My s13 build...vh45/suede/tubs/wire tuck..full resto 56K NO!

[omgshawn]

Ehh it wasn't too bad not looking forward to doing it again lol hopefully I can get started on v2.0 soon and maybe sell this one

[omgshawn]

Another pic of the dash


Something else I did..

[crash n burn]

looks good. not since the dash is a little thicker, did you end up stapling the fabric on the backside?

[omgshawn]

Yeah the dash was stapled everywhere I could

[JaredP]

what are the stock hud clusters out of? it looks REALLY good, i wouldnt mind trying to find one for myself but i've never seen it. keep it up man, cant wait to see some updates

[crash n burn]

digital clusters came in coupes. they're not that rare. some also came with HUD(heads up display).

now whats the reason behind cutting off your upper section of the frame

[omgshawn]

You talking about the rad support? Well, the car was in a front end hit, not too bad but enough to need a new rad support apparently. They did a half a** job putting it on, the whole lower half wasn't even attached. So, seeing that, and the fact I need to do tubs I decided to just redo the whole thing in tube so I can pull the whole thing from the strut towers forward off. Plus it will give me room to do my future TT/v mount setup and a place to easily do some oil coolers/ducting.

[crash n burn]

ahhh ok..well seeing as you seem to be able to weld..you should pull out the stops and go ahead and cut a hole and tap mounting holes for another TB on your manifold. i'm sure you can find some way to run it right now using the same sort of system the Z32 guys are with dual mafs and a translator box. the TB linkage is ingenious, since the second TB is flipped..you simply run a bar to connect them that got reversed cut threads on one end like an adjustable suspension arm and use the new TB with the cable..i couldn't be easier

[omgshawn]

Well when the TT setup happens I'm doing custom intake manifolds

Todays works..





And pulled the trans and stuff

[motoman399]

you have some nice work going on. but please use the fish eye lens for skateboarding its killing the pics..

[omgshawn]

Haha sorry I just got it can't keep it off the camera lol it's too fun

I'll try though

[motoman399]

lol i know i was looking for one for my cam also. but i was going to use it to set up in my car while racing/drifting. if you love using it so much i wont hate anymore.. lol

[omgshawn]

I'm going to be doing the same thing, HD fisheye videos ftw

[Canseri]

Wow this is great I am inspired, I look forward to more of this build.

[Caveit77777]

I really want to see how this suede interior is going to look finished. Hopefully it will give it a helluva newer car feel especially with the DCC.

[240sgreg]

Pulling the rear subframe today = PItA BtW I migrated from 240fam. but anyways any word from Shorty over that HUD dash???

[omgshawn]

Yeah I need to find a black dash for him and the HUD is mine

[omgshawn]

So, I'm probably picking up a media blaster this week..40gal cabinet should be able to most things on the car. I'm also trying to source an oven for temp use before I build a large one(subframes/bike frames/etc) for powder coating.

I was thinking of building a rotisserie to turn the car 90* so I can redo the whole underside, I also want to eventually make a full skid plate setup(maybe sell a couple too) because the car will so low/try to keep everything a little cleaner lol, so maybe I'll do some mock ups while I have the car turned.


Thoughts?

[troskinatior]

Pulling the rear subframe today = PItA BtW I migrated from 240fam. but anyways any word from Shorty over that HUD dash???

Are you doing a build to? And what no more 240 fam?

[omgshawn]

Started pulling the rear apart..



Wow..can't believe I cruised at 110mph for over 2 hours with this thing >_< I really hate PO's





Gonna redo it, completely...

[motoman399]

that welded diff looks like poo poo. please lay some nice beads in there. EWWW

[omgshawn]

Don't worry, I'm gonna. That s*** looks nastyyyy. I just got my tank filled and some more wire to fix the rust issues, so I'm gonna clean this one up and redo it. I refuse to use flux core lol

[omgshawn]

[tr4c3]

Well look how far my little bro's s13 has got. I see nico approves lol. I can't wait to see this thing finished almost as much as finishing my vert haha.

[omgshawn]

Hopefully this year lol

Pulled the back apart...dirty as hell in there lol


Going to get a nice cleaning tomorrow

Fresh out


Cleaned and ready for some plastic polish..gonna make these babys like new

[Dano]

Very nice, excited to watch the progress!

[speedeast]

This like memory lane... keep up the good work. @ this rate we might finish around the same time! VH Swaps for the win. Let me know if you have any questions.

[omgshawn]

VH deff FTW

And not sure about that, I keep finding things I want to fix lol

If you look at the current engine bay pic, you can see the drive side hood ledge(where the fender bolts to) is cut at the strut tower. Since I want to keep those, I have to pull off all the overlaying metal in that area...which is a lot lol. I could just weld the piece back on but I would rather replace it with a OEM piece from courtesy..they have them like $105.

Hopefully I can get the interior going soon and start on the engine bay/rotisserie

[speedeast]

Well good luck dude!

[omgshawn]

Thanks broski

Picking up the VH this weekend