That Testarossa is insane and very clean !!! .... TR came after the BBi but similar flat 12 setup. Standard Testarossa was 390bhp will bit interesting to see what this puts out. Love to hear it next to my 87 Testarossa.

@REPerformanceUK

29 күн бұрын

Ah the oracle is among us!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Thanks mate! She will be a ripper on the dyno. The 355 sounded mega!

@Ratarossa

29 күн бұрын

@@REPerformanceUK i'm guessing 550hp

I have been an aircraft mechanic for 24 years. You are spot on with the awareness of what the fuck your are doing. Also, never punish a fuck up because the next one won't own up. Smallest (biggest) mistake I ever made. Working on a private Boeing 767 owned by a Saudi Prince. I had to replace a small bracket on the horizontal stabiliser. The stabiliser was in the nose up position when I was trying to remove the bracket, and there were 2 bolts I couldn't access because of the position of the stabiliser putting pressure on a seal depressor fairing. So, I loosened the screws of this depressor fairing and put them finger tight back in. So as not to lose them. Anyway, another bloke reinstalled the bracket, and at that time, the horizontal stabiliser was in the nose down position. The 2 bolts went in easy, and no one noticed the finger tight screws on the upper surface of the stabiliser because it was installed from below and the fairing was sitting down due to gravity so everything looked OK. I went for Christmas break. 2 weeks la di da. (Lack of communication) The aircraft went for a test flight. Everything went well and was signed off. On the final wave goodbye, the captain noticed something sticking up on the horizontal stabiliser. After a quick visual check on a cheery picker, it became apparent that the section (3 meters) of seal depressor. Half of it had become detached and just done a fucking proper high speed Bruce Lee chop chop chop in the airflow on the upper surface of the composite elevator. Absolutely destroyed it. The aircraft was stuck there for a further 2 weeks until a new elevator assembly could be sourced. The quality department informed me the bill would be at least 5 million. That was back in 2008. Always, always check your work. Always comunicate what you've done. Don't assume the next person knows what you've done. Look at the aviation dirty dozen. I think every industry should implement it. Rules learned with blood. Ricky your Absolutely 💯 % correct. It's why I like to watch your channel. You've learned from racing that anything can go wrong at any time and take 1 or more lives. Aviation is the same. Respect 🫡 Love the channel.

@sund5

25 күн бұрын

Wow interesting story man. Thanks a lot for sharing. Greetings from Denmark :-)

@v12dot

15 күн бұрын

When I was at mechanics college , my teacher wrote Assume on the blackboard, then split it in 3 parts and said “ Never assume anything , it’ll only make an ass of you and me !” I’ve never forgotten those wise words 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Dav did not insert the Gav n Stacey clip. Sad face 😞

Mich on the Dyno room 😂

Small mistake - big outcome - was an apprentice at VW dealer in early 90’s, did a clutch on a golf , finished job and put all tools away , couldn’t find 19mm spanner , but after much looking gave up , started car and turns out spanner was on crank pulley , jumped timing belt , bent all valves , engine for the bin ! Learnt a lifeline lesson , always find your tools !!

Another top video mate. Ferrari Boxer timeline for info- 365GT4BB BB512 BB512i Testarossa (like you have there) 512TR F512M I’m sure you’ll be sorted but shout if you need a hand sourcing bits for it!

@jonofalltradesmasterofnone832

Ай бұрын

When I watched that pit stop I was so sad for him he had rode the best race of his career he so deserved it for his uncle and that NW 200 was probably the most emotional racing I have seen.

watching Mitch go downstairs in the dyne room at 9.40s is classic!! 🤣

Working for my local ambulance service, got a Ducato in that needed loads of work, steering rack, brakes, driveshafts, gearbox renewal. It basically got put in the corner of the workshop, and as I got time and when parts arrived, I'd do what I could. Probably took two weeks of being on and off it before it was finished. I took it for a test drive, and after a couple of miles, the gear change started to feel stiff, back at the workshop, found I'd forgotten to put oil in it, brand new gearbox. To be fair my boss at the time just said, "Well, you won't do that again" He was quite within his remit to make me pay for it, but let it slide.

