RB26DETT S14.5 2004 Underground Motorsports Demo Car

[umsports]

Hey Zilvia,

We are fairly new to these forums and I just wanted to post a few pics of our demo car and tell you a little about our shop.

We are currently building a RB26DETT 1998 240SX w/ S15 conversion. The car is currently being featured in various issues of HCI Magazine. We write tech articles for them from time to time.

In a few months, the RB26 swap guide will be coming out and I hope you guys pick up the issue. HCI is really dedicated to the 240SX scene, and there are not many magazines that are doing near monthly articles on our cars...

We are shooting for the 750 HP mark before nitrous on our demo car.

http://www.underground-motorsports.com/about-projectcar.htm

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=3669

Here are some specs that are tentative on the car and motor...

Current Planned Mods: Subject to Change
S15 Front End Conversion
Motor: R33 RB26DETT w/ RB25DET Tranny
Cams: Apexi 272 IN/ 280 EX (to be used for Stage 2)
Pistons: JE .86mm oversize (to be used for Stage 2)
Turbo Chargers: Garrett setup x2, internal wastegate
Intake: Apexi Super Flow Intake Pods x2
Rods: Downpipe: McKinney Motorsports Downpipe
Mount Kit: McKinney Motor and Tranny Mounts, McKinney One-Piece Driveshaft
Strut Bar: Apexi
Gauges: Apexi
Exhaust: URAS S14 Type RS Cat-Back System
Intercooler: Hybrid Power 600x300x100 core size
BOV: Apexi x2
Fuel system: Apexi Fuel pressure Regulator, Sard 800cc Injectors, Apexi R33 Fuel Pump
Computer: Apexi Power FC D-Jetro ECU w/ Commander
Boost Control: Apexi AVC-R
Clutch: Exedy Twin-Plate NM032SD Racing Clutch
Suspension: Apexi N1 V-Spec Drag Coilovers
Brakes: Underground 300ZX Calipers/ Supra TT Rotors Brake Upgrade (Front)
Stillen Supra TT Rotors (Front), Stillen 300ZX TT Rotors (Rear)
Stillen 300ZX Racing Brake Pads (Front and Rear)
PDM Racing Conversion Brake Lines (Front and Rear)
Cam Adjustment: Apexi Cam Wheels (x2)
Wheels: ROH Drift-R 18x8 (2" lip) , 18x9 (3"lip) magnesium w/polished lip
Tires: BF Goodrich (Front) 225-40-18 KD, (Rear)275-35-18 Drag Radials
Paint: House of Kolor PBC-36 TruBlue Pearl
Painted by Shameless Designs Searcy, Ar
Aero Kit: Carbon Fiber Body Kit Custom Made by C-Wings

Let us know your opinions...

Chris Riggs
Underground Motorsports
801 Pine, Suite 18
Searcy, AR 72143
Local: 501-279-1343
Email: [email protected]

[Dousan_PG]

sweet
hope it goes well
i remember talking about it in vegas at dinner w/ gary and mack
cant wait to see it finished! :)

[umsports]

I just added two links to pics of the car, check the second link, those are the latest photos.

Take care!

Chris
Underground

[Siizzzoooo]

awesome car!

[nismo skyline]

this is gonna be badass, cant wait to see it all finished

[BadMoJo]

Sooo you gonna paint the front and rear or what?

I understand its CF and all, but I still think it looks pretty ghetto like that...


But besides that its pretty sweet bro, nice work.

[Hawd]

Hows the fitment on the cwings/importfan s15 stuff? Looks like it will come out looking badass

[SimpleS14]

interesting....I didn't know Supra TT rotors fit on the S14 with Z32 calipers.

[TokyoNights]

Looks like no expense is being spared,,nice project. Im still waiting on my uras rs :rant:

[Dousan_PG]

interesting....I didn't know Supra TT rotors fit on the S14 with Z32 calipers.

check the UM website and you'll understand

[ICKY]

Sooo you gonna paint the front and rear or what?

I understand its CF and all, but I still think it looks pretty ghetto like that...


But besides that its pretty sweet bro, nice work.

Yeah seriously. Either paint the blue peices black, or paint the CF. Id prefer just have the whole thing painted black. :boink: That thing is going to be a monster when you guys take it out. 750RWHP, that would pretty much kill everything. LoL. Very nice work.

[SpeedMonkeyInc]

Get smaller wheels.....18s are way too big. Then slam it, and your golden!

[the240sxer95]

18's are just fine.. also i think if he got 17s it wouldnt fit over the brakes?

