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00:30This time on Rides Down Under, Workshop Wars.
00:35We take a look back into the build of Ron Goodman's Outback 356.
00:41Valley Grunt Performance upgrade their shop with some brand new Benpak hoists from Genesis
00:47Equipment.
00:48Aidan from Bespoke Coachworks gives us an in-depth look at his machinery from Air & Forbes.
00:56We meet the guys from Aus Wheels who talk us through the process of making a 1.64 scale
01:01model of Luke's Evil LJ.
01:04And Mark and I found the perfect resto mod, and that's Lenny from Dom Bird Customs BH Commodore.
01:11We take that for a burn in the Dandenong Rangers.
01:14First up, the boys at Sue Performance are busy piecing together the floor pan and the firewall
01:19for the Vanguard build.
01:26So the boys have been working on the Vanguard project, put a fair bit of time into it the
01:42last couple of weeks.
01:43They've smashed out a heap of sheet metal work.
01:46We've done all the floors.
01:47We've done framework for the floors.
01:49I CAD designed the floor pans themselves off the chassis.
01:52We then cut them out, folded them up, put beads in them, added a bit of strength to it.
01:57We've got all the plug holes there.
01:58Hayden then moved onto the tunnel, hand formed the bit around the transmission itself, put
02:03a few beads in there, put a fold in it.
02:05And then from that position, we were able to get Bretto onto the firewall.
02:09Today I'm back working on the Vanguard.
02:16So after Hayden was done with the floor pans and the tunnel, I've fabricated the firewall.
02:21We just started the process of doing my final trimming and tuck welding the remainder of
02:25all the pieces together.
02:26The firewall has about six or seven pieces in it because it's too big to do it in one
02:30go.
02:31It's got to have a recess to go around the engine and transmission.
02:33So it's just far easier to do it in multiple pieces.
02:37Once all the panels have been tuck welded, I'll give them a sand just to clean them.
02:41I'll acetone, wipe them, then I'll apply rust prevention that we use to stop the bare metal
02:46going rusty.
02:47Then from there, it's just a matter of fitting them in the car.
02:49So the floor pans go in first, and then I put the gearbox tunnel on, the firewall, and
02:53then I've got a couple of little pieces that join the floor pan to the firewall.
02:57Hayden's done a great job fabricating the floor pans.
02:59They all got measured, and we cut them out on the CNC plasma table to save having to cut
03:04them by hand.
03:05We B-rolled them, all the plug welds again got cut on the plasma table.
03:09Just folded all the edges, I'm now ready to sit them in the car to see how they look.
03:13Just hold them in with Clico's and screws for now until we're ready for our final welding.
03:17So as we were fitting it all back together, we put the engine and trans in just to see
03:20what it roughly will look like when it's all done.
03:23Overall I think it's coming along great, floor pans look great, firewall looks good.
03:26It's going to be a really cool custom car.
03:29So with the LS mock-up block in the chassis, we're able to work out where the cylinder heads
03:33are going to go.
03:34From that, we're able to work out the recess in the firewall that we required.
03:37So Brett's managed to nut all that out, shape the outer sections which are actually under
03:43the guards, and then make the inner section from that.
03:46So it's all pretty much tack welded together.
03:49He's done a fair bit of hammer work, dolly work, and it's just ready to be welded out.
03:54The next stages will be to fully weld the floor pans and the firewall.
03:58Then we'll prep them and we'll prime the undersides and all the hard to reach bits and the areas
04:04where the floor pans will overlap.
04:05Then we can refit everything for the final time and weld it all in.
04:09So in the rear of the car, we're going to flow through, do where the bench seat's going
04:13to be, into the rear of the boot area, work out what we're going to do with the fuel system,
04:17where we're going to mount the fuel tank, and then from that we'll be able to work out
04:20what height we're going to set the floor at.
04:21So the rear of the car, we can pretty much do what we want once we've nutted out how
04:25much fuel capacity the customer wants, whether we're running dual fuels in two fuel tanks.
04:31We're probably going to do flex fuel, so it'll run 98 and E85, so when he wants to get a bit
04:35more power, we can just tune it that way, switch over the fuel system and go from there.
04:51New project, Dodge Fargo van, 1950s, big Ghostbuster-looking truck.
04:58Firstly, I think the truck's definitely unique.
05:02Not really our bread and butter, but I think what we're going to do with the car and how
05:06we're going to modify it and what the customer wants it for is a really cool idea.
05:10He could have gone and bought a brand new Land Cruiser, but that's not what he wanted
05:14to do.
05:15So what we've got here is we've got a Dodge Fargo van from the 50s.