Nice video Ricky, good fun! Swiss tuner says the car has 620 BHP

Another great video, great content, and the questions and answer segment is great 😂

Great video as always

In the 80's, Oulton Park, pre race testing. Second engine change in 1 day, it was 4am in the scrutineering bay ,I didn't get the bottom hose to water pump hose clip on square. In the race it popped off, lost an engine and a race win,

Great video, you know your onions Ricky! Good content with the questions and answers 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

You’re clearly a genius. I wish you the very best for your future.

Doing stem seals on a old escort cvh engine while working with my dad as a teen.. Got to cylinder 4 and forgot to pressurise the cylinder so as soon as I removed the collets, I just watched the valve disappear down into the engine..DOH.!! Doing a PDI on a brand new volvo and I knew on the right hand side ramp you can't lift the car with the bonnet up.. So what did I do... yep you guessed it.. Up went the car and the the worse crunching sound you could imagine as the bonnet hit the Iron beam and folded the bonnet whilst it pushed it down smashing the screen the rear scuttle panel and wings.. Hinges you name it, I spannered the lot..

grate video. i messed up my first ej205 build by npt checking the tolerances and had serious bearing wear which cost me the engine but every one learns from their mistakes

Testarossa uses Bosch K-Jet mechanical injection ... can't compare that to the F355 which runs Bosch Motronic. Those cars are separated 20 years in terms of technology. You will need to completely change the injection system, not just the injectors. Much more difficoult (and time consuming) process than putting F355 on MoTeC. You can source injection parts from the 512TR (facelifted Testarossa), which already had the Motronic.

Wow, that Haltech must be an early one still running a Motorola MCU. They were the first to have live data and live programming. I bet if you contacted Haltech they'd sponsor an Elite 2500 for that project.

Mistake : Thinking parking sensors are great, thinking i've checked my mirrors - thinking all is well as I reverse park. Result : Discovered that a 3" branch stub had been left sticking out into the parking spot, just below the bootline. Found out it will really mess up your bootlid. Lesson : Fit a sodding camera! Everytime I see the dent, it hits me in the feels.

Just watching you putting the visor back on was priceless!!!! Hahahahahaha. I'll tell you again mate. The system is shocking.

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

It’s why I race with Shark helmets mate lol

@alexhammett1212

Ай бұрын

@@REPerformanceUK my rx7v Evo is already on eBay

@markyoung13

24 күн бұрын

The old Arai visor system was a genuine quick release with a 5 second change, these latest ones aren't, and it's obvious the first time you look at one, the thicko who decided to faff about and not change helmets should take the can back.

Great video I like videos which have technical content

Biggest mistake I was riding my Scrambler in the woods along a path with puddles in it every now and again I'm doing about 40 miles an hour and all of a sudden there's a log sunk in the puddle at a 45 degree angle I didn't see it the bike goes flying right I go flying left sideways through the air I hit a silver birch tree backwards and crushed my spine I was lucky I can still walk one of my lumbars is like a wedge of cheese bits of bone floating all around it and there's not a day I'm not in pain this happened when I was 19 I'm 58 now

i felt so bad for MD at the TT, i race in the endurance series and id be p1ssed if it happened to me, let alone the TT. Good work guys, keep it up

When working for McAMS Yamaha at Assen, drove away from the track on Sunday night in a rush to Skiphol only to get a Team WhatsApp message asking has anyone seen the team bus keys. Heart sank and yes they were in my pocket an hour from Skiphol!!! Pulled over into next available service area and asked a very confused cashier to take the keys and wait for a team member to arrive in about 2 hours and collect them. They had to give a password which was 'Stato' as that was my team nickname, never lived it down!! :-D

Pulling a McLaren 675lt out for check over before driving it back to the customer, frosty February morning, so wet the car off in the valet bay, to make sure no water marks on it from the thawing frost. Even with the wash on cold, and from a good distance so not over pressured, the screen cracked. I still swear the screen was already damaged, but....... Apparently, exactly the same happened the year before too, with a different driver (same car, just not me delivering it back) I thought the service adviser was going to boil over with the look on his face.

