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I fitted a $700,000 body kit to the Rex Bugatti Chiron, and a lot of you didn't like it. And I get it, the design is wild.
Mat Armstrong completes a $700,000 carbon fiber body kit rebuild on the Rex Bugatti Chiron, overcoming design challenges and preparing it for painting.
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Key Takeaways
- Rebuilding a Bugatti Chiron with a custom body kit requires extensive improvisation due to lack of official parts.
- Carbon fiber body kits can be complex and controversial but offer high-quality, durable alternatives to plastic.
- Fitting and modifying aerodynamic components like wings demands precision and testing for both aesthetics and functionality.
- Proper paint preparation is critical to achieving a professional finish, especially on high-end custom cars.
- Collaboration with skilled specialists like Jack is essential for completing such a high-stakes automotive project.
What the video covers
- Mat Armstrong fits an expensive, carbon fiber body kit to the Rex Bugatti Chiron, addressing mixed reactions to its wild design.
- The body kit is unfinished and painted only with primer and gel coat, with the final look pending after painting.
- Bugatti refused to supply parts, forcing Mat and his team to improvise all components including the windscreen and mounting points.
- A key challenge involved deciding whether to modify the Venom 3D scanned wing or revert to the original Purport wing due to mounting incompatibilities.
- The team removes the side blade and fits the original Purport wing, which improves the car’s aesthetic and maintains tested durability.
- After fitting, the car is driven briefly to check ground clearance and then transported to a body shop for painting.
- Jack and his team undertake a complex prep and paint job, stripping wraps and PPF, sanding panels, and carefully masking glass and interiors.
- The paint prep is meticulous, involving sanding, taping, and blocking to ensure a flawless finish on both original and kit panels.
- Throughout the process, custom fittings and repairs are made to parts like door seals and bonnet hinges, which cannot be sourced from Bugatti.
- The video documents the detailed rebuild journey, highlighting challenges, craftsmanship, and the transformation of a unique Bugatti Chiron.
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It's never been done before. Woohoo! Not only that, it's far from finished. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The headlights are just brought to life. Most people thought this kit was made out of plastic. Well, actually, all of this is
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carbon fiber. This is just a primer and a gel coat over the top, but it is made out of carbon fiber, the same material the original panels are made out of. A lot of you didn't like the actual design
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of it, and I get it. It is really outrageous, but we haven't seen it all in one color finished up and painted yet. So, I'm also on the edge. The thing is, I don't think we can make any
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judgment yet until we finish fitting and painting this kit. And remember, we've not really had any other option. When we first agreed to start building this car, we knew that Bugatti were not going to sell us any parts for it at all.
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That car has to go back to, uh, France for it to be repaired only.
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Even if we did ask nicely. Yeah. About this windscreen. We'll have to talk about this windscreen we need for the Chiron behind the camera. So, everything we've done up to this point has been fixed, made. It is our answer
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and improvised by ourselves, and this kit being one of them. You guys said you needed a fast. This was as fast as we could get it here.
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And today I wanted to get this kit fitted on the car for good. So we know exactly what we're working with, but there are still a few issues we need to address.
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Now, today the plan was to get this body kit painted and fitted to the car. But we still have to make a decision on this rear spoiler. Whether we try and modify this spoiler to fit the original mounting points, whether we get rid of
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the spoiler completely and use the stock Purport spoiler. And we've made a decision, and we hope it's the right one.
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Now, when Venom 3D scanned a Bugatti to make the widebody kit for it, they scanned a regular Chiron, which has a hydraulic wing, whereas the Purport already has a fixed wing. So, when the kit arrived, it had a new wing and a
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mounting platform, but the mounting platform didn't fit the Purport because it was different from the regular Chiron.
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So, I've got to decide now whether I make the Venom kit fit to the Purport platform or we completely sack off the Venom wing and go with a standard Purport one. This says delete. I think this may make the kit look better or it
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could look really unfit for the car afterwards. And there's only one way to find out, and that is to completely remove this side blade here. And then we use the original Purport wing, which has got the original mounting points onto
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the original deck lid here. So we know all of this is wind tested. It's stress tested. Alex has even stood on this wing, so we know it's strong enough to cope with it. But then we're going to lose
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this sort of quarter-to-wing thing anyway, which we were on the fence about. We don't know. But I'm just really unsure what the kit's going to look like without that. And while it goes into paint, we will smooth over the edge. So,
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this body kit will literally just be an add-on to the additional Purport quarter. I don't know what it's going to be like, but to do it, we've got to get this off first, then we can fit the original wing, and we've sort of got an
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idea before we go into paint. Let's see what happens. So, there's still a lot of work to do, especially if we want to get this kit looking nice. Now I'm undoing the bolts which hold the arch extension to the rear quarter. And I should be
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able to pull the arch extension back enough so I can access the bolts which hold on the wing support on the side.
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Then I could get my temple spanner and undo all six bolts which hold on this wing support. And now we can remove it.
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Okay. One side off. So this will be smoothed over, which is actually good because it's not hollow. So that should be easy to smooth over. And then we'll see what it looks like with the standard Purport wing. Now we got to get that side off.
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And now my dad is doing the exact same thing on the other side. And we just got to hope that the kit looks right without these things. Next up, fit the original wing. Right, let's see what this is
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going to look like. This is definitely going to be a one of one now because we're even customizing the kit.
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The standard wing just slots into place, and there are two bolts which hold it on.
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I think that looks a million times better. It makes it look more expensive. Yeah, it looks more like OEM plus.
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Yeah, it looks, it does look nice. I'm still not 100% convinced, but let's see what the final product will look like. I've got to screw in the two bolts which hold the rear spoiler in place.
