The Journey of Restoration: A Unique MX-5 Experience

As I reflect on the journey of restoring my MX-5, I am reminded of the challenges and triumphs that come with reviving an old car. The process has been a labor of love, requiring patience, dedication, and a willingness to get my hands dirty. The ultimate goal was to breathe new life into a car that had seen better days, and I'm thrilled to say that we've made significant progress.

The metal works were one of the most daunting tasks, as the previous repairs had left the car in a precarious state. Someone had attempted to fix the damaged section, but the result was a mess of welded bits and filler that didn't quite match. It was a perfect storm of poor repair work and neglect, leaving the car with a host of problems. However, with careful planning and attention to detail, we were able to rebuild the crushed section and get it looking like new again.

One of the most memorable moments came when my dad and I, both 19 years old at the time, worked on our first project car in our driveway. We had limited resources but a passion for fixing things, and that experience has stayed with me to this day. The MX-5 restoration is a testament to the power of community and collaboration. My team and I have been working tirelessly to bring this car back to life, and it's incredible to see how far we've come.

Now, as we near completion, the plan for the car's future is taking shape. We'll be putting new front wings on the car, along with fresh powder-coated subframes, arms, and bushes. The car will then be sent off to paint, after which it will be ready for collection by you, our esteemed guests. I want to emphasize that we're working hard to get this car up to BDI standards, and I'm confident that the end result will be nothing short of stunning.

Underneath the car, the subframes and mountings are in a state of disrepair, having rusted over time due to neglect. However, with the focus on bodywork, we've been able to tackle these issues head-on. Once all the work is complete, this MX-5 will be an absolute showstopper, boasting one of the most incredible engines ever made – a V10, of course! We're excited to share updates from our YouTube channel, which has been documenting the entire restoration process.

In fact, we've recently finished filming some behind-the-scenes footage that showcases just how rough things were before our intervention. It's heartening to see how far we've come and how the car is slowly but surely taking shape. As I look at my MX-5 now, I'm filled with a sense of pride and accomplishment, knowing that it will be cherished by its new owner.

The V10 Project: A New Chapter

Now that the main restoration work is complete, we're shifting our focus to the V10 project – an ambitious undertaking that promises to push the boundaries of what's possible in this iconic car. By taking a slightly different route than originally planned, we'll be creating a more powerful and unique MX-5 that will leave onlookers in awe.

The plan is to source another MX-5 for when the two-liter V10 is ready to go, allowing me to take it out for a spin and experience the raw power of this engine. For now, I'm thrilled with how my car is progressing, and I'm excited to show you the finished product in our next installment.

A Message from Mike

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign the most popular question I get asked either in my Instagram DMS or when I meet you guys in public what is happening to the V10 MX-5 I've also had some recent pressure from the boss himself give me a month next year and it'll be done so I've come back to the place where it all started to get an update on what is happening with the engine in case all of this is completely new to you let me give you a quick recap of the V10 MX-5 project thus far back in 2019 I was a motoring journalist writing on drivetribe I was and still am obsessed with V10 engines so I was researching quirky cars that happened to have v10s and I came across something called the connot type D A two plus two British sports car developed by ex-jaguar employees that would be powered by this amazing little engine a two liter 200 horsepower V10 capable of revving to over 12 000 RPM it seemed like an amazing piece of engineering but like many British sports car projects from the 90s it never saw the light of day but after a shared load of detective work I came across Bevin Davidson International an engineering firm that had bought the right to the Conor brand along with the cars and the engines and I then filmed the video rediscovering one of the type D's and we even got the tiny V10 running after 20 years being a small Ravi engine that isn't much bigger than a four-cylinder I pitched it to bdi's owner Phil Bevan that we should try and put the conot V10 in my Mark II MX-5 he said yes so I set about getting my crusty Mazda restored while the engine development cracked on before we dive in I need to give a quick message about today's video sponsor car vertical if you're doing an engine swap project like we are you need to know that you have a solid good car as a base so it really pays to get a car vertical report to give you a full comprehensive history of a vehicle to make sure you've bought a good one and by using our discount code drivetribe you can get 10 off let's say you want to engine swap an MX-5 like cars and you come across this Mark II on the internet you plug its Vin or reg into car vertical and you get this report up top it gives you a quick summary this Mazda has never been stolen clocked it doesn't have any outstanding Finance but predictably it's apparently been in an accident scrolling down you get the data log of this 2004 car showing a couple of MOT failures in comes the predictable corrosion in 2017 but otherwise it all looks pretty clean until it notifies you that damage occurred in December 2019. moving on there's the mileage graph which is pretty low for a Mark II things are looking good until you get to the photos oh no that is that is one big forceful blunt hit to the front end I've actually crashed my Mark II before there'll be more on that later but it was nothing compared to this the gaping hole between the front wing and the doors shows just how bent this MX-5 is that your bag has predictably gone off as well this could probably be saved with some new front chassis rails and new body parts and in fact the report says it was on sale again in March 2020 so maybe someone did fix it if so imagine you bought this car not knowing that that had happened to it to make sure you don't buy a car with a sketchy history use our exclusive Link in the description below or at the discount code drivetribe to get 10 off when you use car vertical and thanks to them for sponsoring today's video the stuff from earlier was two years ago on my Mazda on the actual car is now finished it's fully restored but the engine development has been plagued with delays centering around the crankshaft so we're here at BDI today to have a sit down with Phil and find out where we stand here it is the two liter V10 engine isn't it a beautiful piece of engineering the whole thing that got me thinking about putting it in a Mazda is the dimensions I think the original four-cylinder from the MX-5 probably comes to about a year so it's not that much bigger a bit of jiggery pokery and it would slot straight in there this is one of the original blocks from over 20 years ago so we can dismantle this and show you the engineering happening underneath it is such a special thing two liters split over 10 cylinders so just 200 cc per cylinder motorbike small in fact it's less displacement per cylinder than the Suzuki Cappuccino that we have what makes it even more unique is how narrow angle it is 22.5 degrees between each bag and that obviously means it's a single cylinder head so technically it is a vr10 engine they're seeing anywhere between 180 and 220 horsepower naturally aspirators which would be perfect for an MX-5 but they've also had thoughts about boosting it either through a supercharger or Turbo charging and there's been numbers kicking around of 300 400 horsepower the craziest stat for this engine is they say it will rev between 10 and 14 000 RPM thanks to that fancy crankshaft that's been holding everything up if and when this engine gets running it will absolutely scream foreign Phil it's been a while since we last caught up how are things going on at BDI still crazy and manic as ever uh yes crazy in manic absolutely but that's what we do I have a low thresh on the boredom if I do the same job three times I get bored and I go and do that so we start up new things while we're finishing off some of the old ones in this year it's four projects before the summer get launched and another three before the end of the year cool so the last thing the audience heard about this engine was that there were some crankshaft Machining issues what were they and how are things going on that front