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hi it's Ray from Pro shaper Workshop in
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child Massachusetts we're making a
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little forward progress on the alpha
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build project this is the GTV 6 we
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bought it's a rust bucket came from
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north of Albany and I sent my friend
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Mike up to pick it up and brought it
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back and the plan is to use this carcass
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as a measuring tool for the new car
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we're building which is the AI design
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and we're going to use all the
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componentry out of this I didn't know
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that much about GTV 6s I did have I
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think I might have mentioned in my other
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video I had a alpha spider duetto when I
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was like 19 years old bought that
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smashed up on both ends I straightened
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it out and drove it it was one of the
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most beautiful cars I ever drove and I
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fit in it beautiful had the little
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four-cylinder Alpha motor with a 5-speed
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transmission shifted beautiful
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everything was perfect about it I ended
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up selling to a friend and I think he
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still has it I think he was trying to
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sell it I don't know if he still got it
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or not so anyways we we we wanted to get
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all the guts out of this the back
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transaxle the motor and so far we got
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the transaxle out and the motor out we'
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still have the front end bits to take
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out of and those will all be recycled
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and used in the new Alpha body that will
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build in the new Alpha or the new frame
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that we'll build so I just wanted to
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show if mockin brings the camera over uh
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the technology that he uses is 1983 I
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don't know what year the GTV first came
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out but U they got the DD on tube rear
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axle design which allows the uh uh
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unsprung weight to be moved in you have
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the the calipers and the then the rotors
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in board rather than being outboard U so
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that that helps the unsprung weight on
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the wheels and this is a 5-speed
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transaxle right here the transmission
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and then they have a an actual uh clutch
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setup right here with a hydraulic
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actuator that is uh the slave cylinder
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and then there's a master cylinder on
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the firewall that you operate with your
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foot pedal with your clutch pedal so
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this whole deal bolts in and then these
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are the panot rods that hold it side to
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side movement you got uh um a torsion
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Bob built into it it's a really nice
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package you can see if this when this is
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assembled it just pops right in but
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we're going to be using all these pickup
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points that are on the body and
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reproducing him in the tube frame so
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we'll have to lay this all out on the
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floor and everything and today I got
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some wire wheels uh they're on a jaguar
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and I'm maybe going to try to adapt try
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to do this on a budget as much as
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possible it's I just love this Alpha
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stuff when this is all cleaned up this
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is beautiful I have a student in Georgia
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his name is Mike Richie and he just
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happens to have the same exact car the
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gtv6 and he's a meticulous restorer and
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he sent me a picture of the exploded
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view of this all set up on his garage
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floor all cleaned up and everything he
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sent me some pictures so you can see the
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the Italians just do such a beautiful
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job engineering and and just the look of
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it with all the webbing and the casting
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and everything it's just really really
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nice design of course this will have to
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be all gone through and cleaned up and
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it'll look like a million dollars when
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it's done now let's take a walk over
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motor so so here's the V GTV V6 motor
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which again you can see the Italian
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design is just so nice with these uh th
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valve covers you can see these all
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polished up and the the letters painted
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or whatever it's going to look just
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unbelievable if Marin come down you can
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see the sump is same thing it's all all
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finned it's a big nice aluminum sump and
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I'm not sure if the block is cast steel
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or cast C iron or aluminum yet I don't
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know that much about him and I thought
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it was a 4 cam but about four to five of
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the comments in my on my video on on the
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car that we made earlier they said oh no
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this is the the two cam motor so it's
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got single cams on each head and it's a
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2.5 L and it puts out I think 157
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injected this is a big
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protuberance up on the top here which we
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might do away with by putting C ators on
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it and it won't stick up that much
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instead of the fuel injection we didn't
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frozen and I looked for a big giant uh
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socket and I didn't have a 42mm socket I
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believe that's what's needed but I did
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put a pair of water pump pliers on and I
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was able to grab the pulley and lo and
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behold it moved really easy I oh great
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it's free it's free that's a big good
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sign so the oil is nice and clean in it
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it had been changed recently I guess and
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that's another good sign so before we
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took it out we took the plugs out we
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cylinders and was able to actuate the
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starter and we did a compression test
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and a couple of the cylinders were
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coming up really bad like zero
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compression so the valves probably the
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exhaust valves are burnt on it or
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they've corroded from uh being s sitting
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for a long time yeah and everything
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about the motor is beautiful except for
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these it's got a dried belt on the front
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on for driving the cams and uh Time belt
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this plastic cover they Ed a lot of
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plastic building this gtv6 and I would
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have been dissatisfied buying one you
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know you have to pay a premium I'm sure
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for it when it was new and it it's just
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everywhere is plastic in these things
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and I'm not a fan of plastic so the new
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car that we built will not have any
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plastic in it so this would might might
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make an aluminum cover for it it'll be a
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lot sexier looking with a nice polished
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cover these are actually the rare
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Springs and the drive shaft here uses
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three of these rubber
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isolators uh one in the center one at
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the transaxle and one at the uh the the
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motor distributor is right there easy
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ignition uh start is easy
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accessible so it's it to me it's just
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like a perfect motor for this project
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and I'm not going to jump into that
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motor for a while but I'm going to use
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that motor to mock up the frame and
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everything we're going to we'll we'll
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make up a mockup frame get everything in
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place and one of the first things we're
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going to do is start wire forming the
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new design of the body and a lot of
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people are interested in that process so
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that will probably be the next video we
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still do have to take out the the the
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front end components the a ARs and
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everything and it has torsion bar
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suspension which will'll probably use
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again and that's a neat thing the car
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was inexpensive we're getting a premium
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design there's a lot of these out there
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there's a lot of people that broken them
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up you can buy the parts or you can buy
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a parts car like that because once they
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rust up there's no way you're going to
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fix them they're really really Rus and
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bad just wanted to show you the progress
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we' made so far hopefully the next time
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uh we'll doing some wireform to show you
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that process I know there's a deep
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interest in that subject thanks for
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