Rebuilding A Flooded $2,000,000 McLaren P1 | Part 14

how's it going guys my name is tvarish

and I have a problem now my problem

isn't that I bought a $2 million McLaren

P1 that was destroyed in a major

hurricane it's also not the fact that we

took it apart and found more sand and

corrosion than the

Titanic and it's definitely not that I

decided to take this rusty bucket of

bolts and attempt to turn it into the

world's fastest

McLaren no my problem is is right here

on this table you see what this is is a

wiring harness essentially the nervous

system of the most technologically

advanced McLaren ever made and none of

it none of this is usable but today

we're going to fix this and breathe new

life into my flooded hyper

car I hope

Welcome To My Nightmare so this is what

I've been dealing with for the past

several weeks now a lot of you have been

wondering where's the P1 and why isn't

it done and well this is the reality of

what happens when a hyper car goes in

the ocean The Saltwater ocean because

saltwater and copper does not mix so

everything you see here this entire

wiring harness that you can't get from a

Claren without having up to a year weit

is completely toast and in order to fix

it the plan was simple we would take a

wiring harness from a McLaren 650s and

720s strip them down to their bare

components and then put them together to

hopefully form a functioning harness for

a

P1 but as adom from Smart EFI will now

explain it was far from simple a project

like this is incredibly complex it's not

simple it's it's not straightforward

there's a lot of figuring out what

McLaren did we have luckily all the

diagrams from McLaren for this car and

for these other two cars so I had to

compare Page by Page Circuit by Circuit

everything between the three cars and

make notes of all the differences

between the cars so that we can take

those two harnesses and combine them

together and then on top of that add in

all the stuff that neither of those cars

had that are specific the P1 yeah and

and and make it all work so the P1 is

different than any other McLaren on

Earth not only does it have the hybrid

drive assembly well we're not going to

be using that in my build but it still

has that in the harness it has stuff

like active arrow in the front and the

back a lot of people don't know that it

has active arrow in the front has little

flaps that come down that all has to be

wired in it has a hydraulic suspension

that also has to be wired in the

steering rack that's also electric over

hydraulic then it has stuff like the the

radio the doors are different than any

other McLaren because it has switches on

the doors and then you got all the stuff

that we don't even think about like the

fact that it has way more fans than any

other McLaren because of course it does

has more radiators has more cooling so

this is a giant project because I

thought hey we could just take these two

harnesses and just kind of slap them

together and boom we'll have enough

wires and harnesses and and fittings and

it turns out it's probably the same

thing as making this from Whole cloth

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before we remov the p1's corroded

harness from the table Adam Drew out a

diagram by hand so we can have an idea

of what the new harness would need and

he took a ton of pictures just in case

we ever had to move the tables around we

then plop the new donor harness on the

table with all the confidence in the

world ready

y look it's perfect done wow we're done

yay fantastic okay all right have a

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now Adam laid out the approximate

