The "Yes, it's Simon's old FC vert" project thread

[JohnC]

So I was talking to Simon since September/October about this but I finally got to see it in mid December because he works abroad. I was lucky to buy from Simon cos he was honest and genuine about everything. And I also was there for the first drive of the auto to manual test drive that Jay and the lads in DI Motorsport did.

Got the compression figures and the champagne test so all was good with the end.

Took deliver in the first week of January.

First job was a vacuum
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/B217EC89-5993-47E2-8CFF-0470A8680683-443-000000435B6E8D77.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/34E935D5-704E-4001-9268-1771EE3A9711-443-00000042F568B00C.jpg

I then gave the body a serious polish with my DA just to make it shiny.
Going from this
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/E075422A-F218-43A8-8A78-EE5437032944-214-0000003860990729.jpg
To this
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/954F5825-336C-402A-84AE-45DCEDEC26D5-214-0000003863B49523.jpg

Simon told me to cop the fuck on and stop being anal about the car. I normally am very particular about paint jobs on cars but this doesn't need to be.....it's just a cool car!

Then I got come BC's and tossed them on
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/E15950F3-08F3-4D5B-9AAF-8CDB87BA8DF2-214-0000003965BC10DE.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/EAAFFF73-7F0C-418C-A016-62C0301C1F07-214-000000396923A257.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/FE648851-3929-4FDA-9286-1DDDB45CCD9E-214-000000396D95B597.jpg

Fresh pads and I hit Mondello
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/45D16D2A-4BFC-4BAB-A931-5B792BB29528-890-000000903F057BD9.jpg

That's my old exhaust off my civic hahaha
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/6B65B094-221E-4DD8-9F49-4D267E46CFE2-890-000000908F01DB9C.jpg

Three laps in and the front lip blew off. My fibre glass job didn't obviously work
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/EBEFBF43-BF16-4116-9F79-BC6385617042-890-00000090B7E29507.jpg

But what a day!!! This car is far more fun then my civic track car I broke in September. Might not be as fast but more smiles per gallon :afro:


The rear pads didn't last long so I had to change them. When to bed them in but since that drive its been running like a bag of nails. Have a feeling it's a blow gasket at the manifold. Haven't had time to sort it with college....

However.....
I got two pairs of R33 GTR rims and fresh tyres

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/813B893E-C64E-4F82-B11E-F2C55C78F383-214-0000003B46C5A77D.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/05654A27-B3BB-4D34-937A-9679CF00227E-214-0000003B4110E4AB.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/13C7C2D0-716B-4EBF-A293-8865F38558A4-214-0000003B3B7DE37F.jpg

And also...

I have been messing with an S14a lip I got sent up by DannyC in Cork

Take a solider iron with blade attatchment
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/AC471831-C758-4250-B66C-1D299714D667-586-0000006823AD6F1D.jpg

The centre fits perfect once cut in three but the outer parts are too big

So 8cms out of the vents
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/47B2B948-EC3C-4CAB-871C-5A3A82F2557A-586-000000682E507B7D.jpg
Melted lip give something to work with
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/7C2038DE-3B0F-4E78-A69B-9A8DD84B6AF3-586-00000068426B0A58.jpg

Using a different attatchment....
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/219DCE88-6F6E-463B-A1E0-F6FE6070E3FD-586-00000069682ECB1A.jpg
.....it can be smoothend out
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/7B804D94-EF4B-49E3-9413-DC7FF66F817B-586-000000685550C38F.jpg

Bit of a sanding and heat gun to bring back the black
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/daytonadgr8/59E82D66-1827-4BF0-A489-C4AA8E3F7256-586-000000685BCFE889.jpg

Next is to get that car running right and lower the front a wee bit more......college is busy with final 4 weeks so it's slow progress

Thanks for reading

[slithertooth]

Thats really cool. Looking forward to what you'll do with this

[hoopsbhoy]

Oh I love that car. Looks like a lot of fun. Good luck with it.

[JohnC]

Cheers guys

Savage craic, roof down tunes out of the head rests blasting going down the home straight hahaha

Not much plans as of yet. Just enjoy driving it really

Auto diff has to go though!

[PeterT]

wait, is that simons old yoke :P

looks like uour having fun, i like what youve done with the lip bodging! good stuff

[mick-skyline]

love this car, and not too shabby on track for a standard yolk either

[Administrator]

R33 GTR wheels look so good on everything but R33 GTRs! Cool car and nice work!

[Hachi]

Fuuuuck man! That looks awesome on the GTR wheels!:cool: Such a cool car to own. Best of luck with it

[rob-long]

looks mint! a 326 power wing for it would make this awesome.

[OneEighty Mark]

Pull up to the scene with your ceiling missing!

This has the potential to be real cool. You're heading in the right direction with the R33 GTR's.

[JohnC]

Cheers guys. Appreciate it

Its Friday so I'm gona pull it into the garage after an arch rolling job later and see if I can get at the manifold.

[Darenm]

This is seriously awesome man would love one plus the 33GTR wheels are a winner suit it so well

[Simon]

one ill regret selling for sure but i think i drove it twice and im just lad someone is getting use out of it...

good work John. glad to see a thread up here..

[Darren]

looks awesome man top work!!