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This is what it looks like when you crash a McLaren at 140 mph. But this is no ordinary McLaren. This is a 600LT.
Chris Slix buys a crashed McLaren 600LT damaged at 140 mph and explores repair challenges and parts salvage.
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Key Takeaways
- Severe carbon fiber tub damage on a McLaren 600LT is often irreparable and compromises structural integrity.
- Buying crashed supercars directly from owners can provide better value and full history compared to salvage auctions.
- High-spec track cars like the 600LT come with expensive components that can be salvaged if the chassis is damaged.
- Repairing or rebuilding a crashed McLaren requires careful assessment of suspension mounts and monocoque condition.
- Despite heavy damage, parts reuse and strategic rebuilding can potentially give a crashed supercar a new life.
What the video covers
- Chris Slix purchases a McLaren 600LT that crashed head-on into a tire wall at 140 mph.
- The car suffered severe front-end damage including the carbon fiber monocoque tub, making repairs highly challenging.
- Despite the damage, the rear and engine appear mostly intact, offering potential for parts salvage.
- The 600LT is a high-spec track-focused supercar with carbon fiber components and factory roll cage.
- Chris discusses the crash details and his initial impressions of the car's condition and spec.
- The car was bought directly from the owner via Second Gears, avoiding salvage auctions and insurance complications.
- Chris highlights the value of included parts like ceramic discs, keys, and service history.
- Plans involve stripping usable parts, repairing what is possible, and potentially fitting components to another body.
- The video covers initial steps of dismantling and assessing the car’s damage and components.
- Chris reflects on previous McLaren rebuild experiences and hopes this project will prove McLaren reliability.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Crash Overview
- 02:02Crash Details and Car Condition
- 03:45Features and Specs of the McLaren 600LT
- 05:20Damage Assessment and Repair Challenges
- 07:09Buying the Car and Salvage Process
- 08:45Initial Dismantling and Inspection
- 12:26Parts Removal and Preparation for Repair
- 22:23Summary and Next Steps in Rebuild
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It is the flagship model out of McLaren Sport series and is designed almost entirely for track. But that is where it all went wrong for this car.
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Head on into the tire wall. You know that your light flash. I didn't think I was going to get out of it.
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You can see that this car has been [music] absolutely destroyed. The front end is wiped out and there's none of it left. But the damage goes much, much deeper because straight away before we even look, we can tell there's [music]
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damage to the carbon fiber monocoque. And with this car being so highly speced, all of these parts are going to be mega expensive. But all of this together leaves us with one big problem.
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I don't even think this car's repairable. So, the tub of this McLaren is absolutely ruined. This should never go back on the road, but it is mainly only the front end of the car that's destroyed. And it would be a real shame
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to waste a 200,000 supercar. So, once we can strip off all of the parts of this car that we've got that make it so amazing, repair the ones that we can, and then refit it to another body, potentially this car can live again in
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its own way. Now, before we get to figuring out how we're going to fix this car, I think what we all want to know is a little bit more about how this crash actually happened.
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Oh, might need a windscreen. Okay, Mickey. I know that ain't supposed to be there, bud.
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No, [laughter] definitely not. Oh, it's got the harnesses. Yeah. And a little cage. I like it.
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They all come with a cage on it. No clutch. This is probably one of the higher spec ones that's been in the UK. It's got 5,000 mi on it or it's probably at 5 and a half thousand
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miles on it. Just about. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And what happened is off the accelerating out with a double apex.
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Basically what happened is the front end started to lose traction, but I corrected it too quickly. I should have let it carry into the skid slightly more head on into the tire wall. Um, and I
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was probably doing 40 mph at the time when it hit the impact point and I didn't think I was going to get out of it and I got out of it without a scratch.
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Thankfully, John walked away from the crash, but the McLaren wasn't so lucky. So, what have I bought? This is a McLaren 600LT.
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So, this is the top of the range of the kind of 570S platform that has been specifically developed for track. Now, interior wise, it has got absolutely everything you could want. We have full Alcantara everywhere, the carbon fiber
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center seats, and from factory, it comes [music] fitted with a roll cage and harnesses. So, you know, it's meant for track. Apparently, it's not that good on track though.
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Oh, it used to [music] be longer. But actually LT stands for long tail.
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It's not an LT at the moment. No. Well, it's a short nose. It's an SN.
