Tylers drift car build thread(56K)

[creepinonthecomeup]

Whats up, I saw your post and recognized the shop and went down and talked to your, dad. Cool guy!!!,, looks like he's going to help me out with my s13,, right on. Ive been looking for a garage with someone that is intrested in 240s for a long time. Im physked !!! Ill be seeing you in the future ,,, Ket

[Tyler]

awesome! yeah me and my dad are into this pretty deep right now, we own 4 240s! when did you go see him?

[Tyler]

hey ket, i talked to my dad and im stoked to meet up! i need to snag a ride in that sr powered hatch too, i have never been in one also, hit me up at [email protected], cause dad said you wanted some parts...

[creepinonthecomeup]

Ill definately take you for a ride,, if your lucky and everything is running good ill even let you take it for a spin. Im sure ill be hitting the track at the same time as you ,,hopefully. so that would be cool to have a little PA crew at the track! I ordered my energy suspension bushings yesterday so they should be here next week or late this week and ill stop by when they get here. As for parts im not in need of too much right this moment , except some decent rear rotors,, but those bushings pretty much drained me for a bit.

oh and my email is [email protected] hit me up sometime.

[Tyler]

oh dude PA crew for sure! we will have you, jeremy who was the kid with the red 240 that works at the shop, me and my car we are buliding, and maybe my dad will take my black one for a spin or something, i might wanna leave that one at home safe from walls tho! i look forward to actually meeting you!

[Tyler]

UPDATE:so today me and my dad made the drive over to tacoma to talk to doug at UPgarage/fairlady motors. let me just say that those guys are awesome. we pulled up and saw a rb25'd s13 hatch. a rb26'd s13 hatch, a rb20'd hatch. and a sr'd coupe! there was also a pulsar gtir on the dyno and a clean s14 kouki in the other bay. there was also 2 r32's. a gts-t and a gtr

okay, so the real reason we went was to do some serious shopping! heres what we got. we bought a set of KTS coil overs for 900 bucks, they were used on one of the employees cars, and they were very well taken care of! we also bought a set of skyline gts-t wheels, and we put in our order for the rollcage, a six point with harness bar. needless to say im stoked!

the coils:

[Tyler]

oh my its been a long time! and im sure those who cared thought we gave up the project but thats not the case! we have been doing lots of work so i finally got some pics! the cage is got fitted and painted, and the engine bay and jambs got painted as well. also the whole car has been stitch welded and we picked up an s14 blacktop as a powerplant that will be going in soon! also, we custom built a diamond plate floor covering for the trunk to cover up the spare tire well.









let me know what you think!

[koukicody]

sweet. i love grassroot builds like this! keep up the good work man!

[Tyler]

oh we will keep it up! its just kinda a slow process but it will be worth it in the end! this is also what im doing my senior project on, so thats just more motivation to finish

[petcopark95]

Looking good. I can smell the rubber already.

[CoreyS13]

VERY NICE! I envy the fact your able to pick up all these 240's for super cheap. Around here I'd be lucky to see even 1 240 out on the road within a month.

You are only doing a 5 lug on the rear?

[Tyler]

no were doing the front 5 lug too. we just havent bought conversion hubs yet. plans are to run mb weapons 17x9 +17

[Tyler]

Like OMG! Back from the dead right?!

Okay seriously though, teddy’s thread lit a fire under my a** too so here’s the continuation, because I’m not one of those dudes that just gives up on a project, I just forget to write about it

So about the time I stopped writing, we actually sorta put the build on the back burner, that’s probably why I stopped writing now that I think about it! This happened for a number of reasons, the main one was that I was unhappy with the stock output of my street cars ka24de, so I bought a blown up ca18det and we rebuilt it and were going to put it in my street hatch, but didn’t because I finally decided I wanted to finish my racecar and not my street car. If anyone ever sees me in real life, slap me for buying that ca, it was a turd when we got it, but we did a quick rebuild and sold it to some happy kid just like me for 1800, not a bad deal for him, great deal for me.

Alrighty, after I got my priorities straight, we started ANOTHER engine build. Remember that I mentioned we were going to use an s14 blacktop? Well I have s***ty luck with motors cause we bought the blacktop, luckily from a friend and compression tested it and it had like 60psi in the back two cylinders. Good thing my friend is a stand up guy and he refunded us 100% that same day. That very night me and dad decided to do something a little more original that could guarantee us the results we wanted with no surprises, the next day I called AMS, then right after that I called JGS. I can honestly say that’s the fastest I have ever spent 3 grand.

