Vintage V-12's - Engine Shop Visit - Part 3 of 3

[@AustNRail]

Jose is a fairdinkum ripper of a bloke. Come to Australia mate your knowledge and expertise is much needed here.

[@pietroseven8228]

Im so happy that this place just simply exists on the earth!

[@Magpie...]

That moment when he was talking about taking a carb apart and then he just stopped to contemplate that tiny dog cracked me up

[@tedstriker754]

I've always wondered what Vintage V-12s was like. Looking at all those parts on the shelves makes my head spin just wondering what it must be like trying to keep track of it all. Thanks for the peek inside that place.

[@monsterstereos1836]

This is what an art gallery/man cave should look like!!!

[@willythewave]

Man I could watch and listen to this stuff all day every day. Thank you for sharing Kermit.

[@TreeTop1947]

One of, if not your best, series ever IMO, Kermit! I can't thank you enough for taking us along! The only thing that could have made it better? If Mr. Flores had been wearing a lapel mic. He is obviously a "fountain" of knowledge but sometimes I just couldn't hear him. Still, an outstanding tour, thanks again! Semper Fi, TreeTop

[@101sabre]

Fantastic series at vintage V12, some place I never would have been able to see without you making a video ,Thanks for all of your videos .

[@johannmckraken9399]

It’s wonderful that this wealth of knowledge as well as the skills to accomplish this type of work has not yet been lost to history. It’s so important that this gets passed on to future generations and it’s great when kids get involved in this. People like Kermit do such a terrific job of promoting this history and firing imaginations.

[@donherley1811]

What an amazing 3 part series. It's so very refreshing to know that there's skilled personnel keeping these engines alive. Jose has invested a lifetime into his workshops. The video is so clean and clear I can smell the cutting fluid. Absolutely brilliant video ... I've sent it off to all my nerdy mates. I'd love to tour there myself.

[@Ricksie]

Thoroughly enjoyed this series!

[@stevem7868-y4l]

Ive seen these three vids before, but when a vid is that good i HAD to watch them again !! so frigging interesting !

[@KermitWeeks444]

Thanks!

[@Angelum_Band]

This is fantastic! There's no way any of us commons can peep in on a restoration facility with of this kind. Thank you dude!

[@SaltyDawg-wu5kr]

KERMIT, VERY AMAIZING! ALL THESE OLD ENGINES AND COMPONENTS WHERE DEVELOPED WITHOUT THE USE OF COMPUTERS. VERY SMART MINDS. IF ONLY MAN WOULD PUT HIS MIND TO BETTER MAN KIND INSTEAD OF KILLING. WAR WÁS WONE AND LOST BY WHO HAD DEVELOPED THE BEST MACHINES.

[@thebosscatman7]

your such a go happy guy i love what you do

[@WellRoundedWoodsman]

These videos are amazing. You asked all the right questions and Jose is definitely a wealth of information. I could pick his brain for days and days. Please keep these videos coming!

[@mercsport]

Brilliant. Thanks for the tour - all three of them. A pity most of the chatter picked up only one side of the conversation with clarity. Still, it was a rare treat.

[@chrishill1173]

KERMIT, I always enjoy your kermie cams but a tour of vintage v12s is a highlight for me. I have close to 60 yrs building engines of all types. good luck on your projects! chris

[@Snow_owl1966]

I really appreciate all the stuff you saw me and I really wish I was there to fix it because people who are veterans I would feel like I was at home. God bless you and Merry Christmas

[@jperrin5667]

Very very informative learned a Lot thanks those engines have a beautiful sound.

[@rex201301]

What a kick ass set of repair shops _ too cool ! Thanks for sharing !

[@MrBook123456]

great video to watch

[@FiveCentsPlease]

Fantastic. Thanks for part three and I hope you go back and talk with Mike and see more of his special shop. I'm sure he has a ton of insight to share.

[@jimp.6705]

What I find cool about Kermie is...........He knows where every damn part he owns is...Impressive!

