Back in December I picked up my K11. She was in a bit of a sorry state when I bought her, slowly being eaten away by rot at the sills and looking a bit tatty. She needed some TLC.
She's a 1.0L 16V, and despite the tatty exterior (when I picked her up) she still ran really well. The engine is solid and will take everything you throw at it! Typical little Nissan!
Anyway here are some pictures from when I picked her up.
And the culprit to it's failed MOT at the time, this dirty great mofo:
Luckily, my father is a fantastic mechanic and had a go at fixing it straight away. Before I got round to modding it, we decided it would be best to get her through the MOT first! So, a few grueling hours or welding, cutting and sanding later...
Good as new!
Now it was time for me to let my imagine loose a little bit and get to the fun stuff!
I picked up a set of (slightly) dished multispoke alloys for £100 off eBay. They're 15x6.5, a little less wide than I wanted but they still looked great. Me and my dad cleaned them up and painted them, and got them on asap. We also lowered it about 4"s!
I also wanted to get a little bit more power out of it too, so I installed a mushroom air filter and a fuel pressure regulator. We upped the fuel pressure from 2-bar to 5-bar. It seemed to run sweet until the fuel pipe burst (haha) but it was no big deal, we quickly swapped the pipe and dropped it to 4-bar. It runs very nice at 4 bar with a good little bit of extra power.
I stripped it out and my dad fabricated a nice half-cage as well.
So this is how it sat about 2 weeks ago.
It's a little different now, I installed a couple of bucket seats and have put a Laguna splitter on the front. I've also raised the bonnet up by about an inch. I'll grab some new pictures this weekend (hopefully in the sun!)
I don't know whether or not to leave it as it is or do anything extra to it! Any little ideas will go down sweet.
Special thanks to my dad who's done a fab job of helping me out with it.
Thanks for looking, comments and criticism welcome! (Y)
She's a 1.0L 16V, and despite the tatty exterior (when I picked her up) she still ran really well. The engine is solid and will take everything you throw at it! Typical little Nissan!
Anyway here are some pictures from when I picked her up.
And the culprit to it's failed MOT at the time, this dirty great mofo:
Luckily, my father is a fantastic mechanic and had a go at fixing it straight away. Before I got round to modding it, we decided it would be best to get her through the MOT first! So, a few grueling hours or welding, cutting and sanding later...
Good as new!
Now it was time for me to let my imagine loose a little bit and get to the fun stuff!
I picked up a set of (slightly) dished multispoke alloys for £100 off eBay. They're 15x6.5, a little less wide than I wanted but they still looked great. Me and my dad cleaned them up and painted them, and got them on asap. We also lowered it about 4"s!
I also wanted to get a little bit more power out of it too, so I installed a mushroom air filter and a fuel pressure regulator. We upped the fuel pressure from 2-bar to 5-bar. It seemed to run sweet until the fuel pipe burst (haha) but it was no big deal, we quickly swapped the pipe and dropped it to 4-bar. It runs very nice at 4 bar with a good little bit of extra power.
I stripped it out and my dad fabricated a nice half-cage as well.
So this is how it sat about 2 weeks ago.
It's a little different now, I installed a couple of bucket seats and have put a Laguna splitter on the front. I've also raised the bonnet up by about an inch. I'll grab some new pictures this weekend (hopefully in the sun!)
I don't know whether or not to leave it as it is or do anything extra to it! Any little ideas will go down sweet.
Special thanks to my dad who's done a fab job of helping me out with it.
Thanks for looking, comments and criticism welcome! (Y)
