Nissan Cefiro A31

[tom.com]

Good progress Joe. Keep her lit!

[pole drift]

Well done Joey, needs a shiney rad in there,

Yea it certainly does!!!

Good progress Joe. Keep her lit!

Cheers buddy, not much left now.

Got the car moved from the garage back to my house, gonna finish off the last few bits here. Looks like im gonna miss my deadline of the 19th, o well.

[LarZ]

Jesus this is really starting to take shape again! Fair play man I can not wait to see this finished.

[pole drift]

Got a hole saw to drill out a new hole for the intercooler pipe, probably could of done with one that was half an inch smaller but it done the job.




I got all of the heavy stuff done with the car while it was in the workshop, now it was time to bring it home to finish the last few bits off.



Also to keep the engine healthy I picked up these, Halfrauds to the rescue again!! lol



And I picked up a set of wheels for the back of the car, gonna have to convert the rear to 5 stud to get them to fit but thats not a problem as iv a set of rear 5 stud hubs and bearings off a R34 GTT, just need to swap the rear hubs to get them to fit.

[pole drift]

The light has me beat but I did get a good lot done to the car today. All the wiring inside is done and Iv the dash 70% put back in. Hooked up the jump leads and the ignition lights come on, the fan works and the fuel pump fires up. Another few days working at it and it should be ready to start up. With the pile of boxes full of parts gradually getting smaller it's finally starting to look like a car again!! Dropped my LCA's off today to have them extended by 25mm and to get them gusseted. I'm gonna have to wait until payday at the end of the month before I can afford to buy gear oil, coolant etc. And I'm also going to have to get the steering sorted, need to get a high pressure steering line made up as the HICAS setup was an absolute maze of pipes and I couldn't use the old one. In the meantime I'll just plug away at doing bits that don't cost anything to do, hopefully the rain will hold off while I get this stuff done. Collected the power cable from a R33 so I can relocate the battery into the boot courtesy of slithertooth and got an oil catch can. Just need to figure out where I'm gonna put it so it looks tidy.

[pole drift]

Here's the video of the first start up of the car.



After spending all the time putting the interior back together i'm going to be taking it all back out again. The reason being is some of the interior panels look like there starting to melt. So im taking the full interior out of the car and flocking all the panels, taking a few steps back again but it'll be worth it in the end as some of the panels are so bad that the residue is sticking to my hands when I take them away. Unsure weather I should go two tone or just keep the one colour for everything.

The outside of the car is starting to look complete again, I'm still a long way off being finished but I'm slowly getting there. Weather isn't really on my side and this would be so much easier if I had a shed.




I dropped my SSR Gartmaier's off to Glen @ Hubs Custom Finishes for a tidy up, as you can tell from the pics he done a pretty good job!!!

Before



After





Done a pretty good job IMO

[paddyb01]

Fuck them wheels came out savage:-)

[pole drift]

Oh I almost forgot, Stevo was kind enough to provide me with this little gadget



Pure gadget, does fuck all except give me live info on what the car is doing. Trying to figure out exactly where im gonna mount it in the car, as im flocking the dash I dont really want to have the bracket sitting on the dash. Where I am thinking of putting it is in the air vents in the centre of the dash as one side has already been macked out of it for a gauge that is no longer there and the other is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike due to the fact that all the fins inside it are pointing all over the place.




As you can see above the places I want to put it. Deco pointed out it would be better to put it in the right vent as it will be easier to flick through the settings. He also recommended to put a gauge in the left vent but I don't have any gauges to fit yet. Iv more important things to do before I fit the Multi Checker anyway so I might pick up a gauge over the next couple of months and then work on fabricating them into place.

[pole drift]

Fuck them wheels came out savage:-)

Yea they came out pretty good alrite

[LarZ]

jaysus i haven't checked this in a while. I really can't wait to see this finished man. Such a cool car and so so rare these days...