Not another build thread, but something to watch for

[boost_boy]

As some of you know, campground was selling a B12 and B13 sentra and because my roots is FWD, I jumped on the 1990 B12 sedan. This car is a rarety in itself and he paid a nice chunk of change to get it to this state. I plan on using his car to finish a goal I had started years and years ago. It has it's issues including a knocking AWD CA18DET (stock) with a really bad turbo (mosquito killer), but I didn't buy this car for its engine. This thread will just be pictures with direct narration. Anything any of you need to know, feel free to ask and I will answer. I'm waaay past build threads as I've been doing this for over 16 years, so again this is not a build thread and I will not be showcasing little name brand parts to show you all how I've spent my money because I have all I need, so there's nothing to purchase. I prefer to show you better than I can tell you. And that is why I need to release some of my other cars because I don't have the time to play with them anymore and I have a B12 that I need to finish that has a fully built engine that I would love to hear run. So without further a due, this is the direction I'm traveling:


$6 million dollar car. I will make it better/prettier, stronger and extremely faster (Guaranteed)

[TheMAN]

I know why that engine was knocking... it came with a color matching Craftsman cordless drill!

[float_6969]

nice! Glad to see that car get a good home.

[mdb4879]

I plan on using his car to finish a goal I had started years and years ago.

If you don't mind me asking, what is said goal exactly? I'm sure everyone would like to know

[boost_boy]

I plan on using his car to finish a goal I had started years and years ago.

If you don't mind me asking, what is said goal exactly? I'm sure everyone would like to know

10 second daily driven CA18DET powered 1990 Nissan Sentra with A/C, P/S, seats and a few other comfort features. it will tell me exactly where I'm headed with the B12 that I plan on building strictly for drag racing. So, 500-600whp should move this puppy down the track pretty fast, if I can get that power to the ground...lol. The engine you see is more than capable of supporting that much power and more. It is in the same family as Overboosted180's 600+whp CA18DET less the aggressive cam profile. Other than that, the engines are nearly the same and built to last. My car will probably stay covered-up most of the time, but that's after I achieve the goals I had planned. Each car has a function/goal and this car has motivated me to finish them all.

[campground man]

My goal is to purchase a 6.1 Hemi Charger - why? Because the Nissan couldn't hold my kids & wife comfortably.

This was my wifes high school car by the way, thus why it says JP R on the trunk it was a joke cuz it was her car. My nickname for her is JenPoo, and I call her JP a lot.

[boost_boy]

Well, let your wife know that she will be able to brag about her old car shortly. I'm going to impregnate it with something lethal

[nickhebert]

If you get get alot of pictures of the transmission wiring that would be great, I am having problems with mine and I would like to firgure out were everything goes.

[Liquid_Neon]

Dee, you make me want to be a better man so i can juice the ever living crap out of my pulsar I am looking into a career improvement soon, so with any luck a CA improvement will come along too!

I feel i was born a decade too late, the CA's are so old school these days. of course I love being the only CA (and pulsar) at any car meets i go too.

[blownhemi]

Can that AWD CA drivetrain hold 600whp? What kind of transfer case and diffs does it have? Was this a Japanese-only version?

[boost_boy]

Can that AWD CA drivetrain hold 600whp? What kind of transfer case and diffs does it have? Was this a Japanese-only version?

My car is a FWD set-up and it should be able to handle upwards of 600hp. My gearboxes are hybrid which consists of pulsar and maxima components, mostly being that of the RS5F50V family (V for Locking differential). Though an AWD is unique, it seems like a pain in the butt when failure takes place and so I have passed on those gearboxes numerous times. As for the AWD system, they were sold in the U.S. and assigned to Nissan Axxess which carried the KA24E. Though a rarety, they did exist in the U.S. but not for the pulsar's nor the CA series engines.

[mdb4879]

600WHP!!!! Can you say 5th gear burnouts? lol

I should figure that thing will fly no matter what traction issues you'll have. My N13 weighed 2300lbs, so a fair bit less than yours will weigh but I had an open diff and far from sticky tires and I could launch just as hard spinning through 2nd as a G35 coupe could. And if you have any plans for the chassis/suspension/tires as I do for mine eventually you'll be pulling hella hard.

So I'm curious, why did you turn to B12's over N13's? Was it weight or parts availability (although now parts availability is pretty negligible since they're both pretty rare now and most parts interchange, lol). I mean you've pretty much taken all the essentials from an N13 and placed them in a B12. Or is it just one of those things where you happened to have the car and fell in love?

[boost_boy]

600WHP!!!! Can you say 5th gear burnouts? lol

I should figure that thing will fly no matter what traction issues you'll have. My N13 weighed 2300lbs, so a fair bit less than yours will weigh but I had an open diff and far from sticky tires and I could launch just as hard spinning through 2nd as a G35 coupe could. And if you have any plans for the chassis/suspension/tires as I do for mine eventually you'll be pulling hella hard.

