My major project!

[leeroy_25]

Well Being that I can\'t post in the project area yet thought I would stick a quick one here to introduce my project FD3.

Doesn\'t do it justice.. Looks much worse in the flesh!

I am sure we can fit a bit more in here




As you can see from the pictures I have a lot of work to do! It was bought with no engine or gearbox. and an half removed interior which was wedged full of engine parts and also some missing.

Hmm I am sure something is missing?!


Well after getting all the crap out I was left with this..



Then it was a case of it was easier to take the rest out to clean it out properly! I have seen cleaner skips!


Now, once everything was out I began to realise I didn\'t have enough pieces of car to fill all the gaps in trims and seating arrangements! Much to my luck there is a local breakers yard that have just got in an FD3 so I jumped in the car armed with some tools and set about working out what I needed. Lots of the car had been gutted already but fortunately the bits I wanted were still there. Are a few moments (well an hour or 2!!) of figuring out how to get bits off and trying to memorise how it should all go together I was loaded up and ready to go! Was also handy in that I found out where some of the strange bits of plastic I had found in mine came from!
So a bit of a spruce up in the boot and a new back seat and carpet and...


And then into the passenger compartment with some rear trims and deep cleaning and we have..

All done in less than a day! Not bad for a beginner surely?!

That was all last weekend..

This weekend I just tinkered.. fixed a broken dash! found a few wires and plugs I need to work out were they go and gave it a quick clean on the outside to see what the paintwork looked like..

Should come up ok with a bit of elbow grease!

I will try and post each weekend as that\'s the only time I have to do work on it!

[Paul-Tll]

Hi Mate, sounds like a good project you have there!
Your the guy with the White  Skyline?
good luck with it all, oh and can you tell us which breakers had the FD
please mate?
Cheers
Paul..

[leeroy_25]

Err yes?? I do have a white skyline? Only a guess from the picture on your tag.. But are you the guy I spoke to at the shell garage that day with the Red FD?
Will tell you where the other one is once I have taken all the bits I need!!

I have already got the engine and box obviously.. I do need a P/S pump though if anyone has a spare?
Half the dash.. centre console, rear seat back.. are gone from this other one Body work wise it\'s had a bit of a prang.. all over! it is red tho! Think the doors and boot are ok..

It\'s at harris\' yard.. Nutbourne

Lee

[leeroy_25]

Oh. and for those of you interested in skylines.. This is the project I just finished.. Was no where near as bad as the FD to start with but all the finishing work, major servicing, and bling have been done my me.. also had it mapped a couple of weeks back.. Grossing 422bhp.. not bad for a baby one!

Click the thumb for a full slide show...



Lee

[Paul-Tll]

yip that was me, Very clean nice Skyline.
May take a trip over to Harris\' in a few weeks then, just need a few clips
and screws nothing major at all.:Thumbs-up
Paul.

[tinker-27]

i have a pump if you need one , pm me if you need it

[strange_days_uk]

good work on the car, keep it up !!

[leeroy_25]

Will try and keep it up!!

Can you e-mail with info/price about the p/s pump please.. I don\'t have the luxury of pm yet!

Cheers
Leeroy_25@hotmail.com

[ianelvar]

Nice one. Both mine are a bit like that! The silver one one a bit worse than the red.  I\'m not too far from you if you ever need a hand (North of Basingstoke).
Did you get a PS pump? I\'ve got one if you still need.

[leeroy_25]

Hi Ian,
Thank for the offer... May take you up on i if I get stuck..

I hve P/S pump.. all I am missing is the pulley..Do you have one of those spare perhaps? If so how much.

I was also after an idle/tensioner pulley, a clutch pipe, heater matrix feed pipe and one of the connecting rubber 90deg pipes that join the metal air dump pipes to the CAT.

Any of the above would be very helpful.

Thank you
Lee

[John_Hudson]

more pictures !

[ianelvar]

Hi Ian,
Thank for the offer... May take you up on i if I get stuck..

I hve P/S pump.. all I am missing is the pulley..Do you have one of those spare perhaps? If so how much.

That\'s a maybe...

I was also after an idle/tensioner pulley (yes), a clutch pipe, (maybe) heater matrix feed pipe (nope) and one of the connecting rubber 90deg pipes that join the metal air dump pipes to the CAT (pretty sure).

Any of the above would be very helpful.

Thank you
Lee

I\'ll have a look and give you some prices over the weekend :cheers

[leeroy_25]

Haa!!

Which one.. FD or GTR!! just kidding..

I am hoping to do a bit more tomorrow. Have to respray my girlfriends bonnet and door first thanks to a little shoping trolley inccident.

Plan is to compression test and leak check the engine! or at least get it ready and fit all the missing parts I can back in place.
Maybe re-wire and fit the radio unit and speakers. and if I can do that put the dash back together.

I haven\'t got my steering adaptor or special seat rails I am having made to move the seat back to get that up together. so that will have to be next weekend!

Thing is I go to do something then find out I am missing a bit! already I am going to have to make a cage to fit the radio which should be fun! I have a double DIN and the slot is not really meant for that room what I can tell measuring it?

As and aside - I was hoping to carbon up my door handles...
Anyone got a gammy set they would be willing to donate me for experimentation purposes?!

Well hopefully there will be something more to look at tomorrow..

Lee

[leeroy_25]

Thanks Ian,

Lee

[leeroy_25]

Well today was a bit of a laim effort!

I had to do a respray on my other halfs car and that basicaly took up most of my time and enthusiam for the day..

However I have made a start sorting out the lump and seeing what\'s missing.



I am currently stuck for a P/S pulley.. anyone got one? managed to find an idle pulley and P/S pump okay.

have also got most of the pipes that are missing.

I noticed a couple of areas that I am not sure whether there should be pipes connected to or not.. please take a look and let me know if you can help..

looking into the rats nest from the back of then engine I can see three pipes with nothing on.. 1 at the opening:



and two right in under the inlet manifold.


also there are two open stubs on the side of the inlet manifold. one big and one small..
I am guessing the small one is for the boost guage? where does the big one go?


I also got around to attempting a compression test which was inconclusive to say the least.. plugs look clean and a nice brown colour. Took the two top plugs out and inject a bit of oil into each chamber as recommended and then hot wired the starter motor..
To start with I got no reading. then I was getting a little on some and not on another.. then I was up around 5bar on all.. then bugger all! I don\'t think it was really turning fast enough for a start.. but also I wondered if oil may have gone in the tester and messed up the readings.. Seeing as I know the engine ran well with a smooth tick over and no smoke I think I am going to take a gamble. only way to really tell will be run it up! and I can only do that in the car! Worst case I have to take it out again and rebuild it!

I promise to make a better effort next weekend.

Thank you
Lee