My SR build thread (cause im that board)

[white90esex]

Well..... ive been "working" on this car for a long as time now.

Heres are pics of my busted *** KA.



Took me forever to pull the motor cause i hate the cold. My garage was on the average of like 20 degrees. I definetly procrastinated alot cause of the cold.



after gettin this baby i started kicken it into gear. I painted the valve cover within like 4 days of owning it.



Clean the engine bay, sanded and preped it for some paint.



Started fitting my turbo setup. Also got my oem flywheel resurfaced, and then installed my clutch.



Started fitting up my FMIC. I cut the hell outta that bumper support and made some aluminum brackets to brace the bottom and top.



Trailered my car from my rental house in Laramie WY back to good ole Colorado.



After getting it back home I had Ditched the log style mani cause it was making my turbo hit my master cyl. I ended up buying an SSAC mani and i cut and rewelded the flange so that my turbo would clear.

Also fitted up my cold piping, and intake w/ maf.



Sometime in there i converted it to 5 speed. I had gotten the pedals, master and slave cyl, lines all from a guy i know. Then i was on a retardedly long search for a driveshaft and a crosmember.

So basically heres what the cars got all in all. Engine:-Kouki Type X blacktop SR-SSAC mani, cut and rewelded-Garrette M24 T3/T4 hybrid turbo-Turbonetics Deltagate wastegate-Ebay FMIC-3" cold pipe, 2.5" hot-Apexi Filter & elbow-550cc deatchworks injectors-Wireing specialties harness spliceage ( i was to affraid of wires back then)-Circuit sports aluminum catch can-Odysee mini battery-Nismo motor mounts-koyo radiator

Drivetrain:-Spec Stage 2 clutch, resurfaced flywheel-megan short shifter-Z32 viscous LSD

Wheels & brakes:-Z32 rear 5 lug hubs (need some sorta 5 lug front hubs)-Z32 brakes-Steelies for now, still deciding what to do

Suspension:-eibach springs (gonna get some KTS coils soon)

Exterior:-A sticker.... thats it

Interior:-boost gauge-s14 seats-reupholstered everything in suede and other exotic fabrics

Thats basically it for now. Im working with a guy that owns a shop. We are gonna be doign a full cage in it soon. Once that goes down there wont be carpetint behind the front seats... upfront its gonna be a really thin carpet just to make it look better than metal (all sound deading will be taken out)

Also tryin to decide on witch wide fenders i should go with. Either Origins or ebay ones (im willing to do the work to make them fit right). Also gonna paint it once i do the wide body on it.

Im gonna use the S14 seats till i find a racing seat that i really like. Gonna get all the gauges i need for making sure i know whats going on with the engine.

Theres alot of stuff that im still in progress of doing, hopefully by early summer most everythign will be complete.

Heres my other S13 with a redtop SR. Its my dayly driver while i build my white car up.

Engine:-Red top Sr-stock T25 -HKS 12psi wastegate-Saab intercooler-hand crafted 2.5" exhaust

Suspension-KYB adjustables-Eibach springs-front strut brace

Exterior-Wangan wing-"sweet" two tone paint lol-Southern way 15x7 +10 meshies-Zenki front lip-a couple stickers

interior:-Reupholstered s14 seats-door panel inserts-shift boot-center consule lid-glove box-rear seat-new black carpet-nismo knob-alpine headunit-Eclipse 4x6 speakers in doors and rear towers-2 10" Infinity subs and JBL amp-MEgan boost gauge

all interior work was done by me btw... even made the carpet kit (not vatozone style)

thats basically it for now... gonna finish the headliner some day and paint it at a buddies shop.

here are pics

before the wanganinterior (not all completed)
Modified by white90esex at 7:15 PM 2/6/2007

[corey240]

nice build, nice car. your interior is my second favorite on nico what color are you going to paint the black one? or are you?

[mrzabala]

Very well done. Great color selections all around. The valve cover is especially nice.

[PantherRacer]

so what exactly did you do with the log manifold?

[white90esex]

well first off.... the interior was done to go alog with what color the outside is gonna be. The valve cover from the white car is going onto the gray/black car.

Im then painting the car CAnteen green.... ive been in love with the color for the longest time and ive had a quart of it for a while now. just need to find a good time to paint.

So basically the interior on the gray car is gonna be re-done to a darker olivish green cause the color i did before is just too light. Also going to do black suede instead of the black vynal.

The car is gonna be ALOT of green. Under the hood its gonna be ALL black accept for the valve cover, thats gonna be green. Everything else is black, ic piping, and FMIC will be black cause its a dayly driver and i dont want everyone to gock over the fact that its turboed.

And as for the Log mani, I sent it back to Enjuku and they gave me full credit back.

They had been selling a log mani, downpipe, and dump tube (the kit i bought) and nothing fit my setup AT ALL. I called them up and they explained that its the exact kit they used before they started using the PEakboost manis. Guess it wasnt made for my particular turbo.

Yeah, but they gave me full credit back and i spent that on the odysee battery, and some other garbage.

Oh, and hopefully ill be painting my car within the next 2-3 weeks cause the weather has really started to clear up. Ill definetly take pics through every step.

PS: once i redo my interior again, I hope you will like it the BEST! it should be pretty tight.

[white90esex]

Here are some new pics i took.... It warmed up outside so i decided to clean up the garage, put the front bumper on, and the wheels. Im gonna be dropping the transmission back out so i figured it would be nice to have all the random garbage outta my way for when i do that.

Anways.... here are pics. The front bumper seriously hasnt been on this car for like 8 months.