Coming Home With Another L10A Cosmo - Saving A Cosmo Pt2
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- A good chunk of progress in 4 days on Bardan's Cosmo. I've unexpectedly become an L10A owner whilst on a trip with my wife to pick up parts for the Cosmo I'm currently restoring. It's in equally as bad condition and has also been used as a parts car. A perfect candidate for a perimeter cut and to be placed on an MX5 floor pan.
Recently found and subscribed, I'm 53 and a mechanic for thirty five years . I've done a fair amount of shit to cars over the years.... but, this build is outstanding! I will need more vids as often as possible!😎
Thanks mate.
Could watch this for hours
honestly man gotta say the pure drive and how fast thing things coming together is insane. keep up the good work
Amazing work man! I'm inspired. Appreciate seeing the little tricks involved in making all the shapes, and getting to see each piece progress from sheet to finish. Thanks for sharing and for saving these cars.
Thanks mate. That's the aim. Give some help to any newcomers and show the things I wish I knew when starting out.
Using the mx5 chassis/floor pan is such a good idea, will save so much time in the long run. Keep up the sick work dude !
I'm just subscribed & watching backwards but hell dude just brilliant, Oh & when it comes to machine's old is gold, they don't make em like they used to, & I never realised there were a few of these around over here,
Mate your work is epic and also how you explain how to get each piece made by trial , can’t wait to see more on the builds , keep it up and look forward to more videos.
What another one , I think u got all the cosmo’s in the world @ one place
Holy hell man, Your hands are gold
Love seeing this I wish I went down this track when I left school. Keep the vids coming
You Still can. I'm a refrigeration mech by trade and just learnt cars by playing around .
I love the craftsmanship, lots of time and patience getting these together. I'm pleased that you have shared your plans for the bodies, it makes understanding the process that is being followed a bit easier. I enjoy a good restomod making cars suit the time, the improved handling, stopping power and running gear. Sure if these were trailer queens then let them be. I admire that your willing to give such coroded/damaged cars a go. 😊
the poor dato sitting in the looking at these mazdas be like ,WTF haha,,, progress on the cossie is pretty dam exiting though👍
Rusty mazdas slowly taking over the shed, need to bring the coupes from the other shed in here once a few mazdas get picked up.
I cant believe a car this rusted can be saved. So impressive. Cant wait to see how you do the body swap.
You're a master at body work man! Killer 👌🏾
Bro you show these panels like it took you 5min lol. This would take me 2 days to finish that lower fender section hahaha. The Cosmo is so expensive in America btw. But this channel is a great find!! Keep it up!
Good call on the MX5 chassis, I'd never own an MX5 but i can appreciate they are one of the most fun to drive chassis' around. Plus plenty of rotaries have been swapped into them.
Spot on man!!!!!!!
Brave man! Cool project.
I am a self proclamied rotary purist, but also a mazda freak....so mating a mx5 chassis and cosmo body got me rather excited.
Brilliant! My new favorite channel!
love watching this, bloody clever you are.
Wow man - absolutely EPIC!
Man would love to see a run down video on the lux, things so cool
Haha it's just my daily. Plenty of info on insta .1kz and Coil all round ,pretty oem looking nothing wild.
Absolutely killing it. 👌
Great work, your skills are fantastic. I like your commentary too, not over the top, keep it up really enjoying your content.
You are a wizard with the metal work mate.
awesome work mate! very impressive , i wish i had the patience to attempt something like that.
Super impressive work mate! 👌
😮😮😮 mate you’re a magician!!!
wow! some amazing shapes in the Cosmo, going well with progress too! 2400 subscribers as of today i reckon with this content you'll have heaps of people following soon.
absolutely incredible!
Great to watch keep it up
hell yeah Bro, awesome stuff. looing bloody awesome. That's some good progress for four days for sure.
Amazing work
If I had just 5% of your skills, I'd still be very happy.
Awesome skills mate , keep it up really inspiring 🙏
So good
So your telling me all these 200k rx3s still have leaf sprung rear ends?
Next you will say there still steering box.
Good vid man flows well and cool to see the process of building panels.
🤣next you will tell me they are higher than stock.
I can’t believe how quickly you knock out some of this work. I always thought stuff like this would take weeks.
Roughing them out in their current state is the easy and fast part, adding more and more detail and perfecting them is where the time is, and is one of those things where you could spend a whole week on an area removing imperfections and to most people it will look the exact same like you haven't been doing any work haha.
