Dean's S15

[DeanS15]

Hahaha like your 'nismo' arms and braces

haven't put any stickers on the lower arm yet, not sure if i should....but they are the same as nismo's...hmmmm lol

 

[pegliobaglio]

Hmmm lol they certainly look the same,gonna look awesome when they are on there ,the silver gonna really stand out and look sharp.
Dunno if you should or not...........

 

[steve_fctuning]

looking alllll too good fella nice work indeed !!

 

[craig8585]

Good work mate It's looking very smart.

 

[DeanS15]

thanks all for the nice comments, can't wait for it to be back together though, never not driven the silvia for so long.....will have to re-farmiliarise myself with it

 

[Fruitbooter]

Sweet progress!

As if youve stripped the front end down aswell now :rotfl: sheel be off the road for about 2 years!

 

[DeanS15]

you'll eat those words mate lol, the bulkhead back will be going back together in the next week or so, then its de-rust and treat the front arches and panels and put it back together

 

[sliding-r]

wow thats clean, well done mate.

 

[S15AK]

lots of hard work there Dean well done, looks great

I'm sure you and Craig have some form of OCD

 

[DeanS15]

wanted to update this today with pics - but my camera is refusing to charge .....
z32 rear brake calipers have been rebuilt with new seals, pistons and bleed nipples and fitted with braided lines. front k-sports have been fitted with all new nipples and painted to match. colour i wanted was samco blue, but ended up with a nissan skyline bayside blue metallic...conceptua tuning have done a fantastic job on them, i would highly reccommend them if you need this done. you need to tell them if you dont want a logo laquered on as they do this as standard - i didn't know, but am happy for it to be on there after the job they did anyway, and it saves the calipers looking so plain. i have also re-assembled all the calipers using new pads and the (newly plated) original slider pins, new pads and thoroughly cleaned all squeal shims etc.
thanks Darren_S15 for the reccommendation :thumbs:

also took the rear lower arms into work last night to re-assemble those. driftworks bushes finally went in nicely after all the alterations i had to do to fit them (the only problem bushes i bought from them were these rear lower arm ones). also used the big antique vice at work, a few different sockets, some rags and some patience to press the new balljoints in, but in the end they went in fine.
thanks craig8585 for the info on that :thumbs:

hope to have some pics soon

 

[pegliobaglio]

Oh no! I just refurbed my brembo's bayside blue to match my interior!!! Thought I was doing something a bit different lol
Sounds like a lot of progress has been made looking forward to all the update pics,not long till it will all be back together and on the road then hey?

 

[craig8585]

The progression sounds good, looking forward to the pictures

I can't wait to begin on the front of my car too. It sounds daft but personally, I get almost as much pleasure working on the car as I do driving it. :wack:

 

[DeanS15]

Oh no! I just refurbed my brembo's bayside blue to match my interior!!! Thought I was doing something a bit different lol
Sounds like a lot of progress has been made looking forward to all the update pics,not long till it will all be back together and on the road then hey?

i didn't ask for bayside blue mate, they just came that colour, but i'm glad they messed up really

The progression sounds good, looking forward to the pictures

I can't wait to begin on the front of my car too. It sounds daft but personally, I get almost as much pleasure working on the car as I do driving it. :wack:

i totally agree, everyone has hobbies mate. i'm glad i have the car or i would be bored in those spare hours when the missus is at work and nothings going on..... i especially like peoples reaction to the car. i'm not a showoff, far from it, i'm actually quite shy... but it's very satisfying if people like it - knowing you've done most oif it yourself

 

[pegliobaglio]

That's a good mess up! Lovely colour when the sun hits it! Will be more noticable on your set up as those front calipers are huge!!!!!!!!
Looking forward to pics mate, what logos do they have on them?

 

[DeanS15]

it just says CONCEPTUA straight across the pots on the front calipers. it's a silver decal laquered on but it's a nice font and it actually looks quite decent. it's not what i had in mind, but i really don't mind it being on there, it's no different to having 'brembo' or 'nissan' or 'k-sport' etc, i had planned to put the silvia logo on but never mind

 

[DeanS15]

here are the pics of the refurbished brakes - the colour looks much lighter in the pics

front k-sports

z32 rears

and the bushed and balljointed lower arms

 

[pegliobaglio]

Looking good mate! Love the colour,very nice indeed.
Can't be much longer till your putting it all back together now?

 

[DeanS15]

cheers
shouldn't be too long, but as impatient as i am to get it back on the road, i don't want to rush the last bits

 

[pegliobaglio]

That's fair enough,and end of the day even if you did finish it now,with the weather how it is you might have a bit of a wait for a dry day to take it on a run,I mean you aren't gonna wanna get her wet and dirty now you've spent all this time cleaning her up !lol

 

[DeanS15]

I mean you aren't gonna wanna get her wet and dirty now you've spent all this time cleaning her up !lol

hellll no