Here's what my s13 started out looking like the day I bought it....

It was alright at first until my clutch went out the week after I bought it.... So I put a stage 3 XTD clutch and light weight fidanza flywheel in it... Unfortunately all the pictures of the clutch disappeared when my computer crashed about a year and a half ago.... So I don't have any pictures of that.
Shortly after I replaced the clutch the rear shocks blew out on me... I still have them in the back storage room somewhere I think. Anyways so enough of the story and on to what suspension I put on it....

The shocks are kyb-gr2's and I cut the stock spring mounting plates off and slid on adjustable coils with tien springs... I forget what series they are.... It rides like a dream and handles like no other....

Then I got stupid and bought a bodykit after getting into a slight fender bender....

Don't knock the tails 2 bad..... They came with the car when I bought it.... It now has the stock tails in it.....

Well I ended up ****ing up the front bumper once when I hit a raccoon doing like 80..... I had it fixed and put it back on the car and was ready to start the body work to get it ready for paint..... My car and Paint don't really go together very well... Every time I have the cash to do it Something always goes wrong in my life. But it will eventually be all one color once I sit down and choose a color I want on it.... I got sick of it being 2 different colors and tried to find some spray paint that sorta matched the maroon color that it is.... That didn't work out 2 well don't try it.... Here's how shritty it looked after 20 bucks and 3 hrs of being bored painting....

I left it that way for about a month and hated looking at it so I let it sit broken and hideous for ever it seemed like... Then me and my X split up and I've been dealing with that and how much of a bit*$ she is.... So that got me working on her again....

I blew the head gasket out about a year ago and have been having issues with it ever since.... I want to swap motors but school is being a pain in my rear and I can't really afford another motor at this point in time unless I find someone to buy my 300zx..... Oh I don't think I've posted any pictures of it yet

Here she is....

She's pi$$ed me off many times and I've finally decided to strip her of her goodness and beat the brakes.... Oh wait i meant put them on my s13.... lol

So I've worked my a$$ off this past month at work putting in some OT and saving up some cash.... I finally found a guy in Georgia thats parting out his 97 s14 and bought the full 5 lug and s14 brake swap.... I've decided that I'm going to pull the brakes off my z and put the 5 lug s14 rotors and calipers on it. Then I'm putting the 5 lug swap on my s13 and bolting the z32 calipers and rotors on along with the e-brake assembly.... I don't know if the 300 is going to have an e-brake when I'm done but It will still be able to stop and thats why they invented Park for auto's.....

As for the interior in my s13.....

I'm in desperate need of either racing seats or a new drivers seat bottom piece..... I had a parts car I was pulling things off of and selling. I took the passengers side seat out of it and bolted it to the bottom of my drivers seat... So the back is like brand new and hardly has any wear on it.

I installed a nismo steering wheel with a generic e-bay hub adapter...

I also found some white faced gauges a while back and a carbon fiber trim piece for it that I absolutely love!

And yes I know my speedo is stuck.... I still have yet to fix that..... Just one of its many problems....

and they light up blue at night which is pretty sweet....

This is a picture that I was kind of going for when I started my car....

but since then I've changed my mind so many times....

I pulled the big g@y wing off when I shattered my rear window out....

I was pissed that day....

The Chop Shop before in the cold Indiana weather....

And after....

I was just lucky that I hadn't sold the rear hatch off my parts car yet....
Speaking of that thing.....

That was it... And now its all parted out and crushed....
There was way 2 much rust to try and fix that piece....

240 day at my house... We had 4 s13's there that day.

This is the car that was for sale on here for a while.... The guy bought it and the day after wrecked it into a guard rail... I thought someone out there might want to see some of the carnage and what happened to the front end on my parts car.....

You might be wondering what the white stuff is and why the hood isn't closed all the way.... Well the radiator core support was bent so bad that we couldn't bend it back by hand nor a BFH... So we put Styrofoam in between the hood an headlights and bunjied the hood closed so it wouldn't fly up on him... Haven't heard any more on his car...

I have a video of that day when we were pulling the busted hood off and front bumper and throwing them across the yard... I'll have to find it and post it in here. Its pretty funny...

Anyways back to my s13....

After I busted the window out of it I decided I might as well just take it apart once again and re-paint the kit back to white since it looked better that way...

This is what it will look like by this monday.... My teaser photo....

They're not on yet but my parts will be here soon enough....

I'll have more pictures of that stuff when it arrives. I can't wait....
I've even got a set of spare tires in my storage room just to go have some fun on... And luck me I have a friend that has a tire changing machine.... So thats free... He also works for a tire place so I get used tires for free as well.... Thats part of the reason I stayed with stock 15's for as long as I have... I hope to include a motor swap in this thread some day once I sell my z to someone....

There was an incident that caused this dramatic 4 to 5 lug conversion....

