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We're back on the second channel, the MK2 channel. And last week, you would have watched the video where I bought myself a second Bugatti Veyron. It's still not quite settled in. This year has been insane.
Mat Armstrong MK2 shares updates on his Bugatti Veyron, BMW M3 project, and McLaren 600LT repairs and modifications.
Key Takeaways
- Bugatti Veyron ownership and maintenance is complex but rewarding with potential value increase.
- BMW M3 project involves significant engine repair and performance upgrades.
- McLaren 600LT restoration is almost complete, pending final adjustments and paperwork.
- Engine removal facilitates easier access for major repairs and upgrades.
- Proper wiring and component replacement are crucial for resolving warning lights and starting issues.
What the video covers
- Mat Armstrong discusses buying a second Bugatti Veyron and ongoing work to perfect the car.
- He updates on the BMW M3 F80 project, detailing engine damage and plans for a cylinder head replacement and performance upgrades.
- The McLaren 600LT is nearing completion with door card repairs and pending import documents.
- Mat and his team prepare to upgrade the BMW M3 with headers, induction kit, new injectors, and upgraded turbos.
- They remove the engine from the BMW M3 to replace a faulty crank hub, a common issue.
- The Bugatti Veyron requires brake pad replacements, an oil change, and fixing an airbag warning light properly.
- Mat plans a meeting with Bugatti to showcase the unique Oakley Design Veyron.
- The video includes detailed mechanical work, troubleshooting, and discussions about car value and future plans.
- Mat emphasizes making the BMW M3 a fast but clean daily driver.
- There are hints of upcoming non-car projects and further modifications.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Bugatti Veyron update
- 03:41McLaren 600LT door card repair and interior completion
- 06:53BMW M3 engine access and upgrade parts overview
- 10:39BMW M3 engine removal process
- 15:39Bugatti Veyron maintenance and upcoming Bugatti meeting
- 20:05Brake pad replacement and oil change on Bugatti
- 23:06Airbag warning light fix and electrical troubleshooting
- 26:40Final thoughts and future project hints
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Like, if you told me what had happened this year in 2020 when I was working in the restaurant, I was working 9 to 5, my full-time job, and then 6:00 till 10:00 in the evening. I was working 7 days a
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week at the restaurant, 5 days a week at Graham Goods, the Ford Performance Place, and on the weekends filming videos and riding my bike in the daytime because I had to go to work in the evenings. If you told me that there'd be
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two Veyrons that I've worked on, never let alone owned, I would never have believed you. Just looking at this car is unreal. And it runs and it drives.
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But that's beside the point. We've still got a few more bits and bobs to do on the Oakley Design Veyron, but I think for now, this car is here to stay. I do think the value of them are going to go
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up. And let's not forget the BMW M3 F80. I haven't forgot about it. I kind of got this car as a bit of a project. We wanted to make it as fast as we could make it. We got it running, but now of
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course it needs a cylinder head. The top end had ran dry. The end of the cam had snapped off. The actual variator of the cam had snapped off the cam. And because of that inside here, where
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the cam spins round and the cam caps go on top, you can see it's all scored. And we did actually speak to the camman. He said we're better off just replacing the cylinder head because it can't be remachined. Well, we could remachine, but then
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you'd have to put shims in it. Blah, blah, blah. It wasn't worth it for the amount. We got a secondhand cylinder head for and with some fresh cams as well. I want to make it like a really fast daily
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drive. I don't want to go too crazy with it. I just want it to look clean. But my dad is going to crack on with that this week. The 600LT. The last few things to finish off now, which is the door card.
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The door card will be back from the repair it had when the airbag blew out of it. So, that car should hopefully be finished soon, but we're still waiting for the documents for it to be properly imported into the country. It does need
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a four-wheel alignment. Next week, I'm potentially dropping a project, which isn't a car, and I'm excited to start work on it. For now, I think I'm going to hand you over to either Liam if he's got the door card for the 600LT or my
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dad who's going to be carrying on with the BMW M3. That car is going to be sick. I don't know if I got any exhaust for it. I think we might need to find one. Okay, on to the next clip.
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We've finally got the 600LT door card back. And this has been freshly repaired. Look at that. You'd never know, would you?
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Fresh repair. So, we're going to get this back in. And then the interior is fully complete. Then, let's get it back in.
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Do you know how to do this? Nope. 'Cause I didn't take it out, but we're going to figure it out together.
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Neutron. We are going to figure it out. Right then. Just like that. Now, right. Then we have the bonnet. The bonnet or frunk?
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That's a frunk. The frunk. Boot release. And this is if you're getting towed. You know when you see cars on the back of like trucks or trailers or anything and the alarm's going mental.
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Oh. You press that button, stops the alarm going mental 'cause it knows that it's being towed.
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Ah yeah. So it doesn't think it's being stolen. Speaker. [music] Tada. Door card on, which means there should be no beeping noise from the McLaren. It shouldn't beep now.
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No beeping. I'm going to shut the door and I'm going to make sure it opens.
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Does your window work? See, this is a complete car. The only thing she needs now is a four-wheel alignment. And then we're just waiting for the import documents and you should go on the road. What? I like this car.
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This is sick. Would you have it over with the R? Yeah, I think I would, you know.
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Yeah, I think I would. McLaren with zero faults. The first thing that we're going to do is take the front end apart, which will give us better access into the engine.
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Sounds like a plan. Off. Give me some. Hey. Hey, we're going to degas the vehicle. See if it's got any gas in me.
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Gone. Here's the fan. It's the fan. One fan. This is my biggest fan. Now, we've got access to the engine.
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And the reason we need the access is because we've got a few little bits that have got to go on it.
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Should we go show the viewers? Let's go and show them. Here they are. [laughter] We've got headers, induction kit, new injectors, two upgraded turbos. Look at them.
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So, it's going to be a million horsepower. I don't know about a million, but it's going to be more horsepower than what it is at the moment.
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I'm pretty sure Matt said it was a million, didn't I? Yeah, that's what he said.
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Yeah, he said it's going to be a million horsepower. Oh, yeah. Going to have to have a bigger fuel tank then. [laughter] Yeah. He said, "We're going to send it to the moon, I believe." Is that right?
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Yeah. Yeah. Said he was going to be the first Armstrong on the moon. [laughter] And then this is the reason why we've had to remove all the front to replace this. And apparently this is what caused the problem, isn't it?
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It's a common problem. Yeah. Apparently they break. Yeah. They slip or something. In order to fit this crank hub, which is the replacement for the ones that go faulty in the engine, we're going to take the engine out.
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Will that be easier for us? It's going to be a lot easier. Engine out. We can build the whole engine up out of the car. Turbos on everything. And then just drop it back into the car.
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Should we rip it up? We're doing it. Oh, look at that. Strength again. Show us your biceps.
