View Full Version : 180sx Endless money pit
so i bought a kouki 180 as a bit of an impulse buy, i had been imported into ireland about 6 years ago by an old man living down the road from me who made his money in the boom as a block layer, he imported afew jap yokes at once like a supra rx7 s14 i have no idea why he imported them but im not complaining because i picked it up for half nothing, he never drove them he just had them gathering dust in a shed. no1 realy knew the cars were there but when i found out i chanced my arm and made him an offer for the unregistered untouched mint s13.
here is afew pics from the day i got it
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seanie R.33
04-11-13, 10:35
Good find.looks spotless any plans for it?
im changing my mind every second day on what i will do with it, some people are saying vrt and keep the kouki kit but i have no interest, iv had it now afew month but iv only decided to start a build thread now, since iv gotten it i put in a 2 way cusco diff and zeal function coilovers and i have an origin kit and a set of viennas, im kinda trying to sell the viennas because i want something abit crazyier but then again they owe me alot of money so im not too sure would it be worth my while shifting them on
seanie R.33
04-11-13, 10:46
Leave the kouki kit,id imagine you'd have the value of the car with a uras kit!sell the viennas and put on set te37's or blitz 03's,thats what i'd do anyway
Leave it the way it is man if anything get the kouki front lip kouki skirts and kouki rear spats for it and just drive it
I'd say the same as seanie tbh keep the kit etc but change the wheels.. Nice car tho man best of luck with her
I'd keep the kit too . Oem is timeless
the unfortunit thing lads is that i cant realy afford the insurance, (at the moment" im only 19 and i only found one company to insure me and they want €3500, i expected insurance to be expensive but not to that extent, i know the kouki kit is sweet and all but my heart was set on a BN kit, the origin kit will more than likely never be the final kit i settle with but i suppose it is handy to have a spare kit. i also didnt just buy the car to drive it, i also bought it as a project and wanted to go balls deep into the project, i like to do things on a big scale, go big or go home is a big moto of mine, probly should have named the thread "go big or go home"
any1 able to tell me how to get my pictures to come up as an acual sized picture and not a link or a thumbnail?????
i spent the weekend splitting the viennas to give them a good clean and change out the split bolts just to be safe, need some tyres for the front, im thinking 205/40's
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Set up a photo bucket account and copy the image codes into the thread
Don't think ur wheels will Fit ur archs man and it would be an awful shame to put over fenders on such an original car what's the spec on the Viennas they look similar to mine
sound for that man, it was recking my bulb all together
Looks a mint base to start with as for insurance full licence insure a 1ltr with liberty put the 180sx in your old mans name make sure its taxed and tested open driving thank you!
Sent you a pm about the wheels
the wheels are 11's et-13 and 9's et20
Love the wheels,, cant wait to see them on dude!
look what was waiting for me when i got home, 40mm spacers for the front!!
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So i rang Liberty insurance getting a quote on a 1.4 polo as was suggested, i was slightyly skeptical on the phone but i was quoted €1600 quid under my own name with no no claims bonus and i only have my full liceance 3 weeks and there was no issue with the third party extension. its the biggest loop hole in the system ever, heres a little sneaky pic of the car in her place of rest looking very NAKED!!!
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jeff nelson sileighty
06-11-13, 15:11
Funny to see this , I'm also 19 building a 180 and its white too and im fucked for insurance ha :p did you actually but a polo or just a log book from one?
looky for me i had a freind who had the shell of a polo lieing up and it still had 6 months nct so he is giving me the log book!! big shout out to him i suppose!!!
broad.sideways
06-11-13, 17:10
get 200sx plates and book off a cheap shell man. cheap insurance and also able to get classic insurance with a pre 93 car.
looky for me i had a freind who had the shell of a polo lieing up and it still had 6 months nct so he is giving me the log book!! big shout out to him i suppose!!!
Your welcome i suppose!;)
More use to you then to me
Build is looking good lad, wheels are sweet!
nice car, txpe x right? front lip, right set of wheels, jap plates, slammed, sorted..maybe roof spoiler aswell if ya want down the line, simple is timeless like the lads say
did u try xsdirect.ie for insurance?? im only 21 since july and they were the only crowd that there was no dicking about with, put the model ect in online and got quoted then! cost me 1700 notes tho!!
had one hell of a late night and for no reason, not like im in hurry for anything but i suppose you wouldnt know youself when you having a laugh with the lads!! got abit carried away and ended up taking out the engine, and a couple of texts later the car was getting dropped up for some small paint/body work!!!
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the shit talking about what to do!!!!!!!!!!!
