and a half, four years ago.
32:14And they started this very much as a social commitment to each other.
32:18It was about mates, you know, checking in on each other on a regular basis.
32:22So as much as it is about the cars, it's definitely about the people as well.
32:26So it's the perfect spot in the Highlands.
32:29Easy access on and off the highway and so much parking space and parks and tons of cafes as well to look after us.
32:36Feed the masses.
32:37The guys here at Smokeham do a great job too.
32:39Incredible job.
32:40These guys were the first on board in regards to supporting us and the way that they've adapted and, you know, they test out their new staff on our days as well.
32:50If they can handle that, they can handle anything.
32:51Because normally we'll get upwards of around 400 cars and nearly a thousand people on most meets.
32:57Mate, I don't dare doubt it.
32:59I've been here when it's packed and you've got to park half a mile down the road and walk up here.
33:03Absolutely.
33:04It's amazing.
33:05Most definitely.
33:06Mate, congratulations.
33:07You've done a fine event.
33:08It's absolutely fantastic.
33:10I think the important part is making sure that we respect the community and working with the community that we're a part of here.
33:15And we really do try and ensure that we, you know, marry up with some of the more charitable events that the locals are trying to engage with as well.
33:23So we really lean into that too.
33:26Huge kudos to you.
33:27Yeah, thank you so much.
33:28Thank you so much.
33:29It's a wet day today and Bob's here in a super, super big banger GT Falcon.
33:39You want to tell us a bit about it, Bob?
33:41Yeah, my old man had it for 35 years.
33:44Passed it on to me.
33:45The only thing I've done to that thing since dad's had it, he's put the 408 in it.
33:51Still the genuine paint, genuine interior, untouched.
33:54Wow.
33:55It's an amazing car.
33:56Even when you come in just heads turned left, right and centre, you can hear her coming a mile away.
34:00Big, big banger Ford.
34:01Yeah, it is.
34:02Yeah.
34:03She's running about 530 at the wheels, so she's all right.
34:05Yeah.
34:06On daylight today, that's going to be fun driving that.
34:07I love it.
34:08It's beautiful.
34:09It's beautiful and that's what that's good for.
34:16Out of all the cars turning up here in the wet, David turned up in this absolutely stunning
34:21XA Fairmont.
34:23It looks immaculate.
34:24I've had it for, what, 24 years?
34:27And I've had it on the road since May last year.
34:30So it's been a long time coming.
34:32You did all the work yourself?
34:34No, I did some of the work.
34:35I put it all together, like I assembled the car, bought all the stuff obviously,
34:38bought all the stuff obviously but yeah i i put it all together i did a bit of the rust work
34:43painted underneath and just pretty much put it all together you've got an engine built for it
34:47i've put aftermarket front end as in coilover struts and brakes big brakes that's stunning
34:53man and to have it out on a day like today you're a true true enthusiast yeah thanks for bringing
34:58it i had to bring it i love coming to bear it's such a nice place to be coming through in the
35:02event even if the rain's lousy but it's a nice drive i come through the mountains through from
35:06bombardier so coming through cambora mountain and barren gary it's good fun drive car's built for
35:11it now too yeah it's got the big wheels and the big brakes and it handles handles better than than
35:16it would have originally i imagine next up mark from dynamotive takes us through his latest project
35:26the pro stock drag car build you want to check this one out
35:41addx detailing is your one-stop shop for everything detail and custom work for your vehicle across it
35:48at multiple shops we take in every kind of vehicle so we take in a lot of exotic cars a lot of four
35:53drives normal everyday cars and we even do caravans so we have two main locations for addx detailing one
36:02our hq is in tollamarine and we have another shop in cheltenham and then next door at the hq we have
36:09addx vanguard which is caravan zone as soon as a car comes through our doors we get in and give it a full
36:17deep clean inside and out then we get it into the wash bay we do a paint decontamination then we start
36:22the paint correction process so we polish all exterior panels including the glass and we get
36:27out every single swirl watermark scratch and all the hazing we get it brand new and then we apply
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36:49and we can book your car in
37:03so we'll get the beginnings of our chrome ollie chassis for our pro mod build so we're basically
37:18building a full-on pro mod build race car drag car out of an xc gxl ute so it'll roughly resemble an
37:29xc falcon ute but full chrome molly pro mod spec race car we were originally going to build that xc as
37:38a street car loosely speaking the street car and sticking it you know 1500 horsepower into it with
37:44a big block ford engine we've changed direction a little bit same alloy big block ford hemi headed big
37:52block ford engine but two big pro mod turbos and upwards of three and a half thousand horsepower proper
38:00mark williams modular 10 inch diff turbo 400 two-speed pro mod trans you know the proper the proper deal
38:08so there's two options with building a car like we were going to do so we leave the the standard ford
38:16chassis and then roll cage at all but it's not really a pro mod car if it's done like that it's strong
38:24enough in the roll cage and it'll do all that and it'll be good enough for whatever category we build the cage
