Lee, looking forward to see John how he measures and grinds, polishes a crank. P.S. I to am the same age as John, old school but really excited to see a master at work. Dave Boscher, Guernsey, Channel Islands.

Poor old John having to teach whipper snapper Lee😂

I came here from Chops garage, enjoying the content. I’m learning more about engines through watching your vids, please keep explaining things for those who don’t know this stuff already 👍

Thank you lee for your background history. Very brave of you to reveal in such detail. Not often I comment but I felt compelled. I can see how you and John have hit it off. May success come your way. Top man.

Hi Lee john & Issac I'm a 63 year old Enginieer myself started out as a toolmaker currently work on m/c tools ,have built a few bike engines and few bits on cars , love the channel started my school in the time when metric was being introduced so can work in metric and in Imperial question is how did Issac take to the old measurments being a young metric lad ?

Nice to hear about your background - Got to add that it is good to see you so much better in yourself (as the expression goes) in your presentations / vids. It suggests that all is very good for you lately, and hope it continues. Looking forward to seeing the crank grind video.

Great interesting vid, thanks Lee, with the elusive John, but he did make an appearance last week, i do hope you and Issac, are gleening every single ounce out of johns head re crankshaft grinding and the like, as you can not just read up on what he knows,

Good on you. You can learn anything if you are interested and want to learn. It doesn't matter what papers you have, it is what you can do that counts.

Love the channel, we restore and keep 80s vauxhall/opels on the road and have just sent a c20xe coscast head and a flywheel for same engine down to lee for new guides and general overhaul, lee u did mention the history of the business once before maybe a year back, brilliant to have a dedicated engine channel on you tube...

Thanks for explaining the journey so far. Have a great weekend.

Another great Vlog keep up the good work

Love the back story Lee...we all started somewhere and your story was just so good to hear. Isaac is doing so well with that Subie...should be a great motor. Can't wait to see the work on that high power Cossie! Cheers...

Great one guys . And yes I enjoyed John's input too

Really enjoyed this video. Nice to know the history

40 years ago I had a girlfriend who took meet a milkman who had a Ferrari, he could see my interest and gave me two boxes of back issues of Car and Car Conversions and that was the beginning of my automotive education, I’ve been in the trade ever since and it’s taken me all over the world. Enthusiasm leads to education, kick on!

Thank you very much for the explanation of Barum Engines’ history and John’s role as well as your own… Very explainatory and interesting!! Greetings;enjoy the weekend to all of you!!

Fairly new to your channel, am enjoying all the content. I do like hearing about how you all met and the history of the place.

Loved to hear the history. That stuff is always interesting.

Nice to hear your history. I'm looking forward to hearing from John, there's no substitute for experience.

Hi lee recently come across your channel and have binged watched most of your vids but this vid is by far my favourite and the one i relate to the most as i started in motor tade same era and was luckily enought to have a older guru ie john to show me the propper ways.love the channel mate

Very interesting history telling how you got into engines, life has so many different twists and turns. Thanks for another cracking video and content.

Thanks Lee nice bit of history

Good work lee

Liked this one. Thanks.

Very interesting video. When people are happy at work you are happy going to work. That happiness comes through on the videos and also the respect for each other.

The new workshop has taken you to the next level, must be easier on the eye for rebuilds now. John has taken a step back but the top knowledge he has invaluable (more John would be good) and you know Lee, running a business, paper work is immense, i know constant invoicing, keeping on top of paper work. Things turn south very Quickly. As for how good your Business has become its all down to you putting the hrs in and taking the risk and turning up even when you might not want to.

It sounds like a great history, and it's the John's of the world that give the young lads a sense of direction.

Cheers Lee looking forward to see how the pros do a crank

Nice to hear the history of the firm .

Fabulous history very motivating for young people.

I bet those K series engines kept you busy!

Nice to hear the genesis of Barum. Cant wait to receive my pallet !

Interesting history Lee.

That Cossie sounds like Triggers broom.

I love how casual you say " i worked like that for a few years and then bought the business" like it so simple

My first job, was pet food, and hide shed,and skin shed ,in the meat works, at 15 year's old,during the school holidays, then,at 21 year's, went to work,in a tyer factory, until 28,then,did my mechanic apprenticeship, here in Australia, find your chanle very informative, thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones

My eyes started jumping around midway through - then I realised Lee isn't using the gimbal! Bring it back! 😅

Give it 5 years or so and Issac will be buying out John and he'll be pushing the Subaru work just as you did with the Cosworth stuff.

OMG... Sod the engineering... You understand SAGE?!! Total respect!

Good 👍

When you next get round to doing a questions and answer session can you outline how much in ballpark terms it costs to have an engine refurbished. For instance, is it feasible for a non-competition/non-classic car to have the full service?

Where i live in Portsmouth there’s a company ( i think it’s still going ) called Banda Engineering that builds engines, skimmed heads, grinds cranks and that owner is call John. He also daily drives a Lotus Cortina 👌

Utterly fascinating stuff Lee, good on you and the team! Been thinking…whilst no doubt your specialist work will live on for many years, any thoughts about the EV revolution? Will ICE engines still be around beyond 2050?

Please explain the difference between standard and competition bearings, is it just the tolerance and material?

