Car is starting to come together.

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PacManVR4
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Well, The car idea is starting to come together. I picked up a red 90 240sx coupe a couple of weeks ago with a blown single cam, new red paint, spoiler, se wheels, and lip spoiler with no options and black interior thats in great shape for a 100.00 bucks. And for the motor, Im going CA of course. On tuesday me and Diamondondstar36 are going down to housten to buy rtsols's CA front clip that came from flashoptions if it checks out okay. And to top it of, I bought a set of Tein HR coilovers off ebay tofay along with a new steering wheel.

I still have a little ways to go including some custom body work to clean up the car and swapping to a silvia aero front end and find some nice wheels. I think a little further down I will swap to a s15 specR turbo or a 20g depinding on what mood Im in, with HKS ic. I just thought I would post my progress, This is gonna be way diffrent than building my VR4s.....This car is gonna be clean and fast, Just like I want. BTW, If anyone wants anything of my 180sx front or my stock spoiler or lip spoiler, email me.


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I'll buy you're really nice interior!!!

PacManVR4
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Man, Picked up some black S14 SE seats today and orderd some new window crank handals and 300z fuel filter. Just starting to get things ready. Next up is replacing the dash, Its the only thing thats not mint. Man those seats make a world of diffrence.

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Lucky bastard...

PacManVR4
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lol, I always get sh@t for what I paid for the car. The funny thing is that alot of people knew the car was for sale, But everyone thought it would be junk becouse of the price. Boy, Were they wrong. The main thing with this car is to take my time, buy the best parts and stick with the plan. My goal is to try and have the first CA car in a large magazine. With out a body kit, My friend jeffs car will be in sportcompact soon....But it has an SR.

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I'd rather not have my car in a magazine. Shoot, I wish that half of the town I live in didn't know I had the motor I have in there. I meet new people and they are like, "I've heard about you. I'm not gonna race.." Damn pansies...

rtsol
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pacman, make sure you turn down the boost when ever you put that chipped ecu in there. im not sure what its tuned for, so you may need to play with different injectors, and MAFs. GOOD LUCK!!!

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I might not use it, All I want is a raised rev limit. Im gonna stick with an AFC and VPC. BTW, I think that FET wire was a lazy eye setup. BTW, I brought the clip home today, It has great compresion. I have alot of things to do to the sheel before the motor goes in and some tricks up my sleeve for some local SR and turbo KA guys. Oh, BTW float I had to stop going to the late night meets in my GVR4 becouse of my rep. I could not get a race with anyone....

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Well there are plenty of local towns that I can drive to to get a race. And they won't know me.

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Yea, I need to stop racing around here. One guy came up to me one time saying (this was in a parking lot full of ricers) "your car is the only one to fear out of all these cars"

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:D, it's tru, too

There was a dude down the way a little ways talking mad **** about his b18 swap.... I was like "So now you run, what, 15s???" and everyone laughed at him.

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Quote »My goal is to try and have the first CA car in a large magazine. With out a body kit, My friend jeffs car will be in sportcompact soon....But it has an SR.[/quote]not if i beat you to it, lol

when my car is ready i'll be sending SCC some photos and a write up of the car and how long it took to get all the right parts together and have it all assembled,

good luck with your ride.

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SCC already had a ca powered s13 a while ago.

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yes they did... silver one with a blue CA if I remember correctly... i think it belonged to the owner of HKS or something like that:)

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Nope, A shop called feast. Im talking about a stateside streetcar. YEah, I had fun out there bikes, MkIIII supra, SS, and a sh@t load of LS1s. Funniest one was this honda streetbike though, As for the coolest one that hurt there ego was the Supra BPU+++. I even made it to supra forums, He was complaining about he was cleaning up till I killed his ***. After that a NSX showed up and propley turned me down. You cant beat and AWD of the line. Belive me, I had plenty of 5.0 stangs with slicks try. I hoping this car goess atleast mid 12s, If not Im gonna be very sick with my self for building a slow car.

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well you better be ready to compete with a ca18 powered 510

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or my H22 turbo eclipse! Oh wait... I'm a jackass.

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Hell yeah, Orderd a HKS GT dual BB 2540 upgrade today. Now what to do for a FMIC. I also have a brand new 3 inch SR dp and a 3 1/2 inch HKS rear section.


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