Thanks for all the comments everyone! We really appreciate your support. We're not sure exactly how successful the ancillary drive will be. Ultimately the only way to tell will be to run it and find out. It may not last very long and might need regular maintenance, it might be fine but we're very much looking forward to finding out.
Hi guys. Loving this series. If you don't mind me giving my 2 pennies worth, you might want to ditch that Gates ' Horizon' belt for a standard Gates belt of the same size ( if they do one ) as those ' Horizon ' belts are rubbish. I've fitted a few over the past few years ( mechanic of erm...... yeah, 23 years ) and they don't even last 12 months before they are all perished and splitting. I'm in awe of your engineering skills. That whole bearing carrier, pulley set up is amazing.
Great work, I'm very curious how well that is going to work. Would be very interesting to see the specs of that thingy. If mechanical alternator solutions keep failing, perhaps you can hook up a few thermoelectric peltier elements which would produce electricity as long as the engine keeps warm. Perhaps mounted with heat sinks to help cool the extractor with plumbing off. (The exhaust should be the component that reaches effective temperature the fastest as well.). I imagine it would save a ton in weight as well.
No grommets where the wiring runs through the frame rails, etc. @ th-cam.com/video/WIyxrvO3dRk/w-d-xo.html ? would hate to see those edges cut through the insulation and ruin all that hard work.
my cat recieved a time-jump notification on the multimeter, asked me to look into it. Glad to see it worked out. That's quite the puzzle you're building there!
The problem here, I base my measurements for times in my life around the important things. It used to be marked by a new episode every three to six months. Now I am going to misjudged memories by up to a year.
Did anyone else get a notification a few hours ago (currently 21:59 GMT -8, December 13 2023) saying this was just uploaded? I about lost my mind when I saw a notification for a new Binky upload only to be utterly CRUSHED.
Binge watching this from the start again. So much thought, consideration, graft, ingenuity, problem solving and packaging going into every aspect of this build. It's quite mentally exhausting just watching it!
They say hands on craft is dying? pfft my arse this build is beyond the scale for awesomeness and what can be done with your bare hands and the right plan :D
I'm looking forward to them fully stripping it down again to cloth wrap the wiring and of course all the tiny details like painting the whole thing purple!
I broke 3 ribs a few years back, and the real story was so boring that I told everyone it came from laughing at your videos. After watching this video, someone please call a medic! Srsly, has to be the funniest video to-date.
@@suicidalbanananana I'm torn between wanting to see it finished and considering the void that will be left in everyone's life if they do ever finish unless they immediately move on to fitting the mechanicals of a Tiger tank into a Fiat 500
Whew, a lot happened in the last 10 minutes. I wonder what it feels like to have hundreds of hours of work reduced to 10-15min of video. Must be a strange feeling. Thanks for all you do, guys!
I was watching you run all that wiring & thinking, Where's all the insulation & grommets around the cabling, Then I thought, Well the car will have to totally disassembled for paint, So it'll be done when reassembled. Correct? Another quality video & great laugh guys. Looking forward to the next one.
I've just said similar, that loom needs taping up badly, and with how its got plugs on everything, i cant see how their planning on dismantling it all as those plugs won't fit through the holes...
I agree. After all the insane detail & fabrication on this car, they have to go back & loom and tape the harnesses. I can't imagine them leaving the wires bare that way.
Started watching your series a week ago, and its been STUNNING! 5 years of hard work, in 20 episodes......The next few years waiting for the finished product is going to drive me insane.....
You have overlooked a very easy solution to your ancillary drive needs. An electrically driven alternator! There are loads of videos right here on TH-cam describing how these wonders of perpetual-motion-free energy-devices work...of course if improperly constructed it will keep spinning faster and faster until you have created a black hole that destroys the universe as we know it! Maybe better stick withy the flexi-shaft thingy after all.
Having worked on a fair number of early to mid 2000's bmws, I was shouting at my TV when you first showed the earth connection. Much to my pleasure, you were way ahead of the problem as per the usual. Another great episode!
I'm gutted. I came across episode 1 a couple of days ago, and judging by the date, thought the car would be done by the end of the playlist. so binge watched. Now I'm done and the car isn't. I dunno how you lot have been patient for 5 years, I neeeeeeeeeeeed to see it finished LOL
Guys, you could have saved so much time by taking a page out of the SEMA car builds book. Use a bluetooth alternator! Just like all of their bluetooth driveshafts and fuel lines!
great work as all ways. not sure if you know but a solid crank pulley with out the harmonic dampener can and has made the 3sgte crank crack in half, this is why you dont seem many people running them on the 3sgte
I am gobsmacked. The level of skill, attention to detail, technical knowledge and ingenuity shown in these insanely entertaining episodes never fails to blow my mind.
