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00:28This week on Ridesounder Workshop Wars, we catch all the action at Motor X and we check
00:38out the game-changing BYD Shark with Rich from Dynamotive.
00:42We get a look inside Performance Pulse Expo in Brisbane.
00:46Mark and I fire up the Hatchback Tirana for a coffee at the 1 in 20 cafe, but first Luke
00:52drops a 1500 horsepower LS into the Oz Wheels Smoke Bomber.
00:57Let's get into it.
01:07Today is Friday, so it's officially the start of week number five.
01:11We went up to Jason's last Sunday, we got off to stand in the spray booth, got it rolling,
01:16we more or less just got the front end in and the diff in just to get it rolling, get it
01:18on the trailer, get it home, get it on the hoist so we can get under it more accurately
01:21and dial it all in.
01:22Got all the front suspension in, got all the air jacks working in the front, got all the
01:27diff dialed in, got the pinion angle at ride height.
01:29Pinion angle won't change because as the weight goes in the car, we'll just give it more spring
01:33pressure and get the ride height back to the desired height.
01:37Beginning of the week, we started dynamating inside all the car, in the boot, all the panelling,
01:41ready for Kevin, so we can start running his wires all over it.
01:45He came Monday morning, he's been chipping away at getting all the wiring done.
01:48We did Haltech Nexus, wideband module, EGTs for the motor.
01:53We've done a PDM as well, we're probably going to run out of inputs to run all the body.
01:57Within doing that, we made an aluminium panel that bolted up to the firewall, so then we
02:00could nut-set all the computer on so it could be easily removed in and out, not trying to
02:04have to hold a nut and bolt behind a panel and struggle.
02:07With Kevin, we've ran the battery isolators to the rear, we ran all the battery cables from
02:12the back of the car to the front to a battery post, so that we could then jump off that
02:16for all our plumbing.
02:17The used E10 Haltech dash, we've already mounted that in the car before it was painted, so
02:22it's ready for Kevin to start wiring.
02:24Luke's organised me to come down and work on the smoke bomber.
02:28He's organised some Haltech gear and PDM bits and pieces, and what we've been doing is
02:33we've been wiring that up into the car.
02:36Because we're on such a tight schedule, we need to know exactly where everything is, so
02:41that therefore we don't come up to a problem later on when there's fitting the bumper bars
02:45and bits and pieces like that where you end up with cables too short, too long, so it all
02:50has to be planned out properly.
02:53When you're mounting coils under the dash, because the Haltech loom runs it out to the
02:57engine bay, you have to then strip the loom down and then re-route it inside.
03:04Because it is going for the show look as well, we have to make sure that all the wiring
03:08is hidden, and where you can see it, it needs to be respectable.
03:13So the boys have been working around the clock, specifically Kevi, who's been in there playing
03:18hundreds of metres worth of wiring and harnesses and things as well.
03:22Luke's been running a lot of the hard lines for the brakes, from the brake booster down
03:26to the calipers, and also hard lining all the fuel lines that run from the injector block
03:31up to the blower hat as well.
03:33So something that looks really, really tricky.
03:35He's probably about 90% of the way there, a few more refinements to make, but it looks
03:39absolutely incredible, man.
03:40Yeah, I've been battling these mechanical EFI lines on the blower hat.
03:45I'm very fussy, and I'm struggling to get to my end of where I want them to look.
03:51So it's taken me a few attempts, but I've got a roll on now and sort of made three from
03:55three at the moment.
03:56So we'll get another one.
03:57Most of these blower lines are normally a Teflon line with a gold fitting on the end,
04:00and they just do like a big hoop, because they're actually designed normally for mechanical
04:04injection, not for the EFI blend like we're doing, going to a metering block on the back.
04:09They're normally used on a funny car, door slammer, etc.
04:13They're not looking for neatness, they're looking for speed and ability to be able to
04:16service the car.
04:17I want to do a nice stainless hard line so they look neat, because we're also trying
04:21to do a show and go car.
04:22Not just go, we need it to be practical, but also very aesthetically pleasing.
04:28There's no formulas or anything, mate, it's just trial and error by hand, try and make
04:32sure you like it, make one, see how it looks, critique it, go again.
04:38We've dropped all the interior cage off to Drome at All About Trimming.
04:43To get all trimmed, we're going to leather wrap all the cage inside and pat it.
04:46Instead of just doing it around the head area and leaving the bottom painted, we like to
04:49do the whole cage trimmed.
04:51In the boot, we're leaving it painted and exposed.
04:54So we bolted that in so we could start putting the fuel tank.
04:56We put the dry sump bracket in, that OC billet supplied for us from our drawing.
05:01We mounted up all the dry sump, plumbed it to two bulkheads going through above the diff
05:07in the tunnel to start running down the front.
05:10We've also plumbed up the fuel pump, welded in the hanger in the fuel cell.
