Rebuilding A Flooded $2,000,000 McLaren P1 | Part 11

11 Parts into this and The Sand is still my favorite recuring villain.

SECURITY NOTE! Tavarish, first of all it looks incredible, great job. I've noticed that you have powder coated ALL mounting points/surfaces. On a long-term perspective the powder coating will break-up between the mounting surface and the tightening will get lose. I've noticed this phenomenon on several of my and friends track cars. Please make sure to clean the mounting surfaces before tightening, especially on the brake calipers, engine mounts and subframe to the monocoque. It will work like you did especially for display purposes, but if you drive the car, everything will get lose sooner or later. Have fun and good luck with the project. Greetings from Germany

Man. The logistics and just getting these people to work with you on a crazy project like this has to be such an ordeal.. Insane that we see meaningful updates this often. I am a forever viewer and glad to see Jarred doing so well. Hope to see him in some of your future builds.

Guys at Tachyon are so cool, they all clearly love what they're doing and they're brilliant at it!

Going to Tachyon is some next level youtubing. You didn't have to track down the P1 turbo OEM, but you did and interviewed them! That's crazy levels of dedication to the craft, and I commend you for pushing the envelope of car content once again.

Bro I'd totally fly out to lift in this gym

I’m not a car guy and this series hooked me so hard, I recently found this and binged it in a day

Thank you so much Tavarish for the turbo segment of the video. Finally someone who shows that the turbo engineering is vital to the process. We watch all these builders just go and slap the biggest Garrett turbos they can on their builds. I've had so many friends not understand that it takes more than just that and then they run into heavy lag, or blowing up their engines when they try to drive on the streets. Thank you for building and engineering a whole new one off driveable hypercar. I cannot wait to see the final result of your dream.

Personally i love when you get “nerdy” (talking about your engine and the specs) and going to Tachyon was a real treat because i love the engineering behind super cars. I hope you do more stuff like that in the future and dont hold back when nerding out about your car!

16:55 Okay, so something important, that you need to know Tavarish, is that Cerakote is a ceramic layer. It acts as an insulator, NOT a heat-disperser. The Gold on the original flakes, because McLaren cut corners and made the layer too thin, but the plate is functional for dispersing heat. This, is something you need to really be careful for, because if you replace a heat-dispersion device, with a heat-insulating device, you will end up having components that heat up... Specifically hot-spot temperatures on the components closest to the plate, are going to be astronomically high, compared to the gold-plated, or even bare aluminium plate. So please, do some research into this and make sure that you arent trying to reinvent the wheel here, because what this is looking like, is you're replacing a frying pan with an oven mitt. It may be called a 'heat-shield', but it's not there to block heat, it's there to disperse heat... BIG difference and one that can very well cost you dearly if it's somewhere close to any turbos... You're a mechanic, so you'll understand this analogy better, think of a car's radiator, it's made of metal, it's there to cool things down, that's what the shield is for, what cerakote does, is basically put a thick layer of paint on it, which prevents it from cooling stuff down... So you'll end up with a car that overheats with a radiator, in the case of a heatshield, you'll end up with a turbo that melts a hole into itself, warps, or melts wiring around it. Now I could be just over-reacting, for all intents and purposes, the Cerakote could work just fine, but what I am 100% certain of, is that you just change the entire function of that plate, a plate that McLaren designed and engineered to do a specific task... That sounds like a recipe for disaster, just saying.

I can’t wait for the episode dedicated to chasing electrical gremlins 😅

Damn, Tachyon looks like an awesome company! From what you've shown, the profesionalisme drapes of the screen. Their workshop seems clean as hell!And their office looks hella sharp. Really cool to see!

Pulls McLaren out of ocean, fixes it with salt water solution.

It does feel like EVERYONE in the industry wants this thing to fly. The excitement builds with every episode. Keep going Freddy!

I appreciate the effort and your work so don't get me wrong. This will be a fantastic car and an absolute piece of art. That said, on removing the hybrid system, one of the big reasons it made so many people mad is that there's a unique charm in the original designs of all classic cars like the Toyota 2000GT or the 250 GTO and the McLaren P1 is the modern equivalent to these cars. These cars are celebrated not just for their beauty but for their authenticity; their value lies in their original features. In the case of the McLaren P1, the hybrid system is one of those defining characteristics. While the technology may be outdated, it was implemented with a specific vision. It's much like the carburettors in vintage Porsches and Ferraris. Notoriously unreliable and outdated, but altering these inadvertently dilutes what makes these cars iconic in the first place. It's not about power or performance but about preserving the unique identity of the car. I understand the temptation to modernise, but sometimes, the stuff we consider outdated is what makes these cars irreplaceable and highly sought after. I get why you had to make these changes. It's such a shame to see that it's all been done to meet the deadline of SEMA. I don't mean to be a downer or come off as an asshole, as your work is incredibly inspiring, and I have no doubt that you're making a meaningful contribution to the automotive world. Keep up the excellent work!

I would definitely recommend finding a replacement wiring harness. I was an engineer for a connector company (Amphenol) for 14 years and an engineer for a wiring and cable manufacturer for 16 years. Contacts are plated for a reason and the plating has been compromised. The harness may work for a while, but corrosion will set in fairly quickly on brass or copper contacts that does not have the plating intact. I have done tons of environmental testing on connectors and contacts and the harness will definitely fail in 6 months or less. Hopefully you haven't installed the harness yet and are able to find a replacement! Good luck! Love you work and videos!

CHEM major here. I love these videos and loved the fact that you used chemistry to save the harness. The reason you used the vinegar bath with salt is because vinegar's acetic acid will eat away at the corrosion while the salt was most likely added as an abrasive agent to help agitate the corrosion. If you applied a current to this, the salt would have acted as a great conductivity booster and probably helped the corrosion dissipate faster. The ultrasonicator used at the end with sodium bicarbonate and water just served as an extra step to agitate any remaining corrosion as it uses as the name implies, ultrasonic waves to agitate the water and provide further assistance to either mix substances or dislodge foreign objects (in this case corrosion). Along with that, it serves the purpose of neutralizing the acidic solution of the vinegar and preventing any further corrosion and damage when left out to air dry.

The frame doctor carbon work is beyond amazing

Amazing work. Congrats so far. When I was a kid I took apart my parents’ alarm clock and quickly realised I couldn’t put it back together. I cannot imagine the complexity you guys are dealing with 👍

If Mr Tavarish is reading this, I was hoping if I could make a suggestion that you fit a air compressor where the hybrid system used to be, it could be useful to help spool up the turbos for full boost constantly, kinda similar to the Koenigsegg Jesko