Project AllegRo - Jonnys K20 VTEC Sleeper Build - Episode 5
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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A brand new project to the FabCo channel, before we've even finished the first! We're taken on the Allegro after badgering Jonny for months about the Agro and we're finally making some progress.
In this episode i work on getting the front panel mounted, at least temporarily, so that we can locate the wings and everything inside of the engine bay. The Allegro project looks more and more complete with each episode, still plenty to go at though..
Many thanks to The Late Brake Show team for the opportunity to collaborate on this fun project!
Excellent channel. Brilliant watching someone who knows there stuff .
Thanks!😃
Mid 80’s I used to get a lift to work every day from my mate Barry in his green Allegro, inherited I think from his grandad! Thinking back now it was an Inbetweeners moment, classic! Can’t wait to see this car back on the road 🥰
Thanks for watching 😃
Each video in this series, the production gets better, great to watch. I can’t wait to see this car finished, absolutely fascinating 😃
Thanks Stephen!
Just come across this series today, so great to see the enthusiasm for engineered solutions. A credit to you and Jonny, can’t wait for the next episodes ….
Just brilliant. So good to watch the evolution of the Allegro. You are one talented bloke. Production of the show just keeps getting better. Would never have found your channel without the shoutout Jonny did. 👍👍👍
Appreciate it Steve 😃
Really enjoying your AllegRo content, thank you.
Your fabrication skills and work is phenomenal. Cant wait for the next video 👍
Thanks Phil😊
Hello, l have so enjoyed the video's that you have been doing! Being a retired engineer l appreciated the use of your explanations in each stage of the build, (and so will many other viewers) the sturdy box sections too to ensure the security and strength of the car and various mounts required! Keep going and don't forget to drink your tea!
Thanks John!😃
Thank God you talked him into the K20 swap!
I just gave him the option 😇
I flippin love the way you work. Everything thought through and then executed with such skill and sure-footedness.
Great to watch.
Thanks John!😊
Cracking job and very well narrated. Looking forward to the next update.
Thanks Anthony!
Fantastic watch, really interesting and lots of detailed explanations 👍
I love what you are doing and think every vid is fascinating. Please keep it going!
Hell of a job. It's almost a shame that nobody will realise how much effort and thought has gone in to making this car so special when they see a more or less ordinary Allagro going down the road. I 'spose that's the point but, still?
I’d prefer a car that looked how it goes too, but that’s not Jonnys vision with this one😃
I can pretty much guarantee whoever came up with the colour of that Allegro was a new parent who looked at the contents of their first-born's nappy and thought 'yeah, that'll work!'
😂Yup!
Harvest Gold isn't ?
Nappy harvest.
Volvo had a similar colour they called it Safari Gold...we called it Dogshit yellow...😂😂
Antique gold I think... had same colour on my first car .. mini clubman haha
Great to watch a talented fabricator and engineer at work.
Appreciate it Dan😁
Loved the cleanup time-lapse, though to be honest I couldn't help focusing on the ignored cup of coffee as it gradually skinned over :)
And loving this series, so happy I found this channel, EV West and some of the other amazing engineering companies, from subscribing to the LBS!
I rarely let a brew go cold 🤣 Thanks for watching 😃
There's nothing sadder than a re-discovered un-drinken hot beverage :( I've been there.
@@FabCoUK I was so engrossed in your video my tea just went cold, gonna nuke it ! 😂
I’ll drink it so long as it’s not stone cold. I usually settle into a ‘sup, weld, sup, weld..’ routine though!
@@FabCoUK Is that what the term ‘pulse welding’ means?! 😁
Your tea went cold @ 16:25
What a great project 🙏👍
Thanks Rob😃
Engineering at it's most interesting! Great job. I like your approach, nice one.
Thanks 😊
Quality work quite a bit of thought and effort to do this from scratch and work everything out you are progressing really well with it .
Thanks for watching 😃
Been watching your uploads and got to say we love it
Thanks Wayne!
I love the way when you're undoing bolts on the front section wecan see you looking around the rest of the front and can tell you're mulling ideas over and forward planning. Great watching a craftsman at work.
Thanks Stuart. Always thinking! 😃
I've just seen that you have fitted an Escort Mk1 or 2 steering rack to the Allegro. As these were originally fitted in front of the axle line and you have fitted it at the rear the wheels will turn in the opposite direction to the steering wheel input unless you've fitted a left hand drive rack upside down.
