The concrete R

Hi everyone well i bought my r about a year and a half a go after having two are previous to this one, with a noisey top end and knocking bottom end. Since bob sorted that of first of for me (cheers bob) it has been of the road and i have bbeen working on it ever since. the body work was in good condition however after a few months i decided to to do my own repsray on the old girl i wanted somethign different and decided on a cellulose colour called concrete grey its an ral colour.

i have added quite a few mods to the car and its gone through a few froms and now i have nearly finished it ready for this summer here are a few pics of its progression over the past year and a half

how i bought her



i then went for renault turbine alloys a front mount and matt black mudflaps




then i stripped out the interior fitted some coilovers,fittted the batter in the boot and removed the ac




then the strip down and repsray began








the masking off and filling and sanding then started



then the priming








then the colour and alot of sanding to get a mirror finish








then fitted a flocked dash


fitted headlight vent and decided the engine bay need sorting so tidied it up sprayed the rocker and colour coded alot of things and added filter location pipe wrapped pipes etc


added a laguna splitter


then i went to work on the interior a bit more i added some seats, only sold in the usa i just came across them on ebay, then i added a full safety devices roll cage








got a stianless elbow ready to go on to mate upto the the full staniless custom exhaust
i got hold of



and finally i fitted some harnesses





other things i fitted were

wlaboro fuel pump
sheep dog bov
all new breather pipes
new discs pads
fully wrapped exhaust
datsun badge to the rear
removed rear wiper and smooted
clear side repeaters
powrflex bushes
batter kill switch
intake temp gauge
boost gauge
full oil change 10/50 titan
gearbox oil change
new spark plugs
bought an uncut front bumper aswell that i will spray at some point



now she is ready to be mot,d well after i put the spare headlight back in we should be good to go and meet some peopel at some shows

cheers jamie

not a bad job at all there jamie, looks good in that colour and sounds like you have put some serious time in to it.

I remember following Your project thread on the other sites.
Very impressive! To say youve done it all your self and this was your first respray, its turned out amazing!
I love the colour!

If it was mine i would of kept the interior in tho lol

Lets see the datsun badge then lol

looks very well nice work

here u go stu

after not been driven on the road since i bought it two years ago to day she went for an mot and past with no advisorys i was well chuffed all the hard work had paid of. she is now insured and mot'd and i will be taxing her in the next few days, here is a quick pic before i went to the mot station. I had to put the headlight back in obviously lol

Looks really nice. How did you come across the colour? I think it really suits the car

Very nice!

Bet the drive to the mot station and back home was awsome!

A job welldone mate

yeah as above she definitely stands out great job

Alex341 wrote:Looks really nice. How did you come across the colour? I think it really suits the car

i came across the colour when looking at ral colours as i painted the car in cellulose not 2k

Awesome car fella
Saw this thread the other day on the modifiers site
Great work !

ah cool I hardly ever get to use celly, finish comes out of the gun pretty nice and doesnt take ages to dry. Hope you had a good mask

The colour suits it well imo.

Alex341 wrote:ah cool I hardly ever get to use celly, finish comes out of the gun pretty nice and doesnt take ages to dry. Hope you had a good mask

yeah it does come out quite well although i did sand it down for ages to get a better finish, yeh i had a good mask

well she moved today for the first time in 5 months got the alarm finally sorted, god i hate alrams and wiring looking forward to the show season now. still a few niggles but hopefully will get them sorted

Good job, it seems a few R's lately are making it back into use again, hopefully mine included shortly. Got any other plans for it?

ive literally only driven it 3 times since its finished to a point, once to trax last year and then to a local meet, other plans are to flock the door cards get some light windows with sliders then im stuck on where to go next as im not gonna chase silly power i don think i think i just need to enjoy it

Cool, you need a road trip in it

i think so im def going to retro rides in it its such a good show with the hill climb there and also thinking of trax again if i get the time of

I just saw your rebuilt, Ouuuuch, she is soooo lovely!!!! love the turbine clio wheels, and colour is really beautiful!!

how much did you pay for your roll cage??

cheers for the comments, i got it for 450 second hand

great deal wow!

what kind of shocks are your running matey??