I hate BL products, thought the Agro was the worst designed built and looking car in the world followed by the Princess, Ambassador and Marina/Ital… BUT… I find I love this series and the Princess build going on in the background… it’s the builder and detail that make it.
That's the thing James, it's sometimes less about the original car and more about the creative vision. It amazes me (and makes me chuffed) that the Allegro is by far my most popular project car. Power to the underdog!
@@TheLateBrakeShow it's just British perversity, Jonny! Like everyone loves the runt of the litter and wants it to survive.. Create a fabulous car and make it LOOK like the most shite car EVER in the most quease inducing colour EVER!! ....as a TRIBUTE to the (actually awful ..!) memory of the most shite car EVER..?! Actually...... it's really just completely weird..!!
@@andymccabe6712 Thats the trouble with THICKOS like you Andy - you always respout the shite that JOURNALISTS from Top Gear etc told you or your equally thick pals down the pub told you re the Allegro (or add any other BL car here....) being the most shite car ever when they were far from it. Betting you are one of these guys who wank every time you see a Mk2 Escort when in FACT the Allegro was a far more advanced and reliable car than that ancient leaf spring RWD drive rust bucket car was. The company I worked for back then used Escorts and Cortinas as company cars and they went through engines and gearboxes as if they were wear and tear items and we tried to get the company to get them to move from Ford but they wouldnt because they kept fixing them under warranty and because Ford sold the cars very cheap to keep the company car market. I and my fellow works mates never bought Ford after that and in the mid 80s to late 90s I worked in a garage and can assure you that BL/Austin Rover cars were far more reliable than many of their rivals back then - they did rust the same as the rest even though they were rustproofed but a lot of that was down to the owners not keeping up the rustproofing after the warranty ran out. We had two Allegros in the family at the same time - my brother then mothers 1978 Allegro 1500 LE and my 1980 Allegro 1750 TC Equipe and both of them were excellent and very reliable cars - my Equipe always had people looking at it and in it when I came back to it when it was parked and people asking me about it unlike my mates with their Escort RS2000s, Capris etc who never got that with their cars back then. These Mafias being exposed in this video here just love the dumb people like you and hence why they have been shafting and conning you since the day you were born deliberately destroying our jobs and economy etc as part of their agenda which includes getting rid of all of the USELESS EATERS as they call the dumb masses as exposed here th-cam.com/video/98qv9ztkW_U/w-d-xo.html
My dad had an Allegro late 70's (company car) written off by a Vauxhall Viva crashing into back end, next car my dad got was a Vauxhall Viva and at 5 years old I thought whatever car broke your car you got so whenever I saw a car I liked I asked my dad to crash into it so we could have it ...eventually he got a brown Capri 3.0S without having a crash
I had a very second hand All-Aggro 1750, so by the time I got it, all that could go wrong, had already gone wrong and been fixed. So, I really liked it…….So there 👅.
This is my favourite project on TH-cam at the moment. Im a plumber so I work with tools and thinking of the skill involved constructing the front end of a car from scratch, strut towers and all blows my mind. Proper talented bloke.
Love you Jonny! Don't care what you say, this is still my favourite thing you're doing. Mind, I still think that engine is too deep, so here's my latest brilliant suggestion: get Allen Millyard to siamese and turbocharge two Suzuki RG500 engines for you, to make a 1000cc, 200 BHP turbocharged square eight Allegro with a six-speed sequential box. You can have that idea for free.
Imagine how much 2 stroke oil and fuel it would use. And and trying to be in the power band just pull away! And 8 expansion pipes trying to be routed somehow.
Good lord. I bet Allen would be up for that too. It would be worth it to watch him cut the blocks up with a hacksaw, weld it all up in his back shed, and start it up sitting on a box in the backyard. That man is a marvel.
My first car was a princess 2.2. loved it. Years later while skint I picked up an allegro estate for £200. had a lot of adventures in that car but always had a fantasy of putting a 5 litre engine in the back 😀
Fantastic Johnny, what a fabulous project....Adam doing his best to bring this car back to life....... More of this please, this will inspire many youngsters into manufacturing which we need so so much.... Johnny is the best!!!
