Finally Painting the McLaren 720s Arctic White - Episode 23

so that's how easy it is guys to swap out an airbag on a 300 000 mclaren oh turned on everything went pretty smoothly and it lined up pretty good comparing that it is an aftermarket windshield [Music] [Music] what's going on guys welcome back to the channel in today's video we're going to be back to work on our mclaren 720s but before we get started today's video is sponsored by raycon so i'm happy raycon is actually sponsoring today's episode because i've been using them for quite a while and i absolutely love them i've been using raycon earbuds for the past couple of months and absolutely loving the design of them the compactness of them is absolutely amazing and they sound really good compared to any of the other ones on the market so here's everything that comes in the raycon box i went ahead and went with the blue ones which absolutely love the color of them and the feel of this actually feels really premium and compact love the design and the cool thing is this little wireless 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a super exciting episode we're finally gonna be painting this car we did have a couple of setbacks like in our paint booth both of our motors went out the intake and exhaust fans went out so we had to get new motors we also went ahead and got all new filters for the top and bottom so everything is ready to go over there and on the mclaren as you guys seen in the previous episode we went ahead and installed the front windshield we installed the airbag right here interior is pretty much done and we the car does smoke a little bit and we did actually hit up some guys on instagram and he actually said it's probably our pcv valve it's a little valve back there and it's leaking a little bit of oil and i guess it's causing it to get into the pistons and that's why it's burning oil we're gonna get a new one of those ordered up they gotta come all the way from the uk but that's all good because we got all the panels nice and sanded smooth it out everything is ready to go about a week or two ago we did also order some more parts from the mclaren dealership i actually went ahead and ordered this side skirt right here and the crazy thing from the dealer was like 270 dollars and i was looking on ebay and they were like 1800 for a little piece of plastic and i called the dealership got that on order we also went ahead and ordered this front tub section right here we got the windshield cowl so we have a lot of parts we have to go to the dealership here soon and go pick them up so before we head down to the dealership i actually want to go ahead and start prepping the mclaren doors and we're actually going to go ahead and paint these doors first as you can see all it is is just this little section right here and then there's the lower section right there and let's see if we get the door panel right here it simply just slides on just like that and everything pretty much has to be painted separately there's no way to paint everything together so i really want to get that painted in before we do anything because there's a lot of pieces there's freaking there's one door panel there's about three pieces to each door and there's just not enough room in the paint booth to paint everything together and i think if we paint that there's not going to be no paint differences because it's just such a small area and you can barely see it go ahead and get both of the doors into the paint booth and get them prepped up before we head to the [Music] dealership so we got all the parts in the paint booth now pretty much all i have to do is go ahead and tape this area off right here and as you can see mclaren they really did not like to tape it properly they just taped it up however uh so pretty much all we need to do is take this area off right here and get both doors sprayed in and the back of the hood then we can put these doors back on [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so paul went ahead and slicked in the doors and the back of the hood everything turned out super perfect now what we're gonna do is head to atlanta and pick up those last pieces that we need for the mclaren so we just pulled out the shop atlanta's around two hours away so we'll catch you guys there [Music] wow [Music] so i just came out of the parks department and they told me to pull around and go to load up all these parts we pretty much have everything loaded up in the back and gladly everything fit up we got the windshield towel the window the side skirt a lot of the other smaller pieces that we need and as when we were putting up all the parts i did talk with one of the service techs in there and he told me it could possibly be the pcv valve is why it's smoking but we're just going to replace that and probably dig a little deeper and if we can't fix the problem we'll probably just bring it here they got all the right computers everything to hook it up and see exactly what's wrong with the car we did see a lot of 720 s's today there was a green one a gold one just like the one that i had it's actually inside the showroom pretty cool color but obviously there's not a single white one here and i think white's just gonna look freaking sick we already got the door panels painted and it's already looking awesome and we did see another orange one inside the shop and i think black white is just gonna look the best let's head back to the shop and get the rest of those body panels painted in [Music] all right let's hit the road [Music] so it's the next day here at the shop we got back from the dealership pretty late yesterday so we didn't really film anything else but we pretty much got the air intake right here ours was busted up pretty bad and this is the main component that we were actually missing and this is the last piece we needed to get this entire car all painted and then we went ahead and slapped on