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SN. Now, this car is a really high spec as well. So, we've got the full exterior carbon package. I think there's [music] three different ones you could spec. So, this would have had a carbon fiber front bumper. It's [music] got carbon fiber
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wing mirrors, door inserts here, here, here, here, here, here. It's just [music] absolutely everywhere.
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It's in what's the name of the color? Can you remember? Blue. [laughter] But my favorite feature about the 600LT is they move the exhaust from back here to here. And you know what's good about that? It hangs flames up there like that
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that you can see out the rear view mirror, which is possibly the coolest thing ever.
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And these always get burnt. I was just going to say the scorch marks on the spoiler. There's literally scorch marks.
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And I like that. It gives it character. It's like patina. Yes. Means you've been using it. There is one huge problem with this car because the back end actually looks all right. We'll presume for now the engine is okay, but
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because this car went so fast into the wall, it does mean that the front end is completely written off. And with that, it has taken out the carbon fiber tub monocoque body. So that means this car is basically shagged all the way to about
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here. So essentially, we've got a parts car. Yes, we have. That is definitely not [music] fixable. As much as it'd be nice to be able to just throw a front end on this, I don't think it's going to be
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possible because with that like that, the suspension mounting points are ruined. I just don't think that is going to be repairable.
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Even if someone could, I wouldn't like that being repaired to be fair. No. It's just not how they're designed.
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No. So, I don't know how we're going to fix this yet, but we're going to figure it out.
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You do like to give [music] us a challenge, do you? [laughter] Wow.
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Finished. The other thing is we've had such bad luck with our previous McLaren. We bought [music] kind of the worst example of any McLaren on the road and then tried to get it back to a good standard. But this one is a little bit
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better even though it's worse damage. Do you agree with that? Yes, I do actually. Um [music] the earlier ones just been a bit but I think they've got better now. And this is very [music] pretty this car when it's in one
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piece. I like it. Okay, good. I'm glad you do. No, it does. I like the shape's beautiful.
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I agree. This is a much lower mileage car. It's got 5,000 mi on it. It is an LT model which they seem to have took more care building in the first place. Admittedly, now some of it now comes down to us. But
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I'm hoping this will be the McLaren that will prove me wrong about McLarens being unreliable. Right. Shall we, I suppose, just get started?
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We have got a lot of stuff to fix, a lot of things to figure out. And the first one is getting it on the ramp. We're going to have to get pushing.
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Right, I'm going to go up with the ramp first. Yeah, the sound of that.
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All good, baby, baby. Right. No point going higher than that. No, because we want to get this beast started.
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That's on that side. Get in there. Have some of that. Right. Sounds like it's made to measure.
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Yeah. Uh fun. One down. There it is. Sort of [laughter] and then we'll just attach everything to that.
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Okay. I think let me find the key. One of the great things with this, we mentioned it's unrecorded, which means it hasn't gone through the insurance. It hasn't gone through to Copart. And I managed to buy it direct from the person that crashed
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it, which means I get two keys, a log book, the service history. I managed to get some other bits that you had for the car with it and the car for the grand total of that. So, let me be clear what
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I got. This ex-McLaren, two brand new ceramic discs which probably retail at 10 grand and a couple of keys which is worth probably a grand to go and get I think from McLaren the two keys something like that.
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Yeah, definitely. And the whole reason behind that is because it didn't go through a salvage auction. We managed to pick it up from Second Gears, which is one of our channel sponsors, but also is a great way of buying a salvaged car because
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there's a lot of people who crash their cars, buy them back from the insurance, and can sell them direct to you. So, you're not putting line in the pockets of people like Copart and all these other massive companies, meaning the seller
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gets more for their car and you pay less. Whether I got a steal on it, I don't know. But this would probably be about £175,000 car.
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Do you know what I like about Second Gears? You go to the person who's got the car. It hasn't been in the yard and played around with and they've tried to do something or break it or we know
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right that's where it was that is it's crashed like pre-crashed exactly and you get to find out the full story. So if you want to find the best way to buy or sell your salvage car then make sure to go and check out Second
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Gears. I'll leave the links in the description. Right. So we got 12.6 in the battery.
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Yep. That's pretty good. That's pretty solid.
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You got power there. Haven't got power there. I'm just being an idiot. There's no power there. There. Power there.
