BUILDING A £200,000 MCLAREN 600LT FROM NOTHING

Would you believe me if I told you this is everything you need to build a McLaren from scratch? We have already stripped my McLaren 600LT down to a bare tub. And there's so much that we've already removed. The body panels, the subframes, the exhaust, the engine, the radiators, and even the rear frame from the carbon fiber monocoque. And you might be wondering why we've done that. It seems stupid, and it's because of this. This is the carbon fiber tub, and it's a structural part to this car, and it's ruined. And this is a part you can't repair, meaning the body of this car is destroyed. So, we had to strip it until we were left with a completely bare car and parts scattered across the entire unit. So, we need a plan of action of how we're going to get this car back on the road because it's still got loads of really nice, usable parts. But the monocoque is useless, which is exactly why I've gone and spent £4,000 on a complete replacement carbon fiber tub for a 600LT. So, our mission is simple. We want to take everything from this car that makes it work, swap it over to this one. Essentially, we're building a car from the ground up. And with a job this big, where do you begin? We'd start at the beginning. The same place where McLaren start when they build these cars originally. So, where we start or where McLaren starts when they're building up one of these cars is the wiring, I believe. Now, the wiring on this car at the back is absolutely fine. So, that would have been completely usable. All inside seems okay. Someone may have potentially popped some fuses somewhere. I didn't mean to. But the front end could be a problem because we have many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many broken wires. My original idea to fix this was to buy a much cheaper McLaren 570S loom and hope that all of this is the same and then splice it in. But look how many repairs we've had to do. It would have been a big job to do that and to make sure it's right. But what we did notice when we bought our new loom, which is over there, is this sticker here. So this says 13 MA201 CP and it says harness body. So that's the part number for the entire loom. And the 570S one says 13 MA201 CP harness body. So it turns out they've got the same loom. They use blanker plugs in different places for different things. So we might have a little bit of confusion from that. But I feel like this is a better alternative than repairing that because there's one or two broken plugs in this versus hundreds. Hundreds. Yeah. So I think it's going to be easier if we use this. So, let's start off by getting this in and then work our way outwards from there. Should we load her up? Yeah, let's do this. So, to summarize, the 570S loom and 600LT loom are a perfect match. So, we can take our new loom and place it into our new tub. And we can use the old wiring loom and tub for reference to make it a little bit easier. And that really helped. And before we knew it, it was looking pretty good. Most of the wiring was in. Check it out. Wiring is all ran on the interior. So, that is more or less wiring done in here, but I want to get all of the wiring boxed off. And to do that, we need to have the rear frame on. We've obviously got the one from the crash, which wasn't damaged, which is good because it means less work. Still got our bits and bobs on it. So, now it's just a case of refitting and then we can run the wiring over that. That's a better plan. We're using the engine crane to pick it up. And that's going to mean we can kind of nicely caress it into place this time rather than just rip it off. This is not a broken tile. Yeah. So, um yeah, we're just going to get kind of swung nicely into place. Got some thread locker which we are going to be applying to the bolts and then I'm going to put the little ones in first followed by the big meaty one and then whiz them up then torque them. The big ones to torque to 350 Newton meters. It's a lot of nudies. Yeah, it is. It's a lot of nudies. That's the main one that's holding it. So, you want that to be tight. This looks a lot more elegant in my head. Yeah, that was the wood. Don't worry. That's it. Looking. Oh, I'm stuck. Help me. Step bro. You are a V8. Okay, I'm free. Graceful. Thank you. Right, where are we at? See, do you need a bit more forward? Yes. That sounded very... Did sound clunky. Is that about the right place? Looks it, doesn't it? Yeah, you need lifting up an inch or so. Lift it a tad. These actually go through the roll cage, don't they? Yes. So, they do. I'm not going to lock tight these ones at the moment. You can do that one if you want. That's it. Oh, including this one. Go in here. I'm happy with that. Come on, cat. Let's tighten that big one up. I need an extension for my extension. Hello. We just don't want these coming out, really, do we? It wouldn't be a good day. Not a bad start, I'd say. That's starting to look more like a car already. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Do I also need to make it look more like a car? Let me show you something I bought. Oh, has he done a thing? Done many things. Oh, chassis legs. So, if we go to the front and then go scadoosh. Literally the world's easiest chassis leg swap. We don't play games. Okay, I am playing games. Nearly. It needs... It needs... It's a bass kick. Okay. I was... It needs a donkey kick, you... Yeah. Yep. Give it a... Yeah. Go on. Watch your legs, sir. I don't think that's done anything. No. Stick. One. Lovely. It's about the same as that on that one. Tidy. We have chassis legs. We have a rear frame. Life's good. Let's plug in now everything we can because that's going to show us where the loom kind of routes. Do you want to go in there? No, you don't. Do you want to go there? No, you don't. Where does the other one go? To the gearbox? So, you've got one off the engine to that ECU gearbox, one off the engine to the main. Yeah, it's got to be this one then. Let me go this side, I think. And I'm right. The wiring mission continues. We've got to make sure we get every single part of this right because otherwise if we don't get it right, it's going to make plugging everything in at the end an absolute nightmare. Here is where we're at then. We have wiring loom now fully installed, the rear frame now installed, and also the wiring ran almost completely over the back frame as well. But we want to do some more because I think before we get this thing on a ramp, it'd be nice at least to get the dashboard in, because that will make our lives a lot easier. Maybe dashboard and a couple of other bits. Yeah. Um, stops all this frothing about and stuff. Now, we haven't got every single part we need at the moment, but they are all on the way. We're going to have to do things in not the perfect order, but we've got to work around it. We want to keep the ball rolling, don't we? So, uh, yeah, let's start off by getting the heater box in. And I think then we're going to have a crack at the dashboard. To be honest, it wasn't that bad coming out, was it? Well, you've just jinxed it for going back in. We only literally done it a couple of days ago. Yeah. So, it's pretty fresh on the mind. Hopefully, it's okay. It's going to be a bit harder with the windscreen in like we like a challenge. Of course, we do. Before we can look at fitting the dashboard though, there's a couple of bits that have got to go in. Firstly, the heater box, which also needs plugging in too, and also the pedals. And now all of those are installed, we can try and fit the dashboard. The dashboard is the only part of the car that is going to give us any clue as to whether we've run the wiring right. We've got two screens and a bunch of computers in there. And if we have got this right, there's a chance we might have some life on the dashboard for the first time. Okay, dashboard is in as you've just seen because that's why we're watching this to watch us do this job. Now, what I kind of want to see now, we've got the new loom in and got the dashboard in, I want to see if this car has power.

subframes, the exhaust, the engine, the radiators, and even the rear frame from the carbon fiber monoc. And you might be wondering why we've done that. It seems stupid, and it's because of this. This is the carbon fiber tub, and it's a structural

part to this car, and it's ruined. And this is a part you can't repair, meaning the body of this car is destroyed. So, we had to strip it until we were left with a completely bare car and parts

scattered across the entire unit. So, we need a plan of action of how we're going to get this car back on the road because it's still got loads of really nice, usable parts. But the Monco is useless, which is exactly why I've gone and spent

£4,000 on a complete replacement carbon fiber tub for a 600LT. So, our mission is simple. We want to take everything from this car that makes it work, swap it over to this one.

