GTR Restoration

My ground up restoration of a Nissan Skyline R32 GTR

Friday, January 19, 2007

Underbody fun

I have completed a fair bit since the last update. As i said i first started out with the aerosol stoneguard but found it to be too thin and uneven finish. So i went with what the panel beaters had already used which is much thicker. I found the correct application gun at work and ordered 2 bottles of the stoneguard only to find they covered much less area than i anticipated. So since then i ordered another 4 bottles which arrived today. I applied one of the bottles straight after work and managed to get myself very high once again from the fumes. Even with the garage open its quite intoxicating. Probably something to do with the fact im laying under the car while im doing it with my face no more than 20 cm from the underbody! Anyway its looking great and im hoping to get the painting finished this weekend and maybe start some of the reassembly of the underside. Still waiting on a set of pineapples to come from Autoshop here in Brisbane. Another thing to note is i dropped out the front end since my last update. Its now also ready for rebuilding. I noticed some of the front suspension arms have some play in them due to worn bushes. All that will get fixed up along the way.

~ Bottle stoneguard
~ Front end dropped out