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They're too big. Yes. Second place. Next job. Exhaust off. I am disconnecting the steering column here.
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Disconnected. Now we've got the exhaust off, we can get the prop shaft out. And Neutron is ready to go. And he's going to show you exactly how to do it.
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And now you leave her. Have you ever left anybody? [laughter] No. Someone's left me though. Sorry, Neutron. I hope it weren't your mom and your dad. [laughter] Yeah, there we go. [laughter] Fix up.
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Last thing to do. Dugger the subframe bolts out. Number 18. It's on three. Up we go. Big moment.
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Engine coming out. [singing] There she is. Do you think that's helped us? Yeah. Lot easier to get to open now, isn't it?
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Now, we're going to get the engine on engine stand on the stand already. Next job. Let's get the sump off. Everything touch wood.
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Should [laughter] should go quite smoothly from now on. Oh, you've said it. [laughter] Now.
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So, whilst they are getting on with the BMW M3, we've got a lot to do still with the Bugatti Veyron. Obviously, we fixed it for £40, but there's still a few things I wanted to do to get it
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absolutely perfect. We've got that meeting with Bugatti obviously on the 28th of September. Whether we take this one, whether we take both, I don't know.
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I do think they should come and see this one because it is a one of one spec. But although it is running and I want to keep this car, I want to get it perfect.
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And there's things like the brake pads. I don't know if you can just see, but they're pretty pretty low. So, I want to see whether we can see what brake pads are actually used in this. Cross reference them. See if we can get them
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as well. I do want to do an oil change on it 'cause I don't know when the last oil change was on it. So, that's another thing I want to do to it. We've got that issue with the resistor. Remember, we
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put that two-pound resistor in to solve the airbag warning light. I want to fix that properly and actually wire it into the power fuse. And then with the starting issue, I don't know whether that's fixed or not. And one thing I did
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want to check is I'm going to switch over if I can find the starter relay for it because we've done everything. We've done the ignition switch. The ignition switch wasn't t...
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only thing we haven't checked is the starter relay. So, will it go this time?
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I don't know. See, look, it take it doesn't it takes a while. Takes a while. So, you wait. You wait and you wait.
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Whereas, I know a lot of people said, "Oh, it's normal. You can't just start a car up like this without it doing it checks, everything." But mine starts up every time. This just seems to take a longer time to start. I don't know. It
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might be normal, but it just it it's never not started. Touch one. It's just taken a longer time to start.
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But first thing, because it's a Thursday and everywhere is going to close and then it's going to be Friday. I want to get the brake pads off because we need to ring a lot of companies to find out
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what exact brake pads are used on these calibers. So, first thing, let's get it in the ram. Let's take these brake pads out. Off we go.
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Bloody you. Whoa. Any metal pilings? No. This one's good. Okay. Now, I've got to show you why we've taken this apart. Okay. So, when we looked at this hub, this crank hub last night in the box was a drill bit. So, I'm thinking, well,
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why do I need to have a drill bit? And then when you look at this, it's got little four little pins. Look, which will locate into the crankshaft.
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And the crankshaft, I don't believe has got any holes in it for those four pins to go in.
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Do you know why that is then? Because on these engines, this which is here, it isn't bolted into the crank. I think it's just compressed together and then it spins when you put a load of power through it. Like a million horsepower.
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Million. Oh, yeah. That's what this is going to have. Yeah. So, those four pins are going to hold.
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Got 250 each. This is also in the kit. And this is the guide that you use to put on there to find your four holes.
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Ah. So that is why. And when we get this off, we'll be able to show you the old the old piece.
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Should we get it off? Nothing like it. Yeah. Okay. So that comes out there is that's on there like that.
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Yep. And all that holds it is the torque of that. M. So that can spin freely. Look.
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Whereas on the new one, that's fixed to the hub. So it's so that can't spin freely. And then the inner one, which obviously we haven't took off yet, but that one locates in. Look at that ass well poshing. Why didn't they do that in
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the first place? I agree. And I I'm a BMW fan, but why do they not do that anyway?
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Perhaps BMW will get back to us and tell us why they didn't do that.
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Do you think BMW are watching this? Yeah. They're looking at us for guidance. They'll be laughing thinking, "Why is she doing it like that?" [laughter] No, that's how the Germans laugh. It is that.
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And there's the other piece. And there's nothing other than the pressure of the squash to stop that spinning round.
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That is so strange. What a terrible design. The people that designed this must have known that a problem could occur on it.
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So, you think they did it on purpose? [laughter] No, I I think I'm not saying anything. [laughter] Step one of fitting this new crank hub is drilling the holes, isn't it?
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Cuz at the minute there's no holes there, so there's nothing for the dowels to go into. Is that correct? Ooh, that was good of you to remember that word.
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Do you [laughter] like that? Yeah, I do. A buzz word. No, nothing. What? [laughter] So, put this template onto there.
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Yeah. Go on then. There's a little bolt we got to fix it in position position and then we can drill the holes.
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You get the little bolt in the kit. Through there. Through there. Onto there. into there.
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Okay. Don't think that's going anywhere. Who's drilling? So, you're going to drill with it there.
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Where else are we supposed to drill it? Well, then isn't all the drill filings going to go down into the engine?
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Yeah, down there. You see that there? Yeah. That's got a gauze on it. Yeah.
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And in there is a gauze. Ah, right. So, if you get any tiny little bits, those gauzes, they'll stop the bigger bits and then the oil filter, which is on the end of this pipe, we stop the other big bits.
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So, what you're saying is it's completely fine to drill inside your engine because the oil filter will sort it out. [laughter] Yeah.
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Step two is to drill this. I'm drilling. Oh no. Oh my. Oh no. That's not good.
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Silver wheels coming off. If you preferred black wheels, you're a mentalist. Right. These brake pads fairly thin. Could do with definitely changing. So, should be able to get out like this. That looks like there is one, two, three, four pads per
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caliper. Let's get them out and see if we can measure it. Right. Yeeha. This pin out that comes. We should be able to take the pads out.
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Oh, and they're Batty P. Oh, I've never seen pads like that. This could be an issue.
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Wow. I'll be surprised if you can buy those. Do you know what? They have got a bit of meat on them still. But the way you can tell that they're coming down a bit is you can see here the pistons inside the
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caliper are quite pushed out. And underneath the bonnet, the brake fluid is dropped a lot because that's cuz most of the brake fluid is now being pushed into the calipers. So, let's see. Have we got anything on here? We know these
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are AP Racing calipers because on the back you can see the marking on the back and AP Racing are in Coventry which are not far down the road from us. But AP Racing probably made the caliper but then they probably commissioned somebody
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else to make the brake pads. But that's definitely got Bugatti stamp on it. So that' be made by Bugatti. But this brake pad looks at the top here is like a number.
