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We're back on the second channel, and this is something that we've been wanting to do for so long. So, when we got the house, we did the full stable conversion. We converted all the stables into a gym, into like my dream garage, and
Mat Armstrong transforms a Menard into a dream backyard space while updating on his yellow Porsche GT3 RS rebuild and warranty issues.
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Key Takeaways
- Transforming unused spaces can add significant value and functionality to a property.
- Careful planning and professional help (MB Resinbound) ensure quality results in home projects.
- Maintaining originality and warranty on high-value cars requires strategic repairs and documentation.
- Transparency about challenges and costs helps viewers understand the complexity of car restoration.
- Combining passion projects with practical considerations benefits both current enjoyment and future resale.
What the video covers
- Mat Armstrong begins a long-awaited project transforming a Menard, previously used for horse training, into a usable backyard space.
- The Menard and surrounding fences are demolished, with valuable rubbery flooring material set aside for potential sale.
- Hardcore and concrete edging are laid as foundations for the new project, aiming for usability and future home value.
- Updates on the yellow Porsche GT3 RS include engine repairs after warranty was voided due to suspected mileage tampering.
- Mat explains why only some camshafts were replaced to reduce costs and hopes to regain Porsche warranty coverage.
- The Porsche underwent a full four-wheel alignment, brake pad replacement, and system resets to meet warranty conditions.
- Mat discusses challenges with the roll cage and other mechanical details while working on the car.
- The backyard project progresses with groundwork and resin application, aiming for a clean, functional finish.
- The video includes casual moments and personal insights, such as food breaks and lighthearted Star Wars discussion.
- The project balances personal dream use with sensible decisions to maintain or increase property value.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Menard Background
- 02:14Menard Demolition and Site Preparation
- 03:58Porsche GT3 RS Engine and Warranty Issues
- 05:44Repair Strategy and Warranty Goals
- 07:37Porsche Brake Pads and Final Checks
- 11:10Menard Construction Progress
- 13:16Mechanical Fixes and Troubleshooting
- 15:56Resin Application and Project Wrap-up
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then also we did the driveway as well. Full resin driveway, and like we've completely transformed it. But there's one thing since we've had the house which we've never really used, and that is this Menard, which is used for like
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training horses, and the previous owner had horses. They still had stables as well, which were over there as well.
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That'll be a future project. But we've had all this space and not done anything with it for two years until today. And we've been going back and forth thinking about what we could actually do with this space. This is like a, like a
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rubbery sandy floor, and yeah, it's, we don't use it at all, and it's such a shame to have this big space which is level and flat and not do anything with it. So, we've been thinking so long what
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we're going to do, and today we finally made that decision, and the work is going to start. You're going to get to see what is going to happen to it by the end of this video, hopefully. So, let's let
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the work begin on the Menard. We're going to fully transform it. Let's go. The company we're using to do the work is MB Resinbound. These are the same guys that did our driveway and we were really happy with how that turned out.
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So, why not get on back in twice? But this project is a little bit different to the driveway. I wanted something to go in this space which is not only going to be usable, but also if I do ever come
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to sell the house in the future, I wanted it to be usable for the next owner as well. A lot of you have messaged me about putting a skate park there, maybe like a go-kart track there.
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But I think what we finally decided on putting in this space makes it perfect for not only me, but also the future value of the house. We're putting our sensible hats on it. But before we do any of that, all of the Menard has got to
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go, including the fences around it. So the demolition begins. Apparently, the material that the Menard is actually made out of, this kind of rubbery floor, is actually quite valuable. So, we're putting it to the side at the minute
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because potentially we may be able to sell it. But, let's see. Near enough, all of the fence and the surface is removed now. I think it's day two, and the guys have demolished the Menard. So, let's have a little walk down and see
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what's going on. The base is laid. I don't know what the next plan of action is. I'm guessing they lay down the hardcore and then they get the rollers out. That's what they did on the drive, didn't they?
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Yeah. Flattened it all down. All of the rubble and everything is gone over there for now.
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And we're hopefully going to have a new project there at some point. So, we want to use the hardcore for projects there.
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But so far, we've made it worse. But you got to crack eggs to make an omelette.
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Now, the lads can finally start building the foundations on what's actually going on on the Menard, starting off with all the hardcore and the concrete, and there was a lot of hardcore to go down. Whilst they were putting the hardcore in the
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center, they also needed to make the edging. So, this is lined out with basically a piece of string. Then the concrete edging gets laid into place.
