Will the MINI JEEP make it to AREA 51? Ep1: The build and start.

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it to Moab with the first full 1,000-mile adventure? The story continues. Welcome to the beginning of the adventure. You join me at the base of a mountain range just to the south. from Salt Lake Utah and what a mountain range well, it's the mountain range that defeated me with all the snow last time when I only had two wheel drive, eight horses and Tiny Wheels, but now I have a Lock 32 four wheel drive differential horses and a lot. bigger wheels, so hopefully Willie and I can do it.

I'm at about 62,000 feet now the ridge goes up to about 11,000 feet so there could be a lot of snow up there but the plan is to get there and drive the 100 miles to the right. along the top of Ridge and then when that's over I drop down into the valley towards the desert and then from there I head to Area 51 and that's the plan and I don't see anything going wrong with any of this, so, yes, time. to jump,

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y and, uh, let's wait, there's no way we're

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ing this adventure after I spent weeks transforming Willie the

mini

Jeep from this to this without an epic

build

of 80 super awesome assembly time contenders ready with Ed March this 2 years. -old Honda ATV that he just spent $6,000 on to immediately cut in half and Willie, the

mini

Jeep versus Ed's latest stupid good idea where he drives 650 miles to Area 51 to try to find aliens and ask them if They are responsible for the path.

The first thing he has to do is

make

sure this practically new donor vehicle is in good working order, so I have to get him off my back. All terrain purely for science, of course, I also wanted to find the point where it

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s to tip over, which is not stressful at all because I'm a man, mommy, okay, that's going to sound pathetic, probably, things like that are a A little excessive, but maybe I have an idea for that. I conquered this section of rock with a small Wheeling lost the leg due to my tripod I conquered this section with a 30mph wheelie and then I would have prepared one last tripod shot for this test setup before returning home to disassemble the quad.

I lost a leg of my tripod somewhere. up there, brilliant, yes, the erection was achieved well and don't do that again from now on, so now I could take the quad apart and put the four-wheel drive parts on Willie, but at that moment I realized that There was a small problem, it was not small. Quite big, oh dear, I think it's a little big now, in my experience having a Willie that is too big and unwieldy can present a problem, so it's time to see if deep down the donor vehicle is the same size as the mini Jeep and luckily, I can continue in my childish voice pointing out that this is where the top of the Quad's suspension reaches my thigh and that both vehicles are compatible because good news ladies, Willie comes here excellent , so now I know that both vehicles are vaguely the same size.

It's time to make a plan that went well, so I took everything off of Willie and left it as a simple rolling chassis. Well, apparently I had a stroke, so we'll do this out loud. The general plan here is to get rid of the top. three qus of the Honda leaving only the Dy dve train and the bottom of the chassis to hold it in place, then I

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take the top 3/4 of the mini Jeep and then join the two parts together to get an idea of ​​how the body of the Jeep would fit to the Honda wheelbase.

I made a cardboard version of the body that he seemed very proud of, but initially it didn't mean much to me because, as much as I liked a monster truck, the body needed to be much lower. To investigate this I became a nightdress dressed as a WWII tank mechanic and then cut out pieces of the cardboard body to show me what Honda parts were in the way, then I turned on daylight and started cutting out those Honda parts. and security. Warning, these frames are manicured so that when you make cuts you can grab the angle grinder disc and fire it at you.

You should only do this if you are super tough and manly, as we established earlier with mom with the frame cut off, yes. The seating position passed the kid test, but revealed a big problem, the engine air intake was right between my legs, a potential problem even when life gives you lemons, I think I'm going to have 32 horsepower, so that with all the important things resolved. It was time for the next stage. Good morning, look who sees the chaos in the trailer. Yes, that's right, I was back working with Nate who helped me with the engine swap and amphibious conversion on the previous adventure, so we downloaded the trailer and I tried to bring Nate up to speed on how I thought this was going to work.

