Beaubot
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On 19/10/2020 at 10:30, kyteler said:
I think Bluebird stopped wagons after the U11.
Even if it was a U11 wagon it would be be a fairly small fan base. 910 might be worthwhile depending on the level of repair required but 810 and older would likely be worthwhile.
I had a CA20 manual U11 brickbird wagon and it was such a good car, only blew it up 3 times...
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Cheers mate, i enjoyed doing the painting, Its the prep and (mainly) fixing issues that I can't stand
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Now the caveat here is that I'm a mechanic, not a body work or paint guy but I think I done gone did alright if I do say so myself
Flat sanding and buffing the car didn't quite go so smoothly, I managed to buff through a few spots with the woolen pad(my old man later informs me that he shouldv'e given me the foam (pleb) version instead
And from this point is where it all went a little pear shaped (and I stopped taking photos) Because I'd run out of red I needed Dad to get me some more for the touch ups, now I sent him a photo of the label on the paint he had originally got me. He brought out a 250ml tin, took the lid off and checked it against the car "yep thats it" (he was originally an autopainter by trade, so I made the mistake of believing he could still see colour) I prepped all the touch up spots and gave them a lick of colour. Now somehow I managed to pull off spraying all the touch ups perfectly, no runs, no dusting, good coverage, excellent! buuuut after the paint dried I had a some very orangey red spots on an otherwise red car..... Out came the D/A and off came the paint. Now on my second attempt with the correct Red I think the rag I was using to wipe down the car must have had some sort of contamination because nearly all the repairs fish eyed in spots. I've sanded and buffed most of them good now but my motivation at the time was quickly waning. I ended up repainting the entire boot lid twice because the first attempt fish eyed badly and that is pretty much where motivation cease. The bootlid still needs to be rebuffed when I find some CBFs.
In binning the Ironmask front from this car I decided to try out the Wagon quad light set up.
I had to trim the chrome off the bottom for it to work with the kouki bumper
I have since painted the front bar, grill and all the side trims in black as well, I need to find a better facelift rear bar as mines pretty out of shape (anyone?)
Oh and @Brdflu lent me his front lip, of which I repaired and made a mould
This Is also now black.
Anywho, thats enough spamming from me, hopefully I summon some motivation and get back into it, otherwise I'll see you all in 2 years
Discussion, advice and suggestions welcomed:
https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57362-beaubots-1982-er30-skyline-sedan/
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Doors were up next, started with the shuts, gave the lower halves a lick of black along with the window frames.
Chuck all the panels back on for a looksee, and a quick sand
Next up, I moved everything in the shed and knocked up a makeshift booth using some steel cables and plastic drop sheets and had a crack at the doors and nose cone
I didn't mix up quite enough paint to get two full coats on everything, so I had a few dusty spots on the RH doors. On another note nothing attracts bugs like fresh car paint, landed right in the middle of the RHF guard, whats a little more sanding.
So for my next trick I went all in, mixed the remainder of the paint and took the gun to the whole car.
Discussion, advice and suggestions welcomed:
https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57362-beaubots-1982-er30-skyline-sedan/
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Next up I started on the shuts(read had no idea so I started on the bits you can hide)
I know red over black, how R30 Stereotypical
Some errors were made
Turtle helped
Discussion:
https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57362-beaubots-1982-er30-skyline-sedan/
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After more than 2 years, I'm here to update my thread.
The Ironmask bonnet arrived from Japan and I had some small dents tidied up by a panel beater mate. But I have decided to save the Ironmask front for another future project.
Id run the car as a daily till mid 2019 when I decided it was time for a birthday, the paint was getting pretty shabby.
Also new(Sep 2018, yes Its been a while) house and garage who dis
So I decided I'd like to have a go at painting a car, I always liked watching my drift cars getting painted so I figured fuck it lets have a crack. I decided to go to bare metal on the exterior
And then gave it a couple coats of etch primer to prevent surface corrosion
I ended up pulling the screens and inevitably found a bit of rust, the front screen had been refitted by someone with clear RTV and it didn't exactly keep the moisture out. A bit of a wire wheel, rust converter and some welding and it was sorted.
There had been a skim of bog on both the left doors, so I sanded it out and re applied it where necessary, pretty good given how old the car is.
Started with Priming the shuts and loose panels
Followed by the body
Discussion:
https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57362-beaubots-1982-er30-skyline-sedan/
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On 19/09/2020 at 19:06, fletch said:
Cheapest option will probably be to buy one of those ali x variable speed drives that take 230v single phase and 400v 3 phase out. Just set it to 50hz and fix it directly to the hoist. Only turn it on to move the hoist.
Thats How I did my old one, $250 Ali VSD, did the job nicely.
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Ive still got those OG skyline centre caps in the glove box of the R30 for you @Carsnz123 and what happened to the precombustion barometric pressure compensator idea @RUNAMUCK
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$2000 for 5.6 thousand km, after driving mine through town a couple of times I can completely understand that, I could see the gauge moving.