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This is going to give it a nice finish, and it's also going to help whatever the guys are building here last a lot longer.
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And meanwhile, whilst this was all going on, we needed to get to work on some of the cars. And this is the perfect time to update you all on the yellow Porsche.
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The yellow Porsche is back from Porsche. Now, if you didn't watch the last video, then I suggest you go and watch it on the main channel. You'll know that we fully rebuilt this GT3 RS, which had an engine issue. So, the warranty got
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voided on this car because supposedly what they suspect, what Porsche suspect, is that it had a mileage blocker on it.
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And the way they found out, well, they took the engine out first. That's what we figured out. They took the engine out first and they diagnosed the problem, but then they thought that the wear on the engine looked too much for
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the mileage on the car, which is 31,000 miles. So, they plugged their computer in, and when they plugged the computer in, they could see that the car had been running for something like 30 hours doing 1.4 mph, which flags up in their
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system as that doesn't seem right. Unless you are literally running for 30 hours doing 1.4 mph, but who in their right mind would do that? So, for that reason, they voided the warranty and then threw the car back together. I
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don't know what Porsche Center did that or whether it was even Porsche that threw the car together. Whether Porsche just gave it back with like a box of bolts and somebody just threw it back together, which is probably rather the
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reason why it wouldn't start when I got it. When I picked it up, I got it.
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Obviously, it's repossessed because after the guy's warranty got voided, he decided to stop paying his finance. I think he thought that was the best option to do because that way he doesn't have to sell the car broken. He just
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stops paying his finance, cuts his losses, then goes to auction, and I picked it up and we managed to fix it.
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Now, my plan was to get the warranty back on this Porsche because at the minute it is fully original. Like the car is like pretty much factory spec.
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The whole car has been PPF, so it's like really well looked after. It looks like original paint. All the interior is the same. The only thing that's been done is the roll cage in the back. This is a
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wrap. And a lot of people are saying, "Why would you wrap a roll cage?" Because surely you have to take it out to wrap it. Well, the reason why that would be is because if he painted it, then it
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then becomes non-original. And if it's non-original, he would have lost his warranty if he painted that. So, I assume it's just wrap, which is temporary. So, my goal was to fix it, take it back to Porsche, get the
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warranty back, because as soon as I get that warranty back, I can drive this car on track, do whatever I want with it, and anything that happens to it is going to be covered by Porsche. So, we took the
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engine out, we repaired it, blah blah blah blah blah. You know the full story.
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Let me answer a few questions of what people asked on the last video, which I think we should cover in this video. The first thing people ask, why didn't I replace all four camshafts when I had it out and the finger followers whilst I
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had them out? Well, the reason is the other camshafts look completely fine.
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The other finger followers look completely fine. And if I'd replaced them, it would have cost me another two grand per camshaft to do. And if they're not broken and I can fix it with just replacing the ones which were broken,
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when I go back to Porsche to get the warranty, if they end up wearing out and breaking over time, it's going to be free because I would have the Porsche warranty afterwards to cover those cam followers if they break. That's the
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reason why we didn't change all four camshafts whilst we were there, because once we got the warranty, everything else is going to be free on the car. And now the car's back from Porsche. And check this out. It's been four-wheel aligned. It's
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been everything's been reset on the dash. Like, so the cams, they do a relearn procedure with the cams to make sure it all runs right. And if you check the dash now, there are no lights on the dashboard
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apart from interim service. Now. And in order for me to get my warranty, in order for me to get it, I need to have no lights on the dashboard. It needed to have brake pads that flagged up on the
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111-point inspection. So Porsche have replaced my brake pads for me. I've gone for the race brake pads, which are Porsche approved. That's front and rear there, like the Manti ones. So that's covered. It needed a wheel bearing on
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the fr
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needs to own the car for 90 days. And the reason that is because it stops people like myself if I was going to buy the car, do it all up, get the warranty, and then sell it immediately. So, I need
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to have the car in my own name for 90 days. I think we're not far off getting the log book and having it for 90 days.
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So, I should have that bit covered. The next thing was that service light on the dash. Now, in order to get that service light off, Porsche won't just plug in their tool and cancel it off. they need to actually do a service on the car to
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take that service light off because they won't do it any other way. Although they could just plug in and cancel the service light off, they're not allowed to do it unless they've done the service. Now, I know we've g the car a
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service. I've put spark plugs in it. I've put oil in it. We've done a full service on the car. So, if I can get that light off the dashboard with my Ortel, then that's one problem out the way with. So, we're going to give that a
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go now to see if we can get the light off the dash because then that's one step closer to getting the service. If not, I'm gonna have to pay for ports to do a service on something that we've
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already done. So, let's get the auto and plug that in and see if we can uh get that light off the dash. Right. Come on.
