Project Binky

[mik]

Presses are awesome.

The hours I have spent hammering out bearings / bushes and - more so - squeezing new ones in with a big vice, sockets, old spanner’s to level up the casting you are squeezing them into, and a BFH to smack the vice handle with....

[mr_jon]

I see they've changed to 4-stud. I can't remember a wheel episode but there probably was one I've forgotten?

[Jobbo]

I’ve found a post on their own forum from 2015 asking about it. They said they didn’t film it because of the safety implications of someone doing it wrongly.

I remember them showing the 13” 4-stud wheels but don’t remember them mentioning anything about changing the stud pattern.

[V8Granite]

I enjoyed that.

I’m preferring the truck videos though.

Hopefully these videos have increased their workload as they are very very good at what they do.

Dave!

[mr_jon]

I’ve found a post on their own forum from 2015 asking about it. They said they didn’t film it because of the safety implications of someone doing it wrongly.

I remember them showing the 13” 4-stud wheels but don’t remember them mentioning anything about changing the stud pattern.

Ta, I wondered if that was the 'will they notice' instead of the obvious upside-down suspension arm.

[Beany]

Engine build vid is up




Fans of MCM will enjoy the cameos.

[Rich B]

So Ummm, I watched it yesterday and I’m still a little confused - NA or FI?

[Beany]

It's obviously turbo, unless you think the entire episode on fabbing up a manifold to make the turbo fit, and test fitting the interwarmer was just there for a bit of lark.

[mr_jon]

I thought it was pretty clear from the GT3582 comment, block girdle, low comp pistons etc. They missed a cpl of things on the build, but maybe just in edit. We shall see!

[Rich B]

Yeah, it just seemed strange to specifically say they were not going to have a turbo, then detail how they were going to build a 200bhp NA engine, etc. didn’t really work for me as a gag.

Oh well, still another good vid and nice to see such a short space between them now!!!

[Simon]

But they've capped off the oil feed to the turbo (23:45 in) so it's a pretty good gag if it's true.

[DeskJockey]

But they've capped off the oil feed to the turbo (23:45 in) so it's a pretty good gag if it's true.

I thought that too, but perhaps just a temp while they messed about with the oil?

[Jobbo]

But they've capped off the oil feed to the turbo (23:45 in) so it's a pretty good gag if it's true.

That’s with an easily removable bung though. They would have wanted to do that to keep the oil in as they were building it. I wondered whether there were other turbo-related holes in the block which they needed to close up, like coolant feed.

[V8Granite]

You certainly don’t block off an oil gallery with a plug like that so it must be temporary.

Dave!

[DeskJockey]

You certainly don’t block off an oil gallery with a plug like that so it must be temporary.

Dave!

Hang on, hang on. What do you know about engines, eh?

[RobYob]

Yeah, it just seemed strange to specifically say they were not going to have a turbo, then detail how they were going to build a 200bhp NA engine, etc. didn’t really work for me as a gag.

Oh well, still another good vid and nice to see such a short space between them now!!!

Did nobody watch this to the end?!??

Their SafeT Garret was great

I must watch MCM.

[Rich B]

Yeah, it just seemed strange to specifically say they were not going to have a turbo, then detail how they were going to build a 200bhp NA engine, etc. didn’t really work for me as a gag.

Oh well, still another good vid and nice to see such a short space between them now!!!

Did nobody watch this to the end?!??

Their SafeT Garret was great

I must watch MCM.

beyond my name??!

[Simon]

It also shows that the '200bhp target' from a few episodes ago was BS too. With all that head work, plus a good turbo, you're talking between 250 and 300bhp at least.

[RobYob]

It also shows that the '200bhp target' from a few episodes ago was BS too. With all that head work, plus a good turbo, you're talking between 250 and 300bhp at least.

That size of modern turbo would support 500+ at a guess. The shiney shiney block brace, pistons and serious head work.

Maybe we should update the Binky weight sweep with Binky power sweep too.

[Beany]

It also shows that the '200bhp target' from a few episodes ago was BS too. With all that head work, plus a good turbo, you're talking between 250 and 300bhp at least.

That size of modern turbo would support 500+ at a guess.

They also explicitly want it drivable though, as it'll be a road car, so something smaller for a quicker spool, and around 300bhp would be my guess.