05:16They're all through to bulkheads as well.
05:17The boot is looking absolutely incredible.
05:20So the way that Luke has spaced all this out and planned it out, we've actually stripped
05:24a lot of the trimmings and things out.
05:26So we are going to have the fuel tank in the center surrounded by a satin black bar as well.
05:32So the roll cage has looped in and around the fuel tank as well.
05:35So the whole boot is exposed metal and all satin.
05:39And we've got a few billet components in there as well.
05:41So it really, really makes it just jump at you when the boot's open.
05:53So this week the boys were building the engine.
05:55So the main one doing that was Dan and he was building the engine actually at his house.
05:58So myself and Luke were there the very first night until about one o'clock in the morning,
06:02which that was an absolutely insane day.
06:05But they did all the spacing and all the gaps, they put the bearings in and everything as
06:08well.
06:09So it came out really, really, really well.
06:10Other than that, really, Dan's been punching it out majority by himself, but they did drop
06:15the engine over yesterday or today, which was super, super exciting and test fitting it
06:21in the car.
06:22Some I've been really, really looking forward to.
06:24I haven't seen all of it so far, but watching it all piece together and how it's going to
06:28look when it comes together.
06:29I'm so excited to see it all sit in the car today.
06:32It's one of the things I've been the most looking forward to throughout this build.
06:36So seeing it all to come together and then of course, getting to be a part of it as well,
06:40something really, really special.
06:42Dan and myself has been helping us with the motor.
06:45We've been doing that nearly every night this week.
06:48He's worked the last two days solid on it, getting it together.
06:51The motors, as motors do, fired us all along the way.
06:54We mic'd up all the crank.
06:55It was all perfect for the machine shop.
06:57All the main caps were perfect.
06:58We finished up today with ending on the great week to start of week five with an assembled
07:05engine in the front end.
07:06We've just got to change a few bolts out in the engine plate, et cetera.
07:09We didn't quite have the right bolts tonight, so we wanted to get it in, so we'll just change
07:13them out tomorrow.
07:14Our converter, another issue along the way.
07:17We ordered it from America about four weeks ago.
07:21Finally turned up today.
07:22Opened the box.
07:23It's for a hammy.
07:24It's not our converter.
07:26So we got straight on the phone to them in America tonight because we love working all
07:31night anyway when they get up in the morning.
07:33So they're going to punch one out for a couple of days for us now and air freight it over,
07:37so they really came to the party with helping us fix this issue because we're definitely
07:40on a time crunch and it's going to cost us a week of no converter of getting rolling on
07:45the car.
07:46Also, that will mean the gearbox has to come out again, put the converter back in, gearbox
07:51back in.
07:52But by doing this mounting this way, now I can continue to have the whole engine bay plumbed,
07:56have the shifter set up, have a tail shaft length off the gearbox because I need to be
08:00able to order a tail shaft length from the box to the diff face.
08:03That'll take about a week, so I need to get that organised ASAP because we're about three
08:09weeks in countdown to the dyno, mate.
08:11So the engine going into the car actually makes it feel more like a real car, I suppose.
08:15So we're ticking all the boxes and moving along at tremendous speed.
08:19I mean, every time I see the car, I joke that it looks more and more like a real car, but
08:24the amount of work they're progressing over the days is just something I've never witnessed
08:28before in my life.
08:41Up next, we head to MotorX.
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09:53Right, we're here at Motor X and we've got Rob here with Frank and Charger, who you've watched
10:08us build over the last few years on rides down under Workshop Wars.
10:14And it's good to see that you've got Frank and Charger out at all the shows.
10:18It's been everywhere and I'll be very honest, I'm so sick of cleaning it.
10:23I just want to drive it and not worry about it, but the car looks good, it's had a lot
10:27of attention, a lot of good comments, so it's been a great day so far.
10:32So Rob's been around to, up at Chrysler's on the Murray, you've been doing base city Chrysler
10:38show, it's been, where else have you had it Rob?
10:41I've been to Port Melbourne, it's been to killer cars, it's been to a lot of coffee days
10:47and coffee and cruises.
10:49So pretty much we've put about 1300 miles on it this summer and it hasn't missed a beat.
10:54And you let Shane do something very interesting on Chrysler's on the Murray, you gave him the
11:00keys and let him go around the racetrack, how was that?
11:04It was really a bit disappointing because he drove it a bit like an old lady, I wanted
11:08him to give it 100%, but no, it was good to see the car out there, first time circuit and
11:13it finished top 10 which was a great effort, Shane did a good job with the car and I'm going
11:17to do better.
11:18Now we don't really have your car, your rear end, the four link and it's set up for track
11:23racing do we?
11:24We've got it set up more for a quarter mile at the moment?