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Can we reset the service light on this? Cuz if we can, this is going to save us a whole lot of money. If not, we're going to have to find a Porsche specialist, I think, to reset it because
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I think it's probably at 4 500 quid for a service at a guess. Or you'll reset.
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Maybe that reset maintenance interval. Come on. Right. We're going to just reset them all. oil service, the whole lot.
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Execute. Go on. Succeeded in resetting the maintenance interval. Press exit to continue. Okay, let's see if that light comes on the dash.
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Oh, get in there. That has just saved me about a grand or 500 quid. There is one more thing that come up on the warranty slip of why this car wasn't getting its warranty, and that's to do with the roll
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cage. It said that the roll cage was rattling, which you can hear it a little bit when you try and move forward with the handbrake on.
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Hear that? Oh yeah. Is that the roll cage? Oh yeah. It feels very roll cagy. All we got to get off is that roll cage and then there's no reason then why we can't get this warranty back. Once we got the
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warranty back, this car is like basically as good as buying a Porsche approved car, which is what I wanted, which is why which is another reason as well. Oh, I need to explain why I actually bought this car. Cuz some
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people be like, "Why have you bought this car?" Because you've got a GT3 RS Manti and a GT3. Well, I'll explain how this fits perfectly into the collection in a minute. I'm just going to have a little look under this roll case cuz
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clearly it's been out. I'm going to have a little look if there's some bolts loose or something. So, I'm going to climb in the back. That's going to be nice and warm.
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Meanwhile, back at the house. All the edging was done around the old Minaj. And now, what's arriving is metal fencing. Now, originally we thought of maybe building something with a roof here to store the cars in, but I think
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that would completely spoil the view that I have from the house. Hence why we've gone something which doesn't require building a huge building. We're now replacing all the wooden fences with this aluminum one. And there's going to be two entrances, one smaller gate and
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one big gate which we're going to be able to drive cars through. Okay, week two. We're on all the edges are down.
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Looking sweet. We sort of got like the the size of it. It looks way bigger now.
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I feel like with the border around, you're still yet to see what's going to be here. But you can see behind there fence has already started to go down. So instead of this like wooden fence, which looks good when you originally put it in
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and then after years it just kind of wiggles away. Still a lot of work for the lads to do. They're just cracking on and putting like every single post in now. And then after that, they can start with the hardcore in there. So off they
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go. I'm going to go back working on the car. This is fun. You watch has got a massive crack in it or something.
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It's all under every Whoever put this roll cage in, I hope you just have a bad day.
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Yeah, they did say that those bolts are in the wrong way round. I'll lift this a seat just out the way and then uh that'll make it easier.
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We're doing outdoor play today. Okay. See out. Okay. Now we got more room. Did turn up a bit.
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That's pretty tight. Right. That side's tight. Now, let's do that side. And we'll tighten that Allen key up as well. That's tight. Okay. So, if this doesn't solve it, it's not the cage. What about these? Yeah, that seems
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pretty solid. Right, let's go to the back. All right, there they are. Two bolts.
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Let's get to them. That's tight. That is tight. So, Porsche reckon they're in the wrong way around. So, we'll switch them round and give them a tighten. It looks like this should have washers on. Let's do this one. That's
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tight. They're loose. Look. Okay, that could be it. Let's spin them around. Absolutely dripping air.
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That window's plastic. Oh yeah. Weight serving. No wonder I'm really hot. Let's put the seat back in now. See if that works.
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Coming back in. So, service lights out. Brake pads done. Roll cage tightened. That is literally it. Now we just need the log book and own it for 90 days.
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Let's see if that noise is gone. I'm feeling a bit skeptical. It only says noise coming from roll cage. So, let's see if we can get away with it.
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Okay. Still makes it, doesn't it? It sounds like metal on metal, doesn't it? Yeah.
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Can't reverse. Oh, yeah. It's worth getting in the air and just tightening those mounts up. We did have the engine out multiple times, so it wouldn't surprise me if one of them's loose. I think we get it in the ram and
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see if we can check that. Looks like that's the next step on the GT3 RS.
