*~* Beem's S14 Build *~*

[Beems240sx]

i have had the S14 for about 6 months now. i have been fixing all the little problems with it and have barley had the chance to do any mods to it.... until now. to start off i am 16 years old and this is my 2nd car. my first car is my KLZE'd Mazda MX-6 which doesn't like to stay running for more than a week (bad distributors). my brother gave me that car with a blown engine when i was 15 so i saved up all my money and bought a new engine and trans to drop in her. i had absolutely no help on the swap. my dad had the hand tools and bought me a hoist and stand, no air tools for me . well its time to rid myself of that headache and focus on my S14. i work at discount tire and have been saving up all my money. i just got 4 FREE tires today that i threw on. tomorrow i am picking up my Stance GR+ coilovers from stance here in chicago!! i will be installing them on sunday. i have been waiting for this since i got the car, my stock struts are leaking and blown. its scary. i will be doing my own alignment at my auto school technology center of Dupage. its still hard to say what direction i am going in with this car. whether it be track/autocross/drift, i am not sure. but i want you all to know one thing, this car will NEVER be street raced or drifted. i live for the purpose of driving on a track and i value my license. well its time for some pics!!!!

when i first brought her home, she has a fresh KADE and manual swap with 80K on both engine and trans







i started off by making my own shiftboot and threw on a crap sparco shift knob i had laying around



then a swapped my headunit from my mazda in.





some wax!



a few shots along side my MX-6









i HATE orange lights, i think red looks better.













she's craving BOOST!



yay! new brakes and rotors



removed top timing chain guide only, too lazy to do the other one. it doesnt tap so I WIN!



i spoiled her with expensive products







my Mazda's Borbet rims wrapped with Falkens. if only i was 5 lug and the center bore of these rims were bigger. new rims for the 240 to come next spring



a few autocross pictures from my first time.









thats it for now! updated pictures will come tomorrow and sunday!
Modified by Beems240sx at 5:49 PM 3/15/2009

[ThuG LyFe]

looks good man i like all the little things you touched up on.

seems like you need a lip, tint, coils, and wheels and you are good to go.

[xC4RNAG3x]

looking good....so far nice **** bro.

[Silviastein]

Wow I love the strait red tails.

[Beems240sx]

looks good man i like all the little things you touched up on.

seems like you need a lip, tint, coils, and wheels and you are good to go.

i would like a lip and tint for sure. im picking up my stance coilovers tomorrow and wheels next spring

[Dire91]

^ hopefully I get stance coils and wheels next spring too

[safin]

thats a really cool shift knob....

good luck, post more pics

[Beems240sx]

thats a really cool shift knob....

good luck, post more pics

i wish, it was cool. until the "chrome" started to flake off. damn waste of money that was. Nismo leather one to come

[safin]

how much do you want for it? paypal ready

[Beems240sx]

email me - [email protected] and im sure we can work something out.

well as i said coilovers today!!! school today was horrible, i just couldn wait to get out to pick them up. there going on sunday! the only question i have is when they are on the car which collars do you losten to lower them?









more pictures of the install on sunday!

[safin]

email sent

great choice on those coils

[Ghast]

You posted a picture of your coils still in the box.

Why does everyone do that. ( I myself included )

I think we just like to add more pictures hahaha

Lookin good bro!

[veebee]

lol @ that suv with green wheels

[Beems240sx]

lol @ that suv with green wheels

oh yeah hahah, someone doesnt like that girl.they painted A LOT of bad words on it to.

could anyone walk me through the steps on how to adjust the height when they are on the car? i really dont want to mess something up. when i searched i read how to do it but i got confused on which collars i need to losen and do i just rotate the whole body down?

[Beems240sx]

so can anyone walk me through how to lower the coilover once its installed. from what ive read you loosen the lower perch and twist the whole shock body into the lower strut mount... is that right?

[ThuG LyFe]

well i have megan coils so i dono if it'll help...but i'll explain it because no1 explained to me and it was a pain in the @$$ to adjust.

first of all they seem to be same as megans with 2 perch on top and 1 on bottom. what you don't want to do is touch the top 2 perch at all. doing so will mess with the spring rates and it should be preloaded from the factory. so just take the wrench and make sure they're tight and won't come loose.

ok now before you install it on the car you loosen the bottom collar and then you twist the bottom part and you will notice the coils will get shorter/longer. this is one way to adjust it but you will have to take the coils off everytime and that's impossible to do.

so when you have the coils on the car already, just loosen the bottom perch, take the wrench and twist the top perch. (either one of the 2 depending on which direction you turn, you want to use the appropriate perch for the direction you are turning so it doesn't loosen them) the WHOLE shaft should be turning. if you see the spring turning only you are doing it wrong and again tighten the top perches to make sure you aren't loosening them. so you keep turning the top perch, just make sure the whole coilover is turning when you are turning the perch and this will adjust your height. it will take a little time to get everything right, and you might have to readjust maybe a week or two later after the springs settle.

sorry for the 10 page essay which might be wrong for these coils but i hope you got the general idea. also if you want to adjust the dampening that is the thing you twist on top. let me know if you need any clarifications and good luck! watch out for those stubborn bolts you might want to keep some pb blaster next to you.

