Road s15 ...Stay N/A

[jeff nelson sileighty]

About 3 years ago i picked up an n/a s14 off Stephen Carr , did a few bits to it and drove it daily for about a year and a half. i got a notion to turbo it so picked up a t25 and any other bits i needed and just bolted them to the n/a engine.It worked well, made fairly decent power on the WCP dyno but in all honesty i regretted it almost instantly. It had lost the fun of an n/a. Shortly after my girlfriend made an offer on the car and i sold it. This was it before i sold it

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Once i sold it i knew i was going to have to get back in another n/a s-body so about 2 months ago i saw an n/a s15 up for sale that hadnt left japan yet. There and then i knew i had to get it so put a deposit down on it and put my jeep up for sale. Timing worked out handy, the 15 landed on Tuesday last week i think and my jeep sold on the Friday. So Saturday after work i headed straight up to Stephen Carr once again to pick it up. The pics he had originally sent me showed a fairly decent car but when i got there i was blown away by how good the car actually was so that was a nice surprise. This was it when i was picking it up

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Looks clean in the pics but was fairly filthy so got her straight home and gave her a very thorough cleaning

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i only have it a week and am gone from home most of the time for work so get very little time at the car unfortunately but i did get to service it during the week and got to have a better look underneath and im delighted with how clean it is

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Thats pretty much it for now , i must book it in for vrt but ill have to save up for the amount of lube ill need for the absolute ass raping that ill probably end up getting first
Also the two rear shocks are gone so i need to change them so if anyone around cork has a good pair of rear shocks out of a 14 or 15 let me know ill only need them for nct.
I have some cool plans for this and will be very different so stay tuned

[LarZ]

Delighted :) Can't wait to see what you do with this! Looks a great base.

[Stevo]

Best of luck with her bud

[yomamagoes/sideways]

My nameeeeeeeeee Jefffff hahaha. Sorry i had to :P Nice project man.

Ye bought a red car off me remember?

[deanrobbo]

youre a sexy man, i must admit. I cant wait to see what sort of dirty little things youre gonna do to this 15

[jeff nelson sileighty]

My nameeeeeeeeee Jefffff hahaha. Sorry i had to :P Nice project man.

Ye bought a red car off me remember?
Haha I've had a few cars , which one was it ?


youre a sexy man, i must admit. I cant wait to see what sort of dirty little things youre gonna do to this 15

My god dean what if pia sees this ??? Keep this shit to pms in future .... I have big plans but finding the motivation to actually go out to the shed in the evenings is bruuuuutal

[michealkirwan]

a lot of potential!

[jeff nelson sileighty]

About time I updated this , unfortunately alot of the pics for this build were on an old phone so they're gone . But anyway
Picked up some nice big evo7 brembos with drilled and grooved discs and a pair of nismo front lower arms
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Actually fitting them was a bit of a dick. It took me almost a month to get a set of adapters to simply bolt the calipers on and I had to change to a bigger bmc . It was just a time consuming and annoying job overall it was all stupid hiccups but it's done now thank fuck. I then had the problem that my wheels wouldn't clear the calipers which I had sort of expected . So Daren moynihan put a pair of 8.5 blitz 03 up for sale, I bought them and they fitted nicely but then he put up a pair of 9.5 03s so naturally I bought those too and I now have 6 blitz 03s when all I wanted was a pair.

Got a new set of hsd monopros

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I also had a set of 8.5 & 9.5 ssr koenigs so gave the 9.5s a light refurb and that's what I'm using on the back

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So this is basically how it sits now except it has the 9.5 03s on the front instead of the 8s you see in the pic

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[subzero]

im so tempted to go for a brembo setup myself, how did it work out money wise, the adapters are expensive enough for what they are.
what BMC did you go for in the end ? good improvement ?

[jeff nelson sileighty]

im so tempted to go for a brembo setup myself, how did it work out money wise, the adapters are expensive enough for what they are.
what BMC did you go for in the end ? good improvement ?

In reality it works out about the same as a gtr setup price wise. As for improvement from what I've heard they're only marginally better than gtr brakes. I just like them due to the size they fill 17s completely . I paid 100 for adapters and bought a bm50 bmc . TBH they aren't worth the hassle in comparison to the gtr setup , alot more work in these

[LarZ]

savage mod though all the same. brembos look the business.

[subzero]

ya its a tough call, i find the s15 brakes good as standard (paired with endless pads)really but be nice to see brembos behind the wheel. thanks for the info.

[jeff nelson sileighty]

Forgot to add this on the last update , I finally picked up a pair of seats I had been wanting for a good while

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Pair of red genuine B-GREOS . I had a drivers side bride rail sitting here for a while so just loosely fitted the drivers seat

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I quickly realized a couple of things
1. I'm a fat cunt
2. I'm way too tall to fit with the standard wheel , my knees are wrapped around the wheel so to be able use the seat I'll need to use a dished steering wheel of some sorts. I already have an nrg snap off boss kit I just hadn't decided on what wheel to run , I'll just hold off until after the nct to fit it .

