newbie 89 coupe build.

[boosted98gst]

HI everyone! I already did the intro part and now just wanted to share what I have been working on. I picked up this 89 coupe in apex NC about 9 hours from me, due to the all the snow/ rust issue's living here in the snow belt. I bought the car 2 years ago ,bone stock from a 1 owner doctor who was tired of the car and just wanted somthing new. and now for some pic's

BONE stock 89
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/89stocker-1.jpg

I used the car during the summer months as my daily driver, it had 192k on it so things just wear out, the suspension sucked, tranny sucked and engine smoked alot , so when I was on a business trip in California I picked up a blacktop from R&D

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx7.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx3.jpg

The suspension on the car was so mushy that I had to do somthing with it and bought a set of jic-fla1 for it, car never see's winter time here just pulled it out to take pic's of it after the install. (yes i know i need ruca's)

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx6.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx8.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx5.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx4.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx1.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx2.jpg

Winter came and gone, and I still was undecided what I was going to use the car for, its not my daily driver, So i was open to anything and started to tear her down.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx16.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx13.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx15.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx14.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx11.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx10-1.jpg

Ater pulling the motor the battery tray was rusted due to years of letting shit leak, so I had to cut it all out sandblast and primer.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx19.jpg


I work part time at a local tuning / paint shop and kept hating my stock color more and more, and deecided to paint the car before the sr went in.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx21.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx20.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx22.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx23.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx26.jpg

Since the car was going to be used as only a weekend/nice weather car, I took out all the sound crap from inside.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx25.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx24.jpg

Finally I decided what color that I was going with and had the local dupont store mix it for me. Went with 2007 350z carbon silver, keep it in the nissan family aleast.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/paint1.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/paint2.jpg


Hours of sanding and preping the engine bay in the hot sun paind off.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/paint3.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/paint6.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/paint5.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/paint4.jpg

Went to the local junk yard and found some decent int, was tired of that brown stuff.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx27.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx28.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx29.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx30.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/240sx31.jpg

This is where I left off at as of early july due to working crazy hours, will keep this updated. Thanks zilvia for the space
jason

[CA18_S13]

Keep up the bulid makes me want to pull the motor out of mine and paint the bay and do a wire tuck job.

[wannabe_drifter]

Looks good so far
Can't wait to see it completely painted

What are those wheels ??

[Farzam]

I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe...

But awesome build.

Keep it up!

[boosted98gst]

the wheels? I have no idea some no name junkers that came off another 240 I bought for parts.

[boosted98gst]

I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe...

But awesome build.

Keep it up!


funny thing my friends are pissed about the paint also.

[CKAMC]

Good paint skills! I like what I see so far, keep us up to date :)

[boosted98gst]

Good paint skills! I like what I see so far, keep us up to date :)


thanks 100% of the work has been done by me , so its not going to be done anytime soon. But if anyone is in the ohio area and needs paint work I can hook it up.

[unicoladron]

thanks 100% of the work has been done by me , so its not going to be done anytime soon. But if anyone is in the ohio area and needs paint work I can hook it up.

Nice i love that piant color man, i'm thinking about doing my engine bay too cuz mine isn't my daily driver either but it's not a show car. i also have a coupe and a blacktop. And i have a painting question. when you primered, did you just rough up the original paint and just primer over that? what type of primer did you use?

[boosted98gst]

what we use at the shop is either steel whool or scotchbrite (sp) pads for detail work, on the flat area's you can use 320 also. Go to your local auto/store get some thinner. strip all the stuff from your car ect before even starting, get yourself or borrow a power washer and scrub every inch with like dawn type soap to get most of the grease and crap off. next just make sure you skuff up every inch that youre going to spray, make sure you look over your work, and clean with thinner when done, I did this process a few times making sure I was free of any film ect. The thinner is going to take off thin layers of the paint off the engine bay due to , factory engine bay are not cleared at all, you will see the factory sealer but do not waste your time and go to bare metal, just skuff good all over.
paint
reducer
primer
activator
clear
all dupont brand.

[SexPanda]

Damn that looks noice. I wish I had a coupe... Damn hatchbacks...
Good luck with hooking up that sr. Wirings not too hard though. Just gotta know how to read a wiring diagram. And I like that silver paint, but the champagne is, IMHO, a nicer color.

[prang11]

Good stuff. The color rocks.

[boosted98gst]

Good stuff. The color rocks.
thank you, hopfully the rest of the car goes this smooth.

[DOOK]

sweet, where in Ohio are you located? I'm in WV and I'll be needing my car sprayed sometime. I have all materials to do candy apple red, but I dont know if I want it for the 240, I may spray the jetta that. PM me.

[Dousan_PG]

woooah
this is rad
car looks great, i like that silver al ot!!
silver engine bays..u cant go wrong!!

keep it up!

[boosted98gst]

sweet, where in Ohio are you located? I'm in WV and I'll be needing my car sprayed sometime. I have all materials to do candy apple red, but I dont know if I want it for the 240, I may spray the jetta that. PM me.


sent you a pm, I get great deals at the local dupont place, The guy that i work for has been using him for 30+ years, he can mix anything you want. Let me know if its possible to get the car up here, and I can def help you out.
jason

[William__s13]

Nice pics.. keep up the progress!!

[Dirty Habit]

I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe...


Agreed. I got to that part too and thought aww shit, heres where the guy picks a candy lime green color.
Thankfully you didn't.

Nice to see another clean Ohio coupe.:rawk:

[opponheimer]

looking great man! you got to keep us updated now!

[Edgar]

nice looking build man!

[Gjohnson7]

Hottness! Keep up the good work. I love the silver.

