Back to work

Well its been about 2/3 months since we last worked on the DPP, mainly due to excess parties :D so anyway we finally decided to work on the car, well the s14 anyway...
After many attempts to convince us to sell the S14 motor, we have decided to stick to our orignal plan and just use the blacktop in the 180 and use the wiring too.
Today we managed to pull out all the wiring looms except the one that runs to rear lights etc mainly because we couldn't be bothered moving all the parts that are stacked in the boot and rear seats. Then we finally began stripping out the engine bay (power steering pump, abs, brake lines etc etc) so that we could drop the front end of the car and use the five stud for the 180. With the help of amal's dad and his air compressor we were able to drop the front end.... well Amal decided to go flower his roses while his dad and I dropped the front end.
Next on the to do list- drop the rear subframe, take out rear wiring loom, get rid of the s14 shell and bring in the 180, drop the engine in and wire it up! not as easy as it sounds tho!

The booboo....

Ok so yeh we f'd up. For those of you who visit this blog every day for the latest instalment *cough* it's been on hold till we got some expert advice.
Today Damian from midnightmods.com came over have a look over the DPP and give us some options. The s14 motor is definately do-able with a few mods here and there. But making a street registered car was going to be difficult requiring engineering and the like (which means big wasted $$$)
So we decided the best option would be to source an s13 blacktop motor so we can get the car up and running asap.

You may think we might have rushed into it a bit buy buying the s14 as a motor-donor... but all is not lost!
See the problem we have now is we have an spare motor and box... Solution!: Buy another car to put the motor in! So now on the hunt for either a silvia, 180sx or r32 shell to house the s14 motor.

Sorry bout boring post but I need to go Ebay my nuts to fund DPP2

Half way?

It's been a lazy week for the DPP. I worked a 50 hour week and Shev's just been plain lazy :P (edit: ok i guess he did come pull the dash out the 180)
Lucky we don't have a schedule so I guess we're going dandy. Even though we didnt get much work done we spent alot of the week daydreaming about how the car will look aesthetically... somehow along the way we lost focus on the DPP being a pure street registered track car (mostly thanks to shev and his impulsive buying and the rice running through his veins) and it looks like it's going to join the rest of Street Supremacy at AutoSalon early next year.
But for now the focus is still getting it reg'd asap.
So now to the good news. The motor is out of the 200 and ready to go into the 180. The more we pulled apart the wiring the more we dreaded what we had coming ahead. The loom for the engine outta the 200 is completely different to the 180. And coupling it up to the loom of the 180 is going to be a nightmare. But we finally pulled the engine loom outta the 200 (with bloody fingers to show for it).







Shev doing his best "working hard" face. Take note of the gloves. >>>>

Now we have to spend a couple days stripping the 200 of anything and everything before getting the wreck towed away to get the parents off my back.

On a side note. A pic of Arafats freshly resprayed GTO. Candy Apple Red FTW!!



P.S. This is a picture of a man wearing a tiny backback and standing like a girl. I took it while doing deliveries during the week. I cracked up.








P.P.S Justin Timberlake concert was Awesome. God bless the 30 degree heat and God bless the inventor of Booty shorts. That is all.

Dash is out

Work on the DPP has slowed down a bit. Amals been working full time, and I've...well yeah its holidays need to relax! So anyway today i decdided to go and work on the 180 while amal was at work. Having taken out the S14 dash with raj, i tackled the 180 by self....and surprisingly got it out within about 30mins all by myself :D, also took out the seats, and the pivot steering wheel.
Amal came at the end to pull the dash out, we both looked at the car and just wished it was running lol amal headed off to his other job and i called it a day.











Also went and picked up some new taillights- niceeeee

We have the Allia (Elephant)...

Came home from work today to find me dad had returned to pick-a-part to finish the job Shev and I had failed at a few days earlier. Here's is a pic of the mother of all Tow hooks capable of towing the DPP on a tandem. (Not bad for $50, worth $600+ new) But a quick trial fit and we realised installing this thing was going to require more time than the actual DPP. So we left that for anther time. My dad's trusty truck to come to the rescue. So off we went to Asoka uncles house to pick up the Engine crane FINALLY.
Soon as we hopped off the truck we saw Asoka uncle with stars in his eyes as he saw my dads truck with its endless supply of Coolants, Oils, Oil Filters and the like. So after about 30min of The 2 dads scabbing free shit off each other we were ready to dismantle the Crane and load it into the truck. You think it'd be time to go home. But nup.