Because I'm a fu##ing genius! That's the best saying on this channel so far!! Well done Rick 👏

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

😂😂

@oliverwoodham6685

Ай бұрын

You need that on merchandise 😂

Quality video as always 🫡💯

Biggest "small" mistake. Getting an old CBR250R (the good old inline-4 ones not the modern junk) back on the road again. Loads of work, got it running well, took it for its first MOT in years (which it passed cleanly) Left the fuel tap "on" after the MOT while it sat in the garage for a week. Fuel seeped past the vac tap and float valves, filled the crankcases, washed all the oil out of the big ends and despite draining and refilling with clean oil a short distance later #1 big end let loose trashing the crank. It had lasted all of 9 miles.

As the Dunlops are direct descendants of God, I feel for that man.

Top job there Ricky

@REPerformanceUK

29 күн бұрын

Cheers mate

Hey up lads sweet enjoyed this video thanks

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

A DOS based 80s aftermarket ecu wow and i thought my eec4 was getting on when i replaced it

Another great video.

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you

Very enjoyable as always 👍

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

Thanks again!

Arai side pods a few years ago....the pain of breaking a plastic side pod tab on an old Nakano Rep RX7 (without that new system).......8 months on backorder from Japan.....arrrrgh...

Little mistakes can't have massive outcomes, totally true. I cost myself a transmission with a big mistake a couple of days ago because of something I did over a year ago. A drive shaft yoke Got damaged at a drive shaft shop the replacement I purchased was too tight not enough lubrication for the brass bushing in the tail shaft housing. No one to blame but myself. I was fed up with the car and wanted it to be done. I should have known it wasn't right🤦‍♂️ Luckily I already have a rebuild kit for the (t5 wc)

Hi Ricky, Thanks for another superb video. I was watching the TT and was absolutely stunned when Dunlop's visor flew off and the 25 second lead evaporated. Totally gutted for him as 2nd and 3rd place riders flew past him. Moving on. I'm building a McLaren 4.0l, and I'd like your opinion on an idea I had. I'm close to the point where I need to order new pistons and rods. I'm thinking about raising the compression ratio from 8 1/4 up to 9 1/2. My reasoning is that it would give it a little more grunt at low end/low boost, and I could keep the factory exhaust headers and turbos, and when I want to go full send, it'd be like tricking the engine into thinking it had bigger turbos. I was also wondering about using a 21mm wrist pin vs. stock 23mm and moving the ring pack up in order to use a bit longer con rod. There, by increasing rod ratio. Moving the pin hole up along with the ring pack, I was hoping to get a 4mm longer rod. Please feel free to call me a nutter. It wouldn't be the first time.😊 Thanks, and keep the videos coming.

Thought the 512TR was after the Testarossa. Monkey Harris loved his 512M. Great video as ever gentlemen.

@jerehada

Ай бұрын

And it’s a flat 12

@Gorbyrev

Ай бұрын

@jerehada ...or a 180 degree V12. The debate rages on!

I Over looked how tight a lower crank pulley bolt on a 1600 Zetec (fully floating) should be as an apprentice. Smashed valves clean off, wrote the head off. Everything has been triple checked ever since. I still have the valves somewhere as a reminder.

I saw him pull over to fix his helmet and was wondering how that happened, thanks for showing us what went wrong. Got to feel for him and totally understand why he was so pissed

@icklepob88

29 күн бұрын

It's all over inst and youtibe. The new arai visor system is awful. The old one sounded brutal, but just worked.

Just watched your dyno advice video I have a 2014 a45 amg looking to get it to stage 1. What tuners would you recommend to go to? I would want you to do it but I know you are more keen on the vag cars! Keep up the videos!

Looking forward to the Skoda video for some reason

Was Going to Say Cam Sensor Ricky without watching episode as too your Lambo 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Mitch at 9:38😂😂😂

New hair cut looks awesome Rick great video as always 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Truimph 765 good bike

Loving the green lambo but is the front bumper fit slightly off? Not that anyone would notice if it’s at a million mph

Nice haircut

Totally agree with you People should have more attention to detail and be able to spot when things could go wrong. Saying that, I’ve found it impossible to find staff who are like that naturally. Most people now would rather spend more time on their phones than have an eye on the small details. It’s a dying game that is.

