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00:10This time on Rides Down Under Workshop Wars, we catch up with Colin from MPT and he's
00:38taking the XR6 Turbo Project to Essendon Panels for a new paint job.
00:44Vaughan from Motorresto takes us through the Heron Forks power hammer course.
00:49Shane and Ermie take the 1956 Street Machine for a blast.
00:54We head to Superformance and catch up with the progress on the Dodge Fargo van.
00:59Luke starts building the 1500 horsepower LS for the Aus Wheels Smoke Bomber.
01:04I'm first up. I'm going to go get a change of shirt. I'm going to meet you next door.
01:18If you've been following our story since we moved to our new premises in 2019, you've been watching the
01:24slow expansion of what we do. And it's stuff that we've always done except now we're doing it on a
01:28bigger scale, which is one of those scenarios where you sit back, me particularly, I sit back and go,
01:35wow, how much have we grown? Look at what we're doing now. We moved into our bigger facility,
01:41which was twice the size of our old facility. And we had a small fab shop out the back where
01:47we started fabricating exhaust systems. And it was small batch runs for Kia Stingers. From there,
01:55as they took off and progressed, and you know, we had a bit of a name with all the Kia Stinger
01:59performance stuff across Australia and New Zealand, we thought to ourselves, well,
02:04what else can we dip our tow in the water? And a couple of vehicles sort of popped up throughout
02:09that scenario. One of which, and the one I want to talk about right now, is the Nissan Patrol Y62.
02:16So we're on social media like everyone else. And I noticed that when we posted some videos here and
02:22there, that they really did pop off and, and we got a lot of really positive response from that.
02:29So we started manufacturing our Nissan Patrol Y62 bimodal exhaust systems. It's a bit of a mouthful.
02:36What the bimodal system actually does, when we're talking about a cat-back exhaust system,
02:41is allow the owner of the vehicle to have it set up two ways, one of which is have it on a remote.
02:47So they press a button and the exhaust is open. It's because in a bimodal, there's an exhaust
02:54valve there that opens and shuts remotely. So you press a button, open, loud, when the wife's not in
02:59the car. Press a button, shut, quiet, when wife is in car. It's, it's that simple. And it's a hot
03:06seller because it works so well. We also set that up with the unichip as well. So you can have it open
03:13at a certain RPM and then shut at a certain RPM. So there's, there's lots of different possibilities
03:17there. And we stole that idea of having the bimodal system from when we originally did the
03:22Kia Stinger. Then all of a sudden it popped off and went mad. Our little fab shop out the back
03:30was no longer big enough. We had to expand. So we've got our new facility, which is actually,
03:36funnily enough, right next door to our, our main factory. So it's a short walk and you can come
03:42through and this is where we manufacture all of our exhaust systems. We've got Rob, who is our lead
03:48engineer and the brains behind everything. So when we're building an exhaust system and you may have
03:52seen it, if you are a watcher of the show and you've seen Mark and myself in cars talking about exhaust
03:58systems and how we try to get them right. We measure everything. We do that as well when we're
04:03doing production cars. So with the Y62 patrol exhaust system, it was all about building the Y-pipe
04:11correctly to actually create a Venturi effect to suck the exhaust gas out of that cat-back system.
04:19So it's constantly sucking. And in doing that, you obviously create more power because you've got a
04:26vacuum in the exhaust system so the exhaust gas can get out quicker. And then we took that and we were
04:32fitting aftermarket headers and we have been on the Y62s since 2013 when they first came out.
04:38And then we designed and developed our own. And we went through four or five different models
04:43of these headers. And when I say we, I can't take the credit for it. It's Rob.
04:48He was really leading charge on this, manufacturing these different exhaust headers to suit the Nissan
04:54Nissan Patrol Y62. Sorting out different catalytic converter location, different merge pipe locations,
05:01different steps as well off the actual head itself to maximise the amount of flow,
05:08whilst still retaining the factory location. And that's really important, particularly when you're
05:14talking about exhaust systems. So you could buy one of our Nissan Patrol Y62 header packages,
05:21bolt it on, and it will bolt up to exactly where the stock location is of the factory cat-back exhaust.
