Rebuilding A Flooded $2,000,000 McLaren P1 | Part 14

How are you guys doing? My name is tvarish and I have a problem now. My problem isn't that I bought a $2 million McLaren P1 that was destroyed by a major hurricane, nor is it the fact that we took it a

part

and found more sand and corrosion. than the Titanic and it's definitely not that I've decided to take this rusty bucket of bolts and try to turn it into the world's fastest McLaren. No, my problem is that here on this table you see what it is, it is a harness of cables, essentially the nervous system. of the most technologically advanced McLaren ever made and none of it, none of it is usable, but today we are going to fix this and breathe new life into my

flooded

hypercar.

I hope you're welcome to my nightmare, so this is what I've been dealing with. For the past few weeks, many of you have been wondering where the P1 is and why it isn't made and well, this is the reality of what happens when a hypercar falls into the ocean. The saltwater ocean because saltwater and copper do not. mix so that everything you see here, this whole wiring harness that you can't get from a Claren without being up to a year old, is completely toasted and to fix it, the plan was simple, we would take a wiring harness from a McLaren 650 and Los 720 strip them down to their bare components and then put them together to hopefully form a functional harness for a P1, but as Smart EFI's adom will now explain, it was anything but simple, a project like this is incredibly complex, it's not simple, It's not simple.

There is a lot to discover what McLaren did. Luckily, we had all the McLaren diagrams for this car and these other two cars, so I had to compare page by page, circuit by circuit, everything between the three cars and take notes of all the differences between them. the cars so we can take those two harnesses and combine them and then on top of that add all the things that neither of those cars had that are specific to the P1, yeah, and make it all work to make the P1 different. Every other McLaren on Earth not only has the hybrid propulsion assembly, well we're not going to use that in my build, but it still has it in the harness, it has things like active arrows in the front and rear, many times.

People don't know that it has an active shaft in the front, it has little fins that go down, everything has to be wired, it has a hydraulic suspension that also has to be connected to the steering rack, which is also electric over hydraulic, so It has things. like the radio, the doors are different than any other McLaren because it has switches in the doors and then you have all the things that we don't even think about, like the fact that it has a lot more fans than any other McLaren because of course , it's got more radiators, it's got more cooling, so this is a giant project because I thought, hey, we could just take these two harnesses and just put them together and boom, we'll have enough cables and harnesses and accessories, and it turns out it's probably the same thing as doing this with whole fabric before removing the corroded p1 harness from the table.

Adam drew a diagram by hand so we could get an idea of ​​what the new harness would need and took a bunch of pictures just in case. We ever had to move the tables and then we drop the new donor harness on the table with all the confidence in the world ready and look, it's perfectly done, wow, we're done, yes, fantastic, okay, have a great time. I don't want to. Being here, this makes me anxious, bye, we are now working very, very hard to make sure my McLaren P1 is running at peak performance now. In any case other than

rebuilding

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flooded

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It's in the link in the video description. Then check it out. It's worth it right now. Adam established the approximate position of the harness and then began the painstaking work of figuring out what each connector does, removing the ones we don't need and adding the hundreds of wires we do need. The diagrams we obtained from all three cars were absolutely essential to this process, but were only a small step forward as each wire would have to be checked individually several times during the build and it is at this point in the video however that I point out that it is not yet we've seen the car in the episode and that's because next door Jack and Rex were hanging out so we can do some more modifications and here it is, this car doesn't look much different from last time.

You saw it, probably after the SEMA show, but today that's all going to change. Now you'll notice that this is still wrapped and that this wrapping will always be temporary even though I love the Valvoline design now. We have to remove this because the final version of this car will have exposed carbon and sweets on top of that exposed carbon, but in order for us to do that we have to make this body work properly and today we are going to start the process to make the body work properly, but the first step of that process is to remove this wrapper, it's like removing a sticker and you just peel it off and you're doing great, you're doing great, it's easy thanks dad, look at that.

Look at that, you know, I actually like the yellow on this one, like the yellow, it's pretty, yeah, I'm not a big fan of yellow cars in general, but like on this car, I think it stands out, it makes the car stand out. highlight, yes the Pearl is actually very nice, too bad we won't keep it that way. It's weird when people throw things like that in my face, but I usually catch it too soon for that kind of humor. Jack, a vinyl wrap has a strong adhesive layer underneath that allows for this. It adheres to the body of the car, but is not too aggressive to lift the paint.

It is also very common to use a heat source when installing and removing because it makes the material much more flexible, but since we were in Florida, it was warm enough that we could remove the wrap since it is like a Band-Aid, you just have to You have to tear it off, so the good thing about this is that it hasn't been in the car that long and it hasn't been in the sun, usually what happens with these vinyl wraps if you leave them outside is that they start to get very brittle and then they break into these little tiny pieces and it makes it almost impossible to take off, but I mean I already have most of the door done and it's been like 2 minutes.

