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When Matt Armstrong gives you a call and says, "I have a problem, can you help me solve it?" and it's on a car like this, you say, "Absolutely, what do you need?" Matt called me the other day and said
Jack helps Matt Armstrong prep and paint a $6 million Bugatti Chiron in 5 days, tackling complex disassembly and panel fitting challenges.
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Key Takeaways
- Urgent, high-value car projects require precise planning and rapid execution.
- Removing wraps and PPF can damage clear coats, necessitating careful sanding and prep.
- Panel fitment is a time-consuming but critical step to ensure a flawless finish.
- Complex cars like the Bugatti Chiron require innovative problem-solving due to lack of service manuals.
- Proper protection and monitoring during transport are essential for valuable vehicles.
What the video covers
- Matt Armstrong contacts Jack to urgently prep and paint his Bugatti Chiron within 5 days for Monterey Car Week.
- The car has a Viola Parsifae wrap and PPF that must be fully removed before prepping for paint.
- Jack and his team face challenges fitting the door and quarter panel due to rubbing and misalignment.
- Starting the 16-cylinder Bugatti inside the shop triggers the carbon monoxide alarm, bringing the fire department.
- The disassembly process is complex, requiring depinning wires and removing multiple intricate parts without official service manuals.
- The team carefully sands and prepares the paint surface while protecting the interior and glass.
- Jack emphasizes the importance of detailed panel fitment, spending most time adjusting and testing fit before painting.
- They use lift tape and scuff pads to prepare edges and seals for paint without damaging delicate parts.
- A G900 Triopro dash cam system is used to monitor the car during transport to ensure safety.
- After finishing prep and partial disassembly, the car is loaded for transport to the paint shop for final assembly.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Project Overview
- 00:51Wrap and PPF Removal Challenges
- 01:30Shop Excitement and Starting the Bugatti
- 02:30Carbon Monoxide Alarm Incident
- 03:47Disassembly and Wiring Challenges
- 04:37Interior Protection and Sanding Prep
- 06:44Paint Prep Techniques and Details
- 07:36Panel Fitment and Body Trimming
- 09:11Dash Cam Setup for Transport
- 10:57Final Prep and Transport
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that he needed to get the Chiron painted. So I said, "How long do we have?" He said, "5 days." They're going to Monterey Car Week, they're going to come back. I have to prep, make this body fit and look like it came from
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Bugatti like that, and get it back to him in 5 days. The timer started. So, here's what we got to do. Everything on here with a P is going purple, everything with a B is going black, and all of the things over here
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are labeled silver that are going to go silver. But, there's one problem. It's got Viola Parsifae wrap on it, and we have to remove all of this. Not only does it have that, underneath it, it's got PPF. So, we got to remove the PPF,
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we got to get down to the paint, and then we can prep that. But, there's a lot more going on than just that. You also have to make this door fit, 'cause right now, it's rubbing.
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You hear it? Clicking right against there. We got to fit the door. Not only do we have to fit the door back here on the quarter panel, we have this piece that's kind of pushing away and needs to get tighter
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to the body. So, to do that, we're going to be trimming the body, we're going to be moving things around. So much work to do. Let's get started.
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If you would have told me 3 years ago that I'd be working on a $6 million Bugatti, I probably would have laughed a little bit. See, I never thought that this was going to be something that we would be able
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to do. So, every one of us here in the shop was extremely excited and having a great time. And what happened next is, well, you know, let me show you here because it's unbelievable.
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Jack, what happened, man? What did you do? Started the Bugatti inside the shop. So, when you're starting a car inside your shop, it's got 16 cylinders and four turbos. It makes more emissions than the four cylinders and the
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six cylinders. I mean, we got a V10. We started the V10 plenty of times.
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It's minus six cylinders. Unfortunately, starting a 16-cylinder Bugatti in your shop for 30 seconds will set off your carbon monoxide sensor, triggering our in-the-building alarm bringing the fire department to the shop. Thankfully, everything was okay.
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We cleared out the air. The guys were awesome. They took care of everything really quickly, and we got right back to work 'cause we were on limited time. Now, we continued pulling off the PPF, pulling off the wrap, and getting
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this car ready for paint. With the wrap removed, we start the disassembly process. Now, this car came to us partially taken apart, but there was still a lot of things that needed to come off. When you're doing a
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quality paint job, you want to make sure that you take everything down to where it's the bare shell so that you're able to get paint coverage on every single piece.
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No anxiety. I'm feeling okay right now. It's good. We don't need any instruction manual.
