Our First OVERSEAS Build🔥(Not What We Expected 😳)

Build Not Bought is going international and we're heading to Indonesia. That stands for bottom one. Front! Oh my gosh. That baan means front. You just do not get this in Australia. I'm going to be insane bro. Apparently, I don't know what that thing is inside the can. But he just went like... At least I live a longer life, not like you. Um... Amazingly built bit of machinery that is. Alright, 35 split knuckles tomorrow. Did we get a good sleep or what? Oh mate, we did, we did. What's going on? Oi, oi! Stop the car. We'll be late for the airport. Morning boys! Morning! Hello! Build Not Bought is going international and we're heading to Indonesia. And that's all I know actually. I have not a good feeling about this. We have no plans. Yet to see if we can leave the country. True, this is true. We have our passports. Mitch had to get a pass... Mitch has never left the country. This episode could be over in a matter of two minutes. The rest of the people on the trip have all been to Indo before. But, Mitch is first time so we're going to show him a good time. Find some tigers and cobras. And what are those hectic... Ah, ladyboys. No, no, no. Komodo dragons! Komodo dragons. That's what they are. Next stop, Indo. Alright. We have bloody landed in Dampasar, Bali. And this is just a stopover. We're heading to Java. I'll tell you more about what we're doing there. But, I've got to give a shout-out to Finance Hunting. It's pretty much they're the reason we're able to come here. But, Norm from Finance Hunting had one job to do. Which was to organise our taxi from the airport to our transit destination. And I'm a little bit worried because it might be a bloody tuk-tuk or something. So, we need to find him and see how we go. I don't know what he gets for us. I'm a bit worried. Oh, holy... Hmm. Run us through the seat, Michael. Yeah. I've got massage. I've got heater. I've got air-con. Depending on what I want. Air-con control. I can go forward. I can go back. You can open the roof. And sunroof. People don't know. For where we're going, this is like a 50-minute journey. It's going to be like 10 minutes with this set-up. Alright. So, we've come back from our little escort. We've been dropped off at Pro Rock Engineering. So, they are a shop that I've seen on Instagram a ton. And the man himself is here. How is it? What's up? It's good to meet you. This is Michael. This is Mitch. Hi. How are you? Dude, I've walked straight in and just seen this thing. Look. Turn the camera around. Look at this thing. This is what we're working with. The boys here are absolutely out of control. So, we're all the way over here in Java Solo. So, we're in Solo. Pro Rock Engineering is like VB's knees over here. They don't shortcut anything. I was chatting to them online and you bring in Kings, Fox, Superchargers, big motors, proper stuff. Big diffs, Dana's, all sorts of stuff. So, it was the place to go for some international content. So, what's the plan while we're over here? Want to do some stuff? Want to go some four wheel driving? Yeah, definitely. We'll go four wheel driving. Yeah. And build something. Build something. Alright. Can we drive this maybe? Yeah. Let's see how we go. So, pretty much, there was going to be a few episodes in this series. So, I'm going to give you a full walk around of the shop. It's absolutely mind blowing. He's setting up a museum. All sorts of stuff happening here. So, I'll link down below that video. We're probably going to go out and build something with the boys. So, that's what we're doing over the next day or two. And then we're going to go out to the jungle. Find some tracks. Hopefully, drive through some water. All sorts of stuff. So, he had a surprise for me. For a project that we're going to work on. An idea he had. So, let's go look at that. Alright, guys. So, we've had a bit of a walk around. And it is day one of like building stuff here. So, we've got a bit of a plan behind us. Run us through what you've got. And what's the idea of what we're doing with this thing. So, this is my daily truck. Yeah. And thanks to Build Not Bought, it's going to be changed forever. We're going big. What are we doing, Sam? Big diffs. Well, patrol diffs, actually. Patrol diffs. Big tyres. We're going to lift it. And kind of cab swap, but not really. We're like de-skinning the cab. And may or may not chuck a different body on it. But, we've got a plan. We've got a rock bouncer that we're taking out. Or a rock crawler that we're going to take out there. And we're going to also take this thing too. So, many hands make light work. The boys are here. We're going to rip into it. Bit of fab. Bit of welding. All sorts of stuff. Just a week. We'll see how we go. We've got to work for it. Not even. We're going to do this thing in like three days. Oh, we're laughing because you have no idea what's coming in the next 30 seconds. But, I do want to say a massive thank you to everyone. I can't believe we made it overseas. It's a lot of work. A lot of money. A lot of behind the scenes to make this happen. So, I'd appreciate your support. All you've got to do is like this video. And it will show how much you guys love this international content. So, we can go somewhere in the future. Now, I'm wearing my new hoodie. I haven't shown these online before, actually. So, the winter range is now available on the website. If you want to grab some. After the Sydney show, we sold out a lot of that. But, it's back online. Right. We