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Power there. Oh, have got power there. Okay. Looks like everything's putting out power. Any electrics?
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I don't think so. Not a drop. Nothing's making any noises. I mean, it might be something to do with this extensive wiring damage on the front. I think this one is calling out to me.
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Yeah, that kind of I feel like they was in here somewhere. I think you might be right with a big fuse.
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Oh, yeah. That would have had a casing on it. What do all of these do? Oh, there's a fuse box in it. So, there's something in here. And have I got Just touch them together.
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I didn't mean to. [laughter] Don't believe me. I'm a true liar. Please tell me you got that.
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Let's um put the um Let's just take this off for now, shall we? Should we dig out our old loom?
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Uh I don't think that's going to help us. You think? I think you might give us Oh, what what that's doing?
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Yeah. Behind that seat there's a little cover with a fuse box. Remember, I would check over a few fuses. The fact that all these wires are like that.
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Yeah, it's definitely popped a bunch of fuses. That would be right. But I feel like we should be able to get power in the car.
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Yes. Let's um All right. Where is that wiring loom? In the abyss. So, left over from the last McLaren build we did, we bought a whole 650 S loom for like 300 quid. And that could be the key to us actually firing this up
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because it'll have all the bits on it that we need. And I'll probably end up doing the same.
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[laughter] I know that's miked up as well. So hopefully that McLaren loom will give us everything we need and all the bits and bobs cuz they'll probably be shared cuz McLaren are a little bit lazy like that. And hopefully that will
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give us everything to get that up and running. So we can start to dig through our massive pile of spares left over from the previous build. We've got things like an old steering wheel, some wiring, and some suspension arms. But
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the question is, is all of this going to fit on the 600LT? So they're not the same.
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Scammed. But there was one part that we couldn't find. the complete wiring loom that we bought for the 650S.
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It looks like we're having a change of plan then, isn't it? What you Well, there's obviously severe wiring damage and without that, we can't get power in the car, meaning we can't start it.
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Where do we start? Personally, we should just get all the front end off. Don't bump what's broken first.
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Shall we take a bunch of pictures as we go? Would be a great idea. Okay, now we can get started with dismantling what's left of the front frame. Now, this car is very similar underneath to my McLaren 650S. There's a lot of things which
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we're going to remember from that build which are going to help us with repairing this 600LT.
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Don't know what it is. Over the last how long, 6 months, I've really gotten an itch for McLaren. I don't know what it is. I think it's like a a bit of pride, a bit of knowing how spicy they are, but
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our one has been so bad. And I don't want everyone to have the same idea that all McLarens are rubbish. So I think we are going to try and make a world first a reliable McLaren.
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Well, that's some challenge. Yeah, exactly. I don't know if it's going to be possible. I don't know if it's going to be possible with this one with how messed up it is, but I really want to see one that works.
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[snorts] [laughter] It's got a degree. It's got a degree of steering. Where's that coming out of?
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Yeah. It's just spoofed everywhere. Ah, that makes sense. Do I point it that way?
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No, I'm not going to do that. I don't think I've ever seen an ABS sensor that melted. I mean, look. Wow.
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And that was just sat there. Look. Can you imagine how hot that disc was?
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Don't touch. Too spicy. Someone was left for breaking. Can you give me any more steering lock that side bud?
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I think a rack's knackered, isn't it? I'd say. I was trying to see these caliper bolts.
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Fortunately, I haven't got to undo the top arm on this one. Is it snapped off?
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If she is left to chat completely, I'm not bothered about that disc cuz that one's that one shagged in it on that side.
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Is it broken? I think it is on the back. Yeah. I think it's all right.
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Is it? Yeah. It's got really hot. Oh, how's your visibility to your caliper bolts?
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Can you see them? Sort of. They are etors, right? Yes, they are. Cuz my top one I cannot get a socket onto.
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Oh dear. All right. Well, I tell you what we'll do. We'll just take them off but carefully. That just take the whole suspension off.
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Yeah, just take it. I mean, if we disconnect the um actual steering joint. Yeah. Steering joint, brake line, top mounts, and just as it's coming off, unthread all the wiring.
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Yeah. We just got to be try and preserve these. Yeah. Well, if we get the um engine [music] stand thing here, put it out the way.
