The project is attached to a piece of equipment that saves people's lives. The big thing they wanted to do was buy a piece of equipment that saves people's lives, and that's exactly what it is - a jet ski with all the launch equipment to go out and save people's lives on one of the beaches in the UK.

The project aims to raise money for this equipment through an auction at the NEC Classic Car Auction. The auction will take place on Saturday, September 9th, during Remembrance Weekend. A link to the Just Giving page can be found in the description below, where viewers can contribute towards raising funds for the RNLI charity.

The project's organizers have already raised a significant amount of money through various means, including a successful Just Giving campaign. The additional funds from this auction will go towards training people to use the new equipment, which is designed to save lives at sea.

The auction will also feature an exciting preview of the event before it takes place. The project's hosts have been working on restoring a classic car, and they're eager to show off their progress. The car, known as Emma, has undergone a significant transformation, including a fresh coat of opalescent dark blue paint that has been chosen from 50 different shades.

The owners of the car have spent a lot of time choosing the color, opting for an original period color despite the availability of multiple options. They've also opted to restore the engine and gearbox to their original spec, with a fuel injection system and SU carbs adding to the classic look and feel of the vehicle.

One of the final components to be fitted is a cam cover, which has been carefully selected from Tom's collection. The cover features a unique design and color that complements the rest of the car's aesthetic.

The engine itself has undergone a significant transformation, with new internals being installed after the original components were deemed too poor for use. The result is a beautifully restored 4L straight six engine that has been dubbed the "drivve tribe one pound engine" - a tongue-in-cheek reference to its impressive performance capabilities despite its modest price tag.

The owners of the car have expressed enthusiasm for potentially using this engine in a project vehicle, possibly even with the addition of a supercharger to further boost its power output. The possibility of using this powerful engine has sparked excitement among fans of the channel, who are eagerly awaiting news of what's next for the drivve tribe.

For now, the focus is on showcasing the progress made on Emma and the equipment being auctioned off to raise funds for the RNLI charity. The project's hosts invite viewers to support their efforts by contributing to the Just Giving page or tuning in to watch the NEC Classic Car Auction on September 9th.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enearlier this year we saved a legendary straight six engine from a scrapyard we paid 1 for it and it was in bad shape we literally forklifted it out of a hedge transported it to Jaguar specialist Tom lenthal I'm going to rip the frad in the crank that's solid not proper solid and stripped it down to see just how bad things were after a year sitting outside in the element by the end of today's video this engine will be completely rebuilt and totally transformed do want you got be kidding me it should just fit the consequences have gone through the roof so we are back with our 4 L straight 6 engine that we paid 1 for and we've got some parts we've got Pistons we've got rods we've got a refurbished crank clutch flywheel but let's look at the really nice stuff the block and the head quite the glow up we gave it a quick pressure wash the last time we were here but Tom has been working behind the scenes so hard to get it looking like it does now the block could be saved the head couldn't we'll get to that in a bit but let's get the big man in and chat through how he's got this engine looking like this Tom it's good to be back this engine looks phenomenal I think genuinely some of our audience will not believe that this is the same block no you wouldn't believe it the amount of um cleaning and stuff is has gone in but you know it's come up quite well is it really well what I like is you've left some ptin so around the back here you can see sort of oxidization of exposion normally this because this engine sat around for so long the oxidization in the in the aluminium was so bad yeah I couldn't get rid of all of it and normally I would never paint the side of a block but I have given this a light dust in the paint just to make it look a little bit better but I left it around the back so you can see what it did look like even after the acid cleaning and all that sort of stuff so yeah it's come up all right well it's good to know that basically no matter how much fresh stuff we put in the original block is the original block the really good important thing is is okay the outside of the blocks the outside of but the inside of the block cleaned up beautifully which is what I expect well I mean the some of the the cylinders were heavily corroded oh yeah so they will have had to take some serious Machining to get back to where they are fortunately the Pistons that you've gone for uh are oversized anyway okay so they will have to be opened out so part of that process that got rid of all that okay so this could be saved but something that could be saved is the head look at that yeah we going to have a look yeah so this looks absolutely Immaculate but it's not our cylinder head no your cylinder head or the original one cuz it had been sat with the cam cover off yes it was so corroded the the corrosion was embedded into the cams in the lobes all of the followers everything was just too far gone and to buy all of the bits as individuals to replace them and sort the cinder head out would have been really really expensive so I took the decision that it just wasn't it wasn't financially viable it was a right off it a financial write off so then you then you got really lucky cuz one of my customers rung me up just by chance and said he was selling a lot of bits of which this was some stuff that he had sat in his shed a brand new New Old Stock Factory cylinder head with cam shafts fouls everything I couldn't believe it wow so it was meant to be yeah yeah I think it was meant to be so but we can't I can't get any better than that you know you can't yeah it is brand new the areand new everything's brand new and it means in the next couple of days we don't need to muck about the putting the cams in everything this will just lob straight on literally we just time up the cams which they roughly in the right place in a minute we'll sort that out