V8 into Corvair the hard way

[@n6mz]

AWESOME channel. No hideous electronic noise ("""music"""), no silly BS, no money grubbing, just GREAT content. THANK YOU!

[@HomeBuiltByJeff]

One of my viewers put me onto you. Love the precise fab work and that foot operated welding turntable is brilliant!

[@JohnReynolds661]

Thanks Jeff, I'm going to check out some of your videos too.

[@ericdolan2130]

4:00: "A lot of people will cut out now"....well, those of us that want to appreciate the journey, and maybe learn something along the way, ain't cutting out until the end! Excellent work!

[@mikeydangerous8808]

F’sho’…love the “behind the scenes” step-by-step process of metal fab’…no TLC-style quick-cut to the finished product…

[@joell439]

Making all the way to the end for us was easy. Watched every second at least once. Thanks so much for allowing us mortals to look over your shoulder while you fab. I for one picked up several tricks, including the coupling nut mini-spreader and paying attention to the sequence of assembly so you can fully weld the joints. Headed now to the next episode 👍👍😎👍👍

[@CS_247]

Welding together a whole bunch of CAD designed, CNC produced parts to build a trophy truck is impressive stuff, but this work is just incredible... Firstly, the thought process that goes into how you are going to do it, to the custom fabrication of each single part, to the beautiful welding to fit it all together, this just blows my mind. I am an aircraft fabricator by trade, and have been building racecars for almost 20 years, and I am blown away. You Sir, are an artist. Can't wait to see this project rolling down the road, but really looking forward to the journey.

[@ejharrop1416]

Master of fabrication. I enjoy watching how you work and your sharing of very interesting design thoughts too. I look forward to the next chapter of another epic build. Thank you, take care and peace out

[@craighearn747]

Your fabrication is aeronautic level fab work. Great engineering and with adjustability and precision. You are a pleasure to watch. CNC ain't got nothing on you.

[@jimworley1048]

John, you are truly at the top of the art of fabricating. I really enjoy your amazing talents. I have always love fabricating, but you make it look so easy. I only wish I was your neighbor so I could learn from you. The VW is killer, and I can’t wait to see the corvair when it’s done. Thanks again for the videos and please make a lot more, I don’t want to miss any part of this awesome build.

[@jimworley1048]

I just wish I could be there to help.

[@JohnReynolds661]

Ha, me too. This video was made from 72 clips, each one edited several times. Took about 12 hours to stitch it all together.

[@billwynne3569]

AS AN OLD CAR FREAK, I'M 75, I'M ASTOUNDED BY HIS ENDURANCE CAPABILITIES; GRINDERS, SAWING MACHINES SAP A TON OF STRENGTH OUT OF EVEN YOUNG BUILDERS. I TOTALLY APPLAUD HIS SKILLS, DETERMINATION, CREATIVITY, AND ENGINEERING SKILLS. A BUILDER WANTS TO PROCLAIM, I BUILT IT. I'M LEARNING A LOT FROM JOHN, I LOVE HOW HE GIVES OUT THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE SHEET METAL AND ALL OTHER TECHNICAL INFO, EVEN BOLTS. AND THIS WILL BE ONE EACH AZZ KICKER SLEEPER. GO JOHN GO.

[@dave1135]

I'm only 3 minutes in, and already I can see your welds are phenomenal! Very neat, clean, tight welds.

[@user-tt2di3bh5n]

Your attention to detail and fabrication skills are astounding! I'm also learning a few tricks from watching your techniques and am glad that you're not "all business all the time". 19:16 got a chuckle out of me. Thanks for sharing your projects with us!

[@kayejaye261]

Sir. Your fabrication is art. Awesome garage setup. Can't wait to see next vid. Thanks for taking us along.

Really enjoying watching the process. Very impressed by all of your skill sets, my guess is that you are a classic care freak who spent many years in the ship repair industry learning all of the structural and mechanical skills.

[@sjoeld57]

Beautiful work. A masters class in metal fabrication and welding.👍

[@robertquiles8436]

Wow ser all I can say is 😜 crazy thumps up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 amazing craftsmanship. Gbless. Can’t wait to see the finished product

[@brucesumner6993]

Mad fabrication skills. Thank you for sharing.

