Forever Simone

Lets have a look shall we. This is what the tub looks like spotted in, it's rock solid. Q: why did you cut the metal in little sections rather than making it one long piece. A: granted the metal would've been easier to shape in this regard, making it in small plates will add rigidness to the wheel tub rather than adding a panel that can flex, which under hard use could break the spot welds over time and cause further damage to the wheel. After the initial tacking was done, the outer panel needed to be sanded down in a specific work area. And will be touched up again once all of the welding is finished. look how many layers of paint, primer, filler is on the panel to the metal, jesus. driver side passenger side here is the passenger side sanded down, grinded down, and now showing the clearance I have in the tub if I were to run demon camber. and a side shot of the panel to show you it's not warped all to hell. I think when they initially did the pull, they hammered it out ra...

Now you see why we do the fabrication before paint... gotta grind down the body of the car where the welds penetrated, just like the antenna hole. But just to give you an idea of what's going down. Everything ground down to the metal obviously and our line we're going to follow. my brother shaping the metal. Checking it. Spottieottiedopalicious Better angle. looks ugly, but it's just tacked in place. and it's the wheel well, we're not shooting to be the best at welding. And why you don't do this shit after paint.

So I went through all of my wiring and I think either my ground is weak as shit, or there is a voltage drain somewhere in the system. I am only getting 4.6 volts to the wiper motor which means that something ain't right. this was my initial test mockup, but nothing. No change even with a new motor, since I bought this car the wipers never worked. So I resorted to doing homework, I think what pisses me off the most is the diagnostic procedure to check your wiring is only for the intermittent setting. as you can see I have a base model, no fancy intermittent switches here. basically from the fsm this is what I gathered are the plug pinouts, everything has continuity up the yin yang, everything is in place except pin d11 on the e109(smj) plug which I removed since I don't have the washer reservoir or motor on my car anymore. So I am going to give up on this until another day, or I may take up GSXRRJordan's path and make my own fucking wiper harness separate from the body harne...

Well I am sure many of you are as anxious as I am to see my project come to a close in it's beginning chapters. But my brother has been swamped lately and has a newborn so I can't really be hard on him for flaking on me. He's done a lot already for me and with his engine recently blowing on him and a motorcycle as his only form of transportation. I'd rather wait until he has a day off. Other than that I did pick up some new goodies, a new mode door motor for my climate control to see if that will fix some of my woes. A new upper dash vent, that disentegrated when I removed the dash the first time. Sun visors with the retainer clips, also the exhaust/tranny bracket that i've been after for quite some time. Stoked about that. And last new wiper motor, and wiper amp (proper) for the s14 since it looks like I had an s13 wiper amp on the car before. So right now, as you can imagine I am doing what I know how to do in the meantime, electrical work. Right now I am going th...

so here is the core support 90 percent done. It's 90 percent done because I am making the center brackets (hood latch, and headlight) and the bar their attached to (upper core support) bolt in. So I need to pick up some washers and proper sized studs. and then I am going to tack them into place where the previous spot welds were. You can see where the radiator studs were left on the support. It will look like that in the opposite direction on the ends so I don't have clearance issues with the fenders. It will make more sense when I post the "how-to". While my brother was busy spot welding the core support in I was repairing my ganador mirrors. One of the adjustment studs you see broke off and the mirror only had up/down adjustment. It's mentioned somewhere in the video how to disassemble them back in this post. (Monday : Paint Prep Day 1) The mirror adjusters are only held on by a small amount of silicon. So I just made sure the core was a tad beefier so some dip...

a shot of the interior, it's not rust but the glue from the headliner that was in this car at some point with a bunch of dirt on it. finally got the pieces I wanted from the other core support. I drilled from the opposite sides which was a lot tricker but thankfully was a lot easier since the core support was not on a car. car is looking real naked right now, taking this opportunity to clean up any surface rust where i will be welding and also de-greasing the bay. Shaved off the stud's that retained the air box intake and whatever else on the passenger side. Left the radiator joint's even though I want to shave them too. May just shave them tomorrow. So what I'm doing here is clamping the pieces to the body, and using my brothers shaping hammers to flatten the metal where it may have been bent from prying it apart from it's spot welds. it's going to look real funny because I didn't paint my engine bay and don't plan on it yet. But i'm going to have a...

Man, if there is one thing I hate more than anything with this car. It's removing the couplers, intercooler piping and the radiator hose. On top of the fact I know I have to spend 30 minutes bleeding the coolant for air. Time for a PBM swirl pot... for reals.... bout to pm dan about that shit. Grine-diiiiiing jdm s14 core support from a front clip is our donor. it's hot as fuck so after I drilled out the hood latch bracket I packed everything up and will be calling it a day until the sun goes down. Then I'll head back out and drill the other core support out. I'm going to make the upper half of the core support bolt in.

Answer is : 3 Edwards For this entry since it is picture intensive, I'm just going to throw thumbnails with links to the larger images where I feel necessary (redundant imagery.) On the left is what the surface of the bottom panel looks like when cutting out the spot welds. On the right is what the weld looks like after grinding it down so the surface is clean and flat to weld the new panel onto. Here the rear connecting piece of metal for our c pillars got jacked up pretty good when removing the remaining metal from the old roof panel so I tried to re-shape it as much as I could. Here I am grinding out the left side of the rain gutter area, and showing the fruits of my labor... My brother stopped by to drop off the welder so it's here at our convenience to use when he comes back later to work on the roof and also do the core support. here is the rear panel after removing the remaining metal from the roof edges where the braze was holding it on. I then ground down the underlyin...