You know, I always say i enjoy building race cars, but until they take thier new persona, or identity, i feel like im doing something very wrong.
Especially when the car started out as a fine example, you feel like your raping a great car. The Skyline was just the case, yet while the Yaris was not. The Yaris was crashed and destined for a wrecking yard until there would be nothing left of the car but a empty shell, then its off to the metal scrap yard ... so in that case i felt like i had actually saved it and given it a re-birth.
The Skyline was such a reliable and healthy daily driver, it feels so wrong gutting it, but soon it will get a million more looks, and several tons of respect, thus i know its for a good cause.
On Thursday i had a day off from work, called Wayne around to have a communal disassembly session, and get work rolling on the Skyline. Silvia was also over so we had a few of us working away. We started at around 17:40, and by about 19:30 had a gutted engine bay, of its guards and all other misc wiring, seats out, interior out except for the dash and center console. And what to do with that ...
Once its all gutted, and the cage is built, do i make a plug of the OEM dash, and make a carbon lightweight version of the stock dash ?.
OR do i make it a simple dashless panel setup like in the Yaris, and have it open with the dash on the steering shaft ?.
Hmmm ...