Great steps forward, and so great looking parts, going into an Allegro (can’t believe I just typed that 🙀)
Thanks for watching 🙂
Just binge watching all these - I had same colour Allegro as my first car back in early 90's, but think this may well be somewhat more rapid than mine when complete ;-) loving watching this build, keep up the brilliant work 👍
This is absolute genius, taking your time conservatively at £100 an hour this is the most expensive Allegro ever seen, I love it 🥰
Dude! You ROCK!
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For me this car was yelling Rotary engine. I don't know why but I love the Idea.
The Honda choice is the better one because these Honda engines are more reliable than a rotary.
You do a good job so far. I can't wait to see the Alegro driving.
Thanks for watching 😃
Another great video. I'm really enjoying watching you go through this process; and I just love the engineering. And fantastic progress! Thanks for sharing the journey with us viewers. Well done, mate.
Thanks Simon 😊
More videos please : ) its an amazing transformation, an so intresting 👍
Thanks for watching 😃
Fantastic build, a friend had an Allegory 1750 and a 2.2 Princess back on the day, brings back happy memories 😃
What a pair!
Loving the progress and enthusiasm of this project, must eat up lots of hours? Great watching the engineering involved.
Many many hours 😅 Thanks for watching!
A brilliant project and looking forward to the rest 👍
More coming very soon!😃
Always happy when I see another update on any of the projects,another top episode and can’t wait for the next
Thanks Matthew 😃
Interesting build and your knowledge and skill is a must for the build to , looking forward to the next video 👍
Thanks Gary 😃
Absolutely Amazing to me, Cheers
Thanks for watching 😃
I love seeing the process of how you work. Looking forward to seeing the Allegro progress 👍
Thanks 😊
Wonderful skills, presenter and amazing build, cannot wait for the next episode
Hopefully not too long Paul!
I can't help but feel the @Badobsessionmotorsport Vibe, without all the Dad Jokes.
I think you need to get Nik Blackhurst to give you a hand on all the brackets..
Thanks for watching 😃
Great content looking forward to see both this and the princess developing. You have a great pair of hands and incredible engineering skills.
Take Care Stay Safe Everyone Regards Dave 👍😎🏴
Thanks! I can’t wait for the next Princess update either 🤣
Glad Johnny pointed me in your direction loving the vids and princess type updates as well 👍
Thanks Daniel 😊
I am really enjoying watching, so thanks for your efforts! 😎👍👊
Thanks a lot Steve!
Fascinating video. I’m in awe of the quality of your work. Rapidly becoming a viewing highlight,keep up the good work 👍👍
Thanks Peter!🤩
This is a fantastic project looking forward to to seeing the next episode.keep up the good work 👍
Thanks!
Excellent work mate, your fabbing and on the hoof problem solving skills are next level, I'm also really enjoying the PrincesS-Type project and can't wait to see both of these beasts on the road. Nice one!
Thanks a lot Dean!
Wow this is actually going to work, amazing to see how you do some of this - i would not have a clue where to start. Princess should be amazing as well.
Thanks Rob😁
Looking good I myself can not wait to see the Allegro doing burn outs!!!!👍👍
Me either 🤣
Nice work Adam, I'm really enjoying this series. Looking forward to seeing your plans for the rear suspension!
Won’t be too long now😃
Another quality episode, can’t wait to see this finished and ripping!
Thanks Ashley😎
Great work Adam. It’s very interesting to see all the detail and thought process you are going through. You are doing Jonny proud.
Appreciate it Steve, thanks for watching!😃
Enjoying very much.. 🤗.. greetings from South Africa..
Thanks for watching!😃
Excellent content... No filler all killer. Keep it going, it's bound to pay off
Thanks for watching 😃
Great work, she's getting there, can't wait to see it driving.
Me either, but we’re a way off still. Thanks for watching 😃
Cracking job, on a rather unloved car.😄
Thanks Simon ☺️
Awesome video! I learned from it.
Thanks!😀
Fun indeed.....excellent seeing it come together and excellent choice of tunes.
Thanks Rohan😃
@@FabCoUK I was thinking about the sump area showing on the engine and if there was something that could be used to help obscure it. The Alegro 1750 Equipe had a chin spoiler if it was acceptable to Jonny but I guess there are as rare as hens teeth. Just an idea.
@@RTC057 I think we’re going to chop up an A-series sump to use as a guard!😃
Oooo - I hadn't picked up previously that this was going to be turboed! This will be mental 😂
If I’m building it, I’m boosting it 🤣
Brilliant...this is the NEW Project Binky.....moar!!!!