What do you want to know? I think Nate wants to know why he agreed to do this. I don't know what you want to do first. Poor Nate, to help show me in my plan, we put the cardboard body on the quad chassis with the suspension fully compressed, this means the wheel shouldn't hit the body if I hit any major bumps, so yeah, I had it all planned out. . If you weld it, if we're going to have it, is it a little bit ahead of these points? Maybe it's okay. I didn't have everything planned, but I did have an idea to solve the engine air intake blockage.

Right against my crotch I was going to print as a flashlight accessory since the air intake is fine, maybe it doesn't move. We removed the rear axle from the mini Jeep and then Nate, without tools like a maniac, used the saw to cut the engine. The plan now is to put what Willie is into what Honda is. It's going to be really easy and it's going to fit perfectly and it was really easy, easy, yeah, great, done, now there was another potential problem here with cutting so much. of the Mini mini Jeep and I had seen it before.

I would like to use it as much as possible to stop all the people from the Internet. You didn't modify your mini Jeep, you actually modified a Honda Quad bike and put the Jeep on it. Now I understand where you're coming from and if I'm not careful that could be the case, but luckily there's an engineering equation I can follow to make sure I'm not just putting a mini Jeep body on a Honda Quad, you see, if we teleport going forward, we can see that this is the amount of Honda quad that is left after construction and this is the amount of mini Jeep that is left and if we weigh the two amounts and then divide them by the combined weight of both vehicles we can see that no I don't care so with that cleared up we kept cutting more and more Honda to make it as small as possible and until the mini Jeep parts weren't hitting anything and then I realized this

build

really needs to hurry so I faded Montage again Music and I made a lot of you hate people who leave YouTube comments on my channel saying they like my horrible singing.

The chassis still didn't quite fit, so they cut Monda. After 800 tries it finally fit, making them wonder why nothing ever fit right. There is always something that is tight because I am a man and I am good at taking measurements, for example, this one is 8 inches. I reused the brake assembly from the mini Jeep, so you wouldn't complain to me, this was not the original vehicle, but the Jeep steering wheel and steering column were the same, and it is my solemn promise to try to make things rhyme. Golem, the next step was to take the four-wheel drive and differential lock handlebars. switches and turn them into toggle switches on the dash, they think this would be super simple since it's only two switches but this is a modern quad which means it's stupidly over complicated, it only needed four wires but they used 13 because someone at Honda he took it.

No drugs and I'm sorry I ranted. I just want to show you how much work goes into this version and if I can be serious for a second, there was a lot more work involved in this that didn't show up in the video. Nate was an absolute asset for helping me with this. We made an incredible team and this project would never have been finished without both of us working as hard as we could. We finally got the suit to fit after I helped more and then did some trimming. the wheel arches to fit large tires with the arches ready, next to come was the bumper and winch in case something went wrong, next to be built was the gear shift linkage which required a lot of thought, but then we cut some parts Peter Dinklage Then I soldered a plate for the battery.

Nate made a metal floor the right height for my anatomy, then cut it and folded it at chest height, and then attached the air filter, which I guess is a more sensible idea than my flashlight, okay? All the heavy engineering has been done on the four-wheel drive conversion and in theory I should be able to drive now, but I've taken up too much of Nate's time. This was supposed to be very fast and it's still working. For a long time I think about the ninth day I was here and I slept in the back of my car and it smelled pretty bad, so I'm going to go back to Moab now and I can do all the electrical and stuff and then I'm going to come back here when Nate has forgotten how annoying I am and then we can go ahead and finish the oh no I can't tell you about that, no, uh, yeah, uh, ignore it completely, focus on me instead. to Mad bro Power Sports in Moab Utah to install new tires.

I always buy my tires from mad broro Power Sports because they are very useful and they really respect me, it's me, hooray, where have you been, where haven't I been, what does a CO say? Hello YouTube, anyone who wants to say hello. I installed new tires and found that they were much heavier than the old ones, but they were much stronger, so I guess I can handle that. Then I put the wheels back on Willie. Now it looked super cool without any suspension installed, but it's supposed to be an off-road vehicle, which means going back to the crazy brother Power Sports to install the springs and deal with one of my biggest fears: spring compressors.