[@soothsayer5531]

Sure glad I stumbled into this series of videos, fascinating to watch great fabrication and talented engineering 👍

[@mikeydangerous8808]

Epitome of “show your work”. Love the videos, John!

[@JohnReynolds661]

Thanks 👍

[@cldan9152]

Beautiful well thought out work! A true craftsman!

[@johnjunge6989]

Thought you might be trained as a machinist, when you made the 5th hole bracket. And your know ledge of metals. But as a retired master mechanic, I can honestly say, I can count on one hand the machinist I know who weld. My buddy Joe, went to a well known trade school In St Louis, like I did. He's a great welder, but like me ran his own business and learned it all! Really impressed!

[@richardfinney3179]

When I do all welding I'll use the arc welder mig is brittle and on a rollbar mount you don't want it breaking if you roll I've worked in many fab shops and I'm certafied in mig Tig ,arc and dual shield I was an iron worker in Seattle for 29 years and 3 years machine classes and 1year fab and welding school I like your work it's very satisfying to watch you work

[@dorightal4965]

I get so bored watching fabrications like this. I can only stand about 5 hours at a time. Love watching good craftsmanship!!

[@b-lopez394]

Meticulous fabrication combined with structural art. Loved it!!! When you featured the Ultra4 that you built, I thought you have a huge shop and all kind of special and modern equipment. I know that a great fabricator always have the answer why a part is design the way it is. Thanks for sharing.

[@JohnReynolds661]

Thanks, my shop is basically a three car garage with mostly 50 year old American machines bought used. The CAD work is basically nothing more than card board cutouts.

[@chuckingram5966]

@@JohnReynolds661 the cad work is nothing more than cardboard cutouts LOL that line is priceless. Good to meet you John.

[@nortiousmaximus940]

very cool, nice to see the fabrication, please keep posting the fab work in your video's

[@brucehowe3477]

Mad fabrication skills! Loved the Dub but this is getting equally as good!😍

[@karlkiernan6863]

You are very interesting to watch. Love the turn table for welding very smart and reliable.

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

The turntable impressed me also! When I saw it turn back a bit before he started to weld, I thought he had a very precise electronic control! However, the full story was told under the table! LoL 😅😆 smart! Simple!

[@tedzehnder961]

I really enjoy your fab skills, I hope your rear end articulation geometry works out. It looks like covette independent tear of a c3.

[@peterday3253]

ASMR machining and fabrication. Lovely.

[@leemarzahl8891]

Amazing fabricating skills!

[@BB-019]

YOUR TALLENT IS UNBELIEVABLE !

[@sidneymeyer9014]

I'm guessing your a engineer by trade? Your work is flawless my KZbin friend, Have a great day sir, an thank you for this content I must say!

[@lauriedooker1031]

If I was a Petty man ! But I’m impressed with the skills here . Respect.

[@ercost60]

Freaking AMAZING fabrication!

[@TairnKA]

I had an article of someone mounting a Tornado drivetrain "behind" the rear seat (a notch/pocket? for pully clearance) of a second gen Corvair coupe, but lost it somewhere? That gave me the idea for a transverse front wheel drive V6 in a 1966 Corvair convertible concept. ;-)

[@OC-wf5cd]

one talented dye engineer

[@larrysorenson4789]

Great fab and welding skills.

[@57paulsiano]

Outstanding job!

[@smavtmb2196]

Nice fabrication work

[@ericwilkes238]

This man is a legend.

[@dough5626]

Awesome work John....As ALWAYS.....

[@scottinWV]

Amazing work!

[@chiledkidsfbombgarage6095]

You're a fab freak ! Love the skills !

[@PetesSnakeBiteKit]

Amazing fab skills!

[@blueeyz2046]

Carona and I love your videos! Keep it up!

[@Marc-Vickers]

Most excellent work.

[@imouse3246]

Have you ever considered entering Bad Obsession Motorsport's bracketry award challenge?

[@georgeochoa3089]

Excellent Work !

[@MrYAMAHA32177]

Wow, looking good@!

