As we’ve been documenting here on Off Road Xtreme, the crazy bunch over at the YouTube channel Car Throttle decided to start creating a vehicle they codenamed Project Mud-Type (and formally named Floyd). The idea behind it? To transform a Jaguar X-Type AWD sedan into a serious off-road machine. Why? Who knows? That doesn’t matter. Let’s just be glad they did because it’s been an interesting and amusing process.

The CT guys have so far given Floyd a variety of upgrades and reinforcements, many of them homemade. Those include a generous lift for additional ground clearance, a snorkel so the 2.5-liter V6 can breathe in deep water, a large roof rack that substantially increases Floyd’s cargo capacity, and a straight-pipe exhaust to make Floyd sound more aggressive. A new set of Goodyear Wrangler tires is there to make sure Floyd doesn’t lose his footing in slippery conditions.

Yes, Car Throttle even welds inside of this.

Unfortunately, Floyd’s build comes to an end in the video above. However, before the CT crew can put up their wrenches, they need to do a whole lot of welding and soldering. After they remove the front bumper to improve Floyd’s approach angle, they have more space to install a bull bar from a junked Jeep Grand Cherokee. To keep the sump from getting bashed by rocks into a leaky mess, a welder attaches a steel frame to Floyd’s subframe that can be covered with a removable steel plate. The diff requires the most work, both to remove and get in the necessary shape for off-roading.

Host Alex Kursten and his pals have to loosen a multitude of connected parts, drop it out, open it up, clean it, then break out the torch. To keep the rear wheels turning in unison and power going where it needs to go, a skilled welder fuses metal plates to the diff’s inner gears and fills in the teeth with more metal.

He’s ugly, but he gets the job done. We hope.

Aside from those major alterations, Floyd needs numerous minor adjustments. A consistent problem throughout the build process has been getting enough clearance for the large tires to fully turn and rebound. Although Kursten has repeatedly cut the fenders in hopes of allowing them to do just that, he still hasn’t gone far enough. This time, he goes for broke – literally. He rips out the wheel well liners and fires up an angle grinder for the upteenth time. Floyd also needs to see better at night so that means wiring the roof rack lights and two round lamps on the new bull bar to the high beams. Of course, the boys have to give Floyd a proper name tag, too. They quickly learn how to weld and fashion him a rough and ready ID plate.

While the work of putting Floyd together is largely done, this is not the end of the line for the Project Mud-Type video series. If you haven’t figured it out by now, Car Throttle still hasn’t truly tested all of the parts it’s put into Floyd. In the next episode, the dudes at CT are going to take Floyd to an off-road park and put him through several challenges over rough terrain that no other Jaguar X-Type on the planet has attempted to cross.