210 Body Restoration Under Way

[passin ewe]

Sand blasted the front gaurds at work yesterday, glassed, bogged and etch primed today. Tomorrow it's the sills. Someones already done a poxy bog job on them in the past so i"ll have to grind it out, rust treat it and more glassing. Got given a GTR XU1 boot air dam and guess what? it fits quite nicely strangely enough. The curve is so similar to the 210s boots curve that it won't take much to have it sit nicely. I'll put up a pic at the end of the day. Not sure what colour to paint it, the car will be white and the cooktop light assembley will be changed from grey to white also. Should i paint the dam white or black?

[masTers]

White dude, will look alot neater!

[passin ewe]

Sometimes the rust has just gottta go. Thankfully I work with some very generous sheetmetal workers.

This area had been badly bogged, thus the rust had a field day. Now it's been rust treated and sprayed with zinc it. The new sill will be welded in with a bit of glass and putty on the sides.

[passin ewe]

The sill in, Wish i had more room. Having to stack doors (bloody heavy too) on the boot, they must weigh about 40kg each. shame you have to have them,love to replace them with fibreglass and hope never to get hit side on.

[passin ewe]

Some of the back end painted

[racsov500]

awesome work. would love to do the same thing to one

[passin ewe]

Started the main priming stage today. Did the bonnet,boot,and guards in etch primer and put a coat of filler primer on this avo. Typing this with red raw fingers,bloody sanding aahhhh

[harvo]

Looking good man, nothing worse then sanding back a car, then priming, then sanding, then painting, then repeating

Dreading repainting mine, but liking some of the pearls on ebay at the moment

Cheers Dan

[passin ewe]

Primer filler on, my wife has the worst headache ever from fuming. Guess you gotta take the good with the bad. My mates compressor worked itself so hard it hemoraged oil. I think a bigger compressor for the top coat will be required

[passin ewe]

Attached the air dam and filled all the pot rivet holes

[passin ewe]

Finally it's done. Will post better pics when I can wheel it outside.

[passin ewe]

Back end together, obviously bumpers still off. Hopefully tomorrow i'll get all the chrome bits on. Going to wait 2 weeks before putting a shine on the paint.

[coupe72001]

That, my friend, is the duck's guts! It's finally getting warm enough to spray mine - they'll just about be a matching set!

[passin ewe]

thanks Drew, yea I'm pretty happy with the outcome. I need to get some decent feet on it also . Whats the biggest rim you can get under those arches?

[coupe72001]

Without cutting anything a 205/55/r15 will go under there with no worries.

I remember that V8 skyline man ran 17's on his C210, but I don't know how much work it took to make them fit.

[VSPEC32]

Did anyone see this? Overfenders would certainly fix up any clearance issues.

http://kultivate.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/...ine-2000-ex-gt/

[passin ewe]

Yeah VSPEC32, that's exactly what I'm after. I don 't like my chances of finding them here in Aus. The guy who gave me the air dam also has some A9x bolt on guards and I'm going to check out how they fit and look on my 210. Has anyone seen these overriders for sale anywhere? Ricky.

[VSPEC32]

Have you considered buying from Yahoo Japan Auctions?

I've previously purchased off of there via Slidewize Imports who provide a service whereby you specify the maximum bid on an item, and they provide a calculation on getting it to your door. They then bid on the item for you, have it shipped to their depot in Japan, repackage if required and ship to your door in Australia. I did this with a tail light cluster for a 200ZR Fairlady and that landed within 10 days at a cheaper rate than buying from Victoria. Also used them to buy an R34 GT-R drivers seat for my Silvia.

http://www.slidewizeimports.com/

It mentions in that article that he uses S30 ZG Overfenders (possibly modified to suit), so based on that this search would certainly be of some assistance:

http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/search/...0Z&auccat=0

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Brendan

[passin ewe]

VSPEC thanks for the info, I'll try the A9X over riders first and if no joy there I'll try slidewize.If any W.A members no of a decent rear bumper, I'd like to know otherwise I'll rip the chrome of and paint it white.

[racsov500]

mate that is f**king beautiful!