05:27Which is fantastic, because every other manufacturer sort of does the same thing,
05:32which means if you don't have one of our exhaust systems, you can just buy our headers.
05:36Or if you've got someone else's headers and cats, then you can just buy our cat back. And it all
05:41matches up together. Now we get our headers HP seed, we call it, which is high-performance coatings.
05:47They're based in Lee and Gatha. And that is a ceramic coating. The reason why we do this,
05:53and it is so important, is to keep the heat into the header pipe to increase exhaust flow and keep
05:59the heat out of the engine bay. That's why our headers only come as an option being ceramic coated.
06:09So all of that is just on one particular vehicle. Now we don't just do the Nissan Patrol Y62.
06:15Obviously, I've talked about, and we do the Kia Stinger. We also do the Hyundai i30N.
06:22We do their dump pipes. We call them dump pipes. They've been called dump pipes forever.
06:26We do the Ford Raptor. So this is the new Ford Raptor V6 Twin Turbo. We do dump pipes for that,
06:35that bolt up to the factory system. And that's a crazy piece of artwork. They're engineering involved
06:40in that for Rob to set it up to actually get the coupling right with scan, 3D print, send away,
06:49get CNC machine, get test dummies to make sure it would work on every single vehicle. Obviously,
06:55we've got it completely covered now. And you can buy them online. They're at a reasonable price,
06:59and they'll just bolt straight up to the factory cat-back. Or you can buy one of our cat-backs as
07:04well and bonk it up to that. The material that we use is 304 stainless steel. We've got a five-year
07:09warranty on all of our exhaust products, which is pretty cool considering some of them have
07:14electronic components in it as well, like the bi-model exhaust. So if you ever did have any drama
07:19at all, we just swap it over. It's that simple. It's easy. Coming up, we have a new project as Colin
07:31from MPT drops the Falcon Ute off to Essendon Panels for a new paint job.
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08:47We've been looking after Essendon panels for a couple of years now. We'll be doing all the final
09:06finishes in wheel alignments and that sort of thing on the cars. And we've seen the quality of work that's
09:10come out of there. And therefore, for us, it was really a no-brainer that we choose Essendon panels to do
09:15this restoration work for us in painting the vehicle. Yeah, look, it's an old Ford. We've dealt
09:20with many vehicles. We have great passion here at Essendon panels. And our processes are the same,
09:26whether it's an older vehicle or a later model vehicle. We will ensure that the product, the final
09:33finish, it will be back to our glory days. This is a 2008 Ford XR6, probably the last of them. And
09:41the client's had this car since it was brand new, but she's in a pretty poor state of repair now.
09:46So what we're going to try to do is bring it back to its former glory. We might just tweak it a little
09:50bit, maybe put a nice set of wheels on it. But for sure, we want to make sure that the paint work is
09:54done perfectly on it. And that's why we're here at Essendon panels today. With every vehicle,
09:59we currently use Sickens paint. Sickens is OEM approved BMW and Mercedes. So we know that we're
10:06going to get that 100% quality finish. So basically, when the vehicle comes in,
10:11we've requested that it comes in clean. So it enables us to see like, you know, damage
10:16which is accident-related, but we may see additional damage which isn't related. So obviously,
10:22we communicate that with the customer. They may decide that they want it done. But usually,
10:26as a goodwill gesture, we do that extra bit for them anyway, because we're all about customer
10:31satisfaction. So yeah, once we highlight everything, then obviously, we liaise with
10:36the insurance company, the customer. So then we know how far we're going to go with the vehicle.
10:41It's a very stressful time when you, you know, you have a collision. We try to take the stress away
10:45from the customer, just put them at ease, just let them know that we're going to go above and beyond
10:50to, you know, do the right thing by them. Every car gets the same level of treatment. Every car,
10:56we give our heart and soul. Other than panels, the key to our success is organisation and process.