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Yeah, just see it. T44 0 AP Racing have told us it could be Ferodo pads. I found a set but a used set.
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Don't want a used set, do we? These have got to be used in something else. I'm not having that these are only used on the V one because this disc is be used on a different car. This caliper will be
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used on a different car. So if this caliper and disc is used on a different car, so will the pads. Got to find the answer.
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Okay. sent the measurements to AP Racing to see if they can find out who makes these brake pads and then if we can find out who makes them, we'll get some ordered. In the meantime, whilst the car's in the ramp, I checked the brake
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pads on the rear. They seem all good. They've got plenty of life left. It's just the fronts I do want to change.
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They take a bit more wear than the rear. Now, I think what's probably good, just for peace of mind, is to give it a nice oil service. The gearbox and everything seems all okay. The oil in the gearbox
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seems fine as well. I'm not going to mess with that at the minute until that needs doing. Oil service is going to be the next job. Then we can fix the remaining part. So, let's quickly swear out the oil.
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Disaster has struck and the bit has broken off in the template. Do you know why this has happened?
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Why has it happened? Cuz you said it was going to go all okay. We've sent Neutron out to go and search for some 4 mil drill bits for us. So, in the meantime, because you guys want this car running for the weekend, and we've
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only got two days to do it, we're going to put the cylinder head on, the brand new secondhand one.
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Should we go show the viewers? Yes. Okay. This was the original cylinder head that picked up on these bearing journals. Look.
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Now, that could be repaired. It could be milled and repaired. It did work after we cleaned it up, but he wants it right.
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So, what we did, we purchased a brand new secondhand one. Journals are all good. So, it's not had the same problem as that engine has.
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Look how clean and shiny that is. Can we get the other one to compare it?
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And that one's been cleaned up by us already. Yeah, I think it was the right decision to replace that.
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It was because it's got a million horsepower. So, we've had to change the whole head because otherwise we would have had to transfer all these valves and everything into the new head if we didn't buy it with all these things in. So, it makes
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more sense to buy it complete. Would you like to put it on? I'd love to. First of all, head gasket.
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So, we're spinning this over now so we can gain access to the top of the engine.
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And what's the first step of putting the head on? First step, make sure it's clean. Nice and clean.
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Nice flat surface. Important dowels. Make sure they're in cuz we had to take the dowels out to clean this up. Another important thing is on heads is if you've got it in the car and you've taken imagine this was in the car and you've
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taken the head off. Water could go down the bolt holes. When you've cleaned it like that, you might think that it's clean, but there's be water still down there. If you screw a bolt in that hole, when it's got water in, it hydraulics it
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and can crack the block really. So, the other thing is that we're going to make sure as well before we put the head on is that all the pistons have got some clearance at the top because if the pistons
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at the top and then you put your head on and it happens that you've not set the timing up yet and one of the valves is down can going to hit the piston is it?
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You'll bump your head. Yep. Well, good. Head gasket on. Time for the head. Let's get this tray off.
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Right, tray off. Next step, drain all the oil out nice and quick. There was 16 sump plugs. Remember last time? Crack them all off again.
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One, two. The reason there is so many drain plug bungs on it is because the engine is huge and there's loads of different compartments that oil can all go in and it's dry sump. So, all the oil sits in
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one tank and it gets sucked out that tank through the engine, goes all the way around the engine back through to that tank. And if there's some if all the oil sat in the bottom of the engine, then when it's slloshing around, it
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could get oil starvation. So, there's loads of different compartments it could all be in and it's to stop oil starvation. That's why we're having to undo. So many different plugs. Next thing, let's get this oil filter out.
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And we're going to change that as well. Always going to keep the filters for design, research, and development because maybe we make our own HWBT filters for these because we're collecting these Veyrons, aren't we? Are we allowed to do that? Don't know. Maybe
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we're not. Oil filter coming off. [snorts] Doesn't look too bad. Doesn't look like any metal in there. The filter doesn't actually look too bad. It's nowhere near as bad as what my one was. The the original one, was it? Right. Keep that
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one in the safe. All the drain plugs are out. We're going to leave this draining for a while now. Make sure we get all the oil out cuz that's going to be dripping for a while. The oil doesn't
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look too bad. The oil fill wasn't too bad, but it's peace of mind to know that I have done an oil change on it, especially if we're going to attempt to do top speed and either this one or the
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other one, which we still haven't done yet. And the time is ticking because the UK weather is getting worse and worse.
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Got loads more things to address in the video. Still got more stuff on the BMW.
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The C63 is over there. There's a big story with that which we'll get on to on how we got kind of like I've almost like got myself scammed with that car which we'll get on to for now. See you tomorrow once this
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oil is fully drained out. Next day all of the sump plugs I've got to go back in. Then we can put the new oil filter in and the oil. Let's go.
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Oil filter. New one. Come in. Check this bad boy out. Genuine Bugatti. Don't ask where we got it from. No questions.
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Thank you to the person who sorted us out with this. New O-ring coming off.
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Old O-ring coming off. New O-ring going on. Oil filter going in again. Right, let's put this in. In goes the filter. It is a huge filter. Huge one.
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Boom. Next step. 15 lers of oil is going to go in here. Let's get it in. 5 lers. In we go. Five.
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10. And that is 12 lers. It takes 15. I'm only going to fill 12 for now cuz we don't know if 15 actually come out of it. And 12 is enough for it to run and not starve of oil. So, we can run it to
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temperature, check it afterwards, and we're not overfilling it at least. And then we could top it up to its right amount once it's up to temperature. But to start it and run it, we need to put the brake pads back in. And that's a
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different story. We mix [laughter] lift. [groaning] That's heavy. Nicely done, sir. That's on, isn't it?
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That's splendid. Okay, new bolts. Why do you have to use new bolts? Cuz they stretch.
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Are they designed to stretch? Like stretch Armstrong. [laughter] Yes, they are designed to stretch. You should be able to measure them actually.
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You know when you take an old stretch bolt out, you should be able to measure it and there'll be specifications in the book that I used to have and it used to give you the length of the bolt. So if
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the bolt was longer than what it should have been because it stretched, you should have replaced it.
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Did you do that? Of course, all the time. [laughter] Quick was careful. A careful was. Okay, we've wed them up. Now we've got to do 30 Newton meters first stage. Liam has set it to 30 Newton meters. I'm hoping he has. Well,
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it says 30 nm on there. Oh, that must be right then. All at 30 Newton meters now. 90°.
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[bell] We're all talked up and we're good to go to the next stage. Next up on the mix on the what list of mods, the turbos. Let me show you how this is going to make a million horsepower.
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Can you see the turbo in there? Yep. And then transfer to this one. Wow.
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Look at that. It's a daddy one. I think that might be nearly twice the size as that one.