this door right here as you can see it's all bolted on and the white paint job looks stunning paul did an amazing job on that and we also went ahead and threw the window in so pretty much this door is almost ready to go and now what we're going to do is go ahead and start putting all these other parts in the paint booth prepping everything and getting them all sprayed in so we got all the mclaren parts in the paint booth we kind of have to set them up pretty pretty weird we got all the door panels over there we have the fenders and the doors kind of together because they are going to be on the car together so we put them next to each other so they get the exact amount of paint on them and a big shout out to car quest every time we paint any cars they always hook us up with all the materials we need so we got some less snow universal clear and then we have also our partner right here which is going to give us a really nice paint job if you guys are ever looking for some paint supply make sure you hit up car quests that give really good deals and then everything you need to paint a car or fix the car right now what we're going to do is go ahead and wax and grease through all the body panels and then we'll go ahead and tack everything and then paul will come in here and spray all the [Music] parts [Music] [Applause] guys all the parts are nice and prepped set up in the booth we went ahead and cleaned everything super good and we'll go ahead and let paul v tune do his magic what's up guys my name is paul i'm actually ben's older brother and we're getting ready to spray his mclaren the day has finally come so what we're going to start with ben has already got everything prepped and cleaned in the paint booth we're going to start with the sealer the sealer is a white base so it'll help everything even out and everything match perfectly as this car is getting painted in different panels let's get started [Music] so [Music] all right guys we got our coat of sealer down it created a nice good white base for us to put our next coat down which is the actual base coat it'll help us create an even finish between all the different panels because they're all painted separately and sometimes if you have slight different variations in the underlayment then maybe the color won't match so this makes it a guarantee that when we spray down our sickens base coat all these panels will be an identical color all right let's head to our mixing room to mix up our base coat and get the spraying [Music] all right guys so our sealer is pretty much dry before we go ahead and spray our base coat we're going to go ahead and tack it make sure there's no small piece of trash here and there and then we'll be spraying two coats of our second space coat [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] boy [Music] all right guys we got both coats of our base coat down and i got to tell you this stuff laid down so flat that makes a huge difference to how your clear coat looks so if your base coat is a little bit lumpy you're going to get some of that orange peel that protrudes i guess gets magnified into the clear coat and also we've got no trash in any of this stuff we recently replaced all our filters and this being a white color you got to be really careful in some colors you can get away with small specks here and there you won't see them but being white it's amazing that we don't have any pieces of trash anywhere in any of the panels we're getting ready to throw down our clear let's get started i am [Music] [Music] two [Music] thank you so there it is guys all the parts are painted on the mclaren paul did an amazing job on the paint job this was a really tough paint job especially with all these curves and corners and just because there's so much different pieces in here but everything turned out amazing so there it is guys we pretty much have the entire car painted the only thing we haven't painted yet was the front and rear bumpers we just did not have enough room in the paint booth to fit everything in there as you guys seen it was already really cluttered and it'd be really easy to move in and knock something over so that's why we didn't paint it we'll go ahead and paint that in the next episode and hopefully everything will be dry we can go ahead and put the entire doors together we can put the quarter panels on the fenders and man this car is coming along the next episode guys we'll go ahead and paint both front and rear bumper and we'll go ahead and paint this spoiler and then we can go ahead and start assembling it we can put both quarter panels on put the entire door together put the fenders on put the hood on and this thing is gonna be pretty much almost done after that and we're gonna take it to mclaren atlanta get them to service it we need to actually bleed all the brakes or not the brake system it's actually the hydraulics for the shock as you guys remember we did take all the hydraulic lines off so we will have to get all that programmed and we'll also have to clear all the codes on the dash because you can't really get a mclaren scanner i've seen one they're like five six thousand dollars for one car and that's honestly it's too much so we'll probably just take it to the dealership and have them do everything so that's gonna be a wrap for today's episode we got a lot of work done on the mclaren and this thing is coming along hopefully in the next couple of weeks we'll have this thing completely done but if you enjoyed today's episode go ahead and hit that subscribe button drop a like also follow us on instagram be tuned and if you want to support the channel head over to vtune.com thanks for watching [Music] hey we might have some reports for you in here let's go grab one of those uh grab one of those shocks right quick huh

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Length: 20min 7sec (1207 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 21 2021