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Now all the nasty as rust :(

EPIC hahahahahaha

wow, just wow

so being the long weekend and all, i'm heading down to visit my car and get crackin' on it again... Not to sure what to do to it exactly though, seeings as i haven't purchased anything for it haha i might just try and strip it down even more. will more than likely take all the dash out so that the entire interior is bare possibly take some suspension out, or the diff but before i do anything i need to clean clean that garage out a bit to fit a pool table haha now i have a question...this is going to sound extremely stupid to some people, but this is the first car i've ever properly worked on and have never pulled an engine out... Is it going to matter if i take the struts out before i take the engine out, or am i able to just rip everything out the front end and leave it on stands when i pull the engine out? oh and i'll post some pics up after the weekend :)

pretty crazy

looks tough :)

Rightio, after almost a year of hiding under a rock i'm back into it...thank god! :) the car has moved home again, three hours away from where i live, but i now i have my own garage in which to work on it. Within an hour of it being offloaded from the trailer i started working on it lol stripping it down and so forth so far i have removed: -front panels -doors -boot -seats -plus whatever the hell else i could find to pull out went over the entire car to find all of the rust spots, found quite a few unfortunately :( some of which are quite extensive, so lots of work to fix all of them up...yayyyy lol got the old man in on the car now so having that extra pair of hands is always helpful :) after taking the car apart, we became quite suspicious of the rear divers side, thinking it had been in a bit of a bung. i couldn't find anything wrong with the chasis rails (phew) but we went about taking some of the paint off to find nearly the entire section around the fuel cap was full of bog joys for all "WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET RID OF THIS F*#KING THING!?!?!" was the response i got from my father when we found this out pfft, i wouldn't have a bar of that, and after many arguments and debates i got him to side with me, and that we'll try and get it back to as close to prestine condition as we can. Much things have been fully decided: Eninge- 4AGE, after my father trying to convince me to put a rotary in it haha front suspension - Coilovers Rear suspension - still undecided colour - red Interior - black Wheels - something dishy with good offset The timeline we have set to have the entire car finished by is the end of 2012 (i know, a long time but i have to save for an overseas trip at the end of the year) Quite a long update and blab, but f*#k it feels good to be able to say that I'm back working on the rolla :D

so straight out, r33 springs will not fit into a s13? anyone got any idea what springs would?

just the std springs, and i have r33 springs available to me right now, not r32 stuff... really surious about the r33 stuff into a s13 straight in, or modifications required?

bit of an odd question around here i know... BUT would anyone know if r33 springs would fit into a s13?

lovin the progress...

my bad lol, just the car looks the exact same...

one of the earlier pics....that taken at sunshine repco? if so i live just down the road, and have k70 sedan

me likey :lol:

some update in picture form :)

mechanical engineering student at VU, and also work at FEDEX (shit hole lol) after uni resident of sunshine, and starting to learn all my backyard mechanics rofl

ahhh i shall take that into VERY high consideration :happy: :yes: ever so slowly leaning towards the ca now, doen some reading up on it too and it's looking ever so tempting

hmmm if you got an rb20 in your car and recommending something else i just might have to seriously consider... PICS UP LATER TONIGHT

lol i was meant to a while ago before i took a hiatus and never did, but it should be off very soon and i'll let ya know...if you get it off let me know :D well i FINALLY managed to get the strut top off after much difficulty due to the insert spinning :( :no: :hmm: i then ran into another problem, when i went to put the stock springs in, i found i needed to compress them , and after many trials i gave in and went a spring compressor which made my life just that bit easier rofl :( ;) ;) So now it is back to stock height :P PICS ARE SOON TO COME

any photos of the firewall and tunnel before the engine went in? if they were cut to make room for the engine...

cheers mate...found it, i think the right one your talking about he didn't have much info on the firwall and tunnel and shit :D

am i going to need to cut into the firewall to fit it in, or just the tunnel to fit the g/box or both?

So i didn't get that F@#king strut top off cause i was busy doing my mates brakes last week, so hopefull tomoz i'll get them off then back to stock height...4x4 spec lol :D during the week my mind has been ticking away about future engine conversions...i know 4age is what i stated i wanted to put in, but i was thinking something a bit more different...and stupid lol i've been considering an rb20...anyone does this engine swap? if so, how much work am i gonna be up for...

AHA thankyou very much, we were trying and trying with that damn 19mm bolt, but only with a small bar oh what fun this is going to be tomorrow hope my old man has a rachet gun lying around that i can use *fingers crossed*

WELL went to install some stock springs in the front of the rolla today and ran into quite a problem (even though it might be simple for some of you ;)) i don't know how to take the top of the strut of so that i can slip the new spring on...;) can someone PLEASE help?