and literally plunk it on top of the block bolt it down job's done okay well I've been chanti your guys here they say that when you build engines you like to do it by yourself y with no distractions correct get your own time correct we're doing none of those no no no it's not going to be one of those days know it's I find that when you're Building engines there's stuff you need to concentrate on because I'm so busy during the day and everyone needs me I tend to do it in the evenings right after the phone stopped ringing and all the rest of it but I've I've I've given them instructions to leave me alone today so we'll hopefully that'll happen and um yeah and then we'll be able to crack on and get it done what's first first thing is is the Block's all prepped so that's good that's ready to go so we just need to flip that over we need to start getting some bearings in it and then we'll drop the crank in and uh we're going to set the crank make sure that turns all right and then we move on to comrads and pistons okay bottom end let's go bottom end before we begin the build a quick thank you to all the people and places that have made this project happen classic and modern engines Machining performance unlimited for our con rods and pistons simply performance parts box your jack components timing chains s Barrett Parts TTV racing clutch and fly Fiel Roy Vapor blasting and of course the sponsor of the build liqu Molly is there anything weird about an ag16 that I should know about is there any like anything quirky or is it a pretty standard down the line engine no not really I mean you know as far as you know when I was at college and you start building engines and stuff like that you know we were doing sort of like little a series engines and things like that and you know the principle of a these engines is just like most engines they're all pretty much the same there's nothing overly exciting about it you know it's not like you're doing a like a rotary engine or something like that yeah yeah they don't exactly slide in AR very nice fit these Bears AR they no I'm not very happy with this one it's it's kind of kind of in but not too wide you got to be kidding me is there anything that's going to on this engine that's going to not give me a hard time so we've come across an immediate issue we're putting in these bearings and basically they've got a little tab on them that aligns with a slot in the block here and the tab I would say if you get in right in close here you can see I would say they're about a millimeter too wide a mill or two too wide which means they don't sit you just press them in and they should fit really nicely and they don't they sit proud some of them have kind of gone in but you can pretty much track all the way down the block and yeah they're about a mill out that needs to be as snug as can be THS on the phone I'm sure he'll sort out I have a far the hole out there which I'm not going to do because that's going to put SW for it everywhere I don't want it or I file that down a little bit so that it fits in nicely it will still say located blah blah blah blah blah how accurate does that little slot need to be it'd be nice if it was perfect okay but this is the reality of it if you think about it so the only way I'm going to get these bearings to go in and fit is by taking a little bit off that will it weaken the bearing and stop it from um or make it more lightly to spin no not for for what we're trying to do here but and this is this is the the joys of aftermarket parts and this is the first time I've used these be I've got no choice okay at this present moment in time I now have no choice no worries we're here we're doing it yeah I cannot leave that like that okay so we'll take all these out so we got to take them out and then I'm going to have to sit there to make them fit okay let's do that yeah so all taking a p what you have to do is if you f that down just just do a little bit right and then we'll give my wipe off make sure it fits and then what we're going to do is we clean each bearing before we put them back in for its final thing so but what I'm going to do is I want to put the bearings in yeah and then once it's in don't move it cuz we're pretty much tailor making them to each Journal now see yep I want to make it clear that I'm not comfortable with this situation but Tom's a professional what we're definitely going to do is make sure that they are all as clean as physically possible there's going to be little shards of swarf everywhere so we're GNA take them all out clean them again have a little test fit probably clean them again clean the block itself and then move on clean clean clean clean clean right dropping the crank in yeah yeah we're going to put the crank in yeah um I'm probably bit off doing that to be honest so cool that is tight in there Tom we were struggling but now this is actually going around quite nice how have we manag that okay so the frust washers were just a little bit too big so what we did we whipped it out I took them next door to my mates at Nicholson McLaren they stuck it on the surface grinder and they've taken free foul off of it we put it back in and I've now got a very very nice four foul VL so I'm backing happy place Mike so basic this bearing kit that we've got is a lot of crap yeah it's yeah I I would agree that you know it should just fit yeah because it's a standard crank with a little bit of wear in it that the washes should not be oversized we shouldn't have to do it however that's just the reality of Building engines let's talk it down yeah so now yeah let get some get some caps on it and talk it Down Easy while we super conscious people you know fulltime mechanics technicians they always say you can just tell by the way someone holds a tool oh yeah yeah yeah 100% And I just I just know I'm not holding it right but I can't do anything about it a few more lessons and you could just it you reckon I'd do your Sierra engine okay Wicked there you go yeah okay let's make sure it turns make sure didn't lock up on that last one that last little that last one yeah no and how free would you say that is it's really nice really it's turning nicely so that's a combination of um your amazing filing on the bearings obviously and um the fact that we've um had it line HED which is what um Paul at Classic and modern done for us so very cool so I would say that he's done that done a good job on that I can literally just pull the whole crank over one finger can't I obviously now we right next thing is we got to start assembling the Pistons on the rods and then we're going to start putting them in and again it's the same thing we're going to put a piston in we're going to bolt up the con Rod get the cap on it Bol it