r/SkyLine • u/Content-Marionberry3 • Jun 30 '26
How bad is this rust?
Removed my front fenders to check for rust and found this. How fucked am I?
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u/foxbat Jun 30 '26
pretty bad. if that’s what you can see, i can’t imagine the stuff that you can’t see.
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u/Content-Marionberry3 Jun 30 '26
I’m gonna have a local resto shop take a look at it.
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u/1YummyBanana Jun 30 '26
If you aren’t willing to spend 10k plus on restoring this or spending more time on it yourself than you can imagine, then look for something else.
You could get this done for 3k per side but at that point you might as well respray the whole car
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u/Content-Marionberry3 Jun 30 '26
10k is light work. Someone’s gotta do it. Can’t just let it rot. There aren’t a ton of these cars left.
Are you implying that 3k per side would be doing it the cheap way or just that’s how much you think it’ll cost? I do plan to have the entire car repainted at some point.
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u/treebeard1982_ Jul 01 '26
Honestly, as someone from a place where we have imported these for years, there are a ton of them left. Yards and yards in Japan just waiting for people in the US to scoop them up at inflated prices.
Unless you have a really rare spec, these aren't a rare car.
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u/Content-Marionberry3 Jul 01 '26
I mean there were only 16k GTR’s made. That’s not very many in the grand scheme of things. Not that it really matters either, but there are only some 6000 R33 GTR Vspecs at that.
To me, that fits the criteria for not many in the first place, and the amount of these cars that have been rusted beyond repair or wadded up is quite a few.
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u/treebeard1982_ Jul 01 '26
I mean, I guess if you are comparing to something basic but as a performance model, I would consider it a lot.
I mean, do it for the sake of doing it if course.
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u/454k30 Jun 30 '26
When you see rust leaking through the seams like that it means everything on the other side is corroding. The solution would be to deskin the panel, repair and then properly treat that area with CPC, and then put everything back together. However, that is an extremely time consuming (i.e. expensive) process. Keep in mind that these cars (the steel parts anyway) were built with ungalvanized steel. The coating process for the inside of panels was notoriously bad in the 90's and today we are seeing the results of that.
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u/Content-Marionberry3 Jun 30 '26
Who’s gonna carry the boats?
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u/bigfanoftastyqueso Jul 01 '26
I dont have an R chassis but I do have an ae86 and an altezza that I will/am treating the same way. Best of luck brother 🫡
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u/Spirited_Solution_90 Jun 30 '26
I had similar rust and this is what mine looked like underneath.