[@Oldcarsandstuffsweden7645]

Wow, what a guy.

[@leesherman100]

You said it Kermie. Just unreal!

[@jonh4301]

Nice reloading setup!

[@ronchambers2085]

Thanks for sharing these videos....I’ll never get a tour like this,freaking awesome

[@ITS4390]

As much as I know about engines, I havent the faintest clue on aircraft engines, but good lord I would give anything to learn. Awesome video, thanks to taking us along.

[@trisrush9155]

Man I could watch you do this stuff forever! Truly awe inspiring, thanks for taking the time to capture it all for us to see! 👍

[@jrgogol]

Thanks for the tour Kermit, loved the Bobcat!

[@P61guy61]

Great video. Glad to know places like this still exist. Impossible or recreate the stockpile of parts and expertise on that level in one place. Keep em flying.

[@Snow_owl1966]

All the cool stuff about engines and stuff it really brings back memories of what I know. I just care that you keep giving me all this cool videos mr. weeks

[@46danz]

What an amazing video,an industry i never knew existed.Ive passed loads of warehouses and wondered what they do in them.

[@Dsdafg]

Quite amazing!

[@ironbark1822]

Wow they have a picture of my beloved Rare Bear on the wall! Haha Awesome.

[@tomfey6020]

Thanks for Parts 1, 2, 3!

[@sporkeh90]

There was more reloading equipment in that room than carb stuff xD love it haha

[@axelrajr]

thanks kermie. i enjoyed these three a lot.

[@DerredmaxTRIAX]

Yea figured all of that out with a slid rule! Pretty amazing Kermit. Thank you!

[@markbarnhill6300]

Keep it up, love the old piston engines!

[@Dryootube]

Awesome thanks for sharing your experience

[@earthsciteach]

Fascinating! Thanks for the tour, Kermit!

[@BetterAircraftFabric]

A Great Set of the 3 videos about those shops there! Really Nice! Appreciated ! Regards from Alaska.

[@SpectrumRob]

Interesting and informative. Keep on keepin on Kermit.

[@planetwisconsin9901]

All kidding aside what a great video Kermit ( all 3 ) !

[@Oliverdobbins]

Good grief! What an amazing place (the Carburettor place too). I hope they have enough Apprentices to keep all those skills and expertise going. But with all that stuff on the shelves, plus the know-how, their slogan should surely be “Vintage V-12s: we have you by the Pratt & Whitneys!”

[@DerredmaxTRIAX]

Yep but you know the old saying. If you got to ask how much, You can't afford it! That's why almost all of these flying warbirds are owned by air museums. Lots of volunteers and nice tax exemptions. Then there are the Race Versions so modified its hard to tell a Bearcat from a Seafury. And are owned by Millionaire's Movie stars or guys from Dubai wearing pajamas! The cool thing is if your in your 20s. And set your mind to it. The regular Joe or Josephine could have a race version to fly for there 70th birthday. That's about the average age for a Reno air race pilot. Jimmy Leeward He was 78 when he flew his Galloping Ghost into the stands of Men Women and children in 2014. That's a way better way to die then wearing a dirty adult diaper staring at a TV dinner served by a care giver that can't speak English trying to figure out why you worked so hard your whole life to put your kid through law school own your own home only to loose it in a messy divorce that your mama's boy Yale law grad transgender Son desided your fate and current condition should be a prisoner in the Shady Brook Rest Home. A peaceful retirement village conveniently located near the airport in beautiful downtown New Haven owned by General Electric. 40 years at GE you gave them everything you had to give in life, Even the time you should have given your wife and son. Haven't had a visitor here at The Brook accept from the nursing staff Blind Jimmy from room 112 and the Shady Brook attorney asking you if your wedding band is 10 or 14 kerrit solid gold or fill. Don't know you tell them ordered it off QVC for my 78th birthday last week paid extra money to have it shipped FedEx thinking maybe the FedEx guy would like to visit a spell. Turns out he only speaks Spanish so in order for you to be allowed to keep that QVC birthday wedding band you had to wait in the hall while your care giver replaced your Hydrocodone for sugar pills. Because that's how you treat diabetes in Mexican Connecticut. Where you are enjoying you final days here on Earth in this Hell that you dwell in for thinking someday when I grow up I am going to be a pilot and fly a Spitfire and wear goggles and a leather jacket with hero on the back. Sorry Kid only the 1%ers can be cool. And cool is only cool if the 99%ers don't fail in the most painful ways known to man. After all even though you gave GE the cure for Cancer in a machine you engineered with your ideas and effort. With promise's your going to be a hero! You forgot one thing. Cancer is a Trillion dollar industry and there is no cure for GREED except Death. Maybe the Germans were fighting the way they were fighting for a reason we ain't cool enough or rich enough or greedy enough to understand. Maybe they just wanted a world that wasn't controlled by people who think its cool to be a 1%er. Maybe its better we die doing something we love to do then to die in a diaper full of our own doo! Here is what I think we all should do! Live every day like its you last! Smoke Drink Jump out of airplanes wearing well designed bed sheets on you back in a designer backpack. Swallow swords walk a tight rope learn to play a guitar count to a million hide and go seek it doesn't matter as long as your hair is on fire and you love what you are. Never fear dying or shady brook will be the death of you! And never forget today is your last day on Earth! Long live the love of life! Anything the opposite will not do. Sorry Adrian I guess what I am trying to say is. If your hair is on fire and this is your last day on earth. You will be moving way to fast for anyone to grab you by your Pratt and Whitney's:)

