About that time again....drift car build thread

[chixwithtrix]

yes, there will be a big update soon, classes just ended and I'm waiting for parts to arrive hopefully next week. Keep checking in!

[MastaYu]

nice cant wait

[1990-240sxsr20det]

Freaking amazing thread! Its Nissan heaven in that shop I would kill for something like that.

[SolaraOnBronze]

Awesome thread! I sent you an email about Lexan/Cf Hatch install Keep it up!

[chixwithtrix]

Awesome thread! I sent you an email about Lexan/Cf Hatch install Keep it up!

Cool, didn't get that email though.

[PhillyDaKid-S13]

just read the first page with chixwithtrix & ca18gabby cuttin on all the guys on the forum.

COLD BLOODED....lmao.

but thats cool that theres female gearheads out there. that actually exist. we need more of ya. great project(s), keep it up.

[Guappone240]

I can't even begin to tell you how impressed I am. Much props.

[SolaraOnBronze]

Cool, didn't get that email though.

Strange, I sent it to the email in your profile... anyway, I will just ask it here. Just wondered where you got the lexan, if you installed it yourself, and your general thoughts about how the cf hatch is holding up and whatnot. I am about to install mine and I think I am going with the stock glass, but I wondered how your experience was. Thanks!

[chixwithtrix]

I bought the Seibon hatch used from a friend and it already had the lexan window. It shouldn't be too hard to install yourself, I'd say easier than installing glass, but I haven't done either. The lexan scratches easily. I took it off once to clean it and clean under it. Where it touches the CF on the sides it scratches both up and can make it look dirty there. I will be painting the CF hatch when I transfer over to my new shell and masking off the edges of the lexan where it touches the CF to make it look better. The hatch lets water in when it rains and when you wash the car.

If you are using the car for a road car I wouldn't use the lexan, its loud, flexible and easy to break into. If it is a track car I would never put glass back in it since its so heavy and cumbersome.

[SolaraOnBronze]

Yeah that is what I suspected, thanks for the info- I have been told by others as well that lexan would be too harsh for the street, and that is what I plan to mostly use the car for, so I will probably have the oem glass installed. Thanks for the info!

[chixwithtrix]

OMG an update!

Since classes ended I've been working on various cars and got some time for the RB car

Start; about to pull the turbo and manifold. Hasn't seen any love in about 5 months. Is dirty /sad.

yes! ...too bad the HKS is a big piece of metal now...

Turbo and manifold off

Time to start work on the old resurrected CF hood

Bondo on the problem areas

Dried and sanding down

Wet sanded and ready for primer

Starting with the primer

Drying primer. Eh, its a $40 CF hood, it'll never look perfect, but after some paint and polishing it will look pretty damn good!

Decided while I was on a painting craze I'd paint the car's stripped interior. Before:

After; nice and clean

I'd have more to update if my packages came in, but this is all for now!

[noobdrftr]

nice...when are you putting on your widebody?

[chixwithtrix]

its already on (see sig)

If I need to I will put on the 30mm front fenders, but for now I have no need since my front wheel spacing is fail

[MastaYu]

looks very good

[White Comet]

nice to see this updated, i enjoy keeping up with this build.

[OMSIN]

wtf chixwithtrix your in Austin we should chill. I'm in North Austin if your interested email me or hit me up on xbox live gamer tag: MURDER WAGON. any body else in Austin is more then welcome to hit me up.
Modified by OMSIN at 1:40 AM 5/27/2009

[chixwithtrix]

if you are in Austin you should join http://www.austintuners.com

Will you be making it to the Texas Nissans meet on June 6th in Austin?

[shortmorgan]

I must say yours is one of the builds that I love to watch.. I wish my wife would be interested in woking like that.. Did you just spray paint the interior or what did you use.. Nice progress keep us posted..

[chixwithtrix]

I just spray painted the interior since I had some black duplicolor left over. With the caged shell it will be sprayed in car paint though.

[Osirux]

That's sick, nice build. I'm taking the rest of my sound deadening out and painting it soon. Keep the work updated!Once again, gj

[chixwithtrix]

Woo, been busy trying to get the car ready for the TXN meet this Saturday and the drift event next weekend. OMG Texas heat sucks, but glad to be back to work on my baby. Onto the goodies...