Phrases like "a labour of love" and "a work of art" are so often used but this car REALLY deserves them. What with the petrol tank and the HVAC box, as well as all the brackets and fabrication you've carried out I am simply blown away!
Love the imperial measurements... They make no sense to me either! Great content and humor as usual..... Not sure why you haven't passed a million subs yet!?
Since I have started designing parts in CAD and working on cars, I have almost completely stopped using inches for small things. Liquid measurements make perfect sense In metric as well. I will not, however, ever be able to wrap my head around BAR vs PSI.
I tend to pick the easiest to say measurement for roughing stuff ( "an inch" is a bit easier than "two and a half centimetres" for instance ) - as an englishman using both casually seems a perfectly acceptable proposition - but I'd never ever use imperial for 3D work, or actual engineering. Mind you, 1/1000th of an inch is a good metric measurement! I'm kinda with you on PSI vs BAR though.
1 BAR is 100 kilopascals, and also very roughly atmospheric pressure at sea level, which is something like 15 PSI ( very roughly ) - which makes BAR a slightly awkward measurement for tyre pressures, unfortunately, given you end up using decimal places or doing it in millibars.
the only reason this channel doesn't have a metric ton more subs is the TH-cam algorithm won't suggest channels that release content as infrequently as BOM. all these lame vlog style channels got recommend because they post "content" every day. plus youtube won't push channels that don't max out the potential ad rev. being that BOM only has one ad for a 30 min. video. it's all about the money for them not the amazing content.
How time flies. Seems like only yesterday I started watching - mainly because it was - and here you are 4 years later. It will be a tearful moment when you two hand off the project to your daughters on their 18th birthday. But I look forward to my grandchildren seeing the completed build! Carry on and keep a stiff calm upper lip.
The original pulley for your engine is a harmonic damper as well and you will be seeing engine harmonic problems if your replacement isn't. I'm talking about main bearing wipe out problems.
@Lassi Kinnunen Balancing to equalize and account for unequal forces and minor weight distrobution differences is one thing. The harmonic damper or pulley as mentioned here dampens harmonic frequencies created by the power pulses of the engine as it runs. Converting to a solid drive pulley can work, I've seen plenty of people do it on short duration race only applications but it is not good for your engine by any means and it can lead to hurt main bearings, broken crankshafts and a whole host of other issues.
OK, I have been in awe of your fabrication skills, your problem solving, your raiding of parts bins , adapting modifying improving reusing,etc, but this last episode takes the biscuit (Hobnob of course). Superb solution to the alternator problem, and picks up the aircon as well. I have worked in Engineering all my life, built my own V8 MGB roadster, built unique bits of plant,thought I was good, but I am humbled by your skills. At some point you have to send your registration document to DVLC, saying note change of engine size and colour, and then with an MOT it is road legal as a tax exempt vehicle, because the roof and door frames, and a few other bits, are indeed original. Very satisfying to use the law to your advantage, and none of the Kit car rubbish rules. Good luck with the rest of the build.
This is the best build series I have ever seen. I have watched all of them probably 20 times (in black and white, mind you). You guys never cease to amaze me with what you come up with next and I can't wait to see it finished! I hope you will bring it to the states when it is finished so I can finally see it in color (colour?). I have learned so much from you guys that I am applying in my own builds (mostly unsuccessfully, but still) and I really appreciate the time you take to show all of the steps and explain the reasoning behind all of your decisions. So I just wanted to say thank you guys and good luck finishing it up!
Someone should check out the UK productivity figures in the two days following each episode release of Project Binky. These guys are a menace to to the GDP!😡😂
I recall seeing a great video about UK power demand spiking immediately after Coronation Street or similar from the whole country putting the jug on, can you imagine the effect the boys are having between these videos coming out AND all the tea they're drinking themselves?!
Bloody brilliant! Once I watched the Police Squad intro, I was hooked. I have since gone back and marathon watched my way to this point. Love it! With all of the Police Squad and Monty Python references, what's not to love. The comedy is spot on. Crack on, mates! Cheers from an ungrateful colonist, and fellow, albeit, less talented, fabricator.
This has been BY FAR my favorite episode. I dabble in a lot of simple machining stuff in my shop with a 70's lathe and china manual mill, and to see the parts you guys fabbed on similar machines made me SO HAPPY. Excited for the follow-up on the processes. I will be unmeasurably impressed if this was all done without computer modeling.
