So, i decided to share my story on the DW Forum. I bought this Nissan 200SX back in 2016 when i just got 18. I found this "unicorn" in Principality of Liechtenstein (i live just infront of that small country), an old guy drove this car many years and he sold it to me (now he drives a lowered EP3 Type R civic - my old one). The car was completely stock and had 180'000km on it. built in 1989, pignose of course and had some rust spots i had to fix somehow. I've bought the car with the cash i've earned so far as a Trainee so the process to get the car where it should be is long and hard i guess but that doesnt matter, i got my dream ride. {} {} {} {}
so far so good, a friend of mine removed the rusty old pieces and welded new ones back together. i did the underbody job {} {} {} {}
in february/march 2017 i managed to save some money for coilovers, a Nardi steering wheels, a cool shiftknob and some 17" ugly wheels. ah, a friend of mine gave me his exhaust too, its a crappy Magnaflow endpiece just for the looks (doesnt even look good but i was happy back then) and a better sound than stock. Rust was done as you may notice, full service and so on. {} {} {}
not much time left as i did the vertical hood mod. i love it, its so much simpler to work on the engine because im around 1.95m tall. my luck - i know pretty much everyone in switzerland who drives an S13 and many of them are kinda friends so they always got some spare parts or parts they dont need anymore and sell them to me for an awesome price! so i bought some gauges and some small stuff {} {} {}
before the year 2017 ended i decided to rebuild my S13 as far as i can and as much as i can afford. went to pick up more parts again and that was the beginning of the winter build {} {} {} {}
first step tear it down! i was pretty scared about taking the engine out by myself but everything went as it should! The garage i keep my car in, is my uncles workplace so he always got me a helping hand if needed {} {} {} {} {} {}
went ahead and decided to paint the outside also, so i bought white paint and did it. closed the old spoiler holes so it would look better. i noticed that my old engine (the stock one) was kinda, gone. bearing were fu**d. and so my crankshaft was. a good friend of mine offered me his built bottom end (1.88l) and a super clean cylinder head for an awesome price so i had to go with it, went to pick up the van in my company and drove to zurich to pick it up a day later. {} {} {} {}
i assembled the engine with some help of the guy, who was working in his engine work shop around the corner. bought some small parts for my CA like a turbo elbow? (if im not mistaking now) and much more parts. i decided to polish the covers. the plan was to paint them gold with gold flakes but i didnt like that at the end because all the small details in the bay were painted gold. The car as you see has now a new colour, worst paintjob ever but did it by myself so i guess YOLO still need to fit the other side of the sideskirt. got some new wheels too, but they're Rotas not real ones {} {} {} {}
Thanks dude! i guess so, i like the pignose way to much! maybe i'll get a type x front bumper or something but i'll keep the piggie