Essentially, we're building a car from the ground up. And with a job this big, where do you begin? We'd start at the beginning. The same place where McLaren start when they build these cars originally.

So, where we start or where McLaren starts when they're building up one of these cars is the wiring, I believe.

Now, the wiring on this car at the back is absolutely fine. So, that would have been completely usable. All inside seems okay. Someone may have potentially popped some fuses somewhere.

I didn't mean to. But the front end could be a problem because we have many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many broken wires. My original idea to fix this was to buy a much cheaper McLaren 570S loom and hope

that all of this is the same and then splice it in. But look how many repairs we've had to done. It would have been a big job to do that and to make sure it's right. But what we did notice when we

bought our new loom, which is over there, is this sticker here. So this says 13 M A201 CP and it says harness body. So that's the part number for the entire loom. And the 570S one says 13 MA201 CP harness body. So it turns

out they've got the same loom. They use blanker plugs in different places for different things. So we might have a little bit of confusion from that. But I feel like this is a better alternative than repairing that because there's one

or two broken plugs in this versus hundreds. Hundreds. Yeah. So I think it's going to be easier if we use this. So, let's start off by getting this in and then work our way outwards from there. Should we load her up?

Yeah, let's do this. So, to summarize, the 570S loom and 600LT loom are a perfect match. So, we can take our new loom and place it into our new tub. And we can use the old wiring loom and tub for reference to

make it a little bit easier. And that really helped. And before we knew it, it was looking pretty good. Most of the wiring was in.

Check it out. Wiring is all ran on the interior. So, that is more or less wiring done in here, but I want to get all of the wiring boxed off. And to do that, we need to have the rear frame on.

We've obviously got the one from the crash, which wasn't damaged, which is good cuz it means less work. Still got our bits and bobs on it. So, now it's just a case of refitting and then we can run the wiring over that. That's better

plan. We're using the engine crane to pick it up. And that's going to mean we can kind of nicely caress it into place this time rather than just rip it off.

This is not a broken tile. Yeah. So, um yeah, we're just going to get kind of swung nicely into place. Got some uh thread locker which we are going to be applying to the bolts and then I'm going to put the little ones in first

followed by the big meaty one and then whiz them up then torque them. The big ones to talk to 350 Newton meters.

It's a lot of nudies. Yeah, it is. It's a lot of nudies. That's the main one that's holding it.

So, you want that to be tight. This looks a lot more elegant in my head.

Yeah, that was the wood. Don't worry. That's it. Looking. Oh, I'm stuck. Help me.

Step bro. You are a V8. Okay, I'm free. Graceful. Thank you. Right, where are we at?

See, do you need a bit more forward? Yes. That sounded very Did sound clunky. Is that about the right place? Looks it, doesn't it?

Yeah, your needs lifting up an inch or so. Lift it a tad. These actually go through the roll cage, don't they?

Yes. So, they do. I'm not going to lock tight these ones at the moment.

You can do that one if you want. That's it. Oh, including this one. Go in here.

I'm happy with that. Come on, cat. Let's tighten that big one up. I need an extension for my extension.

Hello. We just don't want these coming out, really, do we? It wouldn't be a good day.

Not a bad start, I'd say. That's a starting to look more like a car already.

It is. Yeah. Yeah. Do I also need to make it look more like a car? Let me show you something I bought.

Oh, has he done a thing? Done many things. Oh, chassis legs. So, if we go to the front and then go scadoosh. Literally the world's easiest chassis leg swap. We don't play games.

Okay, I am playing games. Nearly. It needs It needs It's a bass kick. Okay. I was It needs a donkey kick, you.

Yeah. Yep. Give it a Yeah. Go on. Watch your legs, sir. I don't think that's done anything.

No. Stick. One. Lovely. It's about the same as that on that one. Tidy. We have chassis legs. We have a rear frame. Life's good.

Let's plug in now everything we can cuz that's going to show us where the loom kind of roots. Do you want to go in there? No, you don't. Do you want to go there? No, you don't. Where does the

other one go to the gearbox? So, you've got one off the engine to that ECU gearbox, one off the engine to the main.

Yeah, it's got to be this one then. Let me go this side, I think. And I'm right.

The wiring mission continues. We've got to make sure we get every single part of this right because otherwise if we don't get it right, it's going to make plugging everything in at the end an absolute nightmare. Here is where we're

at then. We have wiring loom now fully installed, the rear frame now installed, and also the wiring ran almost completely over the back frame as well.

But we want to do some more because I think before we get this thing on a ramp, it'd be nice at least to get the dashboard in. cuz that will make our lives a lot easier. Maybe dashboard and

a couple of other bits. Yeah. Um stops all this frothing about and stuff. Now, we haven't got every single part we need at the moment, but they are all on the way. We're going to have to do things in not the perfect order, but

we've got to work around it. We want to keep the ball rolling, don't we? So, uh yeah, let's start off by getting the heater box in. And I think then we're going to have a crack at the dashboard.

To be honest, it wasn't that bad coming out, was it? Well, you've just jinxed it for going back in.

We only literally done it a couple of days ago. Yeah. So, it's pretty fresh on the mind.

Hopefully, it's okay. Is going to be a bit harder with the windscreen in like we like a challenge. Of course, we do.

Before we can look at fitting the dashboard though, there's a couple of bits that have got to go in. Firstly, the heater box, which also needs plugging in too, and also the pedals.

And now all of those are installed, we can try and fit the dashboard. The dashboard is the only part of the car that is going to give us any clue as to whether we've ran the wiring right.

We've got two screens and a bunch of computers in there. And if we have got this right, there's a chance we might have some life on the dashboard for the first time.

Okay, dashboard is in as you've just seen because that's why we're watching this to watch us do this job. Now, what I kind of want to see now, we've got the new loom in and got the dashboard in. I

want to see if this car has power. When we first tried to power it up, we got nada. I'm a little bit more hopeful now.

