it's repairable but as a body guy I would strongly recommend you switch the front end it may be more work now but it's worth it in the long run keep up the great work

I love the intro but I also love the idea of using it as a flashback to what it once was! Holy shit, $1500 is an insanely good deal, my dad had to replace a unit on his rental commercial property for $25,000 almost 10 years ago!

With the shart tubs and rust I would do the whole front vs patch repair. These cars are expensive enough that it’s worth doing and if you are keeping it any length of time you will thank yourself later. Get that underbody properly protected too. The heat shields and dust shields on the brakes rust fast because of the heat. On my mx5 I switched all the factory heat shields for the aluminium aftermarket sheet style ones, was cheaper, lighter and better.

I would recommend going and chopping and putting the new front end on cause you could only see what’s “clean” on the outside but on the inside it could be worse and not worth fixing

Sam I honestly love whenever the abandoned s15 B roll plays. It’s one of my most favourite B rolls I’ve ever seen man. It hypes me up for the vid when it starts it and you add new parts to it after doing something game changing to the car! Love your content bro. Can’t wait to come to your shop one day soon! MUCH LOVE FROM CANADA!

The intro always gets me hyped for the video especially seeing where the car was to how it is now it's actually kinda emotional also because I was there watching those videos as well ..I think the intro is amazing

I think if you take small parts of every video going forward and make the speed of the intros faster, it would come out amazing overtime as the build progresses

love the s15 content but would like to see something get done though as you have a lot of car not finish and would love to see you get one in the done column keep up the great content !!!!!

The Japanese car culture is very addictive and watching your channel is making me very curious about the whole Japanese lifestyle but not speaking the language would scare me to death great video once again thank you 👍

dude, loving the abandoned s15 content, keep it coming!

I would say chop n' replace the front end. Better safer than sorry. A lot of high hopes and well wishes going out to you for this project! Can't wait to see more work happen on the R32 and Evo as well!

Love The B-Roll intro. Just short and sweet. Should tube the front end. Get jimmy to have spoon build and ship it?!?!?

I do think that if someone wants to dedicate the time to the body work it is easily salvageable. Would be good to save the front end for another project. It is a close call.

I work in a body shop, just replace the whole front end, you will put all that time in the car for it to come back 5 years later, and you will be bummed. It’s honestly a quicker process then to cut every spot of rust out.

Hope the front end can be saved so the other one can help someone else with their s15! Nice vid sammit

So happy I am a part of the building of Sammit HQ!!!! LFGOOOOOO

This is all part of the journey for the abandoned S15. If it's worthy, I think it would be awesome to turn this into a sick drift event car that you can take passengers in and do press stuff with it. That way it will still get some track time, but it won't get too abused if it's used for events and press. As far as intro I think it's better every few episodes at this point since it looks like this will be a long arc of videos before it's finished and doing its thing as either a drift missile or a sick drift event/press car.

All I'm saying is that if 3-5 professionals quote me 20-30k for a job, and then one says he can do it for 3k, I'm not gonna trust that guy to hold my seat while I go to the bathroom let alone install a commercial air conditioning system lmao

I think running the cars backstory twice (beginning and end) in the video is a bit much, once is perfectly fine. I think it also needs some variance so it doesn't get too stale or feel like filler. Looks like the car wasn't too rusty even behind the covers, kinda had me fearing for the worst lol.

Think you owe it too yourself to turn this into the ultimate street s15, time to drop the intro 👍

Definitely repairable the front end but i would just chop n swap for piece of mind . Fingers crossed no bad rust when the sub frame comes out. That S15 would still be 25,30k easy here in Aus prices are still crazy

Id say agree its fixable but probs better to just swap it over to the front cut and start again with fresh clean properly done work will save you alot of time trying to fix someone elses dodgey work just start fresh brother

Keep the intro, it's like a thing to show that this series is about this car and that it is this series of you rebuilding it and nothing else

Go to town on this one Sam, full restore. Do it right fully first time rather then needing to come back to it. Keep up the great content👍 You need some banners on the walls too

Whoever repaired this car knows nothing about cars. Crazy how many faults one after the other and it's sad that even tho majority of the car is fitted wrongly and it was abandoned, it still wanted to run. All this time you were starting it up and doing burn outs the poor car was struggling but still sounded so good. It's so broken but still repairable. Can't wait to see it alive

I love the intro, keep it. But I understand where you're coming from. I enjoy it personally.