11:27Yeah, at the moment it's set up 50-50 and we really could have done with a lot more spring
11:32or a lot more rebound in the right hand side for that track that we were on, but next year
11:38or the year after we'll have a good play with that and see how we go.
11:41Now what are the plans for the future?
11:44I know that you want to get it out on the track yourself, so which tracks we're doing
11:48quarter mile or track work as well?
11:52I think we'll get through crosses on the Murray next year, we'll have a fair dinkum tilt at
11:55that and then we're going to set it up and do some track work, try and run a high 10 aspirated
12:02and then hit the bottle and then get it consistent enough, I want to do drag work.
12:07We're here at Motorex this year and I'm with Ryan in front of the Hare and Forbes stand.
12:17You might remember Ryan from last episode where he was running through how to use some of these
12:22machines and shape some metal in the Hare and Forbes course.
12:26So what are you up to today Ryan?
12:28Today we're up to just doing some metal shaping demos, running the power hammer, the English
12:34wheel, that sort of thing and basically shaping with a, starting out with a template, very
12:40similar to the episode that was on the following before this and starting with templates, shrinking,
12:48hammering it out, stretching material and moving some metal.
12:51So what magic panel will you be making today for us, a bonnet scoop or some flares?
12:58Today we're doing a half a wheel well, so doing mini tubs type of thing and from that as well
13:05we're doing like a one side of a motorcycle tank too.
13:09So that means you'll be putting a lot of these plenishing hammers and the big English wheel
13:14through its paces?
13:16Yeah, definitely taking the tools through its paces, so running the hammers at full speed,
13:21and then doing a lot of shrinking and running the small hammer and the big power hammer
13:26together in conjunction and then running it through on a lot of options of different
13:30wheels depending on the radius that we're doing as well.
13:46So we're here with Mel Wood, nearly 50 years in the business mate, how good's that?
13:51Yeah, next March, 50 years, yep. Long, long time, long road.
13:58If anyone didn't know, but we buy a lot of transmissions off Mel Wood, and we've been
14:03dealing with Mel Wood's business for a long time. He's really great with after bitment care,
14:10so in other words, if you've got an issue or you need something changed or modified
14:15because you've gone a different direction, he can sort it out, not a problem.
14:19Well, that's what we've always worked on is to try and give somebody a whole package, not
14:25just a transmission. As you know, you said to me the first time, you said, well what do
14:31I do about the bell house? And I said, we do this. What do we do about the clutch? We do this.
14:37And if you can put it together as a transmission package, as we like to call it, it's easy for
14:45the customer because he's not shopping here, there, everywhere to get components. And then
14:51if there is an issue, you own the issue. So Mel, tell us about some of your other products.
14:57We've now moved in to manufacturing a lot of components. So we now cast and machine some
15:05of our bell housings. We make our own crossmovers, as you know. And we also do our underdash hydraulic
15:13clutch pedal assembly. As you know, you're in America at SEMA and the Melwood underdash got
15:21best new innovative product at SEMA, which is the biggest show in the world, realistically.
15:26So our product that we developed in Australia is now sold in America and to a very, very
15:34broad network of clubs and people through Melwood USA, which is located in Iowa.
15:42But also, too, with Melwood's products, when you buy a package off him, everything fits.
15:48No, no two cars are the same, Chrysler's especially, because they've got nine tooth, ten tooth, short,
15:54long. They've got many different styles of flywheels. And it becomes very confusing when
16:01you're trying to get everything to sort out and work. But anyway, at the end of the day,
16:06great product, great guy, been in business for nearly 50 years, can't go wrong. And if anyone could, Melwood.
16:15Up next, the Sue Performance crew wrap out the killer F-100 build.
16:25James' equipment is a distributor for global leading brands such as Bendback, Sturtle Coney,
16:37Fiesbath. So we spy hoist lifting equipment, specialised testing equipment throughout Australia
16:43in all segments, whether it's a car dealership, right the way through to a car enthusiast, or
16:48a truck dealership, right the way through to truck enthusiast. The difference we see with
16:52the Bendback hoist is not just with the ergonomical technology that we use when we're operating
16:57the hoist and lifting the hoist, it's all about safety and longevity. We can put anyone under
17:02the hoist and we know they're safe. With the Bendback hoist, there's no complicated buttons
17:07to use. When we want the hoist to go up, we press the button. In return, then when we want
17:11to lower the hoist down, it's just a matter of lifting the handle, and that releases the
17:15safety locks. We just press the button and it steadily brings that car down.
17:22In our Bendback range, we have the two-post hoist, which is very, very popular, but we
17:26do the four-post hoist, and that's anything from a car to a truck in the four-post range.
17:30So the versatility for whatever you're using in any type of application in a workshop, we've
17:35got the hoist there to accommodate that.