We've still got loads and loads of stuff unplugged at the front end. Like absolutely loads. But would any of that stop the car from powering up? I don't know. But there's a couple of little brackets want to put on the front. We

can then make an earth point off the chassis legs. And then we'll just throw a uh a temporary battery on and see if we get anything.

I'm not attaching it this time. Good lad. Now, the front end of our car was completely destroyed in the crash, meaning there were so many bits were missing. And this one is going to be one of the important ones to power this car

up. This is the positive terminal. It houses the pyro and a bunch of fuses.

And without that, we wouldn't have a chance. All right, let's hook this thing up and see if we've got any power.

Oh, did you hear that? I did. I'm on right. I hear things happening. Hold on.

The badge you always want to just There it is. We've got juice. Yeah. Yes. Yes.

You have life. She leaves. That's a win. Yeah, that's a win. And how's the ignition go on?

Uh with the start button, which is Yes. Uh where is where is the start button?

Oh, it's on the center console, isn't it? Ah down there. I might be able to wake it up. Go in.

I'm sorry, but I'm dying to just I know. I want to see the dash dash cuz we we He could have been lying the whole time about the mileage.

He could have. I don't think he was, but is there anything? Nutter. We've got a We got a flashing light.

Hold on. Is there two plugs? There is. Of course there is. Oh. Yeah. We're on, baby. We're on.

Oh yeah. Give us a good Come on. There you go. Come on. Do something lovely. It's not going to know what's going on, is it? It's going to be so confused. I don't even think the batteryy's got enough juice for it.

But it works. It does. That seems more on than it was before. I think the battery might be dead.

I think it might be right. Yeah. Well, we'll take that. Yep. All day, every single flipping day.

Power for the first time. Yeah. Power up. Note to self. Every McLaren wiring loom is pretty much the same.

We're not 100% sure yet because we still don't know if we're going to be missing a plug, but so far seems so good. And I'll be honest, you know, like rewiring this tub, having that there is such a

godsend. Side by side, isn't it? Yeah, agreed. Well, I'm well happy with that. I'm buzzing for that.

What do we do next? I feel like we've really ticked a big one off the list.

I feel like I want to do a dance. Have a jiggle. Yeah. Yeah, baby.

I just like, you know, this was just a tub and now it's kind of alive.

It's just a tub with some electrics now. Yeah. More than it's ever Well, it's more than it's for a long time. I think now we need to start thinking about what goes in before the engine because realistically I want to try and hear

this thing start. I am so down with that. So should we get this on the ramp then the first well the last thing we took out was the pipes from there.

So do the pipes, the brake lines, get everything plumbed up that main power wire.

Yeah. For the for the starter motor and that needs to go in as well. So it needs to go on the ramp.

Yeah. Should we do that? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do that. So, our next step now we've got the mucosa on the ramp is thinking about how we're going to put the engine in. Now, when they put these cars together,

there's a few things they do first. What do we reckon they are, Michael? Pipes and brake lines.

Yes, just basically everything that goes underneath the car. So, the first thing we took off was brake lines. So, they're the last ones to go on.

Mhm. We did mess with a few of them, which is why they're in such a mess now, but we'll just have to figure it back out.

So, we're going to turn on some heavy drum and bass and get cracking. All of the pipe work needs to go in before the engine.

So, we've got the brake lines, coolant pipes, and also the main power cable for the starter motor.

And all of these go in such a certain way. You've got to get it perfect.

Otherwise, it's never going to sit right. And as you can probably tell, this took us a while.

Let's try that again. Cam, I got caught on the ratchet strap. Now we have the pipe work all in and I think we're ready for the tank.

That was a mission. It's getting it running right. So it looks like it's just been done from battery which wasn't fun.

No, we did have to check back on pictures we took. But it's there. It's there.

If anyone wonders no how we know where everything goes. Take loads of pictures. So a tank just goes in from the bottom, doesn't it? We've got an earth big plug here.

Couple of plugs. I'm just going to put the final straps on. Yeah. Off the other.

You're going to do what? I'm gonna put Hey, you know where I was going.

That's the fuel tank now in. Now, there's one other tank we need to fit before we can fit this engine, and that is the oil tank. This car uses a dry sump system, so the oil is stored externally to the engine, which is

slightly different to your normal car. But the car is now looking a lot more complete. But there's one key piece it's missing. The engine.

This 3.8 L twinturbo V8 is the heart of this beast. And without it, it'll obviously never move. But we've never even heard this run. So, we're praying when we get it in, everything's okay.

That's looking better. Uh, I'm going to say about there. What's the um the procedure for McLaren engine refit, Mickey?

Send it. No. Um unfortunately, they're not uh the nicest things. You have to plum stuff in whilst it's going in. Two fuel lines, water pipe that's just down here. That's the the hardest bit. And as it's like half going in, we can start plumbing

stuff in and plumbing cuz you can't get to it once the engine's in. And you literally we couldn't get to it as it was coming out. You up, down, up. So, right, bring it down.

How's that looking? Yeah, looking uh spitting. Hold it there. I am seeing no issues at the moment.

Maybe it wants to go to the back of the car just a smidge. Yeah, just to give us a little bit of room.

And here is one fuel line. That's next one we'll look at. There is water pipe, I guess, isn't it? Come down some more.

Yeah. Let's see how she comes down. Bit more. Bit more. Right. Plumbing. I know you guys can't see what we're doing, but plumbing. Plumbing.

Good. Yeah. Bring it down a bit more. Forward slightly. Yep. All right. We still just need a bit of a shoving then cuz I need to be like this.

3 2 1. Okay. Keep your foot back. I'm sure you can imagine fitting an engine into a supercar is a stressful situation. It can go wrong fast and cost a lot of money if it does. The way these

McLaren engines are mounted, they're on a frame. So, we can lower the car over the frame and bolt that up to the body.

Okay, they're all in. I've got four bolts left. The only bit that's slightly different is the gearbox bolt. This goes through the rear frame and the gearbox mount holding the back of the engine and gearbox in place.

It is now. It is now. And the engine is officially bolted to the car.

Woo! Yeah boy. Yeah, that feels like such a huge step. But me and Mickey now, we've We're mate, I want to know cuz it came alive.

Yeah, we've had it. We've had some life in it now. Yes. And we've plugged a lot more stuff in.