I was taking my car for a short ride to good ole wally world when a lifted dodge truck bout ran me over! A car in front of him slowed down and he decided to gun it and try to squeeze in between me and the other car. It didn't happen like that.... I noticed what he was going to do and jammed the brakes and yanked my e-brake while cutting the wheel to the right to avoid him creaming the whole drivers side of my car.

Pictures of it getting towed home....

Well I ended up smoking the curb which in my town the curbs are like brick walls... it was about 10" tall.... It messed up my front bumper yet again and snapped my tie rod and bent my lower control arm all to he!! and back.

So that inspired me to just swap my shr!t to 5 lug instead of just fixing the lower control arm....

I'm seriously going to beat the crap outta that guy for making me hit the curb! But in the end it will be worth it...

Some other random photo's:

my full 2 1/2" exhaust... HKS muffler, high flow cat, and Pacesetter header.

Short shifter

My friend's gt500 all original....

When I blew my radiator...

silicone doesn't work for a hole that big under that much pressure.......

Btw, I hope you got rid of that f****n neon. Good luck on your project.

Maybe it'll look better when your done??? i'm confused at all these ebay build threads. It hurts me.

Vehicles:
2008 Suzuki GSXR 600, All black.
1992 Nissan 240sx se hatch
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Dittoz, wanna smell my napkin?

350z wheels x2 sets
s14 megan header and downpipe

I will knock on it, its not the fact buying stuff on ebay is bad, its you buying the horrible junk sellers put on it. I wouldn't have said anything if you bought things that were safe and fit correctly, but you didn't. That steering wheel is junk, and if you ever get in a crash, its going to fold in half. I'm not trying to be an ***, somethings like that steering wheel just aren't safe, and i feel like you need to understand that. You have ebay coilovers that cost 20 bucks, and those aren't teins no matter how hard you shut your eyes and imagine, unless thats not the picture of them. Seems like you've got you funds in the wrong places at the wrong times. Just like it doesn't seem you have done proper maintenance first, like your radiator should have been replaced obviously, if you checked over the whole car and had it for 3 years.

This is why im being alittle hard on you... do things properly and i'm all for it. I know people have their own style of what they want their car to look at, so cool if you like the looks, i won't say anything about that, just don't cheap out on parts that can cause a crash.

Good luck with everything, take my opinion for what its worth, if not, fine.

I also made this thread to get advice on what others think I should do next. Plus If you haven't noticed I didn't post any pictures of under the hood.... The neon's came on the car and they are long gone now.... The wing... I don't know what I was thinking about that but its long gone 2.... and the tails are already in the trash where they belong. I'm going to buy the kouki tail's in a couple months before it goes into paint. I also don't want the 240sx rear quarter window's and I'm searching for 180sx one's. So if anyone know's where I can get those let me know. It will only get better with time....

Its not as bad as some of the other 240's out there... At least I still don't have any rust on my ride....

part it out and stop thinking ebay is one stop shop for performance. Ive had my car going on 2 years in june and well it is def a work in progress, I would be imbarrassed to drive that thing down the block. even a 4 dollar can of spray paint for the white body kit would have helped it 1000%.....

ebay ISNT a great place to find stuff. less you are looking for cheap **** and making you car look like cheap ****.

if this was your plan...... I wouldnt say "it isnt finished", I woud call it "mission accomplished!"

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I'm not feeling comfortable on this forum anymore... Maybe it'll look better when your done??? i'm confused at all these ebay build threads. It hurts me.

I know feeling it used to be............

now it is the complete opposite.

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TommyPaton or who ever that kid is.

Yours.

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At least i know guys like you are willing to help a noob out. Anyways thanks for all your help s14tan, it wont be forgotten ...why is there no 'cheers' icon lol

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S14tan, you are by far the most helpful NICO member I've come across when it comes to simple "newbish" questions. Thanks for understanding that everyone has to start somewhere. Thanks for the help man.

Listen, I didn't say anything about the look of your car, so there would be no reason to point out anything on my car, because you have no idea whats been done, nor the quality of parts. I'm not calling you out on anything, just warning you for the future.

Yea sure, you were young... thats fine. I'm not saying your an idiot, just be aware and start fixing the things you need to the right way. I never said i was perfect, nor anyone else, because no one is. Thats how you learn. Just relax, i'm trying to help you out so you don't make the same mistakes, exactly like when you said, "i don't know what i was thinking when i was 16." And that steering wheel is not safe, its been discussed. Even a buddy of mine bought one, put it on, and immediately took it off because how horribly flimsy it was. I'm sure you have your own opinion, but one crash will tell the tale.

Good luck with your build.

i say get the body kit painted and get wheels.

Speaking of honda's Check out my friend's integra we just got finished last week

Yes this has been me for a more than a year on Nico...

but dont you think it is kinda hypocritical to have your sig and be showing off a FWD haha

I'll have more pictures of everything that I've done so far later on... I've got tomorrow off so I'll be at it all day. I have decided to ditch the bodykit idea... Instead I have decided I want to get a 91-94 chuki front bumper fenders and bumper extention fender pieces. I don't know if it all bolts up or not but I think it should with little to no modifications. I found a chuki front bumper on e-bay but they want an arm and a leg for it...