position of the harness then started the

painstaking work of figuring out what

each connector does eliminating ones we

don't need and adding the hundreds of

wires that we do

need the wiring diagrams that we got

from all three cars were absolutely

essential to this process but they were

only one small step forward since every

single wire would have to be checked

individually multiple times throughout

the

build and it's at this point in the

video however that I'll point out that

we haven't actually seen the car in the

episode yet and that's because next door

Jack and Rex were rolling out so we can

do some more

modifications and here it is now this

car doesn't look much different since

the last time you saw it which was

probably after the SEMA show but today

all that is going to change now you'll

notice that this thing still is wrapped

and this wrap was always going to be a

temporary wrap even though I do love the

Valvoline Livery now we have to take

this off because the final version of

this car is going to be exposed carbon

and candy on on top of that exposed

carbon but in order for us to do that we

have to get this body work straight and

today we're going to start the process

on getting that body work straight but

the first step of that process is

getting this wrap off it's just like

removing a sticker and you just peel up

and you're doing great you're doing

great it's easy thanks Dad look at that

look at

that you know I actually do like the

yellow on this like like yellow it's

pretty yeah I'm not a big fan of yellow

cars in general but like on this car I

think it pops it makes the car stand out

yeah the Pearl is really really

nice too bad we're not keeping it like

that

catch it's weird when people throw

things at my face like that but I

usually catch it too early for that kind

of humor Jack a vinyl wrap has a strong

adhesive layer underneath that lets it

stick to the car's Bodywork but it isn't

too aggressive that it would pull the

paint up with it it's also really common

to use a heat Source when installing and

removing because it makes the material

much more pliable but since we were in

Florida it was plenty warm enough for us

to remove the wrap as it was it's like a

Band-Aid you just got to rip it

off so the good thing about this is that

it hasn't been on the car that long and

it hasn't been in the Sun at all so

usually what happens with these vinyl

wraps if you leave them out is that they

start to get really brittle and then

they break off in these tiny tiny tiny

little chunks and it makes it almost

impossible to take off but I mean we

have most of the door already done and

it's been like 2 minutes I don't think I

can get this off in one big chunk but

yeah see I

just I don't have the dexterity that

Jack does

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as we removed more of the temporary

Valvoline caml wrap our old enemy reared

its ugly head once

again

discovered this car still has say lots

of

say do that it just keeps coming it's

not stopping I can't stop sand sanding

same thing on this side

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how many times have we actually cleaned

this car I don't know I can't has it

been like 20 I can't even keep track

anymore you should donate this for the

next Dune

movie it'll be perfect I think you'll be

a great car I should call this shyon

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you really don't notice how many parts a

car has until you have to tend to every

single one for instance the wing on the

P1 is actually made of two pieces and

both of them are super wide and require

a bit of skill to unwrap thankfully we

had a jack of all trades and know that

will not be the last dad joke you hear

on this

channel now everything is

off now everything now all the vinyl is

now all the vinyl it's

not some of the vinyls are off okay some

of the vinyl is off on this car and I

wanted to show you another problem that

we ran into uh so we we checked that

side and I'm pretty sure this side is

going to be this exact same thing so I'm

going to demonstrate what the issue is

now usually when you have carbon fiber

like this this is what's called visual

carbon fiber you can actually see the

weave there's a clear coat on top of it

and it looks generally nice now in my

stupid brain I thought since this is

just painted we could sand down the

paint and it's going to be nice carbon

fiber unfortunately this is what we

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get so what Jack just did was he exposed

the carbon fiber underneath he sanded

down all the paint but what you see

right here is actually a layer of body

filler which is like Bondo and no the

car has not had any accidents or

anything like that this is from the

factory so the factory puts on a skim of

body filler then they put on a sealer

then a primer and then the paint and

then the clear coat right correct yes so

the problem though is not that the

problem is this is very wavy and it's

not visually as pretty and clean as this

and then they apply body filler to make

it smooth and get all your shapes but

that's not the problem completely the

problem that we have

is something else yeah if you look right

here there's two different types of

carbon fiber this is like a patchwork

quilt of carbon fiber and when you put

on water this simulates what it's like

with clear

coat yeah you can see right here that's

one weave that's a different weave and

if we just clear coat it on top of this

it would look like absolute garbage so

um what we need to do is we need to

strip off all of the paint because we

want this to be exposed carbon fiber but

also we wanted to have one cohesive

weave the entire car so this would have

to be veneered essentially uh all the

paint would have to come off and then

we' put on a new layer of carbon fiber

to make sure all the weave matches up

and that is a very very timeconsuming

and very tedious process that's why

we're going to take this to my friend

Shawn at attacking the clock where he's

going to take a lot of cutting

implements to my very expensive very

bespoke to million doll hyper car I am

I'm about to

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hyperventilate I don't want to toot my

own horn but lifting the back end of a

car by yourself always makes you feel

like you're competing for World's

Strongest Man even if it is in a car

with no engine or Bodywork and it's made

of the lightest materials on Earth

we then bolted some dollies onto the

back of the P1 to make sure it could

actually roll and that's when I realized

I could kill two dirty birds with one

stone now since the chassis is going to

get modified and fit up correctly I

wanted to take off the suspension

because it really is a cool piece I mean

this is all cnced and it looks awesome

other than the fact that it looks like

crap because of the corrosion and rust

and it works like everything works fine

it only had 300 M on it but we have to

get this corrosion off so I'm going to

try to see if I can clean it up using

some different methods uh but right now

we got to get this on the

trailer a not so well-kept secret is

that mechanical work on a McLaren isn't

actually that hard to do you can detach

the entire suspension assembly by

undoing a handful of 13 mm bolts and

nuts and since it's all made of

something called aluminum it was quite

light decreasing any chances of the

suspension assembly coming off and

turning your hand into hamburger

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meat we rolled our beloved sandworm of

