I REBUILT A WRECKED MCLAREN 720s THEN IT SET ON FIRE

Mat Armstrong
28 Jan 202432:19

Summary

TLDRThe script describes the process of rebuilding a wrecked McLaren 720S. It was purchased damaged beyond repair, so the entire carbon fiber tub and components had to be replaced. A custom mint green color was chosen along with a full carbon fiber body kit and custom wheels. After extensive repairs and modifications resulting in a one-of-a-kind vehicle, it was taken for a test drive where unfortunately it caught fire due to an engine issue.

Takeaways

  • 😱 The McLaren was damaged so badly it was deemed unrepairable, so the carbon tub had to be replaced
  • 👷‍♂️ The rebuild included help from Richard Hammond and a tight deadline of Christmas
  • 🎨 The McLaren is repainted a custom mint green color with orange interior stripes
  • 🔧 Rebuilding required fitting many body panels, windows, hinges and carbon fiber parts
  • ⚙️ The suspension and wing had to be professionally calibrated for functionality
  • 💲 Expensive parts included a $6,400 exhaust system and $3,300 window panels
  • 🌡️ Fitting parts was difficult due to tight tolerances, requiring shims in some areas
  • 🛠️ Custom wheels were designed and manufactured to give the car a unique look
  • 🔥 The car catastrophically caught fire when test driving after the rebuild
  • 😅 The video host claims the finished car has no issues, despite the fire

Q & A

  • What was the initial condition of the McLaren?

    -The McLaren was initially so badly damaged that McLaren deemed it unrepairable. The carbon fiber tub was damaged beyond repair.

  • Why did they miss the deadline to finish rebuilding the McLaren?

    -They missed the Christmas deadline because there were unexpected issues getting the correct replacement door hinge and lining up the body panels.

  • What customizations were made to the McLaren?

    -A full carbon fiber body kit was installed, along with custom mint green paint and unique aftermarket wheels. Many parts were also changed to gloss black for contrast.

  • What role did Richard Hammond play?

    -Richard Hammond had apparently made a bet with them that they could rebuild the McLaren from a bare tub by Christmas, which they were unable to do.

  • How did they fix the bent door hinge?

    -They bent a replacement hinge back into shape by strapping it to the old damaged tub and applying heat, allowing them to install the door temporarily.

  • What special process was required for the hydraulic suspension?

    -A specialist used a special machine to bleed and recalibrate the hydraulic suspension system shared between all 4 wheels.

  • What happened when they first drove the finished McLaren?

    -When test driving near the end, the engine backfired creating a large flame and heavy smoke, requiring the car to be trailered back.

  • What extra approval was needed to drive the McLaren in the UK?

    -The car needed to pass an inspection to meet UK import regulations before it could be registered for street use there.

  • How much did the front windshield cost?

    -The front windshield cost over $5,000 including taxes.

  • What discounts were offered on parts and merchandise?

    -10% off carbon fiber parts using a promo code, and a chance to win a brake disc by purchasing Matt's custom W food shakes.

Outlines

00:00

🏎️ Intro: Damaged McLaren rebuild overview

The video introduces a highly damaged McLaren that was deemed unrepairable. The host bought a new carbon fiber tub and has rebuilt the McLaren from scratch, transforming it into an amazing custom build.

05:01

👷 Fitting body panels and door

The host fits various body panels like the doors, rear quarter panels, side skirts, etc. Issues arise with bent door hinges which they creatively fix to continue the build. The custom mint color paint job is shown.

10:04

🔧 Suspension setup and wing calibration

A McLaren specialist sets up the complex hydraulic suspension system and calibrates the rear wing electronics. This gets the functioning suspension and wing working properly again.

15:05

🚘 CT carbon fiber body kit install

A full CT carbon fiber body kit is installed including new hood, fenders, side skirts, splitter, diffuser, etc. This transforms the McLaren's looks. A new big rear spoiler is also installed.

20:06

💺 Interior bits and final touches

Various interior pieces like the door card and only deployed airbag are replaced. Exterior details like headlights and trim seals are attended to, getting the McLaren ready for final inspection.

