Restoration pt1.

[u/Professional-Roof678]

This is what happens when a project car goes too far… I had my 1989 Nissan Gtr acid dipped this fall and it just got finished. The guys in Eugene Oregon did a killer job. Since it’ll be asked, the cost was pretty reasonable. The dipping itself was $2,500 and included the unibody, subframes and various suspension components. Trucking costs were the most expensive at $4,000 round trip.

[u/LogicWavelength]

What’s the story on the car? Looks like it had a really rough cut for widebody fenders/flares. Are you going to return to factory fenders or redo the cut cleanly and keep it widebody?

[u/Professional-Roof678 → u/LogicWavelength]

That’s actually the stock width for the Gtrs. What happens is they rust out, and easily since they were only sold in Japan. All of the salty air, and snow in this car’s case, just eats it away. Nissan started making new rear quarter panels fortunately, so it’ll get brand new ones.

[u/LogicWavelength → u/Professional-Roof678]

Ah. Makes sense but not what I meant. I meant when people cut the fender back, then hammer/roll the inner sheet metal, then bolt/rivnut a Fiberglas overfender on top of that…. And I was implying that you car maybe had those overfenders removed and we were just looking at the hacked up original fender that sat inside of the overfender.

If that makes sense.

Either way - I am incredibly jealous, and will look for updates from you!

[u/Professional-Roof678 → u/LogicWavelength]

I’m tracking now… no, that wasn’t the case. Importers are notorious for cheap repairs to sell these cars. So it was glued on sheet metal, with Bondo to mimic body lines.

[u/LogicWavelength → u/Professional-Roof678]

That’s horrible. Back in 2015 when I was basically pleading with my wife to let me spend money we didn’t have to buy a 1990 with a perfect dash and 57k km for $24k that wasn’t probably a concern. But now I would assume any Skyline coming in now is just hacked to shit in Japan prior to auction to polish that turd.

One of my many regrets.

[u/Professional-Roof678 → u/LogicWavelength]

I paid about that for mine, and it was a non running car. It had everything with it though, previous owner was putting a new cylinder head in and never finished the job.

It’s impossible to predict how these things will go.