Project AllegRo - Jonnys K20 VTEC Sleeper Build - Episode 4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
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A brand new project to the FabCo channel, before we've even finished the first! We're taken on the Allegro after badgering Jonny for months about the Agro and we're finally making some progress.
In this episode i work on getting the strut towers and inner wings fabricated. Its begging to look like a car now :D
Many thanks to The Late Brake Show team for the opportunity to collaborate on this fun project!
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Used knows how Johnny is containing HIS anticipation and excitement!
Love the "Tack it, try it, move on. Can always change it later." energy. Progress, progress, progress. Can't wait for the next one!!!
That’s my ethos. Get on with it rather than procrastinate and try and make it perfect at the first attempt. Perfect doesn’t exist!
Exactly, it's that classic "any decision is better than no decision" thing. Said it before, I'll say it again - TOP telly!
Perfect is the enemy of done - fantastic to see progress, great work!
Can’t get enough of your perfect content, very descriptive and really informative to see your thoughts on camera throughout the fabrication process. 👌👌
Thanks Carl!😃
Like the Northern Turbo Yoda!!
Coming along nicely, love the problem solving, really interesting video
Thanks Dean🤩
Just started watching this build randomly yesterday. I think it was recommended because I'm watching the alfrararri build.
Four episodes in and I think you might be one of my favourite channels anyway. You're like a one man project Binky. Looking forward to watching more!
Love the engineering. Thanks for taking the time to film and then make these videos, I'm sure it adds hours to the process. Much appreciated ;-)
At least twice as long! Thanks for appreciating & watching 🙌🏻
I may be late to the party but I will be watching all the advert thumbs up please 👍👍👍👍❤️
Thanks Peter!😃
You're just 10 mins from me! So comforting knowing that there's a skilled welder/fabricator like you near by in case my baby needs some love 😀
Sorry for the late comment 🤔. You are a master at what you do. The only thing is. I couldn't afford you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seriously... A true expert in motion. See you in the next one. 👍👍
Absolute genius work. Can't wait to see the finished car.
Me either 😁
I'm really enjoying this build Adam.
Your skills are outstanding and I love your honesty when explaining your thought processes.
Thanks Scotty!
You have great faith in British Leyland having the bulkhead symmetrically lined up each side from the factory 🤣 If anything I’d say it will be better put together this time around lol. Cracking job and I can’t wait on the next instalment 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Trevor😝
Great job so far, how about tack welding the hood to the fenders together with the right gaps so it can be placed on for a good fit. Once it looks good and has mounting points just cut the tack welds to free the panels.
Another cracking video :) nice to see it shaping up.
Your fabrication skills are on point , loving these updates , this is going to be one epic Allegro when its finished !!👍
Thanks Stu, appreciate it😘
The whole thing is just so much fun. Thanks for the detail in the build, we love it. And on a general note, this is exactly the sort of thing I'd love to own. I've dreamed of purchasing a crashed type R, and fitting the engine, brakes and all the performance parts onto my equally battered stock 1.8 5 door Civic, adding a turbo and retaining the 'dad look' of roof box and tow bar.
Clever bloke. No denying it.
Thanks!
another fun n interesting vid, I'm learning heaps and enjoying myself, cheers.
Really enjoy FAB CO, so talented.
The alegro is really coming together nicely. Great work as always 👍
Thanks Steve!
Loving the progress. Great work.
Thanks fellow Benton
Thanks for the great in-depth
Vids.
great to be able to watch a project like this come together. also it's good to see you doing this seemingly without CAM/CNC machines or anything particularly fancy. Keep it up.
Thanks!😃
Certainly fun to watch AND learn. Great videos. Your camera/editing guy is a wizard 😁
Really getting into this now....great work...crack on!
Thanks Declan!
Thats a big snail 👌
Indeed it is fun to watch and very informative for someone who works behind a computer designing car interiors.
Thanks Rohan!😀
Coming along brilliantly, loving this channel 👍
Starting to look like a car now!😃
Good job.
Some amazing work going on here it’s going to be a brilliant car when done I love watching these when you upload them
Thanks Matt😃
Love what you’ve done so far can’t wait for more. Thanks for showing us all
Thanks for watching. More soon😃
Starting to look great. Love the skill and thought going into this. Really look forward to the videos appearing in my updates feed.
Another quality episode mate, buzzing for the next one! 👊🏼
A Brilliant enjoyable watch... Thanks for taking the time..
Thanks for watching!
Coming along great, the music really adds to it, kinda like getting the funk out!