Thanks for watching 😃
Lovely work as ever, really great to see a project like this come together. As a home tinkerer I can only dream of having the skills and equipment to get on with something like this 😁
Makes all the difference seeing panels on doesn’t it😃 Thanks for watching!
@@FabCoUK yeah once you've got wings on it starts looking like a car rather than some American rat project :D
Coming along really nicely mate! Love your attention to detail and thought towards the future of the car.
Thanks Elvis!
Excellent content here. Interesting explanations of what you are doing and why. Your videos keep improving over time - thank you and congratulations. 👏🤩
Thanks!💪🏻
Tidy job, Adam. I would start with gapping the wings to the doors and clamping the bottoms to the sill pinch weld. This would help with the front panel height, which looks like it needs to come up between 1/4 to 3/4 inch. You'd be surprised how much 3mm out vertically on a door/wing gap raises or lowers the front end! Cheers .Leigh.
That’s what I did do more or less. The gap you can see under the bonnet to front panel is the bonnet sat on the spring😊
I do love the idea of this car, I hope Jonny is going to keep it muffled well, a quiet sleeper is ideal, my favourite sleeper is my Volvo 242 coupe, it's got a supercharged Lexus
LS 400 engine and gearbox, it's a hoot to drive, Rj in Oz
The exhaust volume has to be below 74dB to be road legal...technically.
I'm not sure how far you can push that before getting into trouble though.
Shaping up nicely. Looks like you have a large part of the work done now. Nice one.
A lot of big things, but many many small things still to do too, along with re-engineering the whole rear end 😅
Neat solution for the alternator, great update 2x👍
Thanks 🙏🏻😃
Really looking forward to seeing this finished.
Me too!😃
The brackets holding the crash bar on could have been art. But they're just box.
Sure, and we’d still waiting for the car to be finished ten years later. 🤪
@@FabCoUK but people would love it.
.....*cough* Binky *cough cough*
@@1one3_Racing this isn’t peoples car though, it’s Jonnys. I took this car on as it had been sat around with false promises for a decade. I’m going to get it running and I don’t plan on spending another decade doing so😃
@@FabCoUK true. But we don't care what Jonny thinks! We want art! 🤣
Your definitely the right chap for this project, your idea's on how to create new structural body parts is simply brilliant. I wonder how much your costs will increase due to the hike in electricity, welding, grinding etc, or is something you've not thought about.?
Probably not that much, certainly not enough to worry about 😃
So good to see this actually progressing in a proper direction, the v6 fitment just wasn't at the same level. Be interested to see if you build towers at the back or keep it horizontal
Spoiler alert, It’s going to have towers in the back 😅
Great content, thanks for taking the time
Thanks David!
Loving the update, quality work as usual. I now want a k20 alegro track car 😎
Who wouldn’t?😅
I've heard somewhere in the pipeline Adam is taking orders on his kit car version he is having developed?
Love it! Thanks for posting and can't wait for the next one!
Hopefully it won’t be too long Ringo!
When you look at hinging the flip front make a ‘parallelogram’ type hing so you can move the flip front out and possible up as it rises to miss things like the tyres, sump, ground and anything else. Make out of ply or alloy so its easy and cheap to move pivot points to get the correct lift/movement.
You might find bonnet hings to do the correct ‘lift’ if you are very luck and save you some fab 👍
I know the type you mean, but I’m not sure we’ll need anything too complicated 😃
Loving the updates. Though we need some more Princess updates 😍
Most likely towards the end of summer once the Allegro is rolling, I just don’t have the capacity to actively work on two cars at once really😢
@@FabCoUK understandable. But crazy car builds are just as addictive as drugs and alcohol mate lol
It's like 'Project Binky' scaled up a bit and put into hyperdrive. This will probably be n the road this year whereas my great, great grandad watched Project Binky's start - and watching it was a family tradition I will pass on to my son. What do you mean it's finished? It'll never be finished!
Of course before I get flamed I'm jesting and I know they fabbed everything! I'm not denigrating what they did and tea breaks are of vital importance
Their project is also very much an ‘as and when’ type hobby too.. these things do take a while😊
don't forget the princess, as exciting as the allegro ;) (maybe even more :D)
There will be a really solid Princess update once the Allegro is properly rolling 😃
I've been wondering how you're handing the heat mate. I understand it's been a bit warm over there.😉🍻
Another great episode but I find myself thinking where's the next one even though I realize that's being unreasonable and these 1st 5 have come out pretty bloody quick or at least that's how I've found them. Really enjoying this build and I do kind of like the idea of what were kind of shitty cars here in NZ in the 70s n 80s are now getting some proper love with so go-fast additions, very cool ;).