[@rcdogmanduh4440]

Needs I love this stuff, makes you feel young again!

[@augnkn93043]

Thanks Kermit!

[@radiobikini6429]

Awesome tour.

[@jeffpage8746]

That place is a trip!

[@motoclonkdribblehead5423]

As an engineer, this is my dream job working on aero engines/ vintage aircraft. Shame there are very few opportunities in the UK Good tour.

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+motoclonk dribblehead There are some very good shops and talented people in the UK. Some of these projects work with very small teams of very good people. Felix Ohlhoff in Germany is a new engine guru. Maybe see if is looking for extra help. Sigi Knoll in Germany is a DB engine master and maybe he can help you find somewhere to start learning. I think in the future you will not only need to know how to put them together but you will have to know CAD engineering and fabrication/manufacturing to help recreate scarce parts for them.

[@groomlake51]

We have a bunch of Cadillac lathes at work that made Allison’s . We use them to plunge cut the best ring grooves on the planet

[@billysolhurok5542]

An E.J. Potter connection, very interesting...

[@onazram1]

the 'Michigan Mad Man'

[@christophersimmins3181]

That was so good...

[@oxcart4172]

Another great video! Hope u and yours have a great xmas.

[@davidcotton5361]

incredible knowledge

[@MadWillyLove]

You rock Kermit

[@rolandalfonso6954]

Unreal, indeed! Here, kitty, kitty, was the icing on a wonderful, fun cake. But... Hey, old guys,( I'm old too!) the clock is ticking and there are no young people to carry it on...No interest. All of this and in ten years there won't be enough money coming it to pay the warehouse rent. All of those wonderful engines and parts.Most of it will be sold for scrap. Unless, of course, Mr. Weeks, you and your collection of wonderful aircraft and Vintage V-12s have the future settled. Pleeze tell me it's all good...

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+Roland Alfonso There are a handful of engine shops around the world. If a shop closes (such as JRS Enterprises) the inventory will typically be purchased by another shop. And the expertise is still being passed on to younger people, such as Felix Ohlhoff in Germany. www.klassiker-der-luftfahrt.de/sixcms/media.php/11/thumbnails/kl%2001-2017%20Rolls-Royce%20merlin%20Felix%20Ohlhoff.jpg.8520380.jpg

[@GenoSalvati]

I would like to learn more about Jose Flores. How did he get started in this industry? Great video.

