so i thought we'd do a little workshop update not really a workshop update but just to just
chat a bit about some of the things we've been doing over the last couple of weeks
um just to you know try and touch on what is going on in the workshop a little bit more other than
what we kind of share on instagram it can be quite [ __ ] it can be quite hard to kind of
uh document everything on instagram as well as you can kind of video it and talk about it um after
the fact so um yeah i've been working on a r35 gtr system we don't sell many of these obviously um
it's like a four inch full v-banded system so these are a bit of a beast to make i think this
is probably the third one we've sold this year so you know they are really good fun to make
we you know especially setting up doing kind of as many of the wells as we can in the positioner
um getting really nice kind of weld porn perfect welds is uh yeah it's definitely rewarding
obviously there's quite a lot of um trimming and uh you know just really fine intricate fit up
when you're using v-bands you've got no adjustment in the exhaust really so it has to fit absolutely
perfectly and it's also why the jigs are uh you know pretty stout it's all that 10 mil
plate and uh big heavy wall box section to try and make everything as rigid as possible
we just finished um a batch of astra hvxr g series manifold kits so we had a couple of
problems with getting hold of g25 turbos which i'm pretty sure most people are aware about now
um as far as i'm aware you you know you still can't get them really
um but yeah we just finished up a batch of those and they've gone out to the
customers now they ended up basically all the customers ended up swapping for g3660s
which is still a really good turbo um you know i think for most road cars g25 550 is
probably better but it's one of those things how long do you want to wait for one to show up
and when you can't kind of give an accurate lead time because we can't get an accurate
lead time you know it just leads to kind of frustrated customers i guess
but yeah we did actually do um you know a few videos on those so
there's plenty of uh watch time in astro manifold kits now on youtube hopefully
but yeah i'm still working on the rear section for this gtr now workshop's still a bit of a
mess um i haven't been doing that much fabricating over the last few weeks so
um i tend to just because i i'm spending not very much time at my kind of work area
it does tend to become a bit of a mess and a little bit of a dumping ground which obviously
i don't really like but it is what it is i've been fabricating all week and on this gtr
exhaust so yeah just finishing up the rear section now and then tips to make
and that's all done we've already got y pipes in stock so no need to make those
matt's been off this week on a lockdown holiday probably playing games and eating jam sandwiches
um he was working on loads of intake pipes last week so he's got a few of those to finish off
and then there's going to be a load of astro j secondary sections to finish off
and waiting for a load more flexes into stock before we could finish those so we'll have all
astro j products back in stock which is nice and then what he's going to be working on is
mcgann rs250 down pipes we actually jigged this up over a year ago now um but for one reason or
another we kind of never got around to um making a batch really and never actually getting them
stocked but we've got all of the bends made up now we've got all the flanges in stock and prepped
and they're you know they're quite fast to put together once you've done all the prep work so
we should hope to have a load of those in stock for the end of next week which is pretty cool
there's loads of other bits we've been making down here these are kind of um
we need to get like a better trolley to put all this kind of stuff on but
these are all kind of waiting to be surfaced they've had they've all been welded
but they're now just waiting to be uh surfaced off so you know they get a good gasket seal
and then there's a load of intake pipes are ready for powder coat in down pipes more down
perhaps waiting for flexes we haven't done any work on sam's car in the last week or so
being busy doing st-180 exhaust development so there should be a video on that in the next
week or so i think depending on when this video goes out
so that's uh that's a fairly exciting one because you know we had quite a lot of demand for that
exhaust system the first time around but we needed to tweak it again all the details are in that
video so watch that video if you're interested in st 180s um but yeah definitely looking forward
to getting sam's car finished because it's pretty close now um but i think we're going
to be hanging on to it for a little bit longer because he's not got room for it uh he's bought
another mini probably as bad as me with minis um and we want to do a couple more turbo kits on it
just development not necessarily for sam but we want to jig up two more turbo kits warren's car
still haven't touched that sorry warren not sorry um yeah we'll come to that it will it will it
will hit the track next year definitely i want it gone i want the workshop space for something else
um but yeah just st 180 stuff um that's pretty much done now just need to jig it um we're going
to be doing the videos for that next week i call the kind of uh exhaust noise videos
but it's actually a pretty quiet workshop at the minute because aj's also off
because he's been isolating so it's just been me in the workshop on my own talon upstairs
um yeah we've uh we've had the place to ourselves pretty much
but yeah yeah if you think this video is enjoyable and you'd like us to do a few
more of these kind of uh walk rounds show a few more products that we've been making
let us know or any other things that you think we should be doing let us know thanks for watching