Jonnys next episode will be up very soon 😃
Hey Adam, loving the build and your expertise - if you were to slice the front panel and guards let's say under the headlights and only hinge from that line up, would that enable you to build your safety structure and hinge mounts direct to your frame legs. I know it's more panel work but would hardly be noticeable.
I'll accept cheques for my great ideas 😃
I’m not sure I want to go chopping up this front panel unless I have to though. I’ve already got a mess of a boot floor to sort out.. more on that soon!😃
Lovin the build , keep up the great work 🇬🇧👍🏻
Thanks Jim!
This is just getting better and better. Now forget Johnny’s car and show some Prince-S progress 😉
Thanks. Princess content will come once the Agro is rolling 💪🏻
In the trade, we used to call them “All Agro”! Project allagro seems quite fitting 😂👍
This one’s been ok so far🤪
@@FabCoUK doing a great job, interesting project, from an ex Lotus R&D tech.. 👍
Funny in the garage I worked in back then we never called them All Agro. You usually found that it was the cowboy mechanics etc that called them that who used it as an excuse to rip off people with jobs that didnt need doing etc - not just with Allegros but other cars and makes as well. The Allegros we looked after and serviced etc were very reliable cars as was the two we had in our familiy at the same time - my 1980 Allegro 1750 TC Equipe and my brother then mothers 1978 Allegro 1500 LE that were excellent and very reliable cars - then again we looked after and serviced our own cars and didnt have cowboy mechanics anywhere near them.
Love what you are doing keep up the great work
Thanks Karl!😃
Hi mate loving the series when is the next video
Cheers
Excellent video. Really interesting 👌
😃Thanks!
Ohhh she's comin along 🤟🏼
Still not as much progress as I’d like though!🤣
Do the Mini tilt front , you done the chassis
I was surprised you didn’t go for the Vandan Plas frontage to give more radiator space…🤔
Great stuff, thanks for the updates. 👍🏻
Thanks 😃😃
Love the show
❤️
Thank you I enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching!
I know making an engine low is good for centre of gravity, but it looks like there’s like there’s gonna be 4 inches between the valve cover and the bonnet, and 1 inch of clearance between the sump and the road (leaving supercharger room? Heh heh).
I would’ve placed the engine higher, stepped the near side frame rail up over the gearbox, and the then made a bolt on brace that passes underneath the gearbox to form a hexagon shape as strong as the straight rail would’ve been.
If the engine were higher, we’d have compromised driveshaft angles 😃
@@FabCoUK I’d take changing CV joints more often over smashing sumps.
Looks like you’re redoing the front suspension though, so surely you could just set the wishbone mounts higher up on the body, and adjust the top mount positions to correct the castor/camber angles?…
Then the roll centre would work with a lower ride height and the drive shaft angles would be fine?
@@Jonathan_Doe_ the wheel still remains fixed in the wheel arch though, no amount of lower arm geometry changes can change where the centre of the wheel is. I agree the sump looks low, but it’s really not. It’ll become more obvious once we see the car on the floor 😃
@@FabCoUK If it’s the vertical centreline that’s the issue then would moving the engine straight up really affect massively?
@@Jonathan_Doe_ depends how far you want to move it.. like I’ve said, sump clearance isn’t likely to be an issue and if it is, it’s fixable with aftermarket solutions. If you put the engine in the wrong place, and you’re popping/wearing cv’s at max suspension travel, it’s a hell of a lot of work to fix. All just based on my experiences.
Man your putting in some serious effort into this allegro! What's next the montego? haha
I love this build as much as Binky so keep up the good work, just don't put yourself down as much as you seem to, your doing a wicked job and it all looks brilliant!
One thing though... Time for Jonny to get his hands filthy too one episode? How sleeper so he needs to put some effort in too, the dirty car pervert!
Thanks for watching, I’ll put it to him!
Hmmm...a montego with the same motor would be great fun!
@@howardsportugal Or a home for the original V6 Jonny has lying around???
@@forsh3546 That would be fun...unless he wants a rwd one with a Vitesse v8 lump!
Thanks for such great content. Did I spot a BOM mug?
Sure. They sent it a couple of years back!😃
Side mounted 4 core rad, a la Mini maybe? Room for a fatter intercooler with that setup.
All to be revealed 😊
I know your probably very busy, but an update would be nice 🙏🏻
Been waiting for this
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Ah another update already! Outstanding. Any more Princess content coming?
Probably towards the end of summer once the allegro is rolling properly 🙂
superb vid.
Thanks Chris!