[@KermitWeeks444]

Thanks! You can read a little more about Jose and his start in this article . . . warbirdsnews.com/warbird-articles/the-new-vintage-v12s-500-engines-and-beyond.html

[@alanlake5220]

@@KermitWeeks444 Thanks for sharing that, a very interesting article indeed.

[@K-Effect]

I would love to work at a place like this

[@qibble455]

Very cool!

[@hectorreymundo4215]

muy chingon Kermit, a lot of info! thanks!

[@shoominati23]

Kermit, there is / was a saudi sheilk who had 2 Napier Deltic engines in his private yacht!

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+shoominati23 The Deltic is more of an industrial and locomotive engine. The Sabre aeroengine is pretty rare, although now there are three active projects attempting to fly with a Sabre in the future.

[@USNVA11]

LOL .... kitty, kitty, kitty .... go up and try to pet him Kermit .... 🤣 Nice tour .... thanks ! 🍺

[@ILLEagle_1]

I could go through another 10 hours of engine videos

[@markwilliams8158]

Alway enjoy your video!

[@johnkamm8886]

As a vintage Hydroplane guy, can I have the carb parts you are throwing away???.......please Great 3 pt video....thank you

[@antoniomoura9347]

Incrível! Inimaginável!

[@Angelum_Band]

Are those starter cartridges at 16:16? A whole bunch of them on a manila paper?

[@OneMansrandomadventures]

Fantastic!

[@P51]

cool pic of rare bear in the background

[@deeremeyer1749]

Yeah. We got piles of brand-new 3350 rods in the warehouse. Why? You need something to practice welding on or something? Lol. Amazing.

[@chevychase3103]

Red light, yellow light, black light!

[@abx.motors]

im not sure if you will see this kermit, but how did you get you hands on these amazing aircraft you have ?? i would love to own a tenth of the war birds you have, have you restored a lot of your planes or bought them out right ?? thanks alex

[@bfmcarparts]

The Lysander photo, it looks like Dwight Brooks' machine.

[@dyer2cycle]

...the 8 track...lol!...

[@mattsberggren2233]

WOW

[@DennyWizard]

Here's a bit of a teck question - they say that the Merlin Engine makes more power than the Allison yet much of the Allison engine is better designed -

[@TPath3]

Well, what 'they' say is wrong ! The 1710 111/113 in the P-38 L with turbo supercharger delivered 1750 HP at 3000 RPM and 60' manifold pressure up to 29'000 ft (no Merlin achieved that ever !), but the crankshaft was certified for 3250 RPM, at 70' manifold pressure and 3250 RPM it will go far beyond 1800 HP. The 'Merlin' in the form of the Packard V-1650-7 (which is equal to the brit. M66) you need 75' manifold pressure to reach 1776 HP. Now regarding the V-1710s their problem was the lack of efficient super charging via the single stage single- or twin gear crankshaft driven compressors, but even with that they were atleast the equal to the contemporary Merlins (III, XII, etc. up to the 45). With the exhaust driven turbo charger it was superior. For Reno Racers however you need very high low altitude power and there the two stage blowers of the Merlin 60s and beyond series beat the Allisons thus no Allisons at Reno. The latest model P-51s (the twin for instance) were driven by Allisons and nothing with a prop could catch them at altitude.

[@craigpennington1251]

Great videos all three parts. But volume was a bit off. Kermit's voice very loud compared to other person, couldn't hear very much. Please have your cameraman steady a bit more, or use a wheel stick. They work great for cameras while walking to eliminate bounce.

[@brucecaldwell5239]

I hope he at least took Mr. Flores out for dinner for his time & knowledge.

[@Airplanefish]

I noticed he cut out part of his video once Jose started talking to him about his allison engine that had the oil pressure lines hooked up backwards. I imagine there is a money "situation" that hasn't been resolved....

[@hillarylevenworth8824]

OK, Allright...

[@woxof7814]

"I don't have anything with 3350's. In fact, I don't think I even have one...oh, I got a Connie"

[@eightpenny6379]

So how much is one of the rebuilt Merlins worth? I bet 700k - 1mil. Am I close?