I didn't die and I hope so. The most dangerous part of the entire trip with all four shock absorbers done. Willie was now at the correct height and I moved on to making some custom length battery cables that I had never made before. I do not know what I'm doing. let's read the manual don't catch the penis and the handle fail turns out it's a lot harder than you think to squeeze the handle not my P nevermind Hey boobs, one problem that still persisted after the build was the shaped shifter. of S that was hitting the body, but I have a tool that can solve this, a portable induction heater that I'm still not sure I should be trusted to bend a solid steel bar, just slide it in, hold the button for 20 seconds and taada, yes, we need a little more paint. but that's much better.

That is cute. I thought I would really paint it. So I had to make the seat narrower because it got in the way of the larger tires and suspension. This was pretty simple, just take the seat apart and reduce the frame, make it the new width and then you move this part called the strap towards the center to support your butt properly, then you take it to your friend Pierre to weld it all together, making sure to solder each part we need to put the strap on. in I don't know if that means what he thinks it means thank you very much kind sir.

I'm going to go home and cut the foam so it will look like this and I don't have an SE machine so I'm going to use that. a ton of Gorilla Tape, so with the seat installed and a thousand other things that are too boring to show here, I took Willie on his first off-road test drive. It was pretty amazing and now he could slide and on the road. I could do 43M per hour, but once again I called BR Power Sports angry because I had underestimated how close the plastic bodywork was to the exhaust and it looked pretty melted, so how do you solve the problem of melted plastics? a piece of galvanized steel and definitely use all the information you learned in your manufacturing engineering apprenticeship and okay I'm no Fox Fab laser machining but it actually turned out pretty good and then you put it in place and the bad thing is bad, metal explodes.

Wheel Arch That Doesn't Melt Now the wheel arch had a lot of spring, which made it vibrate strongly like a drum. Fortunately, my apprenticeship also taught me about the resonance of metals, so I removed the elasticity and now the Jeep is built. is complete, which means we can now travel forward in time all the way back to the beginning of this video. Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed, so without further ado, let's begin this adventure and I couldn't wait the previous 1,000 miles. Willie and me. What they did together was amazing but I always thought that with more power it would be more fun and now with four times the power I can see if I was right and this is C90 Adventures which means no stage dramas with fake emotions even a camera crew, so If you join me, it would be a pleasure to accompany you on this 650 Mi journey that begins here with the first time I took the new and improvedWillie in the snow.

Come on, is it recording? Yes, yes, four times more power and five. times the suspension was more fun oh yeah I'm okay that's awesome oh I don't know how well this is going to go I think I'm going to get in trouble yeah boy oh this is much better well I think it's safe to say I was enjoying this version much faster from Willie and it's also safe to say that the sponsor of this video is Simply Safe Simply Safe is a comprehensive home security system that I personally use to protect my most prized belongings, like my Honda 90.

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I was just excited to see what we could conquer but these are the mountains of Utah as the elevation increased and the snow got deeper it wasn't long before things stopped going so well uhoh we're losing time to investigate something. melting, which I ignored and then focused on why I was sinking looking at the depth of the snow here, see if oh titties, okay, well, just ah, well let's skip to this part, okay, no, oh shit , so we got there, so we drove on all four wheels. I just hope I don't go through it, oh boob, I don't know how well this will go.

You could jump straight to the differential lock. I tried locking the diff, but oh boy, I think this is going to turn out fine, it climbs fine. nothing a little nervous now this was confusing me uh because after spending close to $10,000 on this upgrade I thought he would handle this effortlessly, but luckily he knew the technical term for an engineering project that doesn't meet specifications, a Wang bag and in case You're wondering about tire pressure. I haven't lowered the right one yet because I want to keep something in the bag so that if I get stuck there's still something else I can try to free.

