Phase Review: Revelation

After several weeks of work, it finally went to pay-off the hard work (but not as hefty as it should be), the car's been fully stripped down. Here's some pics showing what's under the car's skin. Enjoy!

So who would give it a thought that these snakes were hiding under the hood? I wonder what happened to this beautiful car???

Here's a peek at the passengers section

And the floor and trunk too...

This is gonna be a lot of work, I found additional work after the strip down phase and the work is a no joke, it just ain't. Did you manage to see what I was referring to? There were few holes probably been caused by rust, it's kinda acceptable given the car's already a Silver year old car.

It's a good thing to point out though that after 25 years of service this car still look like she's at her prime, still produces the specified throughput and power, still got a perfect posture. But let's accept the fact she's kinda old and really needs to get those sweet tasty repairs.

So on my next post, we'll be dealing with "RUST", we'll apply some aftermarket solutions see what works best (we'll learn stuffs here), and we'll continue with the strip down. This time it's the paints turn to be stripped. See you next time.

Be Safe!

Kip

Interior Part 2

Hello everyone, this post is the continuation of the on-going stripping down of the car's interior, the Part 1 which you can follow from here Interior Project Phase is the initial strip down where I took off the seats, and some sidings and actually finding a lot of unexpected guests.

Continuing with the interior strip down I proceeded with the removal of the dashboard, the dashboard is the most important part of the car as it holds many things in place and gives the drivers almost everything about the car condition during running. Say its a command center which gives the driver an insight of what is going on with the car.

Dashboard

Dashboards are tricky and a lot of work (more bolts and nuts, more hidden clips and much more), for the B12 Nissan Sentra, there's a few to look for. You must be very, very careful because you can end up scratching the surface/s not just that there are a lot of wires hanging everywhere and you might end up accidentally cutting them off, likewise, this is a lot of tremendous work so be very sure before you get started.

A bracket underneath the dashboard holds it in place, 4x10mm nuts

Wires, wires, wires

Steering assembly, practically needs to be disassembled too

2x10mm nuts for the brackets (L and R)

4x10mm nuts in the dashboard, you need to remove the cover first

2x10mm nuts which hold the hood notch control, its hiding

Ceiling Cover

The ceiling cover I think is one of the easiest part to remove yet one of the most delicate, you can easily put a scratch, dent, and or any markings onto the ceiling so put an extra carefulness when handling it. It's easy because once every plastic moldings is removed it will automatically fall off magic as it sounds, well that is not good as the last piece of plastic molding could put pressure and markings while it is still in place (again, the moldings are still hanging and the ceiling cover could fall off putting pressure on the end where the last molding is). You have been warned.

Still a virgin

Car ceiling cover

Rust and Markings at the back of the cover?

Big marks!!! Something is wrong...

With that I am almost done stripping down the interior, please stay tuned as a revelation is going to happen next post!

Later,

Kip

Interior Project Phase

If I were using the scale to grade an agile activity to rate my deliverables, then it is most likely that I have already failed. I wasn't able to deliver a new post every Saturday as I have planned or indicated during the start of this project.

There were several excuses but nevertheless won't make any sense anymore as the project has already been started and has progressed on and that a wasted time is just a wasted time.

Anyway, in this post I'll be discussing all about the Interior Project Phase, in these project phase we are focusing on everything about the car interior,

The purpose of this project phase is to know the car's interior in detail, and to find if the car's been hiding something that's can't be seen immediately by our naked eyes.

Just a piece of advice, never start the work with incomplete or improper tools, we don't want to incur any injury or serious injuries during the start and up to the end of the project. Always wear protection and check your local regulations for proper chemical disposals if any.

Car's Interior are second in nature when appreciating for cars beauty, the interior details gives emphasis to a car, its not just about the exterior like how shiny the paint is, how big and powerful the engine is, how many horsepower can it produce on a 6000 rpm and etc...

Poor car interior detailing leads to dissatisfaction, for some reasons people prefer whats inside rather than what's outside and most of the time people do..

In this post, I'll be showing the stripping off the car sidings, seats, carpeting, dashboards. Literally, I'll strip the car's interior to its bare just like before everything was put in place.

So let's get started...

Seats

The seats can easily be removed because they aren't weld onto the car, they're just bolted and sometimes just hooked into something.

Hook for the Passenger Backseat

Ooopss.. I've cracked it

Driver Seat (Just Bolted with 12mm x 4)

Car Sidings (Plastic Moldings)

Car Sidings aren't hard either, they're just a little bit tricky because you can't see how they're bolted and where exactly they're attached to. For this, I have just used some pointed tool like the screwdriver (but then there are some aftermarket tools specially made for these kind of task), I also made use of a piece of cloth to protect the plastic from absorbing the pressure that might dent it.

Use a cloth or else the plastic will absorb all the pressure

These are the kind of clips that holds the plastic molds in place

After removing some of the plastics, I've learned that this wasn't just a simple project, its going to be a lot of work, time and money that will be spent.

Anyway, next week, I'll be posting the continuation of the interior strip down so please stay tuned.

Later,

Kip

Before the Disaster

Some pics before she goes regretting me as her owner... LOL

 Some angle shots

 Sexy SQUARE RECTANGULAR headlights (coz these aren't square) - LOL

 A view on the right

 A view on the left

 Peek-a-boo engine view

So this is gonna be a lot of work... but should be a lot of fun stuff along the way.

Come on and join me, later

Kip