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That's why it's going to do a million horsepower. How long is it supposed to do a million horsepower for before it blows up?
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No, these engines are bulletproof. Oh, are they? Yeah. Well, this one ain't cuz it went wrong.
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[laughter] Now, the turbo with its new gasket that they've already put on there is ready to go on.
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There we go. Fitted. Okay, number one is on. Passing over to Neutron to do number two.
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This is number two turbine. Come on. What? More enthusiasm. This is [laughter] the second turbo.
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I've installed the second turbo onto the head and then oil coming out of it.
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Coolant going into it and coolant coming out of it. Air going into it. It does a lot of turbo, doesn't it?
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Yeah. And then air coming out of it. Turbos on. All we need to do now is sort this new hub out that the drill bit broke in. And that's where Neutron comes in. He's going to go and sort some drill bits out tomorrow
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for us. So, we'll be back midday tomorrow. Please log in. [laughter] Old brake pads are going in. I've found some brake pads for sale. They're in America. They're going to take 4 to 6 days to arrive. So, in the meantime,
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these are going back in. They're not too bad. We called Bugatti. Well, we've called our parts guy who gets the parts from Bugatti. They won't sell them to us because they need a special bedding in procedure which needs to be done at
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Bugatti apparently. Maybe that's true or not. And the best thing, brake pads front and rear, £50,000. I've got a new set for £1,500.
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£50,000 is just made up nonsense. That is utter rubbish. So where they're getting that price from, I don't know.
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So, for now, we got to put these pads in so we can start the car, run the car up to temperature, and recheck the oil. So, they go back in. Not paying 50 grand. I know these cars were ahead of the time
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when they were made, but £50,000 for some brake pads is outrageous. Look at it. We've got some new ones on the way.
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Brake pads are in, which is good. Now, what you would have seen on these wheels when we got them, they had wheel spacers on 5 mil wheel spacers. And it wasn't really because the wheels didn't fit. It was more what we found is that they were
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on because the actual wheel bolts when you put the wheel on, that's it. That's bottomed out there.
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And then there was a space between there and the wheel. So even when you're tightening the nut, it wasn't tightening the wheel on. So they added a 5 mil spacer onto it. And you don't need to do that on the rear. But by putting the 5
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mil spacer on, it made the front fit really, really nice. So I've got some more 5 mil spacers. And I'm going to put these on the rear just to even out the fitment and see what it looks like
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because the I think the front did look really nice with those spacers. So, whack these on the rear, see what the fitment's like. Then we'll get it started up, check the oil, and then we've got all the other faults that we
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need to get on to. So, let's whack these on, see what it's like. Boom.
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Boom. This spacer is going on the rear. They fit better on the rear. I don't know why they're the same spacers, but the center bar, even though they are meant to be the same, it's slightly bigger on this,
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which just fit nicer on the rear. That's why I'm switching them over. But they're both 5 mil spacers. On we go. Let's put these on now, and we'll see what the fitment is like front and rear with the
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spacers, and then we'll get on to the other problems that this car has to make it absolutely perfect.
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Boom. Neutron is back with some new drill bits from Evolve that actually make the part. Big up for Revolve. [laughter] I think they've actually supplied most of the stuff that we're doing on this engine.
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I'm pretty sure all the turbos and like the airfield, I think that's all from Revolve. Big up Immran.
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Big up. We've had We've got two just in case [laughter] but we'll be extra careful this time to make sure they don't break.
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Should we see if we can get it drilled? Yep. Oh, that was satisfying. That Look at that. We're now going to just offer this up. [laughter] See whether all the line holes line up.
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Oh, that's it there. Going in. Oh lovely. Is it in? That looks pretty good to me.
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So now guys, that is attached to the crank and it shouldn't spin when it has a million horsepower cuz those pins are in. And that means we can put the other half on.
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We're putting this down here over this. Come on, baby. Is that on the cog?
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Yeah. Push more. Look at that. That is going to be strengthened. And a [snorts] new bolt goes in there.
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Dug it tight. Let's go. So now we have the uprated crank hub that is now drilled into the crank and is keyed together. So that shouldn't slip when it's a million horsepower.
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Good work, Tony. Thank you. That did take a long time though. I think it'll be worth it.
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I am glad that we took the engine out. Yeah, I think that was worth it.
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We'll check for leaks and everything underneath. Bring it to temperature. Check the oil. Add some oil. Let's go.
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Nothing drastic. You can see good. Right. Let's get the train back on. Undertra's on. Lower the car down. Check the oil. Let's go.
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Nothing. So, it looks like the remaining of that has got to go in. We might have got out all 15 L. In we go.
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Okay. Run it again. Check it again. Oh, it's really not wanting to work now.
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I think it is the start relay. It's the only other thing it could be.
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Oh, there we go. Like if the starter relay is stuck. Yeah. And then eventually it's unstable.
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Where where is that on the car? We don't know. You can't get a fuse diagram.
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There's only a few relays down there. So I reckon it's worth like taking them all out and then putting new ones in them all and then seeing if it ever does it again. Right. So let run to temperature,
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check the oil again. And that is what we're going to check. We're going to check the starter relay afterwards because if the relay when it's flicking over if it's just getting stuck or it's a bad relay. That's all that is when you
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click that button that that button flicks a relay to start the car. And if that relay is not doing its job, that would explain why it doesn't want to start sometimes or it takes a while to start. So, we'll check that next.
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Oh, look at that. Beautiful. right in the middle. Lovely stuff. Don't you just love it when a Veyron oil change becomes the normal on [laughter] second channel video? Let's try and problem solve this starting issue and get a proper fix that
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airbag light. Okay, so at the minute we have no faults on the dash at all. Everything's off.
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But that is literally only because we did a little bodgege with a resistor near the battery. And to actually do that fix properly, we needed a connector, which I'm going to go get.
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And I'm hoping this actually works. Welcome to the battery area. Now, our little bodgege was this here. So, this wire, we bridged the two circuits there with a 2.2 2 ohm resistor and that is taking the airbag light off the dash
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because all that wire is looking for is a 2.2 ohm resistance. Now, if anything was to happen at the front of the car, if you were to have an accident or a crash, the pyrofuse would normally break. But now, it wouldn't break
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because it's not connected. This is the pyruse. This is where it's meant to go.
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Now, what we tried to do is go straight for the wires, straight onto these connectors in there, but for some reason, it didn't create the correct resistance to cancel the light off. So, I was wondering whether maybe it's the
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connection that makes the resistance in here rather than the actual pyro fuse down there. So, because I didn't have the correct connector plug, which I have got now, I'm going to try and put these wires directly onto those wires there
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without the resistance in and then plug it into that. And then I'm hoping what I think is when that goes in there and clamps down, I think there's some kind of 2.2 ohm resistor in there. I'm not sure how that works, but for some
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reason it didn't work without this connection. So, there's got to be something fancy in that. So, for now, let me get these wires, connect them up there, take the resistor out, and we'll see whether that's enough to get the
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light off the dash because that way at least we've got a working pyrofuse, which is not really like bypassed or bodgeged. So, that's not what we want on a 2 million Veyron. So, let's get it working. Okay, so we're at the top half
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of the part of the engine and we need to connect the top half to the bottom half so it all runs beautifully.