17:37So on the F100 project, we're pretty much reworking the bonnet hinge idea. We started off fabricating
17:55our own bonnet hinges and thought it was all going to work, and then once we got it on there,
17:59went to lift it, and because of the way the bonnet's shaped and it curves back quite far
18:05behind the opening, it just wasn't working. So what we've done, we've got a couple of different
18:10suppliers that make billet bonnet hinges. One of those is Eddie Motorsports. We've used this
18:14stuff before. It works really well. We've bolted them on. The bonnet does open and close, and
18:19they work quite well, but I think we're going to try and modify them a little bit because, you know,
18:23we like to change stuff all the time. So yeah, we're going to tweak that a little bit, but that's,
18:28you know, from what we were doing before to what we've got now, it's awesome. Like, they work,
18:33everything works. The gaps are really nice, it shuts really nice, so we're really happy with the
18:37progress there. In the rear of the car, Brett's made an aluminium frame for the hard lid on the tray,
18:43and we just got the brand new sheet of alloy cut ready to glue down onto it. I've got the young fella,
18:49Bryce, painting some of the components now, which is really exciting. We've got a really
18:53bright yellow. The customer loved the colour of the car originally. He picked a different
18:58colour slightly, and we've just sort of matched it, and it looks...it's really bright. So
19:02when you drive him down the street, you'll be able to see it bright yellow with black accents.
19:05It's going to look really nice. Young Bryce is the apprentice we've got here at the minute.
19:09He's working under Treno. Treno's given lots of guidance. He's really nailed these two
19:13guards currently. He's got the tailgate pretty much ready. We're slowly working through the
19:17panels, and all is looking great so far. As long as the clear lays down good, a little bit
19:22of buff time, it should be a really nice car.
19:31Today we're working on the early F truck project. Chuck's been in the sheet metal stage and body
19:34work stage for a long time, and the boys have finally got the chassis all painted. All the
19:39bolt-on components have been painted, and we're pretty much going to get the guys to assemble
19:43the chassis on the hoist, get the driveline in the chassis itself, and then hopefully in the coming
19:47few days we'll get the cab on. With the chassis itself, because the customer actually binned
19:52the car and had an accident in the car, and now he's putting more power in the car, we
19:56wanted to really make it structurally sound and put a heap more bar work in there for strength.
20:00The accident happened on purely a wet day, and it just happened to have really wide tyres
20:05on the back, and that's how that happened. But the new engine's a brand new Coyote engine
20:09with a six-speed automatic, and it's going to be, I guess, way more efficient on how it
20:14gets the power through the cusp. We want to make it a lot stiffer, add more bar work than
20:19the customer. Hopefully it can make it stick to the ground and go from there. This car already had a
20:23nine-inch forward diff in it, already had our four-link in it, and all we've done is adapted
20:26the new rails to the back of it. So the original diff, the original four-link that we did many
20:31years ago, tweaked it, made it lower, and get the stance right.
20:36Yeah, I guess once everything's painted, it's pretty much like a jigsaw puzzle. You've got to
20:39get everything in the right spot, and obviously you've got to be very delicate
20:42on how you go about it. You don't want to cause more work for the guys in the paint shop to
20:46repair, and at the same time you don't want to stuff it up and then go backwards on what you're
20:51trying to do, because it just becomes more delicate. The more times you do things the
20:55wrong way, the more things you've got to fix effectively. So we try and do it once the
20:58first time, and the people that pulled it apart generally put it back together.
21:03The plan today is to get the car on its wheels. Once we've got all the driveline in and the
21:07car's rolling on the ground, we'll then move it into a different part of the shop. Some of
21:11the boys that did the exhaust stuff, they'll put the exhaust back in. It's basically a
21:15three-inch stainless steel exhaust system. We've got some cut-outs underneath the car, so if you
21:20want to be naughty and make it a lot louder, you just hit the button and then that'll
21:24come out the bottom. But all in all, we've got big mufflers at the back, long pipes, so
21:28it's going to have a really good sound. So we went with the stainless exhaust, the
21:32satin black chassis and the gloss black bolt-on components. We think it's going to
21:36really give off a nice little feature under there, and I think the chassis is going to
21:39look awesome. Pity the body's going to cover it all and you won't see any of it, but
21:42in the back of the tray, it's got a nice timber floor that actually goes up on rams.
21:46So in the rear there, I think you're going to see all the really nice stainless
21:50exhaust, the nice mufflers, the trick little bolt-on accessories in gloss black. I think
21:55it's going to really look quite good. So once we've got the whole drive line in,
21:59all the exhaust done, all our brake lines, fuel lines, everything we can think of that
22:04we can need to bolt on, we'll get a couple of the boys over, we'll carefully lift the
22:07body on, bolt it down and that'll be the last time it's ever got to go back on.