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Yeah. Put some sponge on it. Now, to make this as easy as possible, we're going to try and take things off in big chunks. And to get this subframe off, we just disconnected the top of the shock absorbers from the body. Remove
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the brake lines and any pipe work that's going from the back of the car to the front. And then we can disattach the subframe from the carbon fiber monco.
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Must be maxed out now. No, the top on. Well, that they're not attached. Oh, they're not.
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I just thought I'd leave it there as it was until you got the weight of it.
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Right. I'm just going to lower the car down a smidge. Are you ready to rumble? Here is one subframe bolt.
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Out she comes. Here's another. Out she comes. That should have dropped in my head, but maybe the car's just that stiff that it doesn't.
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Hello. This one's a bit of a bendy Wendy. Well, there's all four out. Ah, there's your other one.
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Oh, mama's definitely that's disattached. [music] And yours are. Are they? Yep. Both gone. So, is there anything holding that?
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Um, possibly this. Here, is it another 13? No. Like a little 8 mil. When you have a look at it, you'll be like, "No, why have they put that in there?" Oh, yeah. Yeah. Why have they put that
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in there? I know, right? It's like a retainer, isn't it? Yeah. I think it might be doing lining it up. [snorts] You get out of there. Well, it's not under loads of tension.
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I'll have it up. Of course you can. Cheers. I'm not seeing anything else that's holding it.
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A creek then. That was just your spine. I think it just needs a pry. Can we get a bigger bar?
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I do. I need one. Now we're cooking. Are you sure there's not another bolt in the back somewhere that we're missing?
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It's such a weird subframe, is it? The way it's held up. Yeah, it's up.
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What about in the middle? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Woohoo. What was it? You just leave that out.
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Yeah, we'll do. What? What was it? What was holding it in? Um, I think just a little bit of glue, but I ain't losing some.
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Stop the clock. Stopping. You haven't done your brake line. The 27 mil thing. I'll be done two shakes about just Where does he get this stuff from?
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There we go. front end almost completely off, isn't it? Um, pretty much is. Yeah.
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Yeah. There you go. Look. Yeah. That ain't a bad start, is it? But that is not all we're going to be doing for this video cuz that would be ridiculous. We're going to get to basically a bare car. And then we've got
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to figure out how the hell we're going to get this back together. Cuz now let's got that off. Obviously, we can see why this frame is no good. So, this is the tub where the chassis legs go in. And
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here it is. That's actually not too bad. What about this one here? Um, yeah, that is definitely fooar. But this side, wow, that's definitely never going again.
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No, that's gone. Goodbye. Yeah. So, bear in mind if you're ever in a crash again and you were you decided just you wanted to mount you bend your suspension mounting point back into place and try and make it work. If
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you're in a smash again, you got no integrity there of you. So, the whole car is just going to go and turn to smoke and you go with it.
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It's just when they're made, the structural integrity of the whole tub is as one. If you just repaired that, that would be a weak spot.
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How many layers of carbon are there as well? There's ridiculous amounts. Count them. One, two, three, four.
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Hello. In the edit cam, do a hello echo backwards from Mickey. Hello. Who are you? Dr.
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Cool. Right. But now that's out of the way. What do we want to leave on? So that probably wants to come off to let us get the B pedals out. But I think everything else can stay there cuz then it just
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kind of leaves it where we want it. Essentially Mickey. Yep. [music] Now the remains of the subframe are removed. We [music] can now see there really was no chance of saving this tub.
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And it started to dawn on me how much all of these parts could end up costing.
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[music] Now, a lot of the parts on here are going to get expensive. We're going to need a steering rack, some suspension arms, some ceramic discs. Going to need to sort the calipers out, new subframe, all sorts of stuff. And all of this adds
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We've got fish and chips, scon, afternoon tea, British bulldogs, top hats, pub culture, Sunday dinners, beans on toast, crumpets, pork pies, Gregs, Weather Spoons, the Blackpool Tower, Potholes, the Top Gear Trio, Mr. Bean, Wimbledon, David Flipping Atinburgh. I
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think we might forget it, but all of these things are things to be proud of.
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They're part of our culture. And McLaren being an English car manufacturer is a part of that. That is why I love McLaren. That is why I've changed my mind. And that is why I want to change opinions on what McLaren's are like.
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Let's see if we can make a good one. So, you might be wondering what we're actually going to do to fix this car if this chassis basically is a writeoff.
