Join us for Part 5 of the Prototype Mini 2 Cylinder build. Will the engine run? 0:00 Intro 0:14 Making the Dashboard 1:53 The Plan 3:14 Where the Rad came from 4:20 Fitting the Carb/Progress 7:14 First Start? 17:24 End
Regarding Sick Burn, thank you for the education. Eevblog doesn't come out with that one regularly (if at all). I hope that Ivan never comes a gutsa whilst hooning around the country lanes.
This channel is absolutely compelling viewing for me now; Ivan creases me up and whilst all the skill and years of experience tend to get played down heavily I have absolutely no doubt there is brilliance abound. I'd happily shell out good money to go and muck about with the boys on an 'experience' day
Bloody marvellous Ivan and team, keep these wonderful videos coming, £800 for the washer bottle ! you know it doesn't seem 2 minutes since the scrappers were saturated with BMC and BL cars, back in the days when you had to PAY to scrap 'em !!
Wow, your generation is the best generation for how you tackle engineering. I really love what you have done, and just how easy you make it look. If i only had 10% of your skills i would be a happy man. Thank you Ivan for sharing your creation, and for hopefully inspiring a new generation. You sir are a real hero.
Brilliant stuff as always Ivan, put the naysayers to bed! If you don't know how to do it, make a start, make a few f ups, learn on the way. And the man who never made a mistake never made anything!
Great to see a old school mechanical engineer at play who lives and breathes it .Reminds me of a old boy my father had living on the farm as his pet mechanical engineer for free .we converted a old grain silo in to a house and garage for him and had 1 acre of land and was virtually self sufficient .He allways got us going when we invariably bent and broke things on the harvest.He carried all his tools in a side car on his AJS motorbike .Poor old boy had shell shock from the war and would occasionally have a funny turn.Today we would call it PTSD.
Ivan is 'the man'! A true car crazy bloke but equally important he's such an optimist and joy to watch and listen to. But he really knows his stuff when wirkung on the mechanics of any car. Great show and well worth watching.
Many forget the infrastructure millions of small shops provide with petroleum vehicle. EV has long way to go. Knowledge like this doesn't come easy; years of hard work.
This project has been the most enjoyable thing I've watched in ages. It has inspired me to get to the bottom of the problems with my car. Thanks chaps, keep it coming.
Well done boys, the feeling of joy after a successful start on an engine that has been hand made, is indescribable, it's almost as if it lives and breaths like we do. Great work, and a great little series too. Thanks and best wishes.
Fantastic result. Bit concerned at the stuck oil pressure ? In making the crankshaft were the oil drillings maintained to all the journals and crankpins ? If you put on a heavy gauge steel stackpipe and a big silencer plus an air cleaner it would make it all so much quieter and the engine would sound so much smoother and refined - maybe a polished copper stackpipe , plus a flexible to go out of the window . But a totally brilliant piece of work it all also looks magnificent now . This is a really significant piece in the BMC story of the 1950s as such it really ought to go on display in Gaydon with the history of the British motor industry . Much more please .
5:19 What a nice sight. So rewarding emptying a box full of odd treasures and finding one strange piece that fits (or can be modified to fit) whatever you are trying to build or repair.
Back in 1971 a friend of mine, a street rod builder removed the center four cylinders from a small block 327 Chevy V8 making it a 163 cubic inch V4. I was installed in a narrowed and shortened Model T Bucket. Even the wheels were downsized. It was shown at the 1971 Oakland Roadster Show winning a 1st. Prize 🏆.
That engine is a credit to the superb engineering skills that went into it. You lot took a lump of curious scrap iron and made it run again, excellent.
Quite wonderful! Well done to you all for initially having the curiosity for wanting to know, and then the enthusiasm and joy of finding out. Along the way you have also discovered an engine design that will tick over at incredibly low revs. Would make a great engine for a small motor boat I think...Thank you for sharing this great pleasure with us! 👍😊🇬🇧
I would have loved to see these guys (especially Ivan) do 'Scrapheap Challenge'. I don't think there is anything they couldn't do with a pile of scrap parts and some tools. Hitting the carb with a hammer was absolute gold.
ivan brill no other word . i have a 1360 midget lump in my 1959 austin a40 farina with a cam ect gos like the clappers but this is great . keep up the great work bud .
Incredible job lads. What an achievement. Real engineering ! You managed to build an engine, virtually from scratch, in a few weeks. One month on and I'm still trying to put a Morris Minor gearbox back together ! Inspiring stuff. Really enjoy your programmes.
Hats in the air and three hearty cheers for the Demented Racoon Crew - huzzah , huzzah , huzzah. Well done , great stuff , Guys . Old two pot sprang into life , with a drop of petrol a cough & a splutter and went from strength to strength to purr like a contented big cat.........all be it just a kitten . Keep it up - Luv the show .
Another really enjoyable video, I'm a little younger than you, not much, but I wish I had your enthusiasm still. I've been in engineering most of my working life, not cars though. In my youth I worked with an old chap (very likely younger than I am now) who served his apprenticeship with Alfa Romeo. He was the most practical and knowledgeable bloke I've ever worked with. He was never put off taking on a job, even if the machines we had were worn out or seemingly not the right one. My approach to cars was much the same, there's always a way.
Nice to see you have the 'The Rowley Special'; built on shortened 14-40 chassis and front and rear axles; OD engine rebuilt to 30-98 specification. Built years ago by John Rowley & 'considerably improved' in recent years
I imagine that the engine came from the scrapyard in Jackdaw lane, off the Iffley road, Oxford, They often had lots of BL / Morris bits from the Cowley works. Well done for what you have done so far. Cheers
