What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?

[StevenRB45]

I don’t know which subaru build you’re talking about as I’ve not watched them all but there is a black car and a pickup they’ve done in recent videos and both required a lot of hard wiring and complex fabrication

They built the levorg twice, first time was exactly what they are doing with the Up but instead of levorg to levorg it was STI to levorg. That was pretty much plug and play..despite being full drivetrain swap and front end swap.

The second time was them putting a built turbo H6 into it which I'm guessing is the one you saw.

 

[There all puntos]

I used to have a mouse that I used to feed that lived on the drive outside between my Stilos anti drum on the bonnet in the spring/summer and in the gap of my wall/vestibule door (or it's parent). It used to leave peanuts and shells of such on my air filter/fuel rail. Under the bonnet reeked of mouse urine. They also lived their life's in between our (and next-doors) walls and ceilings in our semi. They would be heard last thing at night scampering around such. But we bought one of those shreeking things with the three ( Green- mild shreek. Blue - shreeking - disco. then Red - shreeking brain bleed) so wee set it on blue, not much changed, so turned it on to Red.

The little gray, brown fuc&s have flitted elsewhere. Or they would have ate through the mains wire, like our African Gray parrot used to, but it used to eat the gray or black covering, then eat through the blue or green/yellow wires. It never ate the red/ brown wire.. Ever. The little gray fuc& flew away through a opened window. Never saw it again.

If it has flown back to its birth place in Africa. Then happie days for it.


If it got sucked into a jet turbine (we live on the circling flight path of Glasgow airport) Then its death would have been rapid.

So sad and grumpy as I'm sixtie, the Parrot was twenty six

 

[portland_bill]

Cat brought another mouse in during the night. Now lost somewhere in my bedroom. More traps purchased and set. Cat has lost interest, obviously now my job. She demanded feeding, so she got the flavour she doesn't like much. So she's hungry and grumpy.

Panda has become incontinent. Bottom hose leaking at the silly quick connection. It's been on and off a few times, last time a few weeks ago, so it has finally given up. So I have a new hose to fit. Time to get wet.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

They built the levorg twice, first time was exactly what they are doing with the Up but instead of levorg to levorg it was STI to levorg. That was pretty much plug and play..despite being full drivetrain swap and front end swap.

The second time was them putting a built turbo H6 into it which I'm guessing is the one you saw.

In all fairness Subaru have been putting the same basis flat 4 into pretty much everything for the last 2000 years so its not surprising to say they put an engine in without too much issue. I don't know because I have not watched any of them, I skimmed through one of them where they are doing a lot of manual wiring and talking about having to fabricate some brackets (project binky would be proud)

They did start the video by stating that the donor car and the target car are basically the same car. They also had a donor car from which to take all the parts off, where as the UP they are relying on parts sent to them and do not have a whole donor car to take parts from.

 

[StevenRB45]

They've built cars from half-cuts as they call them before...

It's just funny how few components there is in common between 2 1.0 petrol VW Ups..which is probably why they've canned it as unprofitable.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

They've built cars from half-cuts as they call them before...

It's just funny how few components there is in common between 2 1.0 petrol VW Ups..which is probably why they've canned it as unprofitable.

So having watched most of that subaru series, they took a written off Subaru STI and stripped the entire car, stripped the entire Levorg and transplanted the STI into the Levorg including all the interior trim dash, computers, and they hacked the wiring looms to make the STI looms fit in the Levorg. basically they completely reshelled the car with no common parts, the reason they had little resistance in doing the swap is because both cars where built on the same platform and the levorg was basically the same car as the STI just with an estate body.


The GTI conversion consists of a number of pallets sent from a breakers in the UK With whatever parts they decided to package up, but most of the issues they are having is parts which are completely unavailable in Austrialia that were not included in the shipment from the UK. I dare say, if they had a whole UP! GTI car shipped to them and they could take all the parts off the car directly, then they wouldn't have anywhere near the issues they have had.

VW has a history of making Niche cars and doing short runs. They stopped it in the UK but continued to make it for the rest of europe as they still had significant back orders to fill, before they ultimately wrapped up production. There are plenty of low production run cars that VW have made over the years, then completely discontinued then to use that factory production space for something else.

 

[StevenRB45]

Indeed they have the skills to do all of that...

It's just as I said amusing the lack of standardisation has lead to probably the most underwhelming project they've had for a while being the hardest.

Last time they had their arses kicked this hard by a halfcut/engine swap was the Mira..and that included cutting out the rear floor to fit 4x4.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

It's just as I said amusing the lack of standardisation has lead to probably the most underwhelming project they've had for a while being the hardest.

Probably more underwhelming because rather than being some big block 400hp JDM turbo, they've taken a washing machine and are trying to fit a turbo to it. To make a slightly warmer washing machine which is still as standard spec for cars available in Europe.

They probably would have been better off importing the whole car complete, lets be honest the standard Up! in one piece would probably have take up the same amount of shipping space as all those pallets they had in the first episode.