the desert into the parking lot and

attempted to load it onto the trailer

which is a bit tricky when the back

wheels can move in any direction and the

front wheels don't have a steering wheel

attached to them

we did get it though

eventually don't let anybody ever tell

you that loading a P1 onto a trailer

that isn't worth a lot of money is a uh

is a sketchy thing to

do it's we're totally safe 100 aluminum

trailer dude these are expensive

yeah this is an aluminum trailer except

it's steel that it's just painted silver

so it looks like it's an El trailer it

also doesn't have any brakes this was in

The Fast and Furious it was not in the

Fast and Furious actually I got it from

the people that made Fast and Furious

cars but my TR fun fact so I actually

had a trailer uh that I donated to the

people that make Fast and Furious movies

and in the last I think in Fast N uh I

saw my trailer in the movie uh this is

not a joke it's not a bit it's it's for

real you can go check it out I think

it's at the 9 Minute Mark uh young Vin

Diesel or young Dominic tetto is uh he

jumps up on top of the trailer that's my

trailer so there you

go remember the song I'm riding Spinners

I'm riding Spinners they

don't

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skirt with shy hude secured we brought

out some other parts that needed help

with fitment including the one of one

exposed carbon rear clamshell that on

its own was the size of a small car we

carefully lowered it onto the bed of my

truck and then headed on our way with

with the knowledge that this was

probably the first time in history that

a McLaren P1 had ever been towed with a

25-year-old 300,000 Mi Ford

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F350 we unloaded the frame and as always

