180sx road build

Well a few months ago a shell came up for sale on here and ended up somehow owning it?? i hadnt anticipated owning a road s-body for a good few years yet but this was too good to pass up :) this is her as i bought her http://<a href="http://s1358.photobu...pse751937e.jpghttp://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q766/James_Kiely/IMG_0173_zpse751937e.jpg[/url]
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the shell was really really straight not a spot of filler and the paint is good on it.
so i got her home and had a kouki fiberglass back lip so placed that on to look at it http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...psa8dcfd35.jpg
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the front legs had alot of surface rust and grit on them from sitting out
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so i sanded them back to bear metal, rust primed and sprayed them up
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8530d156.jpg
i also sanded down the rear panel behind the lights because i felt it was a bit grubby and sprayed that back up
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i also compounded the back bumper and was amazed at how well it came up i thought it was foooked but it came up perfect
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and i had my old boot lid off the drift car so put that on
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i then picked up one kouki light and centre panel ( had one here already :) ) which reeeeeally tidied up the back end :)
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i borrowed a pair of rear hubs off one of the lads so id have her rolling to get her off the transporter so slapped on a pair of my ssr meshes
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i then picked up a looad of bits and pieces for the drift car and this road one off rory (slithertooth)
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and in this lot i got a pair of headlights which were in bad need of a bit of cleaning
the old ones on the right, new on the left
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ps76976e85.jpg amazing what a bit of thinners and compound does
i took off both surrounds because as you can see in the pic above, one had a hole in it and wanted to lube up everything and clean it all up so sanded them both down and started fiberglassing that hole
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even the good surround had a few little gouges into it
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so idecided to be proper anal about it and said id fill them
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and being even more anal i sprayed all the screws holding in the surrounds :o
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well thats all i have now because i have to start knuckling down to the leaving cert :(:rolleyes:
but ive put up another thread looking for colour/ styling suggestions so fell free to give any input in there or in here and i should hopefully have a few more updates soon :)

nice clean base bud. gimme a buzz if you need any bits for interior. have most bits at home here. keep up the good work.

that bonnet came off of my first ever 180sx............ made good money too back in its day :)
best of luck with the build i have few bits like front sr subframe and hubs also have front rb subframe if u go down that road
few other bits like rear speaker tray etc

Bastards yer all tryna sell me stuff I can't afford :p

swap ya for a few good pencils and a sharpener :p

this is exactly what i would love to do. you can say your ''anal'' but every little touch makes a car. you might aswell put stands under it and seal underneath it now. keep a good shell a good shell if you know what i mean. keep us updated im interested to see how this goes

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Originally Posted by 180sxbreaker

swap ya for a few good pencils and a sharpener :p

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Haha mmm duno about the sharpener , but ill certainly swap you a few pencils :p

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Originally Posted by decobyrne106

this is exactly what i would love to do. you can say your ''anal'' but every little touch makes a car. you might aswell put stands under it and seal underneath it now. keep a good shell a good shell if you know what i mean. keep us updated im interested to see how this goes

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Jesus I duno how I didn't even think of doing that ??? So that's definitely another thing to put on the list :) and as you say its all the little details , I want her to be as fresh as the day she came out of the factory , and shell be kept that way :)

your getting there slowly but surely lad :)

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Originally Posted by james k

your getting there slowly but surely lad :)

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I am indeed lad , picked up a loooooooad of interior bits today off marksull on here ,( an insanely sound lad to deal with ) so hopefully will have another up date soon :)

Let me know what bits u stuck for maybe able to help ya

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Originally Posted by 180sxbreaker

Let me know what bits u stuck for maybe able to help ya

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Spot on Martin :kiss::kiss: must keep away from buying stuff for a few weeks now , I'm spending money I don't have at the minute :p