britishrallying
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After many months of not feeling the passion for my R and already found my new project, selling the R was going to happen very soon..
Me and the mrs went down to a Kitcar Show in Newark a few months back to meet up with the company owners of a kit car I'm interested in building.. walking around the exhibitors outside, in the distance I could see the un-mistakable GTi-R shape. Before I knew it I was up close admiring it. On that the owner came over and we started chatting, and because of him I've now ditched AK Cobra build in favour of restoring my R :doh:
So thanks to JimmyBack, I'm now stripping my R down ready for a full restore. To be fair, I cant get over how little rust is on her, Slight bit below fuel cap, tiny amount on floor pan inside, the rest just odd bits of surface rust. I'm stripping the whole car down, sending all running gear off to my local media blasters, full clean on interior, engine rebuild not high spec though, full waxoyl underside once I've made a rotisserie ;-) , full respray sadly, paints just to scuffed and scratched shame as there's no rust really..
Currently sat on 6 axel stands with whole interior removed, doors and wings whipped off. Dropping engine next week sometime, cut off fuel and brake lines as they are pretty rotten same as the fuel filler neck bottom part, are these still available?
Also what's the crack with door seals? the one the door meets on the car body is damaged and also the seals around the door window, noticed the when the windows down, the seal at the bottom is green and hard, can these still be bought from Nissan?
Having not removed a windscreen before, how hard is it? Im looking to replace the screen, bits of metal imbedded in it from me grinding to close :shock: is it just a case of thin wire fed outside in, then just wiggle it all the way round cutting the bond?
Will update as I go along, and when I start pulling my hair out :lol:
Gaz
Me and the mrs went down to a Kitcar Show in Newark a few months back to meet up with the company owners of a kit car I'm interested in building.. walking around the exhibitors outside, in the distance I could see the un-mistakable GTi-R shape. Before I knew it I was up close admiring it. On that the owner came over and we started chatting, and because of him I've now ditched AK Cobra build in favour of restoring my R :doh:
So thanks to JimmyBack, I'm now stripping my R down ready for a full restore. To be fair, I cant get over how little rust is on her, Slight bit below fuel cap, tiny amount on floor pan inside, the rest just odd bits of surface rust. I'm stripping the whole car down, sending all running gear off to my local media blasters, full clean on interior, engine rebuild not high spec though, full waxoyl underside once I've made a rotisserie ;-) , full respray sadly, paints just to scuffed and scratched shame as there's no rust really..
Currently sat on 6 axel stands with whole interior removed, doors and wings whipped off. Dropping engine next week sometime, cut off fuel and brake lines as they are pretty rotten same as the fuel filler neck bottom part, are these still available?
Also what's the crack with door seals? the one the door meets on the car body is damaged and also the seals around the door window, noticed the when the windows down, the seal at the bottom is green and hard, can these still be bought from Nissan?
Having not removed a windscreen before, how hard is it? Im looking to replace the screen, bits of metal imbedded in it from me grinding to close :shock: is it just a case of thin wire fed outside in, then just wiggle it all the way round cutting the bond?
Will update as I go along, and when I start pulling my hair out :lol:
Gaz