[ripnbst]

Where at in OH are you located? I need my shit painted, hook me up with a ballpark price for black hood, roof, pillars, engine bay, door jambs, and trunk lid. White everywhere else on a s13 coupe. Colors 350Z Black and 350Z white plz. Again I know you prolly cant give me an exact but ballpark it as closely as possible. P.S. The car is currently stock heavily faded Red.

[exitspeed]

Werd. Good stuff man. Keep us up-to-date!

[boosted98gst]

Where at in OH are you located? I need my shit painted, hook me up with a ballpark price for black hood, roof, pillars, engine bay, door jambs, and trunk lid. White everywhere else on a s13 coupe. Colors 350Z Black and 350Z white plz. Again I know you prolly cant give me an exact but ballpark it as closely as possible. P.S. The car is currently stock heavily faded Red.


Like i told the guy who pm'ed me about painting his car, the car im doing now is easy because the body is so straight, anyone that paints knows that the prep work is going to be 80% of time and outcome of the actual paint job, if you can do alot of it yourself and bring me a car thats apart ready for paint is going to be the cheapest way, starting off its going to be around 500-600 just for the materials alone, and thats depeding on the color prices ect . I am located outside columbus ohio. pm me if you want more info, the guy i work for painted a guys s15 front end and his body kit from zilvia , i have no idea what his name is on here, maybe he will chime in on the work he did. because it came out amazing.

[azndoc]

Looks like you know exactly what your doing.

Looks really good.

Mad props to ya.


Wait did you pick up the motor along with your dad? Who's a truck driver I think it was.

[boosted98gst]

Looks like you know exactly what your doing.

Looks really good.

Mad props to ya.


Wait did you pick up the motor along with your dad? Who's a truck driver I think it was.


yup that was me, I had to travel with him because he had surgery and could not lift things , so I took 2 months off work to travel with him to help him get back on his feet, but yup that was me.

[axiomatik]

I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe...

But awesome build.

Keep it up!

why? champagne looks like crap on s13s

[turtle m3th]

Subscribed! Looking very good man. Can't wait to see the progression on this thing. Do you have any recommended literature for body work and paint?

[Farzam]

why? champagne looks like crap on s13s


http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3592/cosmicrexxb3.jpg

[boosted98gst]

Subscribed! Looking very good man. Can't wait to see the progression on this thing. Do you have any recommended literature for body work and paint?


Everyone knows the basic's in the body work and paint, the hard part is finding someone to teach or help you , your best bet is finding one of them old school painter guys to help you, thats what i did. see if hes willing to teach you , while you help out around the shop.
......I used old doors , fenders, ect to practice on when I first started, painters shop's are always going to be littered with used sand paper, old paint, old pannels from cars to start out on. No matter every painter is going to say somthing different to what they are use to, your just going to have to learn from someone and work with whats best for you , and how you do things. Even to this day the guy who taught me still uses a siphon fed gun from the 70's he swears that it sprays better then my sata jet gravity fed gun, its all in what works with you. You have any more questions just pm me and I will try my best to help you out.

[CrimsonRockett]

I like.

I'm a noobiiee with paint, so i'll keep my eye on this.

[BattleRoyale]

nice start to your project

[Zero-Offset]

bet your glad you dont have look at that shit brown interior anymore.

that silver is killer too man, the 350z came out with some really awesome colorways. two thumbs up! :bigok:

[boosted98gst]

thank you for all the comments, I will have updated pic's later today.
thanks for looking.

[boosted98gst]

ok today I rolled and flaired the rear quarters , and the driver side rear came out like shit, the car had some body work done in the past , and someone mig welded the pannel to together, which left 4 nice weld spots under the pannel, as I was rolling I noticed the roller was not pushing out parts of the pannel out like the previous side, but then it was too late and already noticed a wavey job. So now im going to have to grind all the welds out and just hammer dolly the bumps out as best I can. sorry the pic's suck should of pulled the car outside.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/24087.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/24088.jpg

here is the otherside which came out nice but not as flaired as the driverside, which im going to fix in the coming days, and you can see progress on the sanding.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/24082.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/24081.jpg

I dropped the motor in just to get an idea.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/24084.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/24083.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/24086.jpg


Yesterday I was at one of my buddies fathers house ,just shooting the shit, and seen that he had some rims sitting on the side of his house, he said that I could just have them and he did not want them. I took one home just to show my friend if he wanted them, he could pick them up for free, went back today and someone stole the other 3.

no idea if they are worth anything but they say " riken" on the center cap
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/boosted98gst1998/24085.jpg

[Farzam]

Riken mesh are worth a couple bucks.

[pikachu]

nice work on the coupe man

[boosted98gst]

and yes im getting wheels to fill the rear in.

[Farzam]

You shoulda gotten the wheels first...and done your roll based on that....

[boosted98gst]

You shoulda gotten the wheels first...and done your roll based on that....

you are right, hopfully everything will work out.

[Farzam]

Just get the wheels before paint and modify it...

Don't wanna f up new paint j00 noes?

[Gavster]

Great work so far man, props to you and keep it up...looks a lot like my paint on my build!

[boosted98gst]

yeah I will hold off on the paint till i find the right wheels.......

[240sx_sr20det]

nice build! I love the silver you are using and I definitely think you can pull it off with this front end! Good-luck! Can't wait for updates! :bigok:

[boosted98gst]

this coming up week, im off for 5 days and going to finish the car up, not going to be able to get the front end and wheels i want now, so im just going to fix what I need to now and paint the car, i will get more updates as they come.
jason

[Gjohnson7]

Looking sick man! Hopefully I will be done with my build soon too!

[G-Wagon]

boosted98gst Nice coupe.

[hatchbaak]

Paint Looks Excellent.