I'm trying to gradually try something different. things here as I learn what my limits are in the next test, I hit it with a run and touched it and it was at this point that I learned that my ground clearance was not what I thought, well that didn't work, oh I I was stranded well. to check the map and re-evaluate my life choices because this is not good and yes I was probably too excited on the accelerator which caused me to get stuck but the good news is it wasn't just the tire pressure card. I hadn't played yet and now Willie is stuck which is a big pain in the ass and as you may remember from the previous series pushing him isn't really fun and many of you suggested that I should put a throttle in the back to be able to play. i can push it while applying the accelerator other people said put a lever on the accelerator but that wasn't really going to work could i do that or being a mancal engineer i could do it radio control now i don't think this is going to work It's still ok so it's stuck so we're going to try to get it out first and then hopefully without my weight on it it should be able to go over the snow and not go through it so wish me luck and I can.

It seems reasonable that I shouldn't take all the credit for radio-controlled Willie Aaron Hill. Team Alex Grant and Brian Silverman, who won the Battle Bots World Heavyweight Title 2 years ago, are unlucky enough to know me and then I signed a waiver saying my cat can't sue them when I inevitably kill myself with a controlled car. for 32 horsepower radio, they agreed to help me and wrote custom software for me. Greetings guys. I hope you enjoy this stupidity that you helped enable, so now we'll try it on the totally Virgin Snow. This is great, this is definitely not going to go wrong, it went wrong, now it's shit, it's more stuck than before.

A well, the radio control was certainly much better and allowed it to float mostly in the snow, but this was horrible, so there was still a lot of trampling of snow and stones and sticks under the wheels to try to free it, but still no was going nowhere, it was time to play the winch card and luckily the combination of wireless winch and wireless Willie finally worked, tellingly enough. described here well, those are eyes of a king paying the Deb oh, this is very slow, we are on top of the snow again, so now Willie was free, it was time to put away the winch and continue hoping that with everything he had just learn Willie and I could do this uphill snow section fine, here goes nothing super smooth without spinning the wheels because if I sink to the sump guards I'm screwed yes yes no no no no pretty quickly I learned to keep progressing I had to repeatedly go towards back and forth to be able to run on the snow that Willie had just compacted under his tires, correct tire pressures, another thing I have on my side and that's the last trick up my sleeve.

I hope it works because if not. I have nothing left to try, but overall my stupid idea of ​​a radio controlled mini

jeep

was really working and we were proving to be an excellent team, sometimes they would then encourage us, come on you little bastard, but we were doing it slowly. Well, this is it. slow progress but it's progress like 7,000 feet this ain't good come on Willie Come on daddy this kind of cool my lips are so dry I can't whistle right uh put a whistle on the post come on boy come on let's go for walkies but overall this was working pretty good Well, it took a standard dose of my inability to give up on anything and instead keep moving blindly into the unknown, but we were a well-oiled machine, very professional, smooth, look, I'm basically a ninja and everything was going well, so which Willie and I followed in the distance as the sun set until the inevitable happened again.

Oh so it was and as the sun had set and Willie was trapped it was time to set up camp and being stuck here in the dark would have been quite demoralizing but luckily 45 minutes earlier he had done something, oh yes he had cooked well . I tried. Look, I'm not exactly Gordon Ramsy, okay, except for the bad tits. I want my chili. I have my M. pot, salt, oh, I forgot my spoon, okay, this is going from bad to working without a spoon, I used the handle of my toothbrush, this is going to be horrible and no, I don't know how I'm going to eat it now.

I have to suck the toothbrush clean and then put the lid on the Muff pot. Hold it and then you put the Muff pot in the Muth and I hope to have hot chili soon, oh steamy, yes, it's hot, right? I'm going to retire to my tent, make my chili and uh, I don't know, I hope all this snow melts by morning. I would like to know how to eat this with the handle of my toothbrush. This is not a very efficient way to eat chili, it's an even worse way to try it. and enlighten me will last longer, although I'm going to eat this and it's hard to do it with a camera, so I'll see you in the morning, bye, yeah, it's not exactly tropical weather here, so hermit mode was fully on at night, but finally I had it.

