Right, here we go!
This car has been evolving for a number of years now and I just thought I would put all the bits and pieces that have been done to it into one thread.
A bit of history about the car, I bought this car off 'Marky Boy' on here who really managed to offload a complete rust bucket! We've had the car since 2004 and it has rarely been on the road since as I keep doing things to it. It's a 1990 S13 manual in blue.
Phase 1 - The wedding car.
I can't remember quite how this came about but it was decided that we would use the old S13 for our wedding car. But seeing as the thing was a bit of a heap at the time it was going to need a major revamp, and we only left ourselves 2 months to do it before our wedding
This is an example of the general state of the underneath of the car:
I actually found a entire newspaper stuffed into the sill and covered with filler, they must have had their stetsons on that day.
We were working in the old silo at this point and the car was stripped down for all the welding that was needed underneath:
The chassis legs and sills as well as the rear arches were almost completely remade with new metal, yawn.
The sound deadening in place:
The sound deadening removed:
And the poor buggers who had to do it!
With the car all welded up and ready to get a lick of paint we had to move it to the garage, I thought this day would never come!
Yay, it feels like we're getting somewhere after countless hours with the MIG:
The shell is surprisingly light and we managed to lift it onto the back of the trailer between two of us: