WC's never ending s13 project

[White Comet]

lol yeah sometimes that's just whats best. my old s13 would have been saved, but it was not worth the time and woudl have not yielded the same results

[hbpignosePA]

the black hatch was definately rough.... good thing SE PA can benefit from the parts thou

i think parts of that car are going to grace everyone's 240 in the area. ill hit you up next week when you will be around so i can check out the progress/give you a hand

[White Comet]

awesome man sounds good. i want to get mine done so i can give a hand to some of the other 240 owners in the area. unfortunately the motor didn't go in last night since we ran into a few snags, but i'll explain everything in an update in a bit

[White Comet]

small little update with some bad news (nothing serious though). yesterday when my brother and i went up to work on the car we found a nice puddle of oil under teh transmission . so to find the culprit, we had to pull the transmission, remove the clutch and remove the flywheel. after all that the only problem was one of the lower studs wasnt fully in. those things are such a biotch so i pulled the trouble maker and found a bolt that fit instead of messing with it. after making sure it was good to go i put everything back together and i was basically where i was on saturday, with the transmission installed and ready to be dropped into he car.

after that i messed with installing the aluminum steering bushing. i had no idea how involved it was. the column had to come out,here you can see the old one next to the new one

i got everything ready to be reinstalled but decided to hold off on putting the steering column back in, until i install the clutch pedal and other 5 spd parts. theres so much more room without the column in. so i just need to pull the 5 spd parts of the black car.

here are the rest of the steering bushing pics

while i was messing with the steering bushing, my brother installed the new exhaust studs. there were only 6 studs at advanced auto so i'll pick up the other 2 from the one down the road.

earlier in the day, keegan and my brother bolted down the batter, ran the ground wire and installed the rest of the rear interior. all i need now is a 0 ga ring terminal for teh positive side, but its looking pretty good

thats all for now. tomorrow before work i'll pull some of the 5 speed stuff and replace the throttle cable.

[White Comet]

i have a nice little update, but it'll have to wait til tomorrow since it's 2:30am

[idahotuner]

dude if you compined your interior work with my motor i am builing it would bea fast comfy ride

[White Comet]

i know man, our cars should have babies

[Logan76]

It looks like you forgot to scrape some old gasket off your head there, and just painted over it WC, did I catch you halfassing? ;P

[White Comet]

lol i just figured i'd crape i off when i'm ready to put the turbo on.

[Logan76]

HAH! I did catch you

[White Comet]

technically you caught my brother. he's the one that painted the engine

[spooled240]

least you found that transmission leak BEFORE you installed the whole drivetrain in the car

It looks like you forgot to scrape some old gasket off your head there, and just painted over it WC, did I catch you halfassing? ;P

[White Comet]

i know, i'll be pissed if it leaks from anywhere after i put it in

[le_ryan]

Emailed you White commet.But ill post it here too.What was the process for installation of your rear subframe pineapple bushings ?is it the same as with solid aluminum bushings, where you have to burn out the old rubber, and knock out the actuall sleave that surounds it ?or do you leave the old sleaves ?

[White Comet]

yes its the same for doing alum bushings. after everything is out, just lubricate and slide them in. then once the subframe is bolted up it'll compress the bushings.

[Logan76]

just lubricate and slide them in.

*snickers*

[brn-n-jpn]

looking good keep the updates comin

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Do you happen to have a link for said battery tie-down WC? I'm searching right now.

EDIT: I found one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...wItem
Modified by AZ89two4Tsx at 5:45 PM 2/26/2009

[White Comet]

*snickers*

i thought the same thing as i was typing it

looking good keep the updates comin

thanks man, updates coming tonight, i'm heading over to work on it now

Do you happen to have a link for said battery tie-down WC? I'm searching right now.

EDIT: I found one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...wItem

Modified by AZ89two4Tsx at 5:45 PM 2/26/2009

the one i have is kai project or project kai. i got it from askme4parts on ebay. the one you linked is similar but looks a little flimsier. also, the bolt holes look kinda small. with mine, i threw some massive carriage bolts right through the frame

[White Comet]

pics will have to wait until tomorrow. i just got back recently and i might have to work tomorrow, so i'm off to bed. heres a little teaser though

[hbpignosePA]

you gotta share with the rest of the niconauts that sexy engine bay shot..

looks sweet man cant wait to see it in person.

if this epic snow storm comes i might not make it tommorow, you got any time later in the week if it is ugly?