I was going to celebrate, but then the door to the machine shop was still open.

Poor old Isaac looked a bit thrown when you rocked up with the camera. Nice video though fellas, thanks.

And a lot of people would for convenience just buy a low mileage second hand engine and change them out than have to wait weeks and weeks to have theirs rebuilt.

Bet john is proud to see Lee become John and teach Isaac, the apprentice has become the new master and a new apprentice is growing. That's how it should be, the apprentice wants to outshine the master, that's growth and that's how the master is rewarded. There is growth and it happens when the conditions are there, someone who can and wants to be a teacher, someone who wants and has the capacity to learn and a place where there is room for more growth where those who want to learn can flourish. Barum Engines is clearly such a place. Every now and then someone is a guy like Lee, brave enough to go for it and take things to a new level. And Isaac seems to be a perfect fit at Barum Engines, young eager and smart enough to learn and brave enough to go for it. John created Dave's successor, perhaps Lee is now creating John's successor?

I thought i recognised you from whiddon valley engineering. You had the S1 rs turbo with 215hp. I worked in the lathe shop there.

An issue with Isaac torqing down the big ends was he torqued one side down fully first before bringing both sides down equally to below torque setting, then torqing.

Ref torque wrench calibration just by a digital torque analyser bolt it to the wall. Send it away once a year for calibration far easier

Where in Coventry were you from Lee? I’m from the Coventry area myself.

Have you done any of the 2.9 Cosworth engines?

If a torque wrench was only supposed to go one way they wouldn't have a direction lever on it, I do have an old norbar torque wrench that doesn't have a direction change lever on it, it only torques up right hand threaded bolts and what about if you had a bolt or nut with a left hand thread that needs torquing up do you have to buy a specific torque wrench for that.

Reminds me when i started worked with 2 brothers i was working with 50 /52 old Men too me ,i was 16 How things change, Now in my Job at 63 im the Old Guy Now😂 And 10 Year's Older than Them How Things Change 😂

New core plugs, oooooooh, big dollar rebuild then

You should try time sert instead of helicoi Leel. They are much stronger.

When will be hearing John's special running.

Interesting observation... Possibly... Do most engineers have blue eyes?

Praise where praise is due - regardless of johns initial reaction to you, you clearly showed enough to convince him you were worth the time investment in training up. Or believe me he’d of quickly found or ‘engineered’ something to see you on your way. Especially in your game, there’s no fake it til you make it so he must of been fairly sure he could work with you and train you up to a level he could trust. Don’t sell yourself short, you may not of been clued up about engines but your skills were already there and honed to an extent and you engineers have a great ability to learn and develop quickly. How’s the training going - you haven’t mentioned the gym much (or I’ve missed it) still eating good and feeling the mental health benefits? Can’t be easy with work & family to find the time and motivation to keep going.

Undoing a fastener requires more torque than the torque it was tightened to due to the static friction of the fastener

Receptionist? I thought John was the receptionist? He doesn't have the legs for it but he can make a good brew! How many long weights, tins of elbow grease and left handed hammers were you sent for during your apprenticeship? 🤣

I started subscribing when good old chops suggested it. Been here ever since watching you grow.

Where does the name Barum come from?

Doesn't tapping on the big end bolts to loosen the cap crush the plastigauge more and give a false reading?

Issac, how old were you when you saw your first inlet valve?

Nice to hear your history. I've got a feeling unless something drastic changes you're going to be the old guy selling Isaac part of the business one day, they always say history seems to repeat and some already has by the sounds of it . Johns probably like the old guy that use to rebuild injector pumps for me, He was about 80 and still running his business doing a lot of old school pump/injector work. He finished work one Friday with his finish it Monday jobs list. went home to go hunting over the weekend, Monday and retirement never came sadly he died over that weekend. Now we've only got 1 other guy will do that old school stuff and he's only a few years younger with his own business. It's not looking good in the very near future as the other local pump shops not interested in anything more than 20 years old. He's also not well liked locally with his ignorant attitude, before he even knows what you want walking in the door . Take care guys.

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Hi i liked your comment about John not liking new starters im a year older than him and over the years i had to train many young guys. Some of them where great and were a pleasure to work with but some terrible slowing you down and not listening to you and they always new best. Isaac seems to me to be a real diamond and i hope he sticks around. I've noticed in these comments a few whinging about your health and safety procedures, these things drove me to retire a little earlier than my bosses wanted me to but we were working with large multi national companies who came to our workshop telling us how we should work then didn't want to pay the price for these processes. Keep on doing what you do and deliver the great content 👌

Been a mechanic for over 20 years. there’s little point rebuilding an engine these days when you can get an engine from a breakers yard

The whole of life is a learning curve. I knew nothing about women until I got stuck in.

Sorry forgot to ask Lee, Who was the BSB team you used work for!!

None of us are born with knowledge.

So you're a Coventry kid? Hope you're still eating batches, not rolls or baps!

An apprenticeship at Parker Hannifin, why do you choose to ignore what you were taught? Wearing safety glasses, operating equipment with loose clothing, not wearing safety boots , using an end mill in a drill chuck, facing a flywheel with the wrong jaws , using an external lathe tool to perform a boring operation. The list is endless, why ignore all this information that you would have been taught?