Thought I’d document this project and lean on the community, because ill probably need it [emoji51]
I was a member 10 odd years ago and only signed in here and there over the past while. I actually thought the forum was dead but realised tonight it was just because I was using Tapatalk and wasn’t a member [emoji85].
My second ever car was an S14a that I bought from one of my best mates which I drove daily for 3 years and never sold....It was costing me too much to run so I just bought a daily and parked the S14a in my dads shed 10 years ago, moved an hour away and forced it from my mind. The friend that I bought the car off tried to buy it back for her wedding day on NYE 2020 but I couldn’t sell it.
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These were before I parked it up
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It lived behind this door for 10 years and was only uncovered for a photo on my wedding day.
I always intended to do something with the car but was avoiding it. A few years ago I set up an account and started putting away bits and pieces into a “Nissan fund” which kept getting raided (mostly to keep other shit-but-fun cars running). My mate trying to buy it back stirred something and then, just before Christmas this year, I was having a drunken chat with my dad. He told me to; “get that piece of jap shite out of my shed or do something with it” and my wife backed him up .... so bought a lift.
With the lift installed, the project started on jan 1st and the final aim is a full tear down and restoration.
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How it looked on jan 1st, day 1 of the project.
The car spent a lot of its pervious life at the coast in Northern Ireland so it’s pretty rotten. I paid to have the passengers sill “replaced” 11 years ago or so but it looks like it was done almost entirely with fillers. There will be plenty welding required; Both inner and outer sills, front tubs and a few floor patches. Other than those areas (some of which are really bad), it isn’t actually too bad.
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Some of the scabbyness that was previously “repaired”
I have worked on cars before but have never attempted something like this. Nothing even approaching this before actually. I live away from the car and have had no access to it since Christmas due to what’s going on at the moment... but I took a week off work at Easter and so far, it is stripped to a shell with the exception of dash, loom and glass.
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During the tear down my other piece of shit broke down
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Twice (because it’s French)
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And this is how it currently sits.
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