For those who were here when I arrived, and still are, You may remember When I bought her and brought her home. She had a smashed up face and some damage to the upper frame rails which enclose the engine bay:

Here you can see the damage to the core support and rails:

I fixed all of that, replaced the core support, and proceeded to convert to JDMTyteness with an OEM S13 Silvia front:

Within the next few weeks, I removed the rear wing, and rattle-canned the front to match:

Had to do something with the trunk lid, couldn't have all them holes!

Looking proud after a purchase of a Monkey Magic front bumper spoiler:

And then later, I traded the stock front and rear bumpers for a full aero kit.

Other miscellaneous stuff: I got 2 flat tires on this *****. Those were pains in my ***... However, luckily I didn't have a mentality to try to shave weight... And always had my spare. You probably know about the Huggy Bear styled Polar Bear Fur (lol) dash, and all the painted door panels and all that isht. Custom cupholder, stereo, and other misc mods.

Anyway, enter a few months back. My dumbass had my first encounter with a (not-so) little thing called UNDERSTEER. Boy Meets World, as Car Meets Curb.

The damage that ensued:
Passenger side Tension rod bracket.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, is I had f***'d up my tension rod as well (appeared to be undamaged) and also when the whole right wheel assembly was pushed back to the rear of the fenderwell, the LCA bent the crossmember where it meets. Pics:

So I replaced the tension rod brackets with a Nismo Power Brace. Felt really good... But I kept feeling a weird pop-slash-crack sound everytime I would take turns at almost full lock (like when I'd have to make a U-Turn)
Until ONE NIGHT... When I felt it... And the next time I tried to brake...
Oh Sh*t. All the sudden theres a grinding sound, and a f***'d up feeling coming from the front right. so I pull over, and bust out the flashlight and try to see whats bad. Can't see anything, so I just drive home... Using only th e-brake.

It is at this point that I'm like, Well, this is a sign.
Talked to the parents, and mom loaned me the money for a nice little list of parts:

Godspeed suspension kit, including:
F/R Sway bars
and adjustable:
Tension Rods
Rear Upper Control Arms
Rear Toe Arms

TEIN Super Street coilovers
TEIN Electronic Damping Force Controller [EDFC]

It was ****ing awesome. Got it all installed, and felt good. Real stiff.

UNTIL ONE NIGHT yet again.
When I was getting the same popping feeling. I said,
"Naw, F*** That."

Havent driven that car since. I wasn't about to snap yet another tension rod due to too much stress on it, due to no support behind the LCA from the crossmember.

So, enter the new girl, dubbed "the scraper" due to its ghetto-stylings (name will change once she's up to beautiful status... which means rear over fenders and paint.

Introducing (Drum roll, please!):

THE SCRAPER!

Close Ups of the Celica-Supra wheels and ghettorolled rear fenders:

My Little Man Flavor: Dampachi and the Porcupine dood:

Sunroof? Hell yeah, I've got a sunroof!

Digital Speedometer? I wonder if the HUD works?

Ya Gawddamn right it does!

A shot of the 350z knob and the headunit:

YAY AREAAAA!

Thats pretty nice, but I'm not really diggin the purple...

OHSNAP, 7 Colors to choose from? Alright, yeah. That's pretty sweet.

So what happened to the Slut then?

And a shot of the EDFC, which I haven't gotten around to installing on the scraper yet.

On the list to do, in any given order...

-Welded Diff.
-Rear Over Fenders/ Paint (kinda thinking this is priority....)
-I still need to take my rear speakers from the old coupe
-Still need to install the EDFC
-Will be swapping muffler for another one that came with the car (guy wants his back, he's paying the cost)
-Need to get an alignment soon too.
-R32 GTR seats in the future
-Did I mention Paint?
-Subwoofers to satisfy the scraper's need for booooom.
-Need to adjust the trunk latch/fuel door lever cable (help?)
-Need to swap out the ignition and door locks from the Slut (see attached link to the other thread with info on all that.)
[Link: http://forums.nicoclub.com/zer...08006 ]
-Need to get that smell outta the interior (febreeeeeeeez)
-Will be doing a custom VIP Suede interior.
-Headliner will be dyed black
-Carpet too, most likely.
-Rear seats, maybe.

I think thats all I can think of for the moment.

who did the frame repair?

might just be me.. or the way the road is slanted?

but good choice on finding a new chassis to work with.

Thank you.

Oh yeah, i forgot to add:

I picked up the new coupe for 1200.

The first one was 600 when I originally bought it.

Oh Damn! I also forgot to post up the pics from the craigslist ads!

Here Ja go.

Quote, originally posted by E7-S14 »

looking at the car from the front end.. looks crooked.. cant you tell? who did the frame repair? might just be me.. or the way the road is slanted? but good choice on finding a new chassis to work with.

Yeah, the fitment is off a little... But I just threw those parts on real quick. I haven't spent much time with it... Not the absolute highest thing on my priority list at the time. I will get to it soon enough.

I pulled a literal all nighter last Fri Night/Sat morning, swapping all suspension parts over.... and then had a meeting at 8am and then worked a double. That wasn't a great idea. The crash from 3 Monster M-80s really gets to you when you have to function normally all day.

The frame repair was on the first car.

I like the mods presented. It's too bad about the ghetto fender roll :/

/subscribed!