[SimpleS14]

check the UM website and you'll understand

I did....but before then...I didn't know you can use Supra TT rotors....am I still missing something (besides the brackets)? :confused:

[Dousan_PG]

read this:
http://www.underground-motorsports.com/catalog-suspension.htm

at bottom
its a bracket to push the caliper out more and space it properly or something
braking torque

contact patch of pad remains same (obviously) but you have more leverage

[the240sxer95]

whats the size on supra rotor? 13.5??

[SilviaDriver]

Get smaller wheels.....18s are way too big. Then slam it, and your golden!

wat a woman.

[umsports]

The Supra Rotor is 324mm.

You can check out the May issue of HCI Magazine which features on article on our big brake kit for the 240SX.

Take care!

Chris
Underground

[Bliss]

Nice car. Just don't leave it half Carbon Fiber.

What's HCI??

[umsports]

Hot Compact and Import Magazine, www.hcimagazine.com

Its huge on the East Coast, and its quickly making its way out west. They are a California based company.

--- To tie the carbon fiber and blue together, we are going to lay the graphics over the front fender where it meets the blue paint. By using the graphics, we will be able to create tear looking designs similar to the HKS Drift cars.

Should be really nice.

[driftyour40]

nice car, i wish i had an unlimited budget :cry:

[steve shadows]

nice car, i wish i had an unlimited budget :cry:

300km/hr in 11k total... :duh:

[umsports]

If I were to guess how much it would cost to replicate this car by the time we are done, I would guess over 60K, probably much more.

When we get it finished, I will post everything done and the costs...

Chris

[CoasTek240]

Woweee Zowee

[umsports]

We got new wheels for the car today. We had to sell the wheels that are on the website because they weren't wide enough. The new wheels are 18x9 in the front, and 18x10 in the rear. They are custom made for our car, they have about a 3" lip in the front and a 4-4.5" lip in the rear. We are having the wheels sent out this week to have them powdercoated, I'm still not sure what color we are going with.

But, I know we are going to leave the lips in their polished state.

BEFORE:

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub.net/photopost/data/500/11070CIMG0121.jpg

18x8 +30, 18x9 +35

AFTER:

These are fake pics, been photoshopped.

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub.net/photopost/data/500/11070newwheelspreview.jpg

18x9 +12, 18x10 +30 needed to clear our widebody kit fixing to be installed.

[umsports]

I will post actual test fit photos later today if I have time...

Based on the previous photos, do you think we should leave them in their Hyper Silver/ chrome status? Or powdercoat and paint?

[umsports]

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45257

We just posted a whole crap load of photos of our car, check out the above link.

We'd love to hear your suggestions...

[SimpleS14]

Leave the rims gunmetal.

[umsports]

Yeah, we are going to powdercoat the wheels and paint them Hyper Black/Gunmetal. Same color as the SSR Professor SP1's.....

Thanks for your advice, I do agree...

[SimpleS14]

what color do you plan to paint the car? you are going to keep it spoilerless....right?

[Marty]

very nice...

[Hawd]

what color do you plan to paint the car? you are going to keep it spoilerless....right?

As far as I'm understanding it's already painted and thier leaving all the cf parts unpainted.

[Ghettokracker71]

When its done your donating it to me,right? Didn't your supervisor tell you ...

[SimpleS14]

As far as I'm understanding it's already painted and thier leaving all the cf parts unpainted.


well that's very ghetto

[umsports]

Yes, we are leaving it "Ghetto" as you referred to it.

And we are planning on running a spoiler, nothing too crazy. Like the 95-96 Veilside Wing. I want something that is curvy, but not too high.

Chris
Underground

[SilviaDriver]

people have opinions. if he think its ghetto looking becuz of it..then he think its ghetto

no need to feel insulted and coin in that ur car will be 750hp.

oh and i think Veilside wings are ugly.

so are u gonna go

"well i guess im gonna have to drive my "ghetto" 750hp 240sx with a ugly Veilside wing! life sucks!?"

you can have 10000hp..but in the end..ur car can still look ugly.

[umsports]

And 95KoukiS14, Im just messing with you about your ghetto comment.

I personally like the contrast. Others dont....Thats why we all don't drive identical cars...

Since our car is a demo car, I want the customers to know we have carbon fiber parts. Why would I want to hide this fact by painting over them? I know some people do that, but I'd prefer the natural look.

That is one of the great selling points of carbon fiber, is the fact that you don't have to paint it unlike fiberglass....

"These views reflect those of Chris and Chris only" Lol!

[SimpleS14]

Its all good....but the car could have been black with some metal flakes :-/

[umsports]

Yeah Silvia Driver, I agree about most of the Veilside wings....

The only one I like is the 95-96 wing because it is similar to the Rod Millen wings made for the Supras.

The 97-98 wings sit higher and look crappy in my opinion....

You seem like you have been around for awhile, what do you recommend? I'm up for anything, I just need to do some more searching. I respect you opinions...

