S14.5 Progress

[focused]

Just an update of my car.

Some of you maybe remember 1-2 months ago I posted about my car being wrecked due to a bad choice by a soccer mom. Anyway, Things are finally coming together. I decided to take this chance to put an s15 front on the car, and that has proved to be a large project in it's own. Mainly because fiberglass held it's reputation to not fitting well.

http://www.ricksautomotiveservice.com/s15_progress.jpg

http://www.ricksautomotiveservice.com/s15_progress2.jpg

http://www.ricksautomotiveservice.com/s15_progress3.jpg

Just getting to the point of mounting and fitting body panels was a large task. Both framerails were bent pretty well, one with a bad buckle. We chose to cut the frame rails and weld in a new front piece with the core support. Since the S14 bumper support does not fit into a stock s15 bumper, we used chromoly tubing to make one. I'll get pictures of all the bumper work when everything comes off to be painted.

Right now it's a task of adding and cutting to get the fenders to our liking. Hopefully I'll have pictures of it painted and finished within 2 weeks.

A thanks to PasswordJDM for the bumper/lights. They were quick to process and ship. Also to Speed Alliance. They sold us the fenders, hood, and later on a radiator.

[nismo skyline]

coming along nicely fitment looks good the way it is.

[gsu240]

awesome man, i plan on dong the same conversion next month. im researching the best place to purchase parts from right now. would you recomend speed alliance after usign them?

[NiZMo1o1]

Speed Alliance makes there own fenders? or are they company that sell other products fenders?

since im pretty new at the 240sx scene ,Many have talk about the MASA fenders being quite OEM fitted compare the the GTPs ..

[SilviaDriver]

HAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!

ur car looks exactly like mine!! Red S14 with Grey Fenders, CF hood, S15 headlights and a bumper...the only difference is the bumper..but other than that..exactly the same haha

i had my speedalliance fenders since Nov 2002

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid101/p9cc91e15e9d2389873c4531587e0989d/f9dfffa7.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid101/pa632994602a9fa7d74851b42b037ffe1/f9dfef78.jpg

did the fenders fit somewat good for u? becuz it did for me

[Dousan_PG]

sweet looking good
both of yas :)

[SilviaDriver]

ive had my on for a while now..and its being sanded down right now ready for paint =]

right now..im too lazy to continue sanding..and researching more on HIDs...ima bout to sell my H1 HID kit soon tho. mcs14 and s15 buyers interested?? haha

[Siizzzoooo]

those fenders look like they fit like ass

[focused]

They're SWATT fenders, SpeedAlliance is just a seller of them.

[Yoshi]

They're SWATT fenders, SpeedAlliance is just a seller of them.

I was pretty close to getting the SWAAT fenders, they don't fit well huh? Perhaps it was for the best that I didn't go there.

[SimpleS14]

mcs14 and s15 buyers interested?? haha

* :wiggle: *

[focused]

I was pretty close to getting the SWAAT fenders, they don't fit well huh? Perhaps it was for the best that I didn't go there.


The quality isnt the worst, and they're avalible domestically; so there's a convience there. You get what you pay for. I probaly would have gone with MASA had I been in a different situation where time allowed.

[gsu240]

i was jsut about to ask about MASA fenders, i know jspec sells them, anyone have any experience with these?

[Siizzzoooo]

I have Masa, the are the shizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[SilviaDriver]

fenders arent that bad for the price. if i were to do it again..id still stick with these. i rather do a lil modding and save 200 bucks and a downtime of 2-3 months.

the fitment for me was bout 90% perfect.

[NiZMo1o1]

eh how much do the Masa Fenders run about ?

[Powashiftin]

i have speedalliance fenders. They were like a 95% good fit for me. I had to break out the dremel on like 2-3 places... no biggie. Definately worth the price and they're pretty thick and meaty.

[focused]

I moved the pictures i had on the first post. Here's one again..
http://www.ricksautomotiveservice.com/random/s15_progress3.jpg

And here are a few new ones of the core support/bumper support all primered.
http://www.ricksautomotiveservice.com/random/silvia.jpg

http://www.ricksautomotiveservice.com/random/silvia2.jpg

Getting the fenders and bumper from paint tomorrow and assembling everything.. should have somewhat completed pictures in a few days.