now we put the crankshaft in it's all made out of small pieces as you can see by the crankshaft all the main bearings are separate from the big ends and they're all pressed together as the crankshafts were made in the 1920s and 30s very very good the main bearings with the oil just went into the aluminum block and that was working perfectly but all the oil pressure was going to the big ends and it wasn't going to the main bearings as much so we've now changed that since you've been in touch we now have roller bearings for for the main bearings and the big ends which means we can make more crankshaft speed it's all balanced it's perfect it's like a two-stroke when it comes to reps okay so that's a similar setup to like racing bikes no they have roller bearing cranks absolutely awesome basically the Machining issues were that they were being machined wrong is that correct absolutely yes terrible but everybody there was nobody old enough making our cranks we needed somebody in there 100 years old didn't remember how they used to be made and trying to teach a youngster how to do it is terrible because you just couldn't understand how it's being done so we've had to take that away we've gone to many companies to have it made in disappointing which is the time delay but now we're buying our own three axis Miller Machine to do it ourselves so 24 hours a day we'll be making our cranks to try and catch up with the interest that you've made on your TV program cool so you're making them yourselves what's the ETA on having a crankshaft in this engine because that's I'm writing that's the only thing that's stopping getting one of these running 100 other than the cylinder head here is being modified like our V6 but we don't need that to get the first engine in the marketplace yeah it's just the advertising with your car it'd be lovely for you to go out and see what it does compared with a two liter four-cylinder engine you've got a two liter V10 yeah the noise the performance the revs will be there we think there's a nice Marketplace but our Marketplace generally if we do a couple of hundred we'd be thrilled if we did 100 we'd be really really pleased we haven't got to do thousands we're just doing it out of the interested parties it wants something different sure and I guess it started I came to you saying can we put one in my Mazda but now it seems to have kind of evolved now you're actually thinking of no selling kits specifically for MX-5 customers well that's because of you Mike actually it's better to have if you have an MX-5 or another car the MX-5 because you have one it's nice to be able to do everything you take your Mazda engine out you put the V10 engine in them engine maintenance so they're ready to fit on the Mazda ones the gearbox in the prop shaft you take off you put the new prop shaft on everything you need is there the water pipes for your radiator the exhaust pipes the catalytic converters is all there so even if you're not a mechanic you should be able to do it because there'd be drawings of how to bolt it together all you then got to do put the battery on starter and go for a run okay I guess one thing people may be asking is that you know two years ago now we had our running V10 it didn't run for long it was only about a minute we had it going but it was running and that was using this crankshaft here so what has changed from this crankshaft to the other one why for example why can't we just shove this into this and get it going well they have forged crankshaft pieces and if I can just have that here I can show you this is this is another reason why it's been changed these are the main bearing webs here yeah and everyone is independent held together with the big end bearings here they get pushed through so it's all assembled when you machine it it's very easy having it machined then it needs to be all in parts and it needs to be hardened when it's been hardened so it doesn't expand you then grind it to the perfect fit and it's all pushed together into a crankshaft like this these forged ones aren't as good as Billet one's machined from solid metal so that's an upgrade this one all the lines in here which is the oilways they go into the block but we've done away with that now because too much oil was going to the big ends not enough oils going to the main bearings okay making an engine is all well and good and supplying it to you Mike would be very good I just don't want you coming back every year saying I need a new crankshaft so is that actually you can see some scoring oh this isn't the one this is just as a web it's this one with the line this one this one this one this one okay cool and this one these are just these are smaller don't go in the crank so they were lacking oil they had some but not enough so on that basis we've now because making it more modern they have roller bearings here roller bearings on the big end so you put this in we heat the block up because there's aluminum expands we drop the whole crankshaft in with the bearings and when it cools down it Clips the beam bearings the big ends rods go on here clamp on because it's in two halves of Rod which means now that the engine can rev more and we get more performance more revs because ultimately speed limit is the speed limit you can't go over 70 but to hear it the same like you're doing 90. it's good you don't have to go 90 to make it sound nice and keeping the 30 miles an hour in 60 miles an hour is also part of our deal okay so the the timings now you're gonna get your own CNC machine in the machine your own cranks and then doing the heads after that absolutely and then constructing everything together just on that one basis the problem when you use subcontractors is there's always a lead time when we say can you do this crank showers yes we can do it in four weeks time that four weeks can remember six weeks because they've already got work if they haven't got any work they'd be out of business so the only way we can do this is buy our own five axes and three axis Miller machines that do nothing but make our own crankshafts if we make too many they're in stock that's fine we can stop doing that we do something else but as you know we've got the V6 1200 cc V6 1000 cc and we have the two liter V10 well thank you for the update we'll get there in the end won't we well the end is this year I can guarantee you uh I'm talking to you you were very excited about it you've got me excited about it good whereas I normally run a five liter engine I'm going down to two liters yeah okay good door yeah cheers Phil and um yeah I guess we'll just see it all come together in the next few months that'd be great I can't wait tan is putting up a bit of a fight then it's proving much trickier than any of us first thought I guess that's engine development for you it was never going to be a simple engine swap like an LS or something with all of that in mind I've come up with a plan I want to have a V10 MX5 sooner rather than later and I think there is another route that we can get there that is not to say that I'm bailing on the two liter engine at all once that is done and dusted and running we will put it in an MX-5 but all it will take is one slight delay and anything filler said there's so many different factors and the project we just get pushed further and further down the line I want to crack on and have an MX-5 powered by 10 cylinders and as I see I've come up with another plan it's even crazier than the current project it'll take a lot of work but I think we can do it this year I want to have a V10 MX-5 running so leave it with me as I said earlier my MX-5 has been restored the actual car is now finished and we have filmed a video that covered the work on it we filmed it ages ago you can actually date it from the fact I turn up in my mgz TT I moved the car from where it was down to a place on the south coast called the MX-5 restorer sounds like the right place for it so we've got a whole film showing some of the work that's going on with the car and we'll show you the finished car in a future episode so without further Ado roll the tape foreign of course there's no point in having an engine that revs that high and sounds that good without having the car to put it in the last time you guys will have seen my MX-5 some Bodywork was getting done but I've made a call and I've moved the car to here the MX-5 restorer in Eastbourne in the south of England and I've been told a lot of work has been done Roy this is truly MX-5 Heaven you've been the main man working on the car and before we were just gonna Pat chop certain bits make it look good but you guys have found a lot more so tell us what's been happening with the car so yes it was quite bad when it went turned up it was quite a shock to see it turn up in two halves yes would not have one turn up like before um so yeah initially I'd look over it outside when it arrived and I my heart kind of went drop I didn't think it was that bad but then