have a massive giveaway. We are giving away a car. Alright. We're giving away a car. And it's for free. I'm not even joking. All these people doing giveaways. You've got to enter. You've got to buy a package. All you need to do is comment on the video below. And we're giving away a car. We're giving away this car. That's right. The old trusty Vitara. Now, you may be thinking, oh, you know, it's been around a bit. We're not just giving away a car. We're giving away an opportunity. You could flip this thing and make a ton of money. But, there's going to be some work done on it first. Now, the next three episodes, you can enter to win it. And we're going to be adding some stuff on each episode as well. So, win a car for free. No strings attached. You want to say something? Yeah. I want to reiterate what Sam said. There's no strings attached. None of this sign up. Forget about your plan. All you have to do is take two seconds. Leave a comment about the favourite part of your video. And we will literally, here's the keys, go for your life. But first, I'm going to clean her up a little bit. Do a little bit of work. She needs a couple things here and there. But this is a great opportunity for anyone trying to step into their first car. For literally zero dollars. Five seconds of your time is all it takes. And you can win this absolute rig. Back to the episode. Okay, we filmed that intro and we just had a quick bite to eat. And he said the boys are just going to take the back off. Holy ****. Jesus Christ. They're quick. Oh, the tyres are gone. Man, they're quick. It's like a home away from home. I brought my SP tools kit, of course. Alright, so tell us the plan. Mitch. Alright, so what we're going to do is, obviously, because trucks are actually two wheel drive. We're keeping the original motor. They've made up a transfer adapter. Putting a transfer case on the back. They're putting patrol diffs under it. And I think it's going to stay leaf sprung. So we're going to have to cut off the coil perches and put leaf spring perches on. We don't know whether it's going to be 40s or 37s. We're mopping the wheel tyres up. They're mopping the tyres up now. These guys are incredibly fast. Like, wild. So, we're just going to watch. Alright, so we're mopping up the rears now. We're going to run a different patrol diff they're going to shoot. This is just a mock-up. We're going to work out what height, what wheelbase. The biggest thing is getting the front wheels to be able to turn. But also look right under the guard. Like, and not stick out too wide. There is a different body going on, ish. Like, stripping that cab. But, pretty much, we'll work out where the leaf mounts are going to go. So, the original diff was here. We're going to extend it a bit because it's almost called a divorce transfer. That's what he called it. Which means is the gearbox, instead of making an adapter and plating them together. It's going to have an output shaft. And then that goes into the transfer which is mounted further back. And then a shaft off of that. So, the front shaft is going to be really long. But we need to push this back a bit so we actually get a decent sized rear tail shaft. If it's too short, we won't be able to flex it. So, longer, more flex. That's what we're doing. I've always wanted to make this picture that I've seen on Pinterest and Google come true in life. I know it's impossible to do it starting from an FJ40. Because it's pretty hard to make all the flooring and sit on top of whatever engine it has. Whether it's 2F or the diesel. So, I thought the only way to do it, have the cab over, is start with the truck. Then we graft the front of an FJ40 onto the body. So, we'll still be using the floor and all the pedals. The steering might have to go, I'm not sure. And somehow, put this on the front. Maybe we need to chop it in half and make it wider. Because I can see that the fenders on a normal FJ would be maybe here. And these tires might be sticking too far out. But we'll see. We'll see how we go. I reckon we're going to go full Indonesian style, right? What we're going to do is cut the exhaust off just here. On the back of the turbo. Run a 90 and straight. And then give it a bit more fuel. A bit more boost. Some more floor on it. Come in at the side here. It's going to look good. It's getting me excited already. Alright, so we had a bit of a humming and harring. If your name's Michael, you say himming and harring. Instead of umming and harring. But we chatted with the boys and we're just going to go big with this thing now. We've changed the whole plan. So we did say we're going to do leafs. Now we're just doing full triangulated four link. And we are running liquid shocks. No coils. No leaf springs. Liquid shocks. I'll let Mitch run through what they are. But front and rear. So we've kind of changed the design a bit. Because we want this thing to actually flex good as well. So in Australia we're actually super backwards. Because I've just been informed that these are cheaper. And they do the job of a coilover, hydro, shock. You don't have to do coil weights because you just put nitro in them and it sets it to the weight. They have like how many stage bypasses? 24. 