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Just spent like the last 2 hours reading this thread! Awesome work dude

Weekly-ish update time i'm really hoping this weekend will be the final time, it hard because my uncle is giving me a hand (he's a mechanic) and he's been sorting out stuff but he can't always come over and help. I ripped out the majority of the rear interior, seeing as my uncle couldn't come that weekend I thought it would be a good idea to finally get to the bottom of the sticky shit that keeps getting over everything. When I bought the car the previous owner told me that the owner before him had used it as their work vehicle and had spilt some oil or so in there. So the majority of the boot panels have got stains on them. It turned out to be a bigger job than I thought, if I knew that the sticky stuff was actually the sound deadening stuff deteriorating from whatever was spilt I could have saved a lot of time and a lot of cans of degreaser lol. Using a heatgun was the most effective way to remove the old sound deadening. I set it to 450°C which was probably a bit much but it was certainly effective, just a few seconds over the area and a little on the scraper literally just made the stuff roll off. So I went to good old Repco and bought some Dynamat, just the 18" X 32" I believe, $64, this was pretty much enough to cover where the old stuff was and a little more, I was pretty happy with how much it covered in all honesty. No clue if I applied the stuff right but its stuck pretty well down, but damn that stuff is pretty sharp along the edges, got a pretty hearty deep flamin mongrel on my finger. Do I recommend you doing it? Only if you need to lmao... its a pretty time consuming task and takes a lot of patience. But bloody hell, it is sooooo satisfying with it done, looks super clean and knowing that I can go into the spare wheel well and not get sticky shit all over my hands is awesome. My uncle also got the springs onto the new shocks and got the bumpstops on which is awesome. Sorry about the sizing of the photos, if I knew how to make them smaller I totally would lol.

Okay so i've found a website that does dashmats, but not for stagea lol. I might try email them and see if they can do a custom one. Otherwise does anyone know if there are any similar dashes on other nissans that might roughly fit?

Yeah fair enough haha

Same goes with iOS app [emoji24]

Damn... I saw some for sale that was $50 lol should have bought it.

I'd be keen on buying some aye, I don't have any on my car lol. And its got the glue stuff stuck on there and no matter how hard I try it won't come off lol

Lmao this was like 8 years ago

I'd be keen on one too lol

Wooweeee Today was pretty successful I'd say. I'm sure the people over on the Facebook group got a laugh and all thought I was retarded [emoji23] I didn't really take many photos today at all, And so today we basically only got in the new subframe and got that all secured, we kinda got stuck after we went to change the springs over to the new shocks. The new shocks didn't have bump stops or the boot thing, so we managed to strip the old one down but we couldn't get the bump stop/bolt over to the new shock Lucky my uncles neighbour works at a custom suspension shop or something and he's gonna get him to give us some advice, we could always go without them but I'd rather it be done properly. Now; here is where the laughs began. Going to test fit my new wheels and... Yeah they didn't sit flush. I sat there googling the specs for the bore and what not, it should all add up! So I made a post on the Facebook group and Jez, straight off the bat said to check for rings around the hub or the wheel, I took a look and couldn't see anything About a half hour later and posting a close up of the hub someone pointed out that the non rusted ring was probably a spacer thing. Well fml. It was... I seriously couldn't tell.. it looked flush to the hub and I probably just thought it was part of the brake disc or whatever. Just a picture of the wheel (has no strut in, hence lowwww) Oh! And bonus pic, here is my wheel well thing which I somehow need to clean lol

Sanded down my side skirts today then plasti dipped one... I REALLY should have followed the instructions or actually googled how to spray paint because it was a pretty bad job lol... Considering I'd never touched paint in a can before it probably wasn't too bad. This is comparing the newly painted one and the original one. And... where I've finished for tonight Hopefully tomorrow I will be putting in the subframe and she will be rolling again... then I can go the touch ups and final stuff haha

Does anyone have updated photos? lol. These photos don't work/show up >.<

Seems like its not a simple job lol. But yeah I think i'd rather use a heat gun if that works, I'll have to borrow someones or go buy one lol. Thanks for your help.

Bake the headlight so separate the glass from the rest of the assembly? Do you know how hot/how long? and then I guess bake it again to join the headlight back to the assembly? Sounds easy enough I guess, do I need to replace the glue or what not that was used to hold the glass to the assembly? Thanks.

Painting S1 C34 Headlights? So there seem to be plenty of tutorials on painting or cleaning M35 headlights and even some on the S2 C34 headlights. What I want to know is if anyone has painting their headlights black or some other colour, obviously not the reflector, but the other chrome bits. As I have spiders and some gunk in there and it just looks bad, seeing as i'm cleaning up the car heaps I thought i'd knock it out of the way now. Thx

Are you going by the temp gauge in the dash? They're pretty shit, but if it's going all the way up on that there might be something up

That looks like a mission and a half

Finally got the bloody sideskirts off the fenders and got the last bolt holding the other fender onto the car off using vice grips after I gave up drilling it out lol

Nope, still there

I'm getting emails, but yeah it's still there. Cleared my cache just in case but no cigar.

I'm getting emails, but yeah it's still there. Cleared my cache just in case but no cigar.

Unfortunately it's not been fixed for me, tried multiple browsers too.

I'm having this issue too lol