Y'all are just cranking these episodes out now! Never seen a flexy shaft like that used in a car before, what a neat idea. Its so cool watching you fabricate and engineer your way around problems that would cause many other fabricators/technicians to abandon the project.
you'd get a huge exposure from jay leno on his garage series. you should ping him. hilarious and deeply cool project. i love you guys. this was the best thing on the internet.
It's pleasure to see you and Binky this fast again! No need to praise your work again, but it is real engineering! So Nik is tinsmith, mechanic (machinist) and Richard is auto electrician? That weight measuring cracked me up! XD
Took me 3 days but I finally watched all 20 (so far) episodes. I'm speechless. The expertise and genius on show here is staggering (as are all the cups of tea!). This was a no-brainer instant sub from 10 mins into Episode 1. Oh yeah... Red Mini, black or white roof :) Best of luck with the rest of the build guys.
btw, toothed drive belts on road cars (and rally cars!!) really need very good guarding stop stop bits of gravel getting into those teeth and jumping the belt clean off! PolyV belts are the correct choice here (my choice would have been to mount a small high performance (high speed) alternator on the normal FEAD, and then run with an electric PAS pump and electric water pump that could have been easily re-located anywhere........ You could also have run an electric A/C pump, from a DC/DC convertor too, as the average A/C loads are fairly small, and you have a small cabin/small glasshouse, so pull down loading is not going to be an issue)
What an incredible amount of work resumed in 32 mins! I thought just the wiring itself was about this episode when I saw the alternator/aircon fixing conundrum. You guys are incredible. You guys need to make an episode about the machines on that shop, I saw a small old style lathe, a drill/mill and many other small machines, as well as a Mach3 software running on a PC. It is just unbelievable how accessible machining is nowadays. Keep up the good work and for god sake, we are all dying to see this car running!
So I looked at the front lights, and thought, those are just like the ones on my Defender, which of course makes sense given the heavy crossover between Rover and British Leyland. Despite having spend hundreds of hours and thousands of pounds bolting nifty things onto my Landy, the single best upgrade I ever gave it was one of the quickest and simplest. LED lights. You can get drop-in replacements for the front indicators, and Truck Lite make sealed LED headlight units that even have a standard H4 connector on, and side-lights built in. Compared to the BL-grade glow worms I had before, it was light and day. I can thoroughly recommend them. I've no connection with the manufacturer, I just love being able to see 3 times as far at night. I was considering adding front floods for off-roading, but don't see the point now I've got the LED units.
i came across the project binky series by accident and haven't stopped watching since yesterday ........ im nearly caught up now cant wait to see the finished result
You may want to consider the issues most people encounter when running a solid crank pulley. The Toyota crank pulley has a layer of rubber in it to dampen the crank vibrations. Guys that run a solid crank on their MR2 often have issues with the front main bearing wearing or other mains issues.
Sorent1993 correct, the belt and flex shaft have enough damping to that side of the accessories. But the crankshaft is what I was concerned with. If you took all the accessories out the damping (or lack thereof) would still be present.
maybe gear ratios and how to couple the two? The flywheel is a giant diameter, they would need to have an almost equally sized gear on the accessories to not make them go too fast. The gear pitch on flywheels are also straight cut and designed for side engagement of a starter spur gear. I would think that the noise would be tremendous. Maybe just how can you access the flywheel? Would they have had to cut and weld into the side of the transmission? That would be an undertaking of its own.
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Thanks for all the comments everyone! We really appreciate your support. We're not sure exactly how successful the ancillary drive will be. Ultimately the only way to tell will be to run it and find out. It may not last very long and might need regular maintenance, it might be fine but we're very much looking forward to finding out.
Hi guys. Loving this series. If you don't mind me giving my 2 pennies worth, you might want to ditch that Gates ' Horizon' belt for a standard Gates belt of the same size ( if they do one ) as those ' Horizon ' belts are rubbish. I've fitted a few over the past few years ( mechanic of erm...... yeah, 23 years ) and they don't even last 12 months before they are all perished and splitting. I'm in awe of your engineering skills. That whole bearing carrier, pulley set up is amazing.
Great work, I'm very curious how well that is going to work. Would be very interesting to see the specs of that thingy.
If mechanical alternator solutions keep failing, perhaps you can hook up a few thermoelectric peltier elements which would produce electricity as long as the engine keeps warm. Perhaps mounted with heat sinks to help cool the extractor with plumbing off. (The exhaust should be the component that reaches effective temperature the fastest as well.). I imagine it would save a ton in weight as well.
No grommets where the wiring runs through the frame rails, etc. @ th-cam.com/video/WIyxrvO3dRk/w-d-xo.html ? would hate to see those edges cut through the insulation and ruin all that hard work.