You will probably need to upgrade your neck muscles too, if those lowback seats are anything to go by! On a serious note, the seats do concern me, that's going to be a powerful little beast and floating around on those old lowbacks isn't going to be much fun. Do the seats have a headrest option? There looks to be a blanking plate where one might fit? Whiplash is no joke and was a major cause of injury in older vehicles before head rests became mandatory. If you get shunted from behind, even at low speed, your head will fold right back over the seat and potentially cause serious spinal damage, even paralysis or death in extreme cases. I love the concept of the original look but at least consider fitting the head support, for your own sake. Your safety is more important than keeping the original look.
My Grandad only ever owned 3 cars his first being an Austin Allegro in an identical color to yours but 4 doors. It was the first car I ever hated having spent many school holidays being shuttled (slowly) around Yeovil and the surrounding Somerset lanes. Can still recall the rough fabric seats in the back and the blanket necessary to cushion my legs. Jonny you’re a brave man wanting to undertake this project, yet despite my fear of the Allegro I’m so excited to see the finished project. Definitely a sentimental attachment to this watch dare I admit 👍
Love this series, Jonny! The detail and pure mastery that Adam is going for is just a joy to watch. Quality stuff. You can really see that both of you enjoy this.
Not sure what the TH-cam data show, but if I had my druthers, all Late Brake Show videos would be centered around finishing all of Jonny's various project cars. Love it!
This is the most overengineered Allegro in history. And I love it! I watch all those other "we're going to lose the shop" channels but no other gets me fired up to work on my own project like this. Sketchy engine swaps are fun and all, but real engineering is where it's at! Great work.
“Let’s just get it running” Hallelujah!👏 I know of so many projects where the owner keeps on trying to do more and more without getting a car that works at all, that eventually the project takes so long that they forgot why they even started.
Not quite sure why it’s taken nearly a week for me to watch this - think I wanted to dedicate some quality time to it! And so glad I did! Great video, and great opening sequence ala Grange Hill! Took me back to my youth!
Perfecto, needed an add free TLBS episode to pick me back up from most of the day on the road. The detail that's going in to the AllegRo is awesome, will be the best on the road for sure. Thanks again Jonny and Co...🎩
I remember when i was about 12 which was around 1990 my step mum had a pooh brown allegro estate was so embarrassing to b seen in it!!! So glad when she got her manta GTE!
I've just watched the first 5 parts of this build. It's made me realise I just love cars and car builds and I don't actually care that much who made the car. Great series can't wait to see it finished and driving around. Great work.
Hell no never again twice over , or a marina. My dad was die hard , apart from his sunbeams and our favorites the super snipes.. 1st one had two new engines before 1500 miles .. second rotted in 3 yrs.. the marina... greates pleasure I had was when my mate put his chieftan over the top of it ..
This is a fabulous build so far. I’m loving it. I must confess that the low sump is making my teeth itch somewhat 😬. Maybe it will look better when the ‘Agro’ (because that what it will cause unsuspecting drivers) is back on its wheels.
i admire the way your making a cool retro beast out of arguably one of BL’s worst pieces of awfulness, and that fact that its being left in the shitty pease pudding colour is the icing on the cake for me. im hoping it will have steelies on it that look (almost) original. love it!
Jesus h christ. There was nothing wrong with the Allegro other than a less conventional look and the 'wrong' badge. They were reliable, comfy, handled pretty well and especially the bigger engines went well. Apart from listening to guff from the likes of Clarkson how is that a bad car?
Ok, with everything that needs to be done to make this work, the K20 is perfect. The option of converting it to a dry sump later down the road is what finally got me to like it. And Adam seems awesome. The perfect kind of crazy to build a project like this and do it properly.
Love it Jonny 🙏 I have a kswap car with about 4" of sump to ground clearance and no issues yet. If you are worried look into a K24 sump as they are steel. The k20 Ali sumps have been known to crack if hit hard enough
I was the proud owner of an Allegro Vanden Plas model once. It had a Fat Slags sticker on the back and a baseball bat behind the passenger front seat that was left there by the previous owner. I was told it was for self defence. I never got to use it. The car was known as 'Fanny Magnet'.
@@chrishart8548 thanks for the reminder (shudders and reaches for a big bottle of booze to stop my brain thinking of that toothy looking monstrosity) 🤮🤣🤣🤣 cheers mate...
