Make The NOISE!
August 20, 2015 9:53 PM Subscribe
Take one rotten 1980 Mini 1000 and one Toyota Celica GT-Four and use all their guile, cunning and skill to graft them together to create a Frankenstein’s monster of a car.
Episode 1: A Case Of Tinworm
Episode 2: Strutting Your Stuff
Episode 3: Stop! Hammer Time
Episode 4: Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Episode 5: Binky: A Warning From History
Episode 6: Sense And Senility
Episode 7: The Padded Cell
Episode 8: Je T'Adoor
Episode 9: Out Of My Cold, Dead Hands
Episode 10: A Substantial Gift
More to come...
Outakes 1(NSFW)
Outakes 2(NSFW)
Unplugged
Bad Obsession Motorsports
Make the NOISE!
Episode 1: A Case Of Tinworm
Episode 2: Strutting Your Stuff
Episode 3: Stop! Hammer Time
Episode 4: Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Episode 5: Binky: A Warning From History
Episode 6: Sense And Senility
Episode 7: The Padded Cell
Episode 8: Je T'Adoor
Episode 9: Out Of My Cold, Dead Hands
Episode 10: A Substantial Gift
More to come...
Outakes 1(NSFW)
Outakes 2(NSFW)
Unplugged
Bad Obsession Motorsports
Make the NOISE!
Is it only the British who pronounce the Toyota car as "cel-í-ca", or were my high school buddies and me mistaken in thinking it was pronounced "cél-i-ca"?
posted by Jon_Evil at 10:53 PM on August 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Jon_Evil at 10:53 PM on August 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Project Binky is an exceptional set of videos. I just wish they'd come out more often... but then the ridiculous level of fabrication and prep must take a huge amount of time and energy, so if they were more frequent they probably wouldn't be as good. Quality dry humour and advanced cardboard aided design. More or less everything you could want in a youtube vid.
posted by samworm at 10:55 PM on August 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by samworm at 10:55 PM on August 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Oh, I love this project! I found it while I was browsing the subscribe lists of the channels I subscribe to late one night, looking for something to watch. Modern day channel surfing, woo!
I was quite excited when episode 10 popped up recently. It's one hell of a build.
posted by inparticularity at 11:09 PM on August 20, 2015
I was quite excited when episode 10 popped up recently. It's one hell of a build.
posted by inparticularity at 11:09 PM on August 20, 2015
Dear BBC, just go ahead and replace Top Gear with this, please, which actually seems to be about cars and doesn't make Britain look like a cultural backwater full of inconsiderate blowhards. Thanks!
posted by Jon Mitchell at 11:30 PM on August 20, 2015 [13 favorites]
posted by Jon Mitchell at 11:30 PM on August 20, 2015 [13 favorites]
Wow, a Top Gear presented by skilled, charismatic petrolheads instead of elderly multimillionaire lager lads. Wouldn't that be something.
posted by George_Spiggott at 12:08 AM on August 21, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by George_Spiggott at 12:08 AM on August 21, 2015 [10 favorites]
Jon_Evil i should probably lean to use proper pronunciation marks, but to my ear, we Brits say seh-LEka
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 12:39 AM on August 21, 2015
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 12:39 AM on August 21, 2015
I love that they don't cheat by making a spaceframe and new panels, but the level of just the bodywork they're doing: repair, patching, replacement, and fabrication of custom pieces, they've essentially recreated the car assembly line, including special purpose tools just to hold and lift parts during (sometimes re- but often not) assembly.
They could probably turn out a new classic Mini, starting from flat sheetmetal, in not much more time than it took to do this.
posted by zippy at 3:06 AM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
They could probably turn out a new classic Mini, starting from flat sheetmetal, in not much more time than it took to do this.
posted by zippy at 3:06 AM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm just finishing up the restoration of an elderly British car which was far better than this car, rust-wise, and I considered abandoning it. This is a fabulous series. I am not ashamed to admit I just watched every episode.
posted by maxwelton at 3:27 AM on August 21, 2015
posted by maxwelton at 3:27 AM on August 21, 2015
I have a Canadian friend who pronounces it "sel-LEEka" which I thought was completely weird because in the U.S. it is "SEL-ihka" which includes how it is pronounced in TV ads.
posted by delicious-luncheon at 4:08 AM on August 21, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by delicious-luncheon at 4:08 AM on August 21, 2015 [4 favorites]
I prefer the Mini plain, please. Even that 1275cc Cooper nonsense was too much.
posted by sonascope at 4:35 AM on August 21, 2015
posted by sonascope at 4:35 AM on August 21, 2015
Given it's a made-up word by some Japanese marketing wonk, it's known for two qualities:
1. Starts with a sibilant
2. Has absolutely no stress accent whatsoever.
posted by oheso at 4:43 AM on August 21, 2015
1. Starts with a sibilant
2. Has absolutely no stress accent whatsoever.
posted by oheso at 4:43 AM on August 21, 2015
OK, I confess I'm watching this with the sound off while I listen to Peterson and Monk. But so far it seems to me like this:
Intro: 18 minutes of blokes staring at me and talking, nothing actually happens.