So. For those who read this.... I'm looking for a 91-94 chuki front end I don't care what color it is b/c I am having the whole car re-painted in as soon as I get the parts in.

I've got quite an issue with my front wheels rubbing my shocks right now. Thats what I'm going to try to fix tomorrow. I'm ordering extended studs and a wheel spacers and hopefully that will work... Lets see if anyone can guess what wheels those are....

I'll also be re-wiring some things and finishing up the other mods I haven't show you guy's yet.... But for now I'm going to bed l8ter

hahahahahahaahah..yea i dont kno about this either personally i would of chose to do motor work b4 a body kit but thats imo good luck tho.

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The baller wheels ima get are Sportmax 962's

I'm sorry for pointing that out, I hope you can get this thing looking super duper clean someday, good luck with your car.

Modified by treken2t87 at 6:41 PM 4/27/2008

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Lets see if anyone can guess what wheels those are....

This may have been answered, but those look like a 5 lug version of the American Racing wheels I had on my first Volvo. Except they weren't painted. This was while I was fixing the car after I wrecked it. It was all red, then red white and blue for a while, then primer black. It's now probably a little cube.

Thank god you are keeping it looking stock on the outside. I wouldn't put the black top in until last if you get it. Work out all the cheap things done to the outside, that will show their ugly faces sooner or later.

Wow.... Your good I got them for dirt at my local junkyard as some temp wheels till I figure out what I'm doing with my 300zx... Whether is be part it out or sell it.... Here's what they looked like when I first got them.

This is what the rims look like now....

I taped them off and sprayed them when I was painting my calipers. Here's How the calipers turned out...

I got my turbo in a couple days ago and set it in the engine bay to see how it would look....

I don't know if I'm going to boost this motor or wait till I save up some money and pull a swap in it... But like I said its a work in progress...

I also replaced my fuel pump with a walbro 255 Pump.

Here's my hatch floorboard without the carpet in yet. I just finished putting the carpet in it like an hour ago... Don't have any pictures of how it turned out... But That will be later once I bolt down my system and battery again.

I've been tinkering with this as well....
Its my friend's suzuki 600 we had to put new brake pads on it and clean it up... It looks amazing and It is so much fun to ride! I've been thinking about buying one but I'm going to wait till I get my car all finished up first.

If i was you i would keep the kit or just sell it asa whole. and loose the wing. Picking up a new bumper should be very easy.

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you have horrible taste, and you like teg's... geeze please can a moderator please show him the door

GTFO he bought it like that and he is saving it. Inetgras can be the ****. specially that abouve one. with that motor i bet it hauls for an NA.

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hahahahahahaahah..yea i dont kno about this either personally i would of chose to do motor work b4 a body kit but thats imo good luck tho.

That is the best way to do things. but some people can afford to do that and body work is easy.

As for the kit it will prob end up in my "Parts room" its basically just my junk storage space with all kinds of tires and random car parts in it...

I still have the stock rear bumper and its going back on the next day I have off... I just started my new job so I'll be working more trying to save up some money for more parts... I've got everything wrote down that I want and I'm trying to buy a chuki front bumper off a guy thats parting one out but he doesn't want to deal with shipping it.... So... I think I'm up the creek on that one... The 240's around here are all pignose and I hate them.... There was one up at happy's import junkyard in indianapolis but I'll bet its long gone by now. I'm going up there not this weekend but next to check it out and see if they have gotten any z32's in or if that chuki is still up there. I really didn't care what everyone was saying before about my car since I already had most of the work done. I knew it would turn out good but my front tires are rubbing my shocks right now... I still have yet to fix that issue. I'm prolly going to have to run extended stud's and some pretty hefty wheel spacers to fix that issue. I'm looking around for some good extended studs and spacers right now actually...

I've been talking to the guy that I bought my 5 lug swap off of and he has the dohc Ka motor from the car he parted out still and he only wants like 300 bucks if I make a road trip down to pick it up. I also talked to OriginalWheelman from here and he wants my 300zx. He said he's got a blown dohc ka but the head and all the conversion parts for the sohc to dohc swap are all good... I don't know which route I want to go just yet tho.

I wouldnt knock ebay, i bought my avcr there for instance, from a reputable ebay store brand new and its just the same as buying it anywhere else

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I swing it around like a helicopter and all the ladies want to go for a ride.

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sorry i cant satisfy you, jeff

yea im 19..i cant afford it either thats y its takin me so long..so i chose to suffer now by saving for it first then doing my paint job i can care less about looks right now. whats a car with looks without a motor right??

Man I hate that junkyard with a passion...it's one of the only junkyards with any s14's around me but the guy working in the office/register is a f*cking a*shole/idiot.