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starion1991
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Joined: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:07 pm
Car: 1994 nissan 240sx vert

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Alright ladys and gents.....Ive been MIA from the site for quite some time, But in that time ive been working on this beautyful beast! Here are some details on the bucket of bolts re born as a beast.

Story on the car- Basicly picked up the 94 vert after I decided that I needed a daily driver becaus starions dont make good dailys, Left it bone stock for the longest time, then got free lowering springs and apexi catback from my buddy for helping him paint his car, threw em on and called it a day. Untill the auto transmission blew, Swaped it over to 5 speed, and slowly started turning it into my daily drifter. Blew the KA from the years of abuse (i know I know) and got a sr and misc goodies to drop in......and its in!...


Details on the SR setup
S14 sr20det VVT
turbonetics T3T4 60 trim with unknown brand topmount manafold
godspeed FMIC with custom hardpipes and greddy type s bov
lightened flywheel with ACT 6 puck clutch, 1 pc alum. driveshaft
jim wolf ROM tuned ecu....and a whole bunch of other crap I just cant think of at the moment

here are some pictures from begining to almost end (its not quite finished yet....you'll see...)


Here is a picture of what it looked like before I tore her down for the build up (had coupe doors and silvia fenders on there)

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vert 1 by turbostarion86, on Flickr


well some of the teardown pics are missing, but theres nothing specal in seeing those, Nothing intresting at all...just a teardown

So ill start off with the tubs. Here I had cutout the stock tubs and I got a trailer fender off of ebay, cut it in half, Trimmed it to wrap around the shock tower and welded it in. Here are a few pics of that lil project

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s13 by turbostarion86, on Flickr


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s13 2 by turbostarion86, on Flickr


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vert tubbs cut out by turbostarion86, on Flickr

Dont have pix of the fab of the tubs but it was pretty simple, trim, see if it fits, trim again, blah blah blaaaa.....


Then I prepped the tubs for body work, primed, then painted em blue, with relly heavy flakeeee! shiney! :naughty:
It dident turn out as good as I hoped, I painted the bay outside then it started to rain so some paint got messed up :mad: :cry:
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vert tubbed paint by turbostarion86, on Flickr


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vert tubbed paint1 by turbostarion86, on Flickr



In the meantime I converted the car to 5 lug using s14 OEM parts, also installed an s14 subframe in the rear and s14 lcas up front, Powered by max coilovers, inner and outer tie rods and some other suspension stuff, no pics of that but pretty basic stuff, also threw on 300zx brakes up front, I still need to find some zx calipers for the rear


Then I decided to drop the motor in to it

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sr test fit by turbostarion86, on Flickr

after some clean up

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sr in vert by turbostarion86, on Flickr

while that was brewing i went ahead and got some exterior goodies....pics speak for themselves

Thank You Chaser areo! got a good deal on this BN blister knockoff kit
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vert bn blister kit by turbostarion86, on Flickr

and got to pick these badboys up while i was working in california

the sizing on the wheels, Fronts are 18x10 -17 and rears are 18x12 -17

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vert rims by turbostarion86, on Flickr



The wheels and fron bn fenders being test fitted

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vert bn side pixx by turbostarion86, on Flickr


booty shot

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vert a** stance by turbostarion86, on Flickr

I decided not to put the BN kit on untill I drive the car and get familiar with how it drifts because I dont want to break the body kit, So I threw on the b-magic 30 mm silvia fenders that I had laying around and gonna rock those for now, here is a pic


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vert current stance by turbostarion86, on Flickr

Thats about it for now. The vert is pretty much done with the hard work, now its just the clean up and stuff like that, I got to test driver her yesterday and she flys! Dosent run verry good though, its having an odd idleing issue, the idle jumps around and fluctuates alot, sometimes the idle drops down so much that the car will die. Also she dosent like to start up without pushing on the throttle a little, I dont know why. My best guess is IACV and vac lines, going to look into the issue more tomarow after work. Kinda tired so ill get off here for the night, Hope you guys like it, and sorry for the crappy build thread, I am tired as all hell! Keep the top dropped yall!!!



How the vert looks right now


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s13 4 by turbostarion86, on Flickr


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1SickSilvia
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Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:27 pm
Car: 1992 Nissan 240sx vert
Location: Calgary

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:drool: :boink: thats all I got to say . Ohh and might I ad :badger on the wheels.

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DeXteR
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uhm... wow.

Keep going!

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Jacqueline
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More pics???? :)


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