up torque it down now we're going to start getting some resistance in the engine because obviously we've got pistons and rings that's really going to drag it so that's really going to slow things up a little bit but it's really important that we can literally just push that over with a finger if it was any tighter than that we we'd be having to take it apart and we' be for witness marks of where it's biting and stuff like that okay cool so I'm happy with that nice rods pistons pistons and rods for the engine internals we're going to go forged performance unlimited up north have drafted Us in with cillo rods and pistons these look absolutely phenomenal let's compare them to the last remaining Piston from the original 1pint engine look at the state of that the other five were actually converted converted into prizes at Auto Alex's shedfest this is the final one just as a reminder how bad this engine really was look at the corrosion going on but yeah I think you'll agree bit of an upgrade these parts are fullon race spec items cillo being a very sought-after supplier of custom pistons and rods for projects just like this now it was the case of installing them into the block right I'm happy with that that's good right go go back around the top so she's all nice and flush okay that's good right now you ever go Tapp and or down then tell me when to commit yeah yeah you can commit keep going I'll tell you to stop oh oh look the relief remember that moment the strip down episode where Tom totally schooled me I've not got the weight behind me Tom oh is that what it is no can't do it we'll swap on Daddy lenol well it was time for another top tip lesson from daddy lenol why you laughing that you cuz you're you're an engineer right look that's perfect right okay I just explain something to you yeah if you're like that it's a lot harder is it whereas if you're ping it there then you've got more leverage it just makes it easier I feel like I'm doing more over there yeah yeah yeah but you got better feel then if you're like this you're having to put more you know cuz you're stretching and anyway you look you did I've just done it all God's sake Tom well done Mike thank you well done God damn it right come on and spin it over let's see what she feels like okay all six installed yeah let's have a pop clunk oh my God it's it's just beautiful yeah feels good doesn't it and the nice thing about a straight six is they come up in pairs go on turn it I'll turn it over oh Jesus now you just got to get out about 7,000 RPM in you that is stunning it just looks cool doesn't it what an engine we were soon going to need to hit the road for a parts run and Tom kindly offered the keys to his beloved Jaguar XJ it has recently come back from a road trip with the auto Alex team to Poland and back so I thought it was best to give it a quick service for him and considering it has the same engine as the one we're building it would be good to get some practice in look molia sent us all of these products including some nice fancy additives but first of all let's get oil back into Emma we've got some 10w40 let's get in that car we showed you you guys this car and this engine B in the last video of our one pound engine but just to remind you guys this is an aj6 supercharged 4 L straight six so this XGC is a proper Resto mod Tom says this engine is putting out around 370 horsepower which is a lot in a car this age considering how light it is so before we take it for a spin let's get some oil in there no glugging with me that's pure next we're going to put in some oil additive this stuff contains a form of high load lubricating film on all metal surfaces sounds good to me finally we added some liquid moly injection cleaner this removes deposits to maximize combustion making sure the fuel Burns as cleanly as possible to maintain Emma's engine health and performance while we were servicing Emma Tom fitted the timing chain and the tensioners he then called us over to finish fitting the oil pump with the old pump still showcasing some last signs of it scrapyard days you can actually hear the amount of water I mean probably not much oil left in it at all it literally is glugging around pump that's horrible yuck Tom it's next morning you better some stuff what what's been added on here okay so while you guys are all out having dinner and you know whining and dining did you really was it good was it yeah I I I was doing this but anyway look I just um I put the top time in change in and put this guide in and we needed some dowels to fit the oil pump and I managed to find some of those so I just fitted all that on oil pump chain and the oil pump tension and stroke guide okay so so basically the the timing chain setup is is done and ready so what we need to do this morning is we need to flip the engine over and then pick up put in the rest of the oil pickup system then we're going to put the front chest on and then we're going to put the back plate of the engine on and then we can flip it over and then we can put the sump on and then that'll be like the bottom end of the engine effectively done and then we'll start working on the the top end okay so the a is by lunchtime this will be totally finished and they just press in they literally just wiggle in on the earrings yeah what would you recommend we put this engine in I know obviously you've got your xjc but maybe outside of that I mean people put them in all sorts of things you know kit cars and you know whatever you know it's just whatever really floats your boat I mean I the sort of horsepower that you're going for I probably wouldn't stick it in like a cougar kit car or something I think you need it to be in something that's got a little bit of weight to it a good track and it's you know cuz it's going to go like stink they don't know how much Hors power we're going for yet so okay but that's that's a little Easter egg for them next it was time twack on the front chest using some Loctite that was kindly sent out for this build making sure the front of the engine was fully sealed sump time yep but we're going with a baffled sump what is a baffled sump and why do we need it a baffled sump is basically a something that's got gateways in it to try and keep the oil where we pick the um where the where the pipe picks it up from so when we're racing and we're breaking hard the oil flies up here and then we go around the corner the oil comes over here so what tends to happen is when you're breaking hard into a corner and turning at the same time all the oil is going away from where we want to keep it it soses away it slushes away yeah so we modify the sump and then I put in these this plate which has got a hole in it with little gateways so the oil can go through