24 stage bypasses. So I don't even know why we're wasting our time with Coilovers in Australia. So we're going to experience these and see how good they are. And then just get rid of all the coilovers. So to keep him with the theme of his love for the FJ truck build. Or whatever we're going to call it. We've decided to widen the front end. It just looked weird. So that green one down there. So they found an old one that we're cutting up and widening. To match the width of the truck. And then the guards go on the doors and it will look like an FJ. So the next issue we're running into is how to get this into steer. And obviously Patrol steering boxes have an arm that goes this way. And then push that way with the steering arm. But these trucks actually go forward and back. And we had a look on there and it's like a J shaped bit of steel. And it pushes the knuckles forward and back. So I think we need to get the angle right or something. It's going to be a bit of messing around. But we're going to use the top kingpin plate. Take it off. Build an arm that comes out. And this ram will push an arm back and forward. And because these are ball joint ends we'll still have movement. So we'll still be able to flex and stuff off road. So we'll get into that. I reckon we'll get the steering to work without hydro. Keeps the cost down because it's getting expensive. So to avoid getting in their way. We're doing amazing suspension work because they're all over that. Me and Mitch are going to work on a roll bar today. So we're going to have to remove some of this welded plate to the chassis. And we'll do a full roll bar that goes across the back of the cab. And they'll run a couple of bars down to the back. It kind of gives it that drag truck look which will be sick. We've also got a snorkel we need to sort out. So there's already a 180 on the intake of the turbo. We'll just rotate that slightly and it should come up over the top. And Michael wants to do his little exhaust thing. So we'll muck around with that. There's a bunch of pre-done bends and we want them to stick out. Make a little wire piece and come out each side so it looks like Shrek. There's steam coming out of his ears but it's actually sort out of our truck. Alright, so the other thing we've got on today. Jujo's building an insane rock bouncer. He showed me photos of it but it's been fully painted. And today they're assembling the whole car. Because they don't even have a full day. I think about one o'clock this afternoon it's been put onto a truck and sent to a show. So we're going to try and capture a bit of that as well. So while the truck's getting built, they're assembling this as well. So we'll give them a hand with that. Full motor in it, seats, diffs. Apparently it's going to be running so it's pretty exciting to see that come together too today. So he's done it in pink, it's for his daughter. So he's got pink, green, black, a bunch of colours. It's come from paint yesterday, they painted it. And it's 9am and we'll see how quickly they build this thing. But look, there's like 8 of them, all hands on deck. The tube work these boys do is f***ing insane. It's all in house. I was just told earlier their signature thing on like a lot of their buggies is they literally, their main frame is one tube. Like no joins. So, they'll start like I say here. And that tube will go up, down, all the way around. One the whole way around and one join at the front. Which is, for what the pipe end that we were just messing around with is the same one they use. And you look at their work like, the join here. So that's one tube comes up, two join meet that. Meets that in a V, up there. Then all this ties in. Their fab work here is so much better than anything I've seen. It's f***ing insane. So it's, they label these. That stands for bottom one. Alrighty, we're starting to find our groove with the rear end now. So with the arms in. Got the fuel tank going in. Mount that up. But this radiator's pretty sick. They've got the actual radiator hoses. Don't run to the front. They use the actual casseroles. So there's like an AM fitting welder to here. So you mount the radiator in the back. It's got it's own fans. And then all the fluid goes to the front. So we'll get all this mounted up. And then it shocks. We're at the fun bit. They've been building this thing for so many weeks. And we just had to assemble it all. So it's pretty sick. Now, I don't know how this footage is going to be chopped up. But we're back to the truck. So, they're wide bodying this at the moment. With just, they're sheet metal pros. They're just getting that done. But over here behind us. They're cutting all the mounts. Shock towers, everything off the dip. And they're doing full custom mounts and everything. For our, um, four length situation in the back of the truck. Just oxy cutting it off. Set of safeties at least. No gloves or nothing. So, these guys work different over here. Very different. Alright, time check. Actually, let me get my phone out and have a look. 10.30. It's been like an hour and a half. Motor's going in. The rear diff's in. Putting radiator and stuff in. These guys work very quickly. Alright, so the boys are flat out on that buggy. We're going to start doing what we were trying to get done today on the truck. The boys are doing all the suspension. But, we're going to have a crack at just doing a bit of a roll cage on the back of it. So, we're going to follow the cab. Bend up some tubes. Put some bars back. Just so we can say we built something on the truck, I guess. You know? These guys are flat out all over everything else. But, a little bit of built not bought touch won't go astray. So, got the old airbender. Let's see how we go. I'm alright. Pussy hole. Yeah. Don't know what it's got to tell you. Obviously, you lack food. Low blood sugar. But, you're alright. Back. So, the doctor said, one, he needs to eat something. Secondly, he needs a happy ending massage. That's what he said. Pick it up. Explain to me what this motor is. This is a, it was a mock-up motor. It's a 5.3 with a cam in it. This is the one that we use for mocking up. But, we have a 7 litre coming for this car. That's just a mock-up motor? Yeah. Look at it. Are you keeping all the manifold for the new engine? Ah, no, no. This is a gen 3, so we put a gen 4 in it. So, everything will be different. Just a mock-up engine. Nothing special. It's going, it's 427 in other words. 