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How do we do that? We do that with a piece of equipment that will set the cams at TDC with this magic kit that Neutron's got in his hand. Look.
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Whoa, look at that. Looks really posh, doesn't it? These line up. go through those slots there and everything. But yeah, we'll go through that when we get to that stage.
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So, we got to get the chain on first. Yeah, let's get the chain on. Right, the chain attaches the top to the bottom using these pulley and they go onto there like that. And then when you put your bolt in, it turns a cam shaft which
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goes down there. This goes like that onto there. And these are variable because they alter according to oil pressure. And they get the oil pressure from those little holes there.
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So if there's high oil pressure, what does it do? It it allows it to um advance and the timing to where it likes. So the oil pressure, where does that come from?
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From the pump at the bottom of the engine. So if you're going faster, does it increase oil pressure? Yes.
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Which adjust that timing to give you more horsepower when you're accelerating? Yes. Oh, okay. Okay. Now these are on, we need to time the engine. timing of the engine is when the piston and the valves open at the correct
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specific time. If they don't, then it isn't going to run right. You're not going to get full compression. It might run without the timing out a little bit, but it's not going to run right. In order to get that kit on that we've got,
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the crank has to be the piston has to be at top dead center, which is the furthest it can get to the top before it starts to go back down again. The valves on that cylinder have got to be 100%
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closed so it gets maximum compression. That's where the bang happens. That's when the bang happens.
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Yes. [laughter] So once we've set the bottom up to top dead center, we then have got to set each cam shaft to its respective position so that that p that cylinder gets top dead center. And you only have
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to set the front one up because everything else will follow in line after that. This goes on here.
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And do you know what these bits do? I've not got to these bits, have I?
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I think I do know what they do. Well, I don't need to explain then. You can explain.
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I think down there is a cam sensor. Yeah, that little black thing. And as that spins, it will know the position of the cam based on these things because it knows the gap when that spins round.
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It's amazing that thing there, how much that knows, isn't it? It's like Google, isn't it?
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Not quite. But [laughter] this tells the computer where that can is. Yeah. So when it's spinning, it's telling it where it is, and then it's saying, "Right, okay. We've got extra oil pressure." Now, this can alter 3°.
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So then this will twist and allow the cam to go 3° more advanced than what it actually is at the moment.
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The bang happens a fractionally before the piston gets to the top. there. Okay. So, now the cylinders are in top dead center. We need to use this piece of kit. This should lock the cams into top dead center. And the way it
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does that is these little horseshoe pieces go around the flats of that cam. And as you can see, that one's miles out at the moment. I wonder if it'd lock them upside down.
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Ah, well, on Porsches, I remember that got they've got this. See this QR code? And the QR code needs to be facing up on a Porsche.
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Oh, I wonder if that's the same on a BM. If it was an Audi, I would have said, "Yeah, but it's made by not by Volkswagen." Rotating the camera around.
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Look, that is on barcode up. And you think that's right? That is on barcode up.
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And we're just going to send it. Well, you reckon it's barcode up? No. On Porsches. Well, you told me it was balcony.
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No, cuz I would think on BMWs they go, I don't want to do what Volkswagen does because we're cooler. So, let's do it upside down.
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Yeah, that's it. In 10 mil in. Okay, so that's in and that's in. Next bit. This This is a piece of kit that puts these in the correct place in place.
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Okay, the kit's all on. Cranks locked in place. Cams are locked in place. These little plates that pick the timing up for the cams. All locked in place. All we got to do now, tighten everything up.
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So, you're tightening up these two bolts here. So, now the cams will be attached to these. Correct.
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Yes. Let's do it. Very important. Talking setting this. Very important. Are you being sarcastic?
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No. Because if this moves, it goes out. If if it's not tight enough, it can go out of timing. That's what happened to that's what caused the damage, isn't it?
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That's that bolt snapped. And this one out of timing. So, you're actually going to torque this one up.
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Torquing it up. Yeah. 20 Newton meters first. [bell] Look at that. Don't even have to look at the figures.
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885. Five for luck. 181 that time. One for luck. Just going to do it this way first and see if it actually works.
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Right, that's connected up. Let's see if this actually brings life. I'll be shocked because then that means there's something in this connector which helps it. Right, they're just twisted together now before I make a permanent solution. But that's connected properly
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in the connector now. Let's see without this resistor in whether that will actually take the airbag light off cuz we went directly to it before and it never worked. But is the connector the answer m So it's not the connector.
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There might actually genuinely be a fault with that pyro fuse then. So the power fuse is down here right onto there. There must be some issue with this which again it's just off of Volkswagen. The part number is like
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here. So I can just order this. But yeah, it is strange as to why that's not working. Let's see what own resistance we're actually getting. 29.
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Okay. Okay, so there's got to be an issue with that actual pyrofuse cuz we've got the connector on. It's going straight to the pyruse. It's the right way round and it's still not working.
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What is actually wrong with you? This is the pyrofuse that to there. And that is joined.
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So why are we getting a massive ohm reading? Oh, now I can see why.
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Why? This is just all melted. This is all melted inside there. That is all mashed up and melted in there. Look, that's not very good.
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Yeah, it's just perished over time. We need a pyrofuse which isn't dropped to pieces like that. What would be interesting to see is if I go with a multimeter straight on those two prongs whether that reads 2.2 2.4. Yeah, 2.3 2.3 would would cancel
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the light off. So, the actual pyro fuse is fine. Like the actual fuse, which is this actual part here, that's reading 2.2 ohm. It's not an open circuit, but it's the actual connector which is broken. And I think that's either melted
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or perished or somebody's changed the the battery and then it's just had a little pull or something and broken apart inside. So, predictions on what car it comes from?
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Got to be some kind of Audi or Volkswagen, isn't it? Surely. I'm going to say the Tourreg.
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Not bad shout. I'm going to go with you on this one. You going to back me up?
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Yeah, I'm going to back you up. Thanks, man. I'm back. What about you, Matt?
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I I would say the same. Yeah, everything's off that. We're all backing each other up.
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It's tore egg. Results are in. It's off a Volkswagen Treg and a Porsche Cayen.
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We've got ball knowledge. It's all come from you. That might That's ordered. It is coming from Lapia.
