right so since uh the last video we've got this front scoop all finished off for
ish um pretty sure we're gonna powder coat this um bare aluminium can look quite cool
if your weldings uh mint man's not milo minion welding is not uh
it's not as good as i would want for a fully aesthetic part like that so a lot of these
have been ground off and flattened which i think actually looks better anyway it kind of
suits the car bit better but yeah i think this is going to end up getting powder coated it'll
it'll just i think it'll look a bit more um in keeping it'll yeah i think it'll just look better
when it's flying around the track uh if it's all kind of as close to body color as possible um
but yeah that's sorted and welded up and once it is powder coated i'm we're probably gonna i think
we're gonna rivet this into the body at the minute we've just got these acme screws so i think we'll
probably end with a bit of sealer and we'll just rivet it into the body it'll be much stronger then
and i've also got the front scoop welded up so before we had kind of um tacked all this front
scoop together but this front opening of the bumper is quite a tricky shape
and i was struggling to get it to work right in really few pieces
or as few pieces as possible without having to like bend sheets and stuff like that so
what i thought was once i've got it welded up i can kind of manipulate it a bit better i can
then bend it a bit easier i can bend it into shape more or less to kind of fit the the front bumper
opening it's not far off it just needs to kind of bend up a little bit so it matches at the top here
which won't be too hard and then this end this side here needs a bit of adjustment might
have to cut a cut a little piece um and then maybe weld in some extra bits but again it's
going to be worth spending the time doing that kind of thing because you know it wants to be as
guided as possible because that'll give us the most most efficient air flow through the bumper
so yeah i've got the bumper back on to to kind of have a look at it we've got it welded up and
i've also got it so the front scoop bolts on and off the radiator now when we first made it
it was kind of tacked onto the radiator because it was going to be the easiest way but now we've
welded it up i've kind of made some tabs which we'll show in a minute so that it bolts on and off
so that's going to make it easier to adjust as well because now i take the radiator off
the car every time i can just take the bumper off and take the scoop off adjust it and try it
all back on again probably probably the biggest challenge with this is that the bumper is a bit
of a nightmare to get on and off every time um it would be good to come up with obviously since
we've put this um bumper bar at the top it's it's easy to get these front four screws in no problem
it's just the ones at the side that attach to the wings so i do think that's probably something else
we should look at doing is a way to get the bumper on and off a lot easier i'm not sure what the best
way is yet there's a lot of kind of like fasteners you can buy like aftermarket fasteners the problem
is we've got no structure behind the outsides of the wings and of course they're fiberglass wings
so yeah i need to take a bit of a look at that
back to cardboard kinda decided that after i put the bumper back on again berryman
is a nightmare to get this bumper on and off as i just said because
realistically me take the wheels off to get into where it's bolted the bumper is attached to the
wings um but not in the same way the standard one is in the standard one you have a kind of
mount which the bumper kind of clips into we can probably show it on my van because my vans strip
down to get a bit of a better idea of how the bumpers normally mount this kit's been fitted
um professionally and it just means that everything else is hard work
because everything's a bit vague you know like it's not the same both sides
to get to the point we've scrapped the uh the original scoop i made it just wasn't
quite accurate enough and it was just going to become a bigger problem further down the line so
we want to do this car once and right
and i didn't want that to let it down so yeah we're starting again as just same as last time
cardboard pattern hopefully i'm going to be able to smash it out quite quickly um i don't really
want to spend too much time making something i've already made but i already know that i
can definitely make it better this time around so yeah let's do some cardboard cardboard patterning
a bit of an update i guess um i said i was going to make a new scoop and what i've gone
for this time is i've just squared it off at the edges the problem with this one was
always going to be it was going to be very hard to get it to match to the bumper given
how uneven the bumper is and i was going to trim it around a bit more and we would
have built this up and made it a much nicer shape but it did also leave us the problem of
i wasn't a hundred percent on how we were gonna i kind of had some ideas how we're gonna direct
air to the engine gearbox oil cooler and turbo inlet but doing it this way has given us a few
more options because i've squared it off now so it fits nicely kind of below the number plate
letterbox in the bumper you'll see when we get it in and i'm now just at the kind of stage of
tweaking it and trying to get the curvature right top and bottom so that it fits in there nice
but it does just slot in again it's a lot easier to get this radiator in and out without the
intercooler bits and bobs on because it's much easier to take the radiator in and out every time
than it is to take the bumper on and off because the bumper is a bit of a nightmare in terms of
it almost doesn't fit the same every time you put it on and that makes it a bit hard to then line
the uh scoop up with it but that is on at that and you can see we've got a much better shape now
better man that's not his final resting position it's more like that
um yeah we've got a much better shape i just need to you know raise this middle
at the top to get rid of this gap and close everything up here but we're probably going
to have some of this rubber trim on again um so that we get a nice seal against the bumper
so that'll probably go on there like that so we'll probably still end up trimming quite a bit more