So I'm curious, why did you turn to B12's over N13's? Was it weight or parts availability (although now parts availability is pretty negligible since they're both pretty rare now and most parts interchange, lol). I mean you've pretty much taken all the essentials from an N13 and placed them in a B12. Or is it just one of those things where you happened to have the car and fell in love?

B12 sedans over the KN13s all day. My first car was a 1987 Nissan Sentra GXE that I purchased in North Carolina while stationed at Camp Lejeune as young U.S. Marine. Everybody had sentras and Maximas and later came the S13s, but when I saw my GXE, it was just prettier than all others and so I bought it. I vowed one day to make it faster, but was shipped off to Okinawa, Japan and that's when I became more determined to do it. I saw a 1986 nissan sunny with CA16DE inside and knew that I wanted that same DOHC motor in my sentra back in the states. I would be stationed at Marine Barracks Hawaii and while at the junkyard, I saw a 1988 nissan pulsar with that same engine in it that I had seen in Okinawa. In 1996, I made a deal with a junkyard that I would give him two Hyundai Excels in exchange for a 1987 nissan pulsar with a CA16DE inside. I would finish that swap in April of 1997 and the rest is history. So yeah, the B12 was actually lighter than the DOHC KN13s, but parts were equally abundant, so I chose the B12. Hope you enjoyed the story. It is the God honest truth.

[mdb4879]

Ah, your first love. Nothing like it is there? That's how I came to be a Pulsar nut. Funny enough my friends made fun of me for so long for liking Pulsars and wanting to hop one up. Then one of them had their car break down and I let him drive mine DET one for the mean time. Aside from getting to drive something boosted he thinks they're the coolest cars ever now, lol. Gotta love them T-Tops.

For the longest time the only cars I had ever owned were Pulsars, but in recent times I've owned several other cars which I've gained a fondness for. I've grown away from Pulsars a bit and have had a couple other projects rattling around in my head, but a 400whp street-driven race-ready N13 is still the ultimate goal.

[boost_boy]

A 400whp Pulsar with a CA18DET is not that hard to achieve and would make for a really nasty street car. Folks say they want big power, but 250whp in a B12/KN13 is ridiculous enough. A 300whp S13 is ridiculous, but very driveable and blast to drive. My old B12s were fast and they were in the 300-400hp range. I wouldn't be attacking that goal with a ROM tune unless someone specifically know what they're doing. Yeah, the B12s are my first love and I don't have any excuses as to why I can't make any CA18 powered vehicle of mine very fast; they all are .

[mdb4879]

Hell, I had 147whp in mine (granted I had the torque of a 190whp car, lol) and that would hold it's own against most of what I came across on the street and was pretty crazy.

600whp is calling for ludicrous speed. Dee, are you planning on going plaid?

[boost_boy]

Hell, I had 147whp in mine (granted I had the torque of a 190whp car, lol) and that would hold it's own against most of what I came across on the street and was pretty crazy.

I believe you. When properly tuned and some love and money thrown at them, the CA18DET in any platform is a treat.

600whp is calling for ludicrous speed. Dee, are you planning on going plaid?

Plaid and platform shoes, road dog It's time to revive the old school nissan segment and feature this 1990 sentra. I've revamped the turbocharger from the GT3076R to a GT3582R, added some K1 rods to the bottom end, fresh bearings, fresh rings, meticulously balanced rotating assembly and with a few new bells and whistles, this puppy should be something to be desired. I've almost forgot about my S13s, so I cranked them both up to make them feel loved The B12 is my favorite platform, but the S-chasis is what's hot.

[boost_boy]

Update: This project car is on the "Failed" list and I'll show you why. I asked campgroundman about the rust on this vehicle and he said he did some rust work around the trunk, so I took a chance, went on faith and purchased it. Low and behold that this car has "Chasis-Rot" that is not worth fixing or worth the headache, so it officially is headed to the scrapyard (Once I've stripped it good ). See for yourself:

Below the front strut tower inside the wheel well.

Leftside chasis-leg closes to the fuel tank. Nasty

Rightside chasis-leg closes to the fuel tank. Completely rotted through

This is tire basin in the trunk. You can see some work was done. Still nasty

Right rear chasis leg. Disgusting

Better pic of the leftside chasis leg. You can see the low control arm perch starting to seperate because of the integral metal decay.

Better pic of the rightside chasis leg. Any questions?

So all in all, I'm not happy! But once I start putting my white B12 back together, I'll feel better. I'll just get it painted a similar color. And for record, I don't feel I got ripped-off, but I do feel a better description of the car's issues should've been given to me. Oh well, this sets me back a bit, but I will get a chance to beautify some parts off my original B12 as they were getting surface rust on them from sitting around too long. Like a pretty girl that's well dressed, fine as hell, but has bad breath and a stinky coochie

[float_6969]

that's a whole lot of missing chassis there! Sorry to hear it didn't work out, but I'm sure you will keep at it.