The whole thing will come apart and be painted. Then final assembly gets all the proper rubbers and such.
when it fails just cut the distributor shaft off and put a pulley on that
my cat recieved a time-jump notification on the multimeter, asked me to look into it. Glad to see it worked out. That's quite the puzzle you're building there!
😁 Love your work sir, hope you didn't mind our blatant plagiarism.
Nice to see you here sir.
My brothers step aunties cats uncles dog thinks you're a liar, but i digress
by the way thanks for the many hours of entertaining videos that you put out both of you i mean
Two of my three favourite channels - just need 44 Teeth to add a comment now!!!
"I think that's enough for this episode" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
You did keep watching to the end, though, right?
My thoughts exactly, and @Robert Shaw, yes i did. :-)
Rem!
I almost cried.
Currently, the 7 1/2 saddest words in the English language.
Outstanding getting these episodes out now at faster pace!
we need this... for our sanity sake
2 a quarter, practically breakneck!
The problem here, I base my measurements for times in my life around the important things. It used to be marked by a new episode every three to six months. Now I am going to misjudged memories by up to a year.
Hi you guys. Wow. Machining in fast forward makes it look so easy. What are your trades / day jobs ?.
@@240SSONLY Don't say that; you might startle them.
Did anyone else get a notification a few hours ago (currently 21:59 GMT -8, December 13 2023) saying this was just uploaded? I about lost my mind when I saw a notification for a new Binky upload only to be utterly CRUSHED.
Binge watching this from the start again. So much thought, consideration, graft, ingenuity, problem solving and packaging going into every aspect of this build. It's quite mentally exhausting just watching it!
The custom fabrication on this car is mind blowing.
I agree
Those pretty little ziptie mounts and plug hangers are honey to OCDs all around the world.
They say hands on craft is dying? pfft my arse this build is beyond the scale for awesomeness and what can be done with your bare hands and the right plan :D
I'm looking forward to them fully stripping it down again to cloth wrap the wiring and of course all the tiny details like painting the whole thing purple!
Holy cow. That alternator setup is something else!
This ... is an understatement.
Nice profile picture.
Chris Barbati - Thank you. :D
@@rucarnuts13 oOo FB33 !! :) I miss mine lol
@@darkblaze176 My father had an SA, and 2 FBs. Beautiful cars. I'm putting my FC back on the road soon (fingers crossed)
But... it's only been 1 month since the last video :O
I am so confused
I was hoping for the next video on Christmas day .
SO GOOD
Oct 1st, Nov 1st... Dec 1st? "two is coincidence three is a pattern" We'll see what the future holds!
They have already machined a way-back machine. This won't actually happen for two more years.
We’re getting close now! There’s only about 2-3 years left!!
You accidentally put a dash in the number there
about a couple ten-thousands of tea's in british time that is
@@nielsreiziger4850 I like British tea! I like it strong,but no milk.Just add honey,Honey.
You're not wrong....
Can confirm this wasn't the case 😂😂
Are we literally seeing his kids grow up in front of our eyes? Fantastic.
A new Project Binky!
**Drops everything**
Seems weird ... I'll wait 2 months before watching this episode.
Sorry m8, we don't have that patience!
I'm going to give myself a New Years surprise with this one.
The level of engineering is mindblowing
Wow. That whole alternator adjustment assembly is off the charts, brilliant.
I love how they actually took the twins advice and incorporated rainbow into the paint job! This series is like an onion!
Nice little nod to ToT there :)
Now you need to start picking on the other guys aswell, as per TH-cam etiquette.
Jonas Eklund ting!
Time machine lathe too, a BOM and TOT collaboration would be amazing.
Hopefully the lathe was set to imperial..
I want to see Abom79 try to fit in the Mini.
That was perfection.
HOLY CRAP, two episodes with just a month between????
I would say it's a christmas miracle.. but not quite there yet
maybe we'll get another for christmas! I hope I didn't just jinks them.
Wait what?.....what is this sorcery? 2 episodes in such close succession! I am staggered and amazed by this magic.......more more more!!!!!!!!
lol you hav been watching to many "hand tool rescue"
@@danhard8440 I love 'Hand Tool Rescue'. Runs a close second to Binky.
I just found this series and caught up in a few days. Now to suffer through the long waits. It's worth it. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Nik, for having a go at SUVs. I'm glad someone else in the world gets it.
I hate them. Utterly pointless for most drivers.
the lathe montages were absolutely beautiful just as the whole series
😂 love this old tony lathe and bar stock gags
darryl..and the stripper that's seen plenty of action....
