It lives again

[NISMO_RB25]

A few years ago when the RB swaps were first getting some magazine coverage, I decided to find a car and and order a clip or motorset. I spent time researching before I ordered, but my mind was already made up that I would be doing the swap. I located a Red 92 5 speed hatch back for 3500 (I paid 2800). I don't like Red cars, because cops like them, and although I don't hate hatch backs, I really wanted a coupe. I contacted Drag Drift Auto X and ordered a motorset. I wanted a clip, but they didn't have any in stock and there motorset came with all the important bits like side mount IC, driveshaft, uncut harness. I also ordered the Mckinney mount kits/drive shaft and sent them my harness.I did everything else myself outside on a concrete slab over a couple of weekends, and spent several months adding a few things like FMIC, Koyo radiator, R33 LSD, and a few other things.

If you have made it this far, then the thing to note from the above mind melt, is that you should figure out what you really want before you start doing something or you will never really be happy with the outcome.

As fun as the car was, some things would never be what I wanted, so I decided to start over.

Starting over meant getting the chassis that I wanted, and that meant finding a black coupe. Everybody and there brother is now starting to swap things into S13's, so finding one took patience and driving several hundred miles to get one, but I found it. 1989 automatic black coupe with no sunroof, no power locks, no power windows for $1700 (I paid $1100). Surprisingly that is exactly what I wanted, minus the automatic part. I had the red coupe to strip parts from anyway, so not a show stopper.

With age comes patience and I have spent the past few months building this car the right way, and today I fired up the newly reborn black coupe. Hearing that sound was even more exciting this time, because besides doing all the work again, this time I did it right. By "right", I mean to my standards.

As I get some time over the next few weeks I will post a how to for installing puller fans with a Koyo and Mckinney mounts and any other useful information that might make it easier for a patient person to do things "right" the first time.

Thank you to everyone on this forum that takes time to help others. Happy Holidays.

[USMCgetsome]

Thanks for sharing with the group. By the way your work is outstanding. Always clean and looks professional. We should go to the track sometime bro.

[NISMO_RB25]

Yea I will look you up once I get it all finished up. I still have to install the boost controller and hook up the water temp and oil pressure gauges. This time I actually measured things before I started cutting, so I have a lot fewer giant holes in my inner fenders than last time.

Mods this time around:Oil cooler and Oil filter relocation kitKAZZ two way LSDPIT boost controller/gauge/turbo timerSummit Din Oil pressure/temp/volt gauge.

I am going for a total sleeper look with gauges that look factory and nothing on the pillars. The S15 seats will be complimented by a completely black interior. (I am dying all the fabric black)Eventually I will be repainting the car black myself, and possibly doing a sylvia front end conversion.