S14a Project Rebuild

[Vlad]

Very nice car! I'm very jelous i must say

[DeeGrant]

awesome find! good luck with the re-build. can't wait to see it in the future!

[deanrobbo]

So myself and 7 other of my mates have finally sourced our own unit to work out of in a business park in Waterford in the past couple of days. Couple of track cars and Two 180sx will be thrown in there too, one being @benkouki's. There really was no stopping us and we got straight down to business the night we got the cars in there.



Last daylight she will see for a while!



Transport...



14a's look very aggressive looking with no front bumper...



Kept the daily dry too



So once we got in there, I got down to work straight away. Front end off and start pottering away at taking it apart....



Tracing all this crazy wiring was my biggest problem, I'd say i traced about 50% of it back. There's some crazy hid kit, strobes, neon underglow kit, then the boost controller and other little bits and pieces thrown in. Because it was broken into before, there was a good few home made switches thrown here and there. So that was a bit of a nightmare tracing those...



Pretty cool I thought



And heres my progress in the past two evenings work, getting a crane on Wednesday so shes ready to be lifted then. As soon as thats out ill be prepping the engine bay myself and sending it to be sprayed. Whilst thats being sprayed ill be sourcing an engine to go straight back in. Bay is not too shabby all the same for a car thats been parked up three years!

[Stevo]

good job man, was a nice find

[seanyboy s14]

Your making some great progress are you going to paint it red like it used to be?

[deanrobbo]

Thinking of a pearl white body and candy purple engine bay. Don't know yet, it's the two colours I personally love together and I haven't really thought about anything else, if I do I'll never pick a colour haha

[benkouki]

Ah I love nothing more than a naked S-body, can't wait to come home and move mine into the new pad, I'm itching to get my hands dirty again. Nice to see your doing the same yourself!!!!

[Midnight]

Holy Shit!!!!!!!!! Can't believe my eyes......i used to own this car.I ran a small import business back in the boom times and this was what i treated myself too when things were going well.

Was originally imported (frm what i remember) through Andy in Powervechicals who i got a good lot of stuff off,and again from what i remember was a Kazama Auto customer built car.

Wasn't a stroker at the time but ran a healthy 360bhp on the Power FC with all the googies n the engine.
I sold it to a fella from Cork i think in around 2008,and the last time i seen it was been drifted in Punchestown in 2009..........i nearly cried.

As car's go it was the 1 that got away and i should have defanitely held onto.
Why oh why did some dope ruin it................

[Midnight]

Also the Gold sticker on the drivers window is Midnight in Japanese!!!

[deanrobbo]

Few more mock up pics....