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And now put on the wheels because the next step is to get this car to a body shop where we can paint it all.
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First drive. Oh my days, that front bumper is so low. Yeah, I think that looks pretty cool. I think it looks good.
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Okay, I'm convinced. But the kit sits so low to the ground. So before we get the car on a trailer to take it to the body shop, we wanted to see whether the body kit was going to be an issue when using
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it on the road. Got to take it all in. Got to take it all in. The last time we were here like this. But surprisingly, it worked all good. The ground clearance was pretty much perfect. But now we've got to load
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it onto the trailer because the next step is to get this car to a body shop where the true transformation will take place. And many hours later, we arrived.
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This is where the Bugatti will undergo the biggest transformation. I think new location some of you may recognize.
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We're in Jack's place. Come on, Jack. Let's go, dude. This is sick. And we know exactly why we're here because Jack is going to take control of not only this video right now, but also the big game. You are in control of making this
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look good. All eyes on you now. I mean, no pressure. No, no pressure at all. At all. I think the last thing you painted for us was the front tub on the GT3.
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Yeah, we did the GT3 and then, you know, a little bit of rattle can art with the M3, and now it's escalated to this. This is, uh, it went way further than I thought.
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This is really good, dude. Epic. So, we've done an amazing job of marking out which bits we want colored in and which bits we want in a different color.
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So, um, well, hopefully you can take that in mind. Good luck, Jack. All right, let's, uh, see you next week.
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See you next week. Now, we gave Jack the challenge of painting this car within five days, which is a bit of an ask, especially as the car still had its wrap on and underneath the wrap was PPF. And all of this has
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got to come off for it to be painted. So, Jack and his team got ahead on stripping down all the wrap, the PPF, and then taking the car completely apart so every single thing could be painted.
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Once he's got the car to pieces, it's time to cover up that interior with a dust cover so no paint goes in there.
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And then he can begin prepping the panels ready for that paint, which means sanding down not only the body kit, but also the original body panels. This right here is called lift tape. We're not removing this glass in case we
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damage the glass. They're very thin. Don't want to mess that up. But we have a nice soft rubber seal here. This goes in like so into the seal. You pull back the paper. It's really easy. Pull back your paper, fold that over, and look at
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that. You create a nice little gap right there to get down in there with a scuff pad. And then later on, clean it, scuff it, paint it, good to go. All of this stuff is really time consuming, but it's
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really important that they get it right because if the prep work is good, then most likely the paint is going to be good.
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Brian is over here. We got very minimal sleep. This thing is coming together. It looks really nice. Everything has been blocked on the top surfaces to make sure it's straight. We've got the bottom that we need to take apart. We'r
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block a little bit of that. Mostly it's going to be DA. We got the quarter panel set up over here. It looks good. There's still a lot of work to go. Tim has already sprayed the car. So, we have the
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chassis done. These are getting filled in. I had to smooth these out. We're going to use some UV primer after we're done doing that. Those are good to go.
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Quarter panel over here. And inside the booth, all of this stuff is done. Right now, there is a lot of work still to go.
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There's a lot of pieces. And as you can see, it's it's well on its way to being a beautiful car. Time for paint.
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And yep, it's going purple. This is actually a Lamborghini purple. And that man painting it is called the Candyman.
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And to be honest, this is one of the best paint jobs I've ever seen in such a short period of time. The Candyman does have his own YouTube channel, which I popped on screen. And the paint is from
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a company called BFF. It has a really nice sort of pearlescent finish. And look at that. This looks 10 times better than a wrap. And it didn't even take him the full 5 days.
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7 hours 25 minutes left. We still got to drive a lot of parts down to South Florida, but the car is finished. Take a look at how nice this looks. Oh, the color looks wicked.
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That looks wild. Oh my. How have they done that in a weekend? Oh, it's tight fit.
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Really tight fit. Jeez, the color looks immense. So much better than the wrap. Okay, how do we get it out? This is now one of them moments where you can truly see the cars starting to come together. Now,
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every single panel is almost the same color and the finish on the paint is amazing.
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And Jack told me he still needs to polish it up. But we can't stop there because we've still got a long way to go to get this Bugatti complete.
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Looks sick. Where's Jack? Right here. So, five days. We We did this. We did this in five days.
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It looks good. It looks so good. I can't take all the credit. My team helped me do this. It was a lot of long nights. Uh, number one, Tim the Candyman, he's amazing. Like, he did this all in about 3 days worth of
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painting. We were just there kind of assisting him. And, uh, he's just, man, everything he touches, it's just perfect. When you said you could do it in that short time, I was like, there's no way. If you want to see more in depth
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version of what Jack does as well, along with loads of other builds that he does, link to Jack's channel is below. this video to say thank you to him. Go and subscribe to his channel. Let's absolutely blow it up. He's rebuilding
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the Gallardo that we couldn't rebuild. So, if you want to see that put on the road, it's below this video. For now, we have got one hell of a journey of getting this back on the road. We're still missing that windscreen. Let's get
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it on the road. Come on. We're now at the final fit up of the car. This arguably takes the longest. First thing to do, remove the panels again. Bugatti stripped. Time for the buildup. The final buildup. Starting with the hardest
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part first, the door. Jack took apart the doors. It's always harder to take put stuff back together that you haven't took apart. So, got to build the door up. This time we can put door cards on and finish this for good. Windows got to
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go in. Mirrors have got to be built up. Everything has got to be put on for good now. So, let's figure it out. The door mirrors are built up of loads of different parts and we've got to put
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them together, right? Game of Lego with no instructions. We're not racing cuz that would be childish. Let's just try and get Let's just try and get them together.
