We’re bringing a 90-year-old Austin 10 into the 21st century! But before we start making parts, we need to get the engine into the digital world. This is the first episode in our Austin 10 restomod series, where we’re taking our 1935 Austin 10 Litchfield and giving it some modern engineering while keeping its original character. The plan is to fit electronic fuel injection, improve the brakes and suspension, tackle some of those notorious old oil leaks and generally make this 90-year-old car a little more usable without losing what makes it special. In this episode, we’ve teamed up with Revopoint to put their Trackit SR 3D scanner to work. We unbox the scanner and TrackKit, take a look at how it all works, and then get stuck into scanning the Austin’s engine. I’ll take you through the scanning process, explain some of the things I’ve learned about getting accurate results, and show how we can turn an old engine into a digital 3D model ready for designing and manufacturing our own parts. It’s a fascinating bit of technology, and hopefully the beginning of a very interesting project! 🔧 Revopoint Trackit SR 3D Scanner This video is sponsored by Revopoint, who supplied the scanner for this project. ✨ Use code REVOPRSCOT for an extra 2–7% off all scanners! 🌍 Global Store: https://global.revopoint3d.com/Trackit_SR-Scott_Nothing_To_Do_With_You 🇺🇸 US Store: https://www.revopoint3d.com/Trackit_SR-Scott_Nothing_To_Do_With_You Join the Revopoint communities: Official Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/revopoint3dofficial Trackit community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/revopointtrackit 🔗 Follow the projects: Business Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bespoke_performance_eng/ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scott_nagle/ Our eBay shop: https://ebay.us/m/DSIc2N If you enjoy old vehicles, questionable engineering decisions, fabrication and making things that probably shouldn’t work, consider subscribing! #revopoint #3dscanner #3dscanning #TrackitSR #3dmodeling #revoscan #Austin10 #Restomod
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A 1970's haircut scanning a 1930's engine with 2020's technology, what a contrast.
As a 8 year old lad I used to stand on the roof of those with a pick axe and break the windscreens and window glass (believe it or not some times the pick axe bounced off) next, it was time to get a pipe into the petrol tank and syphon out any remaining fuel in the tank. Before utilising said fuel it was fun to get a stick with a lit rag on the end of it and ensure that the tank had no residual fumes, this was the prescribed method of producing an instantaneous 30ft flame after placeing lit rag against open fuel filler entrance. Using whatever fuel was obtained it was splashed over the cars interior and set alight chucking a few old tyres inside for good measure, consequently it burnt fairly vigourously. My reason for being a vandal? Dad was a scrap merchant and the difference in price between light and heavy steel scrap was 50% in favour of the heavy stuff, and of course my pocket mony went up. I'm 75 now but I believe my experience was priceless. If the restoration doesent go to plan feel free to contact me😁
Hi its got a 1125cc engine with 21 bhp and 55 mph , they did sports tourer with the same 1125 cc engine but with 30 bhp which would do 65 mph, best of luck with the build 😊😊😊😊
Being from over the ocean area, you and Mr H both have wonderful mannerisms and that is one perfectly good reason to watch, besides I knew Jack Squat about how damn cramped inside a tank was! I've definitely learned an awful lot about the people and life from those across the pond! Great video.
The product placement for the Revopoint scanner was handled brilliantly; Scott’s explanation was so clear and accessible that even a layman like me could fully appreciate the technology. Fantastic work, Scott!
You are an excellent presenter. It's fun to follow the story.
Glad you're not doing anything overly mental with it, but still excited to see what performance it gains, and how, it's a fun little thing.
An absolute tour de force, Scott shines in this production. The information flows whilst he keeps ones attention throughout.
well done Scott, i'm always up for a bit of restoration, i like to think older vehicles deserve some respectful resto work, without complete bastardisation, and if parts are so past their best AND as you rightly added are simply no longer suited to our road conditions today, then some respectful modernisation is not a bad thing its a little like house restoration, you have to remove rotten structural timbers and replace with new, (but you are not supposed to tamper with it to make if look old) its all part of the history and needs to be seen in the future and be obviously visible really nice to see you making good use of modern technolgy to restore something so old, love a bit of 3d modelling, i must get back into it great video Scott and your looking good
Brilliant approach. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
That is a seriously nice bit of kit!
The Austin 7 engine was used in the early days of the 750 Club racing, which had a serious limit on the engine capacity at 750cc (I think that's where the club name came from), and guess what the Austin 7 fitted that quite nicely. However the Austin 10 engine was just a bit too big at about 1125cc. Using an Austin 10 engine in a 750 Club racer was considered cheating!!
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Now that was super interesting and well explained 👍
I have to say that I applaud this approach you have of using modern techniques and technology to improve the day to day use and longevity of aging vehicles. You did it with the Scammell, the RR Meteor engine and I've no doubt you'll do the same with this project. It is what needs to be done to preserve these vehicles and keep them going for another 90 years.
I think you have the right balance with this one, useful improvements without going crazy..
I love the little engine complete with it's Austin Badge
Scot - I have some almost brand new morris minor drums / back plates and shoes / cylinders you can have
That's just brilliant. This is how we keep heritage vehicles and engineering alive for future generations.
Love it Scott, looking forward to this 😊