So, all the ECUs are plugged in, all the earths are on, all bolted up. Obviously, we're still missing so much at the front. Mickey is currently just plugging in the ABS module, even though it's obviously not going to be very happy,

but more. Just want to make it a little bit Exactly. That's it. So, you just want it to be as happy as it can possibly be in the state it's in. And I want to see how much ignition we've got again. We have

got to adjust the ramp now. So, we're going to jack it up from the engine table thing. Reposition the legs so it's not doing a wheelie. So, that we've got loads more stuff to throw on the back end. And I want to hear this thing start

now. Let's see how miserable she is. Just going to grab jump blades and because there's an arc on the other side.

Ah, okay. Good shout. Yeah, obviously we're doing we're making do with what we can do with the earth situation on the front at the moment because we still haven't quite got our subframe and bits and bobs yet. So, we're still a work in

progress. We still haven't got everything, but we're getting there. Damn right. I'd laugh if this time there was less.

Well, don't say that. Well, nothing's happening yet. Do have a start button. We do have a start button though. Go on, hit it.

Put that there. Explain that one. The keys are the keys aren't responding to anything.

That's as plugged in as it was, isn't it? Yeah. So, we've got nothing in the middle, nothing on the dash. We just got that little start button lighting up. So, somehow we've made it worse.

Explain that one. Oh, I have no idea, mate. But is that battery on one Hunter?

Ah. Oh, there we go. That's it. Yeah, it wasn't on properly, was it? No.

Oh, we have life. We have life. We have a ABS light on. Okay, let's see if it does the same things as before. Yes, it does. Well, it's better than it was. That's exactly the same as it was. I think it knows the

battery is rubbish, doesn't it? Cuz it's not on. Oh, we got a fuel gauge. We've got How much is that? About half a tank, isn't it? Yeah.

Well, we were hoping for a little bit more life than what we got. But let's not ignore the fact that we've now got the engine back into the car, which is a huge step in the right direction, and

we're one step closer to actually trying to start it. Now, engine is back in, and it is time to fit up the cats. But we all know it's not going to be these ones that are going back in because my

favorite feature of the 600LT is the way it shoots flames out the top. And of course with my history of McLaren, I want those flames to be bigger. So there's only one place we can go to to get the perfect exhaust and that is of

course cue the theme song. It's okay. Right, Matthew, tell us what we got. Fancy stuff.

Okay. Uh just a big big Xike. It is the tiniest exhaust in the world, isn't it?

It's the tiniest one, but it's the longest one I've ever had. It's just takes forever to do, right? Okay. Um 9 hours to make this. I don't know why it takes so long, but you got your sound tubes. There are some

clips in there. You've got your Yeah. Yeah. I know they're one time use only clips, but I've put some fresh ones in there. So, just Jubilees on there.

Mhm. I had one thing I was thinking about the other day about this because obviously if your exhaust is sitting like that and then you wash it and all the water is just going to go down there and just sit

and sit or just go into your turbos. Yeah. But I just noticed you've thought of that.

Yeah. So it has like a built-in blow. Yeah. Essentially. I really don't like the design of it just because I know the original one it has like slots in it and it has like cutouts and stuff, but you know you got

all the gases going into the engine bay. I know you got the big heat shield that goes underneath it. But yeah, I just don't like the design.

No, I suppose you got no choice, have you? I got no choice at all. No, you don't want to flood your engine when it rains.

No, but yeah. And then you got your down pipe as well. Yes. Now, I haven't gone for anything street illegal because there Well, there's two reasons why. One, passing anoteote is quite nice. Um, two is because I don't want it too loud because

we may have a McLaren already, which sometimes might be a bit too loud. But by having sports cats, that will help increase flamage and a bit of volume as well, won't it? Yeah.

Without making it ear destroying. So you can see proof. There is proof. We can do a comparison between one and the other. See how much less restrictive it is.

That's Here's some proof. Oh, that's heavy. Couldn't even hear you. Crazy, right? Obviously, if you need You're literally a McLaren specialist pretty much with exhaust you do loads of McLaren. But obviously loads of other stuff as well. Custom work,

plenty of supercar stuff. Night Chromovium is the man in the UK or worldwide I suppose.

Worldwide for exhaust. So go and check him out. Links in the description card on screen. Let's first thing swap heat shields over from this one to this one.

Fit this to the car followed by that and then we're going to hear it. Now McLaren are notoriously bad for heat management.

So Matt's designed these down pipes to be able to take the factory heat shields off and swap them over to them. That's why they look the same as the old ones now.

So we can get the new sports cats installed and bolted into place with the lamber sensors as well.

Once those are in, we can start to look at the Xpipe section, the back box.

These have got some cool joints on them which give you loads of adjustability, making it much easier to line up with the panel that goes over the top of it.

And finally, one thing I thought was weird is these little sound tubes. They go to a diaphragm which goes into the tub which lets you hear the exhaust of the car a little bit more. It's new to me, but it's cool. Well, the exhaust is

looking phenomenal. Thank you so much to Matt and Nikkobium. Don't forget if you want an exhaust handmade in the UK, he is the man. I can't wait to hear that.

But there's a few more things we need to do before we can get this car started.

Next up, things like charge coolers, intakes. We got to fit Mickey. Yeah. Then we got things like the drive shaft, suspension, loads and loads more bits to do, but there is no point stopping now.

Let's keep pushing forward. Let's go, go. The engine is almost now completely buttoned up and now we've got the exhaust on. It allows us to put those final bits in. So, it's in with the charge coolers, followed by the intakes and air boxes

and all the pipe work that runs between them all. Then we can put the heat shields on for the exhaust, which is going to help keep everything cool.

And then finally, the wing mounting bracket. We want to make sure we get this in perfectly because this is going to affect how the wing lines up when we get the body panels back on. Once that's in, we're looking pretty damn complete

back here. Fantastic. Well, I am well happy with how that's gone so far. We are still missing the rad packs which we're not going to put on just yet because we've got well, we have actually got this side and that's

perfectly intact. The other side we have got and is almost perfectly intact apart from a cracked bit of plastic on the radiator. So, that should be arriving tomorrow and then we'll try and assemble the whole cooling system in one and then

pressure test it to see if it's going to hold. But for now, I'm going to call back here done. Next thing I want to do is look at the interior. The reason why we're not doing the front yet is we're

still waiting on a few parts to come in. We've got like the heater box to come, a new brake booster and a couple of other bits, subframe, etc. So, we're just going to put a hold on that for now so

we can do it all in one. Do it all in one hit hopefully. But for now, inside.

