In this episode we test fit our F1R F27s and then take a million trips to get the tire sensors out of the evora wheels installed on the new wheels along with some new tires. After that we develop a strategy for repairing out front crash bar and get to work.
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Music:
01:18 – Konac – Home
05:49 – Mysteryos & Ex3ptions – Healing Soul
13:59 – Lastep – Make Yourself
17:32 – Sekai – Cave (ft. Lynz Munich)
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Everyone is talking about him hacking this(I'm not a car guy. This is my first time watching car videos). Is he messing with the structural integrity of the car by adding the steel or are people just mad he's adding to what they mad already?
I keep watching this series and my appreciation of the ambition is only matched by my frustration at some of the "engineering".
The aluminium tearing/bending is good! It's absorbing energy. That's the point! Replacing it with steel which will survive a crash just means more energy is transferred to the occupants.
In an earlier episode you spent $2k on a clamshell and talked about skimping on a $160 tie rod! Come on! Spend the money on the functional components!
This is an entertaining but infuriating ting series to watch.
Is that Jason from Engineering Explained? Lol
If you start with a square tire pattern and just upsize all the tires, then handling balance doesn't change. If you have staggered tire sizes, and you go square, then yes, you will change the balance and you'll have more power oversteer.
The structural adhesive Lotus uses needs to be oven cured. The room temp curing glue you have is not nearly as strong. I know because I asked Henkel.
Those "pathetic" rails ahead of the suspension absorb energy as they deform in a crash. that's what keeps you alive!
judging from the beginning of this video, you need a truck man haha
Chris, if you get hit that strong steel is going to transfer almost all the load into the ally which will crumple. The steel extensions will be nice and straight.
such a bad idea man, it's called a crumple zone for a reason, yeah steel frames wouldn't rip apart but they would fuck up the whole car and will not absorb the impact.
standard wheels are WAAAAAAAAY nicer
Wouldn't be too hard to recreate and extension piece for the crash-bar out of sheet aluminum.
Hey man, maybe you should do a project truck and then use it for a company vehicle. Probably could have done it all in one trip instead of 3
Dude..there's a big difference in 2 inches of rubber.
Especially with more performance tires..
B is for bonkers. Stating he knows what he is doing, goes on bashing on the crash crumple construction that allowed the cockpit compartment to stay intact. This work should obviously have been outsourced, hope the car is never sold to an unknowing person at any point in its remaining life.
FYI, if you make the front crash structure/frame rails stronger than the stock configuration you are changing the way the body dissipates energy. In the event of a front end collision the energy will be sent through the new stronger material and deform the center portion of the space frame. Basically if you get into another accident you risk seriously deforming the main structure of the space frame instead of the front cash structure dissipating the energy as Lotus originally engineered the car to do.
Did you look at Forge Star wheels? They have custom offset choices and every bolt pattern, at affordable prices.
This may be redundant but your brake might not clear when the callipers are extended for fresh brake pads.
Great job, great channel, thanks for sharing.
So let me ask you a question, are you planning on keeping the Evora white, or are you planning on changing the color? I personally like the white, but I would love to see it in a real deep metallic red or blue. What are you thinking?
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