Micheal's S14 turbo project!

[LarZ]

Nice one dude. Good to see the motivation. It's going to be a cracker of a car again soon

[Rochey]

Just read the whole thread, great project, keep up the work!

[michealkirwan]

Nice one dude. Good to see the motivation. It's going to be a cracker of a car again soon

off for two and a half weeks dude from thursday so flat out on her. not the only one whos ocd either haha

[michealkirwan]

getting there lads and ladies. right battery tray is rust and underneath so getting it plated. shes just ready to roll. have rear anti rool bar off to do all the bushings and links. primed the skirts for paint. ran wires back through for engine and fuse box so about 90% of wires together. have to rewire the alarm wires and has to be cut to remove. also tucked the fusebox wires nice and high. need two bolts for the shocks to put her rolling. the ecu wiring is a joke theres tape everywhere so all that will be sorted.


the new dash i got is fairly clean compared to the old one so happy

[michealkirwan]

et voila!
one bent into a loop! so that is had a great chat with stiv about what to do and whether to rebuild the engine or get a vvt sr20 loom and ecu. rebuilding means bigger pistons and a whole engine rebuild really with forged pistons etc or buy a vvt and take a gamble even seeing it run and further down the line making it more reliable for the 350 to 400bhp figure i want finished so time to think.

[michealkirwan]

more progress painted sunroof and fitted wings and lights rad and front mount core just to have it done, theres 45mm spacers on the back and need 50 so got sorted there and 20mm on the front.
need to refit the rear antiroll bar with new droplinks and rubbers.
spray the inside of the boot as i sanded it all down.
get plate welded in at battery tray
spray that then after hole cut for front mount.
spray skirts also and remopved that gunk shite ahat held previous skirts on it took some paint so need touch up around the car.
sort the two rear 10j wheels i have for the back then move works to the front.
see what happens then looking to go holset after some reading around a hy35.

[michealkirwan]

gave these two images a quick sand with 320 grit to see what would come off but one has a few marks and want to get strained lips done and bores.

love my chargespeed bootlid!


uras bumper brand new on the way from brian at driftkits! any kits needed get onto him. then just sort he bonnet with a vent and catches!

[michealkirwan]

such a shite day in the rain but more progress done. fitted the rear antirollbar with superpro bushing and links. look good!



got a decat off adrian moran and the tension rods so theyre on now aswell.
50mm spacers superform i swapped for my 25mm ones for the rear.




also got my bumper from brian campbell so delighted with that!


not too far away!

need two antiroll bar links for the front now as theyre not great either.
every fecking bolts is fairly bad and therse were never touched by me so a lot of swearing but i love this car i really do im waiting to have her finished asap for the summer just to cruise etc its been a while.

[mayo s14]

Nice work going into this fella fair play ... where'd ya get rear links and bushings from ??

[michealkirwan]

Nice work going into this fella fair play ... where'd ya get rear links and bushings from ??

ebay for like 70. superpro so good quality doing some of the steering as want her to feel more like a go kart than a little wayward.