S13 Coupe Build | Last Update: 20-May

Okay, so new in this update:

I bought 25 Lb’s of dry ice from irish welding supply on clinton and baily. It ended up working pretty good to take care of the tar on the floor pans.

no real pics of that but it should be apparent in the next few pics.

ive got back into seam welding recently and ive been getting better as I go but my skill still leaves a lot to be desired

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/jim1234664/P3310775.jpg?t=1206990358

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/jim1234664/P3310778.jpg?t=1206990408

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http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/jim1234664/P3310779.jpg?t=1206990581

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/jim1234664/P3310782.jpg?t=1206990632

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I still need to clean some residue off the floors. anyone have any knowledge as to what would work?

I also started my first automotive painting over my spring break. im redoing the car in the stock red once I get experienced enough. for now here is some suspension parts I did in a generic silver:

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/jim1234664/P3310783.jpg?t=1206990969

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/jim1234664/P3310784.jpg?t=1206991058

nice man, those control arms are badass. maybe take a torch to the residue?

Lookin good, Car will be super clean when you get done with it.

thanks norb, yeah they look pretty good for being 18 years old. a torch works pretty good and im experimenting with paint thinner too

thanks man

That car is going to be stiffffff.

speaking of stiff:

crappy cell phone pics i know, my girlfirend took her camera to florida with her :meh:

screw women lol.

torsional rigidity > vagina

Jim when are we going to drink beers and stare at it?

Thank you Jim, for letting me take part in your glorious project by donating my single amazing stitch weld to your front left fender. The power of my amazingness alone will keep your car stiffer than my whang during the entirety Army Of Darkness.

:mamoru:

so I know I havent updated this shit in a while but here goes:

the reason for this was mostly because I was just seam welding for 2+ months in my spare time and it was getting so fucking boring I was even starting to lose interest in the project. I stuck it out though and finally got the gas tank and rear suspension back up today.

I also got the car back on the ground for the first time since NOVEMBER, feels pretty good

super custom temp crossmember:

what im doing next is painting the engine bay and the interior in the stock nissan red and then putting it all back together, hoping to get it going before the trackday on june 6th.

Im going to do the bodywork over the summer and paint the outside when its ready.

heres a few more things I cant wait to throw back in there

DOHC KA with 80k miles. lots of free mods such as egr delete, secondary butterfly removal, e fans, ac removal, ect. I also have a spec stage 2+ and a couple other things ready to go for the summer.

in the winter I plan to piece together a t25 kit to get it up to hopefully 200 wheel.

heres my real crossmember thats waiting to go in until the bay is painted. it has tein inners and outers, energy rack bushings and new lca’s with new ball joints from pdm racing. I also burned out the bushings in the lcas and put energy ones in.

im going to have to fab a PS return line as well because this is a sohc rack and I sold my dohc PS return line with my old 240

ive got a sparco evo L coming in from innovative too that im really exited about.

nice update jim, it looks sick. i didn’t know KAs had secondary butterfly valves.

that thing should still rip pretty good with the na ka. i used to get lightly modded gsr’s with mine.

wow, looks great

been real busy the last couple of days…

went from this:

to this:

to this:

blam!

possibly another update tommarow if i can get the suspension on. the track day is getting close…

looks good man

Looks nice.

droolz

thanks for the kind words, the pics up there are from my gay krzr and do not do it justice, im hopefully going to get better pics tonight

looks real good, you feel comfortable enough now to paint the whole car?