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Train wheels please
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2 minutes ago, ajg193 said:
That wouldn't get past an insurance inspector if you crash and it isn't explicitly certified for it
I doubt 90% of the cars on here would get past an insurance inspector (if they bothered to have a look)
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Theyre hidden inside the rack boots.....
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Now that youve cut the subframe to clear, Id lower the rack mounts and try flip the tie rods at the hub to correct your steering arm angles.
I have mounted the rack in the old mans Chevrolet too high and its inducing bumpsteer, ive got no room to lower it, so Im going to try a pair of offset rackend spacers like we use for the skid racing to move the inner rack ends downwards (instead of inwards like theyre designed to) Could be an idea
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still 380ish vs 0, anyone want to buy some gtr turbos
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3 minutes ago, RUNAMUCK said:
Find a cheaper m90
I like your thinking
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@RUNAMUCK I wholeheartedly agree, but spending $800 to 1k on an m90, plus fucking round with a belt drive and mounting plate vs $25 for a t25 exhaust flange and some scrap piping to use one of the 4 GTR turbos I have in the garage isnt my idea of a good time. What to do? what to do?
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What happened to this?
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Happened across a pair of 15x7 A disc SSRs on the Trademe
The front fell off
Lights lost some weight and Added some tabs for the filler panel
Faces were lifted
Painted a thing (badly - Nats rush)
New balloons to replaced the 175s on the front
I lost interest in fitting the body kit before Nats as it required a lot more hole drilling than I felt I could be bothered with.
After battling round the PENInSula at Nats Ive decided its time for more powers and better speakers.
Discussion, advice and suggestions welcomed:
https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57362-beaubots-1982-er30-skyline-sedan/
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Did some things. I purchased some SSR MK1s and the seller did a bit a swifty as two of the rims are badly buckled in the rim face and cant be repaired, thus unusable. I scored a pair of balloon tyres off a car through work and theyve been sitting in the workshop for a few months. I also bought 3x 16x7 f8 Watanabes, theyre weak offset and pretty dishless, but for $120 I couldnt resist.
I did some wheel/style trialing
The Wats definitely want some spacer action
These are the two good A type mk1s, I honestly thought Id like the Wats better, but the balloon tyre drum lids are far more rad than I expected.
Im driving it drift spec at the moment due to my single type wheel shortage.
Anyone know of some 15x7 A disc Mk1s for sale?????
Discussion, advice and suggestions welcomed:
https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57362-beaubots-1982-er30-skyline-sedan/
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On 1/19/2018 at 09:56, Beaubot said:
Took it for a spin, 3rd and 4th are super close but all in all a great success, no noises, no leaks and an 800rpm drop at 100k
+5 to efficiency
Soooo, after putting a GPS speedo in the car, it turns out I lied.
The j160 5th gear is 1:1 and 6th is like 0.879, so if anything I may have gained a few RPMs at 100k.....
Time to find a taller diff!
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We are moving house shortly, so I really needed to get the old girl moving. Rfbbie from JD fabrication kindly lent me his SQ j160 shifter setup from his AE. Its a nicely made little unit and puts the stick in a near perfect spot in the R30
Frank smashed a driveshaft together for me on Wednesday, the circle is now complete.
Look at all the projects.
Took it for a spin, 3rd and 4th are super close but all in all a great success, no noises, no leaks and an 800rpm drop at 100k
+5 to efficiency
Discussion, advice and suggestions welcomed:
https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57362-beaubots-1982-er30-skyline-sedan/
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Ideally I wouldve used the nice alloy altezza crossmember and made new box mounts on the floor pan, but there wasnt quite enough clearance to the current exhaust system, so steel plate additions it is.
The Er30 has stupid rubber doughnuts between the crossmember and the floor, which meant the extra leverage would tilt the mount to the rear. Nothing some steel bar couldnt fix (its hidden under the base washers).
On another note Christmas presents from JAPAN!!!! Courtesy of MS Imports
Ill finish the gearbox shit before I start fiddling with the cosmetics
Discussion, advice and suggestions welcomed:
https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/57362-beaubots-1982-er30-skyline-sedan/
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Been slowly plodding away at the R30.
Karl gave me an l26 dummy block for the project, a j160 6spd from an altezza
Chopped the bellhousing off and mated it to a trimmed auto L series bellhousing, using the stock flywheel and pressure plate with a celica clutch disc.
Robbie from JB fabrication glued it together for me.
Next up is jigging up a crossmember.
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Its changed hands many times in the last few years. I believe it was originally a 30e, its had a 350 at some stage, nothing atm. Its in a bit of a state but I couldnt help myself. I regretted selling my last one, I had to get another.
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Japanese guy with way too much time on his hands
in General Car Chat
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Stumbled across this in my work induced boredom, its from quite some time ago and Googles Japanese translation makes for some interesting reading but pretty cool(pointless) nonetheless
http://spark88.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-50-7.html