11:05So when a vehicle is dropped off by the customer, or we go and pick one up,
11:09the first thing that we're going to do is take check-in photos and walk around the vehicle,
11:15look for pre-existing damage, new damages, and anything that may either need to be picked up in
11:22our repair process, or even could be pre-existing. And we can have a conversation with the customer
11:28about it. We perform a diagnostic scan. So we know exactly what's going on with the computer.
11:35We have a greater picture of exactly what's going on with the vehicle. And sometimes it's not just
11:40cosmetic. That's where Colin can come in as well. So if we find mechanical damages or something that's
11:47outside the vessel and panels scope of work, we write it down during the check-in process.
12:01Next up, Vaughan from Motor Retro takes us through the Hair and Forbes Power Hammer course.
12:06James's Equipment is a distributor for global leading brands such as BendPak, Sturtle Coney,
12:19Byers Bath. So we supply hoist lifting equipment, specialised testing equipment throughout Australia
12:25in all segments. Whether it's a car dealership right the way through to a car enthusiast, or a truck
12:30dealership right the way through to truck enthusiast. The difference we see with the BendPak
12:34hoist is not just with the ergonomical technology that we use when we're operating the hoist and
12:40lifting the hoist. It's all about safety and longevity. We can put anyone under the hoist
12:44and we know they're safe. With a BendPak hoist, there's no complicated buttons to use. When we
12:50want the hoist to go up, we press the button. In return, then when we want to lower the hoist down,
12:54it's just a matter of lifting a handle and that releases the safety locks. We just press the button
12:59and it steadily brings that car down. In our BendPak range, we have the two-poist hoist,
13:06which is very, very popular. But we do the four-poist hoist and that's anything from a car to a truck
13:11in the four-poist range. So the versatility for whatever you're using in any type of application,
13:16in a workshop, we've got the hoist there to accommodate that.
13:30Today we're at the Herod Forbes branch in Melbourne. We're doing a two-day class where we're teaching
13:36guys how to use their power hammers. So we've got students that own power hammers, we've got students
13:42that are purchasing power hammers or that are interested in actually purchasing and using
13:47a power hammer. The very first thing is just to basically make a hubcap, a six-inch radius,
13:54about 250mm diameter. So it teaches them some muscle memory on how to shrink, where to shrink,
14:00how many shrinks. There is intuitive feedback, so you have to be part of the process so you're
14:05working with the machine. It's not a standalone process.
14:08We've got everyone from beginners through to professionals at this class. Some have got
14:14machines, some don't. Some are looking to buy machines, so it's a good chance for people to
14:18learn and experience and use all the tooling and get an understanding of how it all works.
14:23Today's exercises are to get hands-on, get experience using machines and to help them build
14:28confidence and maybe even aid them in making the decision to buy a machine.
14:33So these machines have been through multiple stages of development and R&D testing, all the way from
14:39the Gen 1 machines we've slowly improved, made small adjustments to how the machines work or how
14:45the machines are made. My business is resurrected metal shaping and I'm a coach builder by trade.
14:51I've been traditionally taught, so a lot of things are English wheel based and then now I've transitioned,
14:57being here in Australia, do the power hammer. Running the power hammer in the shop a lot is
15:02going to be teaching these guys how to shrink material fast and then be able to shape material
15:09fast as well using power hammers, English wheels, bead rollers, how to do style lines, all that sort of
15:15stuff. And just my years and different countries that I've been over the years and taught has quite
15:22well rounded my skill set. So I just love to be able to teach and show other people the things that
15:28I've learned so I can keep that trade and that tradition and the sheet metal shaping to continue
15:33growing. The machines are suitable for the home hobbyist, the enthusiast all the way up to the pro
15:38shops. So there's three different levels of machines and anyone who's interested in metal shaping,
15:44that could be sculptures, that could be classic cars, that could be customising, motorcycles,
15:49aircraft, anything with compound curves in sheet metal, aluminium, steel, brass, anything like that.
