200SX Track car project - NOT 56K FRIENDLY

hi all, as i said in my intro thread, this will be my project progress thread.

i got the cat because when i took my bike to the ring last year, every lap was a seat of pants lap and if anything went even remotly wrong id have bit it, and looking at the cars and the people driving, it just seemed to be less stressful and a hell of a lot more fun, so... iv always had a soft spot for sx's and was instantly on the lookout for a project, i come across this one with a ND330 engine conversion done and ND330 front brakes fitted(R33 GTR Brembos)with all complementing parts too like suspension ect... so i went for it at £1800. got it home and started prodding around and found out that id had quite a bit of rust, but instead of re-shelling, i decided nows the time to learn how to weld and work on cars properly, so i got myself a mig welder and some steel, and went about it with my angle grinder, after a while id got the hang of it... a bit anyways
ill get some pics of the progress iv done so far and take some mroe this weekend.
feel free to comment, take the piss, and give input, it will all be appreciated

So...i got it last september and have been sorting the rust out since then, im just about getting to the bottom of the rust, and this weekend should see it complete

ill let the pics do the talking

Dragging it home














Lazy eye mod


Then i started to look for the rust






















Ounce i had decided that i was going to keep it and weld it back to full health, i stripped the interior with hope of not finding much more rust... little did i know














Dirty great hole in my near side sill EPIC FAIL








started to expose it all and treat it till i got round to sorting it








LET THE CHOPPING COMENCE






Welding in the wind isnt much fun at all


















thats all iv got from the past few months, iv come a long way since, so ill take a few more over the weekend

when the weather went bad i decided that the brembos needed servicing and ended up stripping them, theyre now all painted up in black with a red brembo logo on the front









and to close my pic whoring, ill show you the state of one of the turbos that come with the car, never seen anything like it, the compressor wheel actually come off






and my nice new-ish T28 from a s14a



Thats all for now

Ouch, fair play on this one Brad, got your work cut out big time! lots of rust and holes but progress looking good. Turbo looks nicely fubared aswell

When you planning on having this done for mate?

yeah, theres a fair bit of work to be done, but this weekend (weather pending) should have it finished.

well with a bit of luck and good finances i should have it done by next summer...ish, but theres no deadline, but it would be nice to be able to take it to the ring next year though

my gad.... it is/was like swiss cheese!

its mother nature way of making our cars lighter and faster

Bit of an update, i do have pics but cant be arsed to get em off my phone cus im lazy

well, iv officially finished cutting the rust out and welding up, iv been spending the past few evening out with my angle grinder wire brushing the old crappy paint and surface rust from around my chassis rails whilst my boot floor is out wich makes thing soo much easier, iv acid etched them and finished the 2nd coat of hammerite tonight, so thats redy to be wax-oiled when i get round to it.

iv ordered some bits too, iv got a 25ft roll of 3/16 copper brake pipe and a boat load of fittings plus a nice little brake bias controller to plumb in too, im also about to order a set of rear camber, toe and traction arms (all rose-jointed) for when i remove my rear sub-frame and get it sand blasted and powder coated. my rear setup is going to be: solid bushed sub-frame, solid bushed diff, rose-jointed everything, Driftworks coilovers, and i think i might weld my diff just for the entertaining low speed parking noises and 10mph wet weather drifts

whilst iv got the subby off ill be angle grinding all the paint and surface rust off and acid etching then hammerite and wax-oil, then when thats done ill be doing the brake line from the bios controller to the reat T piece, then i can get the subby back on and do the rest at a later date.

the coilovers will be one of the last things ill do cus they aint cheap!

but ounce the rear is all done and complete, ill start gathering parts for the fuel cell setup, iv gota re-make my boot floor and sink the tank atleast half way into it so its easy to build the firewall from the cabin... swirl pot, 2 external pumps 2 filters ect... all to be looking sexyfull in stainless everything and mounter properly

but i could do with the the engine out asap so i can finish up some of the patched i put on the inner arches


all good fun

Love these cars, looks like some hard work ahead of you but it'll be awesome in the end i'm sure