Whey up internet! Welcome back to the Top Gear James Bond Car project! Now in
the last video I had a visit from the Stig because there is a new series of Top Gear
started on BBC 1 and in particular the last episode they did a James Bond special where
they did a buyers guide to buying Bond cars. Now if you missed that there is
a link in the description you can go and watch it on iPlayer but what are we doing?
Well I've set myself a budget of 7k to build my own Bond Car! We've got my wonderful z3.
It's got smoke, it's got oil and it's got fire, but we need something else! we need a
little bit more and I saw this really strange video on instagram where a car could kind of
like maneuver itself, by lifting itself up! hmm! and then also we need to add more firepower!
So basically there was a clip, looked like from like the 1920s or something,
where the spare wheel on the car dropped down pushed the car up and then it could kind of
like swing round on its front wheels now it was basically dressed up as like a parking
aids or thing you could drive the car in and you could swing it round into the space very nicely.
we don't want it for a bit of parking assist if we've got flamethrowers and stuff on the front
it would be nice to be able to angle them in the direction of which our potential bad guys are.
so one thing it was somehow adapt our car so a wheel comes down and can revolve it around.
Now it's a bit tricky with this because granted the one in the clip was a lot bigger and the
spare wheel was attached to the back so it literally just come down on the rail.
Whereas I don't have that because my spare wheel is up here! Right, let's um take that off make
some space have a look in the boot and kind of work out how are we going to do this Colin!
I think I need to make myself a little prototype on the bench.
Okay lovely people I've been working for a long time on this kind of prototype setup,
I will explain basically the wheel sits on air tucks up underneath the car, hydraulic ram
pushes it down, it gets to there, they you are that's the wheel filling the gap between
the bumper and the ground. Another hydraulic ram pushes it all the way down lifts the car up very
nice. Hydraulic motor turns the car back and forward. It ain't going to work basically this
is all too weak. This hydraulic run really to hold it stable it would have to come across at an angle
and then we've got two hydraulic rams. I didn't really want to be using three, it's
all very complicated we've got sliding things, there's a lot of potential for things to break,
fold, collapse, you know the car's heavy, it's not like we're lifting up a crate of potatoes.
So we're gonna go simple and basically I've worked out that we can tuck up an arm sideways and the
bumper that can come down hit the floor and then lift it up. Now i don't think it'll look quite as
nice but it will work and it will be a lot simpler and it will only require one ram pushing in the
right direction. Right let's get on with it... Furze build montage, you know what it's all about!
Okay now what you've just seen is a very simplified version of my life
over the past three days. So what have we made? Well this is the wheel, which is gonna drop down
and it's a wonderful piece of stainless steel engineering Colin Furze! But i've no doubt this
can be one of those projects that once it's finished and it's all in and I can see it,
I will look at it and go you could have put that there, that could have gone there,
that could be bigger and that could be done like that, but that's just the way these things unfold
sometimes. So this thing here what have I done? Right so it mounts on this. Now this is my own
version of the bumper mount which was already on the car basically took it off made me own one
put some little tails on it. Now there will be a hydraulic ram come down and connect onto it here
it's going to be turned by this hydraulic motor and ideally i'm going to try and find a wheel
that's got a tyre on which looks a bit better because this one it looks like a pizza cutter.
Right let's get it on, work out where all the hydraulics are going to go, and see if we're
gonna make that strong or else we're gonna end up bending the car and not lifting it up.
hmm!
Right chopped hole in the car, got the ram mounted,
the boot shuts, which is good now we just need to add a bit of strength along here so
when it lifts it up, it lifts the car up and doesn't just push itself into the car. yes.
Okay got it mounted, is it going to lift the car up without twisting and bending it?
It's all plumbed into the hydraulic pump under the bench. Let's give it a shot.
Still looks like a pizza cutter, but it does work, it's pretty cool actually!
Right you need to work off your own power now.
The pressure is not enough!
right still operating on the pendant at the moment because i've not wired it all up.
Basically there is a little bit of a procedure, Now you have to put your foot on the brake because
if you don't when it lifts up it wants to roll forward, and pull the thing out the
back of the car. For which I have put a chain to like tether it to stop it from doing that.
so
Right now I can lift my foot off the brake, lurches forward and that is scary. I don't
totally trust the strength for this thing if i'm honest with you, and then left and right.
ah Mr Bond you want assisting in your parking? Yes I
do ! Anyway it does work right back down we go.
Look at this look, Stig keeps going in there staring at my welding helmet
as if it's some sort of weird child of his! He's a funny thing i'll tell you.
Okay as initial test go, that is pretty cool!
Now I know what you're saying, Colin there is a hole appeared in your bumper! Well remember at the
beginning of video I did say we was going to put some firepower in this thing and I ain't joking!
Now in past projects like the Tuktuk I've always used airsoft but I've got the proper licenses now,
so I can actually use the real thing. So what I'm going to do i'm going to get two 12 bores,
mount them on linear rails, with linear actuators, so the flick of a switch
they come protrude out the rear bumper. Oh how very spy car right I'm going to
get on and do that, going to wire it all up basically just finish the whole thing off!
Yeah it's finished now rather unusually when I have finished a project it normally looks
completely different to when i started but in this case it doesn't look different at all and that's a
good thing. So got all the guns mounted. They come nicely out the rear bumper little flaps,
and then tuck back in again, but of course the next video we've got to test it all!
Are these guns going to work? Is the flamethrower going to set fire to the front of the car? Is the
oil slick going to work? Is the hydraulic system can be any good? because I can't test 1/2 of it
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