Hacking the Lamborghini Air Lift System, Building Reservoirs, & Testing Electric Water Pumps!

what's up guys welcome back to another episode of beers for building in today's episode it's another oscar fabricating marathon so I know you guys are gonna love it earlier today Oscar and I went off and designed the reservoirs for the different cooling systems and in today's episode oscar is going to be building the reservoir for the air to water intercooler for the main radiator system and for the turbo cooler so it's gonna be a lot of really cool building stuff and we're gonna explain to you guys kind of how we designed it he's gonna build it out and we'll show you how it works it's gonna be a good one stay tuned before we get down to work I want to take a second out to thank our sponsor today's episode is sponsored by the mobile game rise of Kingdom rising kingdoms is a mobile MMO RTS game inspired by eleven different civilizations and real historical characters and buildings and military from places like China and Korea and Japan and Rome I chose Japan because I like their cars 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rising kingdoms in response to this episode now let's get down to work alright due to not having the the right supplies in the shop we're not gonna get started on the most important reservoir which is the engine reservoir that goes in the center over there we're gonna get started on the heat exchanger reservoir when we designed something pretty trick for this alright so if you didn't guess I'm pointing the camera in this area because that's where we're building the reservoir so our this reservoir the first one we're getting started on is for the air to water intercooler so we have a heat exchanger over here and heat exchanger over here air to water intercooler goes right about here and you have to water through the whole system but also for drag racing's sometimes you want to be able to cycle chilled water just straight through your air to water intercooler without using the heat exchangers so we're keeping that in mind what we're gonna be doing is building a box that kind of is about starts from the height down here comes around here triangulates this and then it also is going to have some offshoot fins that go over to here to block tire debris and other stuff outside the car also just more aluminum is good at all acts kind of as heat sink and helps cool thing down and stuff like that but also what the top of it will be is kind of a tray so we can fill it with dry ice if we want to like super chill our water that goes through our intercooler at least that's the idea so Oscar is going to go ahead and use some you know computer weight cardboard aided drafting and get to drafting up a mock-up of this thing and then we'll start cutting aluminum [Music] foscar wrapped up his cardboard aided drafting so this is the most of the sides of what is going to be our reservoir and then from there we're going to build some some stuff to hold the dry ice and some other stuff like that but this is this is the starting piece so we've got this massive piece of aluminum over here from metal supermarkets and then we're also utilizing a thicker piece on top because we heard that dries just want to crack the aluminum so we're gonna use a nice thick piece on top and go ahead and get those all cut out and tacked up [Music] [Music] och you're finished up stage one of the air to water reservoir so this thing's pretty badass it fits right here kind of goes down here it's gonna mount over here and mount right there and you guys may be wondering what this shelf is for we are indeed going to stack dry ice in here so we're gonna build some sort of like a hatch or a lid or something so it doesn't fly out when we're drag racing but for drag racing and dynoing we can stack this thing full of dry ice now it's made out of all aluminum because aluminum is really good at distributing hot or cold temperature changes basically aluminum is great at that so if you stack a bunch of dry ice right here it's gonna get distributed through the whole thing this whole thing will become very very cold and then make the water inside a very cold which is really good for our air to water intercooler because then it brings down our air temps going into the engine very very well and that actually is a huge horsepower boost for you guys that I don't know bringing down the air temperatures in your engine is really really big horsepower gains so the next thing that we're gonna do is we need to weld on a dash twelve bung so we can you know plumb this thing to our system and then we need to weld in one of our mission modo radiator filler caps so we have a way to put water in it and relieve pressure [Music] all right we turned out we didn't have a bung we're out of bung so we're gonna have to buy another one for the bottom of this thing but we got the side cap that's where we're gonna kind of fill this thing up from that's installed and Oscar went ahead and built a nice little kind of ledge there that's gonna bolt into the car there he's gonna trim that up we're gonna add one more tab on the bottom corner right there and then another one up there and then not right now but later on we've actually decided we're gonna cut this top part off because what happened was is when aluminum gets really hot when you're welding it tends to want to warp so it's warping all over the place on Oscar so we've actually come up with an alternate idea that is gonna look I think better and have like stronger edges and it won't warp on him when he's welding it so we're gonna oh you know what we could stitch we'll bet - so it won't be is okay anyways we'll show you guys that one we jump into that but for now we kind of want to get this wrapped up so we can move on so he's gonna go ahead and do the tabs finish that mounting bracket over there and then that thing's done for now [Music] all right Oscar just wrapped up the the tabs here and here that make this thing super super strong when it's mounted in here and we don't have the metal yet to work on the top of that so we'll worry about that later