[TekuDrifter18]

this builds still going strong i see. its good to see how much work is going into this car man.

[White Comet]

this builds still going strong i see. its good to see how much work is going into this car man.

thanks man, yeah its nice though, i finally feel like i'm making good progress.

you gotta share with the rest of the niconauts that sexy engine bay shot..

looks sweet man cant wait to see it in person.

if this epic snow storm comes i might not make it tommorow, you got any time later in the week if it is ugly?

yeah i was thinking the same thing. if the snow gets too insane its cool. i'm not sure when im free the rest of the week, i'd have to get back to you on that.

yeah i'm gonna share that pic with nico right now, but no more teaser pics, i'm doing a real update now

[White Comet]

man there's been a lot going on since the last update, let's see the last thing i updated on was the steering bushing install. before putting everything in i thought it would be easiest to convert the car to manual with the steering column out of the way. i was just going to cut the brake pedal, but with the column gone i swapped in the manual brake pedal as well as the clutch pedal and gas pedal. there was no real reason to swap in the gas pedal other then the fact that i'm using the throttle cable from the other car and i just undid and replaced the whole pedal since i was worried i might snap the plastic ring that holds the cable to the pedal. with the column out everything was insanely easy. the whole 5 speed swap is stupid easy once you have all the parts. nissan outlines exactly where you have to cut for the clutch pedal and master cylinder. heres the clutch pedal just sitting in there waiting for the clutch master cylinderi pulled the old cmc just to test fit the holes and sure enough it fit like a glove.heres the old oneand heres how the holes should look from the bayi had to wait til the next day for the new master cylinder to come in and i also ordered a new slave cylinder at the same time. heres the new master cylinderthe slave cylinder i ordered was for a z31 and its looking good after some paintand here it is on the trans

the brake pedal bolted up

the gas pedal with new throttle cable

and heres everything installed without the column back in

and the master cylinder installedhere it is hooked up to the pedal

the new throttle cable (looking much better then the old one)

old throttle cable

next i just popped in the clutch line

in that pic, the clutch master cylinder is covered since i sanded and repainted the brake master cylinder

with everything run i was ready to put the column and steering bushing back in. it ended up taking insanely long, since i bolted the column in first after having the column entirely installed i really didn't want to take it back out to put the steering rod in first, so i tried to find other ways, the long and the short is that i wasted a lot of time and finally ended up dropping the steering rack to get everything together. heres a few pics from that hole progress

heres the column back in from the inside

before the engine went in i also touched up the paint and swapped the ps lines to the dohc ones

everything was ready for the engine to go in, but i got a little discouraged when i had to pull the trans again. somehow the slider got a little jammed and wouldn't allow the shifter to move at all. i had to unbolt the trans and remove the bell housing, but everything is fine now. heres some shots

earlier in the week my brother got a local alternator and battery shop to crimp on a 0 gauge ring terminal

heres just some random shots i havethe last pic kinda made me laugh, i cut my hand on something at like 2 am and i knew if i went down to the house for a band aid it'd wake my parents, so this was the quick fix.

i didn't have a camera for the last part of the update and my hands were too full anyways, but this quick cell pic should give you an idea the best part is thats with all the wiring already ran.

the engine went in nicely and i'll have more on that tomorrow, but heres a sneak peak at a side project that i'm working on

hope you enjoyed the update

[Logan76]

Wirings clean, the 5 speed swap on my coupe was a pain because im a big guy and i had the steering column in, so the clutch pedal + brake pedal = pain in a**.

[White Comet]

thanks man, yeah the brake pedal would be a biotch. if i was gonna leave my column in i would have just cut the auto brake pedal

[Logan76]

It was a b****, and im 290lbs lol.

[Didderson]

Cool update man. I dont get the teaser pics ? They look the same.

I got my pedals out while leaving the column in... Didn't seem too hard, column was lowered tho.

s***s gonna run soon! I really like your bumper support cuts, you should show a pic of that!

[Logan76]

in short im just a big fatass with big fat hands, and tight spaces sometimes own me.

[White Comet]

when i get under the car tomorrow i'll snap some bumper support pics. my brother did a really good job on the brackets too. the 2nd teaser pic is hard to see, but the paint is scratched up from drilling. as for the first pic....theres a reason the solenoid is sitting there

i just wanted to show a quick progression of pics

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