unvailing of my s13 first time in close to a year check it out yo watch out 56K

[romerider153]

so this is my 92 hatch that turned out to be a rusty pos when i bought it stock like a year and a half ago but i think iv gotton rid of most the cancer and now its just a matter of putting it all back together let me know what you guys think



car sits about 1.5" lower in the back now so no need to comment on that



before i ripped it all back apart when it ran it made 377 356 stock everything except 850cc injectors the turbo setup and a d jetro pfc not to bad



























ITBs baby

more pics to come just got to work on it more
Modified by romerider153 at 9:27 PM 10/14/2008

[romerider153]

still need type x tails and oem skirts so let me know if you got a set to trade or sell i got a ton of parts and what not

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Loose the hood spacers asap. Other than that, looks like a pretty beastly sil40. Maybe some wetsanding to make the paintjob a little better?

Btw, what lip you got on there?

[romerider153]

its just a stock pig nose lip not felling the hood spacers huh and i got to repaint the whole car just waiting till all the fab work is done

[miami-200sx]

damn nice work on the engine bay tube frame. i like that idea.your car looks so so from the outside but inside is lookin good!2 bad you had to waste so much time fixing the rust. if now you woulda prob been done by know.

keep us updated!

[romerider153]

yea the outside is hurting right now but it does look a million times better with the back down over an inch and it still needs like oem side skirts and the rear diffuser plus paint so itll look good when its done

[Gabedm1]

meh, cool i guess

[liquid_cool]

wow man...its allmost not a 240 anymore...you allmost have a tubchasis race car..thats so cool...nice work..looks clean..how did ya alighn the upper arms?....and i take it your going to weld a plate over the fuel cell?.

[Axel Grungy]

wow, lots of work put in there, props

[romerider153]

the upper arms as in the strut tower mounting points if that wat your talking about i got a couple pictures on how i did that it wasn't that har the hardest part was getting the right angle front to back and side to side to match the original strut tower

[Kalypso]

dont overdoe the red and black paint scheme. its corny. get some skirts, and wheels with proper offsets.



then lower the back 1.5 inches. gloss black would be better. the front height is perfect.

great work so far!

[romerider153]

ill have to post a pic of how it sits now the back is about a 1.5" lower already that top pic is before it took it all back apart we had to raise the back to get it on the dyno so that was right after i tuned it but once that was done we crushed it again and yea im selling those wheels i either want volk te37 bbs lm or those one lug wheels only problem with those are they only come in 19" and 20"

[ANVIL]

nice! but damn, cant u fab up a hood prop? lol btw, i like the black/red theme u got.

[romerider153]

haha yea im goin to put hood dampers on there just spent my money on some more important things first so a mahogany stained stick will have to do for now

[MastaYu]

wow! Very nice. I like he new frame rails!

[romerider153]

tthanks yea they turned out to be a b**ch to make the rear kick ups

[KLYPH]

Nice! let us know when you find out its weight.

[MagikDragon]

i noticed you drilled holes but no dimple dies, why not? That doesn't make your plate stronger by just drilling holes.

[romerider153]

those holes are for weight and just because i like the look the holes are only in places were theres really not much weight supported not to mention a dimple die that does 3/16 plate is really expensive i have A piller and B piller supports that arn't welded in yet that are out of 18 gauge and those are dimple died ill post pics of that once there in i just got to take my windsheild out first

[romerider153]

anyone who can photoshop want to try to fit limited edition te37s on the car i think it will look pimp but would like to see

[MagikDragon]

Well then my next question is why did you go so thick on that metal, its a tarmac car, not a offroad/rally car. 1/8 is way too thick for those places, some nice 14 gage steel dimple died would suffice. Considering you replaced factory thin crap with metal thick enough to be on a hummer, I think it was a little over engineering. But thats awesome anyway.

[romerider153]

i hear you but being my first one i didnt want my strut being punch up through but now that i think about it im pretty sure i ended up using 1/8 either way over kill but i was a little nervous goin with something that thin on my first strut tower build live and learn

[Kalypso]

once that was done we crushed it again and yea im selling those wheels i either want volk te37 bbs lm or those one lug wheels only problem with those are they only come in 19" and 20"

oh ok, that makes sense.

its the first sil80 ive seen that I liked, and its because the front is slammed properly. and the ride height is aggressive.

TE's would look dope. im not familiar with the BBS wheels, but as long as the offset is low, and there's a lip, your in.

but only the ones with a sunken face, like 17 x 9 or if you can pull it off! 17 x 10.



dont spend too much money, tho. I would watch RBmotoring until you see something that catches your eye

[romerider153]

yea i love the sunken face i think i could pull of the 17x10 in the rear and like an 8 or 8.5 something like that in the front plus that would get me about .5" lower or so depending on the tires i go with so i think thats the game plan and yea i hear you about the red its actually goin to be more of a black and gold now cause the paint has a little gold pearl in it and i think some bronze wheels would lick bad a$$ and im goin to black heat wrap the IC piping so it should look good

[romerider153]

my pride and joy

look at that A$$ end

these are before we raised it up the side pic might be kind of hard to see im goin to push the car out the garage to end this lower the back discrepence

[romerider153]

i hope this clarifies the lower the back the pic is hard to see ill have updated pics with the engine bay all done and the front end back on with some better side pictures

[SR20DET.240]

That is a nice looking ride, I love all of the custom fabrication work that you have done. Are you still going to keep it streetable ? Cant wait to see pics of the finished product.

[nostalGic_RPS13]

Wow, you must've come along way on this project! It's amazing to see how your 240 vision takes shape... Awesome fabrication work by the way! Ditto, are you keeping your project streetable or full out drag? Either way, the cars a killer in the making, can't wait to see what's in store as well as the progressive pics!

[jab17]

awesome job so far. and i love the under side of the hood, very origonal.

[romerider153]

thanks i know i guy to do my inspection so itll be techniquly street legal i mean its got working headlights tails and blinkers and what not but no windsheild wipers at the moment im goin to try to fab in mounts for a jag single wiper the cage coming throught the firewall kinda killed the stock wipers so. Ill drive it on the street itll be at all the meets and everything.