Great plan for a car that rotten...If the shell was mint, then OEM build, but it would be a great modern touch...Hope it's getting a rotary engine still?...keep up the great work🤘
Mate that's really good progress in just a few days and so interesting to watch. I thought the car I picked up recently was rusty but it's not as bad as the poor old Cosmo. I had a sit in one of these once, I wouldn't wanna be much taller (I'm just on 6 foot), I was surprised by how small they actually are.
Haha yeah they are tiny. The roof height is the same as my coupe and that's got 30mm sill to ground clearence. And the cosmo has like 300 sill to ground haha.
With the kind of work you're doing here, may be worth getting some kind of gopro with a head/chest mount so you can just film and get things done. I can only imagine how much longer all of this takes while having to stop to record it all.
I've tried them the go pro chest mount and normal holding it on a stick and tripod, it is too zoomed out with the fisheye that it makes showing detail impossible, takes a few seconds to record like this so it's no stress at all to me.
KIckarse work! Pleased to be an early subber!
Doing God's work, man. Super talented!
Cheers mate
Some might say that you're a glutton for punishment but I know you're not keep up with your awesome work man 👏 👍
Wow, simply amazing amount of work and dedication.
I stumbled onto your channel from Yorkshire Car Restoration and what you have done is impressive.
I am wondering what your background is if this is your hobby? You are doing excellent work for many things being a first time attempt.
Thanks mate, im a refrigeration mechanic by trade and just started playing with cars at home, just venturing further into the deep end, before landing a job at a custom car place before finally setting up my own show at home where I am now, and thanks, I lesrn the most by just trying things to see the result, and curiosity gets the better of me when I want to know how to do something haha.
@@notevn Good on you M8. You are very skilled and driven. Your workshop looks like a car guy's dream come true.
I have always wanted to do coachwork and make custom panels. Hopefully one day I can get my own workshop and get to fabricating and building my projects like you are doing now.
I am very impressed with your sunroof install on the white car, very nice work.
I am really enjoying your videos, they are very informative and inspiring.
Top work again mate .Good call on the mx5 swop Even better if you put a rotary in it , 😁
Would love a run down on your tow rig one ep if possible.
Haha it's just a daily driver.
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Urchfab on UA-cam used an mx5 floor and driveline for a body swap on the mongrel Ford 100e mushy pea if you need some reference
Make fiber glass Kits of this cars bodys and sell them online . Eveeyone will line up for it
Hey petta have you thought about a cosmo ute? Would be one of a kind!
Actually using the mx5 floor? Or just the subframes to a simple braced flat floorpan?
Loving this build man.
Whole floor. It's identical inner sill width
Hm. The second rust bucket parts Cosmo... Make a Ute? It's got the right shape...
Haha I'm Australian but not that Australian 🤣
@@notevn Would be cool though :) 20B Cosmo Ute. 😈
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Have you spoken to any engineers yet about the challenges of how to get it registered in QLD?
I had never heard of a Cosmo. This car seems to have rusted out in an odd way, do they all do that?
Yeah they all seem to rust pretty badly
Is the first cosmo your car or customers car
What about using an RX8 for Cosmo instead of MX5
The NC MX5 shares a lot with the RX8, they both have more modern suspension design than the earlier NA and NB MX5s too. The RX8/NC chassis might be a bit too big for the Cosmo though.
when you made the dogleg and overlapped the old panel (front and rear) would that now cause the new panel to be approx 2mm wider? also would it be an option to just make the body out of aluminium considering the amount of new panels you've had to make? loving the videos 👍
Yes slightly larger openings when overlapped, but super easy to tighten up the arches 1mm a side after the panel below is removed, I find it's a much better method so it makes sure the panel is the exact same as what is there shapewise, instead of cutting it off first and then guessing that shape and where is supposed to be, something I see time and time again people cut a patch out first, and it never ends up right or they come back to it a week later and forget how it even looks.atleast with this you've lost nothing and can make the whole panel before removing anything even if it takes you weeks between working on it.
@@notevn thank you for the reply, makes perfect sense now. I’ll be attempting some panel work on a KB110 soon so appreciate the feedback. 👍 I just bought a pair of stainless weather shields from Japan I reckon you’d like 😁
so, you mentioned taking 60 mil from the Cosmo, why not make the roadster chassis longer?
Other way around . Have to take 60 from the mx5 wheelbase.
@@notevn ohhh, my bad 🤣
it's a wise decision for the cosmo. purist will hate you but it's better to save a part of something than letting it rot in a corner of your shop for 10 years bc you can't find the parts !
As if you would ruin such a classic like that! Your bloody monster 😅😂
Been following you on Instagram for awhile I’m glad you made UA-cam to tryna to show off your work !