I've heard once you looped over it completely it was the worst MX5 you've ever seen is that correct yeah pretty much yes we have scraps cleaner ones right and you guys were begging me to basically switch car we did it on the day you turned up we was like you sure you want it in the project so yeah so basically what we've done um we've replaced both chassis legs so this section here yeah so both front and back of the section has all been done and ground flush we've also found that these panels that are under the headlights were absolutely rotten through so this one has been done yeah as you can see you can't buy these so we've had to cut them out of a good car so this one's been welded in and done this one is ready to be welded in which will get you to have a go at in a bit later today all right cool and we had a good cleanup on there because there's no engine anything no subframes yeah all the paint around here was all pickled and corroded and rotted because of brake fluid and clutch fluid have been dripped on over the years and just pickled a painting where the paint's gone it then gets water in it that's quite a common thing it's quite common yeah people a bit careless when they're topping them up and so we cleaned everything else back to Bare Metal treated so this would be nice and green when it's all painted and then underneath underneath I'll show you underneath I'm slightly scared so the first job we did was the chassis rolls yeah the second job we actually did was replacing the floor rails I mean they look great now they look fantastic but I can't imagine what they looked like before pancakes they're really really thin metal people Jack the cars up on them you're not supposed to yeah the floor-to-sill panels have all been replaced so this actually goes up inside the only way you can do that is to cut the outer seal off so the whole length both sides has both be cut off and everything's been rebuilt inside including front jacking points rear jacking points all this has been rebuilt okay okay so nice and solid coming back this way your cubby hole was rotted away okay again you can't buy this panel so I fabricated this one up took me a couple of hours to make it up and boiled that in why can't you buy them you think MX-5 is such a popular little card that everything would just be a replacement you can get a lot of panels um but it's certain stuff like this I've only really started showing their ugly head and started rotting out that no one's reproducing them at the moment everything's insanely uniform it's every single thing on each side there's Ripley it has to be yeah it has to be yeah we do it properly so and then coming onto the back end so around this pad so this panel here all of this was rotted away um all the metal behind this panel had rotted away okay so drill spot welder on this remove this panel clean that panel up Cube to one side uh made this panel up made this section this section as well did I do and this section it's all been rebuilt this this is pretty much you you cut into one section you find rock behind that so you get rid of that and then you find rock behind that you just have to keep going until you get all the rot out I've always been told BMX fives drop from the insane no it's literally everywhere right everywhere um so yeah this is all made up hand fabbed and then welded in okay and then obviously once that was cleaned up that was re-spot welded back into place we did that bit before and that looks like I did survive yes that bit has survived we've left that as it was nice so small yeah that's good yeah small wins last being done that's left as it was okay all right so is it just sheer weather because this was a Scottish car um is it the sheer Scottish weather that's just got in and brought in this car completely pretty much yeah we've had a few cars that have come down from Scotland and they've all been the same really really crusty really crusty it's just so where unfortunately anything it lives by Coast yeah it's sort of it will get attacked and be able to rot out well thank you for sticking with it we could quite easily have switched the car but you've stuck it out five weeks welding so far sorry but the engine going in it it's going to be worth it yeah definitely yeah definitely be worth it okay so it's done pretty much all the metal works done apart from that bit to the front apart from the front bear Corner um I've rebuilt all your crushed section as well yeah you were saying that was the worst bit that was the worst bit on the car yeah um obviously where someone had tried to repair it and pulled bits out and welded bits in and the filler and yeah it was completely the wrong shape and nothing was really attached it's exciting so it's Unique yeah yeah it was good I enjoyed doing it to be fair I did there was a few curse words but trying to get everything straight and back out but it's all done and you guys do film all your stuff as well so you've got your own YouTube channel so if you guys want to see all of that stuff happening yeah yeah we've done our own little videos on this as well uh like Gareth said we haven't sent we haven't put them out yet because we're on Cinema in conjunction with yourselves yeah yeah so and it's it's and it lights up so if you want to see the real nitty-gritty of just how horrendous a job this was go check out them on YouTube shall we crack on that bit at the front yeah can do yeah cool thank you it's been cool to do a little bit of work on the car but for time's sake we'll let Roy get stuck in I will get that good at welding at some point but for now let's crack on foreign 's finishing off that corner coming incredibly funny is up here pride of place in the MX-5 restore reception this is part of my soul and the star of the wheelocks that was originally on the car and as you can see it's a very functional fix literally bits of metal welded in place to give it some sort of structure to get through an mot and I will fully admit this was me and my dad when I was 19 on my driveway with not much to go with really but this is what a lot of Amex fires are all about they are people's first sports cars and sometimes fixes like this are needed to keep them on the road but thankfully the car is getting an incredibly fresh new lease of life and it's going to be one of the most unique mx-5s ever but this is where it came from I have indeed still needs a little work but we are looking a lot healthier than what we were so what is the plan for the car in the coming months to get it up to BDI get that engine in it what needs to be done before the meeting so what needs to be done next is we obviously we need to finish off this uh we'll be putting new front Wings on the car yeah um subframes are going to be taken out okay um so we're gonna have fresh powder coated soft frames arms all new bushes put in and then we'll then send the car off to paint and then it's down for you to come and collect okay yeah I do want to hammer that home you guys will have seen underneath the car the subframes and mountings and everything they work pretty Rusty but that's as they originally came they've not been sorted out yet it's all been about the car's Body Works so once all that's done this thing will be an absolute mentor and it'll get one of the most incredible engines ever made hopefully Roy thank you so much work on this car and good luck with the rest of it thank you very much I realized that I am incredibly lucky a lot of young guys buy an MX5 as their first car and like me they turn up to get an mot or some work done and their car is incredibly Rusty it turns out that it is destined for the scrap yard so I realized that I'm in an amazing position to have what was an incredibly Rusty car and get it saved and it will turn into one of the most special mx-5s of them all hopefully in the next episode there will be a V10 engine in that car there you have it then an update on the V10 MX-5 project as I said I've come up with a new plan for my car to make it a V10 MX5 through a slightly different route and actually a much more powerful route and then we will buy another MX-5 for when I get a full call from Phil saying that the two liter V10 is running and ready to go in the car my car is now painted and looking fresh and we will show you that in a future installment so stay tuned to see where this project goes next if I can pull off this new plan it is going to be one hell of a car if you like this video give it a thumbs up I've been Mike and don't forget to subscribe to drivetribe thank youforeign the most popular question I get asked either in my Instagram DMS or when I meet you guys in public what is happening to the V10 MX-5 I've also had some recent pressure from the boss himself give me a month next year and it'll be done so I've come back to the place where it all started to get an update on what is happening with the engine in case all of this is completely new to you let me give you a quick recap of the V10 MX-5 