15:57We've been gradually developing the machine over the last four years. So what started as a fundamental
16:03prototype, we've then adapted, modified, strengthened, beefed up and we've really done the process from
16:11a reverse engineering point of view so that we're coming at it from the user's point of view to then
16:17make refinements with the manufacturer.
16:25So we start at the basics and then guys are saying right we want to do a bead rolling class or we
16:30want to do a wheeling class. The feedback that people have been giving us is a request for more training
16:35because these machines are so new they're only the last three or four years old so therefore
16:41they require training on the machines to then get the best use and application out of them.
16:46The setup of the machine is quite crucial to getting the best out of it so if we can offer small tips
16:51and tricks that we found along the way in terms of during our R&D or just single use of the machines
16:58it aids and it helps the customer at the end of the day. The comments we've got so far is people are
17:04finding that certain tools are doing more than they expected or certain tools are doing different jobs
17:10than they expected so they're all getting a lot of experience and a lot of a lot of good knowledge
17:15and finding out how to use the machine better. There's a lot of different tool changes that you
17:20can do where the the tool changing that you can do can either be shrinking dies lineal stretching dies
17:27you can stretch the material shrinking dies will bring it in you can do custom beading and then
17:33turning flanges louvers that sort of thing so if you want air to come into your car and cool down a bit
17:38you can do some louvers or if you want to do custom beading and have a really nice firewall
17:44then you can just make really nice style lines whether that's a floor pan
17:48other things so and then you can make your own custom tooling too.
17:51doing the training gives you then the possibility where you can restoration industry customizing and
18:01you can become extremely creative so designing and developing your own whatever it is so therefore
18:09once you start to understand the basic principles and the machine
18:13and you're getting successful results you can then become more proficient and expert
18:21coming up shane and ermie take the 1956 street machine for a blast
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19:46we've got don's 56 chef here yep you might know don from the rides down under aussie truckers yep and he also has
19:57some magnificent trucks but he also has some magnificent cars and this is one of them this is
20:03actually his wife's car yes this is his wife's car now one of the things that happen quite often in our
20:11workshop is we get a lot of people ring us up and describe to us what's wrong with their car and ask us
20:18over the phone if we know how to fix them or if what we think is wrong with their car so we've
20:25walked on out and we've brought this very very special tool for shane and myself to help diagnose
20:30cars over the phone it is a phone diagnosis tool also known as the crystal ball yes it works very
20:38well when you're describing the noises and what's happening over the phone so we gaze into the crystal
20:43ball and we rub it and we do all the things yes and and it tells us what's wrong
20:49this is what happened when don rang us up and said listen this car my wife's car i'd like it to drive
20:57nicely for her i'd like her to start enjoying this car again i think it's got a bit of a carburetor
21:02issue i've had it at a few other places and we just can't get it right and she hasn't driven it in
21:07i don't know five or six months and i just wanted to get it back out and enjoy it it's not driving very
21:13well it's doing these noises it's hard to start and shane gazed into his ball and said actually
21:21i can't diagnose that over the phone how about i come down pick up the car take it for a test drive
21:27and see what i find and what happened when you picked this car up what was the first thing that
21:33you picked up on this car when you took it for a drive well the first thing i picked up when i was
21:37driving it was that it was stumbling and uh missing and backfired through the carburetor so i picked it
21:46that we had an ignition issue that was the primarily what i what i found i found it was ignition related
21:51more than the carburetor related but most most cars that come into our shop they come in for carby issues
21:59and uh i fix it by fixing the ignition yes and you can't tune out a bad ignition or a failing ignition
22:07system no amount of work on your carburetor is going to fix a failing ignition system yes so before we
22:14even look at the carburetor we need to fix that problem yeah yeah so this distributor that was in
22:20that was made out of chineseium chineseium chineseium so we recommended that um don get himself an msd
22:45distributor yes so we've got an msd distributor in it now it's just a generic sort of replacement your