Thanks! 😃😃
WOW excellent project can’t wait to see the next episode 👍
Thanks for watching 😃
Really enjoying the build and channel mate, glad I found you through watching Jonny. Your fab is right up there with my TH-cam favourite from here in the UK, mad scientist Nik from Bad Obsession Motorsport.
Thanks! Their stuff is on another level though for sure 😅
Outstanding work, rapidly becoming the highlight of my viewing week. Every days a school day,fascinating video. Keep up the good work 👍👍
Thanks Peter 😃
Your videos are a real treat, every time. I love hearing you talk through your thought process. Also 'grats on 10k, that's thoroughly deserved! :D
Thanks Lewis. Appreciate your comments!
Another great episode,love the way you explain what you doing next,keep up the great work but don’t forget about the princess
I’m not forgetting. The plans are getting more wild by the week.. just you wait 😝
Brilliant work...cant wait for the next update...keep them coming.
Coming very soon😃
Great panel work 👏
Thanks John!
10/10AAA+++
Looking forward to the next video 👍
Coming very soon, it’s in the can already!😃
Absolutely Amazing Work, I do wonder if the Strut Top Mounting could be a tad more rigid ? And do those chassis rails go right thru to the back of the car, or will it have any kind of roll-cage internal tubing ? Great Content..
We’re not done yet. The will be a strut brace between the two, and a brace back to the bulkhead. There will also be an OE looking triangle brace back down to the bulkhead from the mid point 😃
There’s plenty of stuff to go on in and under the car yet regards strengthening, I’m not too concerned about weight, given there’s a reason these cars don’t weight a lot and it’s because they have zero structure😂
Used to use a thing called a curve. It could be bent to follow a profile and would stay in that position, while the curve was transferred to the drawing.
I didn’t have one, just card🤪
@@FabCoUK, you might like to think about getting one, mate, they’re super-good and accurate and will save you time. Decent one’s about a tenner 👍.
@@johnnunn8688 well, now you know what to get me for Christmas 🎅
@@FabCoUK, you get it and I’ll give you the money, honest. (Good luck finding me 🤣😂)
nutter doing welding in this heat
Gotta get it done!🥵
Surely it would've been easier to use the bonnet for the cad template on the wing curvature?
Ha! That assumes the bonnet matches the wings.. this is an Allegro 😝
Once you're done, would love to see a full comparison with a 1750 twin carb, and perhaps if there is such a thing, another modified Allegro with hefty performance. Despite the advantages we have 40 years on and with 20/20 hindsight, it's always fascinating to see what might have been if these cars had been developed their to their potential.
There is such a thing :)
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Great work! You make it look so easy! Regards from Ireland
Thanks George!😊
This thing is going to fly!
Fly? Maybe it needs some aero!😝
We'll blink and you won't have 10k subs you'll have 100k... and it will be well deserved too! Thanks for the great content.
Maybe! More important to me that people are enjoying watching at all, rather than how many 🤪
Quick glance through the comments and nobody can suggest something different!! You sir are a genius or a magician. Jonny is a lucky man to find you.. by the way the princess really should have the supercharged V8 in it.. just saying
I’m no expert, or genius, just learning along the way and trying to have fun!😄
Princess is staying with its light weight V6 and a pair of turbos 🥰
Nice work. Making great progress.
Full steam ahead 🚂
Simply brilliant
Thanks!
amazing skills, Keep up the good work 👍👍
Thanks Dan!
Cracking episode as always
Thanks!😃
Fantastic content, its great that you share exactly what you are doing step by step. Awesome fabrication can’t wait to see what she looks like on her four wheels. What’s the plan for the rear suspension, which I assume you will be tackling shortly? Keep up the amazing work, look forward to the next update. 😎👍
Thanks! Hopefully it won’t be too long until it is rolling again. The plans are for independent swing arms at the back with coil over struts, and to put the boot floor and tank back as there were 😃
Really enjoying these videos would be interesting to see the end waight of the car against the waight of a standard one how is the princess coming along waighting for the next vid
Not too concerned about weight. It’ll have more than enough power!
No progress on the Princess, I don’t have time for two projects at once and the day job unfortunately 😓
Looks like the princess and the allegro will be built like tanks when there finished. The gauge of all that metal work. Looks very over engendered. Good thing if you ask me.
Yeah i know the engine will have the power just thought it would be good to know as the quality of all the steel. might be a bit over kill but it's best that way
Will wait for the princess she/he will be a beast
#AllegRoSleeper
Love the Project 👍🏻🏁
Thanks! 😘
It’s called a flexible curve ruler, used for transferring curves.