project thus far back in 2019 I was a motoring journalist writing on drivetribe I was and still am obsessed with V10 engines so I was researching quirky cars that happened to have v10s and I came across something called the connot type D A two plus two British sports car developed by ex-jaguar employees that would be powered by this amazing little engine a two liter 200 horsepower V10 capable of revving to over 12 000 RPM it seemed like an amazing piece of engineering but like many British sports car projects from the 90s it never saw the light of day but after a shared load of detective work I came across Bevin Davidson International an engineering firm that had bought the right to the Conor brand along with the cars and the engines and I then filmed the video rediscovering one of the type D's and we even got the tiny V10 running after 20 years being a small Ravi engine that isn't much bigger than a four-cylinder I pitched it to bdi's owner Phil Bevan that we should try and put the conot V10 in my Mark II MX-5 he said yes so I set about getting my crusty Mazda restored while the engine development cracked on before we dive in I need to give a quick message about today's video sponsor car vertical if you're doing an engine swap project like we are you need to know that you have a solid good car as a base so it really pays to get a car vertical report to give you a full comprehensive history of a vehicle to make sure you've bought a good one and by using our discount code drivetribe you can get 10 off let's say you want to engine swap an MX-5 like cars and you come across this Mark II on the internet you plug its Vin or reg into car vertical and you get this report up top it gives you a quick summary this Mazda has never been stolen clocked it doesn't have any outstanding Finance but predictably it's apparently been in an accident scrolling down you get the data log of this 2004 car showing a couple of MOT failures in comes the predictable corrosion in 2017 but otherwise it all looks pretty clean until it notifies you that damage occurred in December 2019. moving on there's the mileage graph which is pretty low for a Mark II things are looking good until you get to the photos oh no that is that is one big forceful blunt hit to the front end I've actually crashed my Mark II before there'll be more on that later but it was nothing compared to this the gaping hole between the front wing and the doors shows just how bent this MX-5 is that your bag has predictably gone off as well this could probably be saved with some new front chassis rails and new body parts and in fact the report says it was on sale again in March 2020 so maybe someone did fix it if so imagine you bought this car not knowing that that had happened to it to make sure you don't buy a car with a sketchy history use our exclusive Link in the description below or at the discount code drivetribe to get 10 off when you use car vertical and thanks to them for sponsoring today's video the stuff from earlier was two years ago on my Mazda on the actual car is now finished it's fully restored but the engine development has been plagued with delays centering around the crankshaft so we're here at BDI today to have a sit down with Phil and find out where we stand here it is the two liter V10 engine isn't it a beautiful piece of engineering the whole thing that got me thinking about putting it in a Mazda is the dimensions I think the original four-cylinder from the MX-5 probably comes to about a year so it's not that much bigger a bit of jiggery pokery and it would slot straight in there this is one of the original blocks from over 20 years ago so we can dismantle this and show you the engineering happening underneath it is such a special thing two liters split over 10 cylinders so just 200 cc per cylinder motorbike small in fact it's less displacement per cylinder than the Suzuki Cappuccino that we have what makes it even more unique is how narrow angle it is 22.5 degrees between each bag and that obviously means it's a single cylinder head so technically it is a vr10 engine they're seeing anywhere between 180 and 220 horsepower naturally aspirators which would be perfect for an MX-5 but they've also had thoughts about boosting it either through a supercharger or Turbo charging and there's been numbers kicking around of 300 400 horsepower the craziest stat for this engine is they say it will rev between 10 and 14 000 RPM thanks to that fancy crankshaft that's been holding everything up if and when this engine gets running it will absolutely scream foreign Phil it's been a while since we last caught up how are things going on at BDI still crazy and manic as ever uh yes crazy in manic absolutely but that's what we do I have a low thresh on the boredom if I do the same job three times I get bored and I go and do that so we start up new things while we're finishing off some of the old ones in this year it's four projects before the summer get launched and another three before the end of the year cool so the last thing the audience heard about this engine was that there were some crankshaft Machining issues what were they and how are things going on that front now we put the crankshaft in it's all made out of small pieces as you can see by the crankshaft all the main bearings are separate from the big ends and they're all pressed together as the crankshafts were made in the 1920s and 30s very very good the main bearings with the oil just went into the aluminum block and that was working perfectly but all the oil pressure was going to the big ends and it wasn't going to the main bearings as much so we've now changed that since you've been in touch we now have roller bearings for for the main bearings and the big ends which means we can make more crankshaft speed it's all balanced it's perfect it's like a two-stroke when it comes to reps okay so that's a similar setup to like racing bikes no they have roller bearing cranks absolutely awesome basically the Machining issues were that they were being machined wrong is that correct absolutely yes terrible but everybody there was nobody old enough making our cranks we needed somebody in there 100 years old didn't remember how they used to be made and trying to teach a youngster how to do it is terrible because you just couldn't understand how it's being done so we've had to take that away we've gone to many companies to have it made in disappointing which is the time delay but now we're buying our own three axis Miller Machine to do it ourselves so 24 hours a day we'll be making our cranks to try and catch up with the interest that you've made on your TV program cool so you're making them yourselves what's the ETA on having a crankshaft in this engine because that's I'm writing that's the only thing that's stopping getting one of these running 100 other than the cylinder head here is being modified like our V6 but we don't need that to get the first engine in the marketplace yeah it's just the advertising with your car it'd be lovely for you to go out and see what it does compared with a two liter four-cylinder engine you've got a two liter V10 yeah the noise the performance the revs will be there we think there's a nice Marketplace but our Marketplace generally if we do a couple of hundred we'd be thrilled if we did 100 we'd be really really pleased we haven't got to do thousands we're just doing it out of the interested parties it wants something different sure and I guess it started I came to you saying can we put one in my Mazda but now it seems to have kind of evolved now you're actually thinking of no selling kits specifically for MX-5 customers well that's because of you Mike actually it's better to have if you have an MX-5 or another car the MX-5 because you have one it's nice to be able to do everything you take your Mazda engine out you put the V10 engine in them engine maintenance so they're ready to fit on the Mazda ones the gearbox in the prop shaft you take off you put the new prop shaft on everything you need is there the water pipes for your radiator the exhaust pipes the catalytic converters is all there so even if you're not a mechanic you should be able to do it because there'd be drawings of how to bolt it together all you then got to do put the battery on starter and go for a run okay I guess one thing people may be asking is that you know two years ago now we had our running V10 it didn't run for long it was only about a minute we had it going but it was running and that was using this crankshaft here so what has changed from this crankshaft to the other one why for example why can't we just shove this into this and get it going well they have forged crankshaft pieces and if I can just have that here I can show you this is this is another reason why it's been changed these are the main bearing webs here yeah and everyone is independent held together with the big end bearings here they get pushed through so it's all assembled when you machine