Some of you guys may have seen my other thread already. I decided to consolidate everything into this one thread to make it easier to keep up with things..

Basically what happened was I already owned the Veilside V1 front lip, so I decided to complete the kit. I purchased the sides and rear skirts from Darren @ Intense. They came in already. The fittment was great, but I was unpleased with the extra molding Veilside puts on their sidesskirts so I decided to modify the side skirts to my liking..

Moving along to this past Monday:

I finally finished customizing the Veilside side skirts to my liking on Saturday. Keep in mind, the Veilside kit fits perfect out the box. I'm just a perfectionist and don't mind going the extra mile to make what's already perfect, even better. Saturday morning I had to take a trip to Home Depot in search of a better cutting tool. Everything in my arsenal took entirely too long and too much elbow grease to shave down the hard polyurethane.

After spending an hour at Home Depot I found the perfect tool for the job. A high speed Dremmel cutting attachment. This bad boy @ 10K rpm made quick waste of the polyurethane. Here's some before and after pics of the side skirts. You can see the 1/8 lip I had to remove. I also included test fittment pictures, before and after. Notice how flush the skirts fit after the lip was shaved off.

 

Today I went to Sterlin Mcall Nissan is Hoston today to get a price quote on painting these items. They shut me down. The sales guy said they don't paint body kits for lowered vehicles.. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

 

Damn man...

 

Thanks George. Your car is pretty impressive itself..

 

I have nowhere near that kind of stuff in my engine bay! I wanted that oil catch can too...

 

I've had it on order since March. It barely came in...

 

Niiiiice engine bay....

 

Thanks guy...

The cooler should be in this afternoon. I'll take photos tonight and post tomorrow. Tonight I will be doing the grill cut-out also.

 

Looks like I have my work cut out for me tonight. I won't be able to work on this the rest of the weekend, due to me basking in the sun at a beach house all weekend. The cooler came in excellent condition. As you can see, the instructions are unreadable. The diagrams are pretty handy though.

The only thing I'm gonna have to figure out is how to cut the steel braided hose. The package comes with one long hose. I'm assuming I have to cut the lengths of tubing I need. This shouldn't be a problem. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to cut them. All I can think of is a pair of metal sheers.
I have a pair of tin snips, but the jaws may not be wide enough. Anyone have any ideas? I'd appreciated it.

Val

 

BTW, I dropped the Veilside V1 kit off at the body shop during lunch today. It should be painted by next week. Jason, from Prestige Motorsports will be providing the paint job..

 

I used pretty much anything that would cut the bastard hahah. It was so long ago I don't remember but it worked! Don't worry too much about the instructions. My install partner is fluent in Japanese and he pretty much said the instructions were useless.

EDIT: If I recall I think we used Lock cutters. One person holding the hose and one person cutting. We also wrapped the area being cut with tape to make sure the cut was clean.

 

Thanks Rickdog. I'll wrap the ends in duct tape prior to cutting. I'm going to stop by Home Depot and pick up some wide mouthed sheers. I already know which ones I'm going to purchase.

After I cut the hose, I'm assuming I just place it into the adapter and tightening the adapter will clamp down on the hose to secure it?

 

NP...from what I recall yes...although we did wrap the ends with tape just to be safe. No leaks still to this day.

 

I think Summit sells special cutters for steel braided lines. Maybe if you have a local auto performance store they will have them?

 

Last night was a long night. I headed over to Home Depot to pick up some cutters, which I thought were going to do the job but actually were useless. Turns out the tin snips I already had worked perfect. Here's a picture of the snips I bought last night. The snips with the yellow handles were the pair the worked like a charm..

More pics to come in a few minutes...

 

Here's a couple pre install shots... Notice my shade tree mechanic duds

 

Here's a couple shots of the cooler mounted. The cooler sits very snug. There's about an 8th inch gap between the cooler and the power steering fluid cooler.(notated with yellow arrow)

 

1st connect I mounted was the OEM filter adapter. Notice the big bolt faces the ground. It's impossible to mount it upside, because the side with the bolt will hit if you mount it backwards.

For you guys that plan on doing this yourself, you'd better have a large set of sockets. I believe the one in this pic was a 28mm. Also, to tighten up all the fittings, I had to use a Cresent wrench because my largest wrench(22mm) wasn't big enough.

 

nice front mount coola Looks great man. keep it up.

Chris

 

Next piece of hardware was the filter relocation adapter. This one took a few minutes to figure out where it went, but wasn't a problem.. If you'll notice, it mounts directly below the radiator coolant overflow reservoir... There's only 3 bolts that attach it..

After the bracket is installed, just fasten down the filter adapter to it with a 10mm wrench..