Project Binky

Amazing they are still hand cutting sheet metal!  These days, thanks to online Laser/water jet cut service providers, you can send a .dxf file one day, and have the finished part in your hand the next….

Nice skid factory reference at the start, their also worth a watch (mighty car mods sub Chanel). Love this show, especially when they go from the sublime to the ridiculous, they’ve said lately they have a number of project lined up after binky.

New episode this evening 🙂

Game on…

A terminal extractor kit…where have you been in my life 🙂

Was about to go to bed, not now 🙂

Sanding on Gordon Murray’s Escort, now wiring on Binky!

Why do I love this stuff so much!

Damn, now I’m hooked. Takes me back to my days of dropping truck engines into small cars, but nothing like as neat as those guys.

Nick is a bit of a perfectionist. Binky is going to be a work of art when(if?) it is finished.

The attention to detail is incredible, love a tidy bit of wiring!

I would have put some grommets in the holes to protect the wiring though. Thats going to chaff on that  metal.

They’ll do that when they rebuild it after paint, it’s all going to have to come off at some point before it’s finished!

To be honest with their level of attention to detail I didn’t think it would be something they would miss.

I imagine they are going to fully wrap the harness anyway…leaving it as a loom of bundled wires with a few cable ties is not very good. They’re still in mock up phase. Looking forward to them getting back to some good old fashioned tin bashing. I can imagine they’ve got something special planned for the re-positioning of the alternator.

I would have put some grommets in the holes to protect the wiring though. Thats going to chaff on that  metal.

Really make me wonder what you are thinking, do you (& half the youtube posters) think they’ll really go to this level of construction, then they’ll forget something minor like a grommet? ;D

Really make me wonder what you are thinking, do you (& half the youtube posters) think they’ll really go to this level of construction, then they’ll forget something minor like a grommet? ;D

No obviously, see my other post.

Grommet query answered

I can imagine they’ve got something special planned for the re-positioning of the alternator.

Yes, it turns out they have 😲 😀

Just a bump in case anyone missed this.

First one I’ve watched all the way through for some reason. I love this so much more than the Escort for a rich guy thread.

“Rich Guy” do you mean Gordon Murray, designer of some of the most famous and successful F1 cars of the 70s and 80s, designer of the McLaren F1? Ha ha.

Yeah, he’s probably rich, but it’s not the budget that makes it interesting, it’s who he is – it’s like being asked to paint a picture for Van Gogh.

Yep. I know who he is. Still a bit sterile compared to Binky.

Still a bit sterile compared to Binky.

loved the mansplaining by the Nitron chap in the last escort ad condescending ****

I was disappointed by the standard jap import fog light installation. I can’t believe after all the work gone into it that they just hang one of those off the back. It has two reversing lights so can’t they adapt one of those with a red bulb/lens?

Bonus Binky!

Thanks chaps – just spotted this thread and I am enjoying a binge watch!

I did the same TJ, 5 years worth of episodes, I won’t spoil how it turns out 😋

Bonus Binky! part 2 is up

binky linky?

I remember when this tread first popped up, they were on episode 13 or something… I binge watched tehm up to that point, then hit cold turkey!!!

Nice to see the newer episodes popping up, but it’s actually fun to revisit older ones too!!

Love it!

DrP

🙂

still think they are putting something off, you’d have thought they would have a running rolling chassis first before worrying about the interior decor and door cards.

Well that’s me seeing in the new year with Nick & Richard 🙂

Morning all !

cup holders 😃

I think you’ll find those are mug holders, thank you very much.

Klunk* maybe they think that doing this at the end would be very frustrating when all anyone will want to see is it running, not the fiddly crappy stuff that make a for a properly completed project.

It’s getting bloody close to being finished! (maybe)

* Also I think Mr Blackhurst has very little time for doing things they way the ‘everyone else’ expects stuff to be done

Woop!!

Friday night viewing sorted