it it's very easy having it machined then it needs to be all in parts and it needs to be hardened when it's been hardened so it doesn't expand you then grind it to the perfect fit and it's all pushed together into a crankshaft like this these forged ones aren't as good as Billet one's machined from solid metal so that's an upgrade this one all the lines in here which is the oilways they go into the block but we've done away with that now because too much oil was going to the big ends not enough oils going to the main bearings okay making an engine is all well and good and supplying it to you Mike would be very good I just don't want you coming back every year saying I need a new crankshaft so is that actually you can see some scoring oh this isn't the one this is just as a web it's this one with the line this one this one this one this one okay cool and this one these are just these are smaller don't go in the crank so they were lacking oil they had some but not enough so on that basis we've now because making it more modern they have roller bearings here roller bearings on the big end so you put this in we heat the block up because there's aluminum expands we drop the whole crankshaft in with the bearings and when it cools down it Clips the beam bearings the big ends rods go on here clamp on because it's in two halves of Rod which means now that the engine can rev more and we get more performance more revs because ultimately speed limit is the speed limit you can't go over 70 but to hear it the same like you're doing 90. it's good you don't have to go 90 to make it sound nice and keeping the 30 miles an hour in 60 miles an hour is also part of our deal okay so the the timings now you're gonna get your own CNC machine in the machine your own cranks and then doing the heads after that absolutely and then constructing everything together just on that one basis the problem when you use subcontractors is there's always a lead time when we say can you do this crank showers yes we can do it in four weeks time that four weeks can remember six weeks because they've already got work if they haven't got any work they'd be out of business so the only way we can do this is buy our own five axes and three axis Miller machines that do nothing but make our own crankshafts if we make too many they're in stock that's fine we can stop doing that we do something else but as you know we've got the V6 1200 cc V6 1000 cc and we have the two liter V10 well thank you for the update we'll get there in the end won't we well the end is this year I can guarantee you uh I'm talking to you you were very excited about it you've got me excited about it good whereas I normally run a five liter engine I'm going down to two liters yeah okay good door yeah cheers Phil and um yeah I guess we'll just see it all come together in the next few months that'd be great I can't wait tan is putting up a bit of a fight then it's proving much trickier than any of us first thought I guess that's engine development for you it was never going to be a simple engine swap like an LS or something with all of that in mind I've come up with a plan I want to have a V10 MX5 sooner rather than later and I think there is another route that we can get there that is not to say that I'm bailing on the two liter engine at all once that is done and dusted and running we will put it in an MX-5 but all it will take is one slight delay and anything filler said there's so many different factors and the project we just get pushed further and further down the line I want to crack on and have an MX-5 powered by 10 cylinders and as I see I've come up with another plan it's even crazier than the current project it'll take a lot of work but I think we can do it this year I want to have a V10 MX-5 running so leave it with me as I said earlier my MX-5 has been restored the actual car is now finished and we have filmed a video that covered the work on it we filmed it ages ago you can actually date it from the fact I turn up in my mgz TT I moved the car from where it was down to a place on the south coast called the MX-5 restorer sounds like the right place for it so we've got a whole film showing some of the work that's going on with the car and we'll show you the finished car in a future episode so without further Ado roll the tape foreign of course there's no point in having an engine that revs that high and sounds that good without having the car to put it in the last time you guys will have seen my MX-5 some Bodywork was getting done but I've made a call and I've moved the car to here the MX-5 restorer in Eastbourne in the south of England and I've been told a lot of work has been done Roy this is truly MX-5 Heaven you've been the main man working on the car and before we were just gonna Pat chop certain bits make it look good but you guys have found a lot more so tell us what's been happening with the car so yes it was quite bad when it went turned up it was quite a shock to see it turn up in two halves yes would not have one turn up like before um so yeah initially I'd look over it outside when it arrived and I my heart kind of went drop I didn't think it was that bad but then I've heard once you looped over it completely it was the worst MX5 you've ever seen is that correct yeah pretty much yes we have scraps cleaner ones right and you guys were begging me to basically switch car we did it on the day you turned up we was like you sure you want it in the project so yeah so basically what we've done um we've replaced both chassis legs so this section here yeah so both front and back of the section has all been done and ground flush we've also found that these panels that are under the headlights were absolutely rotten through so this one has been done yeah as you can see you can't buy these so we've had to cut them out of a good car so this one's been welded in and done this one is ready to be welded in which will get you to have a go at in a bit later today all right cool and we had a good cleanup on there because there's no engine anything no subframes yeah all the paint around here was all pickled and corroded and rotted because of brake fluid and clutch fluid have been dripped on over the years and just pickled a painting where the paint's gone it then gets water in it that's quite a common thing it's quite common yeah people a bit careless when they're topping them up and so we cleaned everything else back to Bare Metal treated so this would be nice and green when it's all painted and then underneath underneath I'll show you underneath I'm slightly scared so the first job we did was the chassis rolls yeah the second job we actually did was replacing the floor rails I mean they look great now they look fantastic but I can't imagine what they looked like before pancakes they're really really thin metal people Jack the cars up on them you're not supposed to yeah the floor-to-sill panels have all been replaced so this actually goes up inside the only way you can do that is to cut the outer seal off so the whole length both sides has both be cut off and everything's been rebuilt inside including front jacking points rear jacking points all this has been rebuilt okay okay so nice and solid coming back this way your cubby hole was rotted away okay again you can't buy this panel so I fabricated this one up took me a couple of hours to make it up and boiled that in why can't you buy them you think MX-5 is such a popular little card that everything would just be a replacement you can get a lot of panels um but it's certain stuff like this I've only really started showing their ugly head and started rotting out that no one's reproducing them at the moment everything's insanely uniform it's every single thing on each side there's Ripley it has to be yeah it has to be yeah we do it properly so and then coming onto the back end so around this pad so this panel here all of this was rotted away um all the metal behind this panel had rotted away okay so drill spot welder on this remove this panel clean that panel up Cube to one side uh made this panel up made this section this section as well did I do and this section it's all been rebuilt this this is pretty much you you cut into one section you find rock behind that so you get rid of that and then you find rock behind that you just have to keep going until you get all the rot out I've always been told BMX fives drop from the insane no it's literally everywhere right everywhere um so yeah this is all made up hand fabbed and then welded in okay and then obviously once that was cleaned up that was re-spot welded back into place we did that bit before and that looks like I did survive yes that bit has survived we've left that as it was nice so small yeah that's good yeah small wins last being done that's left as it was okay all right so is it just sheer weather because this was a Scottish car um is it the sheer Scottish weather that's just got in and brought in this car completely pretty