WC's never ending s13 project

[hbpignosePA]

lol pwned

starting to rip apart my new car.

ill make a thread late tonight

[ZX88]

wc

did you use usdm brackets for the center of the type x bumper?

[White Comet]

Heh thats sweet, Nissan-beast looks out of place in Pleasantville, nice picture. (new desktop). Sorry to quote a picture and push your thread closer to 40, just increasing the pressure to see finished product. Your car is very nice, i hope mine turns out so well. You should get it painted though, such a nice car deserves a nice paintjob. Such a clean engine bay

ahh glad you liked the pic, i'm not crazy into photography but i'm working on taking better shots. glad you're liking the car, i'm not too concerned about the 40 page deadline, i have a lot going on with it and i'm working on wrapping it up soon even though my 2nd job keeps me out til 4-5am.and you don't need to worry about real paint, all the supplies for daytona blue are sitting in my garage.

wc

did you use usdm brackets for the center of the type x bumper?

yep and they worked no problem. are you having some trouble with yours?

well its long over due but here are some pics and a brief update about what i've been up tosince my last update, i've spent a little bit of time redoing the coolant lines under the intake manifold. i wasn't planning on doing this or else i would have done it when the engine was out, but its too much of a pain to install the turbo lines with the factory maze of coolant lines. i got a barbed nipple and threaded it into the unused port on the s14 water neck and used it for the coolant line to the turbo. you can see it mocked up on the turbo in this pic

then i started in on the junk under the im, i wanted to simplify it especially since i was no longer getting coolant to the turbo from the line that passes behind the engine. i wish i had a before pic to show the difference but you sr owners are probably familiar with what i'm talking about. i also didnt like how it went soft line, hardline, soft line, hardline, etc. so with a little guidance from didderson i set out to improve on nissan's design. this is the only section of hard line i kept, i just cut it and used it as a fitting. i'd say all in all i spent under $25 for the supplies to redo everything. the smartest thing imo was finding preformed 90 degree lines to help avoid kinking, and now i have the piece of find of having every rubber hose replaced. i also deleted the coolant lines to the iacv on didderson's advice. heres the finished product before the im goes back on.

while the im was off i decided to clean it and paint it, why not, i painted everything else. i scrubbed it and cleaned it in the parts washer and the only thing i didnt paint was the tb, ran out of time and i'm not sweating it.

and i just realized i forgot to update with pics once my cobra came in. so heres a couple shots of it, josh and dale were there to check it out on the day it arrived. this also came in. nothing special, but its orange

also had josh pick up a new pass side dash vent to replace the cracked in half one, so i drilled and glued in the alarm light.

when josh and dale were over to help i didnt take time to snap and pics but we got some decent work done before calling it quits for the day. i got the vss installed and wired up and unwrapped everything to run a fan light then rewrapped it and you can't even tell i took it apart. the stock rucas (thanks tom) were painted and installed and i picked up new hardware for the im and rear struts.

then shortly after i got the car over the pit to start mocking up and welding the cobra and cat.

prior to this i got the ds and catback installed but i dont like the way the oem styel rubber hangers work so i ordered poly urethane ones. but we mocked up and cat and the cobra and determined that its too tight for us to try and weld sections in up to the turbo using the welder and mandrel bent pieces we have so as soon as the outlet flange gets in (2nd aired it from treadstone but its still not here cuz of the holiday, happy 4th btw ) we're trailering it to a small performance exhaust shop in strasburg (like a 5 minute drive) for him to finish the cobra using a bender. my normal exhaust shop is scheduling out to the 17th and theyre like 35 minutes away so i'll go with this guy since he said he can do it as soon as im ready. but heres roughly where it'll sit and you can see where it needs completed to

with th car over the pit for now i'm gonna torque down and finish everything underneath the car. i do believe my rms might be leaking slightly so i'll have to look into that more. but for now i got a little work done yesterday since i had a few parts come in but i spent the day off mostly with the wife and i got nothing done i slept in and i now go to work in an hour. but with the 90 degree bent couplers and a $5 piece of scrap from red run i made my hot pipe. this shot is just with it mocked up and not clamped down

and with the parts that came in for me from american speed i mocked up the intake coming off the turbo, ignore the blue coupler, my black one isnt in yet

then my dad and i took a sawzall to my hod to clear the bov. the paint matches better then this pic shows, but the flash makes it stand out and the paint was still wet

i do have one other cool little treat, but out of respect for the man i stole the idea from i won't reveal them yet. i have off monday and tuesday though so i plan on getting more done so check back then.

ps- if anyone knows how to reinstalled the outer a pillar piece and weather stripping around there i'd appreciate it, i can't figure it out at all. thanks

[Razi]

Cobra looks awesome!

When do you think it could get up and running?

[hbpignosePA]

all of us local guys have given up on asking jeff that



just playing bro

[kietdude]

It's true, I lost a dollar to Jeff's Dad

[White Comet]

hahaha yes you did kiet. well it'll be soon. my outlet flange should be tomorrow since it was delayed due to the but the trailer is getting a new brake light tomorrow and might not be ready until tomorrow , so at the latest the car will be at the exhaust shop tuesday and finished the same day. after that its just little things. i still need to figure out the door weather stripping

[spooled240]

i like how your turbo matches your valvecover...OEM top mount gt30 ftw!