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Whilst I'm about to do that, the lads are still cracking on with that aluminum fencing. They've got to put it around the whole perimeter. First, he has to dig out the holes, which are pretty deep, then lie the posts in the holes,
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fill them up with concrete, and make sure they all set right. And a lot of this fencing has to be cut to size, especially around this big opening, which we're keeping in order for me to be able to drive some cars in there if
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we ever want to film anything, take photos, or maybe put some car storage there in the future. Who knows? But with the fence all the way around now, the next thing to do is finish putting in all of the hardcore. And when all the
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hardcore is in, the next job is to flatten it all and get it level.
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Right. First thing I'm going to go and check is the gearbox mount because that's where I think the noise is coming from. And then if it ain't that, I've got to check everywhere else. So, anything that could be rocking. So,
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we've got like engine mount, gearbox mount, mounts at the back, anything that can cause it that sort of rocking sensation. Okay, we're going to get this out and that will show us underneath there. Do you think anyone would ever
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know this car's had a cooler leak? Nah. Oh, that looks loose. That one looks loose up there. Oh, that doesn't look like it's got many threads on.
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No, that does look loose. That is loose. Yes. Yes. I think we found it. Yes, that was loose. That didn't go in much. Yeah, that didn't go in much. Is that the right bolt for that?
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Oh, yeah. I thought it was a stud. Do you see? It was loose, but I thought that was a stud and we couldn't see the bolt on the tub.
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Okay. Yeah, that was bit loose, wasn't it? You wouldn't want your subframe that loose, right? Let's try again. See if we can make the noise.
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I think that's done it. It might just been that one bolt needed half a turn.
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Handbrake on. Pull forward. Yeah. Ain't doing now. Bad. I think it was that half turn of a bolt.
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That's everything apart from the log book covered for the warranty. Now, there's no reason why we shouldn't get any warranty apart from this mileage discrepancy thing which we might be able to argue because that's got nothing to do with us and the car is completely
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fine. That's down to Porsche. Whether we can get that or not, I don't know. And another thing I want to cover as well is why exactly I bought this car. Some people think I just bought it cuz it's a
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cheap car and could make some money on it. Well, actually that wasn't the case.
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First off, let's get this under tray back on. Now, if you watch the main channel video, you see when a car vertical checked the car, everything on the car come back all good. But some of you got a bit frightened. They had eight
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owners. This car is how old? 10 years. Yeah, maybe even 11. Maybe even 11 years. So, an owner every year, which is not like for a car like this, I don't think it's it's not too worrying as long as it's in good
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condition. Despite the engine, it was in fairly good condition, which I'm not too worried about. But other than that, on the car vertical report, everything else checks up. I can see all the personal plates that it's had on it. See every
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time the ownership's been changed every time it's had an MO t-shirt and there's been no damage to the car. This is why we can get warranty on it. Whereas if your car was previously damaged, one, it might show up on a car vertical report
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and two, we won't be able to get the approved warranty on it again. The funny thing is some people might think I bought this to make some quick bit of money because it was a good flip. when actually the reason I bought this is
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that I was looking for 991 Porsches because I wanted to go on the track on track days in the UK. And in the UK to go on a track day, your car needs to be basically under 105 dibbels. And every
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single one of my cars is over 105 dibbels unless I start putting stock exhaust back on them. So, my theory was if I bought a 991 GT3 RS, because they've already devalued in price and they've held the value at that price, I
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could buy one, go on track, use it in the summer for track days, and then in the winter, sell it again for the same price or maybe a little bit less, and it wouldn't have cost me much, and I would
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have enjoyed a GT3 RS through the summer on the track. So, I was looking for one, and in the time I spent looking for one, I found this one, which had a broken engine. So, not only am I going to be
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able to use one in the summer and use this on track cuz it's completely stock and hopefully get approved warranty at the end of summer when uh maybe I want to sell it, maybe I want to keep it, I
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don't know. I could even make a bit of money selling it. So, I think it was just a no-brainer and it was like a perfect it was a bit of a fluke really, wasn't it? Because I said to all these,
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"Oh, I'm looking for a 99." Then next thing I come in and said, "I found one with a knackered engine and we could actually make a bit of money on it on top." So, it was like a bit of a fluke
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that we found it really. So, yeah, not a bad find. That's the reason why I bought it. I feel like the signal yellow is a lot better than this yellow, but beggars can't be choosers.
