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Looks like its on the road to recovery, don't stress, I've done similar things in my time, as have lots of people.

Weld the metal where it's meant to be, then lay skids or go racing or whatever floats your boat and enjoy the car for the purpose you bought it.

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Mate, I would be looking at reshelling completely., but it depends on you as to what kind of access you have to the right tools, skills and $$ to get this shell 100% again.

I personally would rather spend the time on sourcing out another shell and transferring the drive line over rather than worry about getting the chassis 100%

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No need to reshell - he's doing a great job keeping another Skyline out of the scrap yard. I say keep working on it dude, you seem to have a good grasp on how to fix it up, and I'm sure if you keep at it you'll have a straight and clean example.

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you have some thinking to do

  • Purchase price - spend remaining
  • Yours and others Effort to remedy
  • Future purpose of vehicle - Track or Road
  • Dedication and persistence to complete
  • Timeframe to remedy
  • Best outcome
  • End value of vehicle

Personally, I'd buy a $6k replacement and swap some parts over then sell remaining bits

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Yeah I was thinking of buying another shell... I will be taking to a guy in September to have a look at the chassis for me and I'll go on from there..

This car will be street only, I say that only because I have never been to any track days and just wouldn't know.

I have a escort RS2000 sitting in the shed that is mine! :D

So I'm starting to toss up between this & the 32.. Or both :/

But now I really want to get a GTR shell (R32) and start throwing money at that instead of this gtst.

And yes, colourclassic, I don't want to see another one go to the scrap yard either. :(

But for now I'm still buying random parts for the gtst when I see them pop up on this forum, I have a bad habit of hoarding, especially with cars, no matter how crappy they are I want to keep them lol..

Oh well, we will see what happens. Cheers for input and replies guys :)

EDIT: any ideas on how much difference there is between a good, clean & rolling shell is for a 32 gtr & gtst? (Price wise)

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Yeah I was thinking of buying another shell... I will be taking to a guy in September to have a look at the chassis for me and I'll go on from there..

This car will be street only, I say that only because I have never been to any track days and just wouldn't know.

I have a escort RS2000 sitting in the shed that is mine! :D

So I'm starting to toss up between this & the 32.. Or both :/

But now I really want to get a GTR shell (R32) and start throwing money at that instead of this gtst.

And yes, colourclassic, I don't want to see another one go to the scrap yard either. :(

But for now I'm still buying random parts for the gtst when I see them pop up on this forum, I have a bad habit of hoarding, especially with cars, no matter how crappy they are I want to keep them lol..

Oh well, we will see what happens. Cheers for input and replies guys :)

EDIT: any ideas on how much difference there is between a good, clean & rolling shell is for a 32 gtr & gtst? (Price wise)

how long is a pce of string? People seem to be asking ALOT of money for GTS shells or even complete these days when they are not worth it....Im sure if you shop around you could find one.

could always sell you mine...

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how long is a pce of string? People seem to be asking ALOT of money for GTS shells or even complete these days when they are not worth it....Im sure if you shop around you could find one.

could always sell you mine...

Well it's not going to be for a while, if ever.. But I'll be letting you know ahaha

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I'll post some pics up tomorrow guys.

I need some help getting some good HD pictures of the rear guards on an R32 gtst so I can get the shape right mainly the corners or the wheel well

If anyone could help me out that would be great..

Cheers :)

EDIT: WITHOUT side skirts and rear pods.

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Okay some more pics of what we (my pop) has done :P

Sheet metal off an old racing Cortina. Hehe.

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Bent around into shape and welds grinded off

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....This is what I was doing whilst pop was grinding and welding away, fun times..

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That is all for now. :)

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How hard was it to pull all the dash out like? I was thinking of doing it to mine just to tidy everything up. How long did it take you to get it to that point?

I followed a quick guide on skyline owners forum..

But didn't remove EVERYTHING that was stated. Only because I didn't need to.

Only took me about an hour, maybe less..

Fun part will be putting the new bits and pieces in next weekend.

But ALOT easier that I thought it would be

Didn't drop the steering column either.

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All done with new cluster surround and dash, a lot easier than I though it was. Only problem was the glovebox, but I didn't see the bit above it that had to click onto the stock strut bar..

Glad it's over though.

Started her up and my oil pressure guage now works? Cool. Haha (never used to)

EDIT: Oh! And new vents ;)

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I'm taking a guess here, is this a T2 flange? :/

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Need to weld my that BOV and a nipple to my cooler pipe.

Didn't even think about the adaptor plate I needed...

That's a massive no on the t2 flange mate. A quick Google search would confirm that quicker than posting a question. Any fabrication place could knock one up for you easy

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