So, what have we got to do in here? We paused on it because we're missing our airbag ECU. There's a modification we want to make down there. And also we were missing our seat belts which thankfully now have all come back in

inside. So our airbag re ECU is returned with our seat belts which have got refurbished by the airbag team. And also we have our favorite modification. Every single car ever is a motive supplies Apple CarPlay unit because even though

this car is from 2019 so it's not even that old. It does not come with CarPlay at all which I think is absolutely useless and it's so handy to have. So, we're going to install that in there and

bring it into the 21st century and also get our seat belts back in with our new airbag module which is going to get rid of the airbag light hopefully along with well the rest of the interior. First thing I think though is

the motive supplies CarPlay unit because then we can put the center console in. So, what we need to do is get to the head unit, which is here, still quite nice and accessible, and hopefully pop this forward, which is going to give us

access to the plugs, and then we can install the CarPlay unit, which is going to bridge in between the wiring for that, and a uh the radio CD player tuna thingy.

Yeah, that. So, let's get that out and then we can whilst you're doing that, I suppose I'll unbox it.

Yeah, let's do it. So, we've installed a few of these in our time and we're getting pretty nifty at them. And I think in total now motive supplies has sorted us out with about five or six of these, maybe more. And

they all work brilliantly to be honest with you. And they are quite simple to do. So you essentially get this box here, which is this one. And then some wires which intercept what goes to the radio, which are going to be

these. So let's figure out how it works and then uh get it in. Now, this is one thing we need to be careful of is the dip setting because we're not necessarily going to be able to test this before we put the interior back

together. We want to make sure we get this right. So there's a bunch of little switches just on here which kind of control what happens on the screen and it's different for right hand drive and left hand drive. And we want right hand

drive which means we want all the switches upwards apart from number one which we need to flick downwards. Apart from that it's a dole. So I've got everything now plugged in. The Wi-Fi antenna, the adapter looms. Now we just

need to send it home. So Mickey's working on taking out the radio. Yes. Um they don't give you much room in these super cars.

They don't do they. So, I'm thinking I don't know about you, Mickey, but I can see a nice little spot for this just down the back there.

Yes. In between kind of the heater box and the radio. Do you think that's going to be underneath here?

Yeah, that's the one I'm thinking of. Looks nice there. Yeah, it does. Literally undo that strap. Tuck her behind.

Mhm. It's just very snug. There's one cable that connects that screw. It's hard to get to, is it?

It's a bit fy. You got it. That's the one. He's got it. Lovely. All right, let's um play plug and play.

Yes. Wow. Let me So, we've got that unit now installed and plugged in, but we can't test it properly until we get full ignition. So, for now, I'm going to refit the clock spring whilst we finish packaging the

CarPlay unit. The steering wheel can now go on and we're just going to cable tie that in place to make sure we don't spin it and snap that spring I've just fitted. And then it's in with the seat

belts. We've had these reset and rewebed, so they're looking brand new. Next thing to go in is the airbag ECU.

Whoa. Whoa. So, you can slot into there. Sorry about my camera work. In you go. In. You go. Get in.

Wasn't asking for a fight. Right, let's get it plugged in through there. She's in now. Just all the other stuff.

Yeah, that cover. Yeah. Yeah. Cover first, which is going to go. It's not to get in there.

Something like Yeah. Now all of this is in. It's time for the sensor console. Maybe that'll make the car happier. Maybe that'll make the ignition stay on. We don't know. But we're going to keep plugging stuff in and hope it does.

Now, I'm sure you can imagine a build like this is never easy, and one of the hardest parts is getting the car fault free at the end, which is exactly where OBD11 is super helpful. You can see on

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malfunctioning. Squib. I don't know what the squib is for that side cuz I thought the squib was hopefully someone in the comments can tell me and that'll make it really easy to fix.

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Make sure to go and check them out with the link in the description, discount code slicks. Now, back to the Macka. But there is one job we've been putting off.

Now, you might remember the original tub from this car came with a ton of carbon fiber optional extras, including the roof and these kind of A-pillar, C-pillar clip-on pieces, which you think would be relatively easy to swap over.

Of course, they're not. So, we've already snapped off one side completely on this new tub cuz we don't want it.

And it went into a million pieces. So, now I'm putting the pressure on you.

Cheers, mate. That's okay. So, we've got loads and loads of bond, some clips, and that's about it. And it's pretty strong. So, you're more than welcome to break that side off. Experience what we experience.

And hopefully we can work together to figure something out. We'll have to give it a good day.

Okay, let's do it. So, Archie from AGM Windscreens is going to start out by removing the screen from the new tub to make life a little bit easier for removing the trims we want to get off. Then, Archie had a go at

removing one of the A-pillar trims and realize how big a task this is going to be. This is exactly what we don't want to happen. But that's why we're practicing right?

Yeah. But I don't think I've done too bad. No, no. You're doing great, mate. You're doing way better than we did. We just It literally just snapped the smitherines on that side, isn't it?

In sections just kept snap snap, but it revealed of where the glue was to give Archie half a chance to It's getting under that little thingy there.

That's the ost, oh, I've just ain't quite got that clip there. Well, there must be some kind of glue there.

Yeah, that's what it was. That little tiny bit. So, we're not we're not too worried about these. So, we've got two of them.

So, these two even if you cut through those ones, they can we've got these ones and they can be repainted. It's not the end of the world, is it?

No, it's not. No. So, the window trims aren't too important. This roof obviously doesn't matter. The advantage we've got the carbon is is a bit stronger than the plastic, but it is less flexible. I don't know that's better or worse. It

can be repaired a little bit, but if we snap it like we have that one, I don't know how savable that will be. We're going to do everything we can to protect this one. So, we're going to tape up the

carbon roof, which has also got PPF on it. And so is Has this bit got PPF? Yes.

So, they both got PPF. So, we've got that layer of protection plus as much as we can add. But, we have had a little try and we may get some slight fraying or something on the edge. But, you know,

we might be able to work with that. It's It's not going to be easy, but we'll give it our best shot. If it was easy, everyone would be taking a carbon roof off a McLaren and then transferring it

to another one. Feeling more or less confident? I've got a bit of practice now. So, bit more confident how it comes off. I say a bit nervous.

I'm with you. So, this is it. We've only got one chance to get this right cuz if we break these, it could cost me a fortune.

Pull that that way. Pull it that way. We are not having much joy. Mickey's just injured himself.

This isn't working. I did get this panel off, though. Yes. So, we've gone to dismantling the car from the inside. Inside inside.

And how's it looking? Um, sorry to say, this one's got clips. Okay. Yeah. The other one was just glued in places where it have clips, but if we can heat those clips with that little blow torchy thing we got and then just

punch them through. Pow. Maybe they'll release. Let's try it. Let's go. Between us, we were trying every single trick in the book to try and get these carbon A-pillar trims off successfully and eventually put it.