05:19We're going to pretty much buy a Dodge Ram 3500 jewellery chassis with a Cummins BT in
05:24it, and we're going to put this little van on a huge chassis, lift it in the air, just
05:29so the customer can pull his caravan around Australia.
05:31So some of the ideas the customer's got is he wants it to pretty much look like a tourer,
05:36like what you'd see on a brand new 79 series Land Cruiser.
05:39So we're going to have all the awnings with the bat wings, 270 degrees, come off the side.
05:43We're going to really kit out the back of the car, but you've got your pull-out trays,
05:47you've got your fridge in the back, so if they want to go off-road and leave the caravan
05:50in the caravan park, it's self-sustainable and they can live off it in the back of the
05:55outback, essentially.
05:56So we're going to kit it out with all the gear.
05:58It's going to have all the solar panels, the batteries, everything's going to be in it.
06:02It's going to be a real cool off-road beast.
06:06So the Dodge Fargo van, we believe, you know, come from Tasmania, was kitted out as if it
06:19was a rock band sort of vibe.
06:21So you open the back doors and you've got the shag pile looking carpets, you've got the
06:26little bit of hot roddy thing on the outsides and it looks, you know, it's pretty tacky
06:30in this day and age, but it probably was pretty cool back in the 30 years ago.
06:34The body's pretty average, like, it's very patina, someone's just hit it with an orbital
06:39and it's, yeah, it's pretty poor condition.
06:41So what we're going to have to do is we're going to have to take it all back to bare metal,
06:44work out all the rust.
06:45Even with the guys trying to dismantle it today, you can see the rust and the cancer in it.
06:51It's already been had bodgy jobs done and we can't even get the guards off without pretty
06:56much getting the gas axe out essentially because they're that far gone, that rusted, it's,
07:00you know, hasn't been very well looked after and, yeah, you're in a rock band, you don't
07:03have heaps of money, you probably just left it out in the rain and nobody cares, right,
07:07you know, it gets you from A to B, but what this customer wants it done is he wants it
07:10done properly so we're going to have to back to bare metal, cut all the rubbish out and fix
07:15it up properly.
07:16Me and Love Pre were in the back of the bus, literally with a hammer bashing out all the old
07:21stuff so it's very mouldy, very wet.
07:24It was actually done quite well, whoever did it back in the day, but, you know, we got
07:28rid of it all, we're back to the bare bones, we've worked out there wasn't real steel on
07:32the outside of the car, they still left the windows in so we peeled off the dodgy jobs
07:36they've done there and essentially we got it back to what it is pretty much and we nearly
07:40got a shell, we still got the engine and the front sheet metal and the doors are giving us
07:43a bit of a headache, they'll be fun to get off, but all in all we can see what it is, we
07:47can see how bad it is and we'll get the customer in and go from there.
07:50Coming up, we take a look back at the build of Ron Goodman's Outback 356.
08:02So Pacemaker is traditionally known as Pacemaker Headers and as a company we are an exhaust
08:17manufacturer.
08:18It has its origins in the 1970s, as a company we're bordering on the 50 year category now
08:23and we've got our origins in our product range that we still make today.
08:27Our exhaust systems are all made from 409 grade stainless steel, it's a 1.5mm wall thick
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08:52having to work as hard as what it once was before to remove the exhaust gases from the engine,
08:56but obviously by doing so that frees up the engine and allows the performance to improve.
09:00Each vehicle is different, but you know across the board a set of headers can generally pick
09:03you up around a 10% gain and it can vary depending on what you do from there.
09:08All reputable exhaust shops and mechanical workshops and performance shops stock Pacemaker products
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09:15We've been pretty lucky, we've acquired a 1964 356SC, it had a bit of damage on the front
09:34as you can see and we've repaired that.
09:36Now we're going through the stages of painting it, we're going to paint it grey and we're going
09:40to get it done up in Aboriginal art. Sitting around last night we thought let's do something
09:44different so we're going to go for a run to Uluru.
09:46Now this car, the engine's been redone in it, the transmission's been redone in it, allegedly.
09:53Now we've just got to make sure if it's going to make it to Uluru or not. We'll have the
09:56thing painted today and we'll take it for a couple of runs around the back and we'll see
10:00how it goes.
10:03I love driving the old girls on the racetrack but to drive it for 8 to 12 hours a day, that's
10:08going to be something new to me. But the 356 is such a comfortable little car, like once
10:12you're in there, it's sort of as if it's worn out to your body shape and suspension, well
10:18we'll change the shocks to give it a bit more of a balanced drive because we're actually
10:23going to take this off road. We're going to take it through the desert, we're going to
10:26take it through the red dirt and we've got a new thing that once we build this car, we're
10:31not going to wash it. We're going to leave it the way it is and we're just going to drive
10:34it and drive it and drive it.
