so another workshop update it's been a little while since we did the last one um but we'd start
upstairs this time because we've been moving things around trying to get things a bit more
organized when we first came it was just a case of don't pull the racking roughly where we thought it
wanted to be and then kind of put things on the racking roughly where we thought he wanted to be
and then kind of slowly organize it over time and we've been doing that and we're now kind of uh
getting there i guess um we've still got a lot of things to move around and a lot of
things to change we still need to put a lot more racking up um to allow us to kind of uh
you know have more stuff because that's what we're trying to do a lot more i'll try and have
a lot more stock both for fabco and enhance um and then and the plan is the plan was originally
basically i bought way more mezzanine than we needed when we first moved in and the idea was
that we'd got to put up as much as we wanted and i would just sell what was left now when we
when we first kind of put it all up we kind of laid it out like this and then i decided
oh actually i'm just gonna put one more piece which is just gonna like hang over the edge
hang over the bender um and that'll be you know probably where we end up doing a lot of the
loading of pallets on and off with the fork crook now that we've lived with it a bit um
i think we've kind of realized we probably are gonna need to put up some more mezzanine really so
we're we're gonna we're gonna extend this area out where we do the pallet loading now there should be
a pallet gate here there isn't one yet because we weren't 100 sure where we're going to put it we've
been living with it and you know we've now come to the decision we're going to extend the mezzanine
out a bit further and then that side is going to get extended out a bit further and we're going
to move the blue lift right over and then put the yellow lift in front of that right over and
then it gives us all of that room on the far side for the forklift to operate which is a lot easier
in terms of where tube comes in now as well um you know we're still we're still kind of finding
the easiest and best way to operate i guess um in terms of you know efficiency and uh you know not
obviously when we've got cars in here we need we need like the fork truck to be able to
operate and be able to move tube around and um although we have got a much bigger space here
we've still got limited space everybody's always got limited space you don't matter
how much room you've got you'll always fill it so it's quite important that we try as much as we can
to you know see see where we're gonna need more space and kind of expand into it so yeah
we're definitely gonna go for sticking a bit more mezzanine up which is pretty scary because the
mezzanine floor we've got now is the same square footage as our old unit um well it's actually
bigger there's actually more space just upstairs than what there was in the old unit altogether so
i think by the time we get some more mezzanine up we'll probably take us to about
eight or eight and a half thousand square foot which is is quite a lot of space really um but
again we need to keep it organized or we'll end up with um you know the same problem a lot of people
have which is stuff everywhere no organization and constantly moaning about not having enough room
so yeah that's the plan um more mezzanine and we're going to stick
a load more racking up for a little more so we can have a lot more mantle bend stock
we still haven't painted the floor yet the rest of the floor it's just been too
cold to even consider painting it it's pretty cold in here we don't have any heating at the minute so
yeah it's not even worth considering painting the floor i think until the spring
and probably not until early summer really
but the plan is when we move the lifts i also want to put some kind of nice
rubber tiles down on the floor under the lifts try and make those areas really nice areas to work in
when you're picking things up and putting things down all the time
often when you're working on the lift you're kind of working above yourself and you can drop things
and get a nice rubber matting on the floor i think is going to be the way to go
so we've still got some skyline here we're doing
still doing the twins kit on that we've also been doing some other development
other turbo kits um so we're still working on that justin's car's here now
we're kind of storing it i guess um but we are going to be doing some stuff with that
i'm not sure exactly to what extent yet um i'm not not like keeping it a secret but we are we're
doing something quite cool with that car which i'm very excited about justin's also excited about but
um we must make sure the car is ready for the race season that's that's the only stipulation
to doing the work we want to do on it and it will be quite cool so i'd definitely keep your eyes
peeled for that other than that it's mainly just uh kind of keep crushing on with production really
we've got um loads of we're always doing loads of mantle bending all the fabco stuff we've got
like hundreds of uh bits of tube in here ready for bending as and when we can we've still got a load
of floorboards which is what we're going to use for more mezzanine my car's moved down here now
it's no longer parked outside i'm not sure if that was there at christmas or not i can't remember
but yeah my car's here um i'm not sure what the plan is in my car i do want to sell it
at some point but i want to get it running before i sell it and probably drive it for a
bit first and then sell it i did talk about putting a twin 12 turbo kit on it again but
i don't know it depends what happens with justin's car because obviously my engine is in justin's car
so if he ends up using that for most of the season which is potentially the plan um i'm obviously not
gonna have an engine for my car so i can't sell it um got a cylinder head down here which is an n55
cylinder head warren sent that the idea is we're gonna get the flanges that we need for that head
drawn because it's the same as an s55 head in terms of the flanges um because we're gonna
be doing a big single turbo kit on warren's m3 which is pretty cool warren's got a dodgy
blue looking bit under the m3 competition um we're gonna be putting a g3 900 on that
and again hopefully trying to do a bit a bit of trick stuff with the wastegate on it because they
have an electric wastegate what we're really what we'd really like to do is most of the aftermarket
most of the aftermarket stuff that's come out so far that's like a garrett turbo where we've gone
to external wastegate is um limited to uh a kind of a like an off-the-shelf boost controller and
they work but they're not great especially not on a car like that we want something
that integrates nicely with the bmw electronics so that's the plan um we're hopefully going to
try and do something like that it's going to get a bit complicated but um you know if we
invest the time in it we should hopefully end up with something that's pretty decent
obviously warren's time attack car still here as well uh well i'll say time of that car i don't
think it's actually racing time attack yet but it will do hopefully one day um we're nearly there
now we've got gaskets to start putting it back together warren sent some gaskets so we can start
actually doing the final assembly of all of the parts now the only big jobs we've got left to do
well they're not even big jobs really is mount the engine and gearbox oil coolers
and then get them plumbed up all the wiring's done um once we've got gaskets and things on
it'll run at this point so i think that's it mainly matt's working on some 1.9 pre-cats
getting stuck up on those again um we just did a big batch of 1.4 turbo downpipes so we've got
plenty of them in stock now hopefully we're not going to run out of those for the rest of the year
58 apparently um some of them have gone already so if you want one uh you might have to be quick
because they might not last all year um still working on st 180 systems hopefully you have
a big batch of those out soon the problem we've had with the st 180 is it requires a
mandrel bent piece of perforated tube for the silencer and the three inch perforated tube
has been impossible to get since like early december so we're really struggling in terms
of the supply of the perforated tube to go with it so we haven't been able to manufacture any of the
systems yet we've got one which is ready to go out to a customer but hopefully as well airtec
are going to be looking after all our ford products in the future um still kind of uh
exactly unsure exactly when that's going to happen but yeah you should hopefully see all of our
exhaust products on their website with hopefully some new ones that we're going to work with them
to develop so mark 4 focus st and then mark 8 fiesta st are ones that we're really keen to do
so hopefully they're things that will come off this year we've got loads of really cool stuff
to talk about which i'm really excited about but we can't do anything with yet
so yeah stay tuned thanks for watching