Sometimes we all make mistakes said the hedgehog climbing off the hairbrush....

Small mistake....big cost.... Many moons ago I ran a garage, we had one particular customer that had a number of cars we looked after, including their Audi S4. He was going abroad on holiday & needed a set of tyres the night before he drove to the airport to catch an early morning flight & I'd agreed to fit them last thing in the evening (8pm) as we were booked up solid & it's just what we did sometimes for customers. Tyres fitted, dropped his car back to him, all went well....or so I thought. I wake the next morning to a number of missed calls, answer phone messages & selection of texts. He hadn't made it to the airport.....had missed his flight..... wasn't on holiday...as his N/S/F wheel had parted company with the car...at 70mph on the motorway...at 3am. As you can imagine he was less than happy or his wife. He had to have the car recovered back to his house at great expense & claimed off our insurance. Moral of the story is DON'T answer your phone mid way through torquing wheel bolts up, as I did, then not rechecking you had been around them all like a numpty. The final bill for the simple mistake of the expensive call was just a shade under 12k plus I also had to pay for a hire car, 3 days missed holiday, more flights & transfer from the airport in Spain to the hotel he had also paid for🤦 I never Ever didn't double check wheel nuts again after that!

Lucky it has a ecu on it

if you go and watch the ITV4s coverage of the TT they cover the dunlop visor incident on the Tuesday episode and speak to the fella who was at fault

2mm of swarf i missed in a rebuild, yes did a big end, but dry sump $'000 in lines, piston into the head, valves , cam, everything, all because I trusted the machine shop telling me they cleaned it, 100% my fault

Question for Ricky: I put RBF700 in my car for a track day, how long is it good for before I have to change it? What are the differences 600/660/700 other than temps? Any better than others for road use and occasional track day?

mis-shift trying for 3rd, bang, bang, bang, bang where's 3rd? bang... shit want into 1st. OMG clutch in... too late. 8100+ rpm spun 2 rod bearings. $18k repairs + 1 year. On the good side, I learnt how to take a CEPB TTRS motor out and back in (in my house garage).

Hi. Thanks for the videos. Enjoy watching most of your videos. Quick question please... why is the green Huracan got such bad gaps on the front bumper?

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

Where you looking? It’s been wrapped so been apart a few times.

@mazdamadbrad

Ай бұрын

@REPerformanceUK if you look at it head on... the right hand side gap looks bigger

@knight2425

Ай бұрын

Yeah saw that and wondered if the bumper was sitting correctly

Misjudged a turn on a S1KRR, found myself wrapped around a tree, fighting for life.

will Ethanol in fuel sort the compression?

Rick your looking more and more like max headroom 😅

Would the owner of the rossa be open to a road test video when it is finished?! I would love to hear and see that thing go a little.

That Ferrari Testarossa is the only Ferrari I would want to own, I could live out my outrun fantasy. 😂😂😂 My smallest mistake that had the biggest consequences was re-engaging a type 23 frigates anchor capstan under power and wrecking its clutch. 😳

@EvoraGT430

Ай бұрын

Capstain.

@Zedhead_

Ай бұрын

@@EvoraGT430 I think you will find it is a capstan. 👍

Would you recommend Autel scan tool for the type of cars you work on ?

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

No Texa or Leonardo mate

Probably been asked before but where does the number 35 come from?

Running my Suzuki GT185 on Castrol R in the prelude tank . Lost little end bearing and destroyed the engine. Managed to ride 30 miles two up on one cylinder.

@niklashultkrantz7766

Ай бұрын

I remember the Ferrari pitstop guy that want to fill Schumachers car alone and messed up not cool I hope he got fired.

