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....
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:25 pm
by 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?
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 3:44 pm
by 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.
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 3:49 pm
by 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!
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 5:25 pm
by mr_jon
Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 3:44 pm
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.
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:20 pm
by Beany
Engine build vid is up
Fans of MCM will enjoy the cameos.
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:25 pm
by Rich B
So Ummm, I watched it yesterday and I’m still a little confused - NA or FI?
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:42 pm
by 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.
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 9:50 pm
by 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!
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:01 pm
by 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!!!
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 7:47 am
by 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.
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:23 am
by DeskJockey
Simon wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 7:47 am
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?
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:40 am
by Jobbo
Simon wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 7:47 am
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.
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:44 am
by V8Granite
You certainly don’t block off an oil gallery with a plug like that so it must be temporary.
Dave!
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:48 am
by DeskJockey
V8Granite wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:44 am
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?
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:06 pm
by RobYob
Rich B wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:01 pm
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!!!
Rich B wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:01 pm
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??!
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:20 pm
by 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.
Re: Project Binky
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:28 pm
by RobYob
Simon wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:20 pm
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.
Simon wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:20 pm
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.
