Swap Finally Complete - PICS

Post by **Big Perm** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Sorry for the delay in posting pics. Tried to change my e-mail address with NICO and my account got disabled. WE finally got things back to normal:ylsuper

I finished the swap almost a month ago and have been fixing some of the minor annoyances with my 11 year old car.

Thanks to Steve and Benoit for all the help with the swap!

Bought the motor and most of the parts from JGY Customs. They were great to deal with and had great prices too. I highly reccomend them!

Any one want to donate $$ for the Silvia Conversion and paint job?

Still have some things to finish in the interior

Wheels have been on order since Feb. - Should be here end of next month - 17x8.5 F and 17x9.5 R

Post by **Phax** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Very nice! Good job on the coupe! :ylsuper

Post by **ride4lame** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

looks nice

Post by **adriatic** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

car looks perfect, what kind of muffler is that? looks pretty low key

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

looks great aaron. gimme a call sometime so i can come check it out

Post by **Big Perm** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Thanks for the compliments guys! The muffler is the apexi N1 Dual

Bart,

I'll give you a shout and maybe we can get together in a couple of weekends. I'm house hunting now so its a little crazy. We will get together and take some pics of the 2 cars for the forum.

This is my favorite shot of the engine!

:Werd

Post by **highmilehatch** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Looks like an awesome install. Clean and to the point. I like.

Post by **bootman** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Man that is nice I think that I will go look for another shell

Post by **Ender_Zero** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

hooray for coupes!

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

i'm jealous that it looks so clean. Makes me wanna yank my motor and clean the engine bay again.

btw, you will not be the first person in Roanoke to have a silvia nose :pface and it's a shame it won't be me either

Post by **jdmfreak** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Damn that coupe is clean! Very nice indeed.

Post by **wangless** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

nice... what kind of pedals btw ? i dont usually see them with a dead pedal. your paint's so shiny... i think i'll go and wash/wax my car... haha

Post by **Nismo_Freak** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Bueno

Post by **Big Perm** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Yeah I know I wont be the first with the Silvia Front End - Dammit Jay! - Last time I saw his it was sitting in front of his house - didn't look like it was any where close to operational - but I could be wrong.

I bought the pedals off a broup buy - they are the generic ones that have Silvia machined in them - I'll try and get a better pic of them later this week. I like them better that the old ones I had in my probe - they affixed with these ghetto clamps and always came loose. The ones in the coupe required me to drill through the old pedals and secure them that way. They feel great on the feet.

Paint is not that good looking in person - too many dings and scratches.

BArt - I also saw a black coupe running around with a Silvia conversion - have not seen it in a while - Someone told me they live near the lake? Dunno?

Post by **Dori Dori** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Which hotpipe is that?

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Big Perm wrote:Yeah I know I wont be the first with the Silvia Front End - Dammit Jay! - Last time I saw his it was sitting in front of his house - didn't look like it was any where close to operational - but I could be wrong.

BArt - I also saw a black coupe running around with a Silvia conversion - have not seen it in a while - Someone told me they live near the lake? Dunno?

It's still in the same place you saw it last. He's been busy getting the black S14 running so he can sell it. He's just got too many projects dangling about right now and hasn't had the time to finish up the red 'vert.

I've heard of a few people with silvia conversions living in the area, but have never seen them. I saw one guy that had done an S15 conversion to his S13 back in february when i was at the lynchburg auto-x.

Once I have income again, then I'll have my Silvia front end. But finding a good job is proving difficult

Post by **caliracer240** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

has to be enjuku hot pipe or something... looks exactly like mine.

Post by **Big Perm** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

yes it is the enjuku pipe - ARRGH - i had issues with it but no big deal. Sounds like Jay has a lot going on, I hope to get the conversoin done over the winter and get it painted this spring - we'll see how that progresses with the house purchase and all. I wish it would stop raining so i could drive the car!

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

the rain is sucking hard core. at least it stayed dry long enough last sunday for me to get my 4 runs in at the autocross.

hopefully, if i can land a job this summer, i can get the body panels and have it prepped to be painted by late summer. But we'll see

Post by **Big Perm** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

I never catch the autocross events - always find out a week late - oh well, I guess I'll have to wait for the next one -

Maybe I will have to make the autocross an inpromptu drift event another time!

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

June 12th is an autocross class day. They teahc the finer points of running in autocross. And on June 13th, is the actual event. It's in Princeton, WV

Post by **Dori Dori** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Big Perm wrote:yes it is the enjuku pipe - ARRGH - i had issues with it but no big deal. Sounds like Jay has a lot going on, I hope to get the conversoin done over the winter and get it painted this spring - we'll see how that progresses with the house purchase and all. I wish it would stop raining so i could drive the car!

What kind of issues? It LOOKS a lot nicer than the HT hotpipe.

Website · Post by **creophus** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Nice and clean. Congratulations!

Post by **f150intally** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

YOUR CAR IS OFF THE HOOK DOG!

Dude that car is crazy sleeper. I love the SLEEPER LOOK you have obtained. Reminds me of my car. I kept the stock wheels and mounted a set of drag radials on a second set of stock rims.

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

true sleepers don't use low mounted front mount intercoolers :pface

Post by **Big Perm** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Only Volvo intercoolers right?:D

That little sleeper look allowed me to surprise the hell out of a red EVO in town - it was the first person I ran with since I finished the swap - by the time he realized that it was more than a regular 240 I was a good car a head of him, I know it really does not count but hey - it was the first one for me:naughty

hot pipe is from Enjuku - the issues is that their website shows the pipe with the nipple for the vacuum hose - the new ones don't have them - and it is a bit too short imo - but hey it works and is shiny:Werd

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

just make sure it doesn't jump up and hit you in the face

Post by **Big Perm** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

lol, oops - that what happens when the throttle body was bent open in shipping and I did not realize it - and I didn't tighten the hot pipe it all the way - :doh

Talk about a surprise!

hey at least I was the one starting the car - not the one with thier head a foot away!

There are some explanations for that :beer :bonghit

Post by **jdmfreak** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

Explain!

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am

his hotpipe wasn't tightened down all the way and it popped off when they started the motor up. His friend was standing in front of the engine and jumped when the hotpipe started swinging towards him.

Swap Finally Complete - PICS

Swap Finally Complete - PICS

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