[White Comet]

glad you like it. yeah its a subtle difference but everything black was painted with semi gloss except the vc and turbo. they were painted with a gloss black and the vc was even given some clear coat. it stands out just a little from the semi gloss black, and i really like it. i'm heading over to work on the car right now and i'll work on it for a few hours here before i have to do the deliveries

[mrgreeneyes]

in StreetFighter voice:

FINISH IT!

[Dizel01]

Stop painting everything and just FINISH IT! (Mortal Kombat not StreetFigher Keegan ) If this thing is not done by pg40, im gonna drop a nuke on the car.

[White Comet]

that is a fair deal hahaha

don't worry i'm working on s*** right now that doesnt involve painting.......but i am painting one last thing. the upper front strut towers were starting to get a little surface rust at the seam even though i already painted em before. so i sanded em down like crazy and i'm using rust inhibitors and that will the last thing painted. i promise

i'll have some pics tonight so we'll see what happens. i'll probably work on the car til 2am again

[TekuDrifter18]

still looking good man. I still cant believe the detail you have put into this. I honestly think you should remane the thread to

The DIY Complete Resto Guide

for real tho keep it up. I wanna drive back up to see her all done and pretty.

[White Comet]

thanks man, glad you're liking it. hows the type x aero, get any other the other type x parts?

i'll update this thread some time, but i've been insanely busy with work and having to go through some training which makes for long days, and i leave on sunday for the beach so there won't be a whole lot going on. i might update with some pics tomorrow as i do have some progress to show, but my biggest snag should be taken care of soon. the outlet flange should be here tomorrow. if it isn't though i'm gonna have to bust some heads. for now i'm off to bed and will most likely sleep all day til work in the evening.

[EchaKqulo]

Looking good, keep up the good work!!

[White Comet]

thank you. i just finished training today and i'm now a bartender. every the beach i should have more work done

[dak0n]

hey, I live up in new york, and also am building a type-x, tues I just got my front end, although it needs alittle work, all im missing exterior wise realy is the sideskirts, if you ever get a chance go look at my project, i should have some new pics up soon, yours is a thousand times cleaner then mine so fare, but with enough time and money who knows lol, but id like to get to know other 180 type x owners in the north east, hit me up sometime.

zerothread?id=393839

[White Comet]

thanks for the kind words. i'd be down for a road trip at some point to ny. i'm checking out your build now.

my outlet flange came in but i haven been over at my parents yet to check it out. i might make some progress this weekend before leaving for the beach, but tomorrow i work from 7am til 1am

[Bumnah]

This thing dead in the water?

[White Comet]

hardly, i've just been busy. i work on it when i can but the past few weeks were crazy at work with a last minute decision to get me trained for another position then after working a 70ish hour week i left for ocean city nj and was there for over half the week and the day before i left i developed the flu or something like it. i spent the rest of the week getting over that which brings us to today. i emailed one more place about the correct flange for the turbo outlet since treadstone decided ignoring the emails of a customer is cool. if this last place can't help me the turbo comes off and a local machine shop will use the outlet as a template to make a flange. in the meantime i'll be dropping the trans the next time i'm over there which will be tomorrow after work. i also have of all day tuesday as well so i'll get more done then as well

[hbpignosePA]

well you sir have a month to get this s*** done so we can have a proper photoshoot

since mine will be under the knife again by august.

[White Comet]

should be done soon. i have more time since i'm suspended from work

[mRodiek]

should be done soon. i have more time since i'm suspended from work

Howd you manage that?

[ILoveMyRHS13]

BTW, Tree beat you.

Game over.

[White Comet]

BTW, Tree beat you.

Game over.

yeah but he had like a year head start as well. i'll still get done in less time start to finish. besides didn't he have a shop finish it?

Howd you manage that?

ehh its kinda a long story. i might type it out later but i'm about to head out

[OutToWinPAHC]

Added to the build sticky.... I love the title... Never ending..... Kinda like the BH thread but with actual work done and less BS

[hbpignosePA]

hahaha well jeff if i finish my 200 first you really lose

and what happened w today?

i even got da diagrams yo

[White Comet]

Added to the build sticky.... I love the title... Never ending..... Kinda like the BH thread but with actual work done and less BS

lol thanks yeah i have lots of pics ive taken of the current progress plus another project that has taken some of my time already. could my change the actual thread title to the one i put in quotes in the build thread thread?

hahaha well jeff if i finish my 200 first you really lose

and what happened w today?

i even got da diagrams yo

lol yeah if the s12 is done first i think i'll give up. i failed hardcore today, kinda a long story but i got to bed even later then usual which resulted in me sleeping longer into the day, then i didn't get the trans picked up cuz of availability and on top of it the recent dropping of my phone multiple times has severely messed it up. im missing texts, phone calls, and it can't seem to hold a charge and stay on. i'm looking at new phones tomorrow. i'll get ahold of you tomorrow because my dad was supposed to pick the trans up tonight.

[OutToWinPAHC]

yeah I can change it for you

[White Comet]

sweet thanks. i figure it's fitting since i'm always asked when this will finally be done, but also because i don't think i'll ever run out of things to do to the s13