I rolled my arches properly. Cleaned them all down inside and gave them a few coats of stone chip , once they were rolled I then gave the lip of the arch a few coats of clear just to make sure they would stay protected but me being a smart cunt forgot to take pics as I was going

Herself got me a pair of proxes t1's for the front for my birthday
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I picked up a DC2 lip a few evenings ago so fitted that yesterday , I just melted the sides with a heat gun to flatten them out to reach the length of the bumper , it fits fairly well I'll just need to paint it

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So that's how the car sits for now . Here's a few more pics

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[jeff nelson sileighty]

Small update
Painted the DC2 lip , came out alright for a half assed job

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Also picked up an FGK 4 branch manifold for handy money but it's missing the pipe going from the mani to the cat. I had a fabricator doing that bit of pipe but that's fallen through so if anyone has that piece of pipe let me know

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That's kind of it for now , I have the nct booked for next month so I'll just have to raise it up a bit and track it for that

[yomamagoes/sideways]

The reg eg hatch haha.

Ah cool man shes lookin fair well.

Nice idea with the dc2 lip seems to sit well

[jeff nelson sileighty]

The reg eg hatch haha.

Ah cool man shes lookin fair well.

Nice idea with the dc2 lip seems to sit well

Haha that's going back a bit, that was a good car.

[jeff nelson sileighty]

Small update
I taxed and tested the car last month so have just been driving it , very little has changed with the car.
Here it is in total gaylord mode heading in for the nct
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All I needed to do was headlight alignment as the drivers side was up by a fraction and that was it passed with flying colours. Even the tester complimented how clean the car is, which Is obviously nice to hear.
I put the car back to how it was supposed to look

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Also fitted the less agressive one of my B-GREO seats which I fit in nicely, fitted my snap off boss kit and a small omp flat wheel that I just had for the drift car. This will be getting replaced in the near future once I decide what type of wheel I want to run. It's hard to decide what to go for as I prefer a small wheel but it's very hard to find a wheel in a brand or style that I like. I haven't taken any interior pics just ones from the outside.


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Also took it to igr drifting in galway, got the car out on track and am very happy with it overall here's just a small clip that I found from snapchat


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And here's just a few more random pics

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[jeff nelson sileighty]

I haven't a whole pile to update here but in the interest of keeping driftireland going I said I'd throw in whatever bits I did since d.i last stopped.

Anyway I got skirts
I robbed one of my girlfriends navan s14 skirts to just put up against it out of curiosity.

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They looked decent but were a mile off fitting. Still they gave me an idea of how a set of skirts would look on the car and I kind of liked them.

A day or two later a fella local to me put up a pair of standard s14 kouki skirts for free so i nabbed them not knowing if they'd fit but thought they'd be worth a punt. So picked them up, teed them up against the car and they were surprisingly close.

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All I ended up having to do was trim a few mil off the end of them and make up new end caps.


To make the end caps I used the same plastic cutting boards that I used for the arch linings, trimmed them down to shape and used sealant to secure the caps on .


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I wasn't overly keen on how secure the caps were in the end but I'll come back and fibreglass them on at a later stage.
Decided to paint these with the gun instead Of The rattle cans I used for the lip as I had a bit more time to do these better and I'm fairly happy with the finish.

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I didn't bother filling any stone chips as I wasn't sure would I even like them but they're fine for now, I might pull them off over the winter and re-do them but I'm happy for now.
Fitting them ended up being a pain. The passo side went on perfect first try. The drivers side took three attempts to get right and as I was using double sided tape to secure them that ended being a right struggle but we got there in the end and this is how they turned out


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I'm still getting used to them but think I like them anyway. That's pretty much it for now. I'm taking the car to galway drifting this weekend so hopefully the standard clutch can put up with a full day of abuse in the dry but well see :thumbs:

[jeff nelson sileighty]

Put in a full days drifting at tynagh without a hitch, fairly impressed with how much abuse the standard clutch can take
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The car has been parked up in storage since november so I'll be taking it back out the start of next month hopefully, I had many plans on cosmetic bits I wanted to do over the winter but I got back into bikes fairly heavily and picked up a road bike and motocross bike so they took up any spare time I had. I'll see when I get it back next month if i feel like doing a few bits or just enjoy driving it again, time will tell.

[LarZ]

I hadn’t seen/noticed the skirts but they’re unreal! They look like they were made for the car! And they survived the drift day?! Top work, very impressed.


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[lady89]

hahahah the skirts look soooo funny on it (in a good way!). Im all for the "outside of the box"-thinking, they really fit well :D