And we've just heard the final pop. Take it away, mate. Wow. How did we do?

This damage is already here. So, that's needs to be sorted. But clip holder intact. Clip holder intact.

Clip holder intact. Clip holder intact. Just saying. I think you can make a living out of doing these. Arch.

Just they put more glue on this one than they did that one. A lot.

They've scanned, bro. Have a lot more. That was not easy, was it? What damage did we get?

Little tiny chip there, but I think we can Is that PPF on it? Lose that. Has got PPF, but we just got one just past the PPF, but we can lose that. It's tiny. I think we've killed that. I think you've killed that, mate.

Do you want to know the good news? Got another one. So, we've got one down, one to go. And after that, we've still got to figure out to get the roof off.

So, our method is this. Once we got these inside panels removed, which Mickey has kindly done for us, there's clips here, here, and here, which I've heated up and then pushed through. So, that's going to weaken that. Then there

is clip holes back here, but they are just piled full of glue. So, I've heated those up as well, which hopefully release that a little bit more. And then we can do a combination of working it from the inside, working it from the

outside until hopefully it comes off in one piece. Get it. Get it. Get it. Get it. Get it. I got the corner.

Go on, Arch. Yes. Wow. Result in one piece. I didn't expect it to scale off that nice. That's bloody brilliant. Now, the final piece to tackle is the roof. Probably the most expensive bit, which you'll be glad to

hear. But we're hoping we're hoping that we might be able to do this in a bit more of a traditional way and think of it a bit more like a windscreen, which is what is Archie's suggesting.

Yeah, I was going to say that was your that's your bread and butter in the windscreen. So, essentially, I think if we can cut through the bond here along the back and then just run some wire through basically and saw at it and

that's the plan. Yeah, it might change. Nothing's set in stone. It's just an idea. On that one, it seems easier to chisel it off, but it's an alley roof and it it'll have that flex and it'll be able to pop the

bond. On this one, that flex might cause it to crack. Terrifying. And this method did not work. McLaren used a panel bond which is super hard and the windscreen wire couldn't cut through. So he had to use a hammer and chisel to break off the

majority. And trust me when I say this was scary. We have just heard the last pop.

Oh, she's so floppy. Boys, what a win. Here's with a woo. Oh, wait. Wait till you're in focus.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're in focus now. Woo! Woo! I'm glad we do. You know how much that roof is?

They're 20 grand. Where you had that from? From googling. It's got a little bulge in that one. But we're looking at Oh, that one's got the roof scoop.

That's why. But still. 45 grand for one. That is a result. Took a lot of chiseling, a lot of banging around, a lot of cutting, but we got there. And as far as I can tell, no damage.

Now I've got to figure out how to get onto that one. I am very chuffed with us. Are you?

Yes. I'm glad we managed to save that with zero damage. Safest place for that now is right here, though. That was stressful. But now we can have a bit more fun with this one cuz we don't care about this aluminium roof. It can go in

the bin. So, we need to get it off. Ready? Oh, I'm so ready. Whoops.

Oh, is that it? Oh, seems y maybe not. Hold it. Convertible. You know what? I think we've just improved it. Wait, stop. Let me just uh just the new um You were saying I think we've just improved it.

Let me get a blade. Yeah. Baby girl, it's flipped over. Flipped over, isn't it?

Yeah. So if we go like that, that'll be the one. That'll be the one.

That looks a different shape. Goodness, Pete. Roof is removed. And on the floor down there, folded into two pieces. But we managed to save the carbon one. But I just want to see how close to fitting this is going to be because on this one,

it fits almost well flawlessly. Flawlessly. ruthlessly. Yeah. So, let's see if this just drops beautifully into vice where we want it to be.

Exactly. I think there's a hell of a lot of glue on this one. Yeah.

But fits nice. It does. Looks about right. Trim all the glue off. She'll be perfect mate.

I think so. We need some ball of it if anything cuz my rivet's slightly covered. But yeah, happy with that. Yeah, we've just got some glue to remove to get it sitting flush again. But there or thereabouts.

Yeah. Is the right roof for the right car, which is good. Okay, let's keep this somewhere safe.

Let's put it back over there and have a bit more headroom in in this one.

Yes. Anybody pizza? So, next job. Yeah, I want to look at cooling. Mhm. We want to see if we can get this engine started in this video. We're going to do our damn best to. And to do that,

ideally, you want some coolant in it. At the moment we have a total of zero radiators and there is four coolant radiators we need to fit some air con and then figure out all the pipe work.

So for that we need some radiators. Do you have said radiators? Transition to the next clip.

Tada. So in here we have one radiator which I had to buy straight from McLaren for the price of 1,300. CL on.

They are new gearbox seals and gearbox bolt. So, we need those cuz every time you take the drive shaft out of those, you have to change the drive shaft seals.

Don't ask me how I know this. I've been here before. So, luckily there was only one. Oh, how interesting.

It's just not what I expected. The whole thing. It's more value for money. I take back what I said earlier. So, you don't just get a radiator, you get a um air.

Yeah. A AC condenser. Did you already buy one of those? No, the one on the car was fine.

Oh, but I'm not going to moan. No. Yeah, it's free is free. It's not free at all.

Oh, bear with me. Yeah, it's free in my brain. So, there is uh one radiator for the passenger side rear because the one that came on the car was just cracked ever so slightly at the bottom, which was a bit

annoying, but these things happen. On top of that, we've got a whole collection of parts over here.

Things things and stuff. We have radiator brackets for the front. We have ducting for the radiators at the front. We have uh That's a big box of stuff, Chris.

It is. Yeah. And it it I'll be honest with you, it wasn't cheap. Oh, headlight.

I know that one. You're right. How have we ended up with two frunks? Two frunks.

Yeah, cuz one's from the Lambo. Ah. trunk here. Now, I mean, you could try and fit it, but I think that's part of the frunk, isn't it?

Yes. Yeah. That is mesh for the bumper. Another bonnet hinge. Another headlight. No. Calaboom.

Bit of scuffing, but it's okay. We'll forgive it. Yeah. Some pipe work. Bag of bolts.

YEAH. Like them. I like them. Good. They seem so small. Cutesy. Yeah. Like I guess there's two of them.

Yes, there is. Well, there's four, isn't it? Cuz the ones at the front as well.