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What I have found, and the reason why I've gone for this, is because there is a lot of good bits still on this car, like almost enough to build up an entire car. But this part here we can see is
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mud and it should look like this with a big mil piece in it to bolt all your stuff to. And thankfully, I can buy a new tub for a 600LT with a windscreen. Bear in mind the windscreens are about three
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grand on their own for £4,000. So, I'm going to buy this tub, plunk it on that ramp over there, if I can get that out the way. And we're basically going to transfer everything from this one onto that tub, buy the parts to reassemble
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the front end, and essentially then because I needed a windscreen anyway, all of this disgusting damage is basically going to cost me £1,000 to fix. It's just a lot of work.
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Building a McLaren, not rebuilding because we're starting from scratch, baby going up. Now, you got to think about that. So, if I'm basically paying £1,000 for the tub when you knock off the windscreen, how much did it cost
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McLaren to build these tubs in the first place? In short, I think basically no one wants a tub because if you've got a car, then you don't need a tub and the chance of you damaging it and wanting to
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do all the work to swap it out is pretty slim. So, they're basically just a big paper weight and that's why you can get them for so cheap. So, if you're looking for a good place to put a sim rig, just
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saying. [laughter] Now, the front end is as stripped as we need it to be, but this isn't where most of the work is in this. We need to strip down the entire back end, get the engine out, all sorts of different jobs. So,
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we're going to start off with the under trays and then move on to the back bumper.
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Right, we want to try and look at the back and how we're going to separate all of this stuff. And there is a few issues. One, this door won't open and we can't get it open. Partially cuz it's on
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the ramp and partially cuz there's no [music] power to it and we can't get any power in the car. But the other thing was, what was the other thing? [music] Access to the engine. We want to try and
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make that as easy as possible. So, it' be nice to get these quarters off, get the top panel off, [music] um, and many other things. So, we're going to try and figure that out. I personally think it might be a case of
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leave this in place. Uh, because we can't get to these bolts and just try and strip the quarter off from here. But then there may also be some bolts here.
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Let's just open the can of worms. I like it. I've come to the conclusion that it all needs to come off anyway, so we may as well just take it off.
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So, we can get to work removing what's left of the rear bumper and then moved on to taking off the spoiler and the surrounding panel.
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There we go. And that gives us access to get the exhaust removed as well.
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Uh, I think I'm going to take that heat shield off and then I'll be ready.
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Hey, what you got? Hey, that's nice. Yeah. Clear damage. Um, call for damage. No damage at all. A little bent bracket here.
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Okay. But nothing to scream and shout about. Now I'm ready. Is that not just ridiculous?
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How pathetic. [laughter] Like really that on a twin turbo V8. I think that's what allows it to hang big old dirty flames.
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Yeah. Now we've got that out the way. We want to try and see how we get these rear quarters off. So Mickey got to work with taking off the other side blade and I started taking out some of the bolts for
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the rear quarters, but it just wasn't coming loose. We couldn't quite figure out how it was attached to the car.
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[sighs and gasps] What about [music] does that piece uncip from the top? After looking into how these rear quarters go on, we realize that we're stuck. The small rear [music] quarter glass needs to be cut out because the
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panel sits underneath that. So, what we're going to do with this rear quarter then, Michael, cuz we're in a bit of a catch 22, aren't we?
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Yes. To get that out. To get that out, we need to get the window out. And we can't get the window out cuz we can't get the door open.
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I say let's just trim that little bit off there cuz this quarter's finished anyway.
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And that Mickey sounds like a brilliant idea. So, he can get to work with an air saw. Just trimming this section of the quarter off, which is where it's fastened behind the window.
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Very nice. That worked. And there is literally no damage to bits that we care about.
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I I I thought I'd gone at least gone through this bit, but I No, no, there's not even a kiss on it, is there? Ah, so it is bonded on, but there [laughter] Yeah, it's bonded there. And I think it
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tucks behind the window. Now, we want to see if we can save these carbon trims off the roof.
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[music] But we came to realize that these are bonded on and not going to be easy to get off. [music] We kept trying to see if there's a way we could free them, but we could only get the bottom segment
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removed. But now we've got that out the way. I think we've got to move on to a bigger job. One eternity later. That's a boy a Yeah.
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Yeah. I've got a feeling this is all going to be bonded in as well.