22:52generic gm distributor replacement so and we also found that his plugs were too hot these plugs were
23:00too hot so the heat range was wrong we found that the plug leads were melted onto the extractors in a
23:07few different positions so they were also replaced with some custom length msd leads and once we got all
23:14of that snorted on his small block chev that's in his car we then had a look at his carburation
23:21we brought it back to him took him for a drive don was very happy with the way it drove and then shane
23:27turned around said what did you tell him he said you weren't happy with the way it drove i said look
23:33it's better but it's i said the carb is probably it's down for at the moment i said if we change the
23:40carburetor to something better i reckon we could improve the drivability fuel economy and performance
23:47overall so this small block chev in don's car or don's wife's car had a holly on it didn't it
23:56shane i can't sorry sorry we have to redo that yeah yeah definitely because you were going to
24:01greasy that man no it was actually a woman no road rating while we're filming it was a very ugly woman
24:11oh my god well she did look like a man but could have been a man any rate any rate oh good headache
24:18any rate the carburetor that was on this small block chev was a holly yes and shane is a big believer
24:30and i myself am a big believer in the quadra jets all of my cars other than the one that is purpose
24:36built for drag racing have got quadra jets on it yeah so shane advised don and you gave him the same
24:44guarantee we give everybody else well basically i say look for a street performance car i say look
24:50if we uh put a quadra jet on it i said it'll perform better it'll give benefit economy better street
24:57performance and if you're not happy i'll put the other car be back on it and charge you nothing so
25:03so so to date and we've been doing this for a very very long time over a decade yeah to date we have
25:10never had anybody asked to have the holly put back on they've all kept their quadra jets now quadra
25:16jets are very much a gm carby
25:24quadra jets are very much a gm carby are they not so nothing better than having a gm carby on a gm car
25:31yeah it might take us a little bit to tune the quadra jet but once we get it right it's fantastic
25:40so we have the sunglass test this is where shane tests the takeoff on the car with whether or not
25:46the sunglasses stay on my head that's right
25:55it passed
26:00next up we head to superformance and catch up with the dodge fargo project
26:18so pacemaker is uh traditionally known as pacemaker headers and as a company we are an exhaust
26:31manufacturer it has its origins in the 1970s as a company where we're bordering on the 50-year
26:37category now and we've got our origins in our product range that we still make today
26:41our exhaust systems are all made from 409 grade stainless steel it's a 1.5 mil wall thick all
26:47fabricated and built here in australia pacemaker have developed advanced technologies in our
26:53mufflers and our cats we have a very special high flow cat setup and pacemaker also use long strand
26:58fiberglass in our mufflers and double-skinned walls as well there's a gain in both performance and
27:03economy economy is picked up because the engine is not having to work as hard as what it once was
27:08before to to remove the exhaust gases from the engine but obviously by doing so that frees up
27:12the engine and allows the performance to improve each vehicle is different but you know across the
27:16border set of headers can generally pick you up you know around a 10 percent gain and it can vary
27:20depending on on what you do from there all reputable exhaust shops and mechanical workshops and
27:26performance shops stock pacemaker products and you can get yours there
27:38today we've got lovey and brett working on the dodge fargo panel van project which is the
27:56four-wheel drive camper cross mod that we're doing it's sitting on a later model dodge ram chassis with
28:01the cummins diesel in it we've already had it on the chassis table shortened the chassis fish plated it
28:07as per the engineers instructions now what we're doing is we're trying to make a bit of a frame
28:11that will weld into the body itself and then we're going to make new bracketry off the chassis
28:16and they're going to become brand new cab mounts so with the new cab mounts in the cab effectively
28:21we've cut out a heap more of the sheet metal steel that was originally the floor pan the new chassis sits
28:27a lot higher and the way the tray is designed in a new truck compared to this van is very different so
28:32we've actually lowered the body down over the chassis considerably and doing so we're having to raise
28:37the floor in the back of the van otherwise it'll look ridiculously like a monster truck and it's just
28:43not really suitable so what we're going to do is we've templated the chassis in the cad and then