I was calm as a cucumber

and here we are at attacking the clock

and the car is here and I am really

nervous because this is a giant giant

clamshell it's exposed carbon and I am

very uh scared of putting any sort of

cutting implements on this but you know

who isn't scared Sean yeah no I woke up

this morning nice cup of coffee thinking

today is a perfect day to cut up a

McLaren one thing that I wanted to make

very very clear is that you know this is

a oneoff part this is also a one-off

part made from a race car it was molded

off a race car and as you can tell race

cars sometimes have tolerances uh

sometimes the body panels aren't exactly

that of a road car so that's why we're

having a little bit of fitment issue but

this is what happens when you have such

a big part on a you know bespoke car so

we do have to do some modification he's

going to be doing the modification and

uh well I brought Jack along because he

he is I mean he knows everything there

is to know about Bodywork that's what

you said not me that's what I told him

no I just wanted to make sure that we

have all hands on deck uh on this

because uh it is the most ambitious

project I've ever had uh so this the

most ambitious project on YouTube on

listen man you know maybe I don't know I

think so yeah you know there's there I

have had some time this weekend to look

at this project with no one around this

this is huge this is a big undertaking

especially when you're me my instinct is

to not use anything McLaren because it's

hard mhm and you guys are using

everything McLaren because it's hard

because it's hard yeah so I really

commend you guys for doing some really

tough stuff this is not easy well my

part honestly is the easiest we are like

Reese Witherspoon and Legally Blonde you

know getting into Harvard Law is like

what like it's hard you know yeah yeah

it's real hard yeah I feel like uh the

car the claim shell is kind of doing

this onto the you know the the main

portion of the car so you can't really

fit anything on the back of the car

because it doesn't want to sit you can't

really fit anything on the you know I

guess you would call it the cab and of

the car because it's kind of squeezing

it so I'm kind of looking at some body

lines and I see that essentially this

needs to go down and this piece needs to

come up when the door's closed so that

makes me think that the whole panel is

kind of tweaked needs to do this mhm so

probably the scariest cut for me is

probably the easiest decision to make

and it's to just cut it in half okay so

like down the middle like right here

yeah down the middle because um possibly

in the mold process um you know if you

don't support it on the outer

edges the mold could tightly squeeze in

and on like you said on a race car you

just kind of flex it over not a big deal

we do that all the time here that's not

that's that's race car fitment but

Factory fitment is a lot trickier um and

I do feel like probably the best thing

to do is make the door area fit first

and then we got that then we kind of

tackle the rest of it and see what kind

of more aggressive Cuts we need to make

okay uh cuz I know we've tried to um you

know Jack and I have tried to fit this

up and we've had you know varying

degrees of success but like in order to

have all those um mounts sort of line up

we need so much force yeah it's like

literally I mean you got 40 lbs of force

down just to get it the screw to go on

yeah and uh you definitely don't want to

put that much force I mean you don't

want to put any force on a carbon fiber

apart because if you take one thing out

and then it just goes you know it acts

like a spring the entire thing does well

you don't want to do that with anything

though too because you think about it

it's like if you're having to force it

into place over time it's just going to

Rattle itself to death and crack and

break right so like even if it was steel

like it would do the same thing but

being carbon fiber it's going to be even

like more rigid so it's going to end up

cracking somewhere down the line so and

uh another thing that we want wanted to

you know make sure we preserve is the

exposed carbon element of this because

uh this car will be exposed carbon fiber

with a tint over it and uh you know if

we're cutting things apart obviously we

can't just slap it back together so uh

we're going to be veneering this uh

essentially right and you you know how

to do this yeah so uh the technical term

is an overlay the right way to do this

would be to completely make it fit the

car fit it and then make another mold

off of that um but the reality is is

that's not cost effective we would be

saving ounces you know not pounds so uh

you know cutting it and and doing an

overlay on it is going to yield the same

result with fitment and it's not like

the piece isn't carbon fiber you know

like we're not overlaying something

that's made of plastic yeah so they'll

Bond well together overlays I'm not a

huge fan of unless it's composite to

composite because like a metal piece or

a plastic piece they have different heat

you know fluctuations and that's why you

see a lot of carbon fiber parts Dam off

of non composite pieces like a dash or

something like that but this will be

fine um but yeah essentially what we're

going to do is you're going to get a

potentially a peak in this spot mhm in

the middle if they both have to come

down so what we'll have to do is do a

quite a bit of reinforcing on the bottom

so we can basically sculpt the top right

uh like I said it's not ideal but that's

what we need to do you know it's not

always uh kittens and rainbows when it

comes to carbon fiber work exactly but

hopefully at the end of the at the end

of the build it should look like an

actual car and function like an actual

car cuz uh we're trying to go very very

stupid stupid fast in this car it's

going to be perfect D it's going to look

great like I I'm super excited to see

this car going down anywhere where it

goes to go super fast and it's going to

be dope dude okay um you want to start

cutting let's cut it

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cutting a carbon fiber clam shell in

half is not for the faint of heart but

Shawn made it look easy he first used

some tape to Mark out where precisely he

wanted to cleft the shell in Twain then

we brought it outside because carbon

fiber dust is really really bad for you

to breathe in or be around or generally

come into contact with so ventilation is

always a must

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after the deed was done Shawn told me

that they would need some more parts to

really see how the body fit so I came

back the next day with more body work to

see how my P1 Evo was taking

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shape so yeah cutting in half I think

paid off because uh essentially that

relaxed the the front part of the

clamshell and you can see it fits really

well yeah that whole thing seems very

doable but that kind of moves our

problem back here uh because while we

have well you you guys actually put the

wing down all you had to do was uh

loosen up the bleeders here on the

hydraulic system and the wing came right

down uh with a little bit of struggling

but you know it wasn't too bad but this

is the stock Wing uh the stock Wing was

exposed carbon and with this you can see

that there is some discrepancy in terms

of fitment so the wing sort of goes up

like this uh and it has a little hump

but there's also a gap here there's a

gap here and there's a gap there but not

too much of a gap here so uh what do you

think

happened yeah so I think uh you know

this is a GTR you know back half um and

they come with a fixed Wing that

actually ties into the chassis

underneath the body workor yes so this

doesn't exist on a GTR as you probably

know yeah so I think this was Wing was

from a P1 was grafted into the GTR

Bodywork so we're going to have you know

this is when you mix race car and street

car together and and then also things

have never been done before exactly so

so sometimes I I think they might have

put this uh you know this bucket right

here that might have been shifted a

little tooo far forward um so one thing

that we may have to do uh is actually

move this back um like move the entire

bucket back or just remake this part and

then just make it follow the Contour of

the wing um now it's really important

that the wing stays like this because

this is going to be a top speed car and

when you're at top speed you want to

have the lowest Arrow profile that you

can you don't want to have a ton of you

know wing and spoiler here because

that's going to create drag and the car

is not going to be as fast um so we want

to have uh the stock Wing configuration

it can do race mode it can go up 12 in

but can also recess back into the car

and that's something that no P1 GTR has

ever done well said my friend this piece

though has definitely helped us out this

is something that we know is kind of OEM

shaped yeah so that is the that's the

GTR rear and this attaches to the rear

diffuser now this goes on the stock

frame rails so these are known points

and then these bolt on to the sides so

we sort of kind of have a rear end and

uh based on that we can put tail lights

in and see where everything wants to sit