ZX88 type xXX build

[jeff420]

Car looks great brotha'. Did you actually drill through your rockers to put the push pins for the skirts?

x2 i just got my type x skirts and cant wait to install

[troskinatior]

Cause That Shiz Is Classic!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1536...-food

that s***s funny as hell

love that movie

[aaronscomp]

wow thats a pretty sick clean build/car very very nice i plan on doing something similar one day when i get some doe together

[sebazztard]

classic story telling at its finest! im sitting here like...NO I NEED MORE! its been a long damn time on nico that ive actually wanted more thread lol. great f***ing build man, everything looks excellent.

[X abisai X]

great build thread, and great car

[ZX88]

Car looks great brotha'. Did you actually drill through your rockers to put the push pins for the skirts?

no i didnt drill into the rockers. basically I just screwed them in at the front fender, cliped them at the back and to hold the two pieces together i drilled a hole at the bottom of each skirt and zip tie them together. I sealed them to the body with double sided tape.

[tEknoS13]

Awsome thanks for covering that. Are they stable though? I mean on the pics they look great but are they flush with the body, flapping around? Sorry for all the Q's I got mine too and am kind of horrified at drilling through the rockers.

[numbnuts240]

good work on the car. it looks superb.

i kind of miss that campus, just not the winter. or that hideous "sculpture"

[ZX88]

Awsome thanks for covering that. Are they stable though? I mean on the pics they look great but are they flush with the body, flapping around? Sorry for all the Q's I got mine too and am kind of horrified at drilling through the rockers.

they are secured pretty well and they sit pretty flush with the body. but if you want it to be 100% perfect fitment you will want to secure them somehow to the rocker panel. I just didn't feel like putting holes in the rocker.

ill get pics later.
Modified by ZX88 at 12:01 PM 10/15/2009

[welcometohell38]

Good work man, this S13 sucks

[sean@z1]

That is super clean from the start most of the s chassis here are torn up, or rusted

[ZX88]

SUMMER OF 09 finnally time to install my type x stuff.

I had most of my type x aero sitting in my basment for about 3-4 months and now that the weather was getting warmer and school was ending i headed back home to jersey.

along with this waiting for me at home was this prettry peice of fence post welded togther by enjunku.hahahaa

isis pre production i guess duel straight pipe exhaust.

Dart izumi jr FTW

......



install was straight forward. Fitment was good. the exhaust sat a little low near the differental so it took some hose clamps to the hangers and it actually raised it about 3/4 of a inch.







good.

so i decided to next lower the car more to get rid of any wheel gap I had in the front. at this time i also relocated both fender harnesses and rolled both front fenders flat.maxed out the front coils










Modified by ZX88 at 9:50 PM 2/7/2010

[r34 gtr]

Hot. It is incredibly rare to see a S13 in such immaculate shape up there in the north, as you call it.

[spooled240]

is that exhaust loud? it's just...pipe lol

[Dittoz7]

^They Really Have To Start Making Those For The S14.

[ZX88]

so this summer it rained like crazy. it was ridiculous. I was ready to go to with painting my parts but it was crazy humid.

finally i got a break with the weather.

and the tear down for preping the type x aero was started.

i got a brand spanking new type x bumper and fender extensions

sick

ok soo....



like my ghetto lift. yeah me niether.

so the first time i painted the front bumper it came out like s***. for some reason i preped it wrong or it was too hot or hummid when i sprayed the paint never fully cured and would chip and peel very easily. so i drove it and it looked like pure s*** so i needed to redo it.

what a waste

here are some pics from the first time i painted to bumper,



as you can see the paint looked like s*** so i needed to respray it.

well next i bought used rear valences and a wing for a total of 220 for BOTH

rad



ew looks like s***.

here is a cool guy pic from filling up at the gas station lol

and got some dmax lights

with all the pieces on i noticed two things the car was missing exterior wise.

good paint....

and the type x lip.

since the lip was now discontinued i could not find a oem one without having to pay 400+

so i found this company modiride who made a frp replica for 175+shipping.

so i bought it.. and a month later after countless calls and s***ty customer service on modirides parts i recieved lip in one piece.

trew it on there







fitment was great.

repainted every thing and left the wing off for now i need to fill the holes fron the factory spoiler.

here are some pics from the day i had everything on minus the wing with fresh paint on the lip and front bumper.









And at D1 at e-town. my buddy steves imported mr2 and some guys skyline.







and well about a week after that i ran over my lip and cracked it in two.

so i fixed it.



well more to come soon.... interior segment part 2


Modified by ZX88 at 2:28 PM 10/16/2009

[troskinatior]

love the type xbut dont remember you at d1 thowhere did you get the intena and does it get good reception?

[ZX88]

exhaust clip

.....and some abuse.

f***ing photo bucket my bandwith has been exceeded.

Modified by ZX88 at 11:13 AM 10/19/2009
Modified by ZX88 at 11:16 AM 10/19/2009

[l2edken]

haha you were at englishtown? i remember seeing the skyline for sale then your car and skipped right over the skyline haha, good exhaust clip too, i wish more exhaust clips were like yours haha

[slipipinoi]

s13 kouki FTW! your car is sooo clean, i wish i could get fresh paint on my car ):

[IDRFT95S14]

sounds good man

[nevertheless]

Is that a TL in the garage? Your car is shuper shweet.

[White Comet]

looks good. the type x front looks so much better with the lip, which i'll pick up eventually, but i wont settle for a fiberglass one

[safin]

[spooled240]

damn that exhaust is pretty quite for being a straight pipe, sounds good

[ZX88]

yeah surprisingly its reasonably quiet. just a bit louder than the n1 i had on it before. but it definitely pops more. i back fired in front of a cop once and i thought he would pull my over.

[240lookis]

haha ya. the "i think hes going to pull me over" happens a lot.

i like your car man. looks really nice and clean.

[spooled240]

^that's one of the worst feelings from the bottom of my gut XP

[240lookis]

ya cops pulled me over way too much when i was running my 15s with -5 camber out back and scraping everything. i learned to just pull over and give them some space

[fourLUG_hero]

New Jersey is on the come-up, surprisingly.