Cherry N12 1.5 Turbo (Read 1,799 times)

[bananahamuck]

What year is this car? It looks really good with the silver color in the windtower pictures.

[nissancherryn12]

Thanks! It's a 84-model

The car does look good but it get's a different color, it will be like this in a few weeks:

[bananahamuck]

With the high cost of paint these days ( even if you do it all yourself ) you might as well get the end result you want. Yellows a good color, is it metallic? I have an incredibly hard time painting metallics.

[nissancherryn12]

No, it's not metallic I will paint the engine-bay and the inside myself but the outside will be done by a painter. It's not really expensive. For 1L + 0,5K hardner i have to pay about 90 euro's More then enough to do the enginebay and inside

Metallic-paint i normally only paint together on special thinner-base, That goes fine by me luckely Water-based isn't my favorit...

[cods68]

I liking the work so far looking forward to the end result ;-)

[nissancherryn12]

Tnx! Me too i have to say

Car is now getting some body-repair:





A lot needs to be welded so more pictures will come!

New front suspension arms:



Used front calipers. Will make it possible to install vented disks breaks. Works a lot better then the solid ones



And one brandnew headlight in the repainted holder:



Cheers,

Rens

[nissancherryn12]

Hello guys,

So, i started with the parting-out of this car. It's a bit rusty but nothing witch can't be fixed but the roof might be a bit more difficult...

In just 4,5 hours i got this result:








Poor car...




Hopefully tomorrow she is about empty so i can bring here to to workshop for the rust-repair

Cheers,

Rens

[nissancherryn12]

Hi,

So, doors/panels/hood etc etc is all out, even the motor already






I think this is a new record for me. Yesterdayevening 19:00 i drove the car to the garage and now, after 9,5 hours the car is like now!

[nissancherryn12]

Hi Guys,

Yesterday was nice warm weather so i painted the front grill.

before:



after:




And now trying to get all the paint of the roof so i can see how bad the damage really is... It's bad....





Keep you guys updated

[nissancherryn12]

Hi Guys,

So the engine is in good nick but it did use a bit of oil. Offcourse this could be the head, the block or both. Because the car hasn't been used for many years when it was in france i made the choice to lift the head and see how it looked like from the inside. Well, i may have found a oil-use problem. Offcourse i made some pictures again.

Before:




during:



Cil. head off:





So, one cilinder has a big oil-consumption problem. The others are OK, bit of oily but not too serious. Suppose when i give the head a small revision it will have much less oil consumption and might be running better then before.

Also made a nice found. This engine has the original Nissan watercooled turbo-upgrade. Incl. the new piping and the new thermostat housing. Was a very nice found!

[nissancherryn12]

Cilinder head revision:




Sanding, preparing etc :





even more welding:

[nissancherryn12]

Welding roof done... Not sure if i only post pictures here for myself because this hole page is only filled with my reactions...

[Tero75]

It's nice to follow this thread.
I'm going to install a similar sunroof to my B11. Have you got any photos of how the water pipes run from sunroof?

[nissancherryn12]

Tnx, Tero. Yes i have, will make some pictures for you and put them into a PM

[reallyloud]

You make it look so easy! I like the plans for the new colour, any thoughts on suspension and wheels?