10:36We don't know what we're going to find out there near Uluru through the Outback, so we're
10:40changing the shocks, we're changing all the bushes in the suspension, we're going to lift
10:44the car an inch and a half to what it normally is and go for a slightly bigger tyre. Hopefully
10:49that'll get us through there.
10:51This is going to be one of the most exciting things that we've done. Yeah, it's great to go
10:54overseas and race and everything else but this is in our backyard and it's something completely
11:00out of the box for us, so we're looking forward to it.
11:13The Outback car, we've had it painted now. Charlie's laid the paint down, it looks fantastic.
11:19We're starting to do the artwork on it and we've had Aboriginal artist Danny Eastwood come
11:24in to do the artwork and it's amazing, it's absolutely amazing. With Danny it was amazing
11:30to meet him to start with and his talent is just off the planet. So he asked me what I
11:36wanted, I gave him a rough brief with Uluru and he came up with some drawings and it's
11:40amazing what he can pull together out of his mind. He's more creative than we are.
11:55I'm a National Aboriginal. I've been awarded the NAIDOC National Aboriginal Artist of the
12:01Year. The NAIDOC State Award for Aboriginal Artists of the Year. I've won the New South Wales
12:09State Parliament Prize. I've been painting all over Sydney and this is a bit different.
12:15I'm using spray cans because of the car but just the same as doing another art, just a different
12:21canvas. So I just enjoyed putting this Uluru on because it's not only a little bit of artwork,
12:27it's very important to the Aboriginal people.
12:44We've had Danny Eastwood here for the last two weeks, putting the Indigenous art on the
12:50356, the Outback car for us. And my God, what an artist. Not only is he absolutely
12:57a fantastic human being, but his talent is far beyond anything I've seen before. It's
13:03the way it's all come together, it's so humbling. To have something as Australian as what I've
13:09got here at Uluru, as you can see the kangaroos, the emus, the lizard, the platypus. I've got
13:17all the Australian marsupials, the word Australia and our iconic rock, Uluru. It's like, it's just
13:23a blow away to be able to drive this around.
13:27Ron's going to do a little patch up work. The last thing we've done was hands. Most
13:33of the staff were working on Ron's place. We cut their hands out and we spray painted them
13:40onto the car and that was the final part of the car.
13:43Now these hands that he's done for us, they're hands that we've taken from our workers, from
13:48our team, from my wife, Christine, she done it, and from a couple of the kids from the
13:52children's hospital. So they'll always be engraved in this car. And as you can see for yourself,
13:57this is going to be a fantastic drive to Uluru. We can't wait to get going on it.
14:07We've got the Porsche 356, which we've just finished a complete rebuild on. This car was a collision
14:13car that we've repaired it and we've made ourselves a off-road car. We've gone from the front of the
14:19car all the way through to the back of the car and rebuilt all the suspension. We've rebuilt the
14:24engine, the transmission, but we've kept it absolutely original. This has got none of our
14:30go-go stuff on it. It's got none of our upgrade parts. We've made this car exactly the same way
14:34that Porsche did. We're going to jump in it and drive it to Uluru. The best thing about this car is,
14:40yeah, it's Porsche and we've built it and it's got everything else but it's the iconic Australian.
14:44It's got Uluru on it. It's got the kangaroos. It's got everything about me, our shop and our culture.
14:50It's just really, really good. My name's Ron Goodman and I'm here at the Bathurst 12 Hour.
14:55Driving here at Bathurst is an experience that not many people will get to do, but the ones that do
15:00talk about it for a long time. You hear about the V8 supercar drivers saying how fantastic it is.
15:06I can tell you it is a bloody awesome track. I drove the Outback car around today and it was an
15:11experience in the old girl and it was like driving a big old Miss Daisy home, but it was fantastic fun
15:17and the amount of cheering and backing that we got from the crowd was quite overwhelming actually.
15:22Going around the track and then going up the hill was like going down through the gears. We had to try
15:29and get the revs up in the car to get it going up there, but the little old machine made it to the top
15:34of the hill. It was a fun experience and I'd look forward to doing it again. It was amazing the
15:38amount of people that would yell out to us, that knew us, that would wave to the car. You know,
15:42I could just imagine what it would be like for the Peter Brocks and that when they drove around there
15:47the last lap of Bathurst. It would be an amazing experience.
15:54The response that we've been getting for the Outback car is just overwhelming. You know, like people just
15:59love it. They were lined up to take picture specs to it and that's pretty humbling when it's accepted like that.
