Our new engine building tool revolutionises piston and rod measuring! 

What a brilliant but simple piece of kit! For a measuring geek it's heaven lol

A GOOD MIX IS GOOD . THAT WAY LOTS MORE PEOPLE GET TO SEE SOMETHING THAY MAY LIKE . I MYSELF LOVE IT ALL . AND YOUR RIGHT IN KEEPING IT ALL IN HOUSE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN .

The real in depth engine stuff is great, but a mix is also good! It's nice to be able to sit down to a 20-30 min really technical video explained by someone who knows their stuff

Lovely bit of kit, must save time as well as repeatable measurements. Looks very well engineered and very cool 👍👍

Definitely more of the engine room videos than anything else

Just think of the time cost savings for building engines now . Customer not only gets a more precision build but also a quicker turn around. All spanners wielders love new tools , I'm the same here........ Great info as usual.

Really enjoy the engine build room videos, keep them coming please!

Like all the videos Ricky but enjoy the technical and engine build ones the most. I have no engineering experience but I can follow the vast majority of the technical detail, no problem. The "chat to the cameraman" format works well. Keep it up!

Videos like this are mint. Love seeing how others find solutions to accurate measurement and machining/fabrication. It’s as you say; all in the repeatability 😎

I love the tech vids, it's what originally brought me here, not massively fussed on the cars themselves (although v10 fan). Very cool tool set there, clearly worth it!

Just started watching this channel. Think the balance and level of technical approach is spot on ! Don’t for one minute think that I’ll ever be in the position to be able to knock on your door but know where I’ll be going if I suddenly find myself a whole wealthier than I currently am !

Hello from New Zealand, really enjoying the vids. Keep making content on what you enjoy, It shines through as you can explain it well.

Excellent mate! Thanks for making these!

Simple yes, brilliant even more so.

Nice bit of kit! Mitigating human factor risks is never a bad thing.

You need to turn that room into a standards room, and thermally soak parts before measuring.

Really like these videos! such an interesting side of it all to document. Shame i don't have the car or money to take it to Ricky LOL

I would say this is the kind of content to mainly base your channel on as no one else really does this in depth engineering based stuff (without giving your secrets away 👍) I don't build engines, but I would have that measuring system just to sit and look at !! Nice to get the occasional look round a good car though.

“Completely repeatable. 3 decimal places. No cock-ups.” That’s got to be a t-shirt/sticker!

Love it! Yourselves and Alex at Sheepy are my fav videos.

Nice setup for the piston measuring and a lot closer to where you guys need to be for the work you do but I do hope that you are in a temperature and humidity controlled environment because small fluctuations in temperature and humidity will effect your measurement. Handling the pistons and setting gauges with your fingers will also increase sizes and bear in mind that your setting gauges will be calibrated at or very close to 20°C. As a former calibration engineer I can tell you that it can make a huge difference when you are searching for microns and if your tolerances are sub 10 microns then you need even more accurate measuring equipment than you have. As a comparator to see variations in size over a set it will work great but not for pur accurate measurement, depending on tolerances of course. A metroscope may be a better option providing measurement down to .0002mm.

Love the engine stuff you do. That tool is so cool, love the accuracy you guys go down to. Im still a fan of your car stuff and that's probably what RU-vid wants but good contents good content. Cheers man.

Love your videos and your attention to detail, would be great to see some bike engine related videos, a supersport motor or maybe a refresh on your bmw engine etc

Don’t hold it too long…it will grow! All the pistons need to be the same temp when you measure them.

Love what you guys do !!

Love these mate, keep them coming!

Greatstuff as always.👍

Very cool videos I love the detail, I wish we had engine builders here with your amount of knowledge and dedication. I would enjoy if you could do some BMW engines. Awesome Chanel

From a machinists point of view the thing should measured and checked with the piston the other way up, the largest datum for support

Iam quite suprised there are oilite bushes on the vertical posts on that measuring rig, linears would surely have been better

Epic!

Following because of your comments about electric car ...batteries more so.

What’s the reason for logging all these diameters etc yourselves rather than what the manufacturer has specified?

Hi Ricky, great video! Are you temperature controlling the engine room ?

Next stop: Buying a CMM?

10,000 sub macca giveaway? 🤔😁

Start a workshop in the SW thats all I will say

I dont get why you have to measure a highly engineered forged race piston, shouldn't CP be doing this before delivery?

The Cobolt actually comes out of Congo under indentured and child labour. While the Lithium is mostly out of Chile under god knows what conditions. While to gas comes from Russia. The primary source of electricity (gas) in the UK. Battery powered car are by far and away the most perfect example of poor energy and environment management.

I do like the vids but with you buying all this new kit the cost will go to the customer and please dont say it won't, working at the 3 decimal spaces point for what you are doing isnt really a benefit for road going cars and in my eyes abit of a waste of money. On the secretive side of things you are not Underground racing push out 3k Hp lambo's etc that run a pass at a time and shut off so tolerances need to be for road spec and everything you offer can be bought from states etc and delivered within the week so nothing needs to be a secret apart from mapping which is engine dependant. Im not being negative and like i say i like the detailed Vlogs but im a realistic sort of person.

You should be wearing gloves when using that tool especially when you touch the presets