Just cut it off and weld in some cleaner sides and front, I wouldn't risk it if it was me but do what you wanna do Sam :)

You can buy all of the front end structure parts from Nissan for really cheap. I wouldn't bother with a parts car.

Thank you releasing great content on a regular basis. Love the new shop!

Those dress up bolts are terrible. If the ones you have are the same as the ones that were on a car I bought... they're stainless steel. The stainless steel bolt actually causes the mild steel captive nuts on the cars frame, to rust faster (galvanic corrosion). Plus the Allen head sucks too!

Dude, the drop girls aside, great to see you makin waves on this abandoned S15... Woulda LOVED to have seen the FC owner get back to you... Give us discord reps a heads up, an next stream you gotta Dono' again ;)

Yeah I would do that if I was you I'd get the donor front end When you're doing it you've got the inner fenders Hurry up and know it's more work for your body shop crew Good idea It's not about condition

What a deal on the air con there. I've been watching Rob Dahm and at the moment he's struggling with the heat, just pouring sweat trying to build cars. Bet he'd kill for a good unit like that.

love the intro, it makes it FEEL like a series. gotta change it up every season tho! like after working on a different project for awhile.

I'm excited to see what he'll make out of it

The dress up bolts would be fine if you put Anti Seize on the bolts before screwing them in. That way taking them out would cause troubles.

i mean you could try removing all the front suspension and just flap disc the paint off in the wheel wells and the strut towers to really see how bad the rust is. maybe it just needs the rust spots ground out and patch welded

I think the intro is proper for this car for as long as you want to use it, its history is apart of it.

I don't mind all the talking and going to up garage etc I just enjoy having good car related content to watch and your vids are great I like how you make the viewer feel involved. Keep up the good work man!

Im hoping for a street S15 👌 Everything is fixable, but for anybody that got the money, replacing everything is a easy desition. I would weld.

Chop and replace the front end. Then you have confidence knowing it's structurally strong and built to last.

Yo my boy thank you THANK YOU!!! I have been getting crazy quotes for heating an AC too I never thought of looking for a pre owned setup!

My main concern is the wiring running through the inner guard.. Quickest way to burn your car to the ground in the event of a front ender

To the Intro: maybe short showing, what you have done so far on Rem

SEND MORE S15S!! Not to crash but to drive or parts cars

It’s probably been converted to drum handbrake and therefore the cables are longer or fatter or something and don’t fit :/

I agree with making the intro more intermittent, then you can keep refining/adding to it so the next time we see it there will be new things to watch for. Love the content, with your big new shop would be sweet to see some grip driving in the fd offseason!

This car is going great. it’s a bit rusty tho but it’s going really good right now. Keep up the good work and great video’s thank’s. Also I really like the blue color I think you should keep it blue, maybe respray when you get new panels installed. Have a great day

Love the content and the progress of the abandoned S15 also the intro just use it for big moments of the car and the front end is repairable but it’s just better to change the whole front end for better longevity of the car

Repair it, you said yourself that your going to get new tubs for it so theres your structure on the front of the struts. In the wheel wells/chassis legs you came up with your solutions straight away cut out the rust and tuck it higher and put in new good quality steel if your going use it as a drift car, in your climate and a good coat of paint and underseal your sorted👌🏻

I love to see every detail ur doing with this :D ofc videos can be longer and less frequent if that's what you like.. anyways loving it ! thanks

Love all the content Sam! I think you are right! Use it on videos that are about the s15

I literally was watching the intro and was thinking that I’m over seeing it everytime a new vid for the car released. Then you asked which tells me it’s time to reserve the intro for really special releases about the car

10:24 “Still saveable” 11:39 “I think we’re gonna switch it”

I mean i have heard the ”maybe the car runs” alot😂

Definitely switch the front end, its not that much more work for the body shop. Better to have a fresh new front end than improperly cut wheel wells. Plus you also want to redo the wheel wells anyway, 2 birds with one stone...

Yeaaaaa, past couple times like today I've fast forwarded through the intro so there's that.... BUT, that merch promo! Geezeeees! Very nice! Models where puttin on!!! Maybe one day I'll meet me a lovely Japanese woman way over here in Atlanta, Georgia.. One can hope..

