Tippers' S13 - Another Brick in the Wall

So, I thought it was about time I started a thread about my motor.
Firstly, I bought a completely standard 1992 Nissan 200SX, CA18DET and all.
It was a bit ropey, but i couldn’t complain at what it cost me.





Picked up some other goodies:







Looked at the engine as it wasn’t boosting properly, Timing was 2 teeth out and there was way too much end float in the bottom end:



The idea was, drive it until it was died and then throw something better in there, so the search was on...





So, finally got it on the road....

4... yes, FOUR fucking days, and piston rings said bye bye.

So, the CA was ripped out:



And was replaced with something more suitable:



Relocated battery:



Welded Diff:





Got bored whilst it was raining and had a search in the garage:



Got it sat properly:







Stickers do serve a purpose. They cover rust (note the retro goodness wheels, cont refuse a bargain):



Finished bolting everything in under the engine bay,



Boost controller was wired in:



So were the gauges:



Next was the tax and test. The car was finally on the road.

Made such an economical tow car:



Did some skids at the ring of steel:



2 hours later, after lending the car to a mate:

 

A donor car was coursed and collected. good nick and cheap





Finally got this weekend free to start work on the car:



I'd never realised how much shorter my new struts were:



Ripped out a load of unnecessary wiring:



Next, every persons favourite job:



Finished product ended up alright though:



Put my old strut brace back on to give an idea how bad the old shell was:



The old bootlid has been swapped over so there is now minimal rust on the old girl..

And as I'm finished today, artsy pic of how my drive currently looks:



As curiosity we weighed the stuff we pulled out the back of the car.

11kg of seats
9kg of assorted plastics
19kg of sound deadening

Not bad for an afternoons work

So this is how i now stand, I will continue to update as the car gets rebuilt.

Please leave me your thoughts

 

S13 pre-facelift splitter on a facelift bumper on the blue one mate

 

Yeah everything from the old one is going in.

 

Hey Paul. Can't do anything with it until the degree is done but start of June if your crane is still free I may take you up on that offer.

Gaz, superficial rust around the top of the screen and a 5p size patch in the rear arch. The underside will be fine after a good wire brushing. Was a bargain lol

 

So. After finishing my Dissertation on Friday I decided this weekend was to be spent on the car.

First things first was replacing the fucked brake line.

Old vs new. Got a complete new line made up in copper line for the car after this. Was funny driving to the motor factors in a friends mx5 with an 11foot brake line poking out the roof!:



After this was fitting spacers, which involved making this pikey thing:



And the result (et10 front et 13 rear):



Today was more fettling. I pulled the front bumper off to cut it for my
Front mount also had a play with how fucked the old bumper was:



Relocated the loom in the arch so it doesn't get cut by the wheel. Not ye best job but better than it was:



Never seen the inside of a Datsun arch look this clean:



Added more spacers and played with my camber. Fitted my black splitter to the car as well:



Now et0 front and et7 rear. Fits nice.

Now for the last week finishing up the last bits oft degree and to locate an engine crane then it's time for the manual conversion and heart transplant

 

Thanks man. Hopefully be driving it soon and will leave what happened behind

 

I thought it may be time for an update....

So, ive finished uni so I have no excuse for working on the motor other than trying to find a job and BDC duties...

So. Whilst waiting for an engine crane I stripped the engines down ready for removal and some wiring happened:







All the wiring and battery lead is now run into the engine bay. I also removed this hunk of crap!



Got hold of a crane on Monday and things happened:



So the garage is now full of Datsun... Again



While the engines out I swapped the steering bush for a solid item. The difference is pretty mental



Then today I stripped what was left off the CA and swapped it for useful SR stuff. Also managed to shift some old bits for some cash.

Deleted my turbo water lines and ran new shiny braided items:



Done a few other bits and bobs on the engine as rain stopped play early.

Hoping to get the manual conversion done and swap gearboxes over tomorrow. Hopefully with the engine going back on early next week.

Watch this space...

 

So it's been one of those weeks.

A broken foot and other problems have hankered progress on the car

But things have happened

From this:



To this:





Unfortunately we found whilst fitting the braided turbo lines the thread for the oil feed in the block has stripped. Trying to find someone to helicoil it and refit an appropriate banjo bolt to stop leaks.

Swapped the bellhousings over onto my old CA box so I have 5 non-crunchy gears again.

Also managed to do this whilst fitting my sandwich plate:



New one arrived today so got everything back together:



Then we got bored and with nothing to do things happened:



The end result:



The rest is drying so will have pics tomorrow