that way but then can't escape so the idea is is it means it keeps it where we want it so that slots down into the sump there and then this is our this then would sit on top of it and then what I do is we weld in this extra section here so instead of the oil slopping out out of the top it holds it where we want the where we want the pickup kind of locate the pickup locates in here so by we're putting in the extra section it keeps the oil where we want it rather than it pouring out all over the place at the end of the day this whole engine build is just one massive Lego set it's just a Lego set that if you get it wrong it goes catastrophically wrong it's just being an adult though isn't it it's the same stuff but the consequences I've gone through the roof fingers there we go so let's get this it's a bit tricky cuz these yeah you got to just give him a little bit of a squeeze and a little bit of Love sometimes just to get them to go where you want them to go ex it nice okay being an MG Rover guy I do like a head gasket I like a fresh one going on that's because you have to change them so much exactly that's that's that's what that's all about lovely so look that's it head gasket on we need a need a cylinder head let's W it over and we are literally going to lift it up just y yeah go that's it and straight down on the studs he says so right you're going to have to lift it and we have to what I tend to do is I if you lift it I let me line it up here that's it so you should be somewhere close at the back there that's it nice and try and let it down evenly with me look at that he what a beauty that's not too bad is it the amount of height that's added to the engine now I mean that is a beast of engine this it's a big old lamp yeah yeah yeah 4 L straight six what a beast yeah the last thing this engine needed was the cam cover which Tom had sent off to be painted like it was brand new apart from one little change I had in mind so Tom I reckon most of my audience will have seen this car before but if they haven't this is the famous Emma tell the audience about this it's such a cool car so Emma is a 1977 xjc 4.2 automatic it started our life okay and um it's not that anymore it's not that anymore no no no no may be able to hear it yeah yeah so yeah I just wanted to go out and find a nice good car nothing special I didn't want a Bodywork exercise and I didn't want a um a massive trim drob or anything like that so we wanted to do a mechanical Resto mod okay uh with a four 4 L supercharged engine uh manual gearbox um Standalone engine management system electronic throttle bodies um it's got all um Brembo four pot calipers on the rear four pots on the on the front as well with um big 355 mil disc I think they were okay um gas suspension uprated steering there was just yeah we rebuilt both front and rear axles to a high spec rebuilt the engine and um yeah and and I think the U you the outcome is quite cool you know it's got custom exhaust which I think you'd agree sounds quite nice yeah so this is essentially the same engine and well probably gearbox by the time we're finished that we're building right now correct yeah yeah so it's it's it's pretty much the like for like units comes out comes out of a 1995 1996 um supercharged Jag okay and it's called Emma because you had a friend that passed away called Emma and you've been raising and you know we built our we restored the mg of that Alex has been doing a whole load of things with regards to it as well um but this car is well it's kind of it's almost Bittersweet isn't it that this car is going up for sale very soon yeah h i i' I've grown very attached to this car more more than anything it's just so much fun to drive yeah it's you know you really could use this as a daily driver it feels fantastic yeah you know I've got a V12 one of these which had for years which I'm also very attached to uh and uh I really don't know it's I think this one's more fun okay but I'm very attached to the other one I can't let it go okay so it's going under the hammer at the NEC classic y that's right and all the profits from this project are going to the charity as well that's right yeah all the proceeds go to the oh Tom what a car oh yes yeah so the yeah the money goes to the on and we're buying a uh a jet ski with all the launch equipment to go on one of the beaches in the UK to go out and save people's lives so the big thing we wanted to do was buy a piece of equipment that saves people's lives so we've already we've actually already raised enough money uh on the just giving page with the other things we've been doing to pay for that bit of Kit amazing um the extra money from this is going to go towards training people to use okay the k so that's the very cool so yeah so hopefully we're going to do some good yeah and guys there's a link in the description below if you want to contribute toward towards the just giving page give towards the rnli then Link in the description donate what you can it'd be really really cool fingers crossed it's you know it's going to it's going to do really well so you know i' I'd like to see as much money raised for the charity as possible cool so this video will be going out before the auction so guys tune in to the NC Classic Car Auction it's silone is it Silverstone I think this one's scheduled for the Saturday which is the 9th yeah so remembrance weekend T it'll be on YouTube live stream and yeah check out how much Emma the Jag goes for good luck I hope it goes well thank you so we are now about to pull up at super spray Body Shop hello I'm Mike Jose hi Jose how you doing all right mate good man yes come on then let's have a look let's see what you've done for me so this is this is your current project this is my current project come on look at that that is fresh that's not bad is it what color is it do you know uh opalescent dark blue opalescent dark blue yeah so uh spent a long time choosing the color when I do stuff like this I think it's got to be an original color of period which this is although there's about 50 different shades of opalescent dark blue I've subsequently found out quite like it I think it's got the metallic in it's quite good got metallic yeah yeah when it's in the sunlight it should really pop out and it's just going to be restal mod like Emma or not as heavily but yeah I I don't do anything standard I don't I I believe in making the outside of the vehicle look as it is from the 60s or whatever period it is um but it's having the original type engine 5-speed gearbox air conditioning fuel injection uh with the Su carbs but I'm turning in a bodies um and that's that's about it really I decent suspension and few other bits and pieces but externally it will look just like a semi lightweight