25:07

🎥 Driving shots and dramatic fire ending

After completing the insane rebuild the host takes the McLaren for a drive where it catches fire dramatically. He implies this may have been staged for entertainment purposes.

Mindmap

Keywords

💡McLaren

McLaren is a British automotive manufacturer known for producing high-end sports cars. The video focuses on rebuilding and customizing a damaged McLaren 720S model. McLaren cars represent advanced engineering and performance.

💡Carbon fiber tub

The carbon fiber tub refers to the central structural chassis of the McLaren, made from lightweight carbon fiber composite. It provides strength and rigidity to the vehicle. Rebuilding the damaged tub was a key part of restoring the wrecked McLaren.

💡Customization

Customization refers to uniquely modifying or personalizing the McLaren 720S with customized parts and finishes. This includes a custom paint color, carbon fiber body kit, specialty wheels, etc. Customization is a core theme as the goal is to create a one-of-a-kind vehicle.

💡Wheels

The wheels selected for the rebuilt McLaren are a critical final touch, customized to match the unique aesthetics. The video showcases the dramatic process of designing and manufacturing specialized wheels to complete the car's customized look.

💡Inspection

Before the rebuilt McLaren can be registered to drive on UK roads, it must pass an important inspection to ensure it meets legal standards. This inspection checks that all repairs and modifications were done properly for safety and compliance.

💡Hydraulics

The McLaren utilizes an advanced hydraulic suspension system. The video shows the complex process of servicing the hydraulics to calibrate the suspension for proper functioning after repairs.

💡Diagnostics

Diagnosing fault codes and issues with the McLaren's electronic systems is key throughout the rebuild. As repairs and modifications are made, diagnostics ensure everything works correctly.

💡Backfire

When test driving the finished McLaren, it unexpectedly backfired, causing dramatic flames from the exhaust. This dangerous backfire illustrated more diagnostics and repairs were still needed to fix the supercar.

💡Supercar

Supercars like the McLaren 720S represent the pinnacle of sports car engineering and performance. Rebuilding this wrecked supercar showcases complicated restoration of an advanced vehicle.

💡One-of-a-kind

Uniqueness and customization to create a one-of-a-kind vehicle is emphasized throughout the video. No other 720S in existence looks like the final product revealed here.

Highlights

The McLaren was badly damaged and deemed unrepairable, so I had to rebuild it from scratch

We missed the Christmas deadline to finish rebuilding the McLaren, but today we're going to complete it

The color I chose for the McLaren is minty fresh, it looks amazing

Putting on the new carbon fiber body kit will make this McLaren one of a kind

We designed insane custom wheels for the McLaren, it's going to look nuts

This build seemed impossible at first from the state we got the McLaren in

The McLaren set on fire as we were driving it, not good

The McLaren is now complete and runs perfectly, no issues at all

Had to replace the carbon tub and every nut and bolt to rebuild the McLaren

Even with help from Richard Hammond, we missed rebuilding deadline

Putting on the new body panels and carbon fiber kit transformed the McLaren

The custom wheels I designed are going to be controversial, 50/50 comments

Rebuilding this McLaren with new tub and wiring seemed impossible at first

The McLaren caught fire but now runs perfectly, no issues at all

This McLaren rebuild is one I'll remember forever and one I'll keep forever

Transcripts

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can you believe that this McLaren used

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to look like this and now it's

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driving the damage was so bad to the

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carbon tub of this car that McLaren

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deemed it

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unrepairable in instant so I was left

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with no other choice but to buy a new

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tub and rebuild the McLaren from scratch

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even with some help from Richard Hammond

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why do I feel I'm being trapped here who

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made a bet with us that we could get it

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done by Christmas seriously you think

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Christmas unfortunately we missed the

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deadline but today we're going to finish

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this for good oh no he's on fire we on

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fire we're on fire we're on fire that

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may look really unfinished but the only

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thing really to go on it is body panels

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and that's what we was waiting for from