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Yeah, but we like being childish. So, me and my dad started building up one door mirror each side. There's a base. There's an indicator.
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Where you going? And then there's all the bits in between. Looks like my dad completed his side first. Mirror stalk with the wiring loom going in through the other side. In we go. So the mirror stalk sort of slides up inside the door
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and then there's three bolts which hold it to the bottom of the door. On top of that, there's all the wires that you've got to pull through the hole as well.
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I've now got to slide on a seal to stop a lot of water going through the mirror stalk and into the door. And then that bolts on from the outside.
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This mirror should go on. And we've got a pin. Put all the pins back in the plug because the only way to get that plug through this mirror was to depin it. So Jack's taken a photo of all the pins. So
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we've just got to repin it into that plug. I've got to thread the wires through the bottom of the mirror casing.
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pretty much individually because the hole was so small. And then I've got to pin them wires onto the electrical plug.
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Funny enough, this was the same situation for the Bugatti Veyron, but it had a lot less wires than the Shiron.
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Once the wires are through, I can bolt the mirror case into the mirror stalk and now start pinning in those wires into the plug, copying Jack's photo that he sent me. And it's vital I get these wires in the right place. Else the
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mirror movement, folding mirrors or the mirror heating might just not work. That's just about done. Is before I build this up, I should connect it all together to make sure the mirror actually works. Otherwise, I got to take
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it all apart again. So, that's as far as I'm going to go with that. Then, I'm going to continue on with the door now.
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Okay, one empty door. We need to get it full of all the stuff that builds up a Chiron door. Starting off with the top door seal. This slides into place. And then there's clips which hold it to the
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outside of the door. Next step, this little triangle window which slides down the front of the door. And then there's about four bolts which hold it to the door. Meanwhile, whilst I was doing that, Bob was working on something else.
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I've been summoned to go to Miami. It is currently 3:00 a.m. My flight is at 11 from Manchester. That's a 2-hour drive away. Now, the reason I'm going to Miami is to fix the air con. And part of the
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air con is here. And I said I'd fix it a few weeks ago and I didn't. So, I need to do it now. Cutting it tight. But that's how I do things. Now, if you remember at the start of the build,
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there was a lot of damage to the front end. And part of that damage were to the aircon pipes and also the aircon radiators, which Bob has already fixed.
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But the pipes are outstanding. So, the problem is there used to be a little fitting coming out here onto a pipe. Um, but that's all snapped off in the crash.
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So, I need to figure that out. So, Bob has made his own fitting which he's actually going to solder to the original Bugatti mounting point. He's using heat to bend the fitting straight.
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Then he can slide it into the mounting point. And instead of welding this time, he's actually going to be soldering it to it, which he'll explain why he does that later in the video.
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I did it. Finally, one aircon pipe complete. And that's good enough for Bob to head to Miami with. And back in Miami, I'm putting in the door handle for the driver's side door. The inside mechanism slides in.
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Then the handle can go in. Next thing, the manual lock. That's got to slide in.
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And this sort of pushes into place and holds the handle in. But to hold the lock into place, I've got to tighten up this grub screw on the inside of the door. After that, I can slide on the
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purple cap on the outside. And that's one door handle complete. Now, time for the window regulator. This is in charge of moving the window up and down inside that door. That's no good without a glass. So, I got to slide the glass down
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into the door and into that window regulator. Then there's two clamps which hold the glass to the regulator. I've got to tighten them up and sort of guess where the right places for now. Then there's this casing on the outside and
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that is a crash sensor that I'm pointing to. If that gets hit, it tells the side airbags to deploy. So, we got to be really careful with this part. Finally, it's the window motor. Then I can plug in the crash sensor and all the other
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components that are on the inside of this door which make everything work. With that done, there's a puddle light which connects underneath the door and just slides into place.
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Right, big moment. The door card's going on for the first time. One side white, the other side purple. But before we bolt everything down, um we want to make sure that the wing mirror works, the window works, and everything goes in.
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So, this is going to be a little test fit and then we'll roll with it. Let's get it in. To test it all works, I'll plug in this blue electrical connector and then we can pop the ignition on.
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Roughly on, there's a seal we need to put in, which I forgot we need to put that in in a minute. But the door card looks sick. Now you can plug the electrics into the door and just make
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sure that the mirror moves and the windows go up and down and the windows are aligned properly as well cuz if the windows aren't aligned properly then we need to do some adjustments from inside the door. So let's plug this in.
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Here we go. Okay. I think it's learning the top and learning the bottom. So, go all the way down. Commit to it. All the way up.
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Commit to it. It looks okay. But what's really hard to tell is that we've got nothing to line it to really, have we? So maybe we might need to address that when we when we uh get all the rest of the seals on
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and the trim on cuz we can't really like do anything. Might be a good idea to leave it down.
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Yeah. Look, that looks like it's too high. It looks like it's definitely too high.
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But yeah, we'll put the window down. And it looks like we might have to come back to adjust all of that, which means we shouldn't really put the door card on just yet. Check to see if the mirrors
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work cuz if the mirrors work, then we can put all the mirrors together and then we'll come back to fitting the door card once we've got the rest of the seals on. So, let's check the mirror.
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Yeah, boy. Up, left, right. Okay. See your side. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Left. Yeah. So, the mirrors are all working, which now means I can put the casing on the outside, bolt that to it, slide on the connectors for the heated glass, and
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then push the mirror into place. We're making good progress here. We have got to build up the rear quarters with the body kit on to fit this to the car. This is where the real transformation is about to happen. Let's
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go, guys. One rear quarter. And before we do anything, we should mount it to the car. And then we're going to have a nice base to work from. I'm only going to put in a few bolts just to hold it in
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place. Now it's time to fit the Venom body kit. This time for good. I've got to slide in this arch extension. Again, only putting a few bolts in for now.