um replica e Ty which is what it is well Jose you've you've been working on the final bit of our engine build it's just around the corner can we have a look at it please oh yes look at that so Tom I very specifically asked you this is supposed to be red right this writing is normally red yes it is normally red yeah and I asked for basically silk cut purple purple yeah like my favorite racing jacks look at that perfect that is going to look good set on top of there it it is a good looking cam cover as well just in general but yeah that placed on top oh yes after buying this thing for1 dragging it out of a scrapyard and then resurrecting the worst internals we had ever seen this 4 L straight 6 is now the best looking engine we've ever had on the channel behold the drivve tribe one pound engine so what next for this engine well if there's appetite from you guys we will whack it in a car but probably not in its standard form some of you guys might notice there's something missing from this engine the supercharger now there's a reason behind that we've ched about it before this engine has a beefy bottom end and we reckon it could take some serious boost so why not go bigger why not take on some of the legendary straight sixes out of Japan from the '90s you know what they say go Garett or go home if you like this video give it a thumbs up I've been Mike and don't forget to subscribe to dri tribe we could go nuts with this thingearlier this year we saved a legendary straight six engine from a scrapyard we paid 1 for it and it was in bad shape we literally forklifted it out of a hedge transported it to Jaguar specialist Tom lenthal I'm going to rip the frad in the crank that's solid not proper solid and stripped it down to see just how bad things were after a year sitting outside in the element by the end of today's video this engine will be completely rebuilt and totally transformed do want you got be kidding me it should just fit the consequences have gone through the roof so we are back with our 4 L straight 6 engine that we paid 1 for and we've got some parts we've got Pistons we've got rods we've got a refurbished crank clutch flywheel but let's look at the really nice stuff the block and the head quite the glow up we gave it a quick pressure wash the last time we were here but Tom has been working behind the scenes so hard to get it looking like it does now the block could be saved the head couldn't we'll get to that in a bit but let's get the big man in and chat through how he's got this engine looking like this Tom it's good to be back this engine looks phenomenal I think genuinely some of our audience will not believe that this is the same block no you wouldn't believe it the amount of um cleaning and stuff is has gone in but you know it's come up quite well is it really well what I like is you've left some ptin so around the back here you can see sort of oxidization of exposion normally this because this engine sat around for so long the oxidization in the in the aluminium was so bad yeah I couldn't get rid of all of it and normally I would never paint the side of a block but I have given this a light dust in the paint just to make it look a little bit better but I left it around the back so you can see what it did look like even after the acid cleaning and all that sort of stuff so yeah it's come up all right well it's good to know that basically no matter how much fresh stuff we put in the original block is the original block the really good important thing is is okay the outside of the blocks the outside of but the inside of the block cleaned up beautifully which is what I expect well I mean the some of the the cylinders were heavily corroded oh yeah so they will have had to take some serious Machining to get back to where they are fortunately the Pistons that you've gone for uh are oversized anyway okay so they will have to be opened out so part of that process that got rid of all that okay so this could be saved but something that could be saved is the head look at that yeah we going to have a look yeah so this looks absolutely Immaculate but it's not our cylinder head no your cylinder head or the original one cuz it had been sat with the cam cover off yes it was so corroded the the corrosion was embedded into the cams in the lobes all of the followers everything was just too far gone and to buy all of the bits as individuals to replace them and sort the cinder head out would have been really really expensive so I took the decision that it just wasn't it wasn't financially viable it was a right off it a financial write off so then you then you got really lucky cuz one of my customers rung me up just by chance and said he was selling a lot of bits of which this was some stuff that he had sat in his shed a brand new New Old Stock Factory cylinder head with cam shafts fouls everything I couldn't believe it wow so it was meant to be yeah yeah I think it was meant to be so but we can't I can't get any better than that you know you can't yeah it is brand new the areand new everything's brand new and it means in the next couple of days we don't need to muck about the putting the cams in everything this will just lob straight on literally we just time up the cams which they roughly in the right place in a minute we'll sort that out and literally plunk it on top of the block bolt it down job's done okay well I've been chanti your guys here they say that when you build engines you like to do it by yourself y with no distractions correct get your own time correct we're doing none of those no no no it's not going to be one of those days know it's I find that when you're Building engines there's stuff you need to concentrate on because I'm so busy during the day and everyone needs me I tend to do it in the evenings right after the phone stopped ringing and all the rest of it but I've I've I've given them instructions to leave me alone today so we'll hopefully that'll happen and um yeah and then we'll be able to crack on and get it done what's first first thing is is the Block's all prepped so that's good that's ready to go so we just need to flip that over we need to start getting some bearings in it and then we'll drop the crank in and uh we're going to set the crank make sure that turns all right and then we move on to comrads and pistons okay bottom end let's go bottom end before we begin the build a quick thank you to all the people and places that have made this project happen classic and modern engines Machining performance unlimited for our con rods and pistons simply performance parts box your jack components timing chains s Barrett Parts TTV racing clutch and fly Fiel Roy Vapor blasting and of course the sponsor of the build liqu Molly is there anything