Fabricating Seat Belt Mounts | Project Mosquito Honda Type R Mini Supercar (Ep79) 

Massive thanks to my Dad (Andrew) this week I was injured and he was an absolute machine

Loving the build and the fact your dad is helping build it with you makes the car even more special definitely would never sell it if I was you. Its gonna be a blast to drive when its done.

Thank you for being so responsive to the community you're fostering here. Also, I just wanted to say at least once that I'm enjoying these videos in a new light. I had to deal with the passing of my father in June, last month. He was only 71 and now unexpectedly not here. While my father was never the gearhead my brother and I became, he supported us 110% and encouraged us to pursue our desires/goals with fervor. Watching you two used to make me happy, but now it makes me extremely happy in a way that's hard to describe. There really isn't much more valuable than our human connection. Some are blessed to be able to find these connections through their blood relationships, and we would do well to cherish those as well as you two seem to. So keep plugging away, and more importantly don't lose sight of the real value, the journey and not the destination.

I am truly blessed to see father and son working together, I never had the privilege to work in unity with my dad so love to you guys.

You’re videos keep me motivated.

I just really adore your constant positivity and constant absolute loving obsession both of you have with this project. I love the down to earth, bottom up job of the whole thing. Its infectious!

Always enjoy your craziness. Thanks for sharing all the detail and work you put into this project.

Shyboy to star of the show! 😋👍

I look forward to watching your videos. They are great.

I'm currently psyching myself up to installing seats and interior reels into my spitfire. Excellent video and perfect timing!

Wow things are coming along. Man your dad's a guru. A master of many trades. Appreciate you guys sharing your time building this dream car. Super impressed. Looking foward to next video. 👍 🏆

Great work as always

Another cracking video, much prefer the shorter more frequent videos.

Hearing you talk about paint has me proper excited even if I know this build still has a long way to come.. And I'm here for it all!! 🤓👌🏻

Thank you both for taking the time to record and edit these videos, I look forward to them every much...

Watching while feeding my son

As always, thanks Gents for another instalment on this journey of yours 🙂😎

After the Second World War Renault were using British made machines for making engine parts. The oil filter had an imperial thread. By the mid eighties these machines were being replaced and Renault started using metric threads. “Metric” engines had a sticker on the cam cover. I found this out when an old stock oil filter would not fit on the engine in a Renault Master van.

When homologating belt anchorages, the destructive test made is pulling the shoulder and lap strap, and both must support 13,5 kN. It does not apply for an unique vehicle, but it is just for information. You can find in the UN R14 regs.

Another beautiful episode.

ACE as usual. Really enjoying the more frequent vids. Hope you are feeling better soon Oliver. Well done Andrew 😀

Thanks!

Pro tip: If you folk are tired of the fire detector going off get one that's meant for a kitchen. It responds more to heat than smoke and doesn't go off as much. As for cooling your lathe inserts you can use compressed air. It's not necessarily the best thing to use for that but it's better than nothing. As a safety tip please do consider covering your skin. A mate of mine lost his arm to cancer from exposure to the dangerous levels of ultraviolet light coming from an arc welder.

Yet another great episode gents, glad I can see the progress weekly now just amazing and can’t wait to.. also noticed that Dad (Andrew) likes to sport a different watch each week too .. bit of a watch fetish myself .. keep up the great work can’t wait to see it in paint

I would drive it in an exoskeleton configuration as that looks so cool and clearly demonstrates what a work of art it really is. It would be a shame to cover it up !!

Hi guys, another good video, thank you. May I suggest that you start each video with a short description of what you are hoping to achieve that week? If you could also explain what you are working on and why/how before each montage, I would be a very happy man. Cheers. Jon.

Thank you! Positivity is key

fantastic stuff lads

I do like the way you engineer everything to the lightest option . Id just get the sheet of 3mm plate out of the material pile and avoid tiresome calculations 😂

Brilliant work as always, really starting to picture this thing as a driving car now. Question - when you weld in those threaded inserts for the seatbelts, you're obviously putting a lot of heat into the piece, how do you guarantee you're not warping the threads somehow, wouldn't it be safer to tap them after they've been welded in place?

I wrote a comment some time back which didnt get an answer. So I shall write it again. I was basically wondering why the heater pipe had to run all the way from the engine. Can it just be run straight off the radiator pipe which is already there. It would be a huge weight saving , as well as less heat running through the console.

Metric actually is French originally

To anyone thinking of fitting race style seat belts to a road car........ DON'T. I modified a sportscar to hill climb and sprint spec all the bells and whistles including full race seats and four point race harnesses. They looked the bees knees! Then I sat in my full race seat fastened the race harness took and the car out for a drive. I got as far as the junction at the top of my street and realised my mistake. With the full race seat you cannot see sideways at the junctions and the fixed harnesse will not allow you to lean forwards. A very expensive lesson for me. If you want to use the car in competition a drive it on the road fit both inertia reel and harness belts a pain,yes but safer than not seeing another road user.