22:11I feel like everyone's going to be really happy with the outcome of the build. The
22:15customer picked the colour, we're not all yellow fans, but it definitely stands out and
22:20that's what the customer wants. So I think all in all, it's going to be a really nice
22:23fun project. It'll handle nice, it'll steer nice, it'll brake and it'll have plenty of
22:28power and it'll stand out. Next step for this is we're going to get all the
22:32electrical parts into the car. We're going to leave just the body on with no doors. We're
22:35going to run all that wiring out the holes that are already prefab. We've already roughed in
22:39everything so we know where everything needs to go. Get all the wiring sorted and then from there
22:43it's going to go to upholstery. They'll do the whole cab, the door cards, floors, carpets
22:48and then we'll come back after that, get all the rest of the panels on and then get it driving.
22:53So the yellow F100 come back from the trimmer before Christmas. They did a kick-ass job.
23:07It looks amazing. What we've done now is the boys are in the real final stages of fit up.
23:12Basically when it went to the trimmer, we had no outer sheet metal because we don't want anything
23:16getting scratched. All that's prepared. It's in a safe area, ready to fit on. Hopefully
23:21today we're going to get the engine running. It's got a Ford Coyote engine and a 6R80E
23:26transmission. It's got all your basic electric windows, central locking, air con. But on top
23:30of that we've got push button start. We've got fancy billet buttons for all your windows.
23:35There's no silly rocker switches. It's all billet buttons. In the tray we've got electric actuators.
23:40One for the lid and one for the floor, which is a big chunk of timber so that when he's
23:46at a show or when he wants to detail the underside of it, he can hit the actuators and it can
23:50open up the bed floor. You can see everything on display, the nice exhaust system, fuel tank.
23:54See lots of gadgets. In the front of it, obviously we've got the new engine, lots of wiring
23:59and underneath the dash, you can't see it but it's very, very tidy. Everything's got panelling
24:04but the whole dash is wiring, so lots of gadgets. I guess we just want to make sure
24:09everything works and that's what we're going to be hopefully doing today when we get it
24:12running. So our good friend Luke Mitchell used to be advanced, you know, plays with his
24:18evil LJ and a few things that Oz wheels now, so he's going to come down and help us out
24:22with the tune. He knows HP tuners back to front. We're going to get the ECU to get a
24:27program put in it today. We know the fuel system works. We know the HP tuners can hook up to it.
24:32Hopefully get it running today and then from there do a bit of in and out of the shed.
24:36We've already bled the brakes, cooling system, trans-fluid, engine oil, diff oil.
24:40It's got all fluids so we're ready to go, ready to get it moving and then once it's
24:44moving, put the sheet metal on, start doing some driving and final testing.
24:49After the break, Rich from Dynomotive walks us through the tech-packed BYD shot.
25:11Platinum Bollards is a bollard installation company. We do installs for houses, factories,
25:22shop fronts. We've got a large range of products, removable bollards, different size removable
25:27bollards. We've got in-ground bollards from 90mm up to 200mm concrete-filled bollards for
25:34RAM-proof top-of-style scenarios. There's been a lot of cases where people have come to me
25:41and people have scoped out their houses and they work well. They work very well, especially
25:46residential.
25:47Must have these days. Platinum Bollards can definitely give you peace of mind to protect
26:01your classic car, tradies' cars, factories, businesses. It takes roughly an hour. A bollard,
26:08depending on how many we do, if we do three, we can do it in about an hour and a half. We
26:13use internal locking systems on the bollards. We use high-security keys. They're all coded
26:17and registered keys, so they can't be picked as well. So the double-cut key, core drill 250mm
26:23into the concrete, and then we have a galvanised sleeve that gets epoxy-ground into place, and
26:29then the bollard locks into that sleeve. The Platinum ones come with storage holders included
26:34in the install. Very easy just to put the key in, turn it, and pull it straight out.
26:43Yeah, so what we're seeing with the Chinese cars in Australia is a little bit of history
27:01repeating itself, where early on in the day when the Japanese cars first came across, they
27:06were deemed pretty average compared to the local market, also to the European market. Then
27:10they started to adopt and adapt to our technological advancements of all the other manufacturers
27:15around the world. And then further down the track a decade later, they started to release
27:19some really cool things, which is essentially where the BYD's at now. The Chinese market's
27:24been in Australia now for a solid decade. They've always been seen as cheap, affordable,
27:29almost like a throwaway car, and now they've adapted to the market and essentially met a lot
27:34of the demand, and we find ourselves with a market-challenging car. So I've done a couple
27:39of thousand Ks. I've had the car for about six or seven weeks now. Look, first off, I mean,
27:44it is a nice car to drive. It's got a lot of cool features, a lot of bells and whistles,
27:47a lot of stuff that I don't use. The fuel economy being a hybrid is really good, and the comfort,
27:52you know, the features inside it are great as well. Quality and finish on initial appearance
27:57is fantastic. I can only speak as far as the drivability goes on-road. I don't, I'm not
28:01much of an off-roader. In fact, I don't really go off-road at all. On the road, it's great.