weird about an ag16 that I should know about is there any like anything quirky or is it a pretty standard down the line engine no not really I mean you know as far as you know when I was at college and you start building engines and stuff like that you know we were doing sort of like little a series engines and things like that and you know the principle of a these engines is just like most engines they're all pretty much the same there's nothing overly exciting about it you know it's not like you're doing a like a rotary engine or something like that yeah yeah they don't exactly slide in AR very nice fit these Bears AR they no I'm not very happy with this one it's it's kind of kind of in but not too wide you got to be kidding me is there anything that's going to on this engine that's going to not give me a hard time so we've come across an immediate issue we're putting in these bearings and basically they've got a little tab on them that aligns with a slot in the block here and the tab I would say if you get in right in close here you can see I would say they're about a millimeter too wide a mill or two too wide which means they don't sit you just press them in and they should fit really nicely and they don't they sit proud some of them have kind of gone in but you can pretty much track all the way down the block and yeah they're about a mill out that needs to be as snug as can be THS on the phone I'm sure he'll sort out I have a far the hole out there which I'm not going to do because that's going to put SW for it everywhere I don't want it or I file that down a little bit so that it fits in nicely it will still say located blah blah blah blah blah how accurate does that little slot need to be it'd be nice if it was perfect okay but this is the reality of it if you think about it so the only way I'm going to get these bearings to go in and fit is by taking a little bit off that will it weaken the bearing and stop it from um or make it more lightly to spin no not for for what we're trying to do here but and this is this is the the joys of aftermarket parts and this is the first time I've used these be I've got no choice okay at this present moment in time I now have no choice no worries we're here we're doing it yeah I cannot leave that like that okay so we'll take all these out so we got to take them out and then I'm going to have to sit there to make them fit okay let's do that yeah so all taking a p what you have to do is if you f that down just just do a little bit right and then we'll give my wipe off make sure it fits and then what we're going to do is we clean each bearing before we put them back in for its final thing so but what I'm going to do is I want to put the bearings in yeah and then once it's in don't move it cuz we're pretty much tailor making them to each Journal now see yep I want to make it clear that I'm not comfortable with this situation but Tom's a professional what we're definitely going to do is make sure that they are all as clean as physically possible there's going to be little shards of swarf everywhere so we're GNA take them all out clean them again have a little test fit probably clean them again clean the block itself and then move on clean clean clean clean clean right dropping the crank in yeah yeah we're going to put the crank in yeah um I'm probably bit off doing that to be honest so cool that is tight in there Tom we were struggling but now this is actually going around quite nice how have we manag that okay so the frust washers were just a little bit too big so what we did we whipped it out I took them next door to my mates at Nicholson McLaren they stuck it on the surface grinder and they've taken free foul off of it we put it back in and I've now got a very very nice four foul VL so I'm backing happy place Mike so basic this bearing kit that we've got is a lot of crap yeah it's yeah I I would agree that you know it should just fit yeah because it's a standard crank with a little bit of wear in it that the washes should not be oversized we shouldn't have to do it however that's just the reality of Building engines let's talk it down yeah so now yeah let get some get some caps on it and talk it Down Easy while we super conscious people you know fulltime mechanics technicians they always say you can just tell by the way someone holds a tool oh yeah yeah yeah 100% And I just I just know I'm not holding it right but I can't do anything about it a few more lessons and you could just it you reckon I'd do your Sierra engine okay Wicked there you go yeah okay let's make sure it turns make sure didn't lock up on that last one that last little that last one yeah no and how free would you say that is it's really nice really it's turning nicely so that's a combination of um your amazing filing on the bearings obviously and um the fact that we've um had it line HED which is what um Paul at Classic and modern done for us so very cool so I would say that he's done that done a good job on that I can literally just pull the whole crank over one finger can't I obviously now we right next thing is we got to start assembling the Pistons on the rods and then we're going to start putting them in and again it's the same thing we're going to put a piston in we're going to bolt up the con Rod get the cap on it Bol it up torque it down now we're going to start getting some resistance in the engine because obviously we've got pistons and rings that's really going to drag it so that's really going to slow things up a little bit but it's really important that we can literally just push that over with a finger if it was any tighter than that we we'd be having to take it apart and we' be for witness marks of where it's biting and stuff like that okay cool so I'm happy with that nice rods pistons pistons and rods for the engine internals we're going to go forged performance unlimited up north have drafted Us in with cillo rods and pistons these look absolutely phenomenal let's compare them to the last remaining Piston from the original 1pint engine look at the state of that the other five were actually converted converted into prizes at Auto Alex's shedfest this is the final one just as a reminder how bad this engine really was look at the corrosion going on but yeah I think you'll agree bit of an upgrade these parts are fullon race spec items cillo being a very sought-after supplier of custom pistons and rods for projects just like this now it was the case of installing them into the block right I'm happy with that that's good right go go back around the top so she's all nice and flush okay that's good right now you ever go Tapp and or down then tell me when to commit yeah yeah you can commit keep going I'll tell you to stop oh oh look the relief