16:13Next up, Valley Grunt Performance are upgrading their workshop with some brand new hoists
16:18from Genesis Equipment. Genesis Equipment is a distributor for global leading brands such as
16:31BendPak, Sturtle Coney, Byers Bath. So we supply hoist lifting equipment, specialised testing equipment
16:38throughout Australia in all segments, whether it's a car dealership right the way through to a car
16:43enthusiast or a truck dealership right the way through to truck enthusiast. The difference we see with the
16:48BendPak hoist is not just with the ergonomical technology that we use when we're operating
16:53the hoist and lifting the hoist, it's all about safety and longevity. We can put anyone under the
16:58hoist and we know they're safe. With a BendPak hoist, there's no complicated buttons to use.
17:04When we want the hoist to go up, we press the button. In return, then when we want to lower the hoist down,
17:08it's just a matter of lifting a handle and that releases the safety locks. We just press the button
17:13and it steadily brings that car down. In our BendPak range, we have the two-post hoist,
17:20which is very, very popular, but we do the four-post hoist and that's anything from a car to a truck
17:25in the four-post range. So the versatility for whatever you're using in any type of application,
17:30in a workshop, we've got the hoist there to accommodate that.
17:52With the projects that we have, sometimes you get stuck with parts, so sometimes we have to shelve
17:58the car. So we needed to utilise the space that we've got and the space that we don't use is the
18:03ceiling. So we went three-stackers. I picked Genesis for this because I like the quality of the product
18:09that they use. I liked that every single platform has locks on every single corner and I was very
18:15particular because some of them just use a rope to lift the platform up and I didn't really like that
18:20idea. Genesis Equipment is a distributor for BendPak. We're in the workshop space, so we supply hoist
18:27lifting equipment, specialised testing equipment throughout Australia in all segments, whether
18:32it's a car dealership right the way through to a car enthusiast or a truck dealership right the way
18:37through to truck enthusiast. Our goal is to bring the best workshop products into Australia and then get
18:44them out to workshops around Australia for the best price that we can give you and then we also have a
18:50full aftercare service. So after you've bought it, we're still here for you to keep it well maintained.
18:58If there's ever any kind of problem, we can come in and get you up and running again.
19:04We're here at Valley Grunt Performance in Melbourne today installing five hoists in total. We've got two
19:0910 APXs and three triple stackers. It can be challenging just with a limited amount of space
19:16and to be everything to be safe. We need to move everything out of the way and keep everything set
19:21up properly. Well, we first chalk line everything to get it all square and then we disassemble the
19:26package and bring in components each at a time and start to assemble. With a triple stacker, we get it
19:33in two separate parcels, boxed together in frames wrapped in plastic. So we'll cut it open,
19:38separate everything, work out the pieces, where the pieces go and what pieces we need first and
19:44then start assembly. It's basically an ad-ops Meccano set. Because we had limited space, we set
19:50the hoist up without bolting it down and then we're able to shift and move around and get the perfect
19:55spot for them because there's such a limited space. Everything needs to be square as you can imagine the
20:00car going up. You don't want it to start drifting out sideways. So all the posts and the arms need to go up
20:07vertically nice and straight. So there's no movement on the chassis. We have everything perfectly level
20:12so everything operates as it's supposed to. Otherwise you get excessive wear on parts.
20:22We're very particular in regards to like the types of greater steel we use, the thicknesses of steel
20:28right away through to the base plates. For instance, on a two-point hoist, because we have such a wide
20:33foot in, it's more stable on more concrete surfaces. The foundation parts are one of the most important
20:38parts of the hoist. Obviously, without those and not being installed correctly or meeting the
20:44requirements, the hoist has a good chance of falling over. We've used 200mm long bolts just to make sure
20:49that we get deep enough and get a good grab on the concrete, keep everything firmly planted to the
20:53ground. There's a lot more emphasis on the bolts with the two-poster as you've got sideways movement,
20:58front and back movement. There isn't four points of contact like a four-poster or the triple stackers.
21:03So you need to make sure that everything's good concrete-wise and bolting it down.
21:14Basically, we've freed up some spare space. Alan needs more space to do his work, so he's swinging
21:20panels around and the last thing I want is swinging panels around shiny stuff and he doesn't want to do
21:25it either. But with a bit of extra floor space, he can swing the panels around, do what he wants to
21:30do without fear of hitting a car. The triple stackers at the back, they're designed to save space so you
21:35can get three vehicles in basically one car park-sized spot. It's basically two four-post hoists on top of
21:41each other. So you've got everything that a four-post hoist has and double it. So there's eight cables in total
21:48to run two separate air systems, two separate hydraulic systems, all coming back to T pieces and
21:54whatnot at the motor to combine everything together and give you a smooth operation at the motor.