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Now, remember, if you want to check your car out, Carver Vertical, click the link in the description box below and use this discount code on the screen. It's different for the second channel because if you've used the main channel discount
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code, it might not let you reuse it, but you can use it on the second channel. So check your car out, find any hidden history about it, and if you find something, thank me later. For now, I think this is all good and ready for its
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drive. And also, we've got plenty more cars to do. But let's go see how they're getting on with the Minaj. Look at the whole area. The Minaj has disappeared.
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Fencing is fully up. The lads are just finishing off like the edging areas now.
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So, we should be keeping that open so cars can go in and out if there is need for it. But I reckon they've put down like like a whole quarry of stones here.
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Like there's been so many bands of stones going down. Still just finish off this little bit here. And then after this, I think it's time for like the tarmac to go onto the top. Finish this up and then it's onto the tarmac. Let's
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go. So far so good. But the space is still pretty empty. And at this point, it could be anything. But before the lads continue, we need to address Liam's Audi R8. In the last video, my R8 was doing this,
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but now we have brought in the professionals. It's a bit of a strong word that Ricky is here. He's brought his team with him, and he's going to show us how to get this engine out. How long is it
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going to take? If it was me, a day or so, I reckon. Uh, 3 hours.
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3 hours. What's the time? 12:00. Yeah. Right. It's 12:00, right? 3 hours. 3:00. This is going to be out. We hope. That's what I want.
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Right. Let's get this engine out. Shortly after Liam had his car tuned in the last video, it decided to lose all compression in one of the cylinders. And today we've got to figure out why that.
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Yeah, that's what should be in there. And that's what I think is you reckon damage? That's what I think it is.
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So it's your fault? Could be my fault. What are you doing, Neil? I'm undoing two bolts down here that Rick said get those undone now.
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So do you think he's going to do it within the 3 hours? But the way he's going at the minute, I think he's going to do it in two hours.
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Ricky, are you putting this engine back in or is putting it back in? Leo's putting it back in.
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That's not what we talked about. Here we go. Yeah. So, we've got all this top bit off. Uh, so we're going to go halfway up, get drive shaft off, get start motor off, start to take gearbox out, and then
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we drop gearbox out. crash damage plate or crash plate and then we can get the back engine mount off then it time to get the gearbox out and we've got a new toy for this gearbox is out. Thomas, get the engine
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out. Yeah. Engine out time. Half two. 2 and 1/2 hours. Engine out. Gearbox out.
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Subscribe. RI Performance because he is the boy. I'm getting as many R Performance subscribers in here as possible cuz this has got to go back in yet.
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Time to get it down to Ricky's so we can strip it and find out exactly what has gone wrong with this poor poor engine.
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So, we'll find out what's happened to the almost bulletproof V10 engine once the lads now have arrived at the house with some tarmac. And I'm pretty sure this is a special type of tarmac. It's like a porous type.
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And this allows water to sort of soak through it and into the ground so it doesn't hold water when they apply some form of resin on top of it. I could have got that completely wrong, but I'm trying my hardest.
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All the lads have got to do now is spread it all over the hardcore that they've laid down over the Minaj. And there's plenty of machinery to get that done. At this point, you may be thinking, I'm just making another big
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driveway. But actually, it's far from that. Although, I wouldn't mind another driveway to park the cars. I think Hannah would have something to say about turning the house into a giant car park.
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But so far, the lads are cracking on really well, and they've got the weather for it at the minute. This whole process took him about three weeks from start to finish. And at the minute, we're about on week two, laying down all of this
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tarmac completely over the hardcore. And once all the tarmac is laid over the hardcore again, they've got to flatten it down and make it all level, ready for their next step. And whilst they were doing this, I actually got time to go
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out and test the yellow pores. Let's go take the lemon for a little rip once everything is all fixed now. Right.
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Hopefully no mishaps anymore. Off we go. She drives so much better now. The tracking is all in a straight line. And even though this has got stock exhaust, still sounds really good.
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And so far, all the coolant hoses have stayed intact. Oh, yes. I've looked to give it a full thrashing because obviously the top end is brand new, so I don't want any accidents. But oh, just enough for a rip. These cars
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drive so well. A little track day to better, I think. What a bargain. Buzzing here. RE performance. The R8 engine is here. Rick has stripped well stripped the piece p pieces off. We don't really need to take off for the camera
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and we're about to take it apart together to see what the actual problem is.
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Together. This is like emotional support. Yeah. Ricky is going to take this out. Right. Everything's off and out. We found the issue. What do you think the issue was? Because we found it while he wasn't here.
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Looking at that and the fact the valve's not on there. Maybe like snap valve or like something to do with your valve.