Jonny, best solution to the large K20Z4 (FN2) sump is to swap it out for a K20A2 (EP3) sump, its significantly shorter, added benefit is losing the balancer shaft oil pump set up, gaining around 10bhp in the process As for the intake manifold, i'd bin the RSP intake manifold and go for something shorter aftermarket
I have been lovin this Build since you first started Jonny....Sorry I was one that mentioned the Sump.... But now Andy has mentioned it... DRY SUMP Please..... I understand what Andy was saying about just getting it running.... But save time and do it straight away..... :-)))))
Thanks for another great video Jonny. Really enjoyed your talk at caffeine and machine despite having to leave before the end of the questions to get my 6 year old to bed!
This series gets better and better. While discussing the sump clearance it's worth comparing the K20 to the original installation in which the gearbox was in the sump. Looking forward to the next instalment and also subscribed to Fabco's channel.
You could always look at the k24 oil pan for more clearance and have internal baffle in them. They are steel so less chance smashing on bumps and plus look a lot shallower. I've got a k power E30 swap pan for my k24 in the escort
Does look amazing and can’t wait to see it completed. Understand everyone’s point regard the sump, but I would also be tempted to go down the route of a charge cooler rather than an intercooler, less inlet pipework so negates the drop in boost concerns
You HAVE to sort that sump. You'll eat through 5" of suspension travel on the first compression you go through leaving a nice black line from the scene to the recovery truck. Also, don't forget to not nose it up against the kerb. Apart from that......Sleeper Agro, lol, brilliant.
I’ve got to agree and it does look a bit weird seeing a k mounted so low down as they are pretty tall engines. I can’t help thinking it would be worth playing around to get it at a more practical height but I’m interested to see how it turns out anyway otsot.
After a ridiculous 24 hours and now home from work, all i can say is YEEESSSSSSSS!!! Can't wait to see this. Yoir channel continues to be awesome Jonny. Keep your vids coming mate.
Im trying to kinda restore slowly a Peugeot 309 that was already in kinda okiiish state and it has been a struggle so i cant even imagine the work something like this would be. Keep up the awesome job with the channel and bring that allegro to life soon :D
What a choice of pedal colours! Hmm.. mustard, brown or orange? I think all three. Maybe brown for brake 😄 Nice one for having an arguably worse money pit than me Jonny!
Johnny this is awesome. If I may and there's still time for it, go with a supercharger. The K series engines, particularly the K20 are spectacular with a supercharger, because you fix their low down torque issues without sacrificing the top end from an awesome N/A Honda engine. You get as much as 300bhp on stock internals and a bonkers setup.
Let's hear it for the Patreon people who have paid for this ludicrously expensive project, the Maestro content is all I watch on this channel these days. I don't contribute myself but thanks chaps for reviving the old rot box, very generous!😁
@@paulriggers1558 Yeah. Some of those coaches might have been late 70's to. And also it seems like the seat fabrics are contracted for like 10 years at a time or something. We didn't have many leyland buses in sweden, mostly volvo and scania at that time, so Vanhool, Vogel and some times Recaro interiors.
Seeing these old cars is like a bad dream… I remember as a kid in the 70s thinking what the hells gone wrong… these cars are horrible… the Goodwood revival cut off date is there for a reason.
@@TheLateBrakeShow I was trying to think of some kind words as a response… nope the 10 year old me is still thinking yuk… the horror of following my dad into a car dealership while he pondered a Austin Princess in BROWN with a leatherette roof… hideous, to his credit when I was 7 he bought a Clan Crusader cheap (you guessed it because it was BROWN) and me my mum dad and 3 year old sister drove to Spain in it!!! SPAIN! How, he created a kind of rear seat in the parcel shelf with clothes and a travel blanket… my head was pressed against the roof, I would have made 6 foot if it wasn’t for that Clan. Anyway good look with the project and it will be funny to see it burn off hot hatches at the lights. PS. Don’t forget to make the footwell big enough for flares and I expect you to have grown an authentic 70s hair cut by then + jumper knitted by mum (in brown and orange obviously 🙄
The colour in anodising is just a dye similar to clothes dye, the anodising process opens up hexagonal pores in the surface of the metal, the item is then dipped in the colour and then in boiling water which closes the pores, sealing in the colour.
