The Evolution Of "night Fury"

[skylinecouple]

Good on you Jez for looking after it the way you do. I just know when your older and these cars are no longer as common on our roads that it will be worth some money for it's condition. But Jez, the wheels, get some dish, same colour, just more dish.

[jez NF]

Yeah Gary....I know....im working on it at the moment (savings wise I mean ) Satin black Te37s or deep dish gold and silver two piece rims is what its going to be....fingers and toes crossed !!

Nice sunny day today....so after I took a casual stroll to the shops and bought some green goblin juice...I topped up the coolant and gave her another good clean up. Then I proceeded to search for tutorials of how to take off the rear view mirror...because I could'nt for the life of me find any screws etc. You yank it off I was told...so thats what I did..and hey presto..it works !!

Plastic primer and then first coat......

Finished product to come soon.....(waiting for it to dry)

[jez NF]

VERY HAPPY

Extremely satisfied and happy with the finished product.....NO SMELL of paint whatsoever...even with the windows up all night. Looks amazing....and brings me one step closer to the "sleek black" front end look that I am after.

Finished product pictures as promised.....

Very hard to get pictures of it clearly with the tint strip....but hope this sufficies

Edited May 19, 2012 by jez NF

[jez NF]

New project: Door trims !!

Started by taking off the door panel.....three screws at the bottom....one screw inside the plastic "phone holder" thing...one screw behind the door opening lever and one screw underneath the "holding on at high speed handle"

Then I wedged the panel loose......carefully disconnected the power window wires.

SUCCESS

Started painting the various bits and pieces since they were off anyway......

Before...........

After the first base coat.....

Ever wondered what goes on behind closed doors

Ready for renovation...........

Cutting the new leather inserts to size...they are the same material as my seat covers....matching much

Stay tuned...progress pics soon....

[jez NF]

Getting there........

[jez NF]

Passenger door done....I think it came up quite well...

This is just before it was finished....will post pics of completed job when I put it back on the car

[Hadouken]

So you just cut the fabric to a certain size and then just push it in? You reckon itll stay there for long?

[jez NF]

Hey Hadouken....I guess time will tell hey...

BUT..........these are the reasons why I think it will work / is working already !!

1. There is actually a lot more room to "tuck it" into which cannot really be seen with the naked eye...

When you use a flat head screwdriver it works wonders and I actually pushed in quite a bit of the material...a LOT MORE than I thought would

go in. It kind of goes in and under if you know what I mean.

2. It is held in place by the door handle...the door opening lever and the plastic trim bits sit snug over the material.

3. I dont exactly plan to let the neighbourhood cats come and have a free back scratch.

4. ...and my trump card....hahahaaa...I did use drops of super glue in "strategic locations"

I think it looks really nice...so even if it does open up...(which I highly doubt it ever will) I will just do it again.

[Jonno34]

looks nice jeremy! Can't wait to sit in your car in summer now that everythings black and leathery !

[jez NF]

lol Jonno....remember the hills run...on a bloody 40 degree day.....I swore I burnt my ass that afternoon...

[jez NF]

Did the back left one this morning.............

Before.............

After............

Sorry about the picture quality....phone pics are not the best :\

[Jonno34]

whats up next for leatherization?

or blackization?

[mattis96]

wow i cant believe how easy those insert pieces are to cover... good job

[FST513]

Loving this thread mate, keep up the good work, read all 10 pages of pretty much tutorials! Hahaha.

[jez NF]

Matt..............yeah they are a quick fix with quite amazing results !!

Kory.............hahahaaa..I try and keep myself busy and I love working on the car.

Jonno.......Whats next with the B lackization .......ummm....I will finish off the door trims (drivers side) by tmrw / day after.....then next week I plan to get started on my front bumper.....touching up the stone chip marks.

I also need to get started on the brake calipers......and I want to swap the back wheel from one side and put it on the front (the opposite side) just to give me an idea what a "fatter" "deeper dish" and more aggressive wheel looks like..then when I have two rims with decent dish and offset and can look at the car from one side I am hoping this will help influence my decision to get my new rims quicker.

ALSO.............................................she hasnt been on a dyno for a while.....

so CARS GOING IN FOR A POWER RUN (and general check up)........on wednesday to PZP....my current workshop closed down (the b@#$%ds) so now have to find a new tuner and get comfortable with a new workshop....

Stay tuned

[jez NF]

Finished the right rear panel today.....which only leaves the drivers door now.

Cars going in tomorrow...so will finish it when I get it back.

[jez NF]

Ready for action....................

[jez NF]

Happy with most things but Tom reckons the AFRs could do with a tweak and there is scope for improvement...so retune next week.....

Meanwhile....I finished off the drivers door this morning....and in the bargain have now completed the door trim project..woohoo !!

Before.....

After......

[jez NF]

Thanks to the mad skills of LJ (your awesome man).......

New boots .........................................................................................................thoughts??

In other news..................cars being retuned tonight.......yay !!

[75coupe]

retuned and std ecu, how does that work, timing and done?? dont let them charge you much for that...

TE37 or TE37SL ftw