WC's never ending s13 project

[mrgreeneyes]

ill be over in the morning to help ya out man!

what time tho?

text me or hit me up here

[White Comet]

i'll be over there at 9 am, 10 at the latest. whenever suits you best, man. you can either call/text me tomorrow to let me know or just swing by

[White Comet]

alright now to the update. since we last let off, i got a little busy with work, but still managed to make some decent progress in the time i had. at the time of the last update i had the half of the body harness that runs through the engine bay completely out as well as just about everything else under the hood. the next step was sanding it and prepping for paint. i then decided to removed the wipers and the surrounding vents to check for rust and clean out. i was happy to see they were mint in there

with the front fenders and wheels off. i removed the brakes in preparation for the q45 gear to go on and completely sprayed the wheel wheels and surrounding areas with rubberized undercoating. then it was time to primer.i wanted to make sure i hit up everything that was red. its a big pet peeve of mine to see a car repainted and still see its original color in the bay and jambs.

on a quick side not, i grabbed a small can of duplicolor flash red for the primered rocker panel area. i figured any shade of red would stand out less then primer. i gotta say though, that matched pretty nicely. what do you think?

for color i went with semi gloss black again, just like i painted the last one. no matter what color the car, a black engine bay looks nice. im not entirely done but i just need to touch up an area and cut the holes for the IC. sorry for the pics some of them are kinda dark.

after the painting, the interior part of body harness came out along with all the interior pieces except the front carpet since they needed to be out for the wiring removal. hmmm, thats a clean zenki carpet

heres everything out with the wiring all removed as wellon the agenda for tomorrow is installation of a new body harness (after its removed from diddy's car) as well as the conversion to power options and possibly rubberizing the underside and replacing the bmc with my z31 piece. i'll update tomorrow when i get some work done with the help of mrgreeneyes and didderson.

now for your enjoyment, heres a couple random shots of both s13s
Modified by White Comet at 11:07 AM 10/9/2008

[Kckouki]

Take the red hood and but it on the black one.

[cmoody2006]

Now thats some progress.... Are you swapping over everything? full aero? if not I want the rear valence! I painted my old sideskirts black and i think it would look good if i either throw a rear valence on the back or put my old bumper back on and paint it.... so we'll see what happens. Can't wait to see more. Are you going to paint this one black as well?

Any extra parts come with the car or just rolling chassi? I'm just about done with my swap/wire tuck should have mine fired up once I find the transmission wiring harness diagram do you have any idea where a simplified one is online? Haven't gone looking through the bible yet... oh i mean the manual

[urcaptnspeaking]

didnt tape off anything in the bay huh?

[White Comet]

Take the red hood and but it on the black one.

are u saying i shouldnt use the cf hood?

yeah im using the aero still, just not right away. after it gets running i'll get the rust fixed and aero on as well as a professional paint job. the car came with all parts except engine and trans

[IanS]

Holly wah, the sheet metal in the interior is sooooo clean, man I wish I could find something like that.

[hbpignosePA]

nice progress... u always go all out on ur projects i likey!

i hope if u swap ur type x wing u dont drill holes in that clean hatch!!

hehe im finding mine was repaired and probably had the stock spoiler at one point... its pealing clear and discolored FTLkeep it up w more pictuars!

[White Comet]

glad you are liking it. you'll have to swing by and check it out in person sometime. my plan is to swap the hatch with the holes over so i dont destroy this one, but i dont know how much of a ***** it will be to solder the wires back together

[hbpignosePA]

yea man most definately.... ive been real busy w school and work so not much time w workin on anything.... sundays are the only time i have off every

on another note im lookin for a daily for the winter so i dont have to drive the 240, i want to do alot of suspension work and drop in my helical diff while its in the garage... as well as some small rust repair in the wheel wells

[MastaYu]

looks good

[White Comet]

i havent had a chance to upload pics yet but mrgreeneyes was over yesterday and we got a little wiring work done but theres still more to do. he'll be over later to help me with it. we also put a new oe catback on greeneyes's coupe. i have pics of that as well. we headed over to didderson's where we raped his car for the body harness and a few other parts (i still need to pay him ) i'll post a pic update later tonight as well as show whatever progress we make today

[240lookis]

lookin good. can't wait til everything's swapped over.