28:05It's comfortable on the road. It definitely outclasses all the other utes in the same
28:10sort of category. Just through the subtle suspension differences, there's a little bit
28:15better weight distribution. It's over a three-tonne ute, mostly because of the batteries.
28:22They sit in the floor, so it brings the centre of gravity down, so it's a really comfortable ride.
28:26Look, on average, it'll do a 5.5 second zero to 100. On the road, in nearly all conditions,
28:33there's a bit of variation, maybe 5.6, you know, those sort of things. On paper, a Raptor does
28:38six seconds. Of course, you know, we do plenty of development and tune work on Raptors, and
28:42once they're tuned up, you know, it wouldn't come close to touching the tailgate of a Raptor.
28:47The comparative drivability to a Ranger is, it's almost uncomparable. In the way that a
28:55Raptor is very much built for its off-road capabilities. It's got all the different drive modes, and
29:02take the electronics out of the equation. It comes obviously higher, comes with 32-inch
29:08all-terrain mud-style tyres. It's got, the suspension is more correctly tuned for off-road.
29:14It's got a higher towing capacity, it's got a higher payload in the tub. Like I said earlier,
29:19this is more built around, you know, how I feel more like an urban, sort of, the people
29:24who want a ute, that require a ute, have no intention of going off-road, don't need to tow
29:28a big caravan or anything like that. But like the convenience of throwing some, you know, horse
29:33feet in the back of it, you know, or towing a jet ski, for example, I think this is more
29:37pointed towards that direction.
29:40Okay, so it charges like a conventional EV. It's got a fuel cap on one side for your unleaded.
29:45It has got a little 1.5 litre turbo direct-injected petrol engine up the front. It basically acts
29:51as a generator to charge the battery. So that's essentially how a hybrid works. A petrol engine,
29:56or a diesel engine in some circumstances, acts as a generator, charges the battery. The battery's
30:01then used to power the motors. It has got on the other side of the car your standard Type-C
30:06charging port. Plug it into a charger. It does come with a absolute, the world's slowest
30:12trickle charger you can possibly imagine. We're lucky enough at Dynamative that we've got
30:16our own three-bay charging station. We did an EV course for multiple reasons. We needed,
30:21in order to basically get stuck into pulling an EV apart, you need to have an accredited,
30:27or a certification in the workshop, a certified person in the workshop in order to do it.
30:32I went into the course probably with the mind of everybody who's watching this video.
30:36thinking how stupid and how intense could it be? How dangerous can it possibly be?
30:42And I walked out, probably in some ways a little bit rattled by exactly how dangerous it can be
30:49in the wrong hands, or someone who is a little bit complacent or ignorant to how an EV operates
30:55and how it works. I think some of the numbers that, as in voltage and milliamp, that comes out of an EV
31:01would rattle even the most experienced electricians, compared to conventional house wiring,
31:06residential and commercial wiring. I went into the course thinking it was going to be a waste of time
31:10and I came out of it thinking it was great.
31:15One of the primary reasons, other than obviously incredible fuel efficiency and curiosity about buying the BYD,
31:21was it does have a conventional petrol engine in it. So it is a 1.5 litre turbo direct-injected petrol four-cylinder engine.
31:30It has a conventional ECU, it has a conventional map sensor, conventional boost control,
31:35all the things you would see on any conventional modern four-cylinder turbo engine,
31:40which of course means that there must be a way to tune it.
31:44And we will look at putting a unichip on it to take control of things like the fueling side of it,
31:49try and see if we can increase boost pressure.
31:52We're not even sure exactly how that's going to work, not having a gearbox or any specific load on the back of the engine.
31:59But look, that's why we do it, that's why we pull them apart and that's why we try and we might break it.
32:03We don't know, but that's why we buy the cars, so that we can develop, stay in front of the market
32:08and develop products that we can release to everyone when we know they work.
32:11Coming up, Mark and I jump in the hatchback to Ryan up.
32:14We head to the 1 in 20 cafe for a chat about the build.
32:22Hi, I'm Colin. If you're looking for tyres, mechanical service or just general advice,
32:28come on down to Moonee Ponds Tyres.
32:30We offer a full range of servicing from tyres to brakes to all sorts of general mechanical repairs.
32:35Every vehicle will get an inspection to make sure the vehicle is safe.
32:39In terms of tyres, we do a large range of tyres from the smallest lawnmower tyre
32:43right the way up to the largest earthmover tyre.
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32:52Well, what a fantastic morning and a couple of reasons.
33:10One is I have been dying to drive that Tirana right there and give it an absolute burn.
33:17I've seen the build, I've got photos along the way.
33:20The thing is an absolute machine.
33:23But, more excitedly...
33:25But, but, but...
33:26You're not going to get to drive it!
33:28No, I'm not going to get to drive it, unfortunately, but I get to be passenger princess.