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Then I'm going to use some masking tape to mask off the area because this arch extension is going to be bonded to the car. And to bond it, I need a nice surface for it to bond to. So, I'm going
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to sand down the area where the panels are going to touch before applying the panel bond. Got some grill. People are going to think this is a bodgege way doing it, but it's the same way that Bugatti do it. So,
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call it bodgege if you want it. So, to do this, I bought some mesh grill. I'm going to cut it down to size and then slide it over that little gap in the Venom kit. I've got to bend it at a sort
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of right angle and then once I'm happy with it, I'm going to slide it in place and then use some Mansori glue to keep it on the inside of the panel. It doesn't look the prettiest thing in the
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world, but we've seen multiple manufacturers use the same technique on their grill on bumpers, wings, and all sorts of different parts. So, why not use it ourselves? It looks pretty good.
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Now, panel bond and bolts. Get it on the quarter. To panel bond this body kit to the car, we need something strong. And we've got this twopart panel bond here, which is supposedly the world's strongest bond.
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We're pretty confident that this panel bond is going to be strong enough to hold the body kit on when we decide to try and get this car to top speed, which is over 200 mph. So, we're putting a lot
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of confidence in this bond, but I'm pretty sure it'll work. wheels go into the black horse for a little modification.
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You'll see that later. I don't even know what modification we're doing. The body kit also come with some alloy wheels with a more aggressive fitment to fill out the arches, but we wanted to change the color of them. Alongside
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that, we also wanted to change the color of all the bronze parts, including the interior bits.
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Toby, put the camera down. Pick a wheel up. Now, the wheels are black, but my dad's dropped them off to Blackhorse to get all of these parts painted, which you'll see later. Whilst he's doing that, I'm hanging on the arch extension for the
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final time. It sticks onto the side of the panel and then on top of that uses around eight bolts to hold it in place.
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To make sure the panel bond is going to set, I'm going to use a load of clamps to squeeze that arch extension to the quarter panel. Then we just got to let it dry.
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Okay, one side on held in panel bond setting. I've got to do the exact same now on the other side. Then it's all got to come off again so I can fit the side skirt and then it all bolts up as one.
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It does look so much better now. It's all one color though. It looks way more uniform with the car.
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Let's hope this turns out okay. And whilst I cracked on with doing the exact same thing on the other side, Bob's flight has finally arrived into Miami with his air compartment. And the good news is that it slots in perfectly. But
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that's only one part of it that needs doing. Next thing, he's got a new air con dryer. Before he does anything, he's got to find a mounting point because once he gets his mounting point, he can work out where all the pipes that are
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going to need to be made need to root to. So, he's drilled out a mounting point, put some riv nuts in it, mounted the clamp for the aircon dryer, and now we can slide it in place.
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Good progress there. Moving back to the car, I've sanded down the right hand side rear quarter panel, cleaned up the area ready for bonding, applied the panel bond to the arch extension, and then stuck it all into place and clamped
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it in using bolts and clamps. Okay, next step. This is bonded on, I hope. Anyway, going to take this off, bolt the side skirt to it, then we can lift it on properly for good. So, let me get the
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bolts out. So, we're cutting up all these fittings that came in the uh the rubber kit, the rubber pipe kit, uh because we can solder these to the hard pipe that we're using. But before we solder anything, we have to get
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everything like super super clean. The reason I'm soldering and not welding is because this is the way it should. This is how Bugatti have been doing it. Um so, we just copy what they're doing. But before Bob does that, I needed him to
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help me get the rear quarter off so I could fit the side skirt to it, which is all built up with the Venom kit attached to the original carbon fiber side skirt.
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This slides onto the bottom of the rear quarter and then uses loads of bolts to hold it to it. Once that's in, there's then some of the grills which I need to bolt to the rear quarter as well. And
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I'm using one of my videos to find out exactly where it all went. Then there's intake shrouds. It's a good idea to bolt these to the car first before I put the quarter on as it's going to make the job
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harder for me later. Last but not least, the computer which controls all the side lights and the brake light. Let's get it in. We figured out in the last video that this computer, if you don't plug it in, you won't have any side lights on
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the front of the car or the rear. And it stops the brake lights from working. Why on earth these computers are in the rear quarter panel? And why on earth they stop the side lightss and brake lights from working, I don't know. But what I
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do know is that they're probably expensive. So, I need to make sure that they're secure on those rear quarters.
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And with that being done, I can slide on the rear quarter and start bolting it all into place.
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Wo. It actually doesn't look offensive at all, does it? Like don't look offensive at all. It looks like if someone had brought the car to me like that, I'd be like pretty cool car, man.
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And it is starting to look like a pretty cool car, man. Maybe some of you are starting to agree. All the bolts got to go in this rear quarter now. And then we've got even more stuff to add and we
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got to do it all again on the other side. Okay, loads more bolts for me to fit in the rear quarter. But now that frees Bob up to make air com bits.
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slight bit of an angle down across this way up and over. See? So, the first bend we'll need is not quite a 90° at the bottom here. So, we'll do that one first. Now, we don't have a pipe bender, but we do have a
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little uh map gas torch. We want to make the bend around here. This is just the same as any other pipe. The outside wants to stretch, but the inside wants to compress cuz you're pushing it that way. So, we heat the outside um more
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than we heat the inside because we can't get the inside to compress. So, we need to extra stretch the outside. Does that make sense?