To get up, I tried to put on my boots, these are leather and I make one of the strangest noises I've had in a long time. I need shoes, in the end the only way to get these hiking boots on was to use a pair of pliers to loosen the ice. solid laces and yes, I probably should have brought some snowmobile boots. Yes, I have some snowmobile boots. Yes, I forgot to bring them. Look, you just saw me a can of chili with a toothbrush, so if you're going to point things out, burning you're going to be here for a long time look, let's watch the video and see my misery.

Luckily, the sun is a little hot, which is good because I need it because this is miserable and that is a very stuck mini

jeep

. I don't know how I get out of here. Come on, baby, get on my foot and when you're in the boot, I'll reward you. Let's go for a walk and see what's ahead and if we should continue, yeah, come on, ow, that hurts, oh, that's painfully cold, well, this is where I stay with enough time to get Willie out of what and then you can go back down or continue. I did a Monumental above. when I left my water bottle outside, which means it's a frozen Aus 10 chunk of ice.

I'm going to go for a walk, warm up, warm my toes, keep the water in my jacket, which I can melt in the heat of my body. since the hike, let's see what's going to happen today, okay, so I got to the top of the hill. I sank really up to my knees while I was walking here there's a thin layer of ice on top like a creme brulee and then underneath it is. I don't know how much snow because I can't find the bottom and up ahead there is another peak that is the same height as this one and I have to go down into that valley which means I might get stuck in the valley if I can't get out so upset I'm going to turn around and go back down and then go around this mountain range and then try to attack the next one and see if it doesn't have this weird creme brulee thing because uh, yeah, I could be stuck here for quite a while, um, and I think I just have I have to leave the mini Jeep here until spring, so of course I'm going to walk back to try to get Willie out of the snow he basically sank into. its wheels so I don't know what I'm going to do but uh I'm going to keep trying oh oh oh and I'm sinking up to my knees oh dear Willie this is no good the only plan What I really have to do is super deflate the tires, unload everything completely and then see if I can get it out.

Some of you may have noticed that I had a sled. I can put everything in it and I can pull it if I was in it. in the middle of nowhere and it was a two day hike to get out. I could also carry all my food on the sled and drag it back to civilization. Well, I'd rather not have to get out of here with my sled, so I tried digging. got it out, but Willie was so stuck that I had to resort to winching on the biggest tree I could find, which worked out fine, but when life gives you lemons, at least you can get the lemon branches under the wheels to try. make a ramp and I'm not going to bore you with hours of footage of me stomping through snow and moving a mini Jeep back and forth 6 inches at a time, so you'll have to trust me, it took a long time but we finally got out. of the snow hole for which I was very happy yes two hours how am I going to celebrate?

I'm going to finally wank out of the snow room ready to head back downstairs. I'm not going to risk sitting on it just yet, so it's more radio control Willie, but as soon as I got Willie out of the snow, when I turned around to go back down the hill, he went through the ice sheet again on the snow, uhoh, I knew I should have turned it over before I loaded it, you're a Okay, it's still stuck, so I buried some of that dead tree in a hole in the snow and I'm going to use the winch, it's not going to put a lot of pressure on him, but if I stand on him,Could Dale enough to help him because he's biting, wish me luck.

Well, the winch on the buried branch worked and was enough to start moving a small amount forward, which then allowed me to begin another 3 hours of digging and crushing. Going down the snow and crawling back and forth, but no one was coming to save me, so I kept going until I finally broke free. Well, that camera ran out of battery and this is a GoPro, so of course it turned itself off, but I'm out. and I would have more enthusiasm for this, but I'm absolutely gutted, so I'm going to charge my head down the hill, that's right, what a mess, Jesus, we're all going to walk, we begin our very gentle descent back the way we came yesterday to Finally, the snow was solid enough to be able to ride the mini Jeep in radio control mode.