so the next thing is our main engine reservoir that's a piece that we decided we're gonna build out mainly 3 by 2 square rail that goes right underneath that rear window area right here it's gonna run across and it's actually gonna come up over here to kind of cover up some of the char marks but also get us a really nice high point where we can also have water in there as well help prevent sloshing around and stuff so it's a big big piece that we got to build it's pretty intricate also we're gonna go ahead and get started now it goes straight across that way and then it's actually going to slant in and then it's also got a slant up and now that way a lot a lot of different angles and stuff on this one [Music] [Music] offs we've got the main tube set up now he drilled some holes to use the stock Lamborghini studs right there cameras having a tough time focusing on this stuff but you can see so that's the stock Lamborghini stud location right there and right there so that's where we're going to be bolting up and then you can see the template on the back there that is one of the first like kind of what's that a trapezoidal shape I'm not really sure but anyways we're gonna make a piece that looks like that another piece that goes in front of it that connects up with that and then sides and the top cap it all off so it's going to be like there's a section there and a section there and then the rest of that and that all makes one big reservoir so if we come over here you can see what Oscar is about to cut out a bunch of these shapes that's how it makes that little box [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I want to give you guys a status update on what Oscars been working on so he's got the the holes that go through the center of the thing so we used some tubing and it's got a backing to hold on to the screw so if we flip this over you could see that there's a much larger piece of tube inside here it's nice and it's connected up to the whole thing now we're building these end caps that come off of here for instance Oscar's got this piece and then they they sit back to hug the car and Oscar had this really good idea to just instead of I was imagining hollowing this whole thing out we're just gonna drill one hole that way when we fill this area up it'll fill this whole section up and I'll prevent sloshing very very well so as a really good idea so now oscar is going to go ahead and start welding on the caps here and then he can start creating the boxes to box this you know kind of pyramid shape box it in [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right Oscar just finished welding in that bunk so that besides until we get our filler necks that finalizes this piece so it's time to start looking at plumbing so next thing else we're gonna do is build a bracket for our water pump so we can mount the water pump in there I'm gonna help them we're gonna do some of the fittings around and then we'll start looking at how we can run the hoses through the system and start getting them back through the tunnel to the back of the car to meet up with our reservoir [Music] [Music] Oscar's got a great job with progressing on this so he's got his his this is so this is our electric water pump right here it's like very very heavy duty pretty insane this was actually provided to us by ETS extreme turbo systems so huge shout-out to those guys thanks for that this is the one that we're using for our engine obviously because attach to all our radiators right here so Oscar built some supports into that plate that he built and then he started doing the plumbing of the actual hoses so that hosing goes into there comes out there now some people did comment they're like man your fluids are just gonna like they're gonna take the path of least resistance this is a dual pass radiator given to us by Mishimoto so the fluid has to go to this end then it will go up then it'll go back down through here through here through there and then back and what we just realized is so we have the heater core hoses and we know we needed to tap into these we have one hot and one cold well he just realizes it is the the rubber it's the same size rubber as the - 12 rubber that's inside all of our lines so it's not steel braided but that should still be totally okay for a system like this so we're gonna actually attach some - 12 fittings onto the back of these and convert them into a n and then we have our T's that are right grab one right here before they head back so that's how it tees into the cooler systems so yes this car will have a heater eventually it will also have air conditioning we got that all planned out but we're making that a low priority before SEMA so I was going to go ahead and tee into those two things and lift the car and then do a shoot all the way back towards the engine area [Music] hi guys we have to take a little timeout and Oscar brought up a really good point which is the place where we have our electronic water pump up here and stuff like that there is a possibility that if there are no check valves or one-way valves inside the HVAC system for this car that because there's so the water is going to flow with the passively path of least resistance give or take a little bit because also water likes to draw the hot water wants to go towards the cold water cold water wants to go towards hot water so you got to you know give a little cushioning for that little tidbit of science there but anyways knowing that what could happen is if there isn't a check valve on the return line the water could just get pushed in a circle so essentially it it would pull from inside the heater core go into our pump through the radiators and then instead of going back it would use the tea to go up and into the heater core again completing the circle and it would just go in a circle up here that would be very bad we wouldn't cool our engine so we need to have a little fun and do a little Lamborghini science experiment and we got to double check and make sure that our heater core here our HVAC system for the Lamborghini has well it's not really HVAC I think it's just