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So, we're going to have to wait for it. And it's purple. rather than a yellow connector bit. We'll put it back together for now. We'll use the resistor as the fix until that comes so we have no airbag light on the dash. But at
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least we know the issue now. So now the engine is technically fixed. Uh new head on it, new timing chain, new front new front pulley hub. We're going to whack all this on with some help from the team. And uh we'll see you in a
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minute. Yes, sir. The next thing I want to solve is why is it when I press the button sometimes it doesn't want to start? So, it could be a sticky relay. Let's see if we can sort of close that book with this
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uh start issue. Let's check this fitment when it goes down. Oh, yeah. Look at the fitment on that. Yeah. Nice.
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What we're going to do is try and find the starter relay now. And if we can find that, it would be nice to replace it and then see if it solves the issue of not starting every time to the
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passenger footwell. All the relays are in here. I think there are relays in the back, but I assume the starter motor relay, the starter relay will be underneath this. So, out we come.
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Which one is it? We don't know because we can't get any diagrams for it. So, what I will do is have a look at what a starter relay looks like for a Volkswagen TEG and then I will look to
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see which one looks like that. Why don't I press this and then you put your hands on it and then we can figure out.
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Yeah, I'm worried like something will go bang or something won't work right. Often labeled 433.
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Don't really have a 433, do I? Turn the ignition. Okay, that one ticks then. Right now press the start button.
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It's this one. Okay, that one. Turn it off. It is this one. It is that one. This was the one 100%. When I was just touching it there, I can feel it clicking. It clicked when you put the ignition on.
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And then when it finally did work, it this clicked. So, if that's true, if I put the key in and do it, it shouldn't work at all.
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Yeah, it shouldn't work at any like nothing now. Should try it. You know what else you could do?
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Okay. [laughter] It works better without it in. Yeah. Why did that work the first time?
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Okay. Maybe this could be for the instrument cluster or something. Then it might be in the rear quarter. This one was clicking as well. Get that dry.
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I just don't hoping one ain't for the airbags and then it all just blows up.
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[laughter] That's all I'm see. I'm going to stand. Are we being serious? Yeah. Oh, I don't want to be here. Come on.
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Stop. No. No. No. No. [laughter] No. Oh, really? Really? Really? No. No. Really good there. Really like so well.
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I'm going to shut the door. No. No. No. [laughter] 3 2 1. Just press the button.
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Press the button. Oh, no. Okay. Turn it off. Liam, you should really try out these seats.
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I don't want to try these. You look so good there. Honestly, you should try out.
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The car was built around you. No, this car these seats are so comfortable. Like, that's why I don't want you to get out.
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I really need you to be comfortable. You look like you're in distress. You like you need to sit down.
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I'm fine. I'm really good. I'm so happy here. It's fine. Right. It's good. Turn it on again.
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Oh, [laughter] that one's clicking. This daddy one. Okay, try it now. [laughter] I don't think it's any of these. I bet it's in the rear quarter. It's likely it's going to be in the rear quarter because all of them seem to be doing
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stuff to the body of the car, not the engine of the car. So, I think all of the like the fuses like for the gearbox pump was in the rear quarter, wasn't it?
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But to get to that, I've got to take the quarter off. Now, let's just see whether that starts up this first time again.
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So engine ones are going to be in the back, but to get to them it's got to be rear quarter off and everything. And at the minute, it doesn't annoy me enough to do that. It might annoy me enough
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when we're on a road trip, but it seems like the more we start it, the better it's getting. It's not getting worse.
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Like starting up more and more the more we use it. So for now, we will keep that the same. Like that's not too bad.
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It's character. Yeah, it's character. It's character. Just takes a little time. Little time sometimes. But other than that, car's pretty good. We just need the brake pads. They come in four to six days. And we just got to decide whether
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this is the car that we're going to take to Bugatti or it's going to be the silver and blue one. To take this car to Bugatti, we're going to need it imported into the country first. So, we got to
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hope that the DVLA sorts all his documents out for us so we can import it into the country, get it on UK plates, and take it to Bugatti. So, we'll find out. Hopefully, that happens before the 28th of September. For now, let's move
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on to the next thing. New injector is all in. Now we've just got the inlet manifold to put on.
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[sighs] Few other bits and pieces. Gearbox back on. Sit it on the subframe. Send it up in the air.
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Do you think it's all going to work? What do you think? Mean, do I think? I know it's going to work.
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Yeah. Yeah. This is going to purr. I can't wait to hear it. Capped. What? [laughter] So, they're down to the last final things now to rebuild in the BMW M3 engine. It's had upgraded injectors, hybrid turbos fitted to it, a crank hub
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fix, and a brand new secondhand cylinder head. All of this should allow us to tune the car to way over 500 horsepower.
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But in order for us to do that, the car will need a tune afterwards along with some other modifications once it's back in. Both of the Bugattis are back home now and it looks absolutely incredible in the collection and I know a lot of
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people wanting to know what is the plan with it. Am I going to keep them after Carl Hartley gave me a valuation of 1.5 for the Oakley design which I think was a little low personally. I think it
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could be pushing way up to near the 2 million at least. But let's see. And for that reason alone, I am going to keep them because I think the only they're only going up. But if I was to sell one,
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which one would I sell? And that is the question. The cool thing which I've noticed, both of these cars were actually intended. Well, this one, you can see, is number 34 and the country of destination was Dubai. And then this one
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was number 77 and the country of destination was also Dubai. So like I've got a proper little collection going on, which I love. And I've got my phone out at the minute because I can show you which one would probably be a bit more
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favorable to sell if I was to sell it. Okay, Neutron is in the modification chair. We've got an who is going to be doing the modifications. But before Ant does the modifications, we need to decide what the modification is going to
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be. And he's got me here on his phone. You ready? We're going to pick. I'm ready. Let's see.
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You got some options for us? Got some options. What do you think of that, Tony?
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That looks a bit like you, doesn't it? [laughter] That's a bit too bit too similar to you.
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But he is my brother, so it might work. But he looks nothing like you.
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Yeah, true. So that one might be out. But we'll go to the next one. Next one.
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That's better. That looks like Matt if he didn't dye his hair. [laughter] Next one.
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Yeah, that's tidy. Oh, that's that's that could be a possibility. It's got a bit of length on top.
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What else is that? What else we got? We got more slight quiff. Yeah. You ready for the next one? Yeah. And then yes, [laughter] yes yes.
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The [clears throat] last one. Oh, that's kind of cool cuz it's Yeah, that is that is that that might work for him.
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That might work. That might work. Which one are we going for? What are we voting for? What do we think?
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I don't number three. Going for that one. We're going with that one. Yeah. Go on then.
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Yeah. Yeah. Number three. Number three. That's being That's being a bit more sensible, is it?
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Okay. Three. Should we go get this engine sorted? Yeah. We'll come back and see what Neutron looks like.
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Good luck, Neutron. You're going to change man in an hour. We are so close to hearing this start.
