My EF7 Project (Picture Heavy)

nzcrxsi · #1 03-01-2010, 05:27 AM

Hi There everybody!,

I'm new to this Forum, I am also from New Zealand, my car is a JDM EF7 Facelift Model with No sunroof and no bonnet bulge.

Its got 155,000ks on the clock (97,000miles) and is good mechanically.. interiors not too bad, however theres some bits that need attention. (pretty much all our used cars in NZ were imported second hand from Japan)

Mainly the paint/panel needs attention at this stage, the clear coat is gone from the roof and other parts of the car.
In the next 2 weeks I am going to get this sorted however, I will pay a panel shop to do the work, my Girlfriend works for one as an office manager, which could help price wise hopefully.

Heres some pics, the day I purchased the car. (have only had it 2 weeks)

The 1st pic is its best angle, (you can't see much of the paint damage).

On the next Pic you can see missing clearcoat.

Here's the only Rust I can find in the car, although its in a pig of a place to fix from what I can tell.

Heres the clearcoat problem on the drivers door:

Interior Pics:

Roof:

Engine:

So the list so far is:

1. Panel, Paint, Rust Repair, Re-alignment of front and rear bumpers.
2. Some decent wheels, TE37 Rays 15" ideally, if I can find some for a good price along with some good rubber
3. New heavy duty clutch (25% more capacity then stock) so nothing too serious.
4. ZC Headers, these can be tricky to find, will hopefully get some good JDM used ones rather then the cheap chinese ones I have seen on ebay.
5. Exhaust, at the moment its got a more restrictive one then factory probably. someones replaced the rear box etc with a cheap item.
6. Sounds install, Already have an Infinity amp, image dynamics sub in ported box, DLS componets etc, that I will take out of my BMW 320i and put in this eventually.
7. Will add more later