Intercooler has to be in front of the Radiator. Otherwise it'll be an interheater! The radiator will run hotter than charge temperature, typically. I'd be tempted to add a WCAC (Coolant based) so you can runner a thinner heat exchanger for the water. But awesome progress, amazing fab work!
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I hate BL products, thought the Agro was the worst designed built and looking car in the world followed by the Princess, Ambassador and Marina/Ital… BUT… I find I love this series and the Princess build going on in the background… it’s the builder and detail that make it.
That's the thing James, it's sometimes less about the original car and more about the creative vision. It amazes me (and makes me chuffed) that the Allegro is by far my most popular project car. Power to the underdog!
It's really not that bad. No worse than a mk1 Passat Or a Peugeot 304 coupe. In the looks department.
@@TheLateBrakeShow it's just British perversity, Jonny!
Like everyone loves the runt of the litter and wants it to survive..
Create a fabulous car and make it LOOK like the most shite car EVER in the most quease inducing colour EVER!!
....as a TRIBUTE to the (actually awful ..!) memory of the most shite car EVER..?!
Actually...... it's really just completely weird..!!
BUT ......it DOES allow nerdy petrolheads to bang on about car stuff......a lot!
All quite harmless, really..!!
@@andymccabe6712 Thats the trouble with THICKOS like you Andy - you always respout the shite that JOURNALISTS from Top Gear etc told you or your equally thick pals down the pub told you re the Allegro (or add any other BL car here....) being the most shite car ever when they were far from it. Betting you are one of these guys who wank every time you see a Mk2 Escort when in FACT the Allegro was a far more advanced and reliable car than that ancient leaf spring RWD drive rust bucket car was. The company I worked for back then used Escorts and Cortinas as company cars and they went through engines and gearboxes as if they were wear and tear items and we tried to get the company to get them to move from Ford but they wouldnt because they kept fixing them under warranty and because Ford sold the cars very cheap to keep the company car market. I and my fellow works mates never bought Ford after that and in the mid 80s to late 90s I worked in a garage and can assure you that BL/Austin Rover cars were far more reliable than many of their rivals back then - they did rust the same as the rest even though they were rustproofed but a lot of that was down to the owners not keeping up the rustproofing after the warranty ran out. We had two Allegros in the family at the same time - my brother then mothers 1978 Allegro 1500 LE and my 1980 Allegro 1750 TC Equipe and both of them were excellent and very reliable cars - my Equipe always had people looking at it and in it when I came back to it when it was parked and people asking me about it unlike my mates with their Escort RS2000s, Capris etc who never got that with their cars back then. These Mafias being exposed in this video here just love the dumb people like you and hence why they have been shafting and conning you since the day you were born deliberately destroying our jobs and economy etc as part of their agenda which includes getting rid of all of the USELESS EATERS as they call the dumb masses as exposed here th-cam.com/video/98qv9ztkW_U/w-d-xo.html
Those seats remind me of a 1980s Leyland Olympian double decker! Takes me back to my school days!
My dad had an Allegro late 70's (company car) written off by a Vauxhall Viva crashing into back end, next car my dad got was a Vauxhall Viva and at 5 years old I thought whatever car broke your car you got so whenever I saw a car I liked I asked my dad to crash into it so we could have it ...eventually he got a brown Capri 3.0S without having a crash
I'm going to cause my neighbor to crash into me in his Aston Martin DBS. Wish me luck 🤞
😂 that’s funny 😊
I had a very second hand All-Aggro 1750, so by the time I got it, all that could go wrong, had already gone wrong and been fixed. So, I really liked it…….So there 👅.
This is my favourite project on TH-cam at the moment. Im a plumber so I work with tools and thinking of the skill involved constructing the front end of a car from scratch, strut towers and all blows my mind. Proper talented bloke.
Ditto, but I'm an electrician
"I'm having the dash flocked in motorsport brown" - unsurpassed genius!
Only just caught up with this after watching first episode. Fab co - more worthwhile TH-cam viewing 👍
Welcome back James!