21:59We needed to get it done quickly and efficiently. So there was a lot of planning and they did a great
22:04job. I was a bit sceptical when I started to see them come together whether the cars that were really low
22:11were going to get up there, but it worked fantastically. Not one single car scrubbed, they went straight up.
22:17And some of these cars are less than 100mm off the ground. It's come along good. They look impressive.
22:23Happy with the job. Pretty tired, but we've done well. Everything's come together really well. We've
22:28overcome all of the issues that we had through any part of the job. It looks really nice. Everything
22:34together and in the workshop. With the way that we've staggered the hoists, we're able to still access
22:38the stackers, but also work on other cars at the same time and efficiently. One thing I do like about
22:45these hoists, when the boys run them up, they're quite high and I need a little bit of clearance. My head's a bit tall.
22:53Up next, my favourite segment so far. We talked to the boys from Oz Wheels about producing the 164th scale of Luke's evil LJ.
23:21Invisible Carbras are a paint protection film. It's 0.2mm thick polyurethane with an adhesive on the back.
23:35We computer cut it to suit each vehicle and then apply it. I'd just finished repainting my 1968 Corvette.
23:41I'd spent a lot of money on it and cried when I got a first chip in it. So I decided I need some sort of protection.
23:47We have patterns for most modern cars. Anything we don't have a pattern for, we can create a set
23:53like we did for the VG. Resprays can cost somewhere between $10,000 and $100,000. Putting paint protection
23:59film on the paint to stop any chips is a very cost effective way of protecting the car. You can find
24:05Invisible Carbras on the web www.invisiblecarbras.com.au or give us a call on 0382881041.
24:22Oz Wheels is a 164 scale diecast manufacturing business so we produce, manufacture and distribute
24:28all around Australia 164 scale diecast cars. Oz Wheels started in 2024 in January. Since then we've
24:36produced a total of over 500,000 units. At the start we started out with 12 cars which was broken into
24:42two different body styles, a panel van and a HQ four-door and now in series two we have a total of
24:4824 different bodies including XAXB Falcons, XWXY Falcons into a HXLE in the Holdens and some Monaros
24:56thrown in there as well. We typically start with something that we call a job bag. So that will be
25:02a file that contains thousands of reference images, dimensions. We'll send that over to the factory.
25:07They'll start to spit out some 3D files from that. Once we get where we're sort of happy with the 3D files
25:12online they'll actually print us what we call a rapid prototype. So these come out as a resin 3D
25:17printed model. We'll receive these here in Australia, we pull them apart, we check over
25:22all the dimensions, we check to make sure everything is to scale and the main thing that it looks right.
25:26And then after we approve those rapid prototypes they move on to something called the test shot phase.
25:31So the test shot phase starts with one of these bad boys. So this is the very first injection that they
25:36do on the tooling. They will then CNC machine that all out and then create a whole heap of things we call
25:42slides which are basically a component that will slide in and out of the tooling to modify certain
25:47parts of the body whether that be front grills, rear bumpers, bits and pieces like that. They spit them
25:54out in primer for us to cover the bodies so make sure that they don't oxidise and they'll send it to
25:58us like this. Once we are happy with the actual die cast moulding and the lines on the body they'll turn
26:03into something we call a decorated sample. This is what we call a first round decorated sample. So typically
26:10these cars will be hand painted with all the decals and application done by hand. We take this
26:16opportunity to image the car all the way around, check the colour schemes, check that the decals are
26:22sitting on the body correctly and they line up to where they need to go and then we progress on to our
26:26next step which is called our production sample. So they will send us this with the complete card art
26:32on the back as well. They will heat shrink these from both sides which takes usually about six days
26:37through the production of the cards and then they use a big heat press machine to put the product
26:42on the front in their clamshell.