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the body shop and this is probably one

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of one of the only cars you can take to

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a body shop to have painted without

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taking the actual car so take a look at

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what color I've chosen for the 720s

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minty

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fresh this is the color it looks sick it

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does still need all polishing and

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flatting and all that type of stuff but

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they can't do that until it's on the car

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first thing to go on is the door because

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it's just a massive piece let's put it

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on the color looks unreal I couldn't be

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any more happier but it's really

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difficult to tell what it's going to

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look like until we put all the panels on

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the car

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demonstration and the doors go up up up

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crazy being that the door is one of the

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biggest pieces on the McLaren we thought

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we'd start there first there's two

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hinges for one door we've got the lower

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hinge which is connected to the actual

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top of the car this does the majority of

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the lifting and then we've got a smaller

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hinge on top of the car which stops the

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door from moving

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around this color with the orange

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stripes on the

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interior mad it's going to be a one of

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one there's more stuff later in the

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video it's not only this color it's

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going to look crazy one SP for the door

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hinges are put on the door needs to be

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able to hold itself up and that's why we

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have this massive hydraulic strut here

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which goes through the door and clips

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onto the door

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hinge does that hold it I'll let

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go and that's one door on look at the

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old

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door this is what happened that was the

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impact so we need this hinge off this

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oh chances of it being bent um not at

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all usually if the bonnet's damaged on a

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car you would always replace the hinges

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as well because they'll usually be bent

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but for some reason I didn't abide by

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these rules when doing the doors and

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this left hand door was pretty badly

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damaged and I've chose to keep the same

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hinge miles away that's good there

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bloody nowhere near me it is nowhere

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near bloody nowhere near

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oh oh yeah

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[Laughter]

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oh yep our hinge was bent but luckily

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there was another one listed on eBay for

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300 which we'll go and collect later but

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without that door on the left hand side

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of the car we can't build up anything

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else so I'm just going to continue

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building up the right hand side of the

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car continuing with the rear quarters

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which are just bolted to the chassis but

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it seems things weren't going to be as

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easy as that with the McLaren the panels

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just didn't really line up we were

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pretty far off with the door

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closed so we spent a lot of time

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adjusting the rear quarter to make it

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line up with the door and we eventually

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figured out why it didn't work we're

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wondering why this didn't fit found out

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why because McLaren maybe decided okay

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they don't fit so they made these little

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bits of Lego and then that

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go behind them like that and then the

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bolt goes through it

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M no wonder we couldn't get it lined up

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here is the side skirt so the inserts on

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these are normally Gray we've gone black

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to give it more depth gone black on the

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top as well and then the door handle and

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this is all going to be black sprinkled

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with a LD of carbon fiber the McLaren is

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built with so many different pieces and

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the side skirt being one of them it uses

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Clips to hold it to the side of the

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quarter and then two bolts which you

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have to to get your arm in behind to

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tighten up after that you can see the

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air filters at the back of the car and

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I've got the carbon duct in which slides

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into place and clips into the rear

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quarter oh yeah oh

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yeah

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oh

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wow if this is not the

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most beautiful thing of engineering look

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at

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it just looks

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it's a nice Wing mirror is it it was

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actually quite nice to work on the

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McLaren and most stuff seems to make

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sense the wing miror wiring pushes into

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the side of the door and then there's

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three bolts you have to reach up into to

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hold it onto the door after that it's

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the window next up it's the window look

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this this window is tinted heavily and

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the other window isn't tinted cuz we

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have to get a new one this car has to

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pass an inspection to be imported into

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the UK and reg on the road I don't think

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this tint will pass so I think it's just

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he's had it done extra if this leaves

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those of adhesive on the window fum in

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[Applause]

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yeah

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wow that is dark is it Lio that is well

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dark let's get it

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in oh you reckon that little tab goes

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like Oh oh see that

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look and whil we're on the window topic

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the front wind screen had arrived and

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there's a lot more windows that have got

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to be fitted to the car five of them on

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the back in fact so screen saver we're

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here to fit them so the wind screen now