Yeah... but the tires were sticking out too far, and rubbing on every single peblle I ran over. So I pulled the fenders with vice grips and a heavy *** hammer.... the rear fenders aren't real pretty anyway, so Im going to do 30mm over fenders... it'll cover up the ghetto job.

PS Ive got some serious camber goin on back there too.. Its kinda hard to tell in the pics though.

Oh...

No it actually was really really straight.

That was just a weird *** angle, and I think the shadowing of the umbrella makes a little bit of an illusion.

But the camera was the main culprit there, plus the angle at which I took the shot. Lemme grab another pic real quick, it looks better than.

For $400, I'd say jump on it.

But, as we all know, The Test Of Time.

We'll see after a few months. I've only been able to roll with it all for a short time.

lol, im using a socket wrench under there.

I'm not very organized... I always seem to set down my socket wrench and then forget where i put it. At least once per day that I'm wrenching.

He sets it down for two ****in seconds and can't find it. Happens every time .

But yeah anyway.... Anyone wanna donate some money to me?

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Quote, originally posted by Kataki_ »

funny, that you should mention the 10 mm wrench, those are my tools that always go missing,on top of that if i don't touch my tool box for a week somehow all my tools get scattered and my dads snap on sockets always get knocked out of the little magnetic tray...damn stoner's looking for a socket to use as a bowl, anyone want to trade family's? and i can't wait to see the finished product i always loved your fuzzy white dash I feel like i'm coming out of a closet on that one

Hahahah Damn that whole post had me

Been there with the socketbowl... my boss when I was working construction fabbed up a ghetto straight pipe with a pen and an 8mm socket. hahaha.

and thank god, for a minute there I thought I was the only one who liked the dash.

Yeah Im thinkin a little more Bippu inspired with this one.

Paint will most likely be black... and Im thinking a full black suede interior. Dash, door panels (not just the inserts) trim... dye carpet and headliner black...

Im thinkin VIP.

If I had the time and the money I would have just swapped out the xmember.

Those are just a couple of luxuries I don't have.

As long as I can sell the old one for the price of the new one (to at least break even) then itll be worth it to me. Its an upgrade in basically every way, with the exception of the body and paint... which will be addressed. The body is pretty straight except for the rear qp's, so I'm gonna get 30mm overfenders and then a paintjob and itll be all good.

UPDATES:

-Installed the rear speakers from the old coupe
-Installed the GhettoRig Slumpsystem2000 to satisfy the scraper's need for booooom. (Pics later...)
-Fixed the trunk latch/fuel door lever cable
-Installed the shaved trunk lid (shaved lock and spoiler) from old coupe.
-Swapped the ignition and Drivers door handle from the Slut (still need to finish passenger side.)
-Got rid of the nasty smell from the interior (trunk carpet smelled horrrrrrrible.)
-Swapped all seats (brown and adjustable headrests ) for the gray seats from the old coupe.
-Cleaned up the garage quite a bit... Its been a hell of a mess since the all-nighter I pulled a couple weekends ago (to swap out the suspensions)

I'm hungry.... and really thirsty. Imma go do something about that.

my build/restoration thread!!!!
http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=222043

Reason I'm asking in this thread instead of just emailing you is because I'm sure ppl will also ask the same thing.

Why did you choose that username? Is your CA bored out perhaps?

Maybe its like the dude with "SR24DET"

Just wanted to mix and match ****.

I got the EDFC installed, finished cleaning up the interior a bit (still not very attractive, but at least its all there and clean. I </3 brown interior.)

oh and one other little thing I got done today...

My car is one color!

Finally Sprayed the car with Rattle Can. Rustoleum gloss black Lacquer.
It has come out pretty damn good. I just started the 2000 grit final wet sanding today, and will be finishing that up within the next few days... and then the next sunny day i get (or maybe in 2nd block autoshop) will be applying the Rubbing Compound... and finally the wax job. I can't wait to have this all finished.
(Yes, i know the pics are total crap. I will get better ones when I have completely finished the job. Its turning out far better than I had anticipated...)

ON TO PICS!

Quote, originally posted by wahrheitoderpflicht »

Lookin good man! What's next?

I REALLLLLLLY need new rears.

after that, rear over fenders. my QP's are beat to hell.

Those are the major things...

at this point, I really just need to keep saving money.

A friend of mine from school is going to buy my old coupe for 2500. He's listing his truck up on craigslist and as soon as it sells, he's picking up the old coupe.

all that money will go straight to my parents, and I'll finally be broken even again. $2530 is a deep hole to be in.

but then everything I make will be mine again and I'll be able to start getting serious about the car.

Down-the line plans include a KA-T and i need to do something about the open diff. probably go welded, at least for a semi-long term temporary... suspension is taken care of, wheels, well, i'm happy with the celi-supras for a while. body, like i said, just want to get those overfenders.
Interior, you've seen the basis for that, a few posts up.
uhhh oh yeah. and INSURANCE.

but it feels good to have a secured buyer not just a "dude I want your car"
its a "I've got dibs, I'll give you 25. just gotta sell my truck"
May not seem that promising, but his temporary registration is up at the end of Feb and he wants to sell it before that happens.

Quote, originally posted by Didderson »

I like the oldschool rims man. I was skeptical about 14" but i like em keep up the good work.

Thanks a lot! Yeah, 14's aren't baller by any means, but at least I don't look at the wheels with [in regards to sunkenness] disgust like I did with the alloys.