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S14 Trackslag, Rust Repairs, Cage, Brembo's, ABS and Aircon Delete
Finally started prepping my car for trackdays. Ive had the car for a couple of years, but not used it much. Instead its has been festering outside and going rusty. The rust got worse than i realised and i was actaully going to scrap the shell and buy another car, but ive decided to repair it.
Plans are as follows:
Repair rusty rear arches
Fit origin overfenders
Strip interior
Fit Apex bolt in cage
Remove ABS
Fit Skyline Brembos
Remove Aircon
Go to stage 2
This thread is going to be picture heavy!
I started by stripping the interior including dash, and removing the sound deadening. I then mock fitted the cage in order to work out where and how to weld in the floor plates. This is an Apex cage, and has been a bit of a fecker to get assembled inside the car. I used a bottle jack to pump the main hoop legs out to get them sitting right on the floor. Ill get pics of this later when i do final fit of the cage.
Ill remove all the crappy residue before i paint the inside.
Next i started on the rusty rear arches. Im not tubbing them completely, as i dont intend fitting huge wheels. Ive cut around 1 1/2 off, then ill cut and weld the inners back to the outers. When this is done, ill fit the overfenders. Im not bodywork expert and have been putting this job off for ages.
Quite therapeutic ripping rusty crap and filler out!
Comedy amounts of sealer type stuff holding loads of filler in!
Nice shiny clean metal.
There are also a couple of other rusty patches on this car including a nasty bit on the sill at the leading edge of the rear wheel arch. Looks like someone has jacked it up and the sill has split then been bodge repaired.
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awesome work, love the car. black is the best colour BY FAR.
subscribed mate, good luck with the rest of it
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Cheers. Yeah i love Black s14's. Its parts of the reason im fixing this one, as if i bought another shell, id have to get it sprayed black anyway!
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Is that a 50mm rear Origin fender or 30mm?
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Its a 50mm. The car has +25 rear spacers.
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This is the photo i am now using to keep motivation levels up!
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that my mates car lol - ash wesstmoremand.. use ot live her in the uk then moved out to nz.. that car is minty mc minterson.
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I love this thread man, iv just recently jacked up my 180sx which has been off the road for a year only to find a few spots of rust. this thread has inspired to to get my finger out and get some cutting and welding done so iv purchased myself a little dc tig welder and a grinder.
Keep up the good work!
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