Project Cars | How to? and DIY

[napunjani]

Hey guys, I finally have grown-up money and want to get my first Project Car. I know there are a bunch of car enthusiasts who don't know where to start.

SO... Please Help me and others get our feet wet.

I want my first Project car to be a Daily Drive or a Travel Car. Where do I Start?

ps. in Islamabad

[Xulfiqar]

Are you going to execute said project with your hands or hire mechanics?

My sincere advice would be to get a cheap piece of trash like a clapped mehran and try getting it back to factory spec or better with atleast 75% of your own manual effort, rest can be hired like heavy line work.

This way you will get an understanding of what, how and where of the situation, and its cheap and cheerful too. So if you break something or mess it up, its easy to find another example to copy and fix yours.

Best of luck!

[pwuser166331039855]

Wow.. wonderful.
Car restorations gives you lot of energy, motivation and keep your spirts high and your auto-love-interest intact.

I would suggest to find the Indus Corolla of 1994-1999 models. Every part of this car is available in the market. Almost every mechanic knows ow to work on it since its too common vehicle. And once restored, it can be daily runner with fuel average of 10 km/l as min.

Recently my friend has restored his 82 model corolla. He re-built its engine by himself. Yes that’s fact. I have tons of photos & videos from day 1 to end. I can connect you with him too in case if you need any assistance.

BTW, there are few workshops too who restores the old vehicles. Another friend is restoring 1975 model impala these days.

there is a member here at forums who runs restoration workshop in ICT. Let me know if you need his contact.

[napunjani]

Thanks for the advice. See this is the type of thing I was confused about.
1. what car to get started with?
2. what are the things that I can do by myself and how far can I go with this?
3. and are there other enthusiast that want to join in?

[napunjani]

My Prayers have been answered. Good Sir would love to meet up and discuss the details.

impala? That is a man of culture indeed.

Some day I'll will to, But for now 90's Corolla sounds Like a Perfect dream

[pwuser166331039855]

i shared the contact number in pm.
they run auto restoration workshop in ICT

[pwuser166331039855]

i know many auto part suppliers too for classic cars.
once you start your project, i can share their contacts too.

[Xulfiqar]

Dont jump in blind and get yourself into a situation where you have an old impala in Pakistan running a clapped out toyota 1uz that is already dead..

Firstly get yourself a very basic car and organically learn the ins and outs so you can get a feel of it and if in future you do meet with similar interest people you can filter out the freeloader chaska party types from actual gearheads (the skillset you will learn is also beneficial when you get work done by a shop as you will know immediately if you are being conned)

And also finally, this hobby takes a lot of effort and time and will cause a lot of physical pain, stress, social strife and a lot of mental exhaustion., so start with baby steps. My oldest freinds started with motorcycles, they literally repaired and restored their own daily rides like cd70 and cg125 etc and evolved to mitsubishi evos and now are doing turbo audi craziness.

Meaning, dont go buy something assuming its a bun kabab and you can shove a honda engine into a suzuki from some welder ustaad and assume a modicum of reliability. There are a ton of engineering principles to look into otherwise your car becomes your coffin.

A lot of them would be invisble to you unless you are skilled in this craft.

[pwuser166331039855]

May i know when it was last time you visit here in PK ?

[sohikun]

Visiting pk ~ people consider it a death wish now a days, I mean they ain't wrong.

[Xulfiqar]

3 weeks ago

[sohikun]

Interesting.

[Hassan1991]

Old corolla parts are extremely expensive. Stay away from them.
Suzuki is your best friend.

[sohikun]

True, it's available everywhere, even on the moon itself.

[pwuser166331039855]

3 weeks ago

Have you ever been in Lahore?
Next time you visit, let me know. Will take you to visit some workshops and auto part markets and after that your concepts will be quite different to see such auto advancements in Lahore which is from years.
We have a person here who owns a Lamborghini and sends it to UAE for oil change several time in an year.
We have person who has decorated his drawing/sitting room with 50s/60s model cars.
I personally know 3 persons who are auto collectors. And collectively they have nearly 40-45 classic cars and your jaws will drop to your knees looking at them that how beautifully they are maintaining them.

Will arrange your meeting with Dr. Sami-Ur-Rehman who is A REAL AUTO GENIE & above of all he is Extremely Humble, Down to Earth and meet/helps everyone. He doesn’t live like a ghost like you.

And before you leave back, will take you to wallet city to enjoy some desi foods so that you keep farting & shitting in the air-plane

[pwuser166331039855]

Part prices of every auto vehicle you can name are high and not cheap anymore. Even prices from Junk yards brings surprises.
Restoration is the hobby where you normally spend more than the price of vehicle itself. Because its not the vehicle at the end, but its whole process which you keep enjoying step by step.

Safar Khoobsoorat Hey Manzil Say Bhi.
(If you know the song from movie Aye Dil hey Mushkil)

Restoring Suzuki doesn’t trigger motivational energy in many guys. Guys needs something more difficult & challenging jobs to restore.

[sameerulhaq064]

Going with @Xulfiqar’s suggestion, get a cheap clapped out Mehran or maybe even a Khyber or Margalla (comparatively expensive but there’s a lot more you can do to them) and restore them. Won’t be too expensive and you’ll learn a great deal. Afterwards, you can progress to better and more complex cars.

[Hassan1991]

Corolla's are not difficult and challenging to restore as compared to suzuki's, they are dead simple with premium price tag.

[Xulfiqar]

Good

So every one should restore a mercedes 600 grosser as their first car? Where would they turn to when the fingertip hydraulics need repair and a few window switch overhauls can be tens of thousands of euros.

[Xulfiqar]

Lahore doesnt interest me, its tiny and useless.

Btw someone sending their lamborghini overseas for an oil change is not impressive for me, its a vw/audi product and any of its models oil change isnt as complex as you think it is. (Hint - it uses the same suction tank that is used on mercedes benz oil changes)

Lol

And lamborghinis or ferraris dont impress me at all, im not who you think I am.