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Surely. Okay. So, if we turn this over. Yeah. From this side, there's no damage.
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Oh, that's There is two valves missing. Yeah. But no damage to that means maybe not a melted valve or anything like that.
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Yeah. Okay. So, we're good on that front. So, if it isn't the valve and it isn't the spring, what is it?
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Well, we looked down the camera and we could see that there was the springs look good.
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If you come here, look, the piston top of the piston looks all good. There's no like screw in the cylinder there.
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That's all good. Yep. So, one valve and spring. That's how it should look. That'll obviously sit up there.
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That looks good. That looks good. It's not a spring, is it? The second one.
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Oh, look at that. That's a bit short and a bit stubby, isn't it? We've got a broken spring.
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That's good news. Broken spring. Good news. That's the best case scenario. Bad situation. Yeah, broken spring.
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A lot of work for that one little broken spring. A lot of work for that one little broken spring. That is the best case scenario.
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So, it wasn't tune related, which is going to make somebody very happy. But it's also very sad for me because it's more likely my fault from revving it.
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Yeah. Ricky said it's just been overrevved and that's what happens because these springs are out of a Golf GTI.
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All right. Okay. So, we're going to get new springs. Definitely change two valves. And he says it's up to us if we decide to change all the valves as well because while you're at it, he says you might as
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well change all the valves. But we'll let Matt have to final decision on that because it's probably going to cost a lot.
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Sorry Matt. Right, so we've rebuilt the heads, which we done with DAV. So, new springs throughout, new exhaust valves, cuz obviously one had fallen, so we didn't want to take any risk with exhaust valves. Heads have been serviced,
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refreshed, put back together, and we're just putting the heads on now. New head bolts, new head gaskets, torque them down, and away we go.
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We have got the RA engine back together. Well, I say we, Rick, Ari performance wizard got this all back together. We are going to get this in over the weekend cuz we're planning to take this somewhere next week, which you are going
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to see. But for now, we need to get this in the van and get it home. Right, she's in. Time to get back to the unit, get her in the R8 because we've all missed her. Well, I've especially missed her. So, we're going
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to get her on the road. Let's go. So, the reason why Liam had no compression in his engine was due to a broken valve spring. And although it might not have had anything to do with the tune, we all know that the tune made
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the car shoot flames when it was revved. So, the tune sort of encouraged Liam to rev the car and put a lot of strain on that valve spring. Sometimes I'm not the best at choosing my friends.
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For now, the MB resin bound guys are now applying this special type of resin. And unlike the driveway, this resin that's going down here is a sort of spongy material. If you've ever been to like a sports court or like a kids playground
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where the floor has that sort of sponge to it, this is what's going down here.
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You can get this in loads of different colors, but to keep things neutral and the fact I think I'm going to be bringing a few cars on here eventually, I've gone with gray with little bits of black in it. And the lads are working
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through the night to get this done. Mainly because the heat in the daytime was way too much to lay this resin down.
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Again, it's a pretty similar process to how they've done the driveway, but they need the temperature to be cool to make it easier to lay.
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And although I wasn't here whilst they were doing this, it looks like they're doing this in sections to stop it setting whilst they're doing it. And this is a long process. Mainly all of it is done by hand.
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And whilst they're cracking on with that, my dad finally returned from his holiday. Today, our small job doesn't look quite as small, does it?
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I don't know where any of that goes. We're getting her in. It's been a long time coming. She's finally going to have her heart back.
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The engine is in. Yay. Hopefully I will never need that engine crane again. Now it's time for my shaft. My shaft is going in.
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She's in. So, everything on under here, I think. Let's get the car down then.
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Let's do it cuz I want to go home. England playing tonight. Woohoo. Next up is the gearbox.
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Yep. Yep. Yeah. Right. That's slotted in. Gearbox plug going in. That's it. Engine gearbox all in.
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What's next? Fish and chips. What have you ordered from the fish and chips Tony?
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Fish and chips and a bit of curry sauce. I bet you can guess Liam's order.
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Fish and chips. He's got fish and chips as well. With curry sauce. I would have thought it would be like a fish cake kind of guy cuz he's like 10 years old in it.
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Are you okay, mate? Right. Start motor's next. Power wires for the power. Start motor being plugged in.
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Yay. That's it. Fishing chip. Lovely. Let's go and get some food in some scrum.
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It's on Liam as well. It's on. I know. It's nice of him, isn't it?
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It is not very nice. It's on me at the moment, but has it not paid you out yet?
