Johnbarry88's Project R33

[johnbarry88]

Hey guys starting working on the skyline a couple of weeks ago getting it ready for its new paint job.

Paint: 8m7 2006 Toyota Camery Blue Ice pearl metalic with 280g of extra pearl

All bolt on items are in primer

Doors inside and out

Front guards

CF Bonnet

Boot and wing

Tail light surrounds

Front bar

Grill

Still have the rest of the body to but all the windows are out, just have to do a repair on the LH rear guard and the rest of the car will be in primer this weekend.

Working on the engine bay atm cleaning up all the un-used holes and smoothing the engine bay aswell as seam welding the towers.

Engine bay:

[GTR-N1]

Thanks for keeping me in the loop.

Otherwise I'd never know how much I should appreciate attention to detail like this.

I'm interested in your thoughts about how you decide on grades of sandpaper later on.

Cheers,

Tez

[johnbarry88]

dont quite understand what you mean terry but thanks...

[NA_Goodness]

Too many people skip that step, good work!

You can never have too much attention to detail!

[Craved]

nice project - looks like you havent done the seem welding bit yet - dont do too much work around that area until you get the welding done as most of the filler near there will be ruined with the welding.

try to wire brush all the scorching around your welds too before hitting with filler helps keep as little contamination between the filler and the metal.

[johnbarry88]

hey guys just finished seam welding one side tonight will move onto the other tomorrow night...

[baron25]

Maybe a n00b question, but what's seam welding and why are you doing it?

[johnbarry88]

seam welding is: welding pannels together to make them more riged to stop twisting a moving, helps keep everything nice and tight.

[GUN_METAL_GTR32]

thats cool, are u seam welding other spots like around the doors and in the boot and stuff or just in the engine bay area

cheers

[johnbarry88]

just the engine bay area atm dont think ill go that far with the whole car

[johnbarry88]

started the other tower tonight...

Edited September 3, 2008 by johnbarry88

[Trav33]

So is seam welding just lots of spots? Not a continual weld?

[WHITER33GTS-T]

I thought seam welding was a full weld not spots??? I have my engine bay in my old Torana seam welded and everything was made smooth.

[johnbarry88]

just an update..

[bwebbie1]

mate that is looking sweet cant wait for more updates

[Dahtone Racing]

never tried this kind of job yet but i will be doing it on my 32

ill be keeping an eye on this thread to see how yours ends up

looks tops so far

[johnbarry88]

Left hand side. Its in etch primer atm just have a couple of this to do then it will be 2pac primed

Edited September 7, 2008 by johnbarry88

[johnbarry88]

stuff it just fully seam welded it all...

[johnbarry88]

update been a bit busy but got one side almost done today...

[W0rp3D]

from what i have been told full seam welding is actually a bad idea, things still twist and flex a little, full seam welding will result in breaks and cracks else where, stich welding is the way to go.