Ya I recognized it as well. :)
I broke 3 ribs a few years back, and the real story was so boring that I told everyone it came from laughing at your videos. After watching this video, someone please call a medic! Srsly, has to be the funniest video to-date.
No need to balance any of these pulleys?
Jafro! Its cool seeing other tubers on other builds LOL
Heya Jafro. Any quick passes of late?
Hi Jafro!
Jafro!!!!!
The amount of work you put into that single alternator system alone is absolutely INSANE and inspiring all in one go. Brilliant work!
Best car channel on TH-cam 👍
Car channel? Nooo... This is a tea appreciation channel; the car stuff they do is just something ancillary while they're waiting for the jug to boil.
Some say longest car channel as well...
True, but holy balls i watched an episode 5 months ago and they pmuch didnt progress since...
@@suicidalbanananana 5 years ago for me... Wondered if the car has appreciated LOL
@@suicidalbanananana I'm torn between wanting to see it finished and considering the void that will be left in everyone's life if they do ever finish unless they immediately move on to fitting the mechanicals of a Tiger tank into a Fiat 500
Never clicked an TH-cam notification so fast!
I shouted so loud, my dog got excited too !!!
I stared at the notification in disbelieve for way to long
Same here ^^
Third here
Makes me wonder what these guys could get up to with AvE's fancy new 5-axis CNC machine :)
trhey'd get up to a lot of over engineered shenanigans
THE COMEDY WOULD BE NICE TO SEE...
I'm not sure fusion 360 accepts cardboard inputs
Imagine how long it'd take them to set it up! Videos would be 3 years apart 😂
They could build a bloody Mini Transformer robot.
after a 20 episode marathon over 2 days...i am super excited to find out how this turns out...no matter how long it takes! bravo gentlemen!
Whew, a lot happened in the last 10 minutes. I wonder what it feels like to have hundreds of hours of work reduced to 10-15min of video. Must be a strange feeling. Thanks for all you do, guys!
Amazing piece of work getting that alternator and a/c in. Where can I get some of those scissors?
Old Tony
Ichiban Moto. He's been doing it for years.
Probably the same store they "purchased" the ACME hole for the guard from
You could send one of this scissors to Neil so he can speed up finishing your Porsche engine! 😁
This Old Tony is the sole purveyor
Every episode is next-leveler than the last.
I was watching you run all that wiring & thinking, Where's all the insulation & grommets around the cabling, Then I thought, Well the car will have to totally disassembled for paint, So it'll be done when reassembled. Correct?
Another quality video & great laugh guys. Looking forward to the next one.
I thought the same thing. If not they'll be blowing fuses in the near future, or whenever it gets done, hopefully not 5 more years from now
I've just said similar, that loom needs taping up badly, and with how its got plugs on everything, i cant see how their planning on dismantling it all as those plugs won't fit through the holes...
Someone didn't catch the (Wallace &) Gromit reference at 0:48
I agree. After all the insane detail & fabrication on this car, they have to go back & loom and tape the harnesses. I can't imagine them leaving the wires bare that way.
They are doing a dry build- it’ll all come to bits for paint. Have faith!
Started watching your series a week ago, and its been STUNNING! 5 years of hard work, in 20 episodes......The next few years waiting for the finished product is going to drive me insane.....
You have overlooked a very easy solution to your ancillary drive needs. An electrically driven alternator! There are loads of videos right here on TH-cam describing how these wonders of perpetual-motion-free energy-devices work...of course if improperly constructed it will keep spinning faster and faster until you have created a black hole that destroys the universe as we know it! Maybe better stick withy the flexi-shaft thingy after all.
Having worked on a fair number of early to mid 2000's bmws, I was shouting at my TV when you first showed the earth connection. Much to my pleasure, you were way ahead of the problem as per the usual. Another great episode!
Jaw dropping attention to detail as always!
24:47 haha ToT tricks hehehe :)
That was soo smooth too.
I thought Ichiban Moto 😀😉
Saw that, went looking for the comment :)
I knew somebody else had already commented on this!
Ichiban Moto has been cutting pipe with scissors for years now.
I'm gutted. I came across episode 1 a couple of days ago, and judging by the date, thought the car would be done by the end of the playlist. so binge watched. Now I'm done and the car isn't. I dunno how you lot have been patient for 5 years, I neeeeeeeeeeeed to see it finished LOL
Two years later...
@@kevinmcneice8202 Oh god....
Absolutely love the This Old Tony reference!
Looking through the comments I wonder how many other people actually got that.