much yeah we've had a few cars that have come down from Scotland and they've all been the same really really crusty really crusty it's just so where unfortunately anything it lives by Coast yeah it's sort of it will get attacked and be able to rot out well thank you for sticking with it we could quite easily have switched the car but you've stuck it out five weeks welding so far sorry but the engine going in it it's going to be worth it yeah definitely yeah definitely be worth it okay so it's done pretty much all the metal works done apart from that bit to the front apart from the front bear Corner um I've rebuilt all your crushed section as well yeah you were saying that was the worst bit that was the worst bit on the car yeah um obviously where someone had tried to repair it and pulled bits out and welded bits in and the filler and yeah it was completely the wrong shape and nothing was really attached it's exciting so it's Unique yeah yeah it was good I enjoyed doing it to be fair I did there was a few curse words but trying to get everything straight and back out but it's all done and you guys do film all your stuff as well so you've got your own YouTube channel so if you guys want to see all of that stuff happening yeah yeah we've done our own little videos on this as well uh like Gareth said we haven't sent we haven't put them out yet because we're on Cinema in conjunction with yourselves yeah yeah so and it's it's and it lights up so if you want to see the real nitty-gritty of just how horrendous a job this was go check out them on YouTube shall we crack on that bit at the front yeah can do yeah cool thank you it's been cool to do a little bit of work on the car but for time's sake we'll let Roy get stuck in I will get that good at welding at some point but for now let's crack on foreign 's finishing off that corner coming incredibly funny is up here pride of place in the MX-5 restore reception this is part of my soul and the star of the wheelocks that was originally on the car and as you can see it's a very functional fix literally bits of metal welded in place to give it some sort of structure to get through an mot and I will fully admit this was me and my dad when I was 19 on my driveway with not much to go with really but this is what a lot of Amex fires are all about they are people's first sports cars and sometimes fixes like this are needed to keep them on the road but thankfully the car is getting an incredibly fresh new lease of life and it's going to be one of the most unique mx-5s ever but this is where it came from I have indeed still needs a little work but we are looking a lot healthier than what we were so what is the plan for the car in the coming months to get it up to BDI get that engine in it what needs to be done before the meeting so what needs to be done next is we obviously we need to finish off this uh we'll be putting new front Wings on the car yeah um subframes are going to be taken out okay um so we're gonna have fresh powder coated soft frames arms all new bushes put in and then we'll then send the car off to paint and then it's down for you to come and collect okay yeah I do want to hammer that home you guys will have seen underneath the car the subframes and mountings and everything they work pretty Rusty but that's as they originally came they've not been sorted out yet it's all been about the car's Body Works so once all that's done this thing will be an absolute mentor and it'll get one of the most incredible engines ever made hopefully Roy thank you so much work on this car and good luck with the rest of it thank you very much I realized that I am incredibly lucky a lot of young guys buy an MX5 as their first car and like me they turn up to get an mot or some work done and their car is incredibly Rusty it turns out that it is destined for the scrap yard so I realized that I'm in an amazing position to have what was an incredibly Rusty car and get it saved and it will turn into one of the most special mx-5s of them all hopefully in the next episode there will be a V10 engine in that car there you have it then an update on the V10 MX-5 project as I said I've come up with a new plan for my car to make it a V10 MX5 through a slightly different route and actually a much more powerful route and then we will buy another MX-5 for when I get a full call from Phil saying that the two liter V10 is running and ready to go in the car my car is now painted and looking fresh and we will show you that in a future installment so stay tuned to see where this project goes next if I can pull off this new plan it is going to be one hell of a car if you like this video give it a thumbs up I've been Mike and don't forget to subscribe to drivetribe thank youforeign the most popular question I get asked either in my Instagram DMS or when I meet you guys in public what is happening to the V10 MX-5 I've also had some recent pressure from the boss himself give me a month next year and it'll be done so I've come back to the place where it all started to get an update on what is happening with the engine in case all of this is completely new to you let me give you a quick recap of the V10 MX-5 project thus far back in 2019 I was a motoring journalist writing on drivetribe I was and still am obsessed with V10 engines so I was researching quirky cars that happened to have v10s and I came across something called the connot type D A two plus two British sports car developed by ex-jaguar employees that would be powered by this amazing little engine a two liter 200 horsepower V10 capable of revving to over 12 000 RPM it seemed like an amazing piece of engineering but like many British sports car projects from the 90s it never saw the light of day but after a shared load of detective work I came across Bevin Davidson International an engineering firm that had bought the right to the Conor brand along with the cars and the engines and I then filmed the video rediscovering one of the type D's and we even got the tiny V10 running after 20 years being a small Ravi engine that isn't much bigger than a four-cylinder I pitched it to bdi's owner Phil Bevan that we should try and put the conot V10 in my Mark II MX-5 he said yes so I set about getting my crusty Mazda restored while the engine development cracked on before we dive in I need to give a quick message about today's video sponsor car vertical if you're doing an engine swap project like we are you need to know that you have a solid good car as a base so it really pays to get a car vertical report to give you a full comprehensive history of a vehicle to make sure you've bought a good one and by using our discount code drivetribe you can get 10 off let's say you want to engine swap an MX-5 like cars and you come across this Mark II on the internet you plug its Vin or reg into car vertical and you get this report up top it gives you a quick summary this Mazda has never been stolen clocked it doesn't have any outstanding Finance but predictably it's apparently been in an accident scrolling down you get the data log of this 2004 car showing a couple of MOT 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vertical and thanks to them for sponsoring today's video the stuff from earlier was two years ago on my Mazda on the actual car is now finished it's fully restored but the engine development has been plagued with delays centering around the crankshaft so we're here at BDI today to have a sit down with Phil and find out where we stand here it is the two liter V10 engine isn't it a beautiful piece of engineering the whole thing that got me thinking about putting it in a Mazda is the dimensions I think the original four-cylinder from the MX-5 probably comes to about a year so it's not that much bigger a bit of jiggery pokery and it would slot straight in there this is one of the original blocks from over 20 years ago so we can dismantle this and show you the engineering happening underneath it is such a special thing two liters split over 10 cylinders so just 200 cc per cylinder motorbike small in fact it's less displacement per cylinder than the Suzuki Cappuccino that we have what makes it even more unique is how narrow angle it is 22.5 degrees between each bag and that obviously means it's a single cylinder head so technically it is a vr10 engine they're seeing anywhere between 180 and 220 horsepower naturally aspirators which would be perfect for an MX-5 but they've also had thoughts about boosting it either through a supercharger or Turbo charging and there's been numbers kicking around of 300 400 horsepower the craziest stat for this engine is they say it will rev between 10 and 14 000 RPM thanks to that fancy crankshaft that's been holding everything up if and when this engine gets running it will absolutely scream foreign Phil it's been a while since we last caught up how are things going on at BDI still crazy and manic as ever uh yes crazy in manic absolutely but that's what we do I have a low