Love you Jonny! Don't care what you say, this is still my favourite thing you're doing. Mind, I still think that engine is too deep, so here's my latest brilliant suggestion: get Allen Millyard to siamese and turbocharge two Suzuki RG500 engines for you, to make a 1000cc, 200 BHP turbocharged square eight Allegro with a six-speed sequential box. You can have that idea for free.
Won’t work. The front end will take off, leaving the cabin and boot behind.
Imagine how much 2 stroke oil and fuel it would use. And and trying to be in the power band just pull away! And 8 expansion pipes trying to be routed somehow.
@@chrishart8548 it would sound mental though, wouldn’t it!
@@robsawalker it really would. Being 2 stroke it would have as many firings in a cycle as a 16 cylinder. 4 stroke.
Good lord. I bet Allen would be up for that too. It would be worth it to watch him cut the blocks up with a hacksaw, weld it all up in his back shed, and start it up sitting on a box in the backyard. That man is a marvel.
A bit of CAD (Cardboard Aided Design) is so helpful especially with things like rad's Cheers for the update.
My first car was a princess 2.2. loved it. Years later while skint I picked up an allegro estate for £200. had a lot of adventures in that car but always had a fantasy of putting a 5 litre engine in the back 😀
Fantastic Johnny, what a fabulous project....Adam doing his best to bring this car back to life.......
More of this please, this will inspire many youngsters into manufacturing which we need so so much....
Johnny is the best!!!
You will probably need to upgrade your neck muscles too, if those lowback seats are anything to go by! On a serious note, the seats do concern me, that's going to be a powerful little beast and floating around on those old lowbacks isn't going to be much fun. Do the seats have a headrest option? There looks to be a blanking plate where one might fit? Whiplash is no joke and was a major cause of injury in older vehicles before head rests became mandatory. If you get shunted from behind, even at low speed, your head will fold right back over the seat and potentially cause serious spinal damage, even paralysis or death in extreme cases. I love the concept of the original look but at least consider fitting the head support, for your own sake. Your safety is more important than keeping the original look.
When I was a kid in the 70's my family had a red 4 door Allegro... I might be mistaken but I'm sure they had headrests on the front seats
Whoever edited this was "getting the funk out". Love the seats.
Liking the PB reference!
looove those seats!
This is going to be so good.
Driving this hot hatch with the original interior is going to be a surreal experience. Sweet!
My Grandad only ever owned 3 cars his first being an Austin Allegro in an identical color to yours but 4 doors. It was the first car I ever hated having spent many school holidays being shuttled (slowly) around Yeovil and the surrounding Somerset lanes. Can still recall the rough fabric seats in the back and the blanket necessary to cushion my legs. Jonny you’re a brave man wanting to undertake this project, yet despite my fear of the Allegro I’m so excited to see the finished project. Definitely a sentimental attachment to this watch dare I admit 👍
14:56 " the Beauty of the Allegro" ... there's a sentence that has NEVER been heard before :) :)
That seat upholstery is like part of my soul.
I love it so much.
This is one of my favourite build series on TH-cam. Keep it coming Johnny.
I'm still worried about that sump though...
Love this and Fab co double bubble!
I absolutely love the opening credits, top work to whoever is responsible!
Love this series, Jonny! The detail and pure mastery that Adam is going for is just a joy to watch. Quality stuff. You can really see that both of you enjoy this.
Many thanks chap. Much appreciate it. You've got lots more to come!
Thanks🫶
Not sure what the TH-cam data show, but if I had my druthers, all Late Brake Show videos would be centered around finishing all of Jonny's various project cars. Love it!
Agreed😁
This is the most overengineered Allegro in history. And I love it!
I watch all those other "we're going to lose the shop" channels but no other gets me fired up to work on my own project like this.
Sketchy engine swaps are fun and all, but real engineering is where it's at!
Great work.
The nostalgia with the performance is intoxicating
Awesome Jonny - top show - love how you promote British engineering 👍😎
Those seats remind me of cupping a cheeky Camel on the top deck of the no. 63 bus! 💨
Naughty Harry...
Those seats remind me of the bus i used to take to college back in the day! I have my 1980 Mini dash flocked in brown. It exists!!!