[boost_boy]

Thanks Ryan! I was going to try and remove some of the chasis from my old car to add to this one, but my old car is solid underneath and the amount of labor involved is just not worth the gains. It would be simpler to just get my car painted and add the rare kit to my old chasis. Also gives me a chance to enhance the appearance of a few things. Like I said, I didn't get ripped off .

[boost_boy]

Well, I picked-up my turbocharger and if any of you know turbos, you'll notice the upgrades. This is a precision GT35R that I had on my B13 sentra with CA18DET in it. My previous turbo on my car was a Garrett GT3076R that was sold to a customer in Jamaica who is also the previous owner of the hatch I have in back yard. The intake manifold got polished, but it doesn't look as good as I've seen them done in the past. Oh well, the workers are not as caring as they used to be. I've started re-assembling my car and making things look nicer as I go along the way. Anyways, enjoy the pics as there are more to come.

[float_6969]

That's some serious turbo there Dee! That manifold looks good to me too. I can't wait for the end result.

[boost_boy]

That's some serious turbo there Dee! That manifold looks good to me too. I can't wait for the end result.

It's bigger and badder than the previous bad-@ss GT3076R that I never really used, but I have used this turbo In my old CA18DET powered B13 and I was so impressed, that I rolled it back out of the box, paid for a serious makeover and am now ready to complete the sentra family projects that I have. You should see the one that's going in the other sentra, though the car is strictly for drag racing.

[float_6969]

Nice! I take it your life has slowed down enough that you have time for the toys again? You were MIA there for a while.

[boost_boy]

Nice! I take it your life has slowed down enough that you have time for the toys again? You were MIA there for a while.

I've been more of the builder and tuner for others as opposed to my own stuff. I'm getting older and so are my kids and due to the fact that they are very athletic, they keep me busy. I put in work with the cars when I can and really enjoy when I get a chance. I think you know what I do for a living, so you know that's enough to consume most of my time alone. But this latest toy has made me work excessively hard, so I want this re-sentra to be a treat for the CA community as well as performance enthusiasts that care.

[float_6969]

I can understand life taking precedent over cars, just glad to see you around again!

[boost_boy]

I can understand life taking precedent over cars, just glad to see you around again!

Good to be around, man. My son encouraged me to finish my unfinished projects and he agreed to help me, so the sentras are the first two and then the 240 will get painted and get its upgrades as well even that car is fast and powerful enough already.

[boost_boy]

Update:

And the stripping began. This was not fun and actually it was about to chase me into retirement.
Attempting to repair rust on my original sentra which was way more than I bargained for.
Rotten donor sentra undergoing organ removal .
Prepping my B12 for rust repair.
A frontal view of my B12 and old knocking CA18DET out of donor B12.
Engine bay of my B12.
Swapping of doors off my other B12 not seen much by anyone viewing.
More door swapping.
More rust repair on my B12.
Damage repaired on driver's side.
Damage repaired on passenger's side. New donor doors installed from donor B12.
Out with the old (new) GT3076R and in with the GT3582X.
Front bumper properly installed.
New dash installed.
Passenger fender now installed.
Driver's fender now installed.
Instrument cluster and gauge pod.
Interior view.
Another interior view.
Frontal view.
Refreshed CA18.
Another CA18 view.
Supension, brakes and wastegate dump tube view.
Engine bay view.
Close to where it stands now.

This car needed so much repair, that I nearly gave up. And to think this sentra chasis was the better of the two. More to come..........

[float_6969]

It's looking good Dee! Why the heck didn't we get that car in the US! That's a pretty good looking front end IMHO!

[boost_boy]

Exactly! That's why I don't feel I got ripped-off because of the donor car being so unserviceable due to rust and decay. I'm glad you like it, man. This car is draining me as it had so many defects that I had to sort out. So bad that it made me really consider selling everything. The amount of welding, going to the junkyard to cut parts off a B13 to make fit on the my B12 was exhausting. But alas, the trunk is all welded up, the rust in the cabin area is all welded up, treated with a rust fighting compound, sealed with rust fighting pain and the finished with the spray-on truck bed liner stuff. Now I'm waiting on some dynamat to finish this thing off, so that I can put the interior stuff back in and fire it up.

The goal is pretty simple, 600+whp with air conditioning and power steering. Nothing more, nothing less. I'll post some more pictures up today or whenever as the rest of the old go-fast, old school lovers down here loves this car and also anticipate it's re-introduction to the roads and perhaps a track or two. I spared no expense in building the motor, I did not miss a crack with detailing underneath the car, I gave this car huge amounts of my precious time and I don't plan being bashful about spending proper coin on the paint job as well. It's one of my highlights as a builder/tuner and besides, it's time to finish some of these projects I've started.