I thought that was of this old Tony reference lol
You changed to an electrically driven power steering pump, could you not do the same with the alternator?? 😉
if they got that to work they would have invented free power .
Mmmm... just pause for a sec and think about that statement.
- Eddy
alternators create electricity, they don't use electricity.
just pause for a second and notice the winky face
Exactly! Great minds think alike... and so can ours.
It's so satisfying and inspiring. Best show about the car I ever have watched.
From Russia with love )))))
Can't wait for the finale in episode 500.
I'm torn between wanting to see it finished and never wanting the episodes to end. Awesome job as usual guys.
Absolutely incredible fabrication and problem solving, the funny's are bloody good also.
Have you guys been sneaking through This Old Tonys book of tricks again?
I thought I was the only one who noticed that! Love it.
Stephen Smith me too
Got to love that time machine action
Guys, you could have saved so much time by taking a page out of the SEMA car builds book. Use a bluetooth alternator! Just like all of their bluetooth driveshafts and fuel lines!
to do that they also have to weld it with their feet
Lmfao
Yes. Way simpler than the electrically driven alternator they could have gone with!
I was going to suggest they use an electrically driven alternator.... (/me ducks and runs)
I was thinking, 'Turbocharger!', but sitting in traffic, revving the engine to charge the battery would be a tad antisocial.
great work as all ways. not sure if you know but a solid crank pulley with out the harmonic dampener can and has made the 3sgte crank crack in half, this is why you dont seem many people running them on the 3sgte
I'd not be surprised to see them build a balance shaft. Hahaha
I am gobsmacked. The level of skill, attention to detail, technical knowledge and ingenuity shown in these insanely entertaining episodes never fails to blow my mind.
I found episode one at 9am this morning, its now 11pm and im on ep 20. This project is epic and you 2 are amazing!
They get more done in one video than I do in a whole year on my one :')
Not sure who will be prepping and painting the car but i hope there's some footage or even episodes on it:)
Also the engine......im guessing thats been sent off to have work done to it?
what if it turns out hes an even better painter than he is a fabricator? mind blown!
love the ending with all the people who gave for the patron support that is a amazing amount of people
Phrases like "a labour of love" and "a work of art" are so often used but this car REALLY deserves them. What with the petrol tank and the HVAC box, as well as all the brackets and fabrication you've carried out I am simply blown away!
I don't think one of your episodes has ever felt this short before. Wow. 32 minutes flew by. Amazing work guys.
Always pays of to watch till the end :D
Love the imperial measurements... They make no sense to me either!
Great content and humor as usual..... Not sure why you haven't passed a million subs yet!?
Since I have started designing parts in CAD and working on cars, I have almost completely stopped using inches for small things. Liquid measurements make perfect sense In metric as well. I will not, however, ever be able to wrap my head around BAR vs PSI.
I tend to pick the easiest to say measurement for roughing stuff ( "an inch" is a bit easier than "two and a half centimetres" for instance ) - as an englishman using both casually seems a perfectly acceptable proposition - but I'd never ever use imperial for 3D work, or actual engineering. Mind you, 1/1000th of an inch is a good metric measurement!
I'm kinda with you on PSI vs BAR though.
@@podunk9798 maybe you should look into Pascal then ;) thats newtons per square meter. and Bar is derived from that i believe.
1 BAR is 100 kilopascals, and also very roughly atmospheric pressure at sea level, which is something like 15 PSI ( very roughly ) - which makes BAR a slightly awkward measurement for tyre pressures, unfortunately, given you end up using decimal places or doing it in millibars.
the only reason this channel doesn't have a metric ton more subs is the TH-cam algorithm won't suggest channels that release content as infrequently as BOM. all these lame vlog style channels got recommend because they post "content" every day. plus youtube won't push channels that don't max out the potential ad rev. being that BOM only has one ad for a 30 min. video. it's all about the money for them not the amazing content.
Love the this old tony references! Nice job guys!
Welcome back guys, as usual I'm blown away with the sheer talent.
How time flies. Seems like only yesterday I started watching - mainly because it was - and here you are 4 years later. It will be a tearful moment when you two hand off the project to your daughters on their 18th birthday. But I look forward to my grandchildren seeing the completed build! Carry on and keep a stiff calm upper lip.
Amazing craftsmanship! Thanks for the quick succession of recent videos too!
Wow!This flexishaft installation was maybe the most complex part!!!Awesome!!!!
