FABRICATING ROLL CAGE DOOR BARS, MX5 MIATA/ 1950s FORD BODY SWAP.
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The Mongrel Part 20
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My names Matt Urch and I own and run Urchfab welding and fabrication.
I specialise in custom automotive fabrication from building roll cages to complete one off builds.
I built the worlds most unique and oldest drift car known as the drift rod which can be found on my channel.
So if your into grinding, welding, fabricating, drifting, going fast etc, your in the right place!
“ I think I’m losing my marbles “ said the man welding a 100e shell to an mx5 chassis !
Cool work again Matt 👍
MichaelKingsfordGray thank you for showing me the error of my ways kind sir, I shall endeavour never to make such an unforgivable spelling mistake again !
Please observe the correction I’ve made to the text, I do hope this is more satisfactory
Matt, don't worry about losing your marbles - we all do it! I remember a few years ago, I couldn't find my mobile, so I rang it from the landline to hear it. I duly heard it ringing upstairs and off I ran to find it. In the moment I rushed to find the phone before voicemail cut in, I forgot what I was doing, and when I found the phone...... I answered it.
Sounds like one of my marbles.. I was changing an inner door lever on my nieces Audi A2 , while doing it I needed to use the torch function on my fone and placed it inside the door cavity, meanwhile my sister came out with coffee n biscuits , totally forgot the fone and put the door card back on etc and sent them home some 20 miles away, after lunch I noticed something missing so I drove to their house and asked my sister to call my fone .. So funny hearing the car ringing like an old 70s telephone ...,😀
@@marty3469 that was annoying eh, only funny later, not while you had to remove the door card again though :) I did it on the wife's Seat Leon a few weeks ago doing the winder mech, and because you have to unplug the door lock mech to take it off, I did and forgot to plug it back in after getting it out, so had to remove the door card again to plug it in, doh :) It was partly because I kept getting interrupted by cars going by, on a street that barely ever has any cars go down it, except, apparently when I choose to do my wife's window winder lol
Classic. Thats totally something I would do. Lol
May be a Mongrel, but what a wonderful bone structure. It is always the same when someone is good at his job he makes it look easy
it looks easy because he spend years learning how to do things properly as an engineer, like an apprenticeship that would have been like 8000 hours or 4 years long,. you dont learn to do these things overnight ...attention to detail once learned, comes naturally in the future
I love how he slows down occasionally to explain in detail how he does stuff
.. 😂
Moving around like a grinder wielding humming bird is how he gets all that work done!!
You've a lot of respect on UA-cam Matt....because you are very good at what you do.....please take this as a compliment.
Cheers from California, good work.
I commented something pretty similar a few vids back. It's cause he's legit. Even the the dumbest of us can tell when someone isnt what they claim. Good or bad, just do you. Especially if "you" is someone with some decent fab skills and a camera. Lol
I just binged all the Mongrel & Tow vehicle episodes and now I'm having withdrawals (shakes and quivers) that I have to wait for the next video. Love your stuff.
That hammering, is nuts !!
booyakasha!
the mongrel coming slowly to life. it's a pleasure to witness this process and it's very satisfying to get along step by step.
thank you!
First class video once again Matt, you make it all look so easy - that’s the skill of a pure craftsman. “I’m happy with that!!’ So you should be.
Nice job . I had a GP2 Vauxhall Magnum that I ran as my road car in the early 70s with a full cage. It was very interesting when I picked the girl friend up from college how many guys showed interest in the car.
The sped up video, Benny Hill style, never gets old.
Losing ur marbles comes with eccentric creativity
Gonna keep watching bud
If i ever learn to wrld even half as well I'd be happy, so glad i found this project.
You should make an exoskeleton car. That'd get a lot views. Throw a Boxer or Vtec engine in the rear
It's looking a work of art Matt. Have a relaxing Sunday, stay warm. Cheers
Great support from the viewers because your content is so good. Dry humour mixed with outstanding skill, love this project and can’t wait to see how your life moves forward !
Cheers from Canada!
Love the high speed foot steps, simply funny.
Damn hammer!
Just keep on keep in on Matt! Diggin the hell out of every episode! 👍
I'm watching the ad. 😉
Nice door bars, I thort they poked out to much but I knew you had the correct measurements, no space wasted there. Nice new boots too 👍
loveing the new boots
As usual, making the difficult look easy.
New boots? Losing marbles - kids have you seen my shades? on your head dad! Build is looking splendid. Soon be ragging it round Castle Coombe.
Really nice work. I like the temporary clamps you used to hold the bars in place.! Try and stay warm!
Looks solid can’t wait till the end product
Incidentally I looked back at the Carrolla job and noticed that the side bars are actually only one tube in the centre, where it should really be strongest. The side bars on your present car are a way better design from a strength point of view. Good job.
lol Matt, you look cold.. I don't think I could stand being cold like that ! great work and love the way yo go out of your way, to teach us "wannabes", new tricks
I love the Keystone Cops vibe, in the vids.