Asoka Uncle: Would you like a cup of tea?
Dad: Nup
Asoka uncle: Soft Drink?
Dad: Nup
Asoka Uncle: Beer?
Dad: (Moments hesitation) .....Nup
Asoka: its German Beer
Dad: ok! (Asoka uncle brings out a bottle of becks which my dad thought he had bought from Aldi which asoka uncle vehemently denied.(insulted)
So they drank beer, Asoka uncle offered me a beer. I had to say no subtly as my dad let out some nervous laughter.

Time to go home? Nup. We go and check out Asoka uncles Huge backyard which I must say is quite impressive. What does a man do with too much land?He builds a Volleyball court of course! So all the uncles can come round and play. I needed to get home. So after another 30min or so of shooting the breeze they become overcome with hay fever and it was time to leave (Not before Asoka Uncle tries to score some more free shit from the truck)
So Finally get home and assemble the Engine Crane making us look like full pro's now!

Now off to the JT Concert and celebrate the remainder of my Birthday! wooo!!!

Stripping...

We continued stripping the S14, radiator, hoses, abs etc etc have all been pulled out. Saturday arvo arrived, didnt really have much planned besides cleaning up the garage so we had more room to move around.....instead we kept stripping the car down and had less space to work in.
The seats have been removed, we were planning to use the seats into the 180, but the drivers seat appears to be slightly damaged, so we will need to asses how bad later.
The center console has now been removed, which was done in a matter of minutes. Then came the dash....It looked like it was only bolted in a few places and looked like a couple of minutes of work......instead took us about one hour to remove it, mainly because its was bolted in places in where only people with tiny hand tiny tools could reach! so with a bit of "ghetto mechanical" work raja and i finally pulled out the dash to give us access to the wiring loom.

Midnight came and it was Amals birthday...Happy Birthday!

We also received our exedy button clutch,(supplied by Mario at C&B. Our FIRST Sponsor!) should be fun to drive in peak hour traffic :D, Its yellow :D (anyone need a clutch let us know.)

Some actual work...

Well I spent yesterday being pissed on by the 200. First Coolant. Then some brown shit that was also out fo the radiator. and the Air Conditioning gas (Who knew that Air Con Gas was actually yellow liquid!)
Shev came by at 9.45. I heard is car coming from bed so Sms'd him to tell him to go straight to the garage so I could sleep some more. I caught up with him at 10.30 and he had got as far as opening the tool box. So following the dad's advice we started by taking out the radiator. It was simple as 5 bolts. But took us a good 2 hours and brown stuff on my face.

The biggest problem was we didnt have a car with a tow bar to bring down Sherard Uncles Engine Crane (Or Aliya as they call it) So Shev and I packed up the tools and went down to Jolly Roger's (Pick-a-Part) on Greens Rd to try and find a Tow hook For our EF Falcon. We found heaps rated at 1500kg and then came across the mother of all tow hooks. Rated at 2500kg (Enough to tow our drift pig) Thing was it was bolted onto the car in a zillion places and after 2 hours in the heat underneath a car with questionable stands we gave up. Will go Back with the dad to finish the job.

So now we were 2 hours behind schedule with nothing to show for it. Went home. Ate Kottu (thanks mum!) and Shev had to go to work. Went back to the garage and spent the next 6 hours disconnecting every hose and plug from the Engine. At around 5pm Stella came by for a visit.

And then back to work.
SO at 9pm (After 11 hours with just a lunch break making as much progress as someone with know-how would have made in 2 hours) It was time to call it a day.

"Victor" from Jetspeed swung by to buy some old skyline seats I had fo sale on SAU , so I spent about half an hour trying to convince him to give me a free bodykit for the DPP. No luck :(

And then Dineth came over to get ready to go To KJ's Going away at Marakesh (sp?) Din drove us to Shevs house who was the designated driver for the night. Din's driving left a lot to be desired as he tried to show off the power off his skyline to me and mounted a gutter (Maybe forgetting I also had the same car?)
So after a big night (and some regrets) it was time for me and Din to have a good time in my double bed. Unfortunately not before one of us had the chance to run down the street in undies.

I'll now pass the laptop over to Dineth so he can satisfy his Facebook addiction. Dunno if we'll work on the car today. Very hunged over.




And another pic of Sandy (assuming the "take me" position) to keep the ladies happy: