Mat armstrong

[PinkHouse]

Venisonpie said:

Wacky Racer said:

Binge watched most of Mat's videos over the last few days.

What an amazing positive bloke, I'll have some of what he's on.

I agree, he's always looking for positives and solutions. That Mclaren would have me scurrying to the pub pronto but he's walking the walk with it.

It's easy to be positive when you've already got every solution planned, mapped-out and secured before even the first video in a particular series gets filmed, edited and released. Listening to him talk through the business angle of his rebuilds on various podcasts, it's clear that he puts so much thought into selecting the project cars and planning out the rebuild and video schedule. The ups and downs are there for making a connection with the viewers and entertainment

[WPA]

PinkHouse said:

Venisonpie said:

Wacky Racer said:

Binge watched most of Mat's videos over the last few days.

What an amazing positive bloke, I'll have some of what he's on.

I agree, he's always looking for positives and solutions. That Mclaren would have me scurrying to the pub pronto but he's walking the walk with it.

It's easy to be positive when you've already got every solution planned, mapped-out and secured before even the first video in a particular series gets filmed, edited and released. Listening to him talk through the business angle of his rebuilds on various podcasts, it's clear that he puts so much thought into selecting the project cars and planning out the rebuild and video schedule. The ups and downs are there for making a connection with the viewers and entertainment

Exactly, he has the next 6 projects already purchased and no doubt parts are on order, hats off to him for the success he has made it however.

[Luke.]

Absolutely hats off to him. I think he made around £600k from raffling off the M5 recently. Minus whatever he spent on the build. But still, bloody impressive.

Edited by Luke. on Sunday 8th October 13:24

[Whistle]

He’s come a long way since fixing his girlfriend’s Audi tt on his drive.

Good on him.

[Register1]

The RS6 over in USA
Blew the engine with poor low octane petrol.
Now ripped out the RS6 lump, and dropped in the RS7engine.
In and out, in and out, OMG

[youngsyr]

Register1 said:

The RS6 over in USA
Blew the engine with poor low octane petrol.
Now ripped out the RS6 lump, and dropped in the RS7engine.
In and out, in and out, OMG

I doubt that's the full story. Modern cars have inbuilt mitigation for crap fuel - they'll essentially go into limp mode.

I suspect he either removed the knock control (unlikely) or it was something else.

[Pistom]

I really think his channel has enough content to justify this thread to be updated regularly.

He's got a real talent for creating interesting story lines.

I suspect he's also got good people around him.

I'm really enjoying his stuff, even if I'm cringing most of the way.

[dxg]

And one of these days, he might even paint a car rather than wrap it...

[Muzzer79]

youngsyr said:

Register1 said:

The RS6 over in USA
Blew the engine with poor low octane petrol.
Now ripped out the RS6 lump, and dropped in the RS7engine.
In and out, in and out, OMG

I doubt that's the full story. Modern cars have inbuilt mitigation for crap fuel - they'll essentially go into limp mode.

I suspect he either removed the knock control (unlikely) or it was something else.

If it was standard, I’d agree with you

But he tuned it, which I think makes the story feasible

I enjoy the channel - he has a good ‘way’ about him and you end up rooting for him to do well.

[limmy01]

Pistom said:

I really think his channel has enough content to justify this thread to be updated regularly.

He's got a real talent for creating interesting story lines.

I suspect he's also got good people around him.

I'm really enjoying his stuff, even if I'm cringing most of the way.

Loving the rs6 dramas, like how he shows all the headaches that most of us face when working on cars all bikes. The amount of times I have to re do something is frightening ! My spanner would of been launched a few times though

[youngsyr]

Muzzer79 said:

youngsyr said:

Register1 said:

The RS6 over in USA
Blew the engine with poor low octane petrol.
Now ripped out the RS6 lump, and dropped in the RS7engine.
In and out, in and out, OMG

I doubt that's the full story. Modern cars have inbuilt mitigation for crap fuel - they'll essentially go into limp mode.

I suspect he either removed the knock control (unlikely) or it was something else.

If it was standard, I’d agree with you

But he tuned it, which I think makes the story feasible

I enjoy the channel - he has a good ‘way’ about him and you end up rooting for him to do well.

That's not how it works - crap fuel kills cars by detonation, the standard "knock control" systems on modern cars don't care what mods you've done to the car, they are only listening for detonation and will reduce ignition timing and increase fueling (both will reduce available power) instantly before you can even detect any detonation.

Unless you've removed or tampered with the knock control, which would be a very silly thing to do.

Increasing the power of an engine beyond its capabilities will also kill an engine as there aren't any inbuilt controls to protect the engine internals from being overstressed, but that has nothing to do with crap fuel.