[Beems240sx]

thanks thug that helped a lot. i got them all installed. i got to use air tools in a heated garage. all 4 corners are set a little higher than what i want, but thats because it started snowing here today the ONLY problem and a pretty serious one i have is this horrible continuous clunking sound when i turn. it sounds similar to this, but only when i turn and not as much

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kLx_xeOIs

any help? i tried adjusting the tension on the spring. i tried it with the spring looser and with it tighter, both yielded the same noise. i was then going to torque the nut on top of the coilover, but the whole nut and body turned when i tried to do so. only my right front makes the noise... PLEASE HELP ME!! i do not feel safe driving like this

[ThuG LyFe]

hmm there was a youtube clip of a guy's stance coilover describing exactly what you wrote. i forgot what the cause of it was but i think stance had such problems before. you should call stance and see what is wrong maybe they can replace it or something.

also try to search here for that i think there was a previous post about it somewhere.

[Conquerer]

Awesome. My car is identical to the OP`s car except for the rims and the exhaust, AND we have the same radio! How cool is that!

I`ve seen a lot of black 240s but as soon as I saw this one from both the front and back I was like, `that looks exactly like my car`. Then I saw the radio too and was like OMG.

[Razi]

Do I sense a KA-T in the near future?

[Beems240sx]

Do I sense a KA-T in the near future?

thanks guys, im going to contact stance today. hopefully they can send me a new right front and i can get this over with. im not even going to drive the car to work. the sound terrifies me.

[ChampaignSilviaS14]

I don't know if its the same sound, but my powered by max coils made the same noise.

1. I didn't have the springs set right, so they were making noise.

2. I sprayed lithium grease from the top and bottom of the pillow ball mount, and all the noises went away, this is what was recommended.

[ThuG LyFe]

Awesome. My car is identical to the OP`s car except for the rims and the exhaust, AND we have the same radio! How cool is that!

I`ve seen a lot of black 240s but as soon as I saw this one from both the front and back I was like, `that looks exactly like my car`. Then I saw the radio too and was like OMG.

check your garage man maybe it IS ur car lol jk

yea you didn't mess with the spring rates right? the springs should be snug but should be able to spin if you give it a little force...check if its the same on all sides.

[Beems240sx]

i contacted stance. he said this is their first case of this noise with the new pillowball design. YAY lucky me. so im bringing it to togue factory since im local. now its car pool time to work until i can drive it!

[Beems240sx]

i just got back from touge factory. he was able to get the popping to quiet down. basically i just need to ride on it and break them in. it is NOTHING to worry about. stance products are great and i was very happy with their customer service. the easiest way to get rid of the annoying popping sound is to... turn up the music! im taking some pictures right now of my S14! will be on here soon

[ThuG LyFe]

sounds like they screwed you. i would not be satisfied with even the slightest noise. even my MEGANS that you stance people dog on don't make the slightest noise or had the pillowball mount break like other people's tein/stances.

i do hope it really is nothing to worry about but even a small sound would bother me since it's not abnormal.

[placham]

Great to see more peeps from the Chitown with 240sx. I got to ask is that MX-6 with KLZE? My bro has a KLZE in his MX-3, that thing is loud as fak. By the way where was this autoX at?

[Beems240sx]

yeah!! i swapped in the KLZE last summer. mine has straight pipes so...yeah you get the point. shes not running right now. distributor is comming friday to get her fired up once again. im uploading pics of everything!! new winter tires comming in 2 weeks, then powered by max ruca's and tension rods along with a Nismo power brace. then ill top things off with Nismo engine and transmission mount. then when i am satisfied my car is ready for more power... it will come

[Beems240sx]

pics...

step 1: have the best brother in the world, have him ask his friend to use his heated garage with airtools







step 2: grit your teeth and hope the first bolt comes off smoothly. sucess







step 3: finish the fronts with no problems. lower the car, settle the tension, measure, lift it, and lower it some more



step 4: notice the crap load of front negative camber. can someone help me out on how to add some positive camber with the top camber plate, thanks!





step 5: finish the fronts. eat some pizza. start on the rears.



before:



after:



GREAT SUCESS

step 6: say good by to your leaky bouncy ****ty old stock crap





stand back and take a look. KEEP IN MIND.. this is my WINTER height. summer height to come when the snow goes away and i get new rims.







please excuse the dirty car as it is 29 degrees outside and washing a car is not an option.

[Beems240sx]

any help with those front camber plates?