Well, I guess I am finally making myself at home here on NICO. So, time for my build (in sequence):
I bought this car almost exactly a year ago, and it was an impulse purchase of sorts.
1990 Nissan 240sx Fastback Zombie (it's dead and looks dead)
Before you puke, let me explain...I thoroughly inspected it before I bought it: 120,000 miles, normal suspension wear and tear, no motor/trans (obviously), the entire thing was speckled with tree sap and bird s*** (more tree sap), BUT... NO BODY/CHASSIS RUST WHATSOEVER! Oh and the guy before me started rattle canning the car yellow... ugh.
So I bought it: $200.00. Then I stuck it in a storage unit (in NC) where it collected dust for like five months until I finished up with basic/ait. In August '09, I put it on a trailer and brought it to where I live in NY.
I don't have a garage at my house, and it seems I'm the only house around that doesn't have one, lol. So, anxious to get things apart, I began some driveway stuff: cleaning, removing leftover parts in the engine bay (bagged 'em and tagged 'em), disassembling random body parts, etc.
Finally, at the beginning of October I got a huge break. One of my friends offered half of his garage to my project. I accepted and quickly moved in and set up shop. I started taking more stuff apart, sanding and removing all of the old paint, and that awful tree sap mess I had goin on. Turns out Acetone is f***ing phenomenal in the tree sap removing category, unfortunately it damages the clear coat - which meant nothing to me, it was all coming off.
I began sanding the rest of the car little by little until ALL the paint was gone. Please don't try this at home; it may lead to boredom, anger, and lack of motivation altogether. If I never have to sand another thing ever again in my whole life I would have ZERO issues with it.
And have a shop vac and dust mask handy, what a f***ing mess!!!!
But whatever, here goes the nakedness:
Ok, story time!
I had the entire thing sanded down to bare metal, cleaned the garage (thoroughly), and began messing with the mechanical stuff and other body work like bondo. Well, one day I was disassembling my fuel rails and removing my injectors on one of those little folding TV Dinner type tables and I left everything on the table laid out where it belonged when I left to go home.
A couple days later when more time had fallen into my hands, I went back to the garage to continue right along with my project at hand. When I got there, I found the table completely upside down five feet from where I had left it. ALL of the fuel injectors sustained damage. I was baffled at first, trying to put two and two together, but nothing seemed to equal four. Finally when my friend got off work, he wandered out to the garage and said, "we need to talk." So I was like, "yeah, it sure as hell looks that way." Then he started blabbering about how he knew my project was a big one and that I would be taking up a lot of space, but he was sick of it. Now this guy has like 20 years on me, I'm real good friends with his daughters, and I worked with him for a previous employer for a while. We partied at his house on numerous occasions (got real good at beer pong). Back to the story - he said he was pissed because he had to move his truck to get his lawnmower out because my car was in the way. And instead of moving his truck out, he backed it up in the garage as far as it would go so he could squeeze by. Well, he ended up needing his jumper cables which were behind his truck that he had wedged against a shop table in the back of the garage. Instead of moving the truck forward two feet, he had to come around to my side of the garage, weave through my miscellaneous stands and tables and back over to his side behind the table to get them. This pissed this pathetic, alcoholic fool off and on his way back, he supposedly swatted my table across my work area where it landed upside down and damaged every last injector... He spilled the beans and walked off without apologizing. My car and everything I had in that garage was gone in less than 24 hours. I had it all set up in a new garage all to myself across town. BTW, new at autozone, my injectors are $166 each. And to foreshadow later parts of my build, there were eight of them = $1400+ with taxes.
I will continue this tomorrow... getting rather late.