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No. Do you feel better now? I feel absolutely a million dollars. Like it's a Monday morning when you first get here and you've been refreshed after the weekend. That's how I feel.
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But this is the weekend. Yeah, I know. But I've had my fish and chips. So, I'm raring to go. Let's get this thing running.
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Do you know that expansion tank? Mhm. That always reminds me of something from Star Wars.
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Does it? Yeah. Have you seen those things on Star Wars? No. Do you haven't watched Star Wars?
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Not much. No. Bits of Star Wars. Not never a full thing. Liv, have you watched Star Wars?
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No, never. Why am I in a room with a bunch of losers? It's It's for kids, isn't it?
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Star Wars for fully grown men. What color lightsaber would you have if you were a Jedi?
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Lightsaber. That is a nerdy question. Everything is in except for the oil tank and the exhaust and the bumper.
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But the oil tank's most important. Then we could actually run it with the exhaust off the oil tank.
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Flipped in. Okay, that's in. Woo. Now we got to put the oil in. Coolant tin. Battery on. Find the key to start it. This is my favorite tool in the whole wide world. And I am joking.
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So for all the people that don't know what this is, what is this? This is a vacuum bleeder. So what you do is we fit an airline to this which then blows past this. The air blows past causing that to get sucked and it sucks
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all the air out the car cooling system. So all the hoses squash up. So then when you release this with water in the pipe, it then sucks, this is why I love this kit, it then sucks it in.
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And how much do we need to put in? 20 L connect in. Now all the air is leaving the system.
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Okay. Now you're supposed to wait for a bit. See if that goes down. What are you doing now?
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Filling the pipe up with coolant. How come you have to fill the pipe up with coolant? So there's no air in the pipe. There might be a bit of hair in the pipe though when we plug it on. Like that much. Look.
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Right. I'm on. Is that at the bottom? I pushed it all the way in.
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Got the weight on. Coolant is now all in. Next up, we need to put the oil in. You need Ricky says 8 L of this, but you can't check it because there's no dipstick. You have to start the engine and let it warm up,
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which is a bit of a dumb idea, isn't it? Huracan has a dipstick. Does it have a dipstick?
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So much better. Your car is so much better than this. Now you've said that. I want a Huracan.
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My R8 is so much better than your R8. That is 8 L of oil, which was recommended by Rick. So, connect the battery and start up.
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Crank it. Let's do it. I want to hear it. put all that together. How long did that take?
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How long did it start? 12 something. Oh, yeah. Not too bad. 2 hours. Yeah.
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2 hours. Yeah. 2 hours. Yeah. Do you think he's going to rev it or not?
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I can't I don't think he's able to rev it. He's going to want to rev it in.
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I'm not ready ever again. Get it all put back together. Drive it another two hours. And just like that, she's all back together. Just look at her. Back in her former glory. The rear end is all complete. The engine is in
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the middle. Super thankful to everyone again. Obviously Matt, obviously Rickette. She's running like a dream yet again. Super buzzing. So happy to have her back on the road. We've not had chance to drive up while she's being this color or with the wheels or this
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color. Really, I'm gassed. Absolutely gassed. One yellow GT3 RS successfully back on the road almost with volunteer and Liam's pink Audi R8 successfully back on the road. For how long, we don't know. But all that we've got outstanding
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now is the Bugatti Veyron to fix, Alex's Chiron to fix, and eventually we'll continue on with that BMW M3. It's been a busy year so far, and it's especially busy for the MB resin bound guys who are still laying
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down that resin. And you can see how spongy it is here. But this whole area is almost complete, and it's looking really clean. Every inch of this fenced off part is being covered in this spongy type of resin
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which is extra weather resistant. I'm just hoping now I chose the right color because at first I think I did want to go for something bright. I just thought that when it wears it might not look so great whereas the gray should stay
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looking good for years to come. Last little edges now to do. And that is all of the resin down. But it's still just looking like a big car park. So, what's next? Well, it's time to paint in the lines. That's right. We're putting
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in a multi-ports court. One which could be used as a five side football pitch and a tennis court as well. Now, you'll notice I actually got this wrong to start with. We painted the tennis courts with black lines and then we painted a
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fiveside football pitch with white lines. But I realized shortly after seeing this, I'd made a big mistake. The white lines were so easy to see and really dominant on the gray floor, whereas the black lines for the tennis
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court were really hard to see. And to be honest, I think this area is going to be more used for playing tennis than it is football. So, we agreed to change this over once we'd laid it down. But with
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all this type of stuff, you learn a lot on the way. And this is one thing that we learned. So, you can see the guys that did the lines going back over the white lines with black paint and over
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the black lines with white paint. Basically undoing all of the work they just did.