The original pulley for your engine is a harmonic damper as well and you will be seeing engine harmonic problems if your replacement isn't. I'm talking about main bearing wipe out problems.
this is real ^
@Lassi Kinnunen Balancing to equalize and account for unequal forces and minor weight distrobution differences is one thing. The harmonic damper or pulley as mentioned here dampens harmonic frequencies created by the power pulses of the engine as it runs. Converting to a solid drive pulley can work, I've seen plenty of people do it on short duration race only applications but it is not good for your engine by any means and it can lead to hurt main bearings, broken crankshafts and a whole host of other issues.
Every episode is more and more impressive, I think you guys deserve some kind of award. Amazing....
OK, I have been in awe of your fabrication skills, your problem solving, your raiding of parts bins , adapting modifying improving reusing,etc, but this last episode takes the biscuit (Hobnob of course). Superb solution to the alternator problem, and picks up the aircon as well.
I have worked in Engineering all my life, built my own V8 MGB roadster, built unique bits of plant,thought I was good, but I am humbled by your skills.
At some point you have to send your registration document to DVLC, saying note change of engine size and colour, and then with an MOT it is road legal as a tax exempt vehicle, because the roof and door frames, and a few other bits, are indeed original. Very satisfying to use the law to your advantage, and none of the Kit car rubbish rules.
Good luck with the rest of the build.
That's a very nice package. And where you've put the alternator and A/C compressor isn't bad either.
It's like Christmas in November! This Old Tony is in the shop too.
Great work guys, when you complete the project I shell binge watch them all again.
This is the best build series I have ever seen. I have watched all of them probably 20 times (in black and white, mind you). You guys never cease to amaze me with what you come up with next and I can't wait to see it finished! I hope you will bring it to the states when it is finished so I can finally see it in color (colour?). I have learned so much from you guys that I am applying in my own builds (mostly unsuccessfully, but still) and I really appreciate the time you take to show all of the steps and explain the reasoning behind all of your decisions. So I just wanted to say thank you guys and good luck finishing it up!
Can this get any more AWESOME? the work you do guys. amazing... no other words
Someone should check out the UK productivity figures in the two days following each episode release of Project Binky. These guys are a menace to to the GDP!😡😂
I recall seeing a great video about UK power demand spiking immediately after Coronation Street or similar from the whole country putting the jug on, can you imagine the effect the boys are having between these videos coming out AND all the tea they're drinking themselves?!
Hahahaha...a good point.
I bet there is an upsurge in the tourist trade in Shropshire for folks coming around to look up Binky
@@Deputybull I hear they have a guard. Lol.
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Bloody brilliant! Once I watched the Police Squad intro, I was hooked. I have since gone back and marathon watched my way to this point. Love it! With all of the Police Squad and Monty Python references, what's not to love. The comedy is spot on. Crack on, mates!
Cheers from an ungrateful colonist, and fellow, albeit, less talented, fabricator.
Here we go boys! Quality content incoming
This has been BY FAR my favorite episode. I dabble in a lot of simple machining stuff in my shop with a 70's lathe and china manual mill, and to see the parts you guys fabbed on similar machines made me SO HAPPY. Excited for the follow-up on the processes. I will be unmeasurably impressed if this was all done without computer modeling.
Y'all are just cranking these episodes out now! Never seen a flexy shaft like that used in a car before, what a neat idea. Its so cool watching you fabricate and engineer your way around problems that would cause many other fabricators/technicians to abandon the project.
fooking hell lads thats one hell of a bit of work right there .
you'd get a huge exposure from jay leno on his garage series. you should ping him. hilarious and deeply cool project. i love you guys. this was the best thing on the internet.
Binky needs to go to S.E.M.A.!!!!!!!!!!!! What year?
It's pleasure to see you and Binky this fast again!
No need to praise your work again, but it is real engineering! So Nik is tinsmith, mechanic (machinist) and Richard is auto electrician? That weight measuring cracked me up! XD
Attention fellow commentators: I approve of the third brake light.
I am all for a subdued minimal roll cage as far as that goes.
Took me 3 days but I finally watched all 20 (so far) episodes. I'm speechless.
The expertise and genius on show here is staggering (as are all the cups of tea!).
This was a no-brainer instant sub from 10 mins into Episode 1.
Oh yeah... Red Mini, black or white roof :)
Best of luck with the rest of the build guys.
Thanks!
btw, toothed drive belts on road cars (and rally cars!!) really need very good guarding stop stop bits of gravel getting into those teeth and jumping the belt clean off! PolyV belts are the correct choice here (my choice would have been to mount a small high performance (high speed) alternator on the normal FEAD, and then run with an electric PAS pump and electric water pump that could have been easily re-located anywhere........ You could also have run an electric A/C pump, from a DC/DC convertor too, as the average A/C loads are fairly small, and you have a small cabin/small glasshouse, so pull down loading is not going to be an issue)
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give these brilliant guys their own television show. Please!!!!