28:48we're going to transfer brand new sheet metal rhs frame rails into the same cad design and from there
28:54we're going to work out how we develop brand new cab mounts cut it on the cnc table i'll have lovey and brett
29:01fold them up and they'll weld them into the chassis
29:09so the poor dodge fargo van's in pretty bad shape i've had young bryce paint strip the main body
29:14panel so we don't warp it through sandblasting but from what we've found there's got lots of cancer in
29:19it what we're trying to do with the cab mounts is raise the body off the chassis so i can send it to
29:25the sandblaster on a dolly we've already had a lot of the little pieces like the front guards all the
29:30doors nosecone already sandblasted and a lot of the metal is pretty good it just seems where all the
29:35seams are and where they had their dodgy riveted gutters it's collected a lot of water over time so
29:40we're up for a lot of sheet metal on the outside of the car and hopefully the rest of the smaller
29:44panels just need minor tweaking and we'll be all okay
29:46yeah the fargo is a pretty wicked project i think brett's been out the front doing the sheet metal
30:00what we're going to do we're going to try and use the intercooler that came with the car we're going
30:04to use a radiator that came with the car the condenser so that if you have an accident order
30:08it straight off the shelf bolt it straight in you know it's going to work we're not making custom radios
30:13and custom this like it's just designed to be a bit of a basher so if something does go wrong
30:18you can fix it quite easily therefore we've had to extend the nose cone effectively add probably about
30:24four inches into it 100 mil just so we can clear all the intercooler and all that this bodied car
30:29never would have had an intercooler would have only had a single radiator and a four-cylinder engine
30:33small no accessories but now we're having all the accessories the big turbos so we've got to have
30:39all that stuff that comes with that drive line
30:46i've been working on the 1940 dodge fargo job at the moment i'm trying to work out how to mount the
30:52radiator in the intercooler setup we're going to try and use the factory intercooler and radiator from
30:57the dodge chassis that we're attaching it all to so i'm going to make a custom radiator sport panel
31:02i'm going to mount the guards to it i'm going to have to extend the nose cone because it's all so
31:06much deeper now than what it was before and then make it all blend in like it's supposed to be
31:15the shape the sheet metal for the front it's relatively standard basic shapes but there's
31:20still a lot involved a lot of back and forth from the tools to the car because you don't want to
31:24over stretch it or over shrink it then try to bring it back it just adds time to the job so it's always
31:29a lot of back and forth a lot of tacking brackets testing it fits cutting them off redoing it's just
31:35how it goes when you do these one-off jobs the front of this job as it gets longer it gets narrower
31:41so as i'm extending the front i've got to shrink all the radiuses so it doesn't look like i've just
31:46welded straight bits of sheet metal on to make the nose longer so i'm using the power hammer to shrink
31:51the shape in it just makes it a lot easier than doing it by hand
31:54as the front is getting longer it's getting narrower i've now got to cut the nose cone into a couple
32:05pieces and then shorten it as well
32:13the nose cone has had some repairs done back in the day so i knocked all the lead out just to see how bad
32:18it was underneath it wasn't too bad so a bit of panel beating should get it looking pretty good
32:22to remove the lead we just use the oxyacetylene torch the lead's got a much slower melting point
32:27than the than the steel sheet metal so waving the heat over it with a wire brush knocks it off pretty
32:32quick so next i'll cut the redhead support panel into a few pieces we're also trying to avoid having to
32:39extend the bonnet the top part of the redhead support will fit in its factory position and then
32:44i'll clamp the sides of the headlight buckets to my extension pieces and then work out where the
32:49center is going to go in the meantime i've had tauren measure and draw and design the floor pans
32:55and he's cut them out on the cnc plasma table bent them up and then had done a quick check fit to make
33:00sure they're all right so now that we know the floor pans fit pretty good ryan's been in there
33:04finishing up any chassis work we need to do to hold the floor pans in and he started welding the pieces in
33:09he's made a frame to go around the firewall and tie into the body bracing to hold it all together
33:15yeah so ryan's just filling a bit of a hole where we just need stuff in and welded so ryan's assisting
33:21where he can do the welding whereas the other boys can be making and fabricating which is really handy