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Makes sense to me, Bob. But all that I care is that these air con lines work and they fit good. And I'm pretty sure we've got the right guy for the job. And if you've not seen any of Bob's work
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before, one, what are you doing? And two, his channel's called The Machine Shop. With the pipe bent, it can now cut it down to size. then move on to the next step. When you're heating aluminium with a blowtorrch, aluminium does not
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change color when it's about to turn to a liquid, just like other metals do like steel. But it does give us some clues when it's about to turn to a liquid. And what it does when the blue flame hits
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the aluminium, just before it turns to a liquid, it starts to give off a bright emission or an orange color emission off it. So the exhausts are orange. Have a look for it.
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See it starting to turn. That's the orange that I'm looking for. And you've got two or three seconds of that orange before it starts to turn to a liquid.
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See it go there. When it reaches that liquid state, it's absolutely useless to us. We can't bend it. We can't form it.
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Ah, it's really hot. Once it's seen that, it's just, you know, throw the bin start. So, with that being said, you can see now how Bob's bending this aluminium pipe, waiting for that orange type flame, then manipulating the pipe into
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place. And whilst Bob's doing all the trickery, I'm doing the really tedious job of just fitting all the panels up.
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And this time I've got to get them to all align perfect cuz I'm hoping we never have to take them off again. One side panel's in place. And now I've got to fit the filler cap for the oil, which
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is on the left side of the car. The carbon bits fitted, but now it's just the electronic release, which I've got to test works.
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That works. Good night. Lock. Unlock. Yes. Back at it with these aircom pipes with the pipe being bent into the right position. Now Bob's got to make the pipe fit to his fittings that he's made. And the way he's going to do that is with
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the solder. I'm pretty sure Bob experimented with welding this stuff before, but it just melted the pipe. So, this soldering technique turned out a lot better.
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That's the first bit of the first job done. Uh, I'm going to fit this back in the car now, and then we're going to do the second half of the run with even more complicated bends.
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The next pipe he needs to make is from the air con dryer, which goes down and then into the air con condenser at the bottom here. So we can slide in the pipe with the original fitting on there. Heat
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up the pipe, do some more bends, make some more cuts, and then get it to join up with the fitting that's at the air con dryer. Once he's happy with it, he solders it in place, and then he can
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tighten all of his fittings down. And that is one aircon system completely repaired, minus the gas.
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Back and look at them. They look amazing. That looks really good with the purple. They're going to be.
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Yeah. So, now we just got to get the tires transferred over. The wheels are now silver. And I think this is a much better choice than the black we originally had. Now we got to fit some tires to it. And we're actually going to
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be using the original tires of the old alloys. And that is because one, the tires were fine. Two, they're expensive.
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And three, we couldn't find any of the Chiron spec tires for sale. And we need these specific tires in order for this car to do its top speed. This is the TPS sensor that comes out of the tire,
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and that sends it signal to the ECU to tell you what tire pressures are in the tire.
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Matt might explain uh better in the voice over. I'll give it a go. But yeah, what these are, the TPMS sensors, they actually sit inside the alloy and they send a signal to the receivers, which are usually inside the arch somewhere. And then the
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receivers send the signal to the ECU, which tells your dashboard how much pressure your tires have got. And if you don't have these in, you're going to get a tire pressure warning light on your dashboard. and that could stop us from
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doing top speed because the car does need to be faultless in order for us to unlock that top speed potential. So, now that we've fitted the TPMS sensors into the new wheels, we can slide on the old tires and finally balance them all up
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and then they're ready to go. Now, meanwhile, back at the shop, I was trying to get to a difficult bolt, which didn't end well.
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Oh my god. Oh my god. What do we do? I'm holding it. Hopefully your first and last wheelie in this car.
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I don't understand how something's not seriously broken. That was so close. And when you jumped off the thing was at like a 45° wheelie.
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I know. I was rodeoing it. I've got to get up there. But now I think I'm going to rodeo it.
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Hey, been on a road trip. Yeah, the long one. Look at them. Wo, they do look good.
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Oh, yeah, that does look good. Yeah, that looks sick. It's going to be good.
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Wo! Woo! The wheels are looking really good. And somehow the Bugatti survived undamaged from almost falling off the axle stands. That noise that it made was the front axle stands completely flying off the front once I tried to climb into
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the back of the engine bay to put a bolt in. But I got super lucky there because I could have ended up building this Bugatti Chiron again for the second time. Luckily, that's not the case. So, I can continue building up the right
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hand side, putting all the bolts in for the rear quarter and all the other trim panels. Not forgetting to put the bolts in which hold the rear quarter from inside the car. Job done there. Right, goal now is to get this door card on.
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But I can't put the door card on unless we know where the window sits in the actual door frame. To know where the window sits in the door frame, we got to put the all the door seals on so I can
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see where it's sitting on on here. So, this is the next step. Let's get all this on. Sliding on the door seal is pretty easy. Just got to push it into place and make sure it sits in the right
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spot. Once the seal's on, I can now close the door and get my dad to send the electric window up. And then I can see where it sits in the door seal.
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Okay. Uh and keep going. Okay. So, all it needs is a bit of a tweak that way.
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The glass doesn't seem to sit perfectly in that seal. And if we're going to attempt the top speed, that thing is going to be whistling. So to adjust it, I've got to go underneath the door, unbolt that window regulator, and then
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that has movement front to back. I can slide the window regulator across, which should bring the window closer to the seal.
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Yeah, look at that. That again. No catching. Good. So, door card can go on this side.