33:32But we're here at the beautiful 1 in 20 cafe at the bottom of Mount Dandenong Ranges
33:37and we come here and we do our road tests up and down the hill
33:40and we do all the shops around Puff and Billy and things like that.
33:43But how wonderful is it to actually come out beforehand, have a coffee...
33:48Nice coffee!
33:49Yeah, perfect coffee.
33:50If you were a Melbourneite and you do come out to the Dandenong Ranges,
33:53definitely stop at the 1 in 20 cafe.
33:55But, um, aside from the coffee and the lovely atmosphere,
33:59it's just nice to sit down, beautiful car, come out for a cruise.
34:03Like, picture this, it's a Sunday morning, steam coming off the top of the hill.
34:07Pretty sure it's Wednesday.
34:12And you come in, you know, you get your pride and joy, you've got a lovely coffee.
34:16It's just, it's a perfect scene.
34:18If you are in the area, make sure you come down to the 1 in 20 cafe.
34:21Aside from that, Tirana, engine build.
34:24What did we do?
34:25Ooh, a good friend of ours bought the Tirana, as you know,
34:29and he's a bit of a collector.
34:30He's got a couple of big block Chevy-powered cars.
34:35Cars, should we call it infamous or famous?
34:38It's had a few owners in a very short period of time.
34:41It was one of those raffle cars.
34:42Oh, that's this one.
34:44Yeah.
34:45I recall.
34:46And it was, it's not the worst one we've ever had, but it's close to it,
34:50as far as throw it together and get it on the raffle deal.
34:54So, 632-inch big block.
34:58Sorry?
34:59632-inch big block.
35:00Yeah, I thought you said that.
35:01I think those things came out with a 173, six in a row,
35:05but anyway, it's 632-inch big block, and it was a banger thing,
35:08with three broken pistons and a couple of camshaft lobes missing
35:12and some pretty wounded cylinder heads and, you know, it was really, really sad.
35:17So, out of everything in the engine, we kept the block.
35:21Yeah, that's right, because we tried to rescue the heads.
35:24Yeah.
35:25Yeah, we thought we could reuse the heads.
35:28Yeah, no, we couldn't.
35:29Which, it's just a pain in the arse when stuff like that is just slapped together,
35:33not done correctly, to try and get it out the door.
35:35Yeah.
35:36When people do things like that, it's what gives mechanics a bad name.
35:40Yeah.
35:41Anyway, the cars ended up with a build, like, I think we kept the radiator cap.
35:46Mm-hm.
35:47Everything else from there back is new.
35:49So, you know, the cooling system, which is the radiator, the fans, the transcooler,
35:54you know, and then we look at the drive-line, we've done the billet front brakes,
35:58the billet rear brakes, electronic handbrake, six-link rear end, yada, yada, yada,
36:03mini tub, chassis connectors, you know, the whole deal.
36:06I just want to circle back, because, well, I...
36:09Yeah, no, no, you were fine.
36:12Six-link rear end.
36:13Yeah.
36:14So, I did a post on our social media last night.
36:16Yeah, yeah.
36:17People are familiar with the term four-link.
36:18Yeah.
36:19What's a six-link?
36:20Well, it's just two more links to keep it parallel.
36:22So, if you just have four parallel links, there's nothing stopping it from wobbling around.
36:27Yeah.
36:28So, you need either a triangular bar or a couple more links to keep it all parallel.
36:32It's an easy way to explain it when you've got the visuals.
36:34Yeah, yeah.
36:35So, you can have a crossbar, you can have a panhard rod.
36:37There's a bunch of different ways of doing it.
36:39Yeah.
36:40So, you've got the six-piston very front brake kit, which is quite a big kit on that.
36:46Because, as it was, it had the standard six-cylinder brakes on it.
36:49Yeah.
36:50They're a step up from coconuts, but not by mine.
36:53Oh, they're nasty.
36:54Yeah.
36:55And it's got their four-piston rear brake set up on it, which is really good.
36:59So, the thing does stop.
37:00It's got a really good brake pedal feel, and it does stop.
37:03I really want to drive this car, and it disappoints me that I'm not going to be able to get rid of it.
37:06Well, you could drive it.
37:07No, I don't want to.
37:09I do.
37:10But I don't.
37:11No.
37:12It is angry.
37:13I've got to say it.
37:14If you come back, and I know it's a lot of car when you come in, and you go, oh, it's angry.
37:20Yeah, it's angry.
37:21You've got to be our fifth smile on your face.
37:22You're like, oh, it's angry.
37:23I'm like, oh.
37:24Yeah, it's angry.
37:25No, it wants to wheel stand.
37:26It wants to do all that sort of nonsense on the road.
37:28It's angry.
37:29It's proper angry.
37:30Right.
37:31Well, lucky we're on closed roads, and we'll be doing the speed limit.