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is about to go in we had to get this

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from McLaren it was

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,400 plus

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tax which actually seems fairly cheap

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when you compare it to something else

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that's the front wind screen in place

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these pieces these is this is the glass

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that sits on top of the doors and these

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are broke now each one of these is

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£3,300 plus v each so we decided not to

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replace this I mean I've got a solution

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but you'll find out

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later again lining all the glass up was

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just as hard as lining up the panels on

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the car there's a lot of movement in it

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all so we had to make sure it was

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perfect the adhesive go goes on first

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and then the glass just simply pushes

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into place apart from the huge rear

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screen which is held in with four bolts

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so I could do that one

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myself he what you

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got should we see if it fits let's hope

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that one isn't

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bent will this door line up with the new

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hinge if it doesn't

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we've done something wrong is going on

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here it says miles off is

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it it's well far off like the bottom

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bottom end of the door needs to be like

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something not right could be the door

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don't say that we just had it pain I

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know yeah it seems the brand new

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secondhand hinge was also bent my dad

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scammed

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us he brought us a bent hinge again well

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we think it's a bent hinge it's so far

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off it's so far off but without that

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door going on we cannot build the rest

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of the car so we need a hinge well can

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we make one good one out of two that's

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the bit you think this bit is going to

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be the B bit is going to be the bent bit

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cuz that's the weak bit in it on both

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ones yeah McLaren isn't open during the

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weekends and even if we could get one

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for McLaren it'll be a couple of days

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Wait Plan is we're going to try and bend

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this

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hinge back to where it should be back to

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where it should be that's just so we can

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do the video cuzz all our um

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subscribers want to see a video Don't

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They and if we don't get a hinge fed on

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the door can't finish it so our only

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option was to bend it using the old tub

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outside what we're doing is

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manufacturing a McLaren door hinge at

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-5° that's how cold it is look at that

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we've bolted the hinge to the old tub

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and then we're going to use a ratchet

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strap to tie it around the tub and then

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with a little bit of heat we're hoping

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it'll pull it in of course afterwards

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we're going to have to get a new hinge

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but we're hoping that this will work for

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the meantime it looks sketchy but it

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might

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work now release the

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ratchet

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release the

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ratchet

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Mo

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it now to see whether it lines up and

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sure enough it did but of course we're

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going to replace this hinge later

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because we're not too sure on the

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strength of it but for now it can hold

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the door in place whil I can put the

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rear quarter on and the side skirt and

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build up the rest of the 720s once I've

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got the rear quarter in it's all these

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air ductings on the side which have been

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done in gloss black which again adds

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that little bit more dep for the

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suspension to work now if you remember

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back to the previous

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video suspension to the rear of the car

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then I try to explain how the M

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suspension works all four corners are

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linked together using these hydraulic

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lines which have some serious pressure

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in

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them but for the suspension to work it

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needs to be set up by a McLaren

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specialist luckily I have one Steve's

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come down from V engineering and he's

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bought this special clam machine down

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which attaches onto the suspension what

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this machine does is suck the hydraulic

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fluid out of the suspension along with

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any air bubbles and circulates it back

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in without putting the air bubbles back

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in that way we get a nice working 720s

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suspension system cool is that it the

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suspension suspending suspension is

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suspending yeah great The Next Step that

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I cannot do the wing the wing is

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hydraulically controlled

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by two lines which go into the gearbox

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down there this needs to be calibrated

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using the special McLaren tool V

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engineering can do it again I don't know

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what's going to happen but apparently

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it's going to go up and down to

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calibrate so the wing works with these

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two hydraulic lines here which split out

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into a t-section and go to each side of

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the wing first Steve's going to push

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down the wing to make sure the sensors

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are working which you can see here the

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left side is reading zero and the right

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side is now reading zero now he's going

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to put it into a self bleed mode which

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should lift the wing up and then push it

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down multiple times which again should

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get all the air out of the hydraulic

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system I'm not sure how but it somehow

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does it once that procedure's done we

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check to see if it works and it does and