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there was 2 hidden gems stuffed away in the corner
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I'm sooo wet for a jza80 with the last 2 weeks...but good work on the 180 man:)
thanks very much. the supras for sale as far as i know haha its a gem of a car exept one thing...... its none turbo unfortunitly :(
angeredpolecat
09-11-13, 23:26
im changing my mind every second day on what i will do with it, some people are saying vrt and keep the kouki kit but i have no interest, iv had it now afew month but iv only decided to start a build thread now, since iv gotten it i put in a 2 way cusco diff and zeal function coilovers and i have an origin kit and a set of viennas, im kinda trying to sell the viennas because i want something abit crazyier but then again they owe me alot of money so im not too sure would it be worth my while shifting them on
keep it
nice find best of look with her :cool:
heres alittle teaser of what i have got myself into.......13.5j et-60.
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Holy jaysus there monsters what size archs ya gona put on lol don't think ya can get 100mm lol
heres alittle teaser of what i have got myself into.......13.5j et-60.
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Thats a serious offset man, well ware, I went 70mm with the rear running 18 x 13.5 - 10 offset so you could be looking a serious arch !!!
haha i havnt even bolted the wheels on the back of the car yet so i realy dont know what im going to do yet, the biggest archs that i know of are 70mm KOGUCHI archs and tbh i think they look stink, if only origin did 100mm archs. im getting tyres fitted tonight so ill test fit the wheels on the car for the laugh to see what kind of poke we are looking at, i know everyone wants to see the outcome
chop and fiberglass 50mm arches by 50mm? in my head it seems easy :)
do you mean put 50mm archs on top of 50mm archs or did i pick that up wrong haha
Sweet mother of god, Bolt on arches on top of a fibreglass overfenders job :)
no just one set. cut a section around the arches and re-fiberglass them. Kruizer is the man for the job!
since im running 11j -13 up front i think tubing is a must haha
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garrath200sx
05-12-13, 11:10
nice project lad keep up the good work
no just one set. cut a section around the arches and re-fiberglass them. Kruizer is the man for the job!
Cheers for the vote of confidence :grin:
since im running 11j -13 up front i think tubing is a must haha
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Looking boss dude :)
Kruizer the ball is in your court ;) do you think you can work you magic with a set of origin wings for me, i bolted on the wheel last night for a quick look at the poke and its roughly 125mm of poke on standard archs haha, ill see do i have a pic, ill try them on again later if not and get a picture up
I'd give anything a shot dude :) I'm looking at new wheels for the RX7 btw and so you know I blame you :p
we have a healthy little competition going here :wink: haha i genuinly never thought id be competing with them meisters you haveto be honoust, and i can totaly understand why you want bigger ones now, its like an addiction, women like there shoes, i for one like my wheels.
No just the style dude :) Happy someone will feel my pain lol
so the engine bay is done, im afraid to put back in the engine haha!!!
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after 3 cans of my mother hairspray i finaly got these on and let me tell you it wasnt one bit easy.... 265/35/18
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nikkisixx69
07-12-13, 02:02
your probably gonna need a bn blister kit to make them fit dude, or jun arches on top of 50mm overs!
as for the front, your still going to have rubbing issues, ivee 11.5js up the front of my car and the rubbing issues are not up the front were the tubing is done, but actually at the back of the arch!
you really are going all out on this! best of luck!
i think i have a rough idea where your talking about, is it next to where the loom comes out from the firewall, im hoping if i run a small tyre i will somehow avoid it rubbing, a blister kit is something that never once entered my head and its could be the way forward, its not a bad idea at all, i think i might look into that, thanks for the words of advice man
Have you considered removing the whole quarters panel, pulling it out and plating up the gap. That's the way my S15 was done although not as extreme as you'll require I'd say. I've 18"x 12.5jj -5 on the back. It might work out easier than fibreglass and you would have more choice in the shape of you finished quarter panel.
Monster wheels man! I'd say if you got 50mm overs and ran some pretty aggressive camber you'd nearly get away with it, if not I remember seeing a lad on one of the forums taking a heat gun to the fibreglass and pulling the arch out. not easy but doable.
Keep up the good work fella :) Great to see something different !
Do the koguchi archs and wings not come in huge sizes ?
stephen180
08-12-13, 23:29
This is sweet man shes gunna be a monster at the rear best a luck wit the rest a t
so a local drug deal got busted and is now in a great deal of debt so a freind of mine was cheeky enough to offer him stupidly low money for this 14 he had sitting outside his house for nearly 5 years. another good find to come out of waterford!!!