[Thats What She Said]

youngsyr said:

Register1 said:

The RS6 over in USA
Blew the engine with poor low octane petrol.
Now ripped out the RS6 lump, and dropped in the RS7engine.
In and out, in and out, OMG

I doubt that's the full story. Modern cars have inbuilt mitigation for crap fuel - they'll essentially go into limp mode.

I suspect he either removed the knock control (unlikely) or it was something else.

He said the car had been re-mapped for 99 RON fuel. Which is why he was so cross with himself for putting the lower octane stuff in when he filled up.

[youngsyr]

Thats What She Said said:

youngsyr said:

Register1 said:

The RS6 over in USA
Blew the engine with poor low octane petrol.
Now ripped out the RS6 lump, and dropped in the RS7engine.
In and out, in and out, OMG

I doubt that's the full story. Modern cars have inbuilt mitigation for crap fuel - they'll essentially go into limp mode.

I suspect he either removed the knock control (unlikely) or it was something else.

He said the car had been re-mapped for 99 RON fuel. Which is why he was so cross with himself for putting the lower octane stuff in when he filled up.

Still doesn't matter - the standard ECU is constantly listening for detonation, as soon as it senses any, it will pull timing and fuel, essentially putting the car into limp mode. It will keep doing that until the knock stops.

Putting lower octane fuel in is a stupid thing to do - because the car will run in limp mode, but the standard knock control will stop it killing the engine.

Much more likely that one of the components wasn't up to the power hike.

I've run multiple cars mapped for 99 RON fuel.

[Pistom]

Part of me struggles to decide how much of it is set up for content and the rest of me doesn't care.

It's TV so I think the assumption should be it's all just entertainment.

It's just incredible how interesting, ordinary people doing extraordinary stuff can be.

Then there comes a point when they stop being ordinary and have to start acting being ordinary.

[BlindedByTheLights]

I am a fan and have watched pretty much every video, but the rs6 situation does feel a bit staged to me, can’t put my finger on why though.

[Pistom]

BlindedByTheLights said:

I am a fan and have watched pretty much every video, but the rs6 situation does feel a bit staged to me, can’t put my finger on why though.

Probably because nobody would attempt what he's doing if they were just trying to fix a car.

And if they've done all that without external off camera help, they're very capable lads.

The same is true with a most of his other projects.

You'd need to be stupid enough to try it but capable enough to get it all working.

I think my earliest WTF moment was replacing the dashboard in the Aston.

Matt plays the part of being a complete bell end extremely convincingly and I love his work for it.

He's pulling off jobs no established celebrity ever could.

[WPA]

youngsyr said:

Thats What She Said said:

youngsyr said:

Register1 said:

The RS6 over in USA
Blew the engine with poor low octane petrol.
Now ripped out the RS6 lump, and dropped in the RS7engine.
In and out, in and out, OMG

I doubt that's the full story. Modern cars have inbuilt mitigation for crap fuel - they'll essentially go into limp mode.

I suspect he either removed the knock control (unlikely) or it was something else.

He said the car had been re-mapped for 99 RON fuel. Which is why he was so cross with himself for putting the lower octane stuff in when he filled up.

Still doesn't matter - the standard ECU is constantly listening for detonation, as soon as it senses any, it will pull timing and fuel, essentially putting the car into limp mode. It will keep doing that until the knock stops.

Putting lower octane fuel in is a stupid thing to do - because the car will run in limp mode, but the standard knock control will stop it killing the engine.

Much more likely that one of the components wasn't up to the power hike.

I've run multiple cars mapped for 99 RON fuel.

I suspect poor remap is closer to the truth but he would never admit it for obvious reasons.

The built it safety should have prevented damage.

Something does not add up.

[Pistom]

WPA said:

I suspect poor remap is closer to the truth but he would never admit it for obvious reasons.

The built it safety should have prevented damage.

Something does not add up.

Sorry for being stupid but why couldn't he admit to a poor remap?

[Register1]

Pistom said:

WPA said:

I suspect poor remap is closer to the truth but he would never admit it for obvious reasons.

The built it safety should have prevented damage.

Something does not add up.

Sorry for being stupid but why couldn't he admit to a poor remap?

Maybe he doesn't want to Name and Shame?

[WPA]

Register1 said:

Pistom said:

WPA said:

I suspect poor remap is closer to the truth but he would never admit it for obvious reasons.

The built it safety should have prevented damage.

Something does not add up.

Sorry for being stupid but why couldn't he admit to a poor remap?

Maybe he doesn't want to Name and Shame?

Plus the company involved is also his landlord.