427 and then massive. I would love a 427 in any four-wheel drive. It's so good. Bloody over bit the bloody tube. Wouldn't bloody read about it. So, there's a few different ways you can heat it up and bend it back. But, we're going to get the professional opinion. What's his name? Romy. Romy? Romy. Oh, f***ed up. Press it. Ah, okay. Alright, we're going to press it now. I just had a little look over here at what they're doing. They've raised the door hinge. So, we can top the bottom of the door for clearance. And, we're also running, like, 40 series guards. So, they've literally gone and, like, removed door hinge. Made, like, a whole new fish plate, basically. Drilled a bunch of holes where you can spot weld. And, cut new holes. Like, actually really good work. Great craftsmanship. Google translate what that word says. Depan. Or de... See if I can read it. Front! Oh my god! Depan means front. So, that's the front and that's the back. There we go. Google translates the rest you'll get. So, this thing's actually got rear steer. We're putting the rear RAM on as well. Similar to what I had on the XC. Dual RAM setup. This is new, though. I can only assume it's for the controls. Yeah? So, it's got this little actuator which has a bunch of electronic sensors. And, it'll tell the computer where the rear steer is facing. So, what's that? Just tell you where centre is? Oh, it'll return to centre. Oh, I see. It'll let it go. So, it's got a few modes. Yeah, right. What other modes? Full left, full right? Return to centre, or not return to centre. And, also just two wheel steer. Yeah, nice. So, we're putting the steering orbital on. But, he's got a quick release little gear here. So, the orbital goes to like a box which just pumps hydraulic fluid around. Like, it's fully like fluid steering. There's no mechanical parts. This is just a shaft that goes from the actual steering wheel down to the orbital. And, this is that quick release. So, it just slides on. We're going to TIG weld it on. Run a bead around there and around here. So, then the steering wheel can just pop off with a clip. And, then we can bolt this back to the steering box. All right, so the orbital is welded, kind of. Had to play with the TIG a little bit and get one of the boys to set it up. But, now that's on, I can put that in with the steering shaft. Won't put the wheel on yet, but the boys are lifting up the front. Putting the shocks on, which is sick. All right, we're trying to get our twisty out. That definitely wasn't us. Michael. If you get like one degree wrong in every bend, you end up with this, right? So, we've got, what's this guy's name? Mr. Gooday. He is going to wizardry us out of trouble. With brute force and a few blocks of timber. So, the idea of hitting it with a hammer is all the molecules in the steel wake up and, I don't know, it just works. It's an Indonesian magician. All right, the boys are getting real close to the buggy. That thing's out of here tonight. We've pretty much done what we can because you don't want to get in their way with that last 10% throwing everything together. So, on the truck, we've been bending up that bar all day. Made a bit of a bracket onto the shaft here. So, we'll see if the width is right first and tuck it on there and then we can put in the crossbars. The plan is to do a second hoop the same, which we've already bent up. And we'll get some dimple dies in and kind of join it in with all that. Give it a bit of a racy look. So, we'll see if these fit. Pack it up and then we can fully weld it. All right. We've been, it is dark now. We've been working hard. I am black from head to toe. Worse than I am at home. But, we've got the first part of the roll bar on and this is the idea of having that tube that comes down. But, Jojo was saying, if we get the 16 inch liquid shaft in that make a hoop here. We could bring the tubes down to meet that cradle at the back for the shocks. Otherwise, I was just thinking of coming down to the chassis. So, we're going to wait. Get all that suspension in the rear and then see where we can bring them down. We can either bring them straight or into a little bit of a V or something. Mount a spare tyre, who knows. So, the first bit of that picture is slowly coming together. So, we have this second hoop on. Run some dimple dies through it and then we'll work out these back bars. Apparently, now it is smoko at 8 o'clock at night. Alright guys, it's about 9 o'clock. It's been a massively long day. 12 hours actually since the boys got here. We've knocked up the bar. We've just got to drop it down and weld it up. The rock bouncer is still being built. But, it needs to be on the truck tonight. So, find out in next week's episode whether the boys get it done. And, also see how we finish this thing off. So, it will be running and driving next episode. So, we'll see you there.