a here core has like a check valve or a one-way valve and make sure that one of these lines cannot let water go back up into it so we're gonna go ahead and fill a tub full of water we're gonna hook up one of our electric water pump so we're gonna run a little bit of temporary plumbing to it we're gonna hit a button and just see what happens [Music] okay sorry science experiment definitely showed us what we didn't want to have happen there is no check valve in the heater core so the water can freely just do a loop through the heater core and not go back to the engine which is really bad so we're going to go ahead and order a check valve for our lines and then we'll work with the heater core some more but you can see what we did was we just capped the lines off real quick put some temporary caps on there and got rid of the heater core and I'm running the test now just by hand throw our water pump on and you can see our water is flowing out so we know that I mean worst case scenario if we can't get the hill heater core system to work we're just gonna go to SEMA without a heater it's not that big of a deal but I would like to have it working so I'm gonna order that check valve and we'll keep working on that type of stuff all right so Oscar and I got to talking after we were testing out you know our flow and saw the amount of water that we had flowing through the system and kind of the placement of things and the problem that we were having with our with our loop we got to do in some diagramming and stuff like that and we figured out you know one of the main issues that we have is that our pump is kind of in the wrong area in relation to this this cross so the pump kind of tees in the wrong spot and we'd like to change that so we're actually gonna you could fix this with hoses but then our hoses would have a little bit of extra looping in them we don't need to so we're actually just gonna go ahead and move the pump so oscar is gonna go ahead and actually detach that kind of cut those welds from there and we're going to move the pump under into our tunnel area and catch the water as it's coming from the engine we're gonna catch it right there and then we're gonna pump through the heater core and the rest of this stuff and then we're gonna bring it back and we've decided we're actually gonna add another pump which we'll show you a little bit later we're gonna add another pump in the back because I've talked to some experts that do this type of water cooling with mid engine and rear engine cars Porsches in particular and they said you know you might get away with one pump but two pumps is gonna be better so I figured you know what that they're a lot quieter than I expected it to be so we're just gonna go ahead and use two pumps on this for the main engine cooling system so Oscar's gonna go ahead and lift the car up and find some real estate for that pump and relocate it [Music] all right Oscar did a great job of relocating the water pump and it's down there now and we change the kind of the pump flow pattern in which we talked about earlier it's in the spot kind of now where the front differential would be if we had all-wheel-drive so it's kind of cool way of using up some of that unused space and then we got our two heater core hoses plumb back into the system and then the system kind of all adjusted now for the different like flow pattern so now I'm gonna do something we should have done before we did all this work in the front here which is tidy up the cabling and then I'm gonna try and hack the airlift system [Music] all right so you can see I'm starting to get some of the wires kind of tidied back up and reinstalled with the stock Lamborghini Huracan kind of main power distribution block this is a pretty little cool thing it's got all the built in fuse connections and stuff like that before we were just using like a piece of metal that's on the ground we got this off of the wrecked Huracan that the Mullins guys had over in Saint Louis so shout out to Mullins I'm gonna put a link in the description to their website thanks for hooking us up with this the way that this works is pretty cool so all of these things you can see this is the main power look this plugs into the battery runs over here bolts into this distribution plate everything is fused here and as long as that fuse doesn't blow then power goes to all of these things in the car all the time there's another lug over here that goes to some to power some different stuff like the starter and stuff like that I think it might actually be more injector Lee something that kind of immobilizes the car and it's bridged by this little guy that's part of the SRS system so this guy if the car thinks it's in an accident is going to not make the connection between its two prongs and then you won't have power sent across you won't have power out to that cable so we don't have this though so we need to bypass it so I'm going to go ahead and go cut a piece of metal it's exactly this size with those holes in it and we're going to bolt it in across here that way we can actually I might be able to save myself some time and just bolt directly to this yep piece for build we're not in the business of building stuff we don't need to so I'm just gonna go ahead and bolt this main power cable that probably oh this actually sends our power now to the back to our engine so we definitely need this this main power cable is going to go right there and be bolted in there [Music] all right I got all the wires it's cleaned up as we can I can't really start bolting stuff down and fascinating down because we still have to do a full weld on a lot of this stuff so the while wires need to be a little bit more mobile hence why we have some flying around there so I want to continue but I kind of had a stopping point I need the right battery so we've been using the wrong battery just something we found around on the shop but now we have the right lamborghini battery connections I need to get a battery that's the same size as a lamborghini battery I'm gonna run the store real quick I got a battery got it in here if it looks