remember that moment the strip down episode where Tom totally schooled me I've not got the weight behind me Tom oh is that what it is no can't do it we'll swap on Daddy lenol well it was time for another top tip lesson from daddy lenol why you laughing that you cuz you're you're an engineer right look that's perfect right okay I just explain something to you yeah if you're like that it's a lot harder is it whereas if you're ping it there then you've got more leverage it just makes it easier I feel like I'm doing more over there yeah yeah yeah but you got better feel then if you're like this you're having to put more you know cuz you're stretching and anyway you look you did I've just done it all God's sake Tom well done Mike thank you well done God damn it right come on and spin it over let's see what she feels like okay all six installed yeah let's have a pop clunk oh my God it's it's just beautiful yeah feels good doesn't it and the nice thing about a straight six is they come up in pairs go on turn it I'll turn it over oh Jesus now you just got to get out about 7,000 RPM in you that is stunning it just looks cool doesn't it what an engine we were soon going to need to hit the road for a parts run and Tom kindly offered the keys to his beloved Jaguar XJ it has recently come back from a road trip with the auto Alex team to Poland and back so I thought it was best to give it a quick service for him and considering it has the same engine as the one we're building it would be good to get some practice in look molia sent us all of these products including some nice fancy additives but first of all let's get oil back into Emma we've got some 10w40 let's get in that car we showed you you guys this car and this engine B in the last video of our one pound engine but just to remind you guys this is an aj6 supercharged 4 L straight six so this XGC is a proper Resto mod Tom says this engine is putting out around 370 horsepower which is a lot in a car this age considering how light it is so before we take it for a spin let's get some oil in there no glugging with me that's pure next we're going to put in some oil additive this stuff contains a form of high load lubricating film on all metal surfaces sounds good to me finally we added some liquid moly injection cleaner this removes deposits to maximize combustion making sure the fuel Burns as cleanly as possible to maintain Emma's engine health and performance while we were servicing Emma Tom fitted the timing chain and the tensioners he then called us over to finish fitting the oil pump with the old pump still showcasing some last signs of it scrapyard days you can actually hear the amount of water I mean probably not much oil left in it at all it literally is glugging around pump that's horrible yuck Tom it's next morning you better some stuff what what's been added on here okay so while you guys are all out having dinner and you know whining and dining did you really was it good was it yeah I I I was doing this but anyway look I just um I put the top time in change in and put this guide in and we needed some dowels to fit the oil pump and I managed to find some of those so I just fitted all that on oil pump chain and the oil pump tension and stroke guide okay so so basically the the timing chain setup is is done and ready so what we need to do this morning is we need to flip the engine over and then pick up put in the rest of the oil pickup system then we're going to put the front chest on and then we're going to put the back plate of the engine on and then we can flip it over and then we can put the sump on and then that'll be like the bottom end of the engine effectively done and then we'll start working on the the top end okay so the a is by lunchtime this will be totally finished and they just press in they literally just wiggle in on the earrings yeah what would you recommend we put this engine in I know obviously you've got your xjc but maybe outside of that I mean people put them in all sorts of things you know kit cars and you know whatever you know it's just whatever really floats your boat I mean I the sort of horsepower that you're going for I probably wouldn't stick it in like a cougar kit car or something I think you need it to be in something that's got a little bit of weight to it a good track and it's you know cuz it's going to go like stink they don't know how much Hors power we're going for yet so okay but that's that's a little Easter egg for them next it was time twack on the front chest using some Loctite that was kindly sent out for this build making sure the front of the engine was fully sealed sump time yep but we're going with a baffled sump what is a baffled sump and why do we need it a baffled sump is basically a something that's got gateways in it to try and keep the oil where we pick the um where the where the pipe picks it up from so when we're racing and we're breaking hard the oil flies up here and then we go around the corner the oil comes over here so what tends to happen is when you're breaking hard into a corner and turning at the same time all the oil is going away from where we want to keep it it soses away it slushes away yeah so we modify the sump and then I put in these this plate which has got a hole in it with little gateways so the oil can go through that way but then can't escape so the idea is is it means it keeps it where we want it so that slots down into the sump there and then this is our this then would sit on top of it and then what I do is we weld in this extra section here so instead of the oil slopping out out of the top it holds it where we want the where we want the pickup kind of locate the pickup locates in here so by we're putting in the extra section it keeps the oil where we want it rather than it pouring out all over the place at the end of the day this whole engine build is just one massive Lego set it's just a Lego set that if you get it wrong it goes catastrophically wrong it's just being an adult though isn't it it's the same stuff but the consequences I've gone through the roof fingers there we go so let's get this it's a bit tricky cuz these yeah you got to just give him a little bit of a squeeze and a little bit of Love sometimes just to get them to go where you want them to go ex it nice okay being an MG Rover guy I do like a head gasket I like a fresh one going on that's because you have to change them so much exactly that's that's that's what that's all about lovely so look that's it head gasket on we need a need a cylinder head let's W it over and we are literally going to lift it up just y yeah go that's it and straight down on the studs he says so right you're going to have to lift it and we have to what I tend to do is I if you lift it I let