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We all really want to hear it. So, we're replacing these with these. And you know why you're saying it's going to bang?
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Yeah, it's going to bang through these, isn't it? [laughter] So, let's um get them on. So, do these just add sound or is it going to make it faster as well?
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It could actually make it a little bit faster. So, it's helping us get to a million horsepower because there's no restriction in the exhaust then. Is there makes sense? Does that mean we have to tune it?
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Yes. So, now it's going to be it's going to be a million one now.
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[music] Number two. Yes. There you go. Look at that. This is going to be, I think, the fastest BMW in the world.
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I think it is. It's all back together with all of its modifications. Now, we're going to put it back into the car and turn on.
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It's going to purr. The report I've got up on the screen at the minute is the report for the Oakley Design one. And I can literally see on the car vertical report after I put the VIN number in that everything is all
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good and all clear. And the favorable thing about this one is that the last mileage report on this car was 9,872 mi.
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So it is really low mileage. It's only gone up a little bit higher than that.
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Now it's around 10,000 miles. Then on this one though, the mileage, it has got a yellow attention sign on it. And that is because it's flagged up on the car vertical report because this car is sat for a lot of time not doing any miles.
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So between 2023 and 2024, it's only done a couple of hundred miles. But we know that because this car was broken and it just sat sat there. And the last recorded miles of this is 24,000 mi. So it's pretty much done more than double
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the mileage of this one. And also this one is a 2006. is one of the early ones whereas this one is a 2008 I believe. Both of these cars I can see on the car vertical report that they
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were imported into different countries. We can see they've come from Dubai back to the UK. This one one even was in Germany at one point. On top of that, I can see on both car vertical reports how many previous owners they had. The
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yellow one, two previous owners as I can see on the car vertical report. And on the blue one, three previous owners. So technically speaking, this one should be worth less than that one. But it's how you value it. It's how you value it. Do
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you want a more original spec one? Do you want a crazy spec one? On top of all that, I can see a timeline of both of the cars. Every time they've been checked, every time they've had a personal registration plate put on them,
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and I can also see for peace of mind that none of them have ever been in an accident. There's no records of it ever being damaged on the car vertical report. So, it's never gone through insurance for any damage like that. It's
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never any registered repair that's ever been done on the car. And that is perfect thing to know if you're going to part with a lot of money when buying one of these cars or even if you're buying your first car or your own car. So, it's
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always good to check your car out with Carver Vertical and you can do that with the link in the description box below and use code mark 2 which is on the screen right now for some discount on that check. Back to Neutron.
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Three, two, ONE. What a sexy little chap. [laughter] I wish I had like that.
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I think it looks a million dollars. And I used to have hair like that.
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[laughter] Gym tattoos. Don't get a neck one. [laughter] Right. I think it's time to get this engine in.
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Yeah, let's get our engine in. Now, with a bit of luck, it should just go.
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This should drop straight back into position. She's going back in. [music] Job done. It's looking amazing. It's in now.
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Okay, now all the engine's back in. Just a matter of bolting up all the bits and pieces and then we've got one last modification to do.
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Another one. Just one more. What's that? It looks prettier. Oh yeah, I think it's a more of a pretty thing than a modification.
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[laughter] Does it not add more brake horsepower? Uh oh, it might add more. It might have a million and three.
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That's good. [laughter] I can now fit this absolutely amazing air intake. Look how good that looks.
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So good on the floor. [laughter] So, we've put in a couple of bits that you don't get. And now we're going to fit it. We're putting this nice, beautiful piece onto here.
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Woohoo. [laughter] Lovely British summer air sex through that. [laughter] Next piece. Cavalry's coming. [laughter] What did you say?
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This piece I believe goes in here like that. Then this piece with its new clip goes on here like that.
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And it clips into there. And then this all should line up. Look at that.
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Goes like that. Like that. Yes. Looks smart, doesn't it? That looks the DBs. [laughter] Okay, people. Let's put some oil in it. In goes the oil.
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The C63 is back. You wouldn't have seen this on the for those who are new, this is the C63. It's been on the channel for a very, very long time, but it did actually go for a while. There's a long
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story behind this car. I got it when the channel was very, very young and it had a lot of damage to it. We repaired it.
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We put on the body kit and it was a Black Series replica body kit. Now, you know from watching the videos years and years ago that the body kit never fitted well. And the point this car was like a
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I think it was £11,000. This car was at the time. Um, crash damage. This is when the C63s were quite expensive as well.
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And because I'd already spent so much money on the car, um, somebody had offered me at a body shop to say, "You know what? I'll paint the car. I'll get the body kit fitting, right? They'll do it at cost price." They did that. The
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paint, they painted it green. The paint wasn't very good. The body line still didn't line up very good, but I'd only paid cost price for it. So, I couldn't really moan after that. The car is still got loads of other little issues that
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need doing, but at this point, I've already spent way over what this car was worth. Hence why we never really like continued on the build. I got the car so it's running and driving and like it works on the road, but I would never
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sell or get rid of a car unless it was absolutely perfect. Hence why all the cars that we give away as uh the competition cars or the raffle cars or I end up selling, they have to be spot on
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because that's a representation of myself. It's exactly the same thing goes when we sell the merchandise as well.
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like we have to make sure it's spot on before it goes because if people are out driving it, it's sort of representing exactly what we do. So, I want to be proud of it. And this one car I'm not
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particularly proud of. So, I never wanted to sell it. There's loads of random things, issues, and stuff that I wanted to fix, but it doesn't make sense to fix because we're so deep into a car that's not worth much. After it went
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green, we had another body shop come and they said they were painted because they got done by the same body shop that they did. They painted it, come back. It still had other issues. Like it was meant to be satin black. It looks more
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matte black. The panel lines are still not great. The bumper still is not on like particularly right. But to spend the time doing it, it's just really not worth it at this point. Like we're so still so far in deep with it. And then
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it got to the point where I was like, well, what do I do with the car? I don't drive it. I don't want to really take it out and then people see it. It looks probably quite cool on camera, but when
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you get up close, I admit it's not great. like we have I have to take the loss sometimes that choosing to put this body kit on it was probably the wrong choice. So it got to the point what am I
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going to do with it? And well I decided that I thought I was going to keep it, store it for a while and then maybe if another C63 come up, we've got one with a load of good parts on that we can use
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to rebuild that one. And that was going to be the original plan. Instead of me keeping the car and sitting on it and it not doing anything in storage, I got offered £9,000, which was less than what I bought it from, from a breaker's yard
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to buy the car off me. And they were going to break the car in pieces and sell it in parts. And I thought, well, that's probably the best option for us at the minute. The car's not doing anything. I'll take a loss on it. I'm
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not very happy with it, and if we're going to make it any better, we're going to have to spend more money. So, let's just cut the losses there. I sold it to the Breakers Yard to break. We then
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found out a few months down the line it got sold on as a complete car and he flipped it to make profit. We didn't think the person who bought the car off the breaker yard knew that this car was
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meant to be sold as a breaker car. So we contacted him and told him all the problems that this car has. And of course he's then not very happy about it. We then contacted the breakers yard to say why have you sold the car on and
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not broke it? He said it wouldn't be worth it for me to break the car. So, he sold it on and made profit on the car.