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So, talk about very complicated. This thing literally has like five pieces that you have to come off in order to be able to get it to come out and it's as complicated as they get. It's got like a little plastic piece right here. Once
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you remove that, you can drop this piece down in the door. Problem is now, the way the wires connect, it almost looks like you got to depin them, which would be absolutely crazy if you have to do that. So right now we're trying to
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figure out if there's a way to disconnect at this bulkhead the wires. I guess that's the easiest way to describe it. It looks like a piece of aluminum. I'm not really sure exactly how that runs through there or
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what it does, but it's not coming out. Bugatti doesn't put out their service manuals for free, so we're figuring this out as we go. What we're going to do is we're going to unplug this right here, take a
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picture of the individual wires that go into the sockets, and then depin that so that we can pull this through. That's going to be our only real way to figure out whether or not these go in place or come out where they come out. I don't
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even know what I'm saying. This thing is kicking my butt. This is not easy. All right, well, that's what we're doing.
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Ultimately, depinning this thing is the only way to take it apart. It's kind of odd that you wouldn't put a connector between the door and the mirror. I don't know why you wouldn't do that, but that's how Bugatti does it, so we
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depinned it and took everything apart. After that, everything else came off pretty easy. PPF damages your clear coat sometimes and that's exactly what happened here and that's why I'm sanding it.
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You guys already know Matt and Lee from E3 Customs. They did an amazing job on this interior and I want to make sure it stays looking just as good, so covered everything up while we sanded on
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the car. This right here is called lift tape. We're not removing this glass in case we damage the glass. They're very thin.
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Don't want to mess that up, but we have a nice soft rubber seal here. This goes in like so into the seal.
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You pull back your paper. It's really easy. It's really easy. All right.
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Pull back your paper. Fold that over. And look at 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
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go. With the clock ticking, we were getting closer and closer to needing to get this car on a trailer and over to Candy Man.
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We are going to do a beautiful Viola Parsifae color on this just like the wrap that was on it except paint and looking 10 times better.
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If you've been watching my channel for any time now, you know that I'm all about the details. It's the details that make the car what it is. If you don't take your time and do things right,
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you're going to have problems in the finish. You're going to have problems later on. It just causes problems all the way around, and we don't YouTube finish cars over here. We want to make sure that these cars can go
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in front of any judge, any spectator, be seen and admired for all of the hard work that goes into them.
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Here's the issue that we're running into. You see this big gap right here?
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As I close the gap, you can see that it starts flexing the panel up here. And that's because when I pull this free, see those marks right there?
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That's where this is rubbing. It's rubbing right here in this area. So, technically, we need to cut a little bit more of that, but I think rather than cutting more of the body here, I'm going to try to start trimming down some of
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this section here because if that can go in further by allowing this to come in more, it will be better structurally 'cause these things are pretty weak. So, I'm going to start on this first and I'm going to trim this a little bit.
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Hopefully, that works. Hopefully, we get a nice tight fit, but after trimming that top piece, the top section's nice and flush now.
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It's way closer than it was. It just needs a little bit of tweaking and modification, so
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it's better. When building a car, this is where 90% of your time goes into when you're putting it back together, and that's the panel fitment. The problem is we're not putting this back together. We're actually just trying to make it fit
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better. You have to put it on, take it off, put it on, take it off, and put it on, take it off multiple times just to make sure you get the right fit.
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I'm just going to call you now and tell you how I feel. We're about to tow a $6 million car across the state and I want to make sure that we're covered bumper to bumper.
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This right here is the G900 Triopro from Wolfbox. This is going to make sure that no matter what happens, we get there safe and sound knowing exactly what happened in between my shop and the next shop where we're bring
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Check out the G900 Triopro bumper three channel mirror dash cam. What makes this system different is the dedicated front bumper camera. You get a 4K front camera, 2.5K rear camera, and a 1080p bumper camera to minimize blind spots.
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Bumper view is especially useful when pulling into tight parking spaces or approaching curbs or low clearance cars.
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Both bumper and rear cameras are IP67 rated for dust and water resistance. And check out the actual footage here.
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During the day, you can clearly see the road and the surrounding details. And at night, the camera uses a OS04 JX10 sensor with Pure Cell Plus technology.
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All three cameras support HDR helping you capture license plates and important details in low light, back light, [music] and other difficult conditions.
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You can switch between front, bumper, rear views, or use split screen [music] mode to keep multiple angles visible at once. It also has 5.8 GHz Wi-Fi with transfer speeds up to four times faster than traditional 2.4 GHz connections.
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So, downloading footage to your phone through the app is quick and convenient. And to keep your hands free while driving, they also have voice commands.
