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Brief History, Bought this Shell for the price of a round of drinks! It was stripped ten, fifteen years ago of all its running gear, and I mean everything. Why? It was a breaker. 

Pic shows sitting on drink crates, mocked up using 940 turbo Volvo rims, then Rota 17 inch

Bought all body panels, in a separate deal, spec2 I believe. 

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Shell was glass blasted and primed and undercoated this week, nothing held back, there was no repairs done on the shell previously, as with blasting, it's back to bare metal. Turrets are original and very clean. Overall for a 25 Yr old car, it's pretty solid. 

 

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Tnks, and thanks! 

It's cheap as chips, everything I bought with it or for it was, that's the way it gonna be, but everything will be done right, no corners cut here, if budget slows me.... So be it. 

Learning a lot, and hopefully will learn a lot from you yourselves along the way. 

I'm no stranger to car restorations! Normally work on 40 Yr old yokes, so this should be a breeze....... Yeh right. 

Atleast starting with a blank shell, I know what I've got, most skylines here are rot boxes, salted roads in winter, mostly wet, and mucky. Not good when most imports where not protected, very little paint on these from new, primer at best. 

Next step is allow paint to fully harden. Then seemsealer, and stonechip underneath.  Learning how to protect front shock terrets from under and above, also boot seems that leak. 

As for a GTR, not my thing, sorry. RWD ONLY, are you joking! In the land of AE86, donuts and drifting.... 

15 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

Not to shit on the OP, but it's a shame to see time, money and resources spent on a 33.

<runs for cover>

Work so far includes, price of 5 glass blasting bags, and 3L of undercoat paint, less than 1 and 1/2 fills juice! 

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Work is slowing but progressing, garage isn't inviting! Cold, 0°C, dark, and wet, but it is progressing. Making a few repair sections, seen a complete boot floor panel on ebay locally, (UK) at £600, got the part number of the sticker, and searched online. 

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Any one use them? 

https://www.nengun.com/oem/nissan/74514-24u30

Progressed and made the boot floor section, by hand, as I had a few where the glass blasting exposed, it really doesn't take any prisoners. 

I'm moving on to a section in front of the rear wheels, it's a box section shape, and would be in front of the rear subframe. It may be the rear jacking point. 

Can anyone identify it in the image?

 

 

 

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Next up is chassis leg. Removed spot welds. Removed chassis section. Heated, straightened, new 3mm plate section cut, weld through zinc primer, and fill holes drilled, ready to be fill welded! 

Should outlast me! One more side to go. 

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Wow, great work. Really appreciate when people do their own mods and rebuilds. Hope progress is continuing at a good pace. Can never have enough photos. I did my rebuild the easy way, keep it in the garage and don't drive it much. I happen to love the 33's. Mine is mint but would like to stitch weld and brace the chassis after 25 years. 

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