Looking good !!! She's coming along nicely now 👍
I love watching car builds (especially bad obsessions - sorry) I thought I'd watch and catch up....welll................I'm actually learning something........luvit....nuff said
Definitely my Favourite understated Fabricator :) Love you welds Matt :P
Love the videos, would absolutely love it if you were able to film what you are seeing through your welding mask. Would be awesome to see what you're seeing and how you manipulate the puddle/gun. Thanks again for the content, love watching your stuff!
Best channel on youtube 👍 when you getting the arch kit or you not bothering
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Matt showed the arch kit he'd bought (but wasn't totally happy with) in a previous vid, but I can't remember which. It was a couple of weeks ago now.
zzpza your right he did but I thought he said he was going to get another or just not put one on because he didn’t like the look
Yeh Mk1 bubble arches are going on. Cheers
As this build goes on you are putting more and more layers of clothes on. Far to cold for this little black duck. You need to move to sunny Queensland here in Australia then I could come down to your shop and have a look at the projects. Keep up the great work, well done that man !!!!!!!
The boots! Very nice.
Loving the mongrel pal its coming on now look FIRE when done can't wait to c it
That cage is bad ass
those doorbars are nice. really nice.
It's coming along nicely Matt.
I like your bender, it's far better than my bumper jack and truck lol. I had to bend a pipe for a repair on a tower. It worked, but was very scary
That’s what you call a fabricator nice neat and tidy
Great vid as per usual. Got to get a cold saw. So much less mess than my abrasive saw makes.
Fantastic build , love the speeded up parts reminds me of a hamster on speed
Nice work Matt.
Looks amazing!! Love you attention to detail.
Looks great. Nice looking welds too.👍
Fantastic Mad skills. You make it look so easy. I watch your videos over and over to try grasping the concepts. Keep up the fantastic work.
Great content. I was hoping for a more in-depth explanation of how to plan out and execute the bends to get the door bars to fit nicely like they do.
Your work is amazing !
That is almost a space frame chassis you have created inside the car!! Neat job. Looking forward to seeing the car come together.
I was thinking much the same thing
It'll certainly be the safest 100E around eh with all that cage in it, I'd feel proper safe racing that, and would love to take it round Mallory park to see how it compared to an MX5 round there :)
Make it Safe , your driving it and the Family needs You bad ! Take care Matt
Amazing Matt esp the Benny hill clip clopping at the start .
Nice to see your new PPE
Need to get the heater sorted, will be getting colder soon; numb finger tips non conducive to safe handling of technical tasks. Oh yes I know, have a heated spray booth at my place of work, no heating in my workshop. Booth is my sanctuary. Inspired by your skills and fortitude.
check out the heating solution that goonsquad came up with young guys with work etiqued
@@hanshoogendyk2203 Wood burner with fans, need a supply of wood.
We used to have a Natural gas heater in our shop, but every time we opened the doors, the heat dissipated quickly, it was expensive to maintain, and expensive to run. Did ask for a used engine oil heater, the only cost was for the electric fan, but that was dismissed by the boss. He spent double the amount for the oil heater, on the gas heater, and again on the repairs to aforementioned gas heater. 3 times the cost for 3 winter seasons heating. We have a mechanical workshop on site which could have supplied the used engine oil. Valet workshop have had oil burner for over 7yrs, needs a bit of cleaning occasionally, but very reliable. Depends on whether you have access to used engine oil supplier to keep costs to a minimum.
Matt remember it's nice to have marbles to lose !
Awsome as always you make it look simple ✌️👍👍👍
Looking good Matt
Perfection to me!will be hell of a little track beater im sure!
Cheers from montreal ✌
Stunning work again buddy attention to detail second to none would love to see you fabricate some arches rather than f/ glass, still your the Boss so crack on 👍
Matt, you make it look so easy....which means it’s not.
Great job as usual
Cool BOOTS dude.
Nice tube work
Loving the whole series and that your subs are going up.
Loving the work your doing keep it going
As always great content, great, no sorry should say excellent work. Billy J..... From OZ.
Urch you amazing bastard👍
Great job, I was just waiting for the person who was cutting the roof to fall down and land in behind Adam 🤗
add large swimming pool noodles to role bars were they may contact your body in an accident or rollover
I had to read that a few times before I realised what you were on about, I thought you were off your noodle for a minuit! It will have some cage padding in there.
Looking good 😉😊👍👍
Brilliant job mate!
Matt I am getting withdrawals no Urchfab for 3+ days what else can I watch ??????
Savage work 💪😎
Loving it ! You the cage god bro!!
It's looking great.... I can see how much that thing was frustrating you with the sledgehammer sound.....
Excellent - thanks --
Matt, Are you required to have an engineer work out all the calculations or you a genius? I am truly amazed. I can't get a welder to build a BBQ smoker. Peace
Matt, love your channel mate. Your subscribers are criminally low. I know you’re looking to build that up and one thing that occurs (knowing nothing about how UA-cam search engine works I admit) would be to add some MX5/ Miata/ Eunos etc wording in title / write up maybe? My thinking being that more people (who don’t know you already) would find you that way. Just a thought.