We're going to be somewhere around like that. I think if I remember right, it works the same as the rear radiator where you have like a piece of insulating foam just to stop them rattling. Seems a bit budgy, but it's

just how they do it. So, let's figure out how to put these together, how to attach them to the car. We can build up our other rad pack, fit the original one for the driver's side, and then in

theory, we should have a sealed coolant system we can fill with water. I like it's going to not go like that cuz it's us, but we'll give it a go.

Now, it's just a case of getting everything assembled. These front radiators come in three parts. You've got the front ducting, the back ducting, and the radiator itself. We've got to pack out the rad with foam to make sure

it doesn't rattle around. And we can do that for both sides and then get them fitted.

Now onto the rears. One side the radiator was absolutely fine. So we can fit that back to the car, but the other side had the crack in it. So we're going to take the fan and everything else off the old one, swap it

over to the new one I got, and we can get that installed, too. Bloody lovely.

Right, we have all the radiators on. We're still missing the half of the heater matrix box that we need to be able to fill the coolant. But for now, we've unlocked the next stage because we've had and delivery. We have our new

subframe, our new rear brace, our power steering pump. We've got a hub, we've got some other bits, some other bobs, some brake lines, which is going to really help us get the rest of the front end together. I'm sure we're still going

to be missing some bits, but we didn't have a lot to go off cuz it was all just mush.

Yes. So, I think What do you want to do first? Do you want to want to clean clean this up a bit cuz this is a big earth point for the front end. And that should um lighten the car

up a bit. I hope so. I hope so. And before we put that on, I think I want to put the steering rack on as well, which I have got.

Let's do like a And you've got it. Okay. Like this. Voila. There. I actually just got this from Europe, but it is a right hand drive rack. So, read into that how you will.

Um, yeah. Right. Let's get this cleaned up. Steering rack on. Subframe onto car. Now the new subframe's cleaned up.

Mickey's going to take the new steering rack and bolt it to it. Ready to go on the car. Steering rack is now on the subframe. We're going to do jack it into place.

Yeah. Okay. We got these little diddly 8 ms which do actually hold the subframe.

Let me zoom all the way in. Yeah. Tiny, aren't they? And then a bunch of big bolts. I think these are more locator than anything. So, let's see how easy this goes on.

Pump the jack can. I can indeed. That is caught in it. That little black one. Do you see it?

No. Yeah. Yeah. I see that. That one. That one. Yeah. It's caught a bit more.

No. There we go. Yeah. That's it. That's it. Get her in. Could you pass one of the bolts off the dashboard? Yes.

Just give it a wiggle. Wiggle. That's the one. And another please count. It's right here, mate.

And a consent. A Dave, would you like your second? Go on then. Treat. Oh, I've never been to world.

Delivery service at its finest. What would you like now? A drink would be nice.

What a man. Did you just do that? How's the subframe installation going? It's going pretty brilliant. I would like to give it a bit of a clean, but that's a job for another day.

Just getting that really important 8 mil. That's the one. It's Yeah. Feeling secure now.

Yeah. Honestly, I feel something safe about it now. I would worry driving this car if it didn't have that in.

Yeah, me too. What do you reckon, Michael? Beautiful. Can now work out where everything runs.

Yeah, I was about to say I feel like that's not meant to look like that. Uh, I mean, we just put the pipes in place cuz we're trying to figure it out, but this definitely sits behind there.

Right, we have a little bit of a drama with the power steering pump. So, the one that I bought is the wrong one.

Basically, the one that we got from the breakers had the wrong plugs on it, but our spare one had the right plugs, but doesn't fit the car. So, temporarily, we're going to use one of the right plugs and the car will be happier, but

not mount it and then get the correct one. It took a bit of figuring out.

It sounds like it did. Yeah, it did. We got there in the end. We figured out that both options were wrong.

Right. At least you know what you're dealing with. Exactly. But apart from that, we are looking pretty damn positive. And I think as soon as we've got this vaguely sorted out, we are going to throw the battery back on it now. We've got the

correct one as well. So, uh hopefully the cars are a bit happier. Yeah, I'm really positive.

No pun intended, right? No. Here is our new battery, which is not new. It's used, but it's okay cuz everything's used once you use it once.

Therefore, it doesn't make a difference. Logical. You can't argue it. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. And these cost about £15,000 from McLaren.

That's good. So, you don't want to pay that? No, I don't want to pay that. That's right.

you. Oh. Oh, yes. Has it come to life? You have a logo on the dash.

Okay. And then the final thing I'm missing is the plug that goes on here.

The battery management. Oh, is that you? This one onto here. Mhm. There's still a car on the back.

Oh, it 7 days parking. That means you got 7 days worth of battery. Yeah.

Right. Let me go and clean my hands before I go touching things. Are you ready?

I am. And we've got the end lit up this time. Was the end not lit up before?

End was not lit up. So, if you remember rightly, there's a key reader thing here. So, if you put your Oh, John's a liar.

6,000. John, I took you as a nice Welshman and you lied and missold to me. He said there was 5,000 on it. That's literally 20% more than what he said. John scan.

Jonathan, 20% off. I think it should be. Yeah. Otherwise, I think we just out him.

Yeah. He's never going to sell a crashed McLaren again. No. He wants to see if the Apple CarPlay works.

And our clock spring for that matter. Oh, now we're cooking. That looks like a McLaren.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. The CarPlay works. That's double whammy. I've not missed that noise.

That makes sense. I know. It probably means absolutely nothing. There's no warning lights apart from all of these over here.

Oh, you can't see those from this angle. Just readjust them. Yeah, if we come around all of those ones. So, we've got ESC fault, engine management light, which may go off because it's only ignition on, airbag, TPMS, and ABS at the moment.

It may be way more than that, but all of those things make sense. We haven't got any ABS sensors plugged in.

The pumps plugged in. The pumps plugged in. No ride level sensors are correct. Airbags.

Airbag is missing. The engine's in, though, so the check engine light is void now. So, it all makes sense, which is good. I'm really positive with this brother.

Me too. Me too. I'm feeling hopeful. Right. So, what do we need? We want to get this car started. We've got fuel, so we're sorted on that. There is no oil, no coolant, and we are also going to need brake pressure, which is an

issue cuz we currently have no brakes. Mhm. And the brakes have been sent off for reurb.

I do have a little hack for that. I'm thinking what you're thinking. I'm thinking what you're thinking.

First of all, fluids. You want to do fluids first? Unless there's something I'm missing.

Okay. Yeah, there. Well, there's something we're missing. What are we missing? Because there is currently no heater box on it. Therefore, the coolant is pour out. Basically, I would put that on before you put cool.

Yeah. Install heater box enabling us to fill the coolant. Fill oil after filling coolant, then fill brake fluid, but then try and make a way to make a brake pedal without actually having a brake pedal.

