My s14a re-build project

[Sideways Simon....]

Ok... so i bought this black s14a back in 0ct 08, disaster struck a couple of months later with the big ends destroying themselves! So, this is its story. All work carried out by myself.














As you can see the head has seen better days and some d**k that had it yrs before me missed more than a few servives!!

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And when i cracked open the sump..... look what i found!!!

The remains of a bearing!!









This is the wear on yhe crank, brought it to engine-re to get it checked ot. Too much gone of the bearing journal so i had to get a new crank......oh the joys of i!!

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I got a cased Cusco 2-way also... so put that in next!!:Rock:


I decided to make some changes to the dash as regards to the gauges.... i wanted them to blend in to the dash as much as possible....

So i took out the centre vent surround and took out the two middle vents.


Then got some gauge hoods things and glued them in where i wanted the gauges to go.



Then i fiberglassed the back of the vent surround to hold everything in place and make it stronger...* its a bit of a mess here in this picture but you get the idea*

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Then sanded off all of the excess to clean it up ...


Put in a load of filler then.


A couple of hours sanding and re-filling parts later.....


You can see here i have them angled a bit more to face the driver


Then sanded it all up as far as 1200 paper to get the finish good, sprayed on a couple of coats of plastic primer, then normal primer


Next i bought some black wrinkle paint, sprayed on 2 layers of this. I wasnt completly happy with the finish as it looked more shiny than the dash of the car so wet sanded it with 1200 paper and gave it a light coat of satin black. This worked a treat as you could still see the crackle of the wrinkle paint but it now was a better colour match to the dash.




And here is the before & after








Did a job on the lower radio surround next... got a Gizzmo MS-IBC Electronic Boost controller from HM-Developments so needed to put that somewhere

Gizzmo...



So took out the radio surround, removed the ash tray, i dont smoke so i wont be needing it anyhow!
Put a piece of hard board in at the back to cover the hole and then put fiberglass on top of that.


Next filled it all and marked out where the boost controller would go. Also at this point decided to put in two switches as there always handy to have

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Cut out them holes next and sanded everything


Then i sprayed it all, same as before.... a few coats of plastic primer, then some normal primer, black wrinkle paint, wet sand and finish with satin black.


Put in the switchs and the boost controller


The top and bottom all finished.


Sprayed the rocker cover too...

Stripped with nitro-mors,
Primed with heat resistant primer
Sprayed blue
And the sprayed with heat resistant lacquer



Ok... a bit more done.....
Got new cams so collecting them next week, also got my head back from engine- re, cleaned skimmed and rebuilt..


Got an Apex Performance S/S manifold



Than got some blue heat wrap for it


Also got an Apex Performance 3" Turbo elbow


Heres my new-ish Garret t28r turbo with elbow mounted

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Ok, i think its time for a quick update.. Im waiting on parts for the past 3 weeks so ill post up what ive done in the mean time...

This is the bare bottom end, cleaned and ready to build.


My new crank..


My new big & main bearings and trust bearing


Bearings in & crank in place


New rear crank oil seal fitted


New piston rings & pistons assembled




I got a new Nissan oil pump and also a new timeing chain kit from Apex Performance


Fitted the pistons, time chain kit and fron cover/oil pump

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Ok, next up was get the head on...

so got some new cams from an s15 from a member on sxoc..
New & old cams below


Also got a new vtc sproket


Got the head on with my new arp head bolts


Torque the new head bolts


Heres my new cams, new rocker arms, and new GReddy rocker arm stoppers





Got all of them in and torqued them all down


Got a delivery the from Apex Performance


My new Nissan Oil spray bars


Fitted the sprayers and torqued them down


Got a new Nissan water pump also

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Next up cleaned up the inlet manifold, got that on as well as the oil block, standard oil cooler, sandwich plate and oil filter..

I have the standard sump pan on in this picture but thats only on there temporary.



Got some new apex performance lightweight pulleys


Next got the new pulleys & alternator on


Got a new cometic head to manifold apex performance steel gasket
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Put on the power steering pump, air con and nore important my new turbo set up!!:Rock:


I got a new large capacity baffled sump pan from Apex Performance


Put that on next....


My new NGK Iridium plugs


Put them in....


Got a bit delayed with another silvia then...


I got a new S/S cold air intake pipe from Apex performance & also agenuine apexi power intake

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Got a new 56mm rad from apex performance


New & old rad's


Got two 11" electric fans for it


Also got a Revtec fan controller


Took a delivery of silkolene from opie oils


So nest i put oil in my new cusco 2-way!! Siklkolene boa 90 diff oil


Ok, a bit more done....

Took out the gearbox yesterday.... as you can see i dont have the luxury of a lift or a pit!!


Took the engine off the stand..


Next, went to put on the flywheel...... Then this happened!!


So, had to sort that out then and once i got some more bolts put on the flywheel and the New Exedy organic clutch






Mounted on the gearbox then which didnt go on as easy as i had hoped... but on none the less

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Ok, made some progress over the last 2 days...

Oh and ill apologise in advance for the bad quality pics


The night before the install... boredom drove us a bit mad!


The next morning, these are the two cars belonged to the two lads helping me out?



Started out ....






Engine goin in






In and gearbox and engine mounts bolted up


Topped up the gearbox with Silkolene 75w-90 gear oil


Got myself a 56mm Apex Performance Aluminium race rad... and twin 11" electric fans


My new 3" Apex performnace S/S flexi downpipe & decat


Catch can


My new Apexi induction kit with apex performance s/s air intake


Engine bay with my new Cusco strut brace, also have one for the back