This is a sensible idea. Well, that's my help today and in case you were wondering, yes, it is quite disconcerting to drive down the road without holding the steering wheel. steering wheel and having it turn in front of you and a big part of that worry was not having the steering wheel to hold onto to keep me from bouncing off the vehicle and continuing on without me and your vehicle going down the trail without you would be scary for someone. don't be a complete idiot, bad idea 842 if I meet someone on this trail uhoh downhill uh photo and it just worked uh there's nothing else to tell you really I have no idea what this invention is for humanity besides being an idiot and risk injury, but it's a lot of fun, but yeah, I just made it the rest of the way back to the mud.

I drove for quite a few miles like this, but as I got lower in elevation and snow. was about to finish, there was one last tripod shot for you and a sincere thank you to the team seems reasonable and to my engineering professors at university for allowing this stupidity. Thanks now, this has all been fun in the games and the last sledding part was definitely fun. but it's time to get serious, you see, when I left the snow and returned to the mud, it was time to face the music about whether my planned trip was really possible.

I just couldn't get through the snow at 7,000 feet and 'I set the goal of doing 100m of mountain range at 11,000 feet probably impossible and the Da la vida blizzard that was going to hit me tomorrow, maybe deadly, but I don't give up on something until I've given every ounce of my being and am forced to give up, so I drove down some back roads around this small mountain range. and I went to the start of the 100m trail and started my mission anyway, initially it was easy mud but once the mud turned to snow it was time to give it my all and see if I could do it.

Wish me luck. brny shifting, not double clutching like you should fuck. I will never make it up this mountain. I can help? You're Ed March. You're the guy with a YouTube channel. You do all the crazy mini Jeep modifications and you have a huge penis. Yes, yes, that's me. I built a modification for this mini Jeep so that the base of the mountain goes down there. We will adapt it and you can conquer this mountain range. How does that sound? There we are. Willie now has tank tracks. I hope you enjoyed the first episode of this one. new series there's about four episodes or so I think, but yeah, I hope you like it and I'm really sorry for the time it took to get this video out, but I hope you can see that I just as a solo team have to build that. and then Aventura, filming it, editing it and releasing it was quite an effort.

I would still make these trips even if cameras hadn't been invented, but luckily cameras and editing software have, so I can make these videos for you. guys and also now that Top Gear and The Grand Tour are over, uh, I'm going to do my best to fill just a little bit of the space that they left behind, so um, yeah, uh, that's my plan, uh, yeah Yeah If you want to help support me and get more videos like this made, then you can join my amazing Patreon supporters or you can buy amazing products like these t-shirts and you can also buy the USB stick in the shape of Willie, the mini jeep that I .

I custom print myself and this contains high speed ad free versions of the first six episodes of the first season and you can even hook up pontoons to completely replicate the stupidity and yeah oh and you could also send PayPal donations to my address email in The Adventures of the Edmar C90. co. I don't have a big production company behind me, every little bit helps so thank you and thank you to Irving Force also for allowing me to use that absolutely Banger song at the end of this video. It's amazing and the link to everything. his websites and stuff are in the description you can go and buy his songs and yeah he's awesome too and if you want to meet me in person I'll be at open source 2024 in San Francisco from June 14th to the 16th when I was There last year, I met Michael Reeves and Eric from Internet Ethics Commentary and had a great time.

It's like a YouTuber creator inventor, kind of awesome, kind of event, and yeah, there's a ton of crazy inventions in there too, so it's up to me. alley and yeah, I'll be there and if you want to come say hi, then that's awesome. I'm there as a featured creator along with a hundred other YouTubers who are way more famous than me and, yes, Colin Furs is going to do it. Being there, no, Colin F has no idea who I am, so I move on and yeah, if you want to come to open source and meet me, that would be great;

Otherwise, thanks for watching and yes, if you want to help me make more videos. so all the links are in the description and that will be awesome so maybe i will see them open source otherwise cheers guys.