Davla you should have Peter Griffin introduce this section called what grinds my gears 😆

Small mistake was not changing a set of worn cleats. Went to dova sprint, my foot come out of the pedal but the bike into a wobble landed face down on the road smashed all my front teeth and spent the next 6 hours in the dental hospital getting stitched back up and looked likevi had been in boxing fight with Mike Tyson . It wasn't my best day

Small mistake big consequence, trying a shirt on for some doo after a shower , chuffed as it still fits, send pic in front of mirror to wife (only the shirt on btw) . Seconds later realise like a twat I’ve sent it on the group chat of the housing estate we live on. 😳😳😳😳 pic only up for 15 seconds, the longest and most panicked 15 seconds of my life, yet some folk still saw it 🤦‍♂️. Lesson learnt . Thanks for the great vids

Not a vee motor 17:57.

I both love and hate that Testarossa. It's a beautiful abomination. Same with the Liberty Walk Countach.

Small error, big cost? In 1999 NASA and Lockheed Martin launched a mission to Mars. The tiny snag was NASA used metric and Lockheed Martin used imperial. You can work out what happened as the navigation telemetry wrestled with the incoming data. What's $300m between friends?

My smallest mistake was befriending a Welsh lad at mercedes benz who rode a 600 faster than I could ride an R1. Made me look like a huge idiot.....lol

The panel gaps on that green Lambo are not very good!! Look at the gap across the front, from headlight to headlight!!!

Could an Audi R8 intake fit on the S6 6.2 ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Passed pjft prmc filling in for 5 a side done my fib and thib goodbye marine corps beat that for a mistake

Flat 12 not V 12.

5:29 96⅚r 5:29 is

Hell man i am late and ricky got his ears lowered Phack Phack Phack oh well howa about the TT Crazy mon truly Crazy mon LFG TT yall b safe there anyway Rickster u got ur ears lowered its truly summer time b cool so wats ur latest vid doin welp lets have a watch and seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Got to add to ‘don’t make mistakes’ …….. people who don’t make mistakes either don’t do anything or are liars.

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

Yeah completely agree!

DAYT-HATE. :P

A lost a championship because a certain race car gearbox manufacturer fitted a roll pin incorrectly.

something something algorithm

512 TR after Testarossa

Dunlop's visor. I blame Dunlop, for having something that can be screwed up. Either choose a different helmet or change helmet. In manufacturing we should design parts that can only go in one way round or it doesn't matter which way round they go. Try to make something idiot proof (although that does can just evolve a bigger idiot!).

I want to know how these people afford these cars ?

I saw the TT race last night that you are talking about were the visor was flapping around ,I really felt sorry for that bloke when he had to stop and re fix it 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Do not want to sound GAY but the barnet looks much better. The Adolf is no more

Used build Suzuki GSX 1000 Yoshi race engines was being rushed by the boss and didn’t check my work as usual left timing chain tensioner bolts loos7 and it came out and wrecked the top end and pistons at a shake down test this was a week before it was going for the TT as a spare unfortunately the main engine dropped a valve so we we’re screwed no one there had anything to help so put a stock engine in we borrowed and that threw a rod very unusual as those engines were bulletproof took sometime to get over it

Saying will you marry me?

Saying hello to my now wife😅

So, how did you unbrick Lambo's computer? Trade secret?

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

Flash a complete image of a mech unit on it

@senco981

Ай бұрын

@@REPerformanceUK So, is there is a backup image inside of ECU or you get it from factory?

DOS based ECU, is that a joke or for real?

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

No real lol

@senco981

Ай бұрын

@@REPerformanceUK I would love to see code for it, lol

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

@@senco981 Not even going to try...just put a proper ecu in and weigh my bin down with the old one! lol

@senco981

Ай бұрын

​@@REPerformanceUKEasy, but I guess ECU remapping is going to be a bitch

Its supercharged.

why wouldn't folk watch the track footage ... dont get it , lets watch performance cars getting built but not what they can do ... window lickers can you do a second channel for real car/motorsport enthusiasts ? 😋😋😋😋

Much more work less bullshitting!!!!!!

@REPerformanceUK

Ай бұрын

Which bit is bullshit? 😂

Oh so I must have been electromagnetic electromagnetic parts are electromagnetic for a long time. Sometimes you talk rubbish. You're bad man sometimes