[mRodiek]

i went ahead and read through your entire thread man. and i gotta say wow loli just picked up my first shell-and i gotta sell my other car to finish my S13 and you have TWO. -10 man...lol jk but seriously good work-im diggin it for sureand why didnt you tape anything off in the bay man? lol

[White Comet]

thanks for the support, but what do you mean? everything was taped off, or i wanted it painted

[mRodiek]

the brake booster, WW motor, hoses etc

[White Comet]

ah, good question then. well i wanted to spray both the booster and the ww motor, the hoses and ps lines i dont care about cuz i have to swap the ones from my other car on anyways. and the bmc i didnt care about cuz i have the replacement ready to go

[mRodiek]

ah i see...i learn much from you loli think ill be paintin my engine bay this weekend so ill almost be on the same page...until that is you do something else to your car, because you have $and i have none

[tramp_drift240]

i shall be painting my bay as well. most likely black. not sure though, might go with something off the wall.

not bad though.

ive noticed that type x aero always looks better with non-USDM OE alloys.

where da reeimz at.

[brizanden]

lmao its like my starting days of nico all over again. watching wc build a hatch.

[White Comet]

i shall be painting my bay as well. most likely black. not sure though, might go with something off the wall.

not bad though.

ive noticed that type x aero always looks better with non-USDM OE alloys.

where da reeimz at.

nice gl with the bay painting. yeah im actually open to suggestions on wheels. i want to stay 4 lug, have good fitiment and be affordable. im thinking grids but im open to suggestions.

lmao its like my starting days of nico all over again. watching wc build a hatch.

this ones gonna be better

i have a huge update to make but my cam is dead and i dont feel like typing it all out, so i'll probably update tomorrow before work

[niemczykj]

i basically have a shell plus a little for sale... kinda close and rust isnt terrible for a new england car...

[niemczykj]

awesome stuff WC, i cant wait to have the opportunity and means for a build. Im gonna be coming out to Allentown sometime soon, anyway i could check out ur cars?

[mRodiek]

Elites lol idahotuner has em and they freakin awesomehave you checked out tirerack.com ?

[White Comet]

awesome stuff WC, i cant wait to have the opportunity and means for a build. Im gonna be coming out to Allentown sometime soon, anyway i could check out ur cars?

dude yeah man, def stop by and check out the progress sometime. depending on when it is, i might have it up and running and i can show ya what she's capable of

Elites lol idahotuner has em and they freakin awesomehave you checked out tirerack.com ?

yeah ive considered the elites, but i wanted to go with something in a dark bronze like the grids. the elites are to light of a gold, and im not sure if i want to go with black wheels. besides, my car will probably get painted daytona blue since i have the paint already and i dont want my car to look like a copy of his (even though i had the paint first and suggested that color to him )

uploading pics now!!

[hbpignosePA]

i got a clean set of swastikas.... hehe old school datsun wheels ftw

are u lookin for 15s or bigger

if ur goin 17s i like the 5 zigen Fnor1 s

if 15s super advans would look sick if u wanna stay JDM tyte yo

[White Comet]

lol yeah i want to go 16 or 17 at the most

[idahotuner]

yeah ive considered the elites........................ and im not sure if i want to go with black wheels................ my car will probably get painted daytona blue since i have the paint already and i dont want my car to look like a copy of his (even though i had the paint first and suggested that color to him )

hehe but my car is so sexy. i wish i had done a little more black. like the lower body line on mine. and i cant wait tell my tires wear out so i can strech and slam lol........ and thank you for recomending the paint, its teh eff bomb!!!1!!!eleven!!ing sexy... if i could only get the car out of the shop to show it off hehe......

but your a 180sx replica and i am a sil80 hehe.... so they wouldnt look to close to the same.

[idahotuner]

oh and for tires go through citytireonline.com

brian will hook you up.