“Let’s just get it running”
Hallelujah!👏 I know of so many projects where the owner keeps on trying to do more and more without getting a car that works at all, that eventually the project takes so long that they forgot why they even started.
He speaks wisdom
I love that he's trying to fit a big thick radiator from the beginning.
Not quite sure why it’s taken nearly a week for me to watch this - think I wanted to dedicate some quality time to it! And so glad I did! Great video, and great opening sequence ala Grange Hill! Took me back to my youth!
I like guys like Adam, Such a fascinating insight into a build.
Perfecto, needed an add free TLBS episode to pick me back up from most of the day on the road. The detail that's going in to the AllegRo is awesome, will be the best on the road for sure. Thanks again Jonny and Co...🎩
Many thanks for supporting Chris. 👊🏽
I remember when i was about 12 which was around 1990 my step mum had a pooh brown allegro estate was so embarrassing to b seen in it!!! So glad when she got her manta GTE!
Well Adam aren’t you a surprise, very well presented. Looking forward to this series more than I already was.
Thanks Julian 👊🏻
Literally fangirling over the seats 😍😍😍😍😍
Memories of my local bus still using old shafted 70s buses with that pattern 😂
I've just watched the first 5 parts of this build. It's made me realise I just love cars and car builds and I don't actually care that much who made the car. Great series can't wait to see it finished and driving around. Great work.
I love this show, I always like Jon boy even when he was on fifth gear,he's a geezer 👍🇬🇧😎,the kinda guy you can leave the kids with and RELAX
If only British Leyland had this much passion.
Hell no never again twice over , or a marina. My dad was die hard , apart from his sunbeams and our favorites the super snipes..
1st one had two new engines before 1500 miles .. second rotted in 3 yrs.. the marina... greates pleasure I had was when my mate put his chieftan over the top of it ..
Can't wait to see this being driven for the first time
A intercooler behind the radiator, is a interwarmer..
Sleeper allegro supernice! 👊🏼
Who needs car shows like Gas Monkey when this is so much more interesting to me. Many thanks for the update. Enjoying this project perv👍
This is a fabulous build so far. I’m loving it. I must confess that the low sump is making my teeth itch somewhat 😬. Maybe it will look better when the ‘Agro’ (because that what it will cause unsuspecting drivers) is back on its wheels.
I’m sure it will 😃
5 inches from the ground will hit some speed humps in the UK. The sump guard needs huge strength and integrity.
@@ftw1540
It's lucky that the sump will gain more clearance along with the rest of the car due to those handy wheel things 😉
Absolutely brilliant, keep up with updates Jonny.
Great vid guys. You can have 'Holf Shafts' with my pleasure. I Thank you. Keep up the good work 😃
For some strange reason as a kid I always thought the door handles and rear light clusters on allegros looked quite stylish, says it all really
i admire the way your making a cool retro beast out of arguably one of BL’s worst pieces of awfulness, and that fact that its being left in the shitty pease pudding colour is the icing on the cake for me. im hoping it will have steelies on it that look (almost) original. love it!
Jesus h christ. There was nothing wrong with the Allegro other than a less conventional look and the 'wrong' badge.
They were reliable, comfy, handled pretty well and especially the bigger engines went well.
Apart from listening to guff from the likes of Clarkson how is that a bad car?
Ok, with everything that needs to be done to make this work, the K20 is perfect.
The option of converting it to a dry sump later down the road is what finally got me to like it.
And Adam seems awesome. The perfect kind of crazy to build a project like this and do it properly.
Love it Jonny 🙏
I have a kswap car with about 4" of sump to ground clearance and no issues yet. If you are worried look into a K24 sump as they are steel. The k20 Ali sumps have been known to crack if hit hard enough
Copper anodise those pedals! Love everything about this build Jonny. Can't wait to see what it can do! 😍
That into was excellent. Well done. 👌
It’s certainly coming along mate and you’ve got a great mechanic/engineer on it for sure 👍🏻
I liked the music, comedy and t-shirt of this episode.
Thank you for the update .. I love the seat covers .. I never thought I'd hear the "voice of reason" from you Mr Vert .. After Adams's suggestions :)
I was the proud owner of an Allegro Vanden Plas model once. It had a Fat Slags sticker on the back and a baseball bat behind the passenger front seat that was left there by the previous owner. I was told it was for self defence. I never got to use it.