26:51Hey guys I'm Luke. You might remember me from season three of Rise Down Under. We built the
26:56LJ Trana on an Evil LJ, the 16 week wild build car. Today we're down at Aus Wheels and DDA to talk
27:02about how we're going to make that car into a model car. As everyone does that has a nice car they
27:08always try and find someone to build their car into a model car. By doing this like everyone can
27:13experience the same feeling about having the car themselves and we go to that many shows that people
27:17are always asking oh when's this coming out when are you doing that and now we're doing it. We're actually
27:22going to release the product down at Summonats so we're going to have a big trade stand there and
27:27release the 164 and 124 down there. I've done Luke now for about maybe four years I suppose was the
27:35first time he wanted a Fast and Furious diorama that I built and dropped that off him he's pretty
27:39impressive it and then he asked me to start building some other dioramas. With doing some
27:43dioramas and whatnot for Luke we sort of over a long time become pretty good mates and Jesse started
27:48making up some real cars in the 124 scale for DDA and it was sort of a car of Luke's that I thought
27:54well that'll make a nice car and we were just sitting down one day and Jesse brought it up
27:59and I was like oh I know Luke said to Jesse look should we make this car and he was really keen he
28:04loved the colour he sort of talked about it a bit and then I went back to Luke and said look would
28:08you be happy if we went along and made this car so. My initial interaction with Luke was actually
28:13through Tiny we were sitting there over lunch one day and we were talking back and forward and I was
28:17having a bit of a flick through on Facebook and I come across Evil LJ and I was like this is what we need to
28:23do we need to get into doing more of this sort of stuff and getting into the real car crowd all of
28:28a sudden Tiny jumps in and goes I actually know Luke so from there it sort of became a would you
28:34like to make the LJ do you want to do this so we sort of started to make a bit of a plan from there
28:39once Tiny had sort of hooked me into the idea a little bit he then went back to Luke and pitched
28:43him the idea and of course Luke was absolutely stoked so he reached out to me straight away and said look
28:48what do you need from me how do we get the ball rolling so that's where we went from there and then as
28:53things naturally progressed obviously we've become quite good friends through this whole process
28:57luckily we've had a lot of photograph and footage of his actual car build so we haven't had to go
29:02out take photographs and 3d scans of different cars because Luke's got so much detail of it so Luke
29:08set off to say this is what I want on the design and then we sort of tweaked it a little bit yeah so
29:11it's quite a big process to go from the real car to a model car but luckily with Luke's high detail of
29:18images and references and knowledge that process actually sped up quite a lot on this this design
29:24of a 164 scale car starting with the designs on the LJ again we started with the job bag the job
29:29bag was so brilliant obviously because Luke was so documented all the way through his build which
29:35made a lot of our processes so much easier he also has in-depth knowledge about every single minor
29:40modification that was done to the car so through the 3d stage and the job bag stage it became quite an
29:46easy build so we were able to accelerate the time frame with Jesse luckily when i threw out the
29:51build i took a bazillion photos everything's modified because it's not your standard shell from checking
29:56over all the 3d drawings to talking about how modified and what colors and etc what components they are
30:03i think the roof was only not touched in the LJ so we've had to make all new tooling for everything
30:08to be able to achieve this having that 164 model i know Luke goes to a lot of car shows and events
30:14and i know he's been asked a number of times if there's a model available or some sort of merch
30:18for his car so it's going to be great to actually have that car that they can take home especially
30:22at that price point that's quite easy to event to carry around it's going to be the 20 dollar mark
30:27so people better carry around to put in the pocket take it home so yeah
30:30up next aiden from bespoke coachworks gives us an in-depth look at his machinery from air and forbes
31:00attics detailing is your one-stop shop for everything detail and custom work for your vehicle
31:06across our multiple shops we take in every kind of vehicle so we take in a lot of exotic cars a lot
31:12of four-wheel drives normal everyday cars and we even do caravans so we have two main locations for
31:20attics detailing one our hq is in tullamarine and we have another shop in cheltenham and then
31:26next door at the hq we have attics vanguard which is caravans only as soon as the car comes through
31:34our doors we get in and give it a full deep clean inside and out then we get it out to the wash bay
31:39we do a paint decontamination then we start the paint correction process so we polish all exterior
31:44panels including the glass and we get out every single swirl watermark scratch and all the hazing
31:50we get it brand new and then we apply three coats of ceramic coating to all the paint work the windows
31:55and even your wheels so the best way to contact us is via social media we have a lot of content that
32:01goes out every single week or our website you can jump on there inquire now just put in all your
32:06details and then we'll give you a call and we can book your car for people that don't know i do a lot
32:25of r d with heron forbes and yeah they've sent me this 37 inch throat a power hammer and it's an
32:32absolute monster we're going to start putting it through its paces and sort of work out all the
32:36kinks of the machine before they go into production so yeah our job is to really just really give it
32:41a thrashing do as much work as we possibly can on it and just and find the areas that want to break
32:49so the power hammer that you've seen me doing a lot of the work on has a 560 millimeter throat
32:53this new one is 37 inches so 980 millimeters and the horsepower of this motor is going to be
32:58four horsepower compared to the old one which is 1.5 so we had just a quick play around shaping up a
33:05small miniature fender and we were able to shape up a panel and sort of smooth it off in about a
33:10third of the time i would traditionally so far off the quick play that i've had with it it's it's going
33:15to be a really great thing it's going to take time to muck around with stroke adjustment and and
33:19different speed levels and all that sort of thing but so far it's it's a real monster
33:23my role with hair and forbes in this development of this hammer in particular is just i'll run it
33:30i'll notice marking on the tooling that it's putting onto the panel you know things that are coming
33:34loose or die heights all that sort of stuff i'll just go back to hair and forbes and we'll just
33:38keep on working on that until it goes to market
33:47yeah so the new hair and forbes power hammer is uh going well so far we've made a few little tweaks to