I'm enjoying the Legit Street cars Delorean project. The last episode they hit it with Dry ice blasting the results of which are shocking. That is some voodoo technology.

 

[StevenRB45]

It's probably an more of an Aus interest thing..over there it will be unique, although for the amount of work they may as well have tried to put a Golf GTi powertrain in to it. They are cool little cars... It's just a lot of work for a 1.0tsi.

You are not allowed to bring them in as a working car due to local laws, they must be sawn in half and rendered un-driveable if it's less than 25 years old and was never homologated for the Australian market to ensure it never sees the road. Hence why they've done this more than once... If you want something unusual you have to import it in bits and then stick it into a locally delivered shell.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

It's probably an more of an Aus interest thing..over there it will be unique, although for the amount of work they may as well have tried to put a Golf GTi powertrain in to it. They are cool little cars... It's just a lot of work for a 1.0tsi.

its about making videos and making money, if people Might be interested in turning an up into an up gti which is likely to also be interesting to North American audiences who didn’t get the up let alone the gti, but has a massive vw following then it’s a good subject for videos

the 3 videos they have posted so far has had around 1.2M views so depending on their earnings per 1k they will have already earned thousands from those 3 videos

 

[StevenRB45]

Seem to recall they channel isn't monetised as such so they make nothing per view..

Not to say they don't make a killing on merch and the fact that Moog's career in music gets a free plug to millions and every new song he puts out immediately gets a few million downloads..

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Seem to recall they channel isn't monetised as such so they make nothing per view..

Not to say they don't make a killing on merch and the fact that Moog's career in music gets a free plug to millions and every new song he puts out immediately gets a few million downloads..

They’re definitely monetised


from their own website

A combination of YouTube ads, supportive sponsors and the wonderful support of MCM fans buying merchandise has kept MCM “free” for 10 years,

 

[portland_bill]

Cat brought another mouse in during the night. Now lost somewhere in my bedroom. More traps purchased and set. Cat has lost interest, obviously now my job. She demanded feeding, so she got the flavour she doesn't like much. So she's hungry and grumpy.

Traps set.
2am, awoke (loo) to hear the gentle rattle of the mechanism in the box, signifying a mouse inside, trying to get out. Shone the torch at the two traps, one with a mouse inside. So after the loo visit, there I am, at 2am, stood in the garden, trying to coax the little creature out of the now open box.

Panda has become incontinent. Bottom hose leaking at the silly quick connection. It's been on and off a few times, last time a few weeks ago, so it has finally given up. So I have a new hose to fit. Time to get wet.

Had a look, now dry, and refusing to leak. Coolant level not gone down. Perhaps it has sealed, as it is designed to do. Perhaps it is just teasing, and will leak again when it rains. Meanwhile, all good again.

 

[porta]

It’s bloody wild out there, (N.Yorkshire near Skipton) and I’ve not seen flooding like this since the great storm of 2013…stay safe!

 

[bugsymike]

It’s bloody wild out there, (N.Yorkshire near Skipton) and I’ve not seen flooding like this since the great storm of 2013…stay safe!

Sunny Devon again here.

 

[StevenRB45]

It’s bloody wild out there, (N.Yorkshire near Skipton) and I’ve not seen flooding like this since the great storm of 2013…stay safe!

Yep, wild in the north as well, 2 of 3 roads out of the village flooded.

However safe on a hilltop with a freshly repaired roof and new heating so I've had worse storms...

 

[porta]

Yep, wild in the north as well, 2 of 3 roads out of the village flooded.

However safe on a hilltop with a freshly repaired roof and new heating so I've had worse storms...

It’s the storm drains, or in some places rurally, the lack of them…the river and becks are only just breaking their banks, which they do regularly…so the roads up the hills are getting flooded well before the flood plain as the ground is saturated also

 

[vexorg]

That's not even in the red warning area!

 

[bugsymike]

In the past local councils had staff that regularly cleaned and cut back around waterways so the water could flow freely away.
A few weeks ago we had a sudden down pour for only a few minutes, a recently opened dual carriageway flooded in a dip resulting in cars getting damaged ingesting water, we were stuck for forty minutes until the car drivers in front realised if they drove near the centre reservation it was much shallower. I drove on the same section a few days later and could see the cause of the problem, on that dip the new road had kerbs with holes in to drain rain water away and due to lack of maintenance were all blocked with road dirt so no water could drain away!
Houses seem to be often built on flood plains, near us was a grey hound racing circuit and in the 1970s as you drove past in the winter it was often flooded, now it has a load of expensive houses built on the site, one of the roads is called Stadium Drive after it's history. I wonder how the occupants find it?

 

[porta]

That's not even in the red warning area!

Just had the environment agency flood alert texts and emails for the ‘upper aire’ and ‘crosshills/Kildwick’ catchments, expecting 100mm
There must have been some trees down, that they removed last night/early morning, judging by what’s at the side of the road and the chainsaw chippings