Re cut the intro as in 1st b roll, we pulled it from the jungle, maybe it runs, burn out, engine out. etc just keep doing ''major'' steps a the intro. i like seeing this whole car as seperate series so it 100% needs that own intro :)

Just tube the front end, saves the hassle of mucking around and be way stiffer and stronger

With the intro, I’d suggest shortening it to just the most recent developments And then at the end, do a full intro as a recap and call back to the roots

Don't know if someone already said this but I think it would be cool when you repaint the car you should paint it the same colours it is now. Just to have the memory of how it was and the whole journey with it.

YES keep the intro! But keep it updated with little clips from the beginning to now.

Sam “I digest” Hahah got a good laugh out of that

Im one of the people that don’t mind the intro, nice to switch it up abit now and then. I skip the intro now I’ve seen it and go straight to the video but I’m loving this content with stripping the car and building it up again. Fix up the front, SEND IT and have it as a street car also. Also I want to see the chaser get sideways again cuz. Going to get my own chaser when i come to Japan one day. With the help from you and your guy i know what to look for in these cars with the grades etc. so much useful information man. Love from uk cuzzy

Japan is like those kid dreams that dont get old and turn into man dream. just look at that store, i could cry all day thinking about all the things id buy for my car

Intro is cool my favorite segment you have at the moment , besides the r32 4 dooe

The two looked better with mask on. Non the less I’ll still order me a shirt

I would love to see you build this back to it’s former glory wide body bags and all

Update the intro with everything else that u have done with it, so then one day the final update video on her will just show All the progress in quick lil snippets

I think this could be a budget drift missile or street car , msybe some custim work done by yourself , paint , used headlights and more

That's still incredibly clean and for $1500 it's like a free S15 considering you make money from the views off every video repairing it

Yuh only bolts I recommend are stainless socket cap allen bolts for replacement.... No idea why you'd want to replace wing bolts with those on there, like the short chrome dome bolts they just mangle in a few years and make a mess of a ride, some - bleeeeeep - put them on my '92 GSX-R400

You should show the intro at the end when the car is done I think. love what you'r doing with this car and all the content, juste keep going!

yasss another s15 rebuild vid 💙🔥🔥

Aussie bro, looking good and getting there. Good score on the air conditioning...Jamata ✌️ Have a good one 🇦🇺🇯🇵

Love the S15 content man, keep it up

that merch bit with the music was fire

If there’s ever a part of a video I can smell, it’s definitely when you’re spraying the WD40, especially while you’re standing under the subframe

I'd love to go to that store, I'd like some JDM side marker lights and a aftermarket steering wheel for the gr86.

I'd say swap the front end, plus it would be up to you how to make the cuts up front for the wheels.and have it be cleaner. Stoked on the drop and here is to a random piston lol

I like the S15 intro myself. Great video, keep up the good fight. I cant wait to see you drift this S15 when you finish the rebuild!

This car is fighting to be alive but glad to see the body isn't that crusted

U need penatrating oil , remember wd40 is just to keep moisture out hence the wd part water displacement. Ppj is great for getting thru rust

I think you should do an intro like that for all the cars. Like, whatever car is the main focus of the video you can do an intro like that for it. I don't see anybody else doing it.

These are the videos I been waiting for

Amazing work man

you should put little bits of it in each abandoned s15 video and put the full thing in the videos that somthing really cool or something that changes the cars look happend

That window is very very convenient Sam. I wouldn't lose that window. I would let somebody graffiti with thick paint just on the windows if you're having problems with sunlight and light Other than that I would put bars on the outside that you can open up when you throw stuff out so you have an extra source of ventilation.

With the aircon install you get what you pay for always pick the middle bidder

the music in the intro is awesome. lol i dont mind it but i understand your points

That’s a steal on that aircon unit Sam nice video!

I feel if you have the opportunity make the car nice, it deserves it. I also agree with some others pink rocket bunny S15 would look awesome.

Awesome video as always. Keep up the great work Sammit. Thanks for reading my comments.

My boy Samit straight up got Mays Auntys to model the new mechs lol

Great video Sam loving this series 🔥🔥🇬🇧

All the damage I've seen on that car appears to be from it just sitting! Absolute worst thing for any vehicle

I’d use the intro still, but change it up from the first slide being the jungle then the engine tear down then complete when ever that is

Tube chassis the front and rear of it, save the headaches.

I actually like the intro, it has a vibe! But maybe just show the images of it sitting in Okinawa, that's pretty cool!

You should do small intros of the car starting with where it came from(jungle clip) then cutting to what you did to it in the previous video (disassembling the engine)