33:24for us because making the panels is one skill welding's a different skill and i think making the
33:29panels is a fair bit more niche than what the welding is but you still need both skills to do the job
33:35once i get the nose cone fitting and sort of tacked together then i'll focus on our radiator support
33:41panel the radiator support panel will be what will hold up the inner cooler and the radiator
33:45and we'll try and keep that as a modular complete unit so it just all the cooling system comes in
33:51out in one go we know all the factory intercoolers and radiator and all coolers works for the motor
33:57that's in it so if we can retain all that then we know it'll work again so while we went with this
34:02driveline of this dodge is one you can easily get parts for it it's a very popular diesel in america
34:09it's at a 6bt cummins which is very powerful very torquey you don't need fancy gadgets to rebuild it
34:15you don't need anything so he's going to go in the middle outback and the car will be able to withstand
34:20the outback temperatures conditions we're not going for huge power he wants reliability
34:26okay fuel consumption basically getting from a to b in the outback
34:40coming up loop starts the 1500 horsepower ls build for the oz wheels smoke bomber
34:56so day 31 was absolutely insane so last night the boys went full bore and were there quite late
35:09painting the inside and the outside of the car this morning we got up nice and early back into the
35:14shop again got the front end all mounted into the car we had the diff mounted in the rear we adjusted
35:20the tie rods as well the front wheels were put onto the car and turned the car really into a full-blown
35:25roller this morning went up to jace's got it rolling so front end in different steering column
35:31in it all went together as expected it wasn't too bad i'll be up to jace every sort of second day
35:36the boys they've been smashing it obviously getting from what we started with to a painted
35:41shell in just on four weeks perille exactly the amount of progress that the boys have made so fast
35:47like every day i go there it blows my mind so i've been sort of randomly jumping in and out every
35:52couple of days but every time i go back it looks like a completely different car again like the
35:57amount of progress that they're making and the hours and work that's going into it is just tremendous
36:03so we got the diff to length off the boys at superformance that we gave them a measurement for
36:08our wheels for our backspace and then they gave us all the brackets me and jace got into the car
36:13probably like half a day nutted out everything tacked it all on got door square done the coil over brace
36:18we sent it back to toddy like four days later todd punched it out for us which is like ridiculous
36:24superformance out being great with us like they're one of our major sponsors on the build and turning
36:28it around quickly bolted it all in went all in straight as expected lifted up pushed the bolts
36:34through pretty simple so we had a big group of the boys down there today we had mark we had scotty of
36:40course luke myself as well as jace too in the shop so again pumping all hands in on a sunday but luckily
36:48luke has lots of good mates we can call in some good favors
36:53yeah satin black looks good we've just done that for a few reasons that way the interior and the
36:58boot and the firewall all flow in so the whole car's the one color technically and then with
37:03the satin black obviously there's no clear so our dry flash times of trying to paint it were a lot quicker
37:08and the dry times to reapply the wrap the clear doesn't need a cure and we don't have to buff it and
37:13look after the paint so originally when we first started luke broached the idea of potentially
37:18painting the car in a nice color that we could have to keep the body good under the wrap so after
37:24a few ideas bounce around he said i think satin black will look gorgeous on the car so we tried to
37:29pick a few bits and pieces so luke picked a few parts like the front end and did them in the gloss black
37:34as well so it steps off the satin and looks absolutely gorgeous we had flash detailing he came in
37:40and did a ceramic coating all underneath the car as well this morning before we mounted everything
37:45in so that was again come in on a sunday morning and punched it out for us so just amazing the rear
37:51of this car is unbelievable you'd never be able to stand at the back of this and ever pick that it was
37:56a hz i was laughing with one of the boys today miguel and i said just have a look at the body lines like
38:01you'd never ever ever pick that they filled them in it's absolutely amazing
38:19so we just done the diff on the ground obviously today so i went back through tightened everything
38:23got it on the right angles ready to go it'll just need a tweak at the end once the car's at weight
38:28tomorrow with full steam on wiring i've made a panel for up under the dash started mounting all
