PaKi's Track MoNSTeR

Go through and make it neat.

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How did you guys remove the rear seat supports? I was hoping that you could just pop them off with a hammer and chisel so I tried it on one quickly now and low and behold, I tore the bottom metal. F#$k. Pissed off with myself now. Guess grinding on the weld until it pops is the correct way to do it then. Luckily the tear is small but it's still there...

Drill out each spot weld then break off.

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Drill to just before the bottom material? Worry about going too far and sitting with a swiss cheese floorpan... Will give it a try quickly.

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cut it off with a grinder and flappy disk the rest off lol

So, stuffed that one up... This is why I don't do things like this... 😳
Tried the drill route and that didn't work so lekker. Then got the grinder out and gave that a go. The results are less than impressive. Will make a plan to get the stuff removed next week. Enough suffering for one day... :facepalm:

Nice dude, bly om te sien jy document die build. Skree as jy hulp nodig he...jy weet waar om my te kry

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Jy moet versigtig wees wat jy se. Een van die dae spandeer jy naweke saam by die workshop....

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Hahaha, ek gee nie om nie...dis net al die ander goed wat my tyd vat...lol

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So finally got round to weighing the sound deadening. All in was only 11kg's. Not a big saving as I'll be putting around 3 times as much back in with the cage. But I didn't do it for the weight. Wanted a more clean look inside the car. Some of the sound deadening had to come off in any case for the plates to get welded on and I didn't want it to look patched so it all had to go.

If all goes well the cage will go in this weekend. Then I can prep and paint the inside over the next few weeks. Want to do the floor black to prevent it from looking dirty easily and the upper part white. The idea with white is to get it to look clean. I don't need to make statements so no crazy purple/green/pink cages for me...

The guys who bend the piping can only get it done next week, so I took it easy this week and didn't rush to get things done. Spent some time today and stripped out the steering column and pedals to leave more room to manoeuvre when welding the cage. The stuff had to come out in any case when the interior got painted, so I figured I might as well get it all out. I hope how I can remember where it all goes...

This is more my pace. Spanners and screwdrivers suit me better than grinders. My patience gets too short and most of the time I just make a bigger mess of things.
I'm going to strip everything down as far as I can so that it can get either painted or plated depending on the item. I hate working on dirty stuff so I'm cleaning and getting everything sorted as I go along. I don't want to get dirty if I have to work on it again in the future.
Next update will hopefully be of the cage going in...

How difficult was it removing the dash and all that kak behind there?

What are you planning on using this car for?

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Mainly track but it needs to be street legal. Keen to scare a few old ladies on my way to the shop.

It wasn't that difficult. Once the dash was out it was pretty simple. Just undo the bolts. I'm not putting any of the ducting back. So I just pulled it all out along with the heater assembly. The AC piping also needs to get stripped out but I'm working inside out...

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@Gary: Frank is almost as stripped as mine. How bad is it really? I saw you put some carpet back in to 'make it more liveable'. I think he still has all the ducting and vents & stuff? Do you get problems with windows misting up and stuff like that? I'm planning on sealing all of the venting holes and only leaving the mounting holes open at the base of the windscreen as well as sealing the vents pointing into the cabin. I want a real smooth finish. So the plan is to seal, paint and flock the whole dash. Only items will be instrument panel, gauges and whatever switches I require in the dash. The rest is gone.

Stupid idea??? Who else has a full/part track car that can comment?

Frank is completely stripped, I removed all carpeting.

It is loud and hot and if you run semis you hear stones all day. It's no place to sit in traffic.

I am busy stripping all wiring and excess weight out but am keeping interior fan, trust me with windows up on track it is stupidly hot in there. The hot air the fan blows is cooler than the cabin so it is welcomed.

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I hear you... Any issues with the windscreen misting up if it's a cold day or raining out on the track? Suppose you still have your venting so no issues there. Maybe I should just boost more and try to keep the AC running the whole time... 😂

I wont be able to put my vents back anyway as all of the surrounds broke when I took them out. The car stood for so long that everything became brittle and breaks as soon as you touch it. So I will have to make another plan with the venting. The blower housing is so huge it fills up most of the space behind the passenger side of the dash. I'm sure there's a better way to get cold air into the cabin...

Run a pipe from above side mirror into side window like GT cars.

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Had sometime this past week so decided to neaten up the pedal assemblies and steering column while they were out. Everything was 'polished' with a combination wheel to remove all of the surface rust. The painted portions of the pedals where given the once over with a flap wheel just to roughen up the surface.

This is a before picture of the pedal assemblies:

http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/PaKiMoNSTeR/media/200SX/DSC_00371c_zpsvhdihgu0.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

This is when all of the items where prepped and ready to paint:

http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/PaKiMoNSTeR/media/200SX/DSC_00441c_zps7mjfyffu.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

This is a pic of the stuff all painted:

http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/PaKiMoNSTeR/media/200SX/DSC_00501c_zps3uscxc42.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/PaKiMoNSTeR/media/200SX/DSC_00491c_zps78nncjv6.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

I just used a single pack black etch primer. Will take nicer pic's when they are all assembled again. I'm also sending all of this pins and stuff to get plated again so it will look like new when it's all assembled. The next thing I want to do is to cover the pedals with a non slip grip tape. They use them on stairs or areas where tiles get wet. So hopefully it works. Don't want to put the re pedals.

@Gary: I had a think about what you said and seeing as I'm not going to have a steering column cover, what about running tubes along it and incorporating some of those round directional vents that some cars use. You can fix the tubes to the steering column and then use the vents to direct airflow. Then you can try to run these tubes from the front of the car somewhere to try and get cooler air.

So, Santa brought me a little something before the big day...

We went from this:

http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/PaKiMoNSTeR/media/200SX/DSC_0034c_zpsw9hsrbx3.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

To this:

http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/PaKiMoNSTeR/media/200SX/DSC_00512c_zps3tyeuexl.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/PaKiMoNSTeR/media/200SX/DSC_00672c_zpskkmyfpu8.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

Next is getting the inside cleaned up. There is a little surface rust that I need to tackle with a flap wheel and clean the whole inside ready for paint. So there's a few more things that will need to get stripped out then I can start masking. Might go in for a day next week to do a little but doubt it. So will only tackle this again in the new year.

Who built the cage and how much they charge?

Are you still adding the sissy bar and main hoop diagonals to conform with FIA?

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