Keep the vids coming 🇬🇧👍🏻
Will do Jim!💪🏻
I was thinking after Jonny's update that creating the front part of the inner wings as part of the flip front will mean they act as a gusset between the front panel and the wings stiffening the whole thing up.
The only problem with adding much more steel in to the front end is it’ll make it so heavy to remove. I think we’ll end up with some kind of composite inner wing😃
Nice engineering.
Thanks Betty😅
Great stuff buddy. Enjoying your approach to this. Must be difficult to take on this kind of work when it’s not your own. Those decisions regarding every aspect are easier to make when you are the only person you’re satisfying! Plus when it’s your own project the financial situation changes the process massively. If your run out of cash, motivation, vision etc, work stops until the stars align again. I guess the financial aspect becomes a motivation, rather than relying purely on enthusiasm and desire to see/use the end product. Regarding the strut towers; I’d have probably notched them out with a taper rather than a hard 90 degree clearance, so there was a web left if that makes sense? Was this necessary for clearance? Not that it really matters.
I struggle with motivation just like most do I guess, usually it’s frustration that I can’t spend more time working on it, but then that means business is good, so it’s swings and road abouts.
I think I probably will taper then off, when I decide exactly how I want to do it. Sometimes I have to think about stuff like that for a while 🤣
great content ,love it
Thanks for watching 😃
check binky flip front may help
About those new panels, is it possible that water might collect in there?
It might be worth drilling a drain hole(s) in the corner just in case.
Neat job, 2x 👍
Thanks 😃
Subscribed as I'm enjoying this, and your Princess build. You really know what you're talking about (even if you looked like a small boy next to Jonny!). A constructive criticism, maybe a bit less talking and a bit more showing us what you're doing? We all like to learn in different ways, not that I have any personal plans to try and improve the 70s British car industry.
Thanks Matt. I’d love to show more, and in detail, but it takes so long to film the whole process, and film it well. We may do some mini segments in the future showing all the steps, but this video for example was maybe a weeks work, condensed right down.
Loving this build.
Can you explain how modifying a vehicle to this extent works from a legal perspective?
You have completely rebuilt the front end of this car.
If a manufacturer builds a new car they have to put vehicles through NCAP testing, etc.
Are there requirements that you have to meet to ensure the unique build you are doing meets NCAP requirements? or is this achieved through qualifications you hold and calculations you have made? or as this is a modification/one-off is it exempt from these requirements?
Thanks!
It’s complicated. Plenty of low volume cars come with no crash testing done etc, but they are all certified through the IVA and ISO9001 process. A cad with any structural chassis mods will need to be checked by VOSA before it can be ‘legally’ put on the road, but there are probably more that don’t than do..
You forgot to turn the camera on
Oh I turned it on lots for this one!
Don't know what happened, but it worked the second time I looked at it. Good job
like project binky only with more triangulation, and less chance of dying before it's finished, what more could you want
Their build is epic, but do wish I could see more of it🤪
I'was thinking on what locks are you going to use for the flip front and I thought of using Triumph Herald/Spitfire side bonnet latches/handles. Would that keep in line with the BRtish Leyland philosofy?
I haven’t thought about that yet, but it’ll want to be something pretty hidden to match the sleeper look 😃
Can I ask why you did not put any bead rolls in the panel infill to add extra strength
Don’t have a bead roller and the panel is really not that big
@@FabCoUK keep up the good work
How did you work out the rotation of the bolt holes in the strut tops? It's such a simple thing but so hard. I plated and redrilled my race car and spent ages measuring everything trying to get it symmetrical
I bolted a straight edge to the two inner bolts and plumbed it down to the chassis rails/jig. Some times things like that take ages to think of how to measure and setup, when all you want to do is eye it and get it welded 😅
@@FabCoUK I come from an industrial maintenance and farming background where fabrication and repairs were "close enough is good enough" and a measuring tape was all you needed. I know HOW to use engineers blue and scribes, micrometers and calipers and how to get things super accurate but old habits are hard to break and the race car is pretty inaccurate. Visually you can see the front legs of the roll cage aren't symmetrical. But it's good enough for me and my dirty old track car! Customers cars get more care. I can justify more time and expense when I'm getting paid for my time and skills.
Why did You tube tell me this was put up 2 hours ago ? It was put up 6 days ago
It is a mystery that a country with so many skilled car builders managed to screw up the country's car industry. Yes, I know that at least two lines in any factory went on strike at any given time, and management was recruited from the nobility calendar rather than competence, but still.
what gauge is the steel of the strut tower?
3mm at the top, 1.5mm everywhere else more or less.