37:35Oh, yeah, it's just a Sunday cruise on a Wednesday.
37:38Yeah, it is.
37:39Yeah.
37:40Yeah.
37:41So, I guess we should.
37:42Don't I mention it was good coffee?
37:44It is actually really fantastic coffee.
37:46Once again, if you are in the area, you want to come down to the 120.
37:49The 120?
37:50I've been here how many times with my cycling friends?
37:54Oh, did I say that on TV?
37:56Oh, middle-aged man in Lycra.
38:05Oh!
38:06Oh!
38:26Coming up, we're taking you behind the scenes of Brisbane's Performance Pulse Expo.
38:35so pacemaker is traditionally known as pacemaker headers and as a company we are an exhaust
38:46manufacturer it has its origins in the 1970s as a company where we're bordering on the 50-year
38:51category now and we've got our origins in our product range that we still make today
38:55our exhaust systems are all made from 409 grade stainless steel it's a 1.5 mil wall thick all
39:02fabricated and built here in australia pacemaker have developed advanced technologies in our
39:08mufflers and our cats we have a very special high flow cat setup and pacemaker also use long strand
39:13fiberglass in our mufflers and double-skinned walls as well there's a gain in both performance and
39:18economy economy is picked up because the engine is not having to work as hard as what it once was
39:22before to remove the exhaust gases from the engine but obviously by doing so that frees up the engine
39:27and allows the performance to improve each vehicle is different but you know across the border set
39:31the headers can generally pick you up you know around a 10 percent gain and it can vary depending
39:35on what you do from there all reputable exhaust shops and the mechanical workshops and performance
39:41shops stock pacemaker products and you can get yours there
39:44here we are performance pulse expo 2025 the events about supporting the community so what we wanted
40:02to do was create a platform for all exhibitors the performance shops wiring fabrication all that sort of
40:09thing and we wanted to give them a platform to connect with their existing customers and grow
40:14their brand a lot of the general public won't see cars like this there's some crazy builds and yeah it's
40:20great to have a platform for everyone to come through and yeah enjoy the day and provide some
40:25entertainment yeah everyone's having a great day so far so it's really good to see so we're at
40:30performance pulse expo run by grout racing awesome event i think it's actually gone massive so we're
40:36really impressed we got involved this year brought a customers car down bought a couple of shiny bits
40:41and um hopefully it's a really ripper day yeah so we brought a customers car it's a 1955 f100 we've
40:48done a full rest so on a new chassis a new driveline and the customer actually come in today and he's
40:53super stoked he hadn't seen it since primer and his wife was nearly in tears it's that amazing so we're
40:58really impressed we're happy with how it's turned out and that the customer loves it and that's all we do it
41:02today we are here at brow or pulse performance expo and we are featuring one of the premiere
41:12auto shows in the country this one specifically is hosted in brisbane and has been absolutely
41:17incredible so far if you have never been to pulse performance expo guys i would tell you that you
41:22need to get down here to experience this you have absolutely every type of automobile whether it's muscle
41:29cars drift cars forced induction na it doesn't matter there's a little bit of everything here
41:35it's been an absolutely incredible weekend and my first time here and i'll guarantee you i'll be at the
41:40next one
41:44we brought down our race team nam racing which is a father and daughter race team down here supporting
41:49the show the show supporting us and our sponsor giving us vip rights down here to go on display to
41:56show the kids in the world what we do the support that we get from everyone and the racing family and
42:01what we seem to be able to accomplish that comes from this you know what i mean it just doesn't
42:05come from your normal five to six job you know that that's humbling
42:15a massive thanks to all the exhibitors that have jumped on board for this event the support has been
42:19phenomenal and we're already gearing up for next year we just we can't wait to support even more
42:25and bring it being performance polls back even bigger and better hope to see you there guys
42:36now it's time for gas monkey garage to take over the world first stop richard rawlings heads down
42:42under hey i'm richard rawlings from the world famous gas monkey garage and i'm heading down under
42:48to the land of sun surf cool rides and hot women i'll be meeting up with my great mate and checking
43:02out some of the locals and the local car scene right down there in australia do i need an accident for this
43:07now we're really looking forward to working alongside richard rawlings and gas monkey garage
43:15one of the biggest names in the car industry and cannot wait to show you guys what australia has to
43:20offer so join me on the first stop of the gas monkey world domination tour where we find the best builders
43:32and pit them against each other to dominate their country oh yeah and i'll be checking out some of
43:37the local burnout competitions too won't be better than mine
43:46whoa so coming soon the gas monkey world domination tour coming to down under
43:50gets you some of that you want to be a part of the gas monkey phenomenon that's taking over the world
43:55and so do i next time on rides down under workshop wars it's all about the oz wheels smoke bomber
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44:20workshop wars rides down under workshop wars is proudly supported by hair and forbes machinery house
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