in this video we look at welding up the fuel filler and try to get the doors to hinge and work on the chassis swapped porsche boxster metro 6R4 project.
I'm gonna give you credit for all the ingenious fabricating and the welding work that you have been doing on the Metro ...well done! Keep at it! ...Looking forward to the next steps!
I like the way you explain the problem and how you're going to tackle it then show the work and the success/failure. Great content and kudos for the blooper. Keep it up.
@@pedenconceptz The really impressive bit for me was when you showed us mock-ups of what you were going to do before you did it for real. You went to significant effort to help us understand the plan to and bring us along with you. I've never seen anybody do that before!
As a fan of project Binky and Retropower, I am really enjoying this, your level of detail is awesome, if it turns out as cool as your mk2 then I'm committed to the channel. One man can make a difference......in his garage
I will have to say i love how this build is coming out, thought it was interesting, it freaking rocks. A Porsche that identifies as a metro, and beats the snot out everything. And is actually look pretty good. Your a talented man. Cant wait to see the end
I guess your not a trained mechanic or engineer John but your doing a Stirling job Brother , a man in his shed tinkering about doing what he loves can't beat it 😁😁🤘🤘🇹🇭🇹🇭
Why did you persume he wasn't a mercanic or engineer? With this type of work it's figure out the fabrication as you go along unless you have access to cad equipment.
Well impressed with how good that filler tank hole looked after being blanked off. Looks like virtually no filler will be needed ! Cant wait for next update. 👍
Only getting caught up now…. Finding this build super informative and really enjoying the whole thought process/ problem solving explanations. Super work John 👍✊😎🔥
Just found your channel mate watched an older video and wanted to see how far in the build you got. This is an amzing project and you have a new subscriber, absolutely love it can’t wait for it to be finished. Great work 👏
Great build. Those doors are a tricky part of the build. Nice neat work . I come from the restoration game paint sprayer , panel work so appreciate your problem solving. I now watch your channel along side retropower, take that as a compliment 😉
Similar to you, i also have a demented imagination. I was thinking your whiteboard, was somehow " etcha sketch 2024" Imagine my disappointment, when u uncapped the marker pen..😂 💪
I think their project might have been a bit more difficult than mine, but hopefully il get cracking on with it. I’d like to see some paint on it this year
I'm not sure if you've altered your video uploading, but the last 2 videos flick from your video to blank screen, but your sound is fine. All other videos I watch are fine it's just yours. I hope this can be rectified as I'm enjoying your videos. Thanks mark
I can't quite tell how the water draining from the modified door will work. The lip was there to allow water to drain. Many options to get it to work and you've probably already thought about that.
I would get a professional in to do you roll cage. As they have to be made from CDS steel and it's not something you can weld at home really... You want the peace of mind of knowing its not going to fold into patio furniture if you ever need it
Yes I’m aware of this, it will have to be hydraulic tube to get it in 35mm. It doesn’t weld any differently to other metal, but if intended it to be ‘FIA’ spec my welds would need given the tick of approval… but it’s not a race car.
Is the video flickering for anyone else? I love your vids, but this one is flickering on & off at about 5Hz and I can't watch it. :( I even tried rebooting my telly in case it was a glitch, but other videos are playing fine.
The clip at the beginning, the first minute has some. But I watched it again there and I would say the rest is fine. I would actually say some of the earlier videos flicker, hence I changed the lighting, and it definitely flickers less now. You can’t seem to really get around it, changing settings just makes it flicker faster or slower…. But I would have said from the first minute on, this video has less flickering than any of the others
@@pedenconceptz Thanks for the reply. I'm here for the content rather than the video quality, and a bit of fluorescent light "buzz" is fine, but this literally the whole screen going black a few times a second throughout the whole video (I skipped to the part after the whiteboard chat and it was still doing it). It must just be for me though, as nobody else seems to have mentioned it. Hopefully it's just this one and not some weird incompatibility between your recording format and my RU-vid app, as I love what you're doing and always look forward to the next instalment!
