Wednesday, September 12, 2012

SILVIA S15 RACE BUILT STEP TO STEP PT.1

This is how the car looked like before the built

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This sound deadening was the worst job to remove. On s13-s14 they use a sound deadener that is easily removed with dry ice simply cracking off. The stuff in the s15 was really bad... dry ice barely helped, you it left a dirty residue that was stuck to the floor and was really hard to get off.
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The big job started... removing the sound deadening and getting to the clean pics you see later on took 3 people on average working on it at any point in time about 70-80 hours all up. The SXD180 we did recently by comparison would have been lucky to have taken 15-20 to completely finish.

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Note the fan as the thinners we were using were making some of us cross eyed.
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Having a car with nothing wrong with and then getting it to this point was a bit depressing. Looked seriously bad.Posted Image

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First set of new rims. 18x10 +12. I could believe how light these were even with R comps on them.
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Pete from Bodyform builds out the body and then seals it all with urethane. His attention to detail is awesome. Posted Image

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One of the many tow trucks the car has been on in the last 4 months. This was from Bodyform to where the chassis work was done.

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This was obviously pre roll cage.
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Borrowed rims.... I reckon these look tough.

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This is actually just before the cage was finished. There is also 1 cross bar on the main hoop so I could get a cams certificate. The parcel shelf had yet to be cleaned up and finished off neatly and then seam welded.







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