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Happy with that. Let's start fitting the door card. This will be the first time seeing the door cards after they got trimmed at E3 Customs on the car. We left these off for the door to be painted. And I've been dying to see what
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they look like complete with the interior. I did the right hand side and my dad's done the left. And they look really good.
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First time seeing the door card on. White inside, purple outside, just like the seat. That looks mega. One thing we didn't notice when we went the car in the accident is this glass here.
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That's cracked. And we only noticed that. Well, Jack only noticed it when he took it out. And that is a shame. Whether that can be fixed, I don't know what to do with that at the minute because it's a shame to
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replace it because it's got that Bugatti stamp in it. Whether that can be fixed or not. Um or we can PPF it or something. I don't know what to do about that. It's another It's an annoying thing. But yeah, we checked back the
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videos and it was cracked from the accident. So, I don't know what we can do. That's the annoying thing it is. It's looking amazing. It ain't perfect. It's not perfect. It's never going to be perfect because we can't get the parts on
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Bugatti. Like the only thing like that glass I would have just got it. Like there's little things. There's like there's bolts we need as well. We want to get like the original bolts to put back in. But obviously we're trying to
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find we're trying to find everything and do our best as we can. It's never going to be to Bugatti spec. And that's why I personally think there's it works perfectly putting the body kit on it because it's not meant to be to Bugatti
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spec. We're doing it to our own spec. That body kit is looking way more toned down. I think now it's all one color. If you're liking the kit a lot more now it's all painted. This is the perfect
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time to subscribe to the channel. It really helps the channel out. It's completely free. You're going to get notified in the next video and also when we do the top speed run. I definitely think that is looking way more uniform
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with the car. Are you subscribed? Subscribed to what? Of course I'm subscribed. And it's cuz it's free, isn't it?
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Yeah. So free to subscribe cuz if you're my age, you might not know that it's free.
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So before we put the front end on, we need to make sure that all of the air con lines that Bob has just made with the dryer kind of thing that we just need to make sure that that is holding a
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vacuum before we start putting air con gas in it. We haven't got a proper aircon machine like we've got at home here uh because they're really expensive here as well. So, we bought a kit from Harbor Freight to do it yourself. The
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issue is we have no idea how much gas to put in there. Normally, there's a sticker on a bonnet or there's a sticker on an engine cover or something like that, but there isn't one. The next thing to fill the air con, you need to
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have a high pressure and a low pressure point. We looked everywhere on the front. We've looked everywhere on the back.
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And this is part of the reason why we're not going to be taking it to a shop to have the air con gas because we found it. And the filling point is actually underneath the car. It is right. So here is one of
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the low pressure. Oh, and here is the high pressure filling point. Why on earth it's underneath the car, I have no idea. It must make sense in a Bugatti factory when they're assembling the cars. But if you're going to go to an
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air con place to have your air con regass, you've got to have your car in the ramp with all the under trays off to access the filling points of the air con. So, it's a good job we found them
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underneath here. We've got to connect them up. Let's pull a vacuum and let's hope that nothing leak. So, in the air con system, you have a low pressure side and the high pressure side. The compressor creates that pressure, pushes
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the gas through the condenser, then through that dryer, which takes out any moisture in the gas that then continues its journey into this expansion valve.
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After that, it leaves the expansion valve and goes through the evaporator, which sits inside the car where the fans blow against to keep you nice and cool.
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But for all of this to work, you need aircon gas. We've got a vacuum puller.
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sucks. Mr. Suck, we've got two rev counters. Mr. Suck is connected on the yellow one. Vacuum is pulled through the yellow one. Then got the high pressure side and the low pressure side. These are going to connect onto the aircon
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underneath the car. Then we're hopefully going to see a vacuum pull. We're going to wait like 20 minutes and hope the vacuum stays in the exact same spot because if it does, that means we're all good. There's no leaks and we're good to
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put the air con gas in it. But if it starts going down, we've got a leak somewhere. But the issue is when you pull a vacuum, rather than putting pressure into somewhere, it's quite hard to find a leak. And we found that before
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when we were filling the radiators up, we didn't know we had a leak until we started putting something in. So vacuum ain't that great for finding leaks, but it will tell us if we've got one. So, let's first see if we've got a leak or
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not. Bob's pretty confident. So, I've got to connect these lines up to the high pressure side and the low pressure side underneath the car. And these will only connect one way, so I don't need to work it out myself.
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Let's go pull a vacuum and I'm going to get out of here. Ready? Yeah.
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Okay. So, now we turn the vacuum pump on and it's going to suck a vacuum out of the low pressure side. With this kit, pretty much everything is done from the low pressure side, but immediately we seem to have found a leak.
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It seems to be coming out of what we think is the expansion valve. Okay.
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But we quickly found out why. Ah, there's no seal on it at all. There's no seal at all.
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This is why I should stay away from mechanical. Bob completely forgot to put the seals on to his fitment. Easy enough done. Luckily, we've got some seals spare so we could put them onto his fitment. Then slide it back into the
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expansion valve and go again. We're going to pull a vacuum out of the low pressure side, which you can see here.
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Seems to be holding. We should wait. I'm going to grab a w food. Classic Choco. Whilst I'm grabbing a w food, Bob's connecting up the fittings, which was on the vacuum pump, and now connecting it to the aircon gas
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that we bought. In Miami, there's loads of good places to eat. But because we're staying at the house, and we're trying to not eat takeouts, and we're trying to stay locked in, the best thing for it is to bring ourselves some w food over.
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It's 26 vitamins and minerals, and it's high in fiber, high in protein, lactoe, gluten-free, and there's no added sugar, and it's a perfect meal replacement drink. So, for us who are constantly on the go, Bob has it as well. It's good.