38:28to but if we build it as a pro mod car and a proper chrome molly chassis like this it's lighter it's
38:35stronger it'll take a hit but it's also a much easier car to tune the chassis to because it's all
38:44this is one piece so when this comes off the jig rolling the body will clip on and off it's going
38:51to have open and closey doors still but the basically the body is gutted out and dropped onto the onto
38:57the frame so it's lighter and stronger it's going to have a obviously a little modular live axle rear
39:03end adjustable shocks a strut front end nothing forward related in the front end just a drag racing strut
39:12a little rack and pinion steering wheel and yes the car will sit down and go but that the way they
39:18sit down and go it's more the way the tyre reacts than the suspension the suspension actually extends
39:23when you hit them off the trans brake so that the suspension extends and they sit down on the tyre
39:28that's where they take that attitude where they sit down like that these cars are very tunable when
39:32i say tunable you know we're going to set it up so that it goes down the track straight and it'll be
39:38fast it'll be exciting and all that but basically your mum could drive it because it'll just go down
39:43the track dead straight like an arrow top end parachutes come out happy days the fastest car
39:49i've driven went 780 180 so it was fast but not as fast as this is going to be the really fast ones
39:57of these over here go five five five threes i think i mean i'm not right up to it we did watch a couple of
40:04them the other week at the winter nationals and i can't remember what the fastest one was but they're
40:08deep in the five we want to tiptoe into the sixes and then see where it goes from there we managed to
40:13snag the wheels of our chassis builder sean mullins to do all this for us so it's going to be a work of
40:24just a quick update with our pro mod we've got some struts in it spindle mount front wheels as per the
40:31specs wishbones sean's been welding away 300 odd welds so far and counting dummy block that doesn't
40:42mean the block's not smart it's just a dummy block so that we can work around what we have to do for
40:47engine plates and you'll notice it's got a nice mark williams magnesium nine and a half inch diff in it
40:55not a nine inch nine and a half inch so yeah it's chugged along nice the way andrew rules are
41:02different speed brackets get different specifications the roll cage well the whole car is just basically
41:08a whole chrome molly cut it's getting built so it can run into the five second bracket if we stick
41:13enough horsepower into it the car we expect to go that fast basically we're going to ease into it for
41:19the guy that owns the car he probably wants to go five seconds tomorrow but there's a bunch of reasons
41:25why we might be doing that yeah so that there is a formula for the suspension as far as you know
41:31heights and angles and all that and i expect this car to go 70 off the trailer without any dialing in
41:38just as it is there it is so we'll get it set up really close off the trailer and then we'll chase
41:46the tune up and how much boost we leave the line with and all that sort of stuff to get the car faster
41:52and faster and faster and faster and then chase the suspension to get it right but as it as it is
41:57off the trailer it'll go 7-0 with your mum driving
42:04surprisingly the more horsepower you stick into these the easier they are to drive there is a point
42:10where you get too greedy with the power and the thing will just stand up and or blow the tires off it
42:15or whatever but up into probably a 680 or a 670 or something like that your mum can drive there is a
42:24big spec sheet to build a car like this and every join everything's done the chrome molly tubing the
42:32thickness where it's made everything is is really closely controlled and we get it to a point and then
42:40our tech inspector comes out has a look at it signs off on that part go to the next go to the next part
42:47go to the next part front end the struts everything's got to line up and everything's got to be approved
42:54along the way i mean it's just got the body sitting on there so we can work around it the body's got to
42:58be changed dramatically for that to be inspected as well sean's been doing this for a long time 30 plus
43:06years maybe maybe even longer and he's been building cars like this for a long time and he's been
43:10around the drag racing scene forever he's as smart as they come he's as experienced as they come he
43:15knows not only is he a good fabricator like his welds look like they've been done by a robot but he
43:21just knows it all backwards and his approach to things is just unbelievable he gets excited when
43:28i'm doing engine stuff i get really excited when i'm watching fabricate
43:40next time on rides down under workshop wars we head to the brisbane motor museum to check out the scene
43:47on screen display where ron goodman showcases his porsche 356 from road to monterey valley grunt
43:55performance begin works on their new project a valiant vg pacer the crew at superformance are busy working on
44:03the ford galaxy project mark and myself take a thousand horsepower hsv gds for a spin through
44:10the dandenong ranges we take a look into some more of the projects on the go at styling automotive
44:17we stop in at bespoke coachworks to check out the progress on the gmc
44:21all that and more on season eight of rides down under workshop wars rides down under workshop wars
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