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+ Eight Penny It depends on the condition and if it can be flight certified with correct paperwork. Not in the million-dollar range but the prices can be high.

[@genesloan3175]

I appreciate this series of 3 videos, but it was very hard to understand anything Jose was saying with him not wearing a microphone.

[@johncollins6023]

The Go Pro rod is too far from the guy who is giving the tour. Can't hear the guy.

[@willythewave]

Those bobcats are freaky (mean too), they sound like a woman being murdered in the woods when they are mating. If you didn`t know the sound was bobcats it would totally freak you out deep in the woods late at night.

[@planetwisconsin9901]

2:43 A cat!

[@rcdogmanduh4440]

Was that magna fluxing?

[@smurphy1977]

Matt C Yes

[@stephenhunter70]

No oil pressure in an engine is just that no oil pressure, nothing inside is getting any oil.Learn't that the hard way on a Honda 250cc motorbike engine, no it did throw me or stop just very costly to fix.

[@oscaris1ru12]

Kermie Kue

[@deeremeyer1749]

Never trust a mechanic that doesn't have a dog or cat around the shop. If they don't have a dog or cat they don't work hard enough and/or get enough work to be stressed enough from time to time they NEED an occasional "fur break" to relax a little, lol.

[@John-rr4zz]

Good tour but I don't think that Kermit liked it that much that his engine which I think they said had been new, had been left outside in an old leaky crate about 11.25. Kermit said he'd get it pulled and then loaded the bloke to get it back. After that the tour seemed to go down a bit and then there seemed to be a bit of a dispute about the Allison engine with an oil pressure problem ! Later the bloke just walked away in the carb shop.

[@deeremeyer1749]

Tons of Allison PARTS are IN MERLINS if you're talking about CONNECTING RODS WHICH ARE THE BIGGEST WEAK POINT in a WHOLE LONG LIST OF WEAK POINTS in those "awesome" Merlins. When it takes a full set of Allison rods to make one of those POS Merlins run long enough and well enough to just be a "toy" worth the "investment", that's a set of rods gone for an Allison that has enough hours and wear that it needs new rods instead of rebuilt or the owner just won't roll the dice on used parts in that spot.

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+DEEREMEYER1 The Allison rod is a racing modification. Not typical for a Merlin that would have an overhaul every 5-7 years.

[@deeremeyer1749]

I'd just like to find a "good" and "cheap" radial of ANY kind in ANY condition that's intact and complete enough to just make it run a little just to have one to start up and listen to and play with from time to time. Unfortunately, there is no such thing because everybody thinks radials are "rare" and "valuable" and some collector like Kermit is going to make them rich over night someday OR the owner is scared he's going to get "took" on it or his "family" after he dies thinks its a priceless aviation archaeological "artifact" OR its worthless junk and it gets "donated" to a museum for a nice "tax deduction" or gets "donated" to a salvage yard/junk collector that becomes the NEXT owner of a "priceless" piece of history, etc. Meanwhile, shops are charging probably 100 times the original NOT CHEAP cost of NOS 3350 parts because its "easier" than having the used parts rebuilt and reused. Or its "cheaper" to use up NOS stock whenever possible when you find a "money is not an object" customer who doesn't have a clue, take the used parts and save THOSE for when "NOS" parts are "impossible" to find and then charge as much or more for rebuilt OEM later one compared to what NOS was before the "shortage".

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+DEEREMEYER1 Get a brand-new smaller Rotec radial to play with. They are for homebuilts and have pats. www.rotecradialengines.com/ Or, get a Moki or OS radial for R/C planes and save the garage space. OS FR7-420 : www.osengines.com/engines-airplane/osmg1307/osmg1307-main.png

[@jonathangofast559]

I thought these engines were obsolete, and there's a warehouse full of 'em .. like that BMW 801 was it? I've never seen one...thanks for the tour 👍

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+ Jonathan Go Fast Not a lot left out there. This shop represents many years of gathering the NOS parts that are left.