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So today got an hour at cleaning the underside of this with angle grinder and wire wheel, need to spend another while at it yet,
Gonna give it a coat of shutz when i've it cleaned down fully,
Should I give the bare metal a coat of primer before the shutz or is there any need?
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Good progress being made here man fair play, would love to build a road car myself, give it a coat of zinc primer if your down to bare metal,
So last couple of weeks were spent getting my s14 through Nct, passed second time round :D
in the mean time took delivery of these, heard good things about them
http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/...ps30c984ec.jpg
Anyway got back to working on the car, rear underside stripped back, zinc primed, painted and shutzed, (wheel wells not done in this pic)
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Fitted subframe, adjustable arms and copper greased and fitted coilovers,
I'm not 100% happy with the adjustable arms but they'll do for a while until I save up for a set of decent arms, Kaber performance stuff looks decent.
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Threw on 4 stud hubs just to get it back rolling, have s14 5 stud hubs and lca's there just going to clean them up and polybush them before there fitted,
Which driveshafts should I use, s13 or s14 or does it matter?
So I didn't get anywhere near as much time with this over the summer as I would of liked too, finished up work on friday and back to college so hopefully get a bit more time at it now,
Finished up the underside, all stripped back, zinc primed, painted and shutzed, I also cavity waxed the sills, , rear quarters, chassis rails etc.
Replaced front subframe and rack with a s14 one I had lying around as the original subframe was fecked, fitted s14 lca's with new ball joints, new oem tie rod ends, new front coilovers, s14 5 stud hubs, new adjustable tension rods and replaced steering bushing for an aluminium one.
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Fitted and wired up kouki tail lights
http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/...psy4dlglnw.jpg
Picked up new shoes during the week aswell, r33 gtrs
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Next job get engine bay tidied up and sprayed
Got the bay sorted, needed a bit of work where it was hacked for an intercooler pipe, also got few cracks sorted, a/c hole into the cabin closed and tied up where loom enters the bay, ive no experience with a welder or spray gun and wanted it done right so got a man to do it for me, couldn't be happier with the result.
Before:
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After:
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Jesus i need a camera, pics are shite.
I'm off for christmas now so hopefully get a good bit of work done on this over the holidays.
That shell would have made some money these days lol!!
Good to see you tipping away at it
Next piece to the puzzle, bought this set up,
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sr20 vct, built by TDP 8 months ago.
Wossner pistons,
Cosworth steel head gasket
Main, big end bearings done,
Some head work,
Rocker stoppers,
N/A cams
Baffled Sump,
Sard 550cc Injectors
Z32 Afm,
Power fc
Exedy Stage 2 clutch and lightened flywheel,
Owen Developments 3071r
Topmount manifold
Turbosmart wastegate
Rb25 gearbox with conversion plate and one piece prop
Nice one keep up the good work :) road cars ftw! Nice power source you picked up too :).
Hit a hiccup with this with wiring, I thought it was a plug and play job but when I went to put the loom into the car i found out that that wasn't the case, so ended up having to remove some of the wiring from a 180 engine loom and adding it to the S14 loom, also had to change the interior connection to suit the 180 interior loom and trace the left over wires and find a home for them. It was a job i didn't want to do, but anyways fingers crossed it works now and I don't have to go fault finding.
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Had a viscous diff lying around from an S14 i broke, so changed the backplate and modified the bushings to suit the s13 subframe and fitted it.
Also freshened up, cleaned out and fitted the petrol tank.
http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/...psy3vnkl1r.jpg
Put the loom engine loom into the car, fitted brake and clutch master cylinders's and brake lines, took the florescent pink off the engine which i wasnt gone on and then fitted it with new hardrace engine mounts.
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Gonna have to find a new home for the power steering reservoir, will be in the way of the intercooler pipes, also have to get a new gasket between turbo and manifold and point the exhaust from the external wastegate down the way.
Good to get the engine in, starting to feel like I'm making a bit of progress now.