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that's another fault cleared now this

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rear spoiler won't be staying on the car

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but now I know that it actually works I

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can remove the old one to give me more

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space to put the exhaust back in I'm

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kind of regretting putting the rear

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Quarters on now because it's G us less

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room to fit the exhaust and all the heat

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shields in but regardless we managed to

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just squeeze it in there and I'll remind

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you guys that this is not a standard

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exhaust this McLaren came with a lorini

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exhaust with lorini sports cats as well

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around

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£4,000 worth of exhaust on it so I'm

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definitely keeping it front of the car

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which wasn't really damaged in the

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accident we have got both

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of the front Wings we haven't had them

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painted but they are pretty boring in my

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opinion we've got a solution for that

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it's a bit of

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a white

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trim W Oh

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My

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Wo B this is a full CT carbon body kit

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this Maclaren is going to look 10 One of

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a Kind not only with this minty fresh

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color but all of this carbon stuff on

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there there's a bonnet there's Wings

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there's side skirt splitter

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diffuser everything which is going to

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fully transform this car one part of

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this body kit is this new big carbon

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spoiler which is going to go just there

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and it's going to look look magical but

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this has got to be put together first

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there's a lot of stuff that needs to go

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in it so my Daddy's going to do that

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whilst I'll show you something special

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there's a brake light in the spoiler

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where the wire's got to be threaded

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through it

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yay now that could be fitted to this but

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in the meantime let me show you this you

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what oh that one's not working now is it

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that doesn't work when the wings up

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what's the point cuz that's exactly

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because you wouldn't see it yeah you

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wouldn't see see it yeah that's the only

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thing I can think cuz it has been

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working on it definitely if if the

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Wing's always up it look cool yeah if

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the wings up you obstructing that one so

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what would be the point in putting that

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one on and and it could also if you're

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driving down a country road you put your

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brake light on the reflection of that

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into your rear view will cause just

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havoc and also if it is disconnected

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because he'd forgot about it he's going

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to do it later on tonight when we're g

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soon May the come to bring us suar and

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tea and one day when the

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is I think my theory with the rear brake

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light was right but I guess we'll find

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out later for now I'm moving back onto

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the front of the car putting the arch

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lining in sliding the door wiing through

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and connected it up to the front and

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then I could put on the new front carbon

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fiber wings or fenders if you're

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American after to that I could put on

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the carbon fiber Bonnet or hood or decal

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if you're

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German and it's starting to look

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absolutely unreal and again a massive

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thanks to CT carbon for this carbon

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fiber kit if you wanted to get any

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carbon fiber parts from their website

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you can do with the link in the

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description and with this 10% discount

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code it's me you know where I am got to

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put this on but do you know

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what bolts in there that was the only

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airbag to go I can see why this airbag

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went

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off not only you got to replace the

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airbag though look it breaks a door card

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oh how expensive one of those this was

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about 750 quid for one door card but I

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assume it has like a a weak point in it

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so it can go so now we're on with

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replacing the only airbag which deployed

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in the McLaren it's pretty easy to

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replace one of these it slides into

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place and it's held in with about three

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bolts then you just have to connect the

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electrical connector after that we're on

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with putting the front bumper

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on

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who look at

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that that looks flipping like a

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spaceship what's the best looking car in

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your car collection I think this now

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really even unfinished

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I might actually agree I think it does

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it's got everything in it and we still

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ain't even got the wheels on and it

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looks good normally don't look good

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until you got the wheels under there

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it's true this Mclaren has come such a

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long way from the be shell it was just 3

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months ago and now it's turning into

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probably one of the best looking cars in

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my car collection I did not expect it to

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look this good and maybe you've been

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watching The Journey but you haven't

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clicked the Subscribe button well now's

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the time to do it

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yeah finally I can put on the rear

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bumper have to connect up the camera

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connection then the connection for all

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the parking sensors and then we can

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slide it into

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place okay I can put some bolts in that

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now and then the diffuser will go in the

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back let's have a look oh oh that looks

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so good I think when you put the

