Buddy Finally Finished His Car: Widebody RB26 97 Kouki

[FinkenS14]

My buddy bought this car back about two years ago. He had had a SICK S13 before that he did a S13.5 conversion on, and a built SR20 that ran low 12's.



Well he got tired of that and decided to build something truly awesome.

It started out as a completely stock 97 SE, auto, some scuffs and such, but nothing major, and he immediately bought an R33 GTR front clip, and swapped in an RB26, bone stock motor, turbos, etc etc, just Power FC, 1600cc injectors, E85, 4" custom exhaust, and completely tuned on 17 lbs. Ran a best 11.9 at 117mph. Colorado elevation of 5900 ft.
















When winter came around 2009, it was time for the car to go under the knife. He had told me all the plans he had for the car, but I never thought itd come to be what it is today. Truly an awesome transformation in my opinion.

He had the car shipped to his dads shop in Texas where it got the following:

Im really not too sure of what some of the parts may be, or the specs, but I can find out from him if anyone is interested.

Custom satin bayside blue paint
Seibon trunk and doors.
Origin Type 2 50mm Fenders
?Origin one off 25mm wider front carbon fenders
Fujimoto rims and Michelin Pilot sport tires, not sure of rim specs, I can find out though.
Everything else Im not too sure of since he just got the car back, and like I said, I can find out for those intersted in rim specs, body parts/kit, etc etc.

The end result...

[Tyler]

ehh.. looks unfinished with all that unpainted carbon

[FinkenS14]

Why buy all that carbon and paint it though, Ive never liked people that buy a s*** load of carbon, and paint over it, kinda defeats the purpose in my opinion...

[Valiant240sx]

Well I would think the purpose of it would be its lightweight and very strong construction.....some people like to show it off just to say "hey i spent a lot of money on CF" also saying "Hey thieves i have a lot of CF"
otherwise its person preference

To OP, your friends car is very nice, got a mod list for it or interior pics for it?

[FinkenS14]

For the complete mod list Id have to motivate him to sit down and write it up, heres some interior shots...

Pretty sure the seats are brembos

A good friend of mine is doing a photoshoot of his car later this week...so i will post those pics when he gets em uploaded and edited.

[S14Kouki10]

brembo seats..?

[Chris28]

Why buy all that carbon and paint it though, Ive never liked people that buy a s*** load of carbon, and paint over it, kinda defeats the purpose in my opinion...

Hahaha wow. Because the purpose of carbon fiber is to look cool...

[FolkertSX]

He had the car shipped to his dads shop in Texas where it got the following:

Custom satin bayside blue paint
Seibon trunk and doors.
Origin Type 2 50mm Fenders
?Origin one off 25mm wider front carbon fenders
Fujimoto rims and Michelin Pilot sport tires, not sure of rim specs, I can find out though.

ehh, why would you ship the car from Colorado to Texas to have them do everything you can do. The only thing i can understand is the paint job, but that can be done anywhere locally. Overall, im impressed with the car. But it seems like this guy has more money than time into this. kinda defeats the purpose of buying an import.
EDIT: just noticed the lambo doors on the s13, i second my own thoughts

[FinkenS14]

Bride seats my apologies, dunno why I mix that up sometimes.

And reason he ahs it shipped to Texas is because his dads auto body shop is down there and hed rather have them do the work.

[FinkenS14]

Why buy all that carbon and paint it though, Ive never liked people that buy a s*** load of carbon, and paint over it, kinda defeats the purpose in my opinion...

Hahaha wow. Because the purpose of carbon fiber is to look cool...

Sarcasm?

[FinkenS14]

He took the lambo doors off after how gay and flimsy they are haha

[White Comet]

good color paint, but needs gloss and a flake to it

[krash]

"they got deeep pockets?"
"real deep."

Sweet car

[FinkenS14]

Ill let everyone on in a little secret, his family has ownership in Western Convenience gas stations, Middle Eastern oil money FTW

[Black on Gold]

Why buy all that carbon and paint it though, Ive never liked people that buy a s*** load of carbon, and paint over it, kinda defeats the purpose in my opinion...

thats almost too funny man.

Car would look 10x better with all around paint and some gloss.

[FinkenS14]

Meh to each his own I guess

[ralphsdiorama]

The seats are sparco torino 2's in the car. Jeez Kayvan has changed a lot of s*** since I last saw the car. I definitely agree the car needs to be a solid color but overall it looks great. He still owes me a ride!!

[FinkenS14]

You and me both haha, didnt know you knew Kayvan, small world.

[scotty-2-forty]

Why buy all that carbon and paint it though, Ive never liked people that buy a s*** load of carbon, and paint over it, kinda defeats the purpose in my opinion...

... Aaaannnnyyyywwwwaaaaayyyyy .... I like the car, but if it were painted entirely in that matte blue it would look suh-weet! New-school meets rat-rod; nice!

[thomasjamal]

if it were painted entirely in that matte blue it would look suh-weet!

I agree. I've never been a fan of unpainted CF unless it's on a black car and even then not when there's this much of it. If the point is to save weight it would be worth the 5lbs that paint would add.

Plus, that paint is really nice and that car would be bad a** all that finish.

[jbuckley]

that carbon sh*t sucks hard nice try tell him to trash it and start over fagg*t poser

[Caveit77777]

that carbon sh*t sucks hard nice try tell him to trash it and start over fagg*t poser

And who the hell are you? Let's see what you drive...

[jbuckley]

i remember my first time validating that i get on 4chan by having a really s*** looking pedobear as my avatar

[FinkenS14]

that carbon sh*t sucks hard nice try tell him to trash it and start over fagg*t poser

Somebody ban this f***** b****

[jbuckley]

what can i not make an honest opinion ?

[Caveit77777]

i remember my first time validating that i get on 4chan by having a really s*** looking pedobear as my avatar

Yeah and I bet people would rather look at my fake pedobear than your busted a** stock 240 if you even have one.

[CRyan]

children children. Jesus Christ.

Firstly, to JBuckley. You aren't in any right to tell someone what should or shouldn't be done to something you have no control over. Your ignorance can go elsewhere.

And Caveit, lets try not to provoke him. . .Don't take that offensively, btw.

ONTO the topic. I think the car looks great - But I will have to agree. The CF should be painted in my opinion, because the car being one solid blue like that would look great.

Is this a show car? Or daily driven? None the less, good to see some great work went into the "attention to detail" department, even though it was paid for.

[FolkertSX]

that carbon sh*t sucks hard nice try tell him to trash it and start over fagg*t poser

hahaha. boy o boy you just hate on everything. i can see your getting along with nico real well!

[FolkertSX]

i remember my first time validating that i get on 4chan by having a really s*** looking pedobear as my avatar

Yeah and I bet people would rather look at my fake pedobear than your busted a** stock 240 if you even have one.

haha o s***, looky what i found. apparentely this is him and is car, o yea i forgot, before he was sponsored

this is me and my car a little bit before i got sponsored

[adrianfromthecastle]

unpainted cf is sooooo 10 years ago...

the car looks like a lot of time and money was put into it.... not my style though.