38:33the ecu and everything on it so we can hit the ground running with wiring tomorrow this week we got
38:40motor box in a building engine wiring fuel system oil system auto towel shaft there's a list
38:54yeah so this week the boys were building the engine so the main one doing that was dan and he was
38:58building the the engine actually at his house so myself and luke were there the very first night
39:02till about one o'clock in the morning but they did all the spacing and all the gaps they put the
39:06bearings in and everything as well so it came out really really really well and other than that
39:11really dan's been punching it out majorly by himself this engine we want it to be reliable we
39:19don't want to put just a standard motor in there that we got to replace every six months because it's
39:23cooked and no doubt every time they blow up it's at the worst possible time when you're trying to
39:27compete and you've driven all that way and you get one skid into it and it's game over so trying
39:32to build a reliable big horsepower engine which normally don't go in the same sentence so within
39:37doing that we're trying to use quality components making sure it's all measured properly we're
39:41confident with it all writing a maintenance schedule and where everything should be checked
39:46and when and how and maintaining that so dan's trying to stop the degree wheel at the moment
39:54we've already set up our piston stop and our pointer ready to go so we're going to dial in to get our
40:01top dead center zero so within doing that we're going to wind down the piston stop turn the engine
40:07around find the number turn it back around to find the number divide it in half set it at zero
40:13that'll be our true zero so that's on the top lift full lift so we're going to go back 50.
40:19so yeah lock off the stop see the piston's actually recessed in so it's not up which
40:28means that we can get our degree going to start at setting up at 15. so if it was at zero when we
40:34turn it back over the other way it'd be 15 again so that's 50 thou before top lift write down that
40:42number it's now 50 thou pass and we're at zero again so yeah this is very important to find your
40:49true top dead cell obviously just running your finger on top of the piston isn't accurate because
40:54the piston can sit at zero for a point has about eight degrees of put rock on the top
41:01but it's all about the compression stroke so it's coming up now that's zero so you're coming 50 thou on the
41:09intake so now we're doing lobe separation so lobe separation is what the cam to dial the camshaft in
41:20our lobe sets 12 1 12 that we're chasing on this so the intake center line we go full lift
41:26back it off 50 write down that number turn it over and go past 50 write down that number and add them
41:33together so cam gear it's got numbers plus eight plus six plus four plus two zero minus two minus four
41:50and then it has numbers also on the teeth so if you're doing it four you need to do it four on the
41:55teeth now um that was out so we're going to try zero most cams are normally four plus so they might have
42:04already cut it on four plus two which is common so now we'll go mark zero and then reset it up and do
42:10the loop set again so now you'll see we're lined up zero so now it's back to center line
42:32and i've known him for a long time his workmanship on building engines is next level we get these
42:43people all the time saying to us oh you can put that motor together in a day i don't know any motor
42:48that goes together in a day when you actually measure everything properly measuring all your
42:53clearances on the crank rods the machine shops say they get it right but they machine without the
42:58bearings obviously i always like to triple check it myself you buy a box of bearings mate no two
43:05bearings in that one box is the same you watch many engine builders on all these shows and they
43:09have a big cartridge on their wall if you look in close they only have a texter written on the back
43:14with how many thick that bearing was to actually make a set that's sort of how it's going to be done
43:20but we don't have in australia access to have 50 sets of different bearings of every bearing on the shelf
43:25within doing that we also dialed in the camshaft properly liftable clearance many many more
43:34conclusions i built a fair few engines with daniel for myself as well we built my lj motor tonner motor
43:40monara motor every other car i've owned motor all my friends cars motors many times dan's yeah taught me
43:49a lot of lessons on motors how to do them they are time consuming beast
43:53the biggest trick there is not rushing and making sure everything's measured and measured and measured
44:10next time on rides down under workshop wars the oz wheels smoke bomber heads to the dyno the fiji jet
44:18goes for a tour around the dandenong rangers and my personal favorite dynamotive finally complete
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