33:52some tooling and things like that just to try and minimize some marking and stuff purely because
33:57this machine's more powerful than the smaller machine so there's adjustments that needed to
34:00be made but especially with all the stretching it's going to get a real workout for sure
34:13i've done the small power hammer for this particular piece purely because i'm using the
34:18plastic dies and i find the plastic dies work a little bit better with the mechanism
34:22in the small hammer as opposed to the bigger hammer so yeah just more of a
34:25comfortability thing i just think it's a little bit more efficient with the plastic dies so that's
34:29the reason for the small hammer so i've broken this panel up into quite a small piece when you're
34:34thinking about shaping like this you kind of really need to understand where you're going to place a
34:38weld join because the complexity of like how far you can shrink into a piece how much radius that
34:44piece is going to have how easy it is to get in and out of the machines it all plays a role into
34:48making a panel so you've really got to think about it break it down into certain sections and see
34:52where it is you need to do a piece
35:08so these floors in particular are two mil aluminium so it's quite a rigid material um because obviously
35:14being aluminium and lighter we want that extra strength in the floor pit so using a bead roller
35:19you wouldn't be able to draw that bead as deep or probably won't get any material in general most
35:24bead rolls aren't rated to a two mil capacity so we use the power hammer because it's got the force
35:29to be able to generate that depth as well as a power hammer die to create it's very fast in terms or
35:35in compared to making a bead roll and die so we can make a power hammer die and with the sandwich
35:41more we can get creative as we want and make it you know make it be whatever shape and whatever
35:46depth we want and it makes it very replicatable to the other side so we're using 19 mil thorn flight
35:53on on both sides so we can essentially draw the material as deep as we want prior as long as it
35:59doesn't go past the 19 millimetres so um yeah with all the adjustments and making markers on our machine
36:05we can then determine the depth that we want our bead to be yeah so the development of this bow hammer
36:12movie is coming on really really well it hasn't really given us any sort of hiccups at all we've
36:16made a couple of little adjustments to the dyes just to try and get a little bit better marking
36:20and things like that but other than that the hammer's been running absolutely beautifully starting
36:24everything with the axle that end more up next mark and i hit the road in a vh commodore and that
36:39belongs to lenny from don burn custom
36:49here and forbes machinery house are your aussie owned one-stop shop for everything workshop machinery
36:55if you've got a job we've got the tools and machinery to make it happen we're one of the
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37:06business running with our huge warehouses in sydney melbourne brisbane perth and adelaide drop in and
37:14see what we can do for you if you can't get to one of our massive warehouses remember you can get
37:19everything online with nearly 90 years of experience our reputation stands alone offering you a complete
37:26service with innovative and high quality products our technically trained staff check your equipment
37:32before it comes to you not sure how to use your machinery no problem we've got you covered our
37:39staff are trade qualified and can provide you with the right advice when you purchase a machine from
37:44here and forbes machinery house it's not just a sale it's a partnership
38:03we've got a really cool vh commodore very good mate lenny at donburn and we're repowering it with a
38:10pretty stout cast iron ls with a nice little magnus and supercharger on top he wanted something
38:17that he could cruise with his kids in so i said yeah let's stick 800 horsepower into that that's
38:22ideal for a family cruiser yeah so that car's been a factory five liter car five liter stroker
38:29it's a vn headed thing you know a really trick carburettor deal five speed manual it was all that
38:35in the past that's been in lenny's family and lenny's possession for a long time lots of different
38:39configurations but he wanted to do the rest day mod the only conceivable way of making 800 horsepower
38:46or 900 horsepower at a reasonable cost and have it reliable is obviously an ls platform in something
38:51like that and that's what we've got ls power glide nine inch some good brakes good suspension it's quite
38:58a trick little car that the engine's in for its final time now we made a set of custom two inch primary
39:06pipes for it and the trans is going to go back in today and then we can finish off all the wiring
39:11the wiring converting a you know a simple carburettor electronic dizzy car to a full efi
39:16computer-controlled car with a computer dash and all that stuff is a little bit complex in the wiring
39:21so we chuff along with the wiring once the transmission goes back in today
39:24so we'll jump back on to lenny from domburn customs vh what we've done at this point is i've made a
39:36custom wiring harness to suit his engine transmission etc that started off as a early model ls1 or gen 3
39:44ecu from there i've wired in an extender so that it can be converted to a digital dash so all the outputs
39:50for example boost timing fuel oil pressure etc etc can all be read on a digital dash displays all of
39:56the things that it requires so this uses a early model ls1 ecu otherwise known as a pa1 so along with
40:04the conventional supercharger application with the heat exchanger as well as the pump we're also using
40:08electronic power steering pump on this neatens up the engine bay works quite effectively and it's all
40:13tucked in underneath the fabricated guards that lenny's made up so it's going to look pretty cool in the end
40:20with this particular car it came to us no engine no trans no diff what we've done from there is
40:28we've built an engine fitted the supercharger to it fitted the transmission built the diff for it and
40:32i've been in charge of sorting out the electrical side what you want is you want a good presentation
40:38not everyone can see how great a head's ported or the type of pistons that are in an engine so what
40:43you want is the final touches the things that people are going to see when they open the bonnet you
40:46want that presentation to be spot on there's a few hidden treats inside this engine bay
40:50it's definitely dressed up to look a bit sleeperish but yeah it's got plenty of bang for buck
40:55most of the boys here sort of grew up with this era of cars so growing up with cars like that you've
41:00always got a bit of a sentimental attachment and to see them finish up like this with some modern
41:04trickery is a really cool thing
41:05drive
41:12lenny from donburn customs bhss commodore you built the engine we did the wiring on it i can hear a
41:21wine from the engine bay is that oh that'll be the magnuson blower fitted on the 408 cube cast iron ls
41:31Yes. Oh, hang on. Oh, my ears are hurting from all the hate already.