An fittings for turbo lines

Tial 38mm wg

SPL toe links, RUCAs and Tein tie rods

SPL tie rod ends

SPL's last carbon bucket

Stock RB25 manifold

Modifying for wastegate flange

Flanged, painted, and mocked up

AN line assebly

Completed line

Old internally gated part of downpipe and start of new 3" downpipe

Cutting to size

Quick mock-up welds

Comparison before painting

30mm overfender before paint

Lots of cracks and chunks need to be filled

After primer

Paint

Door bondo work

sanded, primered

Painted

Intercooler pipe ready for powder coat!

Powder coated

into the oven!

mmmm, tasty

Injector covers before

Injector covers after, chrrroooome powder

Other misc piping that we powder coated black

Lots of work left to do, more updates as things happen!

[MastaYu]

wow home baking

[chixwithtrix]

This weekend was hell. Started work on the car at noon on Friday and ended at 10am Saturday - not finished. Tried to get it ready for the annual Texas Nissans meet, but didn't make it. Barely...the car was 5 ft from the trailer and we gave up, it just wasn't running well and incomplete.

New turbo setup was mostly installed, the body work was incomplete, and the vinyl was applied last minute and that was not even complete. On the plus side the engine and accessories look great all finished, painted and powdercoated! But the bay itself needs a lot of work. The rear bumper fitment is horrible so I just gave up. We started the car up for the first time since the turbo swap and it didn't run well; first it wasn't running on all cylinders. Then it evened out and sounded extremely rough at idle...if it something simple I think it is either the idle air or some part of the intercooler piping has a leak. I hope its something simple, took a day off today since we were up for over 30 hrs and dead tired, but should get back to work on it tomorrow. Now for the pics!

New air filter location, when the bumper is on there is an opening directly in line with it...perfect.

The new intake and intercooler piping setup made me have to move the power steering reservoir; here Ian welds it into the new location.

Relocation finished

With the new powder coat I didn't want the piping to get gouged up so added this split vac line tubing for padding.

The front cover sand blasted and ready for powder.

Liquid black sexy

Ian fabbing up the wastegate dump tube

A lot of stuff to work the dump tube around

Buffing the hood

mmmm, much better than cracked carbon fiber

Status at 3am, uuuuggghh

I found the best place in the shop to take a snooze. Never fell asleep, but felt good to lie down for a couple minutes

Status at 4:30am, slowly coming together, tired wasn't the work for how we felt

Mostly complete turbo setup, love that piping!

Painting the new headlight covers.

Buttoned up and in run-able condition, sexy gem in an ugly engine bay

Vinyl looked awesome in the sunlight! The metallic black backed with rainbow chrome popped nicely. The rest of the scheme is yet to be applied.

finally shiny, the hood came out well for a $40 crashed bargain!
Modified by chixwithtrix at 7:26 PM 6/7/2009

[MastaYu]

^ wow you guys work very hard definately have alot of dedication

[White Comet]

thats quite the all nighter. i like the power steering relocation. i relocated mine, just farther away.

[iBang]

thats quite the all nighter. i like the power steering relocation. i relocated mine, just farther away.

To be honest we probably would have relocated it further but we didn't have the hose on hand to lengthen everything to stretch it further and the auto parts stores were already closed. Fortunately there was enough slack in the stock hoses to clear the new piping setup, if only barely.

[White Comet]

that makes sense then. the larger hose is impossible to find in auto stores, they don't carry anything that big, so i had to get it from a hydrualic shop. i didn't see it mentioned but what wg will be used?

[chixwithtrix]

Tial 38mm

[chixwithtrix]

Well, had some issues at the drift event this weekend, but at least we made it! zerothread/431299

Needs a tune, possibly needs a new MAF, won't start now. Out of commission until that gets sorted out. Dammit I need to finish college!

Did get to drive it, yes, finally and it was awesome! Here are a few pics of it from the event. I'm out of town now so I'll post up the previous build pics when I get back. The first two are actually me driving, my mother was in the passenger seat screaming. It was hilarious!

[HoosierSX]