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So, we can't take this quarter off. Two windows [music] out. Yeah. But we don't need to take the quarter off to get the engine out. So, we've got someone coming to take that window out cuz we can actually get that door open
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tonight and you may as well take the windscreen out at the same time because it's going to get in our way a little bit. For now, I think we've given ourselves enough access. Let's get this engine out. Can you remember our
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process? Yep. Me, too. I think top radiator hoses, loom, which we've already done. Disconnect this from the bottom there.
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And then the power cables, charge coolers have to come out. So, it was airbox, charge cooler, then the cat because it wouldn't all come out in it.
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Do you remember it being, "Oh, no. We can't get that." Right. Let's get to work. So, let's get to work on getting this engine out. It's never easy to take an engine out of a car, especially a V8. They designed it
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to come out the bottom of this car, and it stays on the subframe, which is separate to the main rear frame. There's a lot of things which are very fiddly to get to, and you've got no space to do
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them either. So, we can work on getting out things like the charge coolers, air boxes, cats, and then we can go underneath and disconnect things like the oil lines as well.
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Whilst we were so busy on the back end removing everything we needed to, we had Archie from AGM Windscreen show up who can remove the windscreen and then also the side glass. This is going to give us better access to remove that rear
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quarter. Once that was done, I was working at the back, removing the rear suspension. This is going to make getting to the gearbox bolt much easier.
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I don't know. All right. [laughter] This side's the same. [snorts] Come around there. Do a bit of that.
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Spin it. Ah, that's better. more right where we're at. We've got all the down pipes off or both the down pipes off. All the water's now disconnected.
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Oil's all now disconnected. We've got a fuel line still remaining. Drive shaft to remove and then all the mounts. So, gearbox mount, which is the big one that goes through there. And then the frame that you drop the engine on. Is that
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about right, Mickey? Sounds about right to me, mate. Good. There's a couple of little pipes we need to disconnect.
Speaker A
Okay. Okay. Well, I'll work on freeing up these drive shafts while you do that.
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Yeah. Yeah. There you go. [music] Right. That's that side back together for now. Drive shaft out the other side.
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Then what's left? This little brever pod here, a fuel line. And I think that's about it.
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Okay. Bolt this side back up just so it's out the way. And then things are about to happen. Now, we've got more or less all of the accessories disconnected from the engine to the car. Now, we've got the big job of taking out the
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massive bolts that hold the subframe on. So, that is a bolt. That is a boat. All thread locked as well.
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Yeah. Juicy. Well, we've still got that one up top. I'm hoping it won't do a wheelie now.
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Okay, let's find out. Shall we rumble? Yeah. Instant wheelie. Was doing a wheelie. Keep coming down.
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Stop. Stopped. Can you come down a bit more? Sorry, I need to move this ramp. Keep coming. Oh, go back up. [clears throat] Don't do a wheelie now.
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No, don't. Does it? What was it doing? It was It was literally just caught on the edge of the frame.
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The little It wasn't the block. It was the round bit on the Oh, right. So, it went a bit and then it was throwing us out. So, just that one water pipe. Yeah.
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Yeah. I'll tell you what, that's a lot better access there than the one underneath.
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Feels like I've got it to go up. Yes. Okay. Yep. Yep. [music] Yep. That my old mate is engineer. Feel like I'm going up in the world. What do you reckon to that?
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Now we're hoping this should be ready to essentially bolt straight back into the new body tub. Well, be tub frame, then this. But I'm hoping there's nothing we need to do with this. It does. So, we can essentially park this here as it is.
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We may want to change a few bits that we've already removed. But this section, leave it alone.
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I think I am officially done for the day. There we go. Next job, I guess, which is the job for tomorrow. Frame off. But there is a lot of stuff we managed to take off today. And but it's this plus
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an engine. I'd say not bad going. So there's cue to the morning and it's rear frame. It's definitely rear frame. Morning. Today on the Chris Slicks channel, Mickey wears a hat.
Speaker A
[laughter] So next thing we want to look at how we're going to separate this rear frame cuz we want to get this back down to nothing. So this rear quarter needs to come off. We can't do it the same way we
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did that side because we weren't bothered about that side. So, we just cut it off where this side we want to keep because it's nice and we can put this on the new tub. So, we've got all the bolts out. As you can see, it is
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loose, but this is actually Is it spot welded? Uh, it's kind of an alley spot weld type of thing.