The Count! I figure no one under 30 will get that reference. Great job boys!
No one under 30. 1234567891011121314.......................
I get it, and I was 27 when you made this comment! :P
this build never fails to blow my mind. Its been four years and I still get surprised by your amazing ideas and fab work.
What an incredible amount of work resumed in 32 mins! I thought just the wiring itself was about this episode when I saw the alternator/aircon fixing conundrum. You guys are incredible.
You guys need to make an episode about the machines on that shop, I saw a small old style lathe, a drill/mill and many other small machines, as well as a Mach3 software running on a PC. It is just unbelievable how accessible machining is nowadays.
Keep up the good work and for god sake, we are all dying to see this car running!
Incredible job ! My 2 cents : you should put a grommet where the wiring goes through a hole, vibrations might cut a wire !
Yeah, the big plus cable still lacks grommet as well. Maybe there will be a whole 2 hour episode called "All grommets, and nothing but(t) " 😊
I worried about that on last episode. I'm sure it's coming, hence the 'Gromit' gag at the beginning :)
I think the plan is to once it is done, its taken apart in order for Binky to get some laquer. Probably in the reassembly where cables get insulated.
Colin Jolivet, Didn't you see the Grommet Joke at the start of the video?.
Mark Thomas
It took me until just now to realize what that joke was...
12 points awarded for the This Old Tony nod at around 24:50!
Ichiban Moto has been doing it for years.
@@gjmob So has TOT but the smiley face flashed up on screen is a definite nod to Tony.
Who doesn't love Tony though.
It must be Christmas early !!!!!!!! Binky !!!!!!!!! Whoop whoop !!!!!!!!!!!!
Just binge watched all Binky episodes in 2 days. Now back to my LS 1976 International Scout build.
In a world of rushed jobs, it's really refreshing to see a project done with such care given to every detail! It's actually very relaxing to watch.
So I looked at the front lights, and thought, those are just like the ones on my Defender, which of course makes sense given the heavy crossover between Rover and British Leyland.
Despite having spend hundreds of hours and thousands of pounds bolting nifty things onto my Landy, the single best upgrade I ever gave it was one of the quickest and simplest.
LED lights. You can get drop-in replacements for the front indicators, and Truck Lite make sealed LED headlight units that even have a standard H4 connector on, and side-lights built in.
Compared to the BL-grade glow worms I had before, it was light and day. I can thoroughly recommend them. I've no connection with the manufacturer, I just love being able to see 3 times as far at night. I was considering adding front floods for off-roading, but don't see the point now I've got the LED units.
They are the same on all cars back from that era. Round ones came in a couple of different sizes only. Was used in everything.
@@stefanpetersons1878 Lucas offered car makers any size they wanted as long as it was 7" (or 5" if using 4 headlights). Helpful lot Lucas
Loved the 'This Old Tony' reference...next video I expect you to reference either ClickSpring or Abom79...come on you know you want too...
Nik Blackhurst is actually Millsy.
i came across the project binky series by accident and haven't stopped watching since yesterday ........ im nearly caught up now cant wait to see the finished result
my kid is 7 years old, he was 2 years when i started to watch your videos. Im starting to get anxious to see the finished mini.
Too soon. I haven't recovered from the last one yet.
Loved the This old Tony reference :-D
You may want to consider the issues most people encounter when running a solid crank pulley. The Toyota crank pulley has a layer of rubber in it to dampen the crank vibrations. Guys that run a solid crank on their MR2 often have issues with the front main bearing wearing or other mains issues.
Pretty sure that flexishaft is dampening enough.
André Ewert i Think he May be refering to the bottom end of the engine
Sorent1993 correct, the belt and flex shaft have enough damping to that side of the accessories. But the crankshaft is what I was concerned with. If you took all the accessories out the damping (or lack thereof) would still be present.
@@capnthepeafarmer i don't know why they didn't just take drive from the flywheel. Maybe too much noice from gears?
maybe gear ratios and how to couple the two? The flywheel is a giant diameter, they would need to have an almost equally sized gear on the accessories to not make them go too fast. The gear pitch on flywheels are also straight cut and designed for side engagement of a starter spur gear. I would think that the noise would be tremendous. Maybe just how can you access the flywheel? Would they have had to cut and weld into the side of the transmission? That would be an undertaking of its own.
For some reason, I'm really enjoying these high speed machining montages, and the ToT references are spot on!
This could be the best series for car guys on TH-cam can't wait to see how binky turns out.