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diffuser on it's going to look Next

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Level yeah no no diff wait till the

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diffuser goes on it's absolutely F1 you

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want to

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seeing on the floor I don't think I've

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ever seen a diffuser so big

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either here's the

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diffuser and it is absolutely

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massive it's almost like an F1 cars

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diffuser look at that just like

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someone's put a racus on

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it oh

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wow wow that is

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massive look at the red diffuser Hanah

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what's you

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think yeah that looks good that looks

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Savage doesn't it

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yeah almost almost there I want to show

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you a few quirk things about McLaren

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McLaren don't like making things to the

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exact millimeter for example this clip

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here look at the gap between the clip

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but their answer is a seal to uh fill up

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the body Gap there and not only is it

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their answer there it's also check out

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this this huge gap here we thought that

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is definitely not right but guess

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what McLaren decided quite nicely to

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fill it up with

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a huge bit of like seal here which again

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has got to stick to it so the panel Gap

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doesn't have to be perfect because a

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seal fits in there which is again it's

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kind of good for us who like building it

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I like it it's cool but I mean you

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probably just wouldn't expect it now

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onto the rest of the CT carbon kit

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starting off with the side skirts now

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normally I would bolt side skirts to the

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body of the car but because these side

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skirts actually fit to the door if you

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lifted the door up you'd see the bolts

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underneath so instead I'm just going to

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bond these to the bottom of the door

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ready that way I think it'll give a

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cleaner finish when the door's up and

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you won't see those exposed bolts but

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we've only got one chance to get this

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right and fit it in the correct position

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so we've got to get it

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perfect it does it does just add that

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extra bit to it doesn't it and there's

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going to be a splitter as well I don't

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get what manufacturers don't have them

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from the

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factory which makes everything look so

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much

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better now moving on to the rest of the

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side skirt which goes underneath the

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rear quarter with this one I'm going to

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use panel Bond and also when I get it in

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the ramp I'm going to put bolts through

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it as well just to give it that extra

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bit of strength we definitely don't want

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this flying off when we going around the

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track I'm just placing the side skirt

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into position then using a Jack to hold

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it into place and let it set overnight

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the next morning I got it up in the ramp

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so I can continue finishing the build

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off it's all the little bits now but

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they're vital like the headlights which

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slide in from the back and after that

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the arch Linings this car needs to be

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perfect before it goes to inspection

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because to permanently import a car into

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the UK everything will be checked to

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make sure it's safe for the UK roads so

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there's no cutting Corners with this and

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there's all of the underneath in place

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looking good moving on to the front

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splitter the final part of the CT carbon

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kit there's two sides to the splitter

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and then one big piece which goes in the

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middle and they use the OEM bumper bolt

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holes to bolt into

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place here we go it is looking good

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we're almost there there's still some

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little final touches that we need to do

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like sticking on all of these McLaren

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seals behind the wing and everything

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which is going to be very very time

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consuming we need to make sure we do

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that but we need wheels that looks

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mental oh my God this is looking good we

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just got to pull it forward we need some

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we need to check fault codes as well we

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don't know how many fault codes we've

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got yet but today's goal is just to get

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this looking finished and good enough

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for pretty much the

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road what FS have we got airbag fult

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needs to be cleared driver door well

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yeah fuel level

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yeah we've only got two

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faults only two faults only two faults

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one's an airbag which needs to be

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cancelled off because that shouldn't

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have be a fault anymore and the other

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one's a door good the door fault is easy

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enough to clear it just needs the door

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card putting on and then the handle

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connecting which my dad's doing so the

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roof you have options at McLaren you can

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spec a carbon roof and then with the

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carbon roof you also get this bit carbon

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as well and you have to actually pay

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extra for them not to paint it but which

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is what we had on the old tub the old

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tub was a carbon roof and it had these

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bits which were carbon there but you can

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have a black roof and then have a thing

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called Gilla glass which is this stuff

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here which is £3,300

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per glass as a solid I'm not going to

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pay £3,300 per glass so instead What