thresh on the boredom if I do the same job three times I get bored and I go and do that so we start up new things while we're finishing off some of the old ones in this year it's four projects before the summer get launched and another three before the end of the year cool so the last thing the audience heard about this engine was that there were some crankshaft Machining issues what were they and how are things going on that front now we put the crankshaft in it's all made out of small pieces as you can see by the crankshaft all the main bearings are separate from the big ends and they're all pressed together as the crankshafts were made in the 1920s and 30s very very good the main bearings with the oil just went into the aluminum block and that was working perfectly but all the oil pressure was going to the big ends and it wasn't going to the main bearings as much so we've now changed that since you've been in touch we now have roller bearings for for the main bearings and the big ends which means we can make more crankshaft speed it's all balanced it's perfect it's like a two-stroke when it comes to reps okay so that's a similar setup to like racing bikes no they have roller bearing cranks absolutely awesome basically the Machining issues were that they were being machined wrong is that correct absolutely yes terrible but everybody there was nobody old enough making our cranks we needed somebody in there 100 years old didn't remember how they used to be made and trying to teach a youngster how to do it is terrible because you just couldn't understand how it's being done so we've had to take that away we've gone to many companies to have it made in disappointing which is the time delay but now we're buying our own three axis Miller Machine to do it ourselves so 24 hours a day we'll be making our cranks to try and catch up with the interest that you've made on your TV program cool so you're making them yourselves what's the ETA on having a crankshaft in this engine because that's I'm writing that's the only thing that's stopping getting one of these running 100 other than the cylinder head here is being modified like our V6 but we don't need that to get the first engine in the marketplace yeah it's just the advertising with your car it'd be lovely for you to go out and see what it does compared with a two liter four-cylinder engine you've got a two liter V10 yeah the noise the performance the revs will be there we think there's a nice Marketplace but our Marketplace generally if we do a couple of hundred we'd be thrilled if we did 100 we'd be really really pleased we haven't got to do thousands we're just doing it out of the interested parties it wants something different sure and I guess it started I came to you saying can we put one in my Mazda but now it seems to have kind of evolved now you're actually thinking of no selling kits specifically for MX-5 customers well that's because of you Mike actually it's better to have if you have an MX-5 or another car the MX-5 because you have one it's nice to be able to do everything you take your Mazda engine out you put the V10 engine in them engine maintenance so they're ready to fit on the Mazda ones the gearbox in the prop shaft you take off you put the new prop shaft on everything you need is there the water pipes for your radiator the exhaust pipes the catalytic converters is all there so even if you're not a mechanic you should be able to do it because there'd be drawings of how to bolt it together all you then got to do put the battery on starter and go for a run okay I guess one thing people may be asking is that you know two years ago now we had our running V10 it didn't run for long it was only about a minute we had it going but it was running and that was using this crankshaft here so what has changed from this crankshaft to the other one why for example why can't we just shove this into this and get it going well they have forged crankshaft pieces and if I can just have that here I can show you this is this is another reason why it's been changed these are the main bearing webs here yeah and everyone is independent held together with the big end bearings here they get pushed through so it's all assembled when you machine it it's very easy having it machined then it needs to be all in parts and it needs to be hardened when it's been hardened so it doesn't expand you then grind it to the perfect fit and it's all pushed together into a crankshaft like this these forged ones aren't as good as Billet one's machined from solid metal so that's an upgrade this one all the lines in here which is the oilways they go into the block but we've done away with that now because too much oil was going to the big ends not enough oils going to the main bearings okay making an engine is all well and good and supplying it to you Mike would be very good I just don't want you coming back every year saying I need a new crankshaft so is that actually you can see some scoring oh this isn't the one this is just as a web it's this one with the line this one this one this one this one okay cool and this one these are just these are smaller don't go in the crank so they were lacking oil they had some but not enough so on that basis we've now because making it more modern they have roller bearings here roller bearings on the big end so you put this in we heat the block up because there's aluminum expands we drop the whole crankshaft in with the bearings and when it cools down it Clips the beam bearings the big ends rods go on here clamp on because it's in two halves of Rod which means now that the engine can rev more and we get more performance more revs because ultimately speed limit is the speed limit you can't go over 70 but to hear it the same like you're doing 90. it's good you don't have to go 90 to make it sound nice and keeping the 30 miles an hour in 60 miles an hour is also part of our deal okay so the the timings now you're gonna get your own CNC machine in the machine your own cranks and then doing the heads after that absolutely and then constructing everything together just on that one basis the problem when you use subcontractors is there's always a lead time when we say can you do this crank showers yes we can do it in four weeks time that four weeks can remember six weeks because they've already got work if they haven't got any work they'd be out of business so the only way we can do this is buy our own five axes and three axis Miller machines that do nothing but make our own crankshafts if we make too many they're in stock that's fine we can stop doing that we do something else but as you know we've got the V6 1200 cc V6 1000 cc and we have the two liter V10 well thank you for the update we'll get there in the end won't we well the end is this year I can guarantee you uh I'm talking to you you were very excited about it you've got me excited about it good whereas I normally run a five liter engine I'm going down to two liters yeah okay good door yeah cheers Phil and um yeah I guess we'll just see it all come together in the next few months that'd be great I can't wait tan is putting up a bit of a fight then it's proving much trickier than any of us first thought I guess that's engine development for you it was never going to be a simple engine swap like an LS or something with all of that in mind I've come up with a plan I want to have a V10 MX5 sooner rather than later and I think there is another route that we can get there that is not to say that I'm bailing on the two liter engine at all once that is done and dusted and running we will put it in an MX-5 but all it will take is one slight delay and anything filler said there's so many different factors and the project we just get pushed further and further down the line I want to crack on and have an MX-5 powered by 10 cylinders and as I see I've come up with another plan it's even crazier than the current project it'll take a lot of work but I think we can do it this year I want to have a V10 MX-5 running so leave it with me as I said earlier my MX-5 has been restored the actual car is now finished and we have filmed a video that covered the work on it we filmed it ages ago you can actually date it from the fact I turn up in my mgz TT I moved the car from where it was down to a place on the south coast called the MX-5 restorer sounds like the right place for it so we've got a whole film showing some of the work that's going on with the car and we'll show you the finished car in a future episode so without further Ado roll the tape foreign of course there's no point in having an engine that revs that high and sounds that good without having the car to put it in the last time you guys will have seen my MX-5 some Bodywork was getting done but I've made a call and I've moved the car to here the MX-5 restorer in Eastbourne in the south of England and I've been told a lot of work has been done Roy this is truly MX-5 Heaven you've been the main man working on