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It's good for us to uh get downers. It literally is a meal in a bottle. And it is the perfect alternative to grabbing that fast food at lunchtime, dinner, or even breakfast. Normally, you have a sticker on the car which tells you how
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many grams of gas to put in. We know because we guessed to put the air con gas in. I've now got to open up the valve on the low pressure side. And then Bob's going to open up the valve which is connected to
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the air con gas. This is going to allow it to flow into the low pressure side.
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You got to have all of that cuz it's got to have at least three of these cans. I think Alex told me that Maddie Rimac said two would be fine.
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The next thing we need to do is start the car up. Because by starting the car, we're going to power on the aircon compressor and then that's going to allow the gas to travel from the low pressure side to the high pressure side,
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sucking all the gas through. So that's the next step. With the car on, I've got to turn the air con on. But again, we had an issue.
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What did he blow it out of? What? Something blew up. Exploding down here. Exploded.
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I see it. I see it. It's come off. Yeah, it's come off. Oh, there's no bolt in it.
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Oh, no. No. Another silly mistake by us. We didn't put a bolt in the fitting for the air con condenser at the front of the car. I think maybe we just pushed these pipes in when we previously worked on it
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because we weren't putting any gas in the air con yet. So now that the bolts are in the air con condenser, we can redo that procedure all over again.
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Vacuum pulled, which is good news. The other good news is there's loads of different flavors of w food to choose from. So you don't have to just have fresh berry or classic choco. Oh, it was cold brew coffee. I tried to do it with
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my horrif, but it didn't work. Or classic Choco. There's loads of different flavors to choose from. And if you've never chose W food before, I suggest a taster pack because you get loads of different flavors in that. You can pick your
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favorite one. Next step, yam in more AC gas. If you're wondering what the waifu tastes like, well, it's pretty close to a milkshake. Next step, we're putting in more aircon gas. Then restarting the car to suck it all through again. Let's hope
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this time it all works. But everything's looking good on the gauges. But is the AC cold?
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Feels cold. I'll run it for a bit. Make sure there's no leaks. Wo. It's colder than the air, but not really. Yeah. One more cam will do it.
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No pipes blew off second time round. We just need one more aircon gas, which is another $40. But I think we've done pretty good. And remember, if you're wanting to grab a W food, you can grab a taster pack with the link in the
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description box below. If you're new to it, grab the taste pack and you can find your favorite flavor there as well.
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There's also an offer as well for returning customers. So, if you already know you like W food and you know what flavor you like, there's a discount for that as well in the description box below. For now, the engine cover is
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back, so we should be able to almost finish off the rear of the car. Bit by bit, we're getting there. Thanks, Bob.
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No problem, man. Now, we can get the rear end of the car complete because the engine covers have arrived back from paint and they're in silver.
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Alex has sort of gave us free reign with the color situation. it. We know he wanted the car purple because the car has its identity as a purple Bugatti.
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Everything else is sort of let us have free rain on. So I've chose for silver as the separate accent. So we've changed all of these from bronze to silver.
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We've changed the wheels from bronze to silver. And we just got to hope this is going to look good. Now these engine cover got to build it all up now. and that will allow us to build up the rest
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of the rear end. So, let's get to it. Again, my dad's doing one side of the engine cover, I'm doing the other side.
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There's grills to bolt in, and there's loads of different pieces to it. But in no time, we're both finished, and we can start building up the engine bay. There was two sort of scoops which sit around the rear glass, and now I can climb in
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the engine bay. Hopefully, this time without wheelieing the Bugatti. words I never thought I'd say. Now the other window scoop is in place and we can start fitting the engine covers. There's only four bolts which hold them to the
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top of the charge coolers and then the center piece just pushes in place. That looks way better.
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That with the purple. The bronze didn't look that bad, but this looks way more uniform, I think.
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And look at that for the finished product in the engine bay. Really smart. Now I can fit the rear wing platform.
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Slide it on the back. And there's a few bolts each side to hold it to the chassis. I connect up the brake light at the back of the wing plate. And now we can slide in the engine cover which
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pushes in at the top. And then there's only two bolts which hold it in which you have to get your tool just above the exhaust to get to. With that all tightened up, the rear grill, which goes on the wing platform, can slide in. And
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then there's four bolts on the inside of it, which hold that all into place.
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Yeah, boy. And that is the rear end of the car complete, minus the spoiler, which we're waiting to come back from paint. I am jealous of Alex right now, but also this has been like such a good journey.
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Such a good journey to get to this point to have it literally painted, arches on.
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It's looking really, really good. We We're getting so much closer now to effectively proving Bugatti wrong. But we're missing a few more things. The rear wing, it was bronze in the top, but this is lacquered in. The bronze is
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painted and then it's lacquered over the top. So, that is still being done at the minute. My dad's popping in some arch lines.
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But the biggest part now is coming to this front end. And uh yeah, we've done a lot of the hard parts of the radiator's got it running and the trellis and everything like that. But now we got to fit that front end to this
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car. Make it look pretty good. Okay. I think we've got to This could be a while. This could be a while, but see how it goes. So, the front end is built up by many pieces. This is different to the standard one because
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all of this has been made by Venom, which we have to say thanks to because without them, we wouldn't have a front end for this Bugatti. But now, it's my dad's job to build up the Venom front end. Starting with the splitter, the
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little spats which sit in it, and that's the lower half of the bumper complete.
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Let's get the front wing attached to the front bumper. And now the wings are got to fit to that lower half of the bumper. The tricky thing about the Chiron or this kit is that everything on the front end has to
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slide on together because there's no way of accessing these bolts which my dad's tightening up now when the front end is actually sat on the car. So, it's all got to be put together off the car.