a little cramped don't worry that is exactly how they look in a stock Lamborghini trust me I check mine to get the measurements for the battery so this batteries the same dimensions as a stock lamborghini battery so our hot leads gonna come in right here and now I need to mount our ground so our ground is probably going to mount down to here I think that would be a good spot nice spot that I can drill through and put a nut and a bolt through then go onto here and then I'm gonna be able to run this cable right here that goes into like some sort of loop weird Lamborghini smart charging thing that I don't know what it is but it's best to plug in all the stuff that we can so that will be that and that and then I could start hacking into the air ride system [Music] okay with my awesome detective skills and a lot of stuff that I learned yesterday while I was waiting to get a fitting I have figured out a few things these are the wires to go to the pump these are some of the wires that control some of the actuators pump pumps air through here out here into the pump tank which holds the PSI so the way that this works is the Lamborghini computer normally turns on the pump tells it to pump that up when the tank reaches a certain psi it says I'm there because it has a pressure sensor in it and it turns the pump off then when you hit the air left it sends the pressure from the pump back up the right and left into the right and left shock now here's the reason we can't do that the lamborghini system is really mad because of all the other stuff we're missing so it will never turn on if we were to pressurize a reservoir tank on our own we would never know the pressure of it unless we install the gauge and did a bunch of stuff that frankly I don't want to do if you over pressurize it it would make a bomb so that doesn't sound like a good idea so here's the thing that I came up with I'm gonna wire a switch to turn on the pump we're gonna go from the pump then we're gonna tee out of this line right here we're gonna t go from here we're gonna connect into this red line here so straight out of the pump no reservoir into the air suspension here and here that'll lift the car up so when I'm inside the car I'm gonna hit a switch it's gonna lift the car up I'll feel it lift up when it's up all the way I'll turn the pump off and then I'm gonna build another switch that will power the pump release which used to be this is where it gets complicated ground left air out right air out that actually used to be that's these two things right here that actually used to be the switch where you'd say hey err me up it would it would take the reservoir the reservoir over here that was like highly charged with air it would shoot there back in through here and up here and up here and then it would charge those two things instead we're going to use those as a way to exhaust the air out of the system mentioned I bet I lost you guys there but I hacked it I figured it out guys we're using the thing that it thought would lift it up to bring it back down and the way it lifts it up is the thing that it used to think is stored high pressured air I'm gonna go ahead and wire in some switches and I'll show you how it works [Music] all right we have our little switch panel here that has a lot of positives too and it's very very close to the ground so I got to be very careful with it's gonna spark wired into our air pump suspension thing which is now teed into our whole thing so let's do this blue is to air up I'm going to flip the switch here we go car is on its way up look at it go there we go we've pretty much maxed that out okay so the car lifted up off the ground like a good amount a really good amount geez well that's good that's good no okay so then here I'm gonna set the camera up like steady all right steady and then I'm gonna hit the switch for down there pretty cool we're back down to the ground all the way down and hair back out so our little switch panel works oh that's still up I'm gonna shut down and do it again and sweet so if it's not obvious the game plan is I'm going to take that switch panel I'm going to run it into the interior where I can reach it from the driving position and the game plan is going to be that we're going to take this stock a Lamborghini suspension the springs we're gonna lower those springs down a little bit either by ordering a set of lowering springs which I'm not even sure if they exist or we might just take the cutoff wheel to these ones and we'll lower them down a little bit more so we can get that really really low you know stance that we're looking for for drag racing and highway driving and stuff like that and then for like kind of city driving around driveways and different things like that we'll go ahead and air up we'll hit the button air up the suspension and drive around like that that's the game plan all right guys with that that is a wrap thank you so much for watching remember head over to be is from build calm if you want to get some merch we got hoodies in the triple stack version the gravy is from Bill Black bees from Build and the Huracan phase one catch them before they're gone by the time we hit phase 2 the phase hoodies will be all gone and that's not just my ploy to sell more phase 1 hoodies because I realized I made hoodies in the middle of summer and that the build would be done by the time it was really winter and you know it could be a problem for stay warm protect your arms get yourself a hoodie thank you so much for watching I'll see you guys on the next one [Music]

Channel: B is for Build

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Keywords: acura, aston martin, audi, bentley, bmw, Buick, cadillac, chevrolet, dodge, ferrari, fiat, ford, gm, gmc, honda, hyundai, infinity, jaguar, jeep, kia, lamborghini, land rover, lexus, maserati, mazda, mclaren, mercedes, mini, mitsubishi, nissan, porsche, ram, rolls royce, subaru, tesla, toyota, volkswagen, volvo, b is for build, electric water pump, air lift, huracan

Id: LojLqt5hBHU

Length: 33min 31sec (2011 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 24 2019