A few days later I received this in the mail, along with a plethora of other parts I don’t have individual pictures of.

While we waited on our motor to return from the machine shop, me and dad finished the interior.

So now things are really coming along, the motors back from the machine shop and ready for final assembly. In case you haven’t caught on yet, we decided to do a fully built ka24det, that way if we build it we can ensure no surprises.

At this point, the engine was all together, in the car, and actually running! We kept the stock injectors and maf on it at first, so we could start it and just let it idle to make sure everything was peachy for the tuner. After we were sure the motor was tight, guess what? Load it on a trailer and drag it back over to the boys at UP for a Nistune setup and some dyno time. A week later we got the car back, breathing beautiful turbo ka fire. Now the motor was done, and we could concentrate on other aspects of the build.

Oh, I also picked these bad boys up from some kid, it’s a love it or hate it sort of modification, people come up to me all the time and tell me they hate my exhaust, and I politely tell them they don’t have to look at it.

That’s all I’m going to type right now, but believe me this story gets better and better as it goes on. –Tyler

[mRodiek]

WOW, great build! Keep up the hard work.

[Tyler]

thanks alot! i have lots more to tell but i wanna gauge interest first, id rather not play to an empty room

[hpballer76]

very nice. keep coming with the updates!

[white_ashes]

in for updates maybe it will put a fire upon my arse to go out n build my engine........ughhh but good luck with the build and hope everything turns out great!

[Lonismos14]

DAMN THAT BUILD IS SWEET I HOPE YOU AND YOUR DAD HAS ABOUT THREE MORE GRAND SAVED UP, CAUSE YOUR GOING TO GET ALOT OF SPEEDING TICKETS. LOL.. JK

[Tyler]

haha no need to yell....

but anyways i save that s*** for the track, im a responsible street driver. i dont drive this on the street that much anyways

[mzeo]

Great build thread! Subscribed!

Those tail pipes are dope.

[Tyler]

ill start writing the next part tonight maybe, so much happened with this build its hard to remember and put it into words

[Future_gohan]

I hate your exhaust...because i want it. haha great build. :]

[Tyler]

after the car was all tuned up, me and dad focused our attention on other things. Now that the car was this close we were at the shop almost every day because to this point we had been working on the car for over a year.

Our next area of attention was suspension, brakes, wheels tires, ect. So we finally put the coilovers on the car, along with every adjustable suspension piece spc performance makes for a 240sx. We lowered it on stock 4 lug stuff first, cause we were impatient and my front five lug and wheels were still coming from enjuku.

After we got the coils and stuff on, I got some more stuff in the mail! Mb weapons 17x9 +17 Rear and 17x8+27 front. 245/45 rear with 235/45 fronts.

Now everything was pretty much done on the car, it ran and drove and had the correct stance I was looking for, or at least close to it. We decided that we were getting short on funds so a body kit was going to have to wait. So now the only thing left was another thing we couldn’t do ourselves, paint!Luckily, we have a good friend named Danny, now Danny he paints cars for a living, and really is into imports, he told us at the start of this project if we buy the paint he will spray it for us, for free! So we loaded up the car, and took it out to dannys shop where it stayed for about a week I think.

Now the car was “finished” I put it like that because no car is ever really finished, especially this one, stay tuned to find out more. But for now, it was done, I got to drive it around, everybody loved it and I was happy. I had my dream car at age 18.

Remember how in the very beginning of this thread, I said I was doing my senior project on this build? Well I stuck to that plan and scored a 98 out of 100 on my project, and it was by far the sickest project cause everyone else made a powerpoint, I built a whole car. Haha but most people didn’t know what they were looking at, they just knew it was shiny and that was good enough for them.

Turns out the principle of my highschool thought it was pretty sick tho!

Anyways, that’s all for now! Stay tuned for more updates and let me know what you think of the build and I know I haven’t really put a mod list out there, but if you have questions about parts let me know! -Tyler

[nos487]

One word Awesome!

[safin]

time to whack off

[JustDriftMore]

sick build dude your so lucky you have those connections you gave me a new sense of hope =]

[Tyler]

i have drifted this car and many other 240's im just not to that part in the story yet

[silviaslider37]

you need to hug your dad every day for this beautiful ride! i would honestly kill for my coupe to have the love yours has.

[Tyler]

i know i tell him everyday! hes wayyyy into drifting with me now, we just picked him up a s14 thats getting the same treatment.

[ViolentRunning13]

Sweet exhaust.

You spelled principal wrong.