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Okay. With glue. Right. So, we got a chisel and drill. Yes. Very carefully. Carefully and neatly.
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How are we going to do it? Um, I'm going to drill these out. Okay. And then we're going to get a little panel chisel and we're going to tap the tapy tap slowly slowly catch a monkey.
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Let's do that. Sounds like a plan. [music] That was a good sound. A nice little pop.
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Oh, wow. How nice did that come off? Pretty damn [music] nice. Is there only two spot welds on it? Yeah.
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Um yeah, just two. Something just fell off. There we go. All the rear quarters safely removed. Now we have all the space that we need at the back. So we want to try and pull off as many things
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as we can to give us access to the bolts for the rear frame. So brad packs I'm going to take off by removing all the bolts from the body, leaving all the brackets in place. So it all just comes
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off as one nice unit. So when we come to fitting up to the new one, we can refit it as one nice unit.
Speaker A
Nice unit. Yeah, you've got it. So we've got bolts here and here and here and here. I really need this extension for this bit. Did I? No, probably overkill.
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Do some buggies. That should be it. Somehow your back on the thing ended up back on the found its way home.
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Just wants to go home. Yeah, luckily I put the nut on. It's sitting all the way on.
Speaker A
Hold on. Now you have the angle good. Yeah, you were hitting the spot. And maybe there's the one. The question is, can we see the bolts? And we can see two of them straight away. One and two. Somewhere
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else there's a big fatty. Like a proper big fatty. With the driver's side now removed, we can do exactly the same thing on the passenger side.
Speaker A
Right. Time to have a tank. Tommy. Exactly. So, we've got two tanks that need to come out. We've got the oil tank and the fuel tank, which will give us access, I think, to everything else to be able to get the frames off. I'm going
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to work on the oil tank. Mickey's going to do some of the filly bits on this side. And within literally, I going to say 48 seconds, we're going to have all that out.
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Ready? That was a convincing sound, wasn't it? Oh, that was pretty successful. Yeah. Right now, the fuel tank is removed.
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That gives us access now to take off the final bolts for the rear frame. Scarily, there is only six bolts that hold essentially everything behind the bulkhead or the firewall, whatever you want to call it, back here. So that the
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engine, the wheels, everything, there's six bolts. Slightly concerning, but if it works, it works. So we've got a big fatty down the bottom, which we're going to take out first, and then these two here, which hold the rest of it. So
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we'll get the big bottom one out first. Mickey's got his skew wizard. Skiz. Yeah. Let's see how it comes out.
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And here are the last two. Let's see if these are a bit easier to crack off.
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They're definitely not torqued as much. Let's give it a go. Go with this one first and see how I get on.
Speaker A
Go with the modest option. Yeah. Oh, [laughter] you know how you were saying about how it concerned you?
Speaker A
Well, it should have been harder. Yeah. Right. We're going to have to put this on a tripod so we can all do this. Yeah, probably.
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So, we can get in position. This is a threeman job. It's going to take two of us to lift the frame and one of us to unbolt it. So, we can get to work on doing that. Taking out the first bolts,
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followed by the big one underneath. But the frame didn't move. And there's only one reason for that. Basically what it is here, we forgot there's another bolt from the interior possibly. So we now got to somehow empty the whole interior
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until we can find that bolt because at the moment we can't really empty the interior because the door doesn't really open and we can't move the seats. So I don't really know what else we're going to do from here. So basically job it.
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[laughter] So that presents a problem in itself because the interior we can't really get in it and we can't open the doors. So to get to that bolt, we have to strip the interior and probably have the doors
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open. Sounds like a problem. So new plan of action. Get the car off the ramp. Then we can open at least one door. Maybe try and get this door open. And then we can hopefully access that bolt and then
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split the frame and the tub on the floor. All right, let's um pipes. It's pretty much just pipes left.
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Diping. Yeah, the car needs a dip. Pipes are out the way. So, now we're going to drop the car down onto a little dolly on the front and two jacks on the back. How far off are you, Mickey?
Speaker A
Your jack wants to come over a bit by the looks of it. It does.
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Going. Keep going. Hold it there. Well, that's the closest this car, this tub anyway, is going to be to being on the floor ever again. I'm sure a great life.