I don't think I can get this out in one go, but yeah, look, I just don't have the dexterity that Jack has as we remove more temporary Valvoline. caml wrap our old enemy reared his ugly head once again found out that this car still has a lot to say, keep it coming, it doesn't stop, can't stop sanding the same thing on this side, how many times have we cleaned this car? I don't know, I can't, it's been like 20. I can't even keep track anymore. You should donate this to the next Dune movie. It will be perfect.

I think you will be a great car. I should call him shyon. You don't really realize how many

part

s a car has until you have to take care of each of them, for example the spoiler on the P1 is actually made of two pieces and they are both super wide and luckily require a bit of skill to unwrap. we had a jack of all trades and we know that won't be the last dad joke you hear on this channel now everything is off now everything now all the vinyl is now all the vinyl is not some of the vinyl is off, okay, some of the vinyl is off on this car and I wanted to show you another problem that we ran into so we checked that side and I'm pretty sure this side will be exactly the same so I'm going to demonstrate what the problem is.

Usually now when you have carbon fiber like this this is what is called visual carbon fiber you can actually see the weave there is a clear layer on top and overall it looks good now in my stupid brain I thought that , since this is just painted we could sand the paint and it will be a nice carbon fiber, unfortunately this is what we get, so what Jack just did was expose the carbon fiber underneath, he sanded all the paint, but what see here it's actually a layer of body filler that's like Bondo and no, the car hasn't had any accidents or anything like that.

This is factory, so the factory applies a coat of body filler, then they apply a sealer, then a primer, and then the paint, and then the clear coat. right, yeah, so the problem is not that the problem is that this is very wavy and it's not visually as nice and clean as this and then they apply putty to smooth it out and get all its shapes, but that's not the problem at all, The problem is that what we have is something else, yes, if you look here, there are two different types of carbon fiber, this is like a carbon fiber patchwork quilt and when you put it in water it simulates what it is with a transparent layer , yeah, you can see here, that's a weave.

That's a different fabric and if we just applied a clear coat on top of this, it would look like absolute garbage, so what we have to do is remove all the paint because we want this to be exposed carbon fiber, but we also wanted to have a cohesive fabric for the entire car, so this would have to be coated essentially, all the paint would have to be removed and then we'd put a new layer of carbon fiber on to make sure all the fabric matches and that's a very, very slow process. and very tedious, which is why we're taking this to my friend Shawn at the watch raid, where he'll be carrying a lot of cutting implements for my very expensive, very customized million-doll hypercar. about to hyperventilate I don't want to toot my own horn, but lifting the back of a car on your own always makes you feel like you're competing for the strongest man in the world, even if it's in a car with no engine or body and it's Made from the lightest materials in the world, we then bolted some dollies to the back of the P1 to make sure it could actually roll and that's when I realized I could now kill two dirty birds with one stone, as the chassis will be modified and adjusted. correctly I wanted to remove the suspension because it really is a cool piece.

I mean everything is fixed and looks amazing apart from the fact that it looks like shit because of the corrosion and rust and it runs like everything works fine except it had 300M but we have to remove this corrosion so I'll try see if I can clean it up using a few different methods, but right now we have to put this in the trailer, which isn't as well taken care of. The secret is that mechanical work on a McLaren is actually not that difficult to do. You can disassemble the entire suspension assembly by unscrewing a handful of 13mm bolts and nuts, and since it's made from something called aluminum, it was fairly lightweight, which lessens any chance of the suspension assembly coming loose and turning your hand into meat. burger, we rolled our beloved desert sandworm into the parking lot and tried to load it onto the trailer, which is a little tricky when the rear wheels can move in any direction and the front wheels don't have a steering wheel attached, we made it , although don't let anyone tell you that loading a P1 on a trailer that isn't worth much money is sketchy. we're totally sure buddy 100 aluminum trailer these are expensive yes this is an aluminum trailer except it's steel and painted silver so it looks like an El trailer.

It also doesn't have brakes. This was in Fast and Furious. it wasn't in Fast and Furious, I actually got it from the people who made the Fast and Furious cars, but my TR fun fact, so I actually had a trailer that I donated to the people who make Fast and Furious movies and I believe in the last one. in Fast N uh I saw my trailer on the movie uh this is not a joke, it's not a bit, it's real, you can go see it, I think it's on 9 Minute Mark, uh, young Vin Diesel or young Dominic Tetto is , uh, him. jump on top of the trailer that's my trailer so there you go remember the song I'm riding Spinners I'm riding Spinners don't border with shy skin assured we take out some othersHoly, oh man, this feels good. really good so I guess all we have to do is get the car back and put all this stuff in the car and hope everything else works man.

I feel good, I feel great, woo, here we go.