Part 1: More than six minutes of a bloke staring at me talking, followed by 30 seconds of tear-down. No, it's back to a bloke staring at me and talking.
Do I seriously have to watch like 6 hours of this to see something happen?
posted by oheso at 4:58 AM on August 21, 2015
Intro: 18 minutes of blokes staring at me and talking, nothing actually happens.
Part 1: More than six minutes of a bloke staring at me talking, followed by 30 seconds of tear-down. No, it's back to a bloke staring at me and talking.
Do I seriously have to watch like 6 hours of this to see something happen?
posted by oheso at 4:58 AM on August 21, 2015
I was just meh and fast forwarded through the first episode, but because of inparticularity's comment, then went straight to 10. This is a great series and I'm going to watch it all!
(I was, like, the 20th owner of a '49 CJ2A with a Buick V6, MGB rack, CNC master cyls and a poorly fitted fiberglass body. I'd go to sleep at night trying to figure out plumbing and new bracketry for that piece of crap that could fabbed in my limited workshop. Good times.)
posted by klarck at 5:17 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
(I was, like, the 20th owner of a '49 CJ2A with a Buick V6, MGB rack, CNC master cyls and a poorly fitted fiberglass body. I'd go to sleep at night trying to figure out plumbing and new bracketry for that piece of crap that could fabbed in my limited workshop. Good times.)
posted by klarck at 5:17 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
I LOL'd at the Police Squad! reference.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 5:34 AM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 5:34 AM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
Romanes eunt domus
(this is a great series. it's like if Wheeler Dealers was done by insane people)
posted by NoMich at 5:41 AM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
(this is a great series. it's like if Wheeler Dealers was done by insane people)
posted by NoMich at 5:41 AM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
If this is the sort of thing you like, then you will like this. For me, the joy is in the detail of all the little "cardboard aided design" templates slowly building up box sections around the components.
The Australian pronunciation is "sellEE-ka", more of less.
posted by nickzoic at 5:48 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
The Australian pronunciation is "sellEE-ka", more of less.
posted by nickzoic at 5:48 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
In Episode 2, the whiteboard reads "Romanes Eunt Domus".
posted by plinth at 6:37 AM on August 21, 2015
posted by plinth at 6:37 AM on August 21, 2015
I saw this on Hackaday a week or so ago, and watched the whole series over a couple of nights. This is really impressive work. I have enough trouble getting square tube to weld together, square, with TIG. These guys have welded assemblies made of thin steel bits that match in tons of different places, and they're doing it with MIG, AND the welds are gorgeous. A lot of that's raw experience/practice/skill, but, still! It is impressive experience/practice/skill. I will probably never have the time, resources and skill required to do this (and if I did, I'd do something aside from this particular project), but I have no small amount of envy that these guys are doing this.
posted by Alterscape at 6:38 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Alterscape at 6:38 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
bonehead and I watch this whenever it comes out. They're hilarious.
posted by LN at 6:48 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by LN at 6:48 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
How the heck to they keep that show so frigg'n clean? That's the obsession.
posted by sammyo at 7:03 AM on August 21, 2015
posted by sammyo at 7:03 AM on August 21, 2015
I'm highly enjoying this and I'm not even remotely interested in cars. Also, that one song from Little Big Planet!
posted by numaner at 7:18 AM on August 21, 2015
posted by numaner at 7:18 AM on August 21, 2015
My dad had a buddy who put a Ford 302 into a mid-70's VW super beetle. Or I should say, he put the shell of a super beetle on the frame of a Pinto. You sat in the back seat and if you weren't careful the front end would come off the ground when accelerating. It was a total death trap in the most awesome way.
posted by photoslob at 8:12 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by photoslob at 8:12 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
I haven't felt this sad that something I'm watching will eventually have to finish since Guardians of the Galaxy.
posted by Molesome at 8:20 AM on August 21, 2015
posted by Molesome at 8:20 AM on August 21, 2015
This is a fantastic series!
(For anyone taking ideas from the series, just one warning: the spray primer they're using looks like U-Pol Weld 2 Copper. Do not try to use this as a paint primer! I strongly suspect/hope they're going to acid dip or media blast the frame before they paint it. Trying to paint over a weld-through primer is a recipe for disaster.)
posted by introp at 9:00 AM on August 21, 2015
(For anyone taking ideas from the series, just one warning: the spray primer they're using looks like U-Pol Weld 2 Copper. Do not try to use this as a paint primer! I strongly suspect/hope they're going to acid dip or media blast the frame before they paint it. Trying to paint over a weld-through primer is a recipe for disaster.)
posted by introp at 9:00 AM on August 21, 2015
My hope is they find a way, when it's wheel-time, to get the arches from being too flared-out. A bit is OK aesthetically, but huge arches on this mini will ruin the "Q-car" look he's going for. I'm really encouraged by the wheel choice he was considering towards the end, plain steel would be awesome.