[@rustyh8806]

The work looks beautiful as usual,but I might be a little leary of projecting the motor mount so far away from the block. I’ve seen the side of the block ripped out from similar arrangements. The fix would be a rigid mount from the crossmember to very close to the block to eliminate the leverage on the block. Many builders will eliminate the side mounts completely and run motor plates,front and rear. Or in your case side and side, this is to eliminate bore distortion for better ring seal. Just food for thought. Keep up the good work,can’t wait to go for a ride!

[@JohnReynolds661]

I thought about the leverage too and, in fact made a mount originally that hugs the block in my first go-around. I changed it to this arrangement because now, even the mounts don't have to be removed to drop the engine with the exhaust manifolds on. I doubt this will be revisited as the goal, as always, is to keep moving forward.

[@rustyh8806]

That’s it,just keep moving forward. It will let you know if it’s unhappy.

[@JohnReynolds661]

It may or may not but one thing is for sure, you'll keep reminding me.

[@rustyh8806]

True That!

[@JohnReynolds661]

How long has your Mopar project been going on, 15-20 years?

[@glentech71]

Art. Thanks for the video.

[@albegt98]

very precision job man......y love this ;-)

[@joefw2446]

Love it!

[@edkattera3674]

You doing fine work

[@frediefarmer]

I love the attention to detail. Do you have an engineer background? Great video

[@rjung_ch]

Congrats!

[@tonygustafsson8550]

impressive

[@charleshoward2685]

The donor co-chair ( not diner for air) and the shaft lengthened (not shortend) my error for not proof reading.

[@djsandvig1]

Really interesting build. I reckon the drivers compartment will be much roomier than with the “ Crown” type conversions. You are a talented engineer/fabricator. Will this build include an HVAC system?

[@JohnReynolds661]

Thanks, yes it will have hvac, eventually.

[@dmwi1549]

Me, I’d be mig welding tubing and angle iron together. Would it work? Probably. Real fabricators make things like this. Elegant Like his shirt says: easy is not worth anything. Thanks for showing us what skills look like.

[@3cl1]

Fascinating to watch your fab work, what do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking?

[@mcgregor711]

I lol'd at pop goes the weasel.

[@charleshoward2685]

I would love to see a 1966 to 1969 Corvair widened 12" so it can be adapted to a C-5 corvette . this would require a diner for air to cut 13" out of the center ,which can be adapted to the sides. This makes room for a torque tube tunnel. The wheelbase is1.3 inches longer on the Corvair. The torque tube can be shortened 1.3" and the shaft end that goes to the clutch disc and crankshaft bushing/bearing. The corvette will not be modified any further. The biggest problem I see is getting a wider windshield and rear screen manufactured. Has anyone ever attempted the mods I have mentioned.

[@JohnReynolds661]

There are widened Corvair transplants but I've only seen it done with fender flairs. There are also front engine projects with full frames. To me, it turns the car into a Camaro.

[@venvnco6259]

Nice Nice Nice great work.

[@Klaffa1]

Great!

[@lchebuhar9212]

Impressive. 💪👍🏼

[@bigfootbubba1425]

Skills

[@ronaldrey8474]

Congrats I made it till the end. Yep that's what she said. hehe

[@shotsrodder]

Great piece of engineering 👍 not so much the solo 🤢

[@eikodunn]

@7:49, dirty camera lens.

[@chevelleranch7481]

Very sanitary work as usual!

[@SideshowBen206]

Pop! Goes the weasel 🤣

[@curvs4me]

That bender setup is pure genius!!! It's coming together beautifully. I love the swingarm mount boxes with the rollbar tie in.

[@patrickfitzwater5511]

very impressive. I want to get a TIG, the welds are porn

[@slipperyjk]

If you want something done right, eh John.

[@charleshoward2685]

I typed Corvair, not co-chair.( Shortened) left an "e' out , guess.

[@nv1493]

All the fad car building shows don't hold a candle to someone building something in their garage. Well done!

[@robertarthurs328]

It's 90° crooked

[@kornami8678]

Instrumental refrain at 19 minutes.

[@gracemalley6821]

SEMA SEMA SEMA SEMA...

[@kornami8678]

WHAT????!!!!! LoL!

[@voltairegoethe]

*******

[@ronaldrey8474]

Mr. Reynolds on your welds... My humble opinion that the meat & potatoes is most important with welding not how the icing looks. AMS P.O.2 Rey US Navy (Welding & hydraulicis) aviation mech. structures