Well
i thought this would be the more appropriate area to put my build thread in, being that the R31 is currently naturally aspirated, and will be for a while.....
ok so not sure how build thread are normally written (lol) but ill give it my best shot and start from the beginning
soo i managed to pick up the R31 for nothing (woo hooo!) lol, however didnt know anything about it, not even what series it was...all i knew was that it was a reddy brown colour and had been sitting in a shed for the last 2 years.......
so here are the first pics of "Abby"
i thought i was quite lucky to find that she was a series 3 gxe......very straight body wise too.....
so first problem: hadnt been started in nearly 2 years....thats ok put a battery charger on for a bit, check radiator and oil levels.....go to start her.....hmmm can smell fuel pretty strongly.....
have a look underneath the car to find she popped a fuel line that was on the fuel tank.....
so ended up having to winch her on the trailer instead of driving her on...
decided to go to the car wash and give her a good wash! and she came up oh so pretty lol
so that was all on a thursday....purposely took the day off work to go get her considering she was 2 and half hours away from mildura..
so the weekend arrived......
in the mean time i gotten a sponsor for the paint...Formula Paints in Renmark.
despite them trying to pursue me to paint her normally, i insisted rattle can lol so the colour? Matte Black....it couldnt be anything else!!! i had this picture in my mind of a matte black car with weld pro stars ...
so i started at 9pm saturday and finished painting at 5am sunday morning.......all i can say is never paint a car with rattle can lol i lost all feeling in the finger i was using to hold the nozzle down lol
suprisingly enough it all came out very well, and other than doing a few touch up while she was sitting in the sun in the sunday arvo, she looked fantastic! so photos were taken and emailed to Formula Paints....even the guys there couldnt believe how fast i painted the car...
so graphics.....yes graphics i know most of you probably dont like the fact i got graphics on the R34, but meh. lol
so talking to my graphic designer Simon, we decided to go with gloss black graphics over the matte black....aswell as all sponsors put on the car aswell.
so far sponsors for the car are.....DZignFX, Formula Paints, Discount Steel Supplies, Sprints Auto Parts, Berklee Exhausts