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This came up on my YouTube pop ups last night and I passed. Their on track stuff is pretty boring. Rather see brackets being made. (And grinding. Lots of grinding)

I enjoyed it. That's a well restored car. Too bad it had some teething pains and struggled during the event, but I'll bet a single seat racecar that weighs 500 kilos (1100 pounds) with a 130 hp mid mounted motor on skinny slicks is a blast to drive around an legendary track like SIlverstone.

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Wow, still around. Their work in the beginning was great and their antics were funny. This seems like a project that sucked all of the fun out of them. And it didn't seem to have come together to be as amazing as they'd hoped.

Every episode is a masterpiece. I'm sure these guys are nuts! :D

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I loved "The Bench of Shame" at the end.
It sure was fun to watch them learn how to use G-code to lay traces on fiberglass!
(That carbon fiber weave on the glovebox door would drive me up a wall.)

The grey-haired guy looks like he's slowly slipping into the abyss, as in "this is just my OCD when I can't help myself from applying what I'm learning even though it means tearing up what I just just previously learned".

But seeing the angry pixies do what they were supposed to do and in a very elegant fashion in the end was very satisfying.

Many years ago I worked on an old Volvo's electrics and the dashboard looked a lot like the one I posted above.

Basically fiberglass board with solder traces.

Ever seen the back side of a 928 fuse panel? Uh-oh.

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This video demonstrates why the car will take forever to finish. I'm half impressed and half disgusted.

A 'normal' car person would be driving it AND finishing it.

Perfection is the enemy of good.

I really enjoyed this episode. I've done massive amounts of circuit board assembly and soldering.

And I agree, perfection can be a killer.

Let's "get the funk out" and drive!!

Hard to believe they still found a use for the grinder in that episode...

I fell asleep watching it.
Is the car finished? :D

I think I might know how a dog feels when he watches someone play the guitar.

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Excellent videos as always BUT... Why not send the design to a custom PCB manufacturer?
- They spent months doing this when it could have been a whole lot easier!

With stuff like this I do what I can because it's fun but at some point you have to know what to "farm out".

We used to make them with rub on transfers and an acid bath.

When they started tossing failed components on the table and showed the US power supply which required the stepdown trafo, my mind went directly to facility wiring.

That kind of stuff happens all the time in diagnostic imaging. I've crawled through more power paths that I can recall.

Garbage power in, all kinds of gremlins will appear.

All elctric devices are designed for a specific power input. Vary that, or make it unreliable, the device will not function properly.

I'm sure we all know that, just keep it in mind.

When I first started watching this series, I had the same thought.
But eventually I came to the realization that
completing the car is not the objective.
They will milk this project until it is no longer profitable
and then they will move on to something else.

The more episodes they produce the more it becomes obvious
we are being played.

Or maybe they just want a car they can be proud of and the self satisfaction of a job they themselves have done well?

Yeah, probably....and I am Ok with that as watching is a zero cost item and gives me 30 minutes of largely enjoyable viewing.

D.