Nissan Cefiro A31

[pole drift]

I have the Cefiro heading over to the girlfriends garage this weekend to get the engine bay ready for paint. Also have a look under it and remove all the rest of the HICAS and swap the steering rack. Hopefully if everything goes to plan (it never does) the engine and all can start going back into the car before my Dad tries to dump any more parts on me!! Picked up an A frame tonight to tow it cos iv no trailer anymore

[pole drift]

Well I got the car over with the towing frame, but the Cefiro is so long I had to stick the magnetic trailer lights to the top of the boot lid.



It's so much easier working on the car with the use of a ramp!! Cut out the old section where the battery tray used to be. Ended up going a bit crooked with the airsaw but I just welded the section back in place. Need to grind down the welds so it's smooth but that'll be done tomorrow as we couldn't find the grinding disc. We also ran out of wire for the mig but I think we got everything done.






Then I went at straightening out the chassis leg from when it climbed a mudbank or some shite like that




That's the best we could get it. Hopefully I'll be able to finish grinding down the welds tomorrow and get it seam sealed up. Deffo won't get the car painted this weekend but sure fuck it no point in rushing it!!

[Keith_200SX]

Ur right man, no point rushing it, perfection takes time, car looks well btw dude

[PeterT]

duno how thats bent, never had any offs or anything :/

































haha

[Simon]

hahah we were stuck there for aaaaaaaagggeeeeeesssss..

[pole drift]

Ha ha I was thinking of the pic you put up on Facebook when Dave owned it

[pole drift]

We got another bit done over the last week, my welds look like pigeon shit so Bryan took over before i made a total balls of it!! Anyway its in place now and covered with seam sealer, gonna undercoat the car aswell before everything starts getting bolted together again.



So here's how I left the car while i let the sealer set over night....



....and when I landed up the following night one of the young lads in the garage spent ages sanding away at the car for me.



We then covered the edges of the welds with fiberglass before we started adding in any filler, left it to set over the weekend and filled the area and smoothed it off. could probably do with another layer of filler or probably some dolphin glaze to finish it off before paint.




Then gave the bay a bit of a zinc primer to make sure the metal didnt start to rust.



And here's the finished jobby for tonight's work, will let it dry for the night before we give it another lick of primer and then its into the spray booth



items like the steering rack and the subframe that are getting plenty of over spray im not too bothered as they will be cleaned up and sprayed also.

[derek89]

Will be class wen painted dude...fair play doin it rite anyway!

[pole drift]

Will be class wen painted dude...fair play doin it rite anyway!

I hope!!! The painter was saying he might be able to do it in the next week or two whoop whoop

[kenny046]

Looking forward to seeing this finished such a different car u need wheels to do it justice