Stone Broke Motorsport 180sx

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Hey guys, im building my first drift car for prodrift.

Firstly id like to thank everyone who helped me with this project you all know who you are and i couldnt have done it without yea.

I got my hands on a 94 180sx jap jeg'd bare shell to build as my drift car and a s13 200sx for parts. The s13 200sx was eaten with rust and the ca18 that was in it had a rattle in the bottom end.

I got my hands on an sr20 for great money, there was no point in rebuilding the ca18 as ill have better power with the sr20 anyway.

Iv started this build a few months ago and is i work full time in a call centre i only get to work on it on evenings and weekends.

Firstly, heres pics of the 180sx as it was when i got it. The car was looking in a very sad state and it i knew straight away ''i have alot of work ahead of me!!!''




And heres a few pics of the s13 200sx The 200sx was only good for parts like runnin gear, pannels, subframes etc so it was pointless in using it as the track car as it would take too much money to get everything sorted.

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The 180sx shell had to be moved to another shed, i didnt fancy liftin it with a forklift so the only way to get the car from one workshop to the other was to fit the rear subframe from the 200sx into the 180sx and put go-jacks under the front chassis




With a few mates to help out, the car found its way into its new home

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The engine i got is a red top sr20 from a s13 silvia, i picked it up at a great price and i had a fre extra bits throw'n in with it





I also got a matt black FMIC with the piping from the same lad




These were thrown in with the car



I also sprayed the anti roll bar just to see what it would look like, dont worry i will be getting adj arms for the car



These arrived from driftworks, the 4 to 5 wheel stud converters and the steering bush, i was also excited to see a wham bar in the box when it arrived

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i got my hands on a Blitz nur spec r 3'' exhaust system but the down pipe doesnt match up to the turbo elbow




And i picked these up in Galway few weeks back

17'' Enkei tarmac evo's



16'' Advan RC's



Because the car needed to be mobile i had out of the workshop while i done what was needed

[docco86]

nice build so far what are the plans for colour etc???

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To take the dull luck off the engine bay me an a few lads decided that the engine bay should be sprayed.

So we decided on Kawasaki green.

It doesnt look too bad but its gonna be done again once the wiring is sorted.

[pole drift]

nice build so far what are the plans for colour etc???

ill be stripping the car again when the wiring is sorted.

the engine bay and interior will be kawasaki green, ill be spraying the outside matt black for the moment

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lack of a ramp ment that the car had to be moved to a different garage so i could work under the car.

lack of man power meant that the only way to get the car onto the trailer was with a forklift






This was the first time the car had been out in proper daylight and i think the engine bay looks well in natural light



Thats all the pics i have of it for the moment, the car is nearly ready to start but there is a slight issue that the uk and jap looms wont work together, i have a few spare looms to try sort it out but if that fails then ill need to get a new loom.

Ill have more updates to follow soon.

[Alan B.]

i only got to read the first page of the original thread. hopefully now people have the common sense to realise this is a bare shell project and is a long way from finished so it is very much on track considering the short time spent on it so far so looking rough is a stage it has to be at before its looking class.

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just had it confirmed that my wiring loom is wrong, ya cant mate a uk loom wit a jap loom