S14a Project Rebuild

Havent had a whole major lot of progress with my own car at the moment, helping the mates with theirs and getting the track cars ready the whole time. But finally managed to get mine outside which I thought I'd never see! Took a few photos to do a little photoshopping to see what colour I wanted to go and what sort of wing to go with. Still so undecided! So heres just a few snaps of it to give ye an idea of what its looking like.... Opinions appreciated...

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Yes, theyre 11J Viennas on the front... Fallen in love with them
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May just have flipped the dishes in the ssrs as well :P
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Thats all for now... Gonna knuckle back into it very soon and get a big burst on getting the running gear back in and getting her running! Just wanna drive it! :P

Very nice man ya wer lucky to get that so cheap! There's a lot more out there sitin up too I'm sure

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Originally Posted by lukeb

Very nice man ya wer lucky to get that so cheap! There's a lot more out there sitin up too I'm sure

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Too lucky man! Wouldnt mind picking up a few more little hidden treasures like this! Would love to know of some

Car looks unbelievable! Do you mind me askin is it safe to flip dishes in rims like that? Might try it myself

Gona look epic !!!!!

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Originally Posted by tomdh

Car looks unbelievable! Do you mind me askin is it safe to flip dishes in rims like that? Might try it myself

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Yeah man its safe! A lot of people do it, go for it, its worth it!

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Originally Posted by GTSr32

Gona look epic !!!!!

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I hope so :) !

Delighted to see this car being freshened up top to bottom.. Loved every page until that dodgy looking kit was introduced!

Please bin rear over fenders and do all you can to save the rear flared metal quarters! Every car has been molested with over fenders its done to death.. Get the original kit together and front bumper to match I would say its Origin

Keep up the good work! I hope it will see road again soon

Seriously This look is where its at .

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Been a while since I updated this, so time to let ye know whats been going on. Not a whole lot, but some nice progress now and its full steam ahead now....

So as some of you have suggested, keep the flared arches and don't use over fenders, just to clear up, unfortunately the arches were pretty much beyond repair. The car sat up for 4-5 years at a 45 degree angle and unfortunately, our irish skies destroyed the rear arches. They were flared with filler, and the filler cracked from behind and ate away the inside factory arch. So over the past couple of weeks, I've had the car completely worked over on, and everything has been repaired and welded back up. So here it goes....

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Eventually I ended up buying these SSR Viennas 11J & 8J just for a change of shoes to the Proffessors...

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Split the Proffessors and sent away the barrels for a full polish, as well as sending away the faces and got painted in R32 GTR Silver and clear coated in a rainbow fleck. Centre caps ordered online so should look pretty sweet finished.


So we got down the tubbing...

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Our main aim was to keep the welds out of the engine bay, trying to make it look as neat as possible.

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Threw in a small gusset just to strengthen things up...

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Small patches in back boot panel completely repaired...

So we went at those arches...

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Rivnuts for easily taking on and off the arches if needed...

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Fitment will be interesting when I put in the coilovers in the back considering that's without spacers...

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Tidying up the engine whilst the car was away ....

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So got it home, did a little mock up and put on the dmax spoiler I bought... Still undecided on a rear wing or not... Bought a driftworks bonnet vent but the fitment is cat, looking for a full fiberglass vented bonnet now... Heres a little consideration I had on a wing...

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Plan now for the next couple of weeks is to replace every nut and bolt in all the arms underneath with brand new ones, picked up 2 cusco rear coilovers so throw them in, full new brake set up with braided lines, paint the bay & drop in the engine and running gear. Full steam ahead....

loving the loook of it....will be cool to tweek it a bit. but keep the stickers from when it was red. maybe change the uras front bumper. they look too cheap. dmax is far nicer, chunkyer and not so in your face with all the sharp edges.