I don't think they were really considering a "usable" back seat, but I don't think the seats he chose will allow for access to the back, in any case. And the back seat being a "dummy" would allow room for minor details like a battery and fuel...though the boot has upward-facing captives of good size which they're obviously planning to use for something.
Anyway, I love watching fabrication videos like this. I've wanted to learn welding for a long time, but one of the reasons I haven't is because I know how hard it is to weld this well, and I don't know if I have the patience. (Back when that Jesse James car-fab show was on cable, if nothing else James definitely had the welding skillz.)
posted by maxwelton at 10:18 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
I don't think they were really considering a "usable" back seat, but I don't think the seats he chose will allow for access to the back, in any case. And the back seat being a "dummy" would allow room for minor details like a battery and fuel...though the boot has upward-facing captives of good size which they're obviously planning to use for something.
Anyway, I love watching fabrication videos like this. I've wanted to learn welding for a long time, but one of the reasons I haven't is because I know how hard it is to weld this well, and I don't know if I have the patience. (Back when that Jesse James car-fab show was on cable, if nothing else James definitely had the welding skillz.)
posted by maxwelton at 10:18 AM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
We've been watching this for about a year. These guys are amazing.
They could probably turn out a new classic Mini, starting from flat sheetmetal, in not much more time than it took to do this.
Well, then it wouldn't be an original Mini would it? I mean, just like my Grandfather's axe.
posted by bonehead at 10:26 AM on August 21, 2015
They could probably turn out a new classic Mini, starting from flat sheetmetal, in not much more time than it took to do this.
Well, then it wouldn't be an original Mini would it? I mean, just like my Grandfather's axe.
posted by bonehead at 10:26 AM on August 21, 2015
@ photoslob: Heh, that sounds familiar. I knew a guy back in high school (early 80's) that shoehorned a big block Ford V8 into a Pinto frame and did not add a roll cage or any other chassis reinforcement. Shortly after he got it running, he jumped on the gas (with the transmission in neutral) and the torque of the motor was so great that it twisted the frame and lifted one of the front wheels a foot in the air. Good times.
I love these sorts of project, having engaged in a few myself. These guys have the right attitude and do great work. I am looking forward to enjoying this videos over the weekend.
posted by mosk at 11:22 AM on August 21, 2015
I love these sorts of project, having engaged in a few myself. These guys have the right attitude and do great work. I am looking forward to enjoying this videos over the weekend.
posted by mosk at 11:22 AM on August 21, 2015
This series reminds me of the Thames camper van / Lexus V8 project I've been following for a few years now. His is also ridiculously rusty, but he's fabricating patches rather than buying new panels. Also, he occasionally posts pictures of his other work, such as building an over-engineered tricycle for his nephew.
posted by bradf at 12:33 PM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by bradf at 12:33 PM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
The coolest "small car, big engine" combo I've seen is Ford Sierra Cosworth turbo engine (300 hp V6) mounted on a Ford Ka. Amazingly, the engine fits in the Ka's engine compartment.
posted by daniel_charms at 12:53 PM on August 21, 2015
posted by daniel_charms at 12:53 PM on August 21, 2015
I'm watching this with my kids. They call it "brew and a biscuit". Good times
posted by Maxwell's demon at 1:10 PM on August 21, 2015
posted by Maxwell's demon at 1:10 PM on August 21, 2015
Has anyone checked they're not just paid shills for Big Cardboard?
posted by fullerine at 1:51 PM on August 21, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by fullerine at 1:51 PM on August 21, 2015 [5 favorites]
The coolest "small car, big engine" combo I've seen is Ford Sierra Cosworth
I like the Sunbeam Tiger
posted by zippy at 5:39 PM on August 21, 2015
I like the Sunbeam Tiger
posted by zippy at 5:39 PM on August 21, 2015
I have a 92 Celica five speed in my garage. I now would like to put that engine into my old 58 Triumph Spitfire. I still dream about that car.
posted by Oyéah at 6:05 PM on August 21, 2015
posted by Oyéah at 6:05 PM on August 21, 2015
Seven episodes in and this is literally the best thing I have ever seen. Inspiring, hilarious and awesome.
posted by Bistle at 6:50 PM on August 21, 2015
posted by Bistle at 6:50 PM on August 21, 2015
Ha, wait 'til I finish my project: putting a 1966 Lotus Elan engine into a Bedford RL series lorry.
posted by George_Spiggott at 6:58 PM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by George_Spiggott at 6:58 PM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
Project Binky is just the best. It's exactly what any project is like: You take on something that should slightly stretch your skills, and the next thing you know, you have no idea or hope of getting anywhere close to your original goal.
posted by JawnBigboote at 7:41 PM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by JawnBigboote at 7:41 PM on August 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
I just got done watching all of the episodes with my six year old twins. We loved every minute of it and they can't wait for episode 11 (seems like there's at least 2-3 months between episodes though, which kinda crushed them). Thanks for posting!
posted by togdon at 9:00 AM on August 22, 2015
posted by togdon at 9:00 AM on August 22, 2015
Episode 9 whiteboard:
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