Norwegian Drift-30 '86 325 Turbo drift build

[efficient]

Nice!

[Sturifto]

Progress has been a bit slow lately unfortunately.

I've basically been cutting out rust and prepping those areas for welding. I was going to buy a lot of the weld-in parts that I needed this month, but Instead I have a 1300$ bill for a plumber as I had a pipe first get clogged, then burst in my basement, which basically forces me to wait another month for my next paycheck before I can afford the rocker panels I need.

Couple of pictures:

Previous owner rust "fix".... Will need to cut this out and weld it all up again.


My cutout in the passenger side footwell. Needs a rather large new piece of metal there.. :roll:

[Sturifto]

Finished removing the wiring for the whole car yesterday, aswell as some more grinding and all that jazz.. Quite a bit of rust on the front wall (Idk what it's called in english) Time to start cutting the car apart.

[Sturifto]

Removed the dash, figured I don't really need it.


Some more of that rust...

[Sturifto]

Well it's been an interesting last 3 weeks or so..
First I work evenings for a week, then I get sick for a whole week, and now I just finished a week straight of graveyard shifts. Hopefully I'll get something done this week, although my kid starts kindergarten so I get to be home in case he get's crazy homesick his first days. :-P

Stay tuned :)

[eduTechnic]

I've done some more grinding, and I painted the subframe!

You like the color? :D

Nice love it! Sub'd

[Sturifto]

Not much has happened lately unfortunately. Waiting for my next paycheck which is due in about 2 weeks..

What I have done is mark off every piece of the car that needs to be cut out, so hopefully will get around to doing that soon.

Both the driver and passenger footwell needs to be cut
Both floors (Underneath the seats) will be cut out and replaced by a plate.
Both rocker panels

So yeah.. I got plenty to do before I can start putting stuff back on this car.. :)

[Sturifto]

I've done some more grinding, and I painted the subframe!

You like the color? :D

[Sturifto]

Nothing done, or will be done this weekend.

We have the in-laws over.
Also, does anyone know of a person or business anywhere who does wiring harnesses? I basically want to get mine stripped to the bare minimum, but I have close to 0 understanding of electronics.. :)

In the meantime, enjoy this little picture :)

[Sturifto]

Did some grinding today, in the front right wheel well. Not as much rust as I had thought, thank god.

There was some around the frontern end, and the rear end. Nothing in the rest!


Picture taken before I was finished, but you get the idea :)

[Sturifto]

Some more pictures from today. :)

Front suspension and all that jazz out.


Footwells from inside.. Dat rust..



Cleaned up the inside a bit with my air blower. Looks better without all the dang dirt in there.


My other lackey working.


Someone's getting a little too comfortable! :loco:


Now It's mostly sanding and cutting left, before we go hard on the welding.. Gonna need a ton of plates.. :)

[Sturifto]

Finally got the engine out today, aswell as some general disassembly and sanding.

I ditched the idea of disassembling the gearbox first and rather decided to drop the steering rack and the rest of the front suspension to shimmy it all out.



Here's the engine bay now.


A bit of rust on the wheel well.


One of my lackeys, hard at work.

[Sturifto]

Got a bit done today, not as much as I had hoped though. The steering arms and stuff were all stuck in my struts, so I had to saw them off.. and we had some trouble getting the oil pan out, so we decided to try extracting the engine and gearbox as-is, without taking it apart. Hopefully that will be easy.

[Sturifto]

MIMs on the front?? I do like them.. have fun on the build!!

I honestly havnt got a clue what they are. I got the full set with the car, but I havnt really gotten to a point where I'm looking at the rims yet.. But they will defo get a paintjob when the time comes, they're pretty light, which is nice. :)

[AlphaE]

MIMs on the front?? I do like them.. have fun on the build!!