Mattb
Member
Registered: 2nd Feb 03
Location: Under your sisters bed
User status: Offline
|
So some of you may have seen my last time lapse video that i made involving a Q5 having new pistons and conrods, i did leave some random photos suggesting my next one and i have finally finished putting it together (the car that is!!)
Quick history of the job from what i understand of the situation is this. Guy buys an R8 V10, doesnt drive it, puts it into some sort of storage for 5 years, comes to use it and it wont start. He gets someone out to have a look and they realise there has been a rodent of some description living in the car, They carried out some extensive wiring repairs to both the body loom and the engine wiring loom, but to no avail. The car gets sold as a non runner and brought to us. We find that the wiring for the fuel pumps has been chewed to bits. To repair the wiring the fuel tanks needed to come out, along with the engine.
The video represents around 40 Hours work which was done over the course of a couple of months. Mostly due to waiting for back ordered fuel tank link pipes which had also been chewed
Enjoy 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFdZp3eefM
|
boylers11
Member
Registered: 27th Jul 06
Location: Shropshire
User status: Offline
|
Skills 
What a mess it made!
I'd definitely forget where bits went after a month! Did you not end up with just one illusive screw/nut/bolt ? 
|
Chris x
Member
Registered: 11th Sep 08
Location: Bexhill
User status: Offline
|
|
Ben G
Member
Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
Unbelievable amount of work involved!
Never knew those 2 ovals hid the shittest exhaust pipes ever. Thought they'd be all fancy.
|
Ojc
Member
Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
User status: Offline
|
Awesome
|
Ian W
Member
Registered: 8th Nov 03
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
User status: Offline
|
|
CorsAsh
Member
Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
User status: Offline
|
Awesome video!
|
Generation
Member
Registered: 7th Jul 09
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
Great video! I dread to think how much the bill was for damage from one mouse!
|
VegasPhil
Premium Member
Registered: 16th Jan 05
Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
User status: Offline
|
Yes - Such a good vid
What you working on next? 
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
|
jamied
Member
Registered: 27th Oct 03
Location: Marbella,Spain Drives: C63
User status: Offline
|
Excellent video .I hope Audi pays well as you definitely know your stuff!
[Edited on 02-07-2014 by jamied]
|
Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Offline
|
I thought I'd be badly done to when one chewed through my box of bubble envelopes, think I'd cry if that was my car.
Great vid, not sure how much time you spend wondering what's next but from the vid it looks like you're doing the whole job from memory!
|
gooner_47
Member
Registered: 20th Jul 04
Location: Bexhill/Croydon
User status: Offline
|
That's so cool. "Going for a cuppa" haha I think you earned it mate 
I was wondering that too, are you actually following a written process to know in what order to do things, or is it all in your head? So impressive either way. And sounds as fuck.
|
dannymccann
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
User status: Offline
|
Was there any bits left over? I always have something left over when I take a piece of something apart, or flat pack furniture, let alone most of a car like that
Proper skills and hard work gone into that, let alone the putting together of the time lapse as well, which mustve taken a fair while as well
|
djgritt
Premium Member
Registered: 1st Nov 07
Location: Dorset Drives: Focus ST / Hyundai i20N
User status: Offline
|
Excellent video - tasty sounding motor too!
What software did you use to make the video? Want to do a time lapse sort of thing for our drive across Europe this summer... 
|
taylorboosh
Member
Registered: 3rd Apr 07
User status: Offline
|
Again - great work
|
Mattb
Member
Registered: 2nd Feb 03
Location: Under your sisters bed
User status: Offline
|
Thanks guys! Glad you enjoyed it!
quote:
Originally posted by VegasPhil
Yes - Such a good vid
What you working on next?
Well today, it was another two R8's................. but these were nice easy Pre Delivery Inspections
quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Great vid, not sure how much time you spend wondering what's next but from the vid it looks like you're doing the whole job from memory!
For the most part I know how most of these come apart, they arent that bad to work on, its just alot of nuts and bolts. The only thing i was unsure on was removing the fuel tanks so had a good look at the instructions for those.
And there were a few times where i had to take stuff off again because i had forgotton something
quote:
Originally posted by djgritt
What software did you use to make the video? Want to do a time lapse sort of thing for our drive across Europe this summer...
The time lapse one is called 'iMotion' and is Free! the editing one is called 'Perfect Video' which is about £2
quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
Was there any bits left over? I always have something left over when I take a piece of something apart, or flat pack furniture, let alone most of a car like that
Proper skills and hard work gone into that, let alone the putting together of the time lapse as well, which mustve taken a fair while as well
Actually didn't have enough... someone had been at it before 
Hope i havent missed any questions!
|
Toby
Premium Member
Registered: 29th Nov 05
User status: Offline
|
Great work. Keep posting them!
|
Lee_fr200
Member
Registered: 8th May 11
Location: West Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
Great work mates love these videos
|
SVM 286
Member
Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: pain
User status: Offline
|
Eff that Matt! Lots of work Chief. Well done Sir. Proper headache stuff.
Oh and how rats and cars should coexist (in harmony)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ves4NhiDKZg
|
