Neil/Primal Garage Ke70

[zacharyo]

i didnt get a sticker :(

but i also saw a ke that looked very similar there :hmm:

[dpb]

what exactly is primal garage? just thought id inquire before i sticker bomb my keto drifter haha

[xris]

what exactly is primal garage? just thought id inquire before i sticker bomb my keto drifter haha

 

Primal Garage is a workshop that my brother dad and myself started. Weve got our own workshop we run after hours. we modify cars. We offer a full service, from mechanical, fabrication(drift knuckles, exhaust systems, cages, custom cooler piping etc), paint and panel work.) so pretty much were a one stop shop. Owned and run by Drifters.

 

I own a KE70, a 180SX with is the featured on the High Performance Imports Magazine 139, My brother owns a FC3S and we also own a few other track cars as well.

 

We also helped sponsor last years Drift Attack.

 

Heres our blog

 

http://primalgarage.wordpress.com

Edited October 14, 2011 by xris

[xris]

i didnt get a sticker :(

but i also saw a ke that looked very similar there :hmm:

Whats your address and i'll mail you some?

[dpb]

ahhh ok kool i also run my own after hours buisness but mainly just mates cars and a few randoms here and there good on ya for doing the work yourself!

[xris]

So its been a looong time since i did anything with the old girl. Luck hasnt been on her side after being destroyed by that christmas hail of 2011. Damage - Front window smashed, roof dinted, bonnet dinted, boot dinted, guards dinted, headlight surround broken. chrome trims dinted.

 

So a write off really....

 

But were going to fix it. As we have another spare brown one were going to use as much parts from it as we can (that also copped hail but no where near as much damage as my white one.

 

 

So lastnight finally got some motivation and started.

 

Removed the front end (all panels, lights bumpers, lip, bonnet etc)

 

 

So the plan of attack is.

 

- strip the car

- remove roof lining

- fix roof dints

- replace bonnet

- replace boot

- replace doors

- replace front window

- replace interior with brown dash, seats, carpet, trims, etc etc.

- replace suspension (front and modify coilovers to fit)

- replace clutch

- reco starter

- respray car

- club register car

 

As usual we've got only 1 month to build a car...

Edited October 22, 2013 by xris

[shiryo]

this makes me happy in the pants Neil.

let's rock out at Classic Japan.

btw I've got a spare pair of ke30 LCAs you can borrow if needed for extended track.

just needs new balljoints.

[xris]

thanks bro all sorted :) just need to spend alot of man hours getting it stripped then back together again..

[xris]

so i lost motivation once i started pulling the white car down....decided it was a lost cause and cut my loses. It was rolled back into the storage shed.

 

 

but yesterday i bought another ke70 1983 model. has a 4kc in it with a new head gasket, leads, tacho dash brown interior and is painted in undercoat grey.

 

this is a perfect car to rebuild from (minus some crappy graphiti on the roof liner and on some other trim, in perminent pen (hopefully orange spray gets that off). All locks are bust so i'll be swapping doors over or locks and handles

 

Edited January 6, 2014 by xris

[shiryo]

Oh happppyyyy dayyysssss....

[xris]

[xris]

[xris]

Going to get stuck into sanding the shit out of this shell on the weekend as its in acrylic and needs completely removing before i go further. once thats done i can attack the cancer (rust) and start prepping the shell (got to remove all the doors so theres not that much to do luckily.

[xris]

so yeah i lost interest in this ke70. dunno what happened but it got stripped down to this point and i got distracted building a motorbike. so lastnight i bought another KE70 lol. this one has 130,000km on it, box is tight, it runs, and is already white (factory) but its got some rust (I'm going to leave most of it as it adds character lol). So now I'm going to just move everything across from the old one to this, interior is blue but theres not much left in there. So i can either go brown or blue interior.

 

[xris]

Got stuck into it lastnight, change chrome bumpers, rear tail lights, front head lights, painted headlight surrounds and installed them. And emptied the interior. Now to strip the trim and dash out tonight and start moving across the interior