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It's finished. Project Wimbledon is complete, aka Lester's Wimbledon. Look at that for a view. It's been a long journey and we've eventually got there.
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So, the grand stand is still in uh this is still in production. This is all going to be changed here and originally at the start of the video, we said we was going to do steps down here. Well,
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we've actually got a bigger plan for this and potentially another collaboration with the home improvements guys cuz this is going to be something insane here. It's going to be like completely different. We got a really better idea, but there's a lot more
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stuff that needs to go on, especially over that way. We still got all the rubble from Minaj and everything to get rid of. And like there's more building work going over there, but how much better is this than the Minaj? It's a
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way more usable space. Yes, like we could have put loads of other different things here, but also you got to think of like, okay, maybe if we want to sell the house in the future, I don't necessarily want a skate park here,
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which is going to be quite difficult to sell a house to for someone who doesn't skate or BMX. But because we've got this platform here, it doesn't mean we can't put like a skate park here or any temporary like things that we can do to
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film. Like a skate park would have been amazing, but they're really hard to maintain, especially all wooden ply stuff. You've got to maintain it all year round else it goes rotten. But I do think at some point we should put a park
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on it. We've obviously got now all the metal fencing round. This looks like well well well better than the wooden fencing. This is all going to be uh paved and everything like that. But we'll get to that. Coming to the court.
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You might have seen on like a previous clip that originally the football pitch was white lines and as soon as we did that we realized we made a mistake because we put the tennis court out. And when you're stood there ready to serve,
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you can't see the other lines on the other side uh because they were just they were black and the tennis court and the football pitch was white. And really, you're going to use the tennis court lines more than the football lines
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because that the football lines really when if you ever play football on air, you're never going to play for a throw in. You're just going to be hitting it off the side. So really, it's more for looks. The lines are still a little bit
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wet. Like you can see them just drying up. There'll be more of like this kind of like satin finish when they're done.
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But I do think the white lines work way better. There's a few mistakes we've made on the on uh the way as well. For example, these nine side goals. We've gone a bit too big with the goals, but
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these goals are like they're proper. So, I think we're going to change the goals for smaller goals to go there. We're going to go for more farther side goals.
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And then these goals we'll put down on the field for a proper football pitch.
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Even though the pitch is like really slanted. This is sick. This is our ultimate dream garden. It's going on right now. We've still got an opening.
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Uh and we kept this opening. So then like when we finish the cars off in the builds and we want to do crazy cinematics, we can like pull them onto here, get them in the middle and like film like a nice shot of the cars. And
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alongside that as well, we did used to have lights on the Minaj, but what we've done now is we've got a way higher post and we've doubled up on the lighting.
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And with it being higher and more light, we're hoping at night we can have a little game with tennis or football, whatever it'll be, and it's not going to cast shadows down because when the lights were lower, there was loads of
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shadows everywhere and it was hard to see. This thing is looking sick. I think another mistake we may have made is that the fence possibly could be too low on each side. But if we get better at tennis or whatever sport we're playing
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on here, the balls won't go over as much. But I'm absolutely buzzing with the finished product of it and like the actual quality of the work is insane.
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Like MB Resinbound, it's not a sponsored video or anything like that. MB Resinbound who come I was really happy when they did my driveway and now they've absolutely topped it with this.
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I think we're going to have to go back to do even more stuff, especially when we start sorting out that side of the garden as well. But I think we need to have a little game of tennis now, won't
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we? So, finally, a usable space in the garden, which also can be multi-use. The fact I can put cars on here, film the cinematics when we finish the builds, use it as a tennis court, put temporary skate park ramps on it, play football on
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it. The list is endless. and it doesn't spoil the view. I'm over the moon now. The fact I can even say I've got a tennis court in the back garden is unreal. And all of this was only possible because I took that risk 6
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years ago to quit my job to do something I love. Now, let's see what it looks like at night.
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Kevin and I have been tasked with seeing if the tennis court is lit up very nicely.
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There's the lights. Oh my god. I didn't think it was going to be that bright. Oh my god. It's like the sun. What do you think, Kev? Yes, that is where the tennis balls are kept all done. Perfect. Let's do a test. You
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can see, Kevin. And now you can't. And now you can. And now you can't.
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