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Which means then the buyer of the car and myself really have had it because I didn't want the car going back on the road. Hence why I sold it to a breaker and the guy that bought the car didn't
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know it was sold to the breakers as a breaker's car. So, I contacted the owner to tell him all the list of faults and then asked the breakers yard whether they' fixed those faults and we both found out that they hadn't. It is
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exactly the same as we left it with the same faults which is essentially unsafe for the road. There's lights on the dash which need sorting out which are to do with um airbags and adaptive cruise control. There's no arch linings in
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there. There's loads of things that needs this car needs before it actually properly goes on the road. So, we said, "Well, the best thing to do at this point right now is the breaker's yard, give the money back to the guy that's
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bought it, and then we'll buy it back off the breaker yard, and we'll break it ourselves." The breakers then refused to give the money back to the guy who he sold it to, said he didn't have the money anymore. And then the guy that
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bought the car then also said that he took loans out to buy the car, so he owes back money on those loans. He wouldn't be able to give the car back at the price he bought it for. So, in the
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end, I sold the car for £9,000 to the breakers yard. And then I've now because I didn't want the car going back on the road, and I felt bad for the guy that's bought it because he didn't realize all
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the faults that he's had, I've had to buy the car back for £15,000, which makes me at a six grand loss for a car that is actually worse now than what it was when I sold it as a breaker car
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because it's been used and like it's been used without cooling and stuff. There's an airbag light on the dash now for for some unknown reason. Stuff has been broken whilst it's like sat here.
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Like the headlights now don't work because the owners drove the car without arch linings in and all the water is splashed up against the back of the headlights and broke the headlights.
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Also fell to pieces. The headlights fell to pieces in the back of it here. You may say, "Well, Matt, you should have fixed all of this stuff before you sold the car." it like we got to the point of this car where we
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was going to sell it as a breakers car. So, we broke for parts. So, I wasn't bothered about fixing all of these little issues with the car. When I give away or sell a car, we make sure it's
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100% perfect. If even goes back to the manufacturer, a lot of the time to have health checks and services before we give it away because I want to be proud of the work that we're giving away. This is not one of them. Hence why I never
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drive it. We never take it out on the road. would never take it to shows because it needs too much work and we've spent too much money on it trying to get it right. The bumper doesn't even fit
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right. The under trays aren't even on and a poor bloke has took loans out to buy this car thinking it's going to be an amazing car and like I feel sorry for him. In the end of the day, we've now
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taken a loss on it. So, I've got the car back just purely to have it back. Now, we're at the point with this car, I can either spend a serious amount of money getting it right, uh, which it needs a
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lot of stuff doing. Like, I think I'd actually go back to standard bumpers, we'd have to get the headlights fixed, we'd have to get the body panels fixed, we'd have to get it painted again. We could buy another one by the time we
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spent the money getting it right. Or if there's anybody out there who's got a C63 which has got maybe a broken engine cuz the engine is good in this and the drivetrain is good in this. Maybe they've got a broken engine or flooded
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one that they'd like to sell. Then maybe we could make one good one out of two bad ones. But for now, that is the reason why the C63 is back on the channel. It is annoying because the value of this car is really to be honest
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around 9 or 10 grand as it sits there. it. I think it needs about 20 30 grand spending on it at least to get it right.
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And it's still only going to be worth a maximum of 10 to 12 grand when it's done because it is a categorized C63. So, can we at least hear it?
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Yeah, we can hear it. Like, I think we can hear it cuz this sounds good.
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The best thing about this car is the noise that comes out the back. And at least it still sounds good.
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It still sounds good. [laughter] It sounds so good. Sounds really good. It's like the best sounding car ever. But it just needs too much work to get it right. It just needs too much work. Personally, I think it
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all went wrong when I got that body kit. I just sort of decided to keep the car standard and repair everything back to normal and then go from there. But hey, we just dug in deep with the body kick.
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You win some, you lose some. And now we've lost even more because we've had to buy it back for more than what I sold it for a few months ago. Never mind.
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And someone's curbed the wheel. Oh. Oh my god. So yeah, it literally even the wheels which were like one of the good thing about it are now curbed.
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Right. This is it. The guys have been working on guessing I'm get I'm guessing they've done hybrid turbos, injectors, induction kit, crank hub fix, full timing, new cylinder head, spark plugs, new spark plugs, new spark plugs, new injectors.
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New gaskets, down pipes, not got the exhaust on just yet. This car is going to be a monster.
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It's going to be an absolute monster. And like what a way to sort of mog the C63 by building a beast of a M3 F80 as well. I'm excited to get this on the road. Let's see whether all of the work
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that they've done is about to pay off and actually start and run. It's going to need a tune because of course it's got new injectors and everything, but it should run and idle as is. Big moment.
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You ready? I'm ready. I'm going first time. Sounds good. [laughter] Oh yeah. I was just going to That's not good.
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It lasted for a bit. [laughter] Any codes? A lot of codes. A lot of them are past.
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So, let's clear them. I can already see one. What that you ain't put on fuel pump.
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Oh my god. Wait. You've unplugged the fuel pump. Yep. Uh, that'll do it. Why it's not going.
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What? The fuel pump in the tank at the back. You took the fuse out.
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What a loser. [laughter] Are you a loser? I might be might click bait us with unplugging the fuel pump like [laughter] a loser.
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Lovely BMW sound. Pretty smooth. Yeah, it sounds good. Ready for 800 horsepowers. I thought it was a million.
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Oh, a million. A million. Thank you so much Evolve for sorting out with the Evan Chury kit, all the um support that we've had as well and the crank hub fix as well. Absolute legends for that. Immran at Evolve, you're a
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hero. We've still got a lot of stuff to do. There's still not only cosmetic stuff, we've still got mechanical stuff that we're going to do. So, there still needs to be also a tune. I haven't even looked inside the interior. I know it's
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going to be filthy. This guy's sat here for a while. We've got suspension mods to do. We've got body kit. Well, we're not going to full body kit. I just want it to look a little bit more OEM plus.
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But it's a lot better than when we first picked it up cuz it actually starts on the key now. It would actually drive out, wouldn't it? Good [clears throat] news. It is running. Well done, Neutron and Dad. You finally got that.
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Finally. Nothing for Liam. No. Nothing for me. [laughter] Well, the sound you just broke stuff.
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