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Show front camera. Show bumper camera. Show rear camera. And it's easy to navigate the screen by simply touching and scrolling, and you can adjust anything you need to on the camera. You guys already know that I've told you a million times, put a dash cam
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in your car. You want to go ahead and get the right dash cam, check out the G900 Tri-Pro and get yourselves protected while you're on the road.
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Thank you so much for Wolfbox for sponsoring this [music] video. Now, let's get this car over to paint and get this thing painted.
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So, much stress, you know. Only a $6 million car. What I put on this damn trailer or anything that I tow, it's always going to rain. Thankfully, we got the car covered. Well, not only do we have that nice car cover on there,
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we got that plastic cover, cuz this is what I was worried about. I was worried about ruining a really nice interior.
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Thankfully, it's covered. It should be good. Hopefully, we don't get a torrential downpour. 5 minutes later, torrential downpour.
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With no time to waste, as soon as we got to the shop, we prepped the body and got it painted. The next day we came in and that's when [music] the real work started.
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The man, the myth, the legend, Mr. Candyman. Rocky and Mickey. [laughter] You got to spray it wetter.
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[laughter] We got very minimal sleep. This thing is coming together. It looks really nice.
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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're going to block a little bit of that. Mostly it's going to be DA. We've got the quarter panel set
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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 chassis done. These are getting filled in. I had to smooth these out. We're going to use some UV primer after we're
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done doing that. Those are good to go. Quarter panel over here and inside the booth, all of this stuff is done right now. There's a lot [music] of work still to go. There's a lot of pieces and as
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you can see, it's it's well on its way to being a beautiful car. Every time I've had the opportunity to work together with the Candyman, his paint jobs come through so nice. Not only on camera, but in person, they look
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[music] absolutely amazing and you can tell this is a passion for him. I want to give a huge shout out to him and a big thank you. It would really really make me happy if you guys go over to his
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channel and subscribe right now. He's going to have a video on this car as well as many other cars that he's done in the past. Also, I want to give a huge shout out to BASF for setting us up with
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everything that we needed to paint this car and Crash Champions as well for letting us do everything in their facility.
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Well, as you can see, it is now Monday with 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. Everything came out
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really nice. Everything is done as far as we can go. Now it's time to drop this off over to Matt, and then it's on Matt to get this thing entirely together.
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In 5 days, we got an entire car painted, stripped, every part painted, and now it's coming back to you, Matt.
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I'm really tired. I got to get an energy drink cuz we got a 5-hour drive.
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This was my first time seeing this car outside because we've literally been working night and day on this inside of a shop, and now we have it outside to see this beautiful color. And man-oh-man, [music] does this thing look
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absolutely amazing. There was so many parts after we took this apart. The car needed to be transported in a transport trailer, and we needed to take the rest of the painted parts in a U-Haul. So, once this was loaded up, we got on the road with
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our U-Haul trailer and drove down to South Florida. While we were driving down, I kept hearing this loud noise from our U-Haul.
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So, I got out of the car and did what I do best, which is make things fit. And sometimes you need to use force, as you can see.
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It was finally here. We had made it. We had accomplished [music] the goal. 5 days, start to finish, the entire car painted.
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[music] I have to give a huge thanks to my entire team. Everybody who was part of this project. Thank you to Matt for giving us the opportunity to do this. It was a really cool journey, and I couldn't be happier to see the look on
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his face and watch him smile [music] while we revealed this beautiful Viola Parsifae paint to him.
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Pulled a headlight out and a big old rock just hit the floor. I was like Yes.
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They were a lot stronger on the other side. But I had to take some out there.
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Right here. [music] So, 5 days We We did this in We did this in 5 days.
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I can't take I can't take all the credit. My team helped [music] me do this. It was a lot of long nights. Uh number one, Tim [music] the Candyman, he's amazing. Like he did this all in about 3 days worth of painting. We were
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just there kind of [music] assisting him and uh he's just man, everything he touches is just perfect.
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[laughter] But it was yeah, everything was really nerve-wracking, but overall, I couldn't have asked for a better job.
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[music] [music] [snorts] Well, it wouldn't be fair to you guys to just end this video right there. Last week, I kind of gave you guys a teaser at the wheels and I can't show you the super wheels, but I figured
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since we just did a Viola Parsifae Bugatti and we have a Viola Parsifae Noble that we just got wheels on, I'd show you what those look like.
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Take a look at our brand new BBS LM style wheels that we got for the Noble. These things look so [snorts] freaking good. The fitment is on point. I do need to go down a tire size cuz it's a little close to the
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wheel well on the front, but this looks so nice. Freaking epic. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.
Topics:Bugatti Chironcar paint preppanel fitmentwrap removalPPF removalcar restorationhigh-end car repairautomotive detailingcar transport safetyJack Builds It