me line it up here that's it so you should be somewhere close at the back there that's it nice and try and let it down evenly with me look at that he what a beauty that's not too bad is it the amount of height that's added to the engine now I mean that is a beast of engine this it's a big old lamp yeah yeah yeah 4 L straight six what a beast yeah the last thing this engine needed was the cam cover which Tom had sent off to be painted like it was brand new apart from one little change I had in mind so Tom I reckon most of my audience will have seen this car before but if they haven't this is the famous Emma tell the audience about this it's such a cool car so Emma is a 1977 xjc 4.2 automatic it started our life okay and um it's not that anymore it's not that anymore no no no no may be able to hear it yeah yeah so yeah I just wanted to go out and find a nice good car nothing special I didn't want a Bodywork exercise and I didn't want a um a massive trim drob or anything like that so we wanted to do a mechanical Resto mod okay uh with a four 4 L supercharged engine uh manual gearbox um Standalone engine management system electronic throttle bodies um it's got all um Brembo four pot calipers on the rear four pots on the on the front as well with um big 355 mil disc I think they were okay um gas suspension uprated steering there was just yeah we rebuilt both front and rear axles to a high spec rebuilt the engine and um yeah and and I think the U you the outcome is quite cool you know it's got custom exhaust which I think you'd agree sounds quite nice yeah so this is essentially the same engine and well probably gearbox by the time we're finished that we're building right now correct yeah yeah so it's it's it's pretty much the like for like units comes out comes out of a 1995 1996 um supercharged Jag okay and it's called Emma because you had a friend that passed away called Emma and you've been raising and you know we built our we restored the mg of that Alex has been doing a whole load of things with regards to it as well um but this car is well it's kind of it's almost Bittersweet isn't it that this car is going up for sale very soon yeah h i i' I've grown very attached to this car more more than anything it's just so much fun to drive yeah it's you know you really could use this as a daily driver it feels fantastic yeah you know I've got a V12 one of these which had for years which I'm also very attached to uh and uh I really don't know it's I think this one's more fun okay but I'm very attached to the other one I can't let it go okay so it's going under the hammer at the NEC classic y that's right and all the profits from this project are going to the charity as well that's right yeah all the proceeds go to the oh Tom what a car oh yes yeah so the yeah the money goes to the on and we're buying a uh a jet ski with all the launch equipment to go on one of the beaches in the UK to go out and save people's lives so the big thing we wanted to do was buy a piece of equipment that saves people's lives so we've already we've actually already raised enough money uh on the just giving page with the other things we've been doing to pay for that bit of Kit amazing um the extra money from this is going to go towards training people to use okay the k so that's the very cool so yeah so hopefully we're going to do some good yeah and guys there's a link in the description below if you want to contribute toward towards the just giving page give towards the rnli then Link in the description donate what you can it'd be really really cool fingers crossed it's you know it's going to it's going to do really well so you know i' I'd like to see as much money raised for the charity as possible cool so this video will be going out before the auction so guys tune in to the NC Classic Car Auction it's silone is it Silverstone I think this one's scheduled for the Saturday which is the 9th yeah so remembrance weekend T it'll be on YouTube live stream and yeah check out how much Emma the Jag goes for good luck I hope it goes well thank you so we are now about to pull up at super spray Body Shop hello I'm Mike Jose hi Jose how you doing all right mate good man yes come on then let's have a look let's see what you've done for me so this is this is your current project this is my current project come on look at that that is fresh that's not bad is it what color is it do you know uh opalescent dark blue opalescent dark blue yeah so uh spent a long time choosing the color when I do stuff like this I think it's got to be an original color of period which this is although there's about 50 different shades of opalescent dark blue I've subsequently found out quite like it I think it's got the metallic in it's quite good got metallic yeah yeah when it's in the sunlight it should really pop out and it's just going to be restal mod like Emma or not as heavily but yeah I I don't do anything standard I don't I I believe in making the outside of the vehicle look as it is from the 60s or whatever period it is um but it's having the original type engine 5-speed gearbox air conditioning fuel injection uh with the Su carbs but I'm turning in a bodies um and that's that's about it really I decent suspension and few other bits and pieces but externally it will look just like a semi lightweight um replica e Ty which is what it is well Jose you've you've been working on the final bit of our engine build it's just around the corner can we have a look at it please oh yes look at that so Tom I very specifically asked you this is supposed to be red right this writing is normally red yes it is normally red yeah and I asked for basically silk cut purple purple yeah like my favorite racing jacks look at that perfect that is going to look good set on top of there it it is a good looking cam cover as well just in general but yeah that placed on top oh yes after buying this thing for1 dragging it out of a scrapyard and then resurrecting the worst internals we had ever seen this 4 L straight 6 is now the best looking engine we've ever had on the channel behold the drivve tribe one pound engine so what next for this engine well if there's appetite from you guys we will whack it in a car but probably not in its standard form some of you guys might notice there's something missing from this engine the supercharger now there's a reason behind that we've ched about it before this engine has a beefy bottom end and we reckon it could take some serious boost so why not go bigger why not take on some of the legendary straight sixes out of Japan from the '90s you know what they say go Garett or go home if you like this video give it a thumbs up I've been Mike and don't forget to subscribe to dri tribe we could go nuts with this thing\n"