the car and before we were just gonna Pat chop certain bits make it look good but you guys have found a lot more so tell us what's been happening with the car so yes it was quite bad when it went turned up it was quite a shock to see it turn up in two halves yes would not have one turn up like before um so yeah initially I'd look over it outside when it arrived and I my heart kind of went drop I didn't think it was that bad but then I've heard once you looped over it completely it was the worst MX5 you've ever seen is that correct yeah pretty much yes we have scraps cleaner ones right and you guys were begging me to basically switch car we did it on the day you turned up we was like you sure you want it in the project so yeah so basically what we've done um we've replaced both chassis legs so this section here yeah so both front and back of the section has all been done and ground flush we've also found that these panels that are under the headlights were absolutely rotten through so this one has been done yeah as you can see you can't buy these so we've had to cut them out of a good car so this one's been welded in and done this one is ready to be welded in which will get you to have a go at in a bit later today all right cool and we had a good cleanup on there because there's no engine anything no subframes yeah all the paint around here was all pickled and corroded and rotted because of brake fluid and clutch fluid have been dripped on over the years and just pickled a painting where the paint's gone it then gets water in it that's quite a common thing it's quite common yeah people a bit careless when they're topping them up and so we cleaned everything else back to Bare Metal treated so this would be nice and green when it's all painted and then underneath underneath I'll show you underneath I'm slightly scared so the first job we did was the chassis rolls yeah the second job we actually did was replacing the floor rails I mean they look great now they look fantastic but I can't imagine what they looked like before pancakes they're really really thin metal people Jack the cars up on them you're not supposed to yeah the floor-to-sill panels have all been replaced so this actually goes up inside the only way you can do that is to cut the outer seal off so the whole length both sides has both be cut off and everything's been rebuilt inside including front jacking points rear jacking points all this has been rebuilt okay okay so nice and solid coming back this way your cubby hole was rotted away okay again you can't buy this panel so I fabricated this one up took me a couple of hours to make it up and boiled that in why can't you buy them you think MX-5 is such a popular little card that everything would just be a replacement you can get a lot of panels um but it's certain stuff like this I've only really started showing their ugly head and started rotting out that no one's reproducing them at the moment everything's insanely uniform it's every single thing on each side there's Ripley it has to be yeah it has to be yeah we do it properly so and then coming onto the back end so around this pad so this panel here all of this was rotted away um all the metal behind this panel had rotted away okay so drill spot welder on this remove this panel clean that panel up Cube to one side uh made this panel up made this section this section as well did I do and this section it's all been rebuilt this this is pretty much you you cut into one section you find rock behind that so you get rid of that and then you find rock behind that you just have to keep going until you get all the rot out I've always been told BMX fives drop from the insane no it's literally everywhere right everywhere um so yeah this is all made up hand fabbed and then welded in okay and then obviously once that was cleaned up that was re-spot welded back into place we did that bit before and that looks like I did survive yes that bit has survived we've left that as it was nice so small yeah that's good yeah small wins last being done that's left as it was okay all right so is it just sheer weather because this was a Scottish car um is it the sheer Scottish weather that's just got in and brought in this car completely pretty much yeah we've had a few cars that have come down from Scotland and they've all been the same really really crusty really crusty it's just so where unfortunately anything it lives by Coast yeah it's sort of it will get attacked and be able to rot out well thank you for sticking with it we could quite easily have switched the car but you've stuck it out five weeks welding so far sorry but the engine going in it it's going to be worth it yeah definitely yeah definitely be worth it okay so it's done pretty much all the metal works done apart from that bit to the front apart from the front bear Corner um I've rebuilt all your crushed section as well yeah you were saying that was the worst bit that was the worst bit on the car yeah um obviously where someone had tried to repair it and pulled bits out and welded bits in and the filler and yeah it was completely the wrong shape and nothing was really attached it's exciting so it's Unique yeah yeah it was good I enjoyed doing it to be fair I did there was a few curse words but trying to get everything straight and back out but it's all done and you guys do film all your stuff as well so you've got your own YouTube channel so if you guys want to see all of that stuff happening yeah yeah we've done our own little videos on this as well uh like Gareth said we haven't sent we haven't put them out yet because we're on Cinema in conjunction with yourselves yeah yeah so and it's it's and it lights up so if you want to see the real nitty-gritty of just how horrendous a job this was go check out them on YouTube shall we crack on that bit at the front yeah can do yeah cool thank you it's been cool to do a little bit of work on the car but for time's sake we'll let Roy get stuck in I will get that good at welding at some point but for now let's crack on foreign 's finishing off that corner coming incredibly funny is up here pride of place in the MX-5 restore reception this is part of my soul and the star of the wheelocks that was originally on the car and as you can see it's a very functional fix literally bits of metal welded in place to give it some sort of structure to get through an mot and I will fully admit this was me and my dad when I was 19 on my driveway with not much to go with really but this is what a lot of Amex fires are all about they are people's first sports cars and sometimes fixes like this are needed to keep them on the road but thankfully the car is getting an incredibly fresh new lease of life and it's going to be one of the most unique mx-5s ever but this is where it came from I have indeed still needs a little work but we are looking a lot healthier than what we were so what is the plan for the car in the coming months to get it up to BDI get that engine in it what needs to be done before the meeting so what needs to be done next is we obviously we need to finish off this uh we'll be putting new front Wings on the car yeah um subframes are going to be taken out okay um so we're gonna have fresh powder coated soft frames arms all new bushes put in and then we'll then send the car off to paint and then it's down for you to come and collect okay yeah I do want to hammer that home you guys will have seen underneath the car the subframes and mountings and everything they work pretty Rusty but that's as they originally came they've not been sorted out yet it's all been about the car's Body Works so once all that's done this thing will be an absolute mentor and it'll get one of the most incredible engines ever made hopefully Roy thank you so much work on this car and good luck with the rest of it thank you very much I realized that I am incredibly lucky a lot of young guys buy an MX5 as their first car and like me they turn up to get an mot or some work done and their car is incredibly Rusty it turns out that it is destined for the scrap yard so I realized that I'm in an amazing position to have what was an incredibly Rusty car and get it saved and it will turn into one of the most special mx-5s of them all hopefully in the next episode there will be a V10 engine in that car there you have it then an update on the V10 MX-5 project as I said I've come up with a new plan for my car to make it a V10 MX5 through a slightly different route and actually a much more powerful route and then we will buy another MX-5 for when I get a full call from Phil saying that the two liter V10 is running and ready to go in the car my car is now painted and looking fresh and we will show you that in a future installment so stay tuned to see where this project goes next if I can pull off this new plan it is going to be one hell of a car if you like this video give it a thumbs up I've been Mike and don't forget to subscribe to drivetribe thank you\n"