s14 Build

[bllabong89]

Rush Garage

I traded my ek civic to a guy for his gold 1995 s14. Not even a week after I had traded, some kid thinkin hes a hot rod in his beat up saturn takes a turn through a neighbor hood too fast and too sharp. He clipped me and after I got some insurance money, I knew for sure I was in for an overhaul. let me know what you guys think. Im open to oppinions and ideas. Thanks for lookin. This is what the accident left me withI got some money so I did the Kouki conversion. I needed a new drivers headlight and pass. fender. The headlight cost 150 on ebay and the fender was 300 nissan w/ a discount.lol After I finished the front, I used the rest of the inssurance money for a set of used Tein Basics. They dont ride too bad but I am going to upgrade once I get some money. I found an APEXi GT Spec cat back on here for cheap brand new so I bought that to replace the junk it came with. That is the last of the things I have put on besides the Ebrake Drift Knob from Cusco. Turns out it was worthless since I went to change my brakes and the ebrake cable was snapped on the right rear. gay. Now for the things sitting around that will go on this winter. Yamato Garage, great quality JDM Grill Nardi w/ nrg quick release. I thought it was real but its an imposter. I thought I was getting a killer deal. guess again.lol It looks good though and feels great. I have a Walbro fuel pump and Mishimoto Radiator. Still need the shroud kit and relay but its comin. And a little fun in the sun.lol please, let me know what you think

Modified by bllabong89 at 10:58 AM 12/22/2009

Modified by bllabong89 at 11:03 AM 12/22/2009

Modified by bllabong89 at 11:03 AM 12/22/2009
Modified by bllabong89 at 11:25 AM 12/22/2009

[240sxJoe91]

Nice so far...What else are you going to do to it? merry christmas

[bllabong89]

im gonna go sr once i can get a front clip. i would like to do rhd just because I have always wanted a rhd car but thats on the back burners for now. I want to get a cage and im gonna paint it once i can get some valances, side skirts and front lip

[S13k]

nice build so far, keep up the good work. i was thinking of buying a sued steering wheel but all the nasty thing that will happen to it got me thinking other wise. sweet and sued dose not mix

[bllabong89]

Yea, my buddy has a limited edition nardi in his s2k. he has had his car for awhile so hes got a jump start on me but im gonna battle him to have the baddest car.lol.

hes got enkei rpf01s, d2 coils, powder coated valve cover, intake mani and pullies, carbon cooling panel, seibon carbon hood and trunk, vis carbon hardtop, bride lowmax's, nardi and nrg quick release, greddy ti-catback and a couple other things so i have my word cut out for me.lol

[S13k]

i love hard top s2k's

[BrianHarte]

Nice front end change.

[bllabong89]

Hopefully one day you will all hear of Rush Garage and hopefully this is where it starts. We are trying to get on the map and here is the star player...at the moment.lol

[S13k]

i like but the lip kinda throws it off, what is it, just paint of bigger stitched carbon fiber or something?

[bllabong89]

nah, its wrapped in gucci vinyl. its a love hate thing but its baller when you see it in person

[S13k]

ahh i see. know that i think of it, it is pretty baller

[bllabong89]

Yea, ive never even heard of it before he did it but its nasty

[bllabong89]

anybody else have any opinions??

[Lonismos14]

YEA turbo the ka lots o torque

[bllabong89]

yea, i was thinking about going ka-t at first but my motor is burning oil so i have decided to just go sr. if i can afford to get a front clip, im going to try a rhd swap but thats at the most
Modified by bllabong89 at 6:14 AM 12/29/2009

[safin]

good call on the kouki conversion

[bllabong89]

thanks, no offense to zenki owners but i dont think the zenki front has s*** on the kouki

[J14cm7]

Nice build, if you go sr go s14. i did exactly what you did but luckily mine was the same color when i got the conversion.

[bllabong89]

yea, I just planned on using a s14 engine just because I figured it would be more straight forward

[bllabong89]

So I cleaned out my garage enough and pulled my car in and started to investigate my rust problem. I couldnt see much from the under side so I pulled the carpet and found this...



I am following the official nicoclub rally build and saw that he used 16ga steel on the floor pan so I went out and got a piece yesterday. This stuff is thick and wont bend easy so thats perfect considering my seat mount is held on my 2 of 4 sides.lol

I started to get the sound deadening material up also. Good thing it was pretty cold because i could pry most of it up with my plastic matco panel tool

[charat]

my friend has a Louis Vuitton interior. its pretty baller on the inside... not so sure about that front lip.

[bllabong89]

yea, its a love hate thing i think but it looks sick in person

[spooled240]

kouki conversion. Exactly what I would've done with the insurance money

[breadbox]

Nice start. Hot s2k.

Kouki looks great. Gonna black out the body to match the front or just paint it something else later?

[bllabong89]

Im going to repaint everything. I used to work at a body shop and learned how to paint a bit there so Im gonna attempt to paint it myself.

Thinking dark silver, the new celestial blue on the new mazdas or a metallic baby blueish color on dodge/chryslers. let me know what you guys think about color ideas. im stuck on those three

[spooled240]

silver's nice, I think it complements the sharp lines of the kouki. You should do all your aero first of course so you don't have to repaint bumpers and whatnot and everything will match..

if you still have some of that insurance money you should get a GPsports bumper! Every time I see this I start to breath heavily and sweat...

[J14cm7]

The Greddy kit looks pretty good on the kouki to. Basically jsut the JDM kouki.

[bllabong89]

yea. i want to do a kit but its expensive. ive finally found a origin streamline kit for cheap brand new and i think i may get it.

[Ter240sx]

paint it that blue that is on mazdas!

[bllabong89]

I forgot to add earlier. I ordered my NRG slim hub over the weekend to be paired with my NRG quick release that I got as a partial trade for my old blown honda motor.lol

just waiting for the hub to arrive now