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That went better on easy. I'll do right. Here's our plan of action then. We need to get this door off because that is stopping us from doing loads and loads of things. So, we need to find the best way to do it whilst the window is
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still up. We can't get power in the car. We can't do much. So, we need to unbolt the door, unlatch it manually, and then hopefully we can position it, get it off the catch that end, and then bring it
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down so we don't damage the window is the idea. out the doors. All right.
Speaker A
Tidy. Well, that's what the inside of a 600LT door looks like. I suppose the first thing is seats out.
Speaker A
That's going to give us a bit more room to There's no room in that interior.
Speaker A
No, there's not room for activities. steering wheel. Michael table becomes Michael chair. [laughter] Let's try that one.
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So, the seats are out and now we can start stripping down everything else behind them. So, that's all the carpets, the roll cage, and that's going to show that final bolt.
Speaker A
Do you know if you can have a little peer in there? Thank you. Do you think it's the one underneath or both?
Speaker A
I mean, let's just do both. Let's just undo both. Come on. Come on. Take two. for removing the rear frame.
Speaker A
We put some of the other bolts back in so we can start with the interior ones and then take out the other six which should let it split.
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Ready? Hold it there a sec. You lower you lower the front now. You just grab that plastic.
Speaker A
Got it. There we go. Can which way? Both. Oh, [laughter] sweet. That's a strange sensation. [snorts] Yeah, but you've never split in the car in half before.
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Yeah. There's the rear frame. And we have left as much stuff on as we can. You can't leave a lot, but every little bit helps.
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But now we're separated. So, this bit is now ready to go onto our new tub when that arrives. But we splashed so much water strip on the interior. There is wiring. There is boxes. There is a headliner which is now falling out.
Speaker A
Would you like to get this out? Um, yeah. It was half out from the wind screen.
Speaker A
Yeah. Right. Let's go forwards. The cables there. Uh, yes. There's the camera. Because this car has a cool feature which is like an internal camera for filming your track days which is quite sweet.
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We are ticking jobs off here. Over onto the pile. Goodbye headliner. Go again. We're trying to put as much of the like the fixings and stuff back where they came from. So the idea is when we do get
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a new tub, we can just transfer everything over and go, "All right, where's the bolt for that?" And we go, "Where's the hole?" And then it's going to go from one hole to another hole and then it's going to
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make everything easier. And that is one of the hacks to rebuilding cars is just putting things in places where you'll find them and you know which bolts it uses because if you don't you just end up very confused and bit discombobulated.
Speaker A
Now back to the center console. Back to the center console. So, now we're on to the final few steps to getting this tub completely stripped down. We've got to get out this carbon fiber center console, which definitely wasn't easy.
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In fact, nothing about stripping this McLaren down has been easy, but the end result could be so worth it.
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Finally. Go on. gears to see center console. That was intense. [music] [snorts] And next we can move on to the dashboard. First step to that is getting the steering wheel removed. Then we've got to roll around underneath and start
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to remove all of the bolts. We are going to leave this on the frame and again leave everything attached. So when it comes to putting this in the new tub, [music] it's a much simpler job. But having never removed a dashboard from a
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McLaren before made this a lot more complicated. Some of the plugs aren't where you expect them to be and everything's just a little bit different to what we're used to. But eventually it started to come loose and it finally
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comes out of the car. I'll walk through. Okay. Come on. What a gent. One dashboard removed.
Speaker A
Oh, that was weighty. Yeah, [laughter] we managed to keep it on the frame and keep most of the goubbins attached. So that'll make it easier to swap over to the other tub.
Speaker A
Another big job ticked off the list. So although this idea might seem wild, we have spent £70,000 essentially on a bunch of parts to try and build up another car. But with this car being so heavily optioned with the triple carbon
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pack, the center seats, and loads of other bits, these parts could potentially help us build the best 600LT on the market. It might seem stupid, but I think it could work.
Speaker A
Well, the McLaren is now stripped. This might seem a bit odd to you. This essentially being a parts car, but is a parts car with all of the best bits, meaning we can rebuild now or essentially build from scratch the best
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McLaren 600LT possible. This is going to be no easy task. We've got a massive pile of stuff everywhere, and we've still got an entirety of a front end to piece together from secondhand parts probably. But the end result could be
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sensational. If you've enjoyed this video and you're looking forward to see how the MC the MC the McLaren ends up, make sure to like this video. Make sure to subscribe if you're not subscribed already. And we'll catch you next time.
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