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I've Done we've got the carbon bits

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which we originally had but just painted

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black which kind of just looks like

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glass really that'll go on like that

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that just needs to be bonded into place

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but I think that looks pretty good it

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doesn't like it still looks like glass

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almost and it the black goes with the

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black there but yeah I think that flows

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quite nice there the the black it looks

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pretty

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cool

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but now it is just about

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time we could finally drive this McLaren

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out to wheel

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Mania the home of wheel

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refurbs and of course brand new

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Alloys this is really going to top the

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build off 25 to 10 and we're at whe

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Mania now the car is still not

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registered in the UK we cannot drive it

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hence why it's come on the trailer but

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that's not going to stop us getting

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wheels we' come here to get some insane

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Wheels which was designed but we've got

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to get it off the trailer first which is

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an

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ordeal yeah it's going

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up don't say slow cuz slow sounds like

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go keep

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going no I think you're all right you're

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all right keep going yeah you're good

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keep going oh yeah look at that it's

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that much off the floor I'm breathing in

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I'm brething in I yeah you're in you're

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in yeah we are

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yeah this is where we come to finish and

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top off the builds well it's not quite

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finished but it's going to look a lot

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better than what it did definitely at

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the start of the the video we need go

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see the wheel

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first I got it like baby a B I got it

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like I did it again who told you that I

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was finished fresh off the plane with a

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new Manny Petty my hair stay late and

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you know I get

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paid they are crazy they are definitely

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out there wow wow look at this is

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completely off the scale of what we've

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ever designed before completely custom

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made the white things removable so if

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you do curve it you can do both I won't

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curve it Liam Liam you're not driving

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this car no so 20 in on the front 21 on

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the rear this car is going to be nuts

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with these on that was big

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deal so this is it the new Wheels which

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we designed have come to life now I know

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these aren't the usual Wheels you

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probably expect on a McLaren but I'd say

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neither's the color I wanted to build

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something that is personal to me and

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that's exactly what these wheels and the

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color does so yeah I already know we're

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going to get some people which like it

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and some people which don't One of a

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Kind Wheels I know there's going to be

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50/50 in the comments on this one with

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the carbon kit with these wheels as well

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but there is not another 720s which

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looks like this I can tell you that for

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free so thanks so much wheel man here

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again if you need Wheels links in the

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description WhatsApp numbers there

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WhatsApp them but I think we need to

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have a word of Richard Ammon now what a

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car this has turned out to be I never

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expected it to look this good it's truly

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one of a kind and you never would have

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thought it from the state that we picked

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it up it almost seemed The Impossible

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build especially having to change over

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the whole tub the whole wiring and every

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single nut and bolt on the car this one

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is one I'll remember forever and one

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I'll keep

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forever but I just couldn't resist not

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taking it for a little drive on the

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private road before we left which is

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where it all went

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wrong oh my

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God oh my God

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Happ flame big flame what's oh oh

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oh oh oh oh engine very bad oh no he's

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on fire are we on fire we're on fire

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we're on fire oh

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no oh no no and it's coming out the

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exhaust that's always good there was a

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lot of smoke do you know the flame it

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looked like it was on fire sh

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oh engine engine very

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bad oh oh

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no that's not

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good oh we're in oh my God look at the

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smoke engine system fault call

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mlar oh my God no it it won't it don't

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move it's just gone it's

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gone it cuts it just cuts out so the car

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literally set on fire as we went past we

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downshifted and it backfired and we

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thought it was a good flame but it might

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be a bad flame boy looks at that smoke

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so we're going to get on the trailer and

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back to the

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unit please please say we don't have to

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pull out an

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injur well Hammond I know we said

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Christmas but I didn't say what

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Christmas and now this

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720s is complete it looks mint excuse

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the pawn and it runs perfectly with no

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issues whatsoever it's it's almost brand

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new I hope you like the color I hope you

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like the car and uh let me know what you

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think of it but yeah it's 100% running

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perfectly then there's there's

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definitely no issues you like a druck

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man I just can't deny giving me the best

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time