41:37What else did we do? Obviously, burn the engine, put the blower on it.
41:40Let me do the engine bay, which looks immaculate. Like, it's really dark.
41:43It's done.
41:44We did the cast-eye, four-eye, stroker deal, the Magnuson blower.
41:50Yep.
41:51Have, like, trace brake, 9-inch.
41:55It's got a tubular front end under it.
41:57It is true.
41:59Like, it is really, really true.
42:00You've all the things that were less than perfect on a VH Commodore.
42:04Yep.
42:05And now, 10 steps better.
42:07This is subtly pleasing.
42:11The paint is original.
42:13The only thing that's not original on the paint is the paint.
42:16Well, at least you kept the paint genuine.
42:18Yeah, you did.
42:19Had to step it.
42:20Lenny is a really good dude.
42:21He's really talented.
42:22He's the one, if someone drops off a resto mod and wants us to do it from the ground up,
42:26he hits the paint shop we go to.
42:28Oh, the panel shop that we go to.
42:29Yeah, yeah.
42:29No doubt that Donburn are the best custom paint shop I ran.
42:34100%.
42:34No doubt.
42:35And you just, the quality is absolutely sensational.
42:39Second to none.
42:40Lenny supplied his dash.
42:41Yeah.
42:42Which is actually pretty cool.
42:43Pretty cool, yeah.
42:44Yeah.
42:44It lights up with the Donburn Customs logo.
42:46Yeah.
42:46And he got supplied with a secondhand ECU, secondhand ECU loop and a CAN bus dash.
42:57Yeah.
42:57And he had to put an analog to CAN bus converter into the wire up the dash.
43:01But the simple work of art that getting it to the point where I can look at the dash right
43:05now, I'm like, that is sexy.
43:06Yeah, it's nice, isn't it?
43:07It's got the Donburn Customs logo in the background, got all the display happening.
43:10And we built a set of two-inch primary, tri-wides.
43:16Because these cars, when they've got an L.A. set of them, they're quite tricky to get a
43:19big set of pipes in it.
43:20They've jammed all that in there and got ground clearance and, yeah, it's pretty nice.
43:26I love Lenny's car.
43:28It is awesome.
43:29I wish I had one.
43:30I really do.
43:31I'd love to take the kids away with F&C.
43:33See, I should do something like that.
43:35We should build me a car.
43:36Well, we are.
43:37We've just got to find the time to finish the thing.
43:39Oh.
43:40Oh.
43:41We are.
43:43Watch this space.
43:44Watch this space.
43:45Whoa.
43:46Look out there's Bambi.
43:47That was a deer.
43:48That was Bambi.
43:49Oh, deer.
43:50No deer all right.
43:51Oh, man.
43:53Lucky Lenny's.
43:54Got a paddle shot.
43:55Yes.
43:56Wow.
44:03Next time on Rides Down Under Workshop Wars.
44:06We're taking a break from restorations as we head to the Simpson Desert on a tag-along
44:11tour with John from Dingo Tracks on this one-off outback experience.
44:17Rides Down Under Workshop Wars is proudly supported by Hare and Forbes Machinery House, Hemi Performance,
44:24Pacemaker Headers and Genesis Equipment.
44:27Our crew stays at Quality Hotel Robertson Gardens and Hunt's Hotel in Liverpool.
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