Chris
Underground

[umsports]

95KoukiS14,

I agree that the black would have been awesome. However, we are sponsored by House of Kolor and they paid for this paint job on the car. It is too late for me to change colors and I can't take the car 2000 miles back to their headquarters to have it repainted.

We know that several of you have made your concerns known about the abrupt contrast of the carbon fiber and blue paint. We are going to be running the graphics on the car anyways, so we will have our graphics guy find a way to blend the two together...

Once again, this is a demo car, so please don't flame the graphics...What I mean is sponsors names, our Logo, etc....

Chris
Underground

[umsports]

Here is the wing I am referring too. I don't know how to describe what I'm looking for other to say I want something that doesn't sit flat on the car like some of the Bomex wings...

I want it to have some design to it, but nothing that sits too high...

The other picture is the color of the SSR Professor SP1's in Gunmetal Black Chrome. I am going to start looking tomorrow to find out who sells this paint.

[SimpleS14]

C-WEST MINI SPOILER

that is a nice spoiler....and you can show it off as an item you sell

or get the K's wing

[SilviaDriver]

You seem like you have been around for awhile,

i am no whore. thank u.

[umsports]

Yeah, the K's wing looks great. I just worry that it is too played out...I see them on the East Coast non stop, so Im sure its one of the more popular out west.

[steve shadows]

is this an awd conversion just curious we were interested in trying one in cali...

-steve :rawk:

[umsports]

No, this is RWD. OverRev.net just finished their AWD RB26 240SX, and I must say it sounds awesome, until you take a look at the hack job it required to fit.

I mean, they did awesome with what they had to work with, but they had to mutilate the chassis.

Simply not worth it. The Silvia was not designed for AWD, and I think it probably shouldn't be converted. Not worth the cost....

[umsports]

We ordered the wing today from http://www.silviaparts.com/s14/14002/ in carbon fiber to match everything else!

We should get it in next week. As soon as it arrives, we will go ahead and install the spoiler and our Cwings carbon fiber JGT, http://www.importfan.com/product.asp?0=0&1=0&3=4294

By the way, the new Cwings carbon mirrors we got have the adapter plates that bolt-on to the stock location.

I think we are going to be painting the carbon fiber with a blue tint. We want the carbon fiber grains to be easily seen.

Take care!

Chris
Underground

[steve shadows]

cool beans :wtc:

[brianglawson]

very sweet car, i think the graphics belnd will be pretty cool.... just make it look WILD, demos are suppose to be wild and imaginative

[umsports]

The graphics company is called Bio-Graphics in Murrieta, CA. They have done some really crazy work.

They just finished McKinney Motorsports' demo car with crazy flames everywhere.

I have some pics, their car has been under raps as they are unveiling it at the June 12 Formula D show. You guys will be the first to see it.....

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub.net/photopost/data/500/11070f89bab34.jpg

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub.net/photopost/data/500/11070f89baae7.jpg

[SilviaDriver]

when u get the mirrors on...post up some pics..

or send them to my email

ive been waiting to see how their mirrors look bolted on

[umsports]

Silvia Driver,

I should have new pics in about a week. I want to wait til we get the spoiler on before I take more photos.

Take care!

[boro240]

are you getting carbon doors and trunk as well?

[steve shadows]

people have opinions. if he think its ghetto looking becuz of it..then he think its ghetto

no need to feel insulted and coin in that ur car will be 750hp.

oh and i think Veilside wings are ugly.

so are u gonna go

"well i guess im gonna have to drive my "ghetto" 750hp 240sx with a ugly Veilside wing! life sucks!?"

you can have 10000hp..but in the end..ur car can still look ugly.

ghetto mfo life :duh:

heeeeelllllllllllloooooooo

my car has battle damage :rl: :mepoke: :naughty: :naughtyd: :confused:

[umsports]

Cwings is making a carbon fiber trunk for us as well.

But the doors, no way. We are going for weight reduction reasons, not because it looks cool. We can save about 15 pounds going with the carbon fiber trunk, so thats definately going to happen.

But, as far as covering the doors, a-pillars and top, not gonna happen. Just added weight we don't need.

Good question!

Chris

[boro240]

But, as far as covering the doors
covering? i meant full CF replacement doors. several japanese companies make them (with a CF interior piece too), nobody in the US yet though AFAIK.

[umsports]

I don't think I could afford them. We are sponsored by Cwings, so all the carbon on our car is free! The only thing I have paid for is my carbon fiber spoiler!

I saw a post on the Skyline forums awhile back about GTR carbon fiber doors, they wanted like $1500/per door.

There is no way I could swing that right now. I still have so many expenses with that car. But good idea, maybe in the future if I win the lottery. lol