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Okay, front is all built up. But now we've got to put grills in. Uh we can't have the OEM Bugatti grills because we can't find any. They're special made.
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They're like a special sort of shape and design. But luckily the only part of the original grills that are in place of these. And this is the same sort of design that they put on the front of the
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car as well. But it's only that that's on it now. Everywhere else we've got our mesh grill. So, I don't think it matters too much that we're not going like original. So, we've got two different styles of grill. We've got like a
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more like close together honeycomb and then a wider honeycomb there. But we think that the wider one doesn't really look right. It kind of looks like a cheap kit kind of thing. I would prefer if we had like aluminum grill. I think
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that would look better. But this one doesn't look too bad. So, I think if we put that one in, we can always change it like later. But I think we'll put that one in. Now, Alex has got the Bugatti
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badge. You can't order them from anywhere because if anyone tries to remake them, they'll probably get sued because they're recreating a logo. So, I think we got to cut that down to shape, fit that to the back of it, and then the
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thicker one we can put on the edges here because that's got to protect the radiators on the side from like big stones and everything like that. So, first step, chop down this grill, bolt it to the back. These grills I literally
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just got off Amazon. My dad's cutting them down to size. And then to fit them to the back of the bumper, Venom have already put bolt holes so my dad can put in some bolts and hold it to it. But for
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some extra support, especially when we're going at some crazy speeds, my dad's added a bit of Mansori glue. But is he happy with how it looks?
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Yeah. Good news. Next step is the horseshoe grill in the center. We've chosen to go with the smaller style grill where the hexagons are closer together. And I think we've made the right decision. It doesn't look OEM, but I don't think it
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looks bad. One more. Can I have a go? Yeah. Go on. Go on. No. Go on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go on. Go on.
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Dad's put the grills in. Looking pretty sweet. I already lined up the doors and the wings before all this, so I'm hoping now we can just slot this on and then start bolting it to the car.
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And then the next issue is going to be that bonnet. But we have a secret weapon behind the camera who's going to be able to help us get that bonnet aligned with the old hinges. Should we slide it on,
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guys? Here we go. I've been waiting to see what this was going to look like from the moment we unboxed that Venom kit at Alex's. I just think having the car all in one color completely changes the look
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of it. Luckily, already I lined up the wings to the door panels, so there shouldn't be much adjustment that I need to do. The panel gaps between the two don't look too bad at all yet. A few final adjustments are needed, but at the
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minute, I think it's good enough to go. There's some bolts which hold the center of the wing into place. And then we're just playing around with the door gap before we can fit the headlights in. I slide in the right hand side headlight.
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Fold that into place from behind. And then my dad's going to slide in the left hand side headlight and do the same.
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Then we need to connect them up. Yeah, that looks evil. Who's doing that? The car does that on his own. I've got a kid.
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Oh, how good does that look? Right. Let's see. How far off we are? Because this gap could be too small, too big, too long.
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The bonnet could it could be all over the place. Let's see. Because the previous bonnet was so damaged, it also damaged the bonnet hinges as well, and they are severely bent. But of course, we can't buy new hinges. So, for now,
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we're just going to bolt the new bonnet to the old hinges, and then afterwards, Bob's going to manipulate them so the bonnet can fit perfect. Yeah, same. It is better than I thought it was going to be.
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There's a huge gap, but it is It is better than I thought it was going to be. That looks mega.
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Yeah. So, I think the this has got to this has got to go up like that in it to to meet it. The latch is the only thing that's broken. I'm sure Bob could fix that. But for what it was worth, I found
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this one off a uh Volkswagen Terran, which is um nearly the same. Yeah, that one can go on to latch it with the bolts and that will latch in place. And I think literally we're just going to have to bring the wings in a
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bit, pull the bonnet down a bit, and that will be like the last final adjustments. But that is looking bloody wicked. We've still got like the trim around the front, but the windscreen needs to go in. The wipers need to go
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on. We've got the A-pillars to go on. There's one thing I want to do. I want to see what those wheels look fit like on the car cuz we never we never tested the to see the fitment with the tires
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on. We never got to see it. And now's the perfect chance to see it.
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Getting to this point in the build is such a monumental moment. And I do want to say thanks to Alex for putting the trust in me and all the guys to get this car back on the road because what a
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journey it's been. And now I can almost see the finished product. That is going to look sick. Look at that. The fitment actually ain't too bad. We've not lowered it down yet off the axle stands at all cuz
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there's still work to do. There's still under trays to go on. But I think we could go out a bit of the back. I think we could go out a bit of the back. I think this is a huge
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difference from the last video. My mind is completely turned from the start. This kit looks unreal. There's not another Bugatti show which is going to look like this. There's still a long way to go. We need a windscreen. We need
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all the silver accents. We're going to be wrapping the center line in the dash silver. We need the curve in the middle silver. We need the spoiler bit silver.
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We need the roof glass. We need to bend the bonnet hinges back. There's a lot of stuff still to go. Alex hasn't even seen it yet. So, this might be the first time that Alex seen it sees it watching this
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video. Alex, I hope you like it. We've definitely worked hard to get to this point. We're almost across the finish line. Hopefully in the next video, we'll get that screen in and we'll be testing it at top speed. What a result. Thanks
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so much for watching this video. If you enjoyed it, hit the subscribe button, hit that thumbs up button, and I will see you in the next video. Peace out.
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Air con's all connected. Hopefully there's no other bolts left out anywhere. Like a truck bed. I just can't deny giving me the
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