Holding Monster

The seat rails arrived, and I had finally finished off adding plumbing to the door cards to finish off the look. Finally my interior was looking somewhat presentable, and not a pile of wires and junk.  It was good to finally see my work starting to pay off. Not going to lie I was struggling …

I Got Barzzzz

Still have to figure out what I will be doing for rear interior. I knew I was going to have a "full" interior, minus back seats ofc, so it was time now to cut holes in the rear interior quarter panels. This was my redneck method, you can tell I have experience with carpentry.  Holes …

YAJ Finds

Managed to find another cool nismo trinket. Not gonna lie, I was a little dissapointed when i opened the box and found out how small the seat was haha. On the auction listing, it looked like a normal size chair. Oh well. This is how it appeared on the auction listing:    When I picked …

sx180 FCM SPEC

While the interior was waiting on parts to come, and work to be done, by now I had most of my aero parts, so i decided to slap them all on the car with duct tape, to see how everything fit.  I was amazed with the quality of the fiberglass parts, fitment was excellent, except …

The Throne of God

Picking at the car slowly, when one day after work I stumble upon an auction too good to give up. A minty red Bride maxis. As I mentioned earlier on, the original plan was to go with a Bride Proface driver seat and the Cuga Japan edition seat as a passenger seat. I was trying …

Ridgeback

There is a story to almost every part I have, some better than others. While browsing the internet looking at drift events, forums, etc, I stumbled upon a picture of a car that grabbed my interest. But there was something very different about this car, that I absolutely loved, and wanted extremely badly.   After …

Custom Dashboard DIY

Spring 2016 Spring time came, and it was time to start work on the car again. When I got in the car, I had noticed my recently flocked dash, had cracked again. Wasn't very happy about having to take out the dash again, and I figured the cracks came from my not so professional job …

Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk

My timeline here is a bit off, before I parked it away for the winter, I managed to order and fit a set of spacers as I was going wide body.  And parked her away for the Canadian winter we all love.  There would be no work done on the the car until spring, but …

DIY guide – s13 Door Cards – Doing it the right way

With the leatherwork out the way, it was time to reupholster my interior panels, but this time the correct way. By now I had learned well, that nothing goes perfect when working on a car, and expect to do things multiple times before its right. A summer ago, I decided to upholster my door trim …

DIY Wrapping Steering Wheel in Fresh Leather

By attempting to dodge the frustration caused by the restoration of the headlights, I moved onto another thing that required some tlc. I managed to track down an oldschool D-shape nismo steering wheel, made by personal. I got on contact with a leather shop in Canada, that was able to get me some perforated leather, …