The car was known as 'Fanny Magnet'.
My uncle had one of those in purple I think had front fog lamps and a giant grill like it thought it was a Rolls Royce
@@chrishart8548 thanks for the reminder (shudders and reaches for a big bottle of booze to stop my brain thinking of that toothy looking monstrosity) 🤮🤣🤣🤣 cheers mate...
i love the 70s intro. imo leave out the "cartooning" of the freeze frame but leave the freezing in classic 70s video film style. love this project!
Jonny, best solution to the large K20Z4 (FN2) sump is to swap it out for a K20A2 (EP3) sump, its significantly shorter, added benefit is losing the balancer shaft oil pump set up, gaining around 10bhp in the process
As for the intake manifold, i'd bin the RSP intake manifold and go for something shorter aftermarket
Oh, the urge to say 'spawtsah valence' at 11:51 was so strong! LOL! Johnny just barely resisted it! Love it!
I did. The lip was being bitten.
Watching with great interest from NZ. Loving it so far 👍
I have been lovin this Build since you first started Jonny....Sorry I was one that mentioned the Sump.... But now Andy has mentioned it... DRY SUMP Please..... I understand what Andy was saying about just getting it running.... But save time and do it straight away..... :-)))))
Thanks for another great video Jonny. Really enjoyed your talk at caffeine and machine despite having to leave before the end of the questions to get my 6 year old to bed!
This series gets better and better. While discussing the sump clearance it's worth comparing the K20 to the original installation in which the gearbox was in the sump. Looking forward to the next instalment and also subscribed to Fabco's channel.
Just what this Wednesday PM needed :D Thanks chaps!
Still loving this car. The engineering is fascinating to see. Thanks for all the detail guys.
Tense moment there discussing the sump guard..... titanium ?? 🤣👌 , great video again 👏
You could always look at the k24 oil pan for more clearance and have internal baffle in them. They are steel so less chance smashing on bumps and plus look a lot shallower. I've got a k power E30 swap pan for my k24 in the escort
'Hands-on Restomod work!' Unbolt, tinker, rebolt/reweld; then redo the process.
Does look amazing and can’t wait to see it completed. Understand everyone’s point regard the sump, but I would also be tempted to go down the route of a charge cooler rather than an intercooler, less inlet pipework so negates the drop in boost concerns
You HAVE to sort that sump. You'll eat through 5" of suspension travel on the first compression you go through leaving a nice black line from the scene to the recovery truck. Also, don't forget to not nose it up against the kerb.
Apart from that......Sleeper Agro, lol, brilliant.
Maybe a different sump would help? The engine does some to sit rather low, which is great, but also kinda dangerous otsot.
I’ve got to agree and it does look a bit weird seeing a k mounted so low down as they are pretty tall engines. I can’t help thinking it would be worth playing around to get it at a more practical height but I’m interested to see how it turns out anyway otsot.
Well keep watching because in the next episode things will have changed quite drastically on that side of things. 😃
Unless you're hitting square speed bumps at 50mph you're not going to see a stiffly sprung car move FIVE inches!
Adam brings speed to the Allegro project!
Mental project Jonny! Proper hot rod.
After a ridiculous 24 hours and now home from work, all i can say is YEEESSSSSSSS!!! Can't wait to see this. Yoir channel continues to be awesome Jonny. Keep your vids coming mate.
Looking forward to more AllegRo content as it progresses.
Im trying to kinda restore slowly a Peugeot 309 that was already in kinda okiiish state and it has been a struggle so i cant even imagine the work something like this would be.
Keep up the awesome job with the channel and bring that allegro to life soon :D
Bloody hell... Looks like a massive ballache!
I remember my dad bought an Allegro back yonder and it was rusted out , everywhere. He tarted it up and sold it on.
Love this build but just hope Adam doesn’t forget about the princess
Not forgotten, but hard to do two at once, and do the day job unfortunately!
Hard to polish the worst turd ever but I respect your optimism
What a choice of pedal colours! Hmm.. mustard, brown or orange? I think all three. Maybe brown for brake 😄
Nice one for having an arguably worse money pit than me Jonny!
