kirk28

Finally got the ms123 crown alloys on.. New whitewalls too, amazed how better the car drives and how smooth the ride is.

So have another heater control and will pull this back outta the garage when I get back into NZ.. Am hoping this time it won't blow the resistors in the unit may be a problem further on in the system this car is made of relays.. Time will tell. Century wheel covers on.. Badly needs lowering is as high as the sky tower.

So if I wanted to go to a bench seat in my bucket seat ms112 with a handbrake it should be a lot easier to install the foot brake and do away with the centre console and handbrake yeah?

Hey man the crown that's getting the manual has got bucket seats but has a footbrake not a handbrake.

Sweet as I'll pm you; also I have a mate who bought the black manual ms110 for parts and manualising his ms112; he needs to change his ms112 from a footbrake to a handbrake; you've done this right? What's involved?

Here's the lights he scored minters $330 landed in NZ

Hey mate I helped a guy with a 83 ms117v source mint tail lights, have suggested he gives the old ones to you, are a bit rough but I think only the right one has a broken lens... All the outer plastic chrome is broken, you want?

Ok am still looking for the Royal saloon grille and bonnet chrome from a facelifted MS112 "sedan" it's proving impossible nearly though! Have some chrome bumpers and wing mirrors and stainless steel one piece rain guards (too hard to find the individual door monsoons).

Haven't done much... But have done this! Analogue clock...nice

Seems to be a common problem, pain in the ass, so far it's cost me $600 and still doesn't work

ok, so have finally found rear wipers on Yahoo.co.jp. surprisingly hard... The car's heater control is still being fixed, 3 times it's been in and three times it has to go back in, it's a pain in the ass because the heater is jammed on the foot vents and on high making it very uncomfortable to drive for more than 10 mins... also need to get these round headlights, the more I see them on the 130's the more I need them.. Also some came out with these front spoiler lips, would be rad to get one, and also I've seen the spoiler lip on the top of the rear tailgate.. shall keep on looking.

Has an intermittent problem with the temp gauge, the small block sometimes completely disappear, I don't think it's an issue with the cluster but probably the temp sensor playing up.

Put the rear chrome trim back on today, like big asses? You can also see the dent in the rear bumper above the top left of the number plate cut out and the bar will need to be straightened. There is a mint bar on Yahoo JPN for about $100 but the guys I use reckon the cost something over from Japan to here of anything longer than 1.5m will be around $1000 min as it has to go on a plane...bummer because there are two bumpers that are from a slightly earlier shape that has no rubber inserts which would look way better especially If I was able to get a front nose cone with the round head light set up.

Yep that's the car, the last owner lived in Lower Hutt, It looks a sight parked next to my Century - nothing like having 4 tons and 10.6 metres of pure unadulturated gas guzzling JDM VIP'ness on call.

discussion here //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/54980-kirk28s-1989-nissan-president-sovereign-vip-v8e/

am looking for the following for the following rocking horse shit for the Prez.. Hubcaps - as below front round head light front And also anyone in NP keen to hear who's good to take a dent outta the rear bumper. cheers

So left on the to do list is to get a dent fixed on the rear bumper; and if I can find one change the front to the round head light model, i'm pretty sure it's just a case of changing the nose cone, the guards etc are the same. After picking the car up from the Gloss master on the way home to Taranaki I stopped in at spec 2 development in East Tamaki to check out an 82 President sitting outside, its a terminal cancer patient and it has the round headlights; went and inquired about it but got the standard "it's a clients and it's not for sale he's owned it for years and is planning to do something with it" it looks like time is going to beat him to it as this thing is only just holding together by paint. Ok so if anyone knows of a wrecking President (73 - 82) let me know, i'm also after the stainless hubcaps that look a 1000 times better than the later model plastic jobs. So in the week i've picked it up i've put on more than 2500 summery jap-luxo-barge wafting kilometers

Some nice original black hidden below layers of krud same for the boot

Bonnet looking right fucked

So the one draw back was the paint, the seller told me it was oxidised and he had never done anything with it as he was concerned cutting it would be too risky on the old original paint. These old Japillacs have single stage paint so I knew it could be done carefully, and I prefer stuffed paint over rust which is the usual case with these cars, this one's the best i've seen in that regard and has zero rust So the car looks really good from a few metres back but get closer to it and it becomes pretty obvious it's oxidised to all shit, the car actually looked more grey than black...So I contacted a guy in Albany who I knew was the master of paint correction and drove the old bitch up to Auckland to get some attention while I caught up with some mates. The work took 2 days of cutting it carefully back and applying an oil based coat that should last a few years, but let the pictures do the talking, pretty amazing transformation.. Was where a TV aerial was attached, had some protective clear adhesive that had after 27 years become one with the paint.

So I arranged to fly in for Xmas from Oz to Wellington to pick the car up and add it to the garage fleet that probably will continue to get bigger. Jumped in and drove it back to New Plymouth; blast from the past, these things are very similar to driving a mid 60's yank tank and really aren't the cars to throw around corners, the ancient road holding and the sky high stance means you should only wind it up on long straights...but fuck they are so enjoyable to cruise in..connect iphone to stereo; set the dual air conditioning;open the 4 electric quarterlight windows; dial in the cruise control and sink into the leather barcalounger type seats. As expected it chewed through a tank pretty quickly but the car hadn't been run for a while and changing to 95 from 91 has improved the fuel consumption heaps; but a car that is essentially 45 years old in design, weighs 2200kg; has the aerodynamics of the empire state building, and runs a 3 speed slush box is never going to get decent mileage, infact the Prez makes my 91 Century feel a bit like a drivers car..and that's saying something. took the boot carpet out to clean it, the boot or more correctly the "trunk" on these are massive

Ok so after unsuccessfully looking for a mint President with the round headlights, too hit and miss to import one as the early Presidents are seriously bad for rust, so I gave in and bought this 89 which is black on black on black from a guy I had met through my UZS131 ownership about 17 years ago (he still has his mint 131 Crown btw). http://i.imgur.com/VqvFevy.jpg[/img] I was sold on the mint black interior, and the $20k plus of receipts he had from the last 6 years he owned it. I knew he was particular with his cars but the receipts on this thing are unreal, he completely over serviced the car and has every receipt for that too. New injectors (they nearly always fail on these) New heater core Air conditioning repaired and converted to R-134a Rebuilt transmission and diff New vinyl roof New factory sky high factory suspension with whitewalls as high as the great wall of china. Everything in the car works, and I mean everything, all 3 cigarette lights unused 136,000km which seems legit. Actually this is the second President i've owned, the other was 10ish years ago, a 87 Sovereign with a very rare full bench in the front - that car is currently being worked on by the new owner and is getting a VH 4.5 V8..should be interesting.

Ok so have finally got around to putting on the JDM grille (of a GS110 Super Saloon) and lights, looks much better. Also tried the rounds, they look really good ( I did a photo shop on a MS112 here) but need some modifications due the Royal Saloons having a different bottom garnish,I'll prob go the rounds when i do an engine swap.- Either i'll get my hands on a good 6MGE or go a 1UZ