Me Little S13 Project

[xborninthefightx]

Hello everyone, i started this last summer on the SXOC and was planing on posting here just been very lazy, as it is a skid car (soon to be off the road) soooo.

This is what it looked like when i bought it last Jan.





And this is what i've had to work with. (lots of shit there)


Now the not so nice parts

[xborninthefightx]

Now for all the parts that i got
Some cheap Ebay kit (not the best)






Clutch change
Me and my dad done this and it took us about two days to do it, we had to find out the hard way in fitting the gearbox back onto the car.

You can see which ones the new one
This was the work of me trying to clutch kick (very badly)



New clutch fitted

Apex Short Shift fitted

This was holding the end of the gearbox.

the end of the gearbox dropped and bent the end thing(what ever thats called)

This thing, when you drive the car it makes a funny noise cause of the prop shaft hitting the thing. Will need to sort it out at some point

[xborninthefightx]

Then i go some more new parts

Another ebay job Stage 1 chip which i have sold and going on to Stage 2 or 3


Apexi filter watch doesnt fit. Still havnt had find the flange thingy for it


Same drift wheels, cost me only £30


Wheel and snap off thing which i got from Japfest last year and didnt buy a boss. Silly me



some new alignment arms



Got these with the arms free


And an elbow which also doesnt fit from 2fast2cool


Yeah Wish i had the money to buy the front ones elso.


Cheapy apex struts




Thats it for parts at the mo.

[wally]

i would gouge my eyes out for sills with as little rust as that, mines rotten as a pear!
good luck with the project mate.

[xborninthefightx]

Oh theres lots more things to upload, give me a sec

[xborninthefightx]

First mod was the exhaust.
this didnt help at all (some dumbass forgot to spray WD40)


And found out that there was a crack, so thats why it was a bit loud


What a difference hey


Done a little test fit, i thought it would of been a bit lower then that.


Just look how clean the car is


The bottom two holes on the elbow were smaller then the other three, so had to make them bigger. Broke about 4 grill bits.
Before

After

Also had to make the front pipe holes bigger


Whats funny is after doing all this, the elbow was the wrong size and the front pipe was hitting the chase

So had to order an Apex one which took a few days


Had the time to fit the steering wheel,and the dumb ass that I am, I didnt know that I needed a boss for the quick release. Got one from Driftworks the next daywith a really silly, but cool gear knob



As you can see I couldnt get to me thingys, wish i had bigger fingers
So had to take off the quick release:


SO it looks like this now.

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Was trying to doing a bit of drifting and did this Wasnt very good at it the first few time, from the looks of that
But its OK got all broken parts that i need, lucky hey





So started on changing it and finished one side in a day

First put some WD40

Doesnt look nice, does it Not too sure if the subframe is fooked


While i was changing the arms, why not take the coilovers off too

Got a bit pissed off and made a bigger hole so its easier to fit the coilovers and strut brace.


all fitted, mmm soooo much nicer



Then done this the next day, all in a day, as the other side took about 3 days.

What a difference. How bent is that


All done and fitted

Looking good

[PeterT]

good project lad! lots of nice bits there!

[xborninthefightx]

And then done one of the front, which was much easier and faster to do.





Some more pics of the rust bits

Well this is nice


But still got some rust near the window



Heres the all the rust





This is wats really worrying me




Not that clean of a shell then

[xborninthefightx]

Will post up more later

[Shane77]

Lookin good there, love the "learning as you go on" way of handling things!!

keep it up!! nice project

[LiGhTnInG]

Lots of nice shiny bits. Bet those cost you a pretty packet

BTW, With the bent arm, We've all done it.

I changed mine about this time last year

[xborninthefightx]

Originally Posted by Shane77

Lookin good there, love the "learning as you go on" way of handling things!!

keep it up!! nice project

Yeah its funny cause its like that with everything that i have done so far

[xborninthefightx]

Cost me my student loan, well spend it on the car or going out tooooo much and getting pissed while in uni. This way i studied hard (yeah rite) spent lots of money on my car and joined putting everything together.

[xborninthefightx]

Cost me my student loan, well spend it on the car, or going out tooooo much and getting pissed while in uni. This way i studied hard (yeah rite) spent lots of money on my car and enjoined putting everything together.

Yeah with the arms it was a bitch cause i was in uni at the time and had to pay £110 to get toed back, which is still dame cheap for about 70-80miles.

[xborninthefightx]

Ok got more time now to update

Apex elbow


Elbow fitted to front pipe


All fitted, it took me far tooooo long




Oh and I forgot to saw off the tow hook, so had to put it back in the garage and get the help of dad


Heres a vid of the first start up, sorry its not that good will get a better one soon.

[xborninthefightx]

Then the next day took it to MERITYRE (BBBIIIIGGGG MISTAKE)
this is wat they had done. I was pissed.







All the guy was adjusting was the Toe arm and from looking at it you could see that the wheel wasnt sitting right. Talked him that somethings not right so he started doing adjustments to some of the others arms and when we took it off the ramp, I paid and then noticed that the wheel was way tooo out. Back on to the ramp and found this.

Anyways long story, at the end they paid out for all the damage which was cool, did take a few weeks but got it all sorted. And had to re-do that side again.

Just dont us these guys they really dont know what they are doing, even the guys from head office didnt know how to adjust these arms. I learned my lesson and then took it to Wheels-In-Motion which did a great job.


Next was the Ant-roll Bars

Old and New

Look on the left side theres no bush




fitted




What a difference there was when i took it out for a drive.

[xborninthefightx]

Oh these are the readout sheets from what the dicks at merits done.
This is how the car came in

This is the first alignment that he came out with and it didnt look rite from just looking at it. Then it went back on the ramp

Then he did this. And to him this looked rite


Notice that its for a S14, But nooo "its a 94 car so its rite" dumbass.

[shirunai]

ohh my good, nice project but the alignment is

[xborninthefightx]

Tell me about it. But its all been sorted out now so no more messing around with them