Depending on how fast it eventually ends up, possibly brown for the accelerator too😂
@@gavinwyllie7855 yeah you’re probably right!
Johnny this is awesome. If I may and there's still time for it, go with a supercharger. The K series engines, particularly the K20 are spectacular with a supercharger, because you fix their low down torque issues without sacrificing the top end from an awesome N/A Honda engine. You get as much as 300bhp on stock internals and a bonkers setup.
Let's hear it for the Patreon people who have paid for this ludicrously expensive project, the Maestro content is all I watch on this channel these days. I don't contribute myself but thanks chaps for reviving the old rot box, very generous!😁
What a pro car builder❤ A D A M.. Absolute Dedicated Auto Master
If anodising the pedals doesn't go well then you could try Cerakote. Like powder coating but much thinner and the finish is amazing
Was thinking the same re ceracote.
Came to say exactly the same as I'm looking into it for a few bike parts. Seems to be most popular with airsoft stuff in this country....
Loving this series.
That's a proper GTI drive shaft. It's that large in diameter because it's hollow to balance out the weight between the uneven length shafts.
Good to see progress being made. Loving the updates here and on Adam's channel!
For rad look at mgf ally radiator, 40mm thick and they fit the allegro front panel well, you can even use the original allegro rad top brackets
It is going to be a nice sleeper. Kepp the mustard colour. The project Mustard Binky
It worked I fell asleep wile watching this program.
It didn't. Unless you can type whilst unconscious.
@@TheLateBrakeShow
I wrote it in the morning when I woke up.
It was just a sleeper joke .maybe not a good one but nevertheless a joke. I like the show.
Your Austin “Aggro” round the track against “binky”.
The fabric insert on those chairs looks like something that would have been in a Vanhool coachbuilt bus in the 80's.
leyland bus in 70s i seem to remember, [the single decker with the hump on the roof + a big fan behind mesh at bumper height]
@@paulriggers1558 Yeah. Some of those coaches might have been late 70's to. And also it seems like the seat fabrics are contracted for like 10 years at a time or something. We didn't have many leyland buses in sweden, mostly volvo and scania at that time, so Vanhool, Vogel and some times Recaro interiors.
@@rimmersbryggeri seemingly the london tube trains as well
recaro interiors ? as in recaro seats ?
@@paulriggers1558 Yes the make public transportastion interiors aswell. As pininfarina and Ital Design buses and tractors.
Hope the flocked dash looks as good as I'm envisaging - we don't want flocking hell ;)
Fun fact you can have a K24 with 700 to 1000bhp. Love the build.
My dad had one we was was kids
Black , it was hated by him lol always
Had problems, I loved it though
Seeing these old cars is like a bad dream… I remember as a kid in the 70s thinking what the hells gone wrong… these cars are horrible… the Goodwood revival cut off date is there for a reason.
Goodwood made the wrong decision. It's easy to buy a pretty car and make it handle...
@@TheLateBrakeShow I was trying to think of some kind words as a response… nope the 10 year old me is still thinking yuk… the horror of following my dad into a car dealership while he pondered a Austin Princess in BROWN with a leatherette roof… hideous, to his credit when I was 7 he bought a Clan Crusader cheap (you guessed it because it was BROWN) and me my mum dad and 3 year old sister drove to Spain in it!!! SPAIN! How, he created a kind of rear seat in the parcel shelf with clothes and a travel blanket… my head was pressed against the roof, I would have made 6 foot if it wasn’t for that Clan. Anyway good look with the project and it will be funny to see it burn off hot hatches at the lights. PS. Don’t forget to make the footwell big enough for flares and I expect you to have grown an authentic 70s hair cut by then + jumper knitted by mum (in brown and orange obviously 🙄
I can do bronze/brown anodising on titanium jewellery, it’s a lovely colour.
The colour in anodising is just a dye similar to clothes dye, the anodising process opens up hexagonal pores in the surface of the metal, the item is then dipped in the colour and then in boiling water which closes the pores, sealing in the colour.
Intercooler has to be in front of the Radiator. Otherwise it'll be an interheater! The radiator will run hotter than charge temperature, typically. I'd be tempted to add a WCAC (Coolant based) so you can runner a thinner heat exchanger for the water. But awesome progress, amazing fab work!