Mhm. To trick the car into thinking we've got brake pressure, which will then let us start it. The car will start. Everyone's gonna cheer. Everyone's going to subscribe at home. And then we're all going to go and have a big party inside.

So, here is the bit we need. As you can see, there's a radiator inside there.

And that is for basically heating the cabin. Um, but unfortunately, there has been a sacrifice made by Royal Mail.

See the problem? Yes, our mounting point is perished and therefore we can't permanently install this. But what we can do for now whilst the chap who sold us that sends us a new one is install the old one off the car.

It's going to be easier for fins in it. But yeah, it's not fast. I hope it's not. And if it is, then it is what it is, right?

Yeah. But yeah, not awful. But that will seal our coolant system up. And then it makes it a lot easier when we come to actually fit the one which we're going to fit, which we ideally wanted to fit today,

but now we can't because that one's broken. Okay, so I'm guessing this is going to be really easy.

Cue the sarcasm. the drive. You're up. I'm up. Have a go. You know why he can't do it?

I've just worked it out. Cuz I'm useless. No, no, no. Mickey, it's cuz he's got crocs on. You haven't got the proper traction.

Exactly. Yeah. Someone's turning his tractor in trouble. Well, me and Chris have had no hope. So, Mickey's doing that.

Mhm. Because it is. We hate it. Yes. Uh should we put some more in?

I think that's a much more successful. I'm so convinced this is going to start.

Do you know what? That can't fight us back, are they? Exactly. Let's just do that. Good luck, Mickey.

Cheers. So, we're going to start off by putting 6 and 1/2 L in. McLaren's are notorious for being very fussy when overfilled, even by the tiniest amount.

Smokey. I smoky. Yes. Oil is going in. So, how did that just see the hand on Um.

Oh no. Oh no. This has gone awfully. Oh no. And now we can't. We don't even know how much I put in now cuz it's just gone everywhere.

Well, you only did one funnel. One funnel's worth. One funnel's worth. Yeah. What a Let's continue.

Maybe slowly. Yeah. Good idea. grip drop. You done it. I mean, it's only a temporary, but it's fixed in there. It was actually this bit that was bent.

Oh, it was at a bit of a different angle. I see. So, straightened her up, plumbed her in.

Well, that's the front end all sealed up coolant wise. You're obviously having a great time putting oil in.

Well, I'm just putting my last liter in. Oh, let's join Chris for the last liter.

I do make a bit of a mess. Yeah. Is it going to be smoky?

Uh, possible. It's probably going to be smoky anyway cuz it's got a new exhaust on.

I think it's going to be very smoky. Didn't make that much of a mess.

Wasn't great, was it? You should have seen. I've done better paws. Syrup drawing down there. It's just the fact it's right on top of the exhaust as well.

It'll burn off. Right now, we want to pressure test that coolant system to see if when we pour some fluid in there, it's going to go everywhere or if it's actually going to stay where we want it to stay.

We can use the pump attachment of our pressure filling kit to test whether there's any leaks in the system. Got to pump it up by hand.

Did you sign up for this? I didn't read the small print. That's the problem.

And see if it holds the pressure. And it all looks good. I'm confident with our radiators are going to be fine cuz the only one we've not replaced is this one. So, it's all going to come down to how well we've connected our

bike. Mhm. Interesting. Let's see. Plunk him onto there. So, you vacuum, what we have to do is essentially blow air through there, and that in turn sucks the air out the cooling system.

I see. Yeah. I'm actually going to let that suck a bit all the way up.

That's fine. That just means got less chance of getting an air lock if I fill that right.

But it doesn't seem to be getting any more, does it? So, it must be at max back.

Then, if I turn that off, that like that, that holds the vacuum. And then I go scadoo.

Is that right? Yeah. It is that way, isn't it? And then I go like this.

Oh, she's making some noise. Woohoo. So, the coolant's now filling and there doesn't seem to be any leaks, which is fantastic. But before we attempt to start this car for the first time, there's two little jobs we need to do.

First up, gearbox seals. How now, brown cow? I really got to get So, we can remove the old ones, fit the new ones, and then that allows us to fit the drive shafts, meaning the gearbox oil ain't going to spill everywhere.

Lift it up and drive shaft. M lovely. We have been building up to this for this entire video. We've not heard this car run yet, but we have got ignition now and it seems a lot happier. So, I'm

praying this is going to start. I'm You're praying with me. You praying? I've got full confidence in this.

I like it. Yeah, we need that. So, now we have all the fluids in the car. We need for the engine to start.

But the final thing we're going to need in order to press that button and for it to hopefully work is some brake pressure. And having this without brake calipers on the car isn't so easy. And I think we've got an idea of how to fix

that. What we can also do to trick it even more is put some pressure in the tank at the top and that's going to make it think it's got more brake pressure than what it has which should in turn

mean starty starty maybe engine run from rum. So if I go like this now nothing should come out maybe it's not as easy to crimp a brake line as what we thought.

No that's quite quite we've made a mess today haven't we? Yeah. So, that idea didn't work, but we've got another one. By looping brake lines off the ABS module, hopefully then we can get some pressure in the system

and Mickey can join them together by using the brake line repair kit that he's got lying around the unit.

Have we got pressure? Right then, Mlaus. She's just loading. I'm not getting any ignition now. Let me try and knock it. But strangely, even though we've managed to now get brake pressure and do it properly, scammed, the car is even more unhappy than it was

before. I can barely even get the ignition on. H, that's weird. McLaren's doing McLaren things.

You're not getting any kind of um no feedback at all. Dash or anything now. Well, dash.

That makes no sense at all, does it? No. The only thing I can think is a battery power. But yeah, shut down.

I don't know. I'll take that all day long. Yes. It's a celebration smoke. Okay.

Wow. But it's smoky. I think it adds to the moment. I think we need to drain a bit of oil out of it.

Yeah. You think it's anything to do with the car you dropped in the engine?

Possible. Quite possible. I'm so happy with that. I'm not even worried about that cuz I know what these cars are like. I don't.

Yeah. you overfill. I mean by a time span, we have no idea how much oil's in there really.

We have come so far in just this video going from a bare shell to a car that now runs, albeit in a smoky way. How big a problem that could be, we don't know.

But at least we've ticked off one big job on this build. Well, we officially have a McLaren that starts. It's not very happy pluming smoke, but it does finally work. We have got a lot more to do and a long way to go, including

somehow fixing that smokiness. If that ain't worth a subscribe, I don't know what is, mate.

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