off this it's easy to make it too long and trim it back than it is to try and add more material on
what it does leave us with is these two outside shapes which we can use for feeding the oil cooler
and the gearbox oil cool and potentially turbo air inlet the only downside is we need to feed that
air back out again and it either needs to go out through the wheel arches or out through the bonnet
ideally we don't really want it going through the floor so that's going to be a bit tricky but
i still think it's going to work out better than trying to uh to go for a wider scoop because
we've still got enough area here we've still got one third area of the radiator
um so yeah i'm pretty confident it's still going more than efficient enough but yeah it's not just
a case of tweaking it to get it to fit right yeah then i can start working on the side parts
scoop's finished ish so i've got a really nice fit top and bottom now um i said really nice
it just wants a bit trimming off and it'll let that come up because it's just slightly trapped
under the bumper but i'm not going to take it out just to trim a little bit more off it yeah
so this is how i'm going to do the bits of the side i've cut another cardboard pattern
out that's basically going to sit behind there like nicely behind the bumper um i'll probably
have to like obviously like kind of triangulate this top section so that i've got some way to
actually actually mount it at the correct angle and then i'm going to just going to put a round
hole in here i think i'm not going to go too crazy on this because we really don't need like maximum
airflow to the oil cooler if we do what you can actually end up over cooling the engine oil um
it's quite easy to do when i originally started working out oil cooler kits for the kit we sell
um you know in the in the grill location at like 120 130 you can get the oil comp
oil temperature down really low so doing it this way with a with a round hole in it also
gives us the opportunity to kind of blank some of the hole if we ever need less oil cooling
but yeah that's something for the future so yeah that's just going to sit behind there
i'll put a hole in it and then the oil cooler will mount just behind here and you can buy like it's
an off-the-shelf part like a rectangle to round funnel type thing um so that's what we'll use
and then we'll have one on the other side which we can then direct the air out
through the wheel arch again so that's pretty much the next thing to work on but yeah i'm
much happier with how that that scoops come out so yeah some more cardboard to cut out and then
we can cut some more aluminium do some more welding and hopefully it'll start to get there
so i've got these aluminium bits cut out now so i'm basically just going to
pop them behind the bumper oh the right way around pop them behind the bumper
and use them i've marked like where the cutouts of the bumper are so i know how to line it up
once it's behind um and then i'll just transfer two new marks onto the actual scoop we've got and
then we can take it off and tack them um and then we'll have to put it back on again set the correct
angle cut out some more bits of cardboard which will kind of be our gussets we might only need
one gusset at the top well guess we'll see once it's on but yeah so just case of getting these
marked now really so i'm just gonna go behind and pass it through i don't need a pen on this side
this is where i could do with the car on the lift really but we'll get there
so i'm just going to put like two new marks in they're going to correlate
so now i've got a mark on this side and a mark on there so when i take it all off i'll know
that if i put that up to there it's going to be in the right place
right so we've got these uh side pieces on now haven't got a hole in them yet because i don't
exactly know where it's going to go it would be a bit easier to put the hole in first but i'd rather
only put the hole in once and not regret where i put it and then i've also got these little gussets
on on the sides again everything's just tacked on at the minute it's all looking starting to look a
bit scabby but um by the time it's all welded it should uh it should look quite a bit nicer
not that's what we're going for with this it is a race car it's not not built to look pretty
so yeah i just need to do like a final test fit and then i can weld these up um and then
it's just going to be a case of mounting the the cooler cores then um so yeah we'll just kind of
swing this in hopefully it still fits it's important that we put this hose on when we
do like any kind of radiator fitment stuff because this hose is quite stiff because it's quite short
and i need to make sure that everything we do to the radiator in terms of like modifying the front
of it or the sides of it or anything like that any kind of positional stuff is always with this hose
in place because if we kind of do something and it changes the position of the radiator slightly
then the hose is never going to fit or it might not fit so again it just means more parts the
bolt will unbolt every time we want to test fit something but that's just how it is sometimes
you know it's quite a lot of on and off stuff quite a lot of chewing and throwing and
you know hose on hose off radiator in and out that's where the time consuming part
of these kinds of projects comes in really it's like it's in taking bits on and off
not necessarily the the kind of making of stuff it's just in yeah taking stuff on and
off but yeah that that hose pretty much fixes the radiator position and then at the front
like i say we've pretty much got it all fit pretty perfect really i think uh that one could come out
a touch got a bit of a gap here but again i'm not going to worry about that it's not it's not going
to make that much difference yeah that that that has come out that's come out a lot better really
i'm much happier with that so yeah that's the thing sometimes you kind of have to make something
um look at it for a while and then uh this argument happy with it and then make it again
and again that's a lot of what's time consuming about these kinds of projects but
so next thing to do really is yeah start mounting those cooler cores
so yeah thanks for watching and we'll see you next time