One other person talked about a completely black screen. But it’s filmed with the same camera, edited on the same computer etc. the last 2 videos have had LED lighting, but I’ve watched on my tv, my phone, my parents tv, my friends have watched it and it’s all been fine. I would imagine RU-vid have it in whatever format they need it to be. Try watching it on your phone and see if it’s the same. It could be as setting on your tv maybe?
The repair panel you cut out is perfect. Definitely the way to go... I would say tig is the way to go with stuff like this... or even leading... Both a lot cooler than mig, but definitely a great job
Contrary to popular belief the tig would put more more heat into it as you have to heat both bits of steel to melting point and add filler rod. And typically you would tig it in one piece. It would distort more as a result, but the weld is more malleable and so it’s easier to get it straight again… or that’s my understanding
@@pedenconceptz If you're tacking it you don't need to add any rod just the electrode if the join is tight enough both sides of the metals will become one. But yes, its not as brittle as mig and can be hammered and dollied perfectly. Like with any welding it's all about getting the settings right, it's so easy to blow through thin steel even with tig... welds came out great... You could use lead to fill those pin holes but filler is the easier option but that area will be covered by the kit anyway. Now you need to get all the bare steel into epoxy primer as soon as possible. Not etch or regular as they are pourous.
Awesome work mate, it's coming together nicely. Looks a bit of a nightmare to get everything to fit properly but one step at a time and you will get there.😀
Personally would have pro body shop bonded a larger round repair panel in the fuel filler hole from the rear, then bonded a correct thickness/diameter round plate onto the front of that. No panel warpage from welding heat & no filler if done correctly just high build 2k primer...job done permanently👍.
It was not a criticism...definitely best to do what you are comfortable with. Can l say that the whole project is a massive undertaking & you are doing a fantastic job, well done.
John you mentioned about making it 4 wheel drive, a company are making one with a space frame copying a genuine one adding a V6 Mondeo engine with an Audi gearbox for the 4 wheel drive, they aren't sweating it over the roll cage just fitting it close to the A pillar. Good luck and keep a it👍
Really nice work! It's easy to see things in hindsight, but it's also easy to get "paralysis by analysis" You are doing a great job of getting stuck in and getting it done👍 love the white board😄
Incredible. I had a huge grin at the end when the door opened and closed. I know what you mean about the roll cage inside the a-pilar, I was looking at a 6R4 a bit back at NY500 cafe near Pickering.
Thanks, I sort of wish I had, mainly so that I had a record of it. But I had less skills, more arrogance and less patients then and so it might not have been that successful.
I absolutely binged this series when i found this episode on my recommended feed. Im absolutely loving it so far, cant wait for more episodes to come 💯
Hey up really nice work going on here mate enjoying it immensely you have the videoing well sorted also, so looking forward to the next installment thanks
[Just a random comment to please the YT algorithm] When Ford's engineers were designing the RS200, the marketing department told them that their rally car had to LOOK like a Ford, and to try and force their hand they informed them that they needed to use as many parts that were recognisably from a Sierra as possible. In the end, their design only used a Sierra windscreen, Sierra rear lights, and Sierra doors. The reason I mention this is because to make the quite slabby Sierra doors fit in with the shape they wanted for the RS200, they decided the only thing they could do was chop a few inches off the bottom of them. I just find it vaguely amusing that while building your homage to one iconic 80's rally car, you've doing something that the designers on an entirely different iconic 80's rally car did.
@@pedenconceptz Back before ill health f*cked me over I had a hankering to build one of the RS200 kit car replicas. I can't remember the name of the manufacture who's kit I was eyeing up, but it was made to take a 2L Cossy twin cam, and the same 2wd Renault transaxle Lotus used in the Esprit. I just think the RS200 was the prettiest of all the group B cars. The Deltas looked purposeful, the 6R4's looked crazy, and the quattro's looked........ Erm...... Like a road going quarto in a body kit (Dispite the shell being a mad cut and shut that (IIRC) used the front half of a Audi 80, and the back end of the coupe, with about a foot taken out of the bodywork just behind the B posts. All this extra work was done because the rally drivers complained that the heavy slope of the original coupes windscreen occasionally creating distracting reflections of the dashboard !!!!!! :D), but I always felt that the RS200 was genuinely pretty.