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That came from Charleville originally and was a different colour :)
any more info on it man, the yoke has more random switchs and buttons than a aircraft, we dont know anything about the car at all, all i can safely say is that it has one hell of a neon/strobe kit underneath its hillarious haha its like it came straight from the set of tokyo drift
haha quality! karma bites back
seanyboy s14
12-12-13, 14:37
i remember that s14 from years ago i thought it got scraped.if its the same one im thinking off it used to be metallic red/wine with chrome decals on the skirts. i thought it was meant to have a sr22 in it but then it got into some young heros hands and he wrecked it ill try dig out a few photos i have as i used to be in love with the look of the car .But then again i could be thinking of a completly different yoke or mixing its history with another one cause i never saw the car up close just in photos and on the road a few times
yeh i think you could be right about it being a redish colour before, because you can see abit of red in the boot behind the lights and in afew parts on the loom, as far as i know the car was in thurles before it went to waterford, but the lad that sold it genuinly hadnt a fucking clue about the car so i could be wrong, he said he drove it 6 times and then just left it sitting up, he couldnt tell us was it an open diff or a 2 way he hadnt a clue what coilovers were, the whole deal was done through his sitting room window, he wouldnt come outside his house it was all abit odd, he threw in a bud of his own home grown weed with the deal aswell, like this story all sounds abit far fetched and made up but its word for word haha we never test drove the car cas we didnt know when the last time it was started and it had spent its life in waterford in a driveway at nearly 45 degrees
seanyboy s14
12-12-13, 15:24
lad who owned it sounds like some pikey haha as if i wasnt sickened enough you got the car for cheap now your telling me ya got free weed aswell . im going to go cry :p
I can back Ben up on that story he didn't like his front door :P was a very werid dealing and it's all ture ! It is sum car for the money paid for it
Is it the one on page 18 of the where is it now thread?
seanyboy s14
12-12-13, 21:05
o ya thats the one im talking about please,please,please x 100 make it look like that again or at least donate it to me so i can make it look like that again. the fella who painted it should be whipped to death with a spray gun :p
seanyboy s14
12-12-13, 22:27
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Fuck me, he changed that styling for your everyday boring white? Where is the sense in that.
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Remember that car and the work9 s14 both up in mallow years ago there was some crazy go in both those cars and both looked so damn cool
i realy want to know whats done to the sr, we havnt started it yet, someone tried to rob it awhile back so the wireing under the steering wheel needs to be cleaned up, nothing to bad i wouldnt say
seanyboy s14
13-12-13, 10:43
as far as i know it was a built sr20 ,how much spec was on it i dont know it was meant to have big power in it anyway
Any updates on your own car ?
yeh me must not forget that this is a build thread about my 180 and not a general chat thread about that 14 haha, i started putting the fiddly bits back into the bay. ill have pics later. acualy does any1 have a shell for braking, i need a throttle cable, the cable in mine get streched under the wheel when we pushed it onto the trailer
ur 180 is looking well i offered ur man 3k during the summer and he wuldnt take it dean got a good deal on her
test fitted a tyre on one of the front wheels to see how i was for arch clearance on full lock, i can safely say i have no room to play on the firewall side of the arch and miles of clearance up front in the arch. im running a 225/40/18 on the 11j, there is a 40mm spacers on the car atm but i cant take it off till i re-fit my brakes.
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heres alittle pic for fun, 13.5 up front. also with the 40mm spacer haha
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remember pulling up in my old one day around two years ago trying to buy it. some lad alright he told me he was doin 180mph out the airport road one day and still had a gear to go . poor guy didn't cop its in kmh lol
at least someone got it and is gonna see life again.
nice build btw seen white one floating about last nite with same style wheel but not half the width lol
Build has being going slow enough with the time of year and all but I treated myself since it's Christmas and got myself an oil cooler and relocater and also got myself 5M of venhill -3AN braided brake hose, they sent me the wrong colour but I'm not going to be a fussy prick, I'm just waiting on the fittings to arrive, I only have 1 sample fitting.
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think you would need a thermostat fitting type. I used that type you have before and oil never got up to temperatue. this is a link to what im talking about
http://www.maperformance.com/mocal-oil-cooler-adapter-w-built-in-thermostat.html
So how exactly does that thermostat yoke work, does it just bolt on between the relocator plate?? The info on it is much up in the air
It's a temperature controlled gate, that only lets the oil into the cooler core when the oil tempt gets up to 90degrees, and than when the tempt get down to 70degrees , closes. I had it the way your going doing there. Fitted my defi oil tempt later, and noticed my oil never moved above 10 degrees. Them oil coolers do there job well. Driftworks sell a thermostat type too.
Build has been going very slow at the moment, waiting to move into a new unit hopefully this weekend so the hands will be getting dirty again but I just said if give alittle update, cracked off the gearbox to find this juicy nismo copper mix clutch and a nismo lightened flywheel!! You have the love the japs!!
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Any news on this car buddy was a huge fan?
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