My new toy !!

[Bubble]

What a fantastic effort you are putting into this, I just wouldn't have the patience to do it myself.

Keep up the good work

[wh0s_the_daddy]

Thanks mate, but you at least get to drive yours......

I sprayed my AYC diff today, spent 2 hours rubbing it down with wire wool to get rid of 12 years of crud, 2 coats of primer then a couple of coats of gloss black, my fingers are red raw !!!

I removed all the diff bolts (and fitted temporary ones) so they can be chromed, they will look good against the gloss black casings. The little square inspection cover is being chromed aswell.....

I also drained all the oils ready to put in new stuff.







also sprayed my SAS valve...





Whilst I was in the garage i removed the fuel tank again so that i could get to all the brake lines and fuel lines to sand them down and paint them ( I forgot to do them before, i got carried away with fitting shiny bits ), I treated them to a coat of Mastic 121 so they will now last forever. As soon as the Mastic is dry i'll spray the lines gloss black and re-fit the fuel tank (again)....

something else off the list....

[Moff]

Looks good mate... OCD.. where

[Trev]

Absolutely awesome amount of time and detail you have put into this!



I have the highest respect for you, I wish I had the time and patience to do half of what you have achieved.



FANTASTIC.

[wh0s_the_daddy]

Cheers fellas....

More bits added, spent a couple of hours messing about today.

Fitted upper arm brackets.....new stainless bolts aswell.



Fitted rear beam exhaust hanger...had it chromed.



Fitted fuel filler pipe stone guard ( although it needs taking off again so i can move fuel filler pipe in order to get rear upper arm bolt in ).





Fitted rear ARB mounts just to make sure they look ok - chromed & polished







Fitted rear diff mounting brackets to diff - had them chromed and the bolts chromed.

[wh0s_the_daddy]

Fitted AYC braided lines to diff to check fitment....



Then fitted AYC pump, i cleaned the pump up and sprayed it gloss black, the pump mounting brackets were powder coated silver then same colour as the fuel tank heat shields.
Replaced all bolts with stainless.



Pipe bracket chromed, following the attention to detail, notice the domed nuts....

GOT TO REPLACE HOSE CLIPS WITH NICE SHINY NEW ONES.....





Fitted braided AYC lines to AYC pump...







Just got to work out now where to route the new lines and where to secure them to the chassis, i'll do this once i've re-fitted the diff...



Replace fuel tank mounting nuts with nice dome nuts.....



thanks for looking....

[ubernoob]

hello mate, stunning evo.

what is the name of the advan alloys? i have the exact same set on my skyline and if i decide to keep the skyline i fancy a change. could you pm me the price you sold them for and the name model name please? many thanks.

[dawsonr]

Lovely and shiny nice work and effort put into the car

[ubernoob]

thanks for getting back to me mate.

[wh0s_the_daddy]

I've had my flocked dash in bits stored in big plastic bags in the garage for months now and today I decided to re-assemble it, the cooling ducts needed re-fitting and the power FC screen and hand controller mounting, the dash is in 3 pieces so they needed all putting back together.

As you can see the power FC screen is now where the centre vent was and the control buttons are where the drivers side vent used to be.









Airbag cover also has a neat touch...(need to clean dash of dust ).

Photos never show how good the flock looks, but believe me it looks just perfect.



Then I cleaned off the dash and put it back into storage ready to be fitted to the car soon...

Also i had some more parts shot blasted ready for me to paint them, however once i got them back I decided that it would be better to powder coat them instead as I wouldn't of been happy with just paint.

So I took the parts to my powder coat man this morning and they were ready for collection this afternoon - top service from a top bloke.

I had the rear brake disc shields done silver to match the fuel tank shields, also the rear diff front and rear hangers were done silver too.

Brake disc shields aren't the best as they are a little dented, I will see what they look like once fitted, if I don't like them then i'll get some more and get them coated.

The rear ARB red same as the rear beam and the rear hubs red.

All the holes in the hub were masked as to not get any paint in them, i'm pleased with the results....









I shall fit them in a couple of weeks as soon as I get the suspension arms back from the polisher and the polybushes delivered.

pics will follow once they are all fitted, nearly finished the rear end now, it should all be done in a few weeks.

cheers

[Little Kez]

thats fantastic mate! utterly stunnin car one of the best evos goin imo its like brand spanking new!!

[wh0s_the_daddy]

I assembled the rear diff carriers today and put in the polybushes, the diff looks great now (just waiting for the original diff casing bolts to come back from the chromers ), I will be fitting it back on the car soon.











I also put the ABS sensor back onto the rear hubs, as with everything so far on this project I payed attention to the details, the ABS sensor bracket was shot blasted (very carefully ) to clean it up and then a light coat of paint added, also used a stainless bolt to bolt it to the hub.





The rear brake disc shield was fitted along with the handbrake shoe spring retainer.



Then I rubbed down and cleaned the rear wheel bearing assembly and sprayed it gloss black...







Those who are observant will notice that the bolts that hold the wheel bearing to the hub are missing, as is the handbrake shoe spring retainer nut - you guessed it - waiting for them to come back from the chromers....
(I need to take the masking tape off the wheel nut studs too ).

cheers

Andy

[Pupsy]

, i don't want to go too far (otherwise it will become just like the skyline was - in the garage out of the rain !!)

I do like this early statement. I'd love to know what you think "too far" is.

Not that I think you've overdone anything. This car looks amazing. Very impressive. Were you born a perfectionist?

[Andy W]

nice work Andy, one thing to look at, the braided lines under the car will hold the crap off the road, you can get clear plastic heat shrink to go over them. this will keep them easy to clean and looking good for a lot longer

[wh0s_the_daddy]

I do like this early statement. I'd love to know what you think "too far" is.

Not that I think you've overdone anything. This car looks amazing. Very impressive. Were you born a perfectionist?

Yes its true I did say all that and i just got carried away with this one, i originally just wanted to underseal the chassis, i didn't want to just paint round things like i did with the skyline because it just looked rushed, i decided to do it properly and remove everything and protect the car correctly. But because the chassis was now white all the bits to be bolted back on were dirty and ths just made my effort wasted. So i decided to powder coat and clean all the bits to be bolted back on, then the bolts that held things on were rusty so they had to be changed too.

nice work Andy, one thing to look at, the braided lines under the car will hold the crap off the road, you can get clear plastic heat shrink to go over them. this will keep them easy to clean and looking good for a lot longer

Thanks Andy, thats something i'll look into.