right so i thought it was time for
another workshop update video
not a lot has moved well probably from
the last workshop update video it has
but
um not from some of the last youtube
videos so we've got some more mezzanine
up now it's what we talked about in the
last
update that's up uh and
finished it's it's more or less all
bolted together
um and we got the yellow lift up and the
blue lifts moved so they're nicely over
to the side now which gives us loads of
space here
um so now in the first one of the first
workshop videos we did
we didn't we didn't have the tube rack
in yet so it's it's kind of nice
all coming together now um
and we still haven't got the floor
painted but it's not really been warm
enough
up until this week to even think about
doing it so now that it is warm enough
um yeah we could probably get that done
soon which will be nice
because uh it's strange actually that
obviously the painted floor sweeps a lot
nicer
so you can kind of sweep up and stay
tidy and clean a lot better
and then when it's bare concrete when
you sweep it it just makes so much dust
so i'm definitely looking forward to
getting that done obviously justin's car
still here
nothing's happened on the van for a
couple of weeks since me and justin uh
put all the running gear back on it
um yeah justin's car's not moved i'm
pretty sure he's
i mean he is still going to be competing
in time attack um
i know he needs to get it mapped i'm not
sure if he's got that booked in
but yeah i'm pretty carl's basically
just good to go for the first round
sam skyline manifolds are done now
v2 manifolds uh downpipes have done
which i'm super happy about because
that was the thing that really slowed us
down on the first kind of set it
i just was never happy so made the
decision to redo it glad i did because
it's come out so much better now they've
got so much space the wastegate
locations are better
the re the relocation of the wastegates
into downpipes is going to be so much
better
it's just worked out really well
um we've had some problems with the
mandrel bend over the last few weeks
we've kind of had problems with it on
two or three tooling sizes forever um
they just seem to be um it breaks a lot
of mandrels basically but
we seem to have got on top of that now
and then we had a kind of uh
a big failure with the mandrel bender we
broke the end off of ram
i think a bolt had been coming loose for
a while and we hadn't noticed it
and then yeah we just snapped the end
off of ram piston so that was an
expensive mistake
but we're back up and running now that
only took like three weeks to get the
parts for that again it's like
brexit delays borders everything like
that to ball like now
all the kind of anything coming from
europe it can either take it can either
be overnight fly straight through
customs or it takes like a week
um i'm sure there's loads of people that
have had problems with that
and it's just oh it's great it's one of
those things
like nobody wants to sit on the phone to
ups or dhl and chase stuff up
it's uh yeah it's really really annoying
warren's going to be coming soon
hopefully he's going to
he's finally going to put some labour in
on his own car which is nice
um but we are getting there with it um
you know again it's backwards steps
forward steps on a few things we've
kind of changed some things these kind
of projects
it's very hard to say how long they're
ever going to take um
it would have been nice if it was
finished last year i don't think it
would have got used much
and obviously we are getting quite close
to the deadline for using it
in the first round this year so i'm
probably at a point where i'm not sure
it'll make the first round
but i'd be very surprised if it doesn't
get out at all this year
um jake's made a new trolley which he's
very proud of
it's not finished yet but uh it needs
some paint
so uh suggest which colours we should
paint it
that's a good one to go leave that down
in the comments
what color you think we should paint
jake's trolley
mini's still there obviously that's not
move don't expect that to move ever now
that's basically it's home for the rest
of his
life it's just going to get thicker and
thicker with dust
um i'm half tempted because i know i'm
not going to get time to do any of the
engine conversion stuff on
it this year i'm half tempted just to
try and clean the fuel tank out
give it all new fluids probably clean
the carb out and maybe try and get it
mot and drive around in it a bit
it would be fun i would like to do that
so maybe
again encourage me down in the comments
and then obviously we've got the uh
the old k20 astra in progress
still we've got the engine position
pretty much sorted now
i think we might have to chop the sump a
little bit which i don't really want to
do
i'm not sure why it's just more effort i
guess um
but yeah i think we might have to see
it's just a case of fabricating some
engine mounts now
and that's kind of like the first stage
done so we'll have another video out on
that
soon i think um
again lots of silences and things like
that in progress
um i'm not sure what else we've got to
talk about that's about it really
um got some new t-shirts
it's pretty cool pretty cool new
t-shirts um we'll probably have these on
the website at some point i don't know
when
um but yeah a few people ask for them
kind of thing people like to buy i guess
and they'll sell them to you we don't
make any money out of selling t-shirts
we never rubbed them
um in fact i've still got a load of the
last ones we had uh i always joke about
it's the most expensive t-shirt i ever
bought because i bought about 100 of
them
and they couldn't get rid of them
but yeah these will be on the website
soon in loads of sizes this time
before we only had a couple of sizes
which was the problem
so yeah we'll have these on the website
and yeah i think that's about it so
thanks for watching