Its more to do with how youtube pushes your content out to people, If I post every day then my subscribers go up really quick, at the rate I'm posting at the moment its slow going. Cheers
@@Urchfab apparently its subscriber involvement as well. If a large % of your subs comment, share and so on, it pushes your vids further up the recommended videos list. I've shared a couple and name dropped the channel in some comment sections. Dont know how much it helps but it cant hurt.
@@Urchfab Don't get discouraged or, to some degree, be concerned about pushing out content every day, the work flow will come. I was looking at some of the very basic channel metrics the other day and based on subscribed viewers the view rate per "episode" is generally quite high (as a percentage). When I checked, you were getting the same view count as some automotive channels with 5x the subscription rate and the viewer count, approximate, was near 10x the count as channels with similar subscriber base. At some point even with say 50 000 subscribers if you are getting 120 000 views you are the high count outlying channel. The other number I have seen tossed around is you are doing well if you get 15% of the subscriber count in the first 48 hours after releasing the video.
You are a very clever master craftsman. But we see all this effort to make this cool body work with a special chassis and then we see the fabbing of a cage inside so it can be ROLLED?!
Hopefully it will stay off its roof but you never know. Cheers
Awesome 👌🏻
Oh yeh I was number 1K on the likes :) Looks like a NASCAR cage, it's great, mint work as always Matt ;)
Awesome
Love the build, as always. One request for us headphone users, though. Please lower the sound or cut to music when doing those fast forwarded clips, the background noise is earsplitting!
Another step closer.
You need a heating solution for that workshop mate.i don't know how you can work comfortably with so many layers on.
Its why hes doing so much welding lmao
Matt you can get more marbles from good toy shops!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great vid as always.
Probably never going to weld in a roll cage but really enjoying watching these videos Matt! I love your little tips and tricks 👍
What gloves do you wear when welding? I keep getting burned 🙈
Muy bien saludos
Coming along now Matt..
Thumbs up for the hammering comment....that made me laugh. @10:44 👍🏻
This is losing your marbles. I was wandering the workshop, looking for my Snap-on toe dolly. I looked everywhere, no joy. I must have been very relaxed, that day because the damn thing was, believe it or not............................................In my hand lol. Absolutely true. My, then, boss said I was barking mad.
cant help laugh at the rapid tapping as you run around the place
Matt, love the build. Can't wait untill the next episode. What do you think the complete rollcage weighs?
I've subscribed to your channel and I'm watching the build casually because I truly appreciate the craftsmanship. So please don't take what I'm about to say the wrong way but there are a couple of things I don't quite understand. For starters, a Mazda Miata doesn't have enough top speed or road holding ability to justify that sort of a roll cage. And with the Ford body the aerodynamics are going to cut down on the potential speed even more. I don't see you tubbing the rear end to put Monster drag racing tires in the back, so I am totally totally confused as to why that little car requires that much roll cage. What engine do you plan on using, and what do you intend to do with this little beast? Keep up the good work, always looking forward to your videos
Sweet geesus that looks awesome!
Did I hear you say you where taking the rolecage out to paint it in another video?!
If so, I can’t understand how the hell you’r getting that out again, should be an interesting episode for me. 😊
No she aint coming out again.
Cage is coming along great, your're pure fabricatiion magician!!
Are you building this cage according to any specifications like FIA or to pass some sort inspection for racing or getting it through inspection to be a street legal car? :)
Haha cheers, Its built to Bdc spec.
Love the sped up bits. So funny to listen to. It's going to be a little rocket when it's finished. Are you painting it or leaving it in it's existing patina?
Everything's a slog when it's freezing
The audio is fine. The volume of your voice is louder in the mic than the sound of the hammer in the background. The hammer is louder to you than it is to us so you can likely get by speaking without having to pause.... of course it may be hard to speak clearly if you can't hear your own words coming out of your mouth. LOL!
Do you have a video up about how you go about measuring for your bends and how you get the appropriate cope for your fit up?
In my how to vids Bud.
@@Urchfab only thing I find is the main hoop. Nothing on door bars or front down bars.
@@stardom_fab9144 was pondering this earlier, I would treat the door bars as a "main hoop". You know in this case the bars are not going to be outside the shape of the outer doorskin and by measurement (if the door bellies out a lot from the door opening) you know where that is relative to the threshold and you could then draw the shape connecting the uprights at either pillar/post. In my mind, effectively, like a sideways main hoop. The cope will vary depending on how much from true horizontal the door bar(s) are and if either (both) posts are at some angle from vertical. For me it can help to imagine all are true 90 degrees at the joint and then go "plus" or "minus" so I can try and keep the angle going in the correct orientation. Don't know if that helps. There are all sorts of "cheats" including bending welding wire in the shape you need. I suspect Matt has either found something that works for him in the difficult areas but more that this comes so naturally to him, he just goes and does it. How tube is coped varies hugely as well, some won't do it in any other way than on a lathe, some use a hole saw, others just use a flap wheel and you can do it, to a large extent, with just a saw blade if you know where/how to compensate the offset (depending on tube size and angle of the intersecting tube) as from a side view the cope is a flat surface.
@@RussZHC I build cages as well but always always trying to learn different techniques. I notice he doesnt show how he does certain things.