G Dimension's S13 for the 2005 season

[G-Dimension]

We would like to introduce our entry for the 2005 season. We are currently scheduled for Formula D and D1 USA. Hard Drive/WDC events are in negotiations and hopefully we can attend them as well.

Let's start with a build up of the car.
This is how the car started back in 5/2004. Stock SR with S15 turbo and suspension mods. It was also driven by Tarzan Yamada for the November issue of Super Street.
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Then the fun begins! We then stripped down the car, built a SCCA approved roll cage, and fully stitch weld the chassis.
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Next it was off to the body shop. We left it up to the guys at Kalis Auto Body to complete the body work and apply the candy red paint. They did a phenomenal job on prepping and painting. The typical wavy look of fiberglass pieces are no where to be found!
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Since we already prepped the engine, we just dropped it in after we got it back from the body shop.
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After a few more weeks of wiring, welding, wrapping, tuning and assembling after hours, the car is complete!
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Now to see how the car will perform! We then took it to Irwindale Speedway for the D1 Drivers search. Although it was the first time for our driver, David Shao, to driver this car, he was able to qualify for the D1 license that day.
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Thanks driftfactory.com for the picture!

Fortunately, we were also invited to run the Time attack at the GTLive! event. So after a few more stickers and we are off to California Speedway.
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Modification List:
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Engine:
HKS 272/272 cams
HKS valve Springs
HKS adjustable cam sprockets
HKS top feed fuel rail
Greddy 1.2mm metal head gasket
Greddy aluminum pulley kit
Greddy high capacity oil pan
Tomei Rocker arm stopper
Blitz 800cc injectors
Nismo Engine/Transmission mounts
Wasabi Racing exhaust manifold
Escort Racing intake manifold
N15 Pulsar 70mm throttle body
ACT Extreme pressure plate w/6-puck disc
Toyota fuel pump
Apex Power FC w/commander and D-Jetro
Blitz Dual SBC Spec R

Turbo:
XS Engineering Garrett GT30R
XS Power IC GTR core
Custom 3" piping
Tial 44mm Wastegate
HKS SSQV

Suspension/brakes:
Battle version full kit and alignment by Alex Pfeiffer
HKS Hipermax D'
G-Dimension subframe spacers
G-Dimension solid steering shaft bushing
JIC Tie rods w/KTS rod ends
Kazz 2 way LSD
GTO 5 lug hubs
Brembo F40 brakes
Carbing custom strut brace
Project U rear pads
G-dimension/Circuit Worx billet axles

Chasis:
Custom roll cage with roof mounted tow hook
Full chasis stitch weld

Exterior:
M's Sports full body kit from Renova Auto
Candy Red paint by Kalis Auto
APR rear spoiler
5Zigen FN01R

Tires:
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Kumho ECSTA MX
235/45/17
255/40/17

ETC:
Painless switch panel
Recaro SPG
Blitz Nur Spec
Koyo Radiator
Optima Battery
Sparco 5 point harness

We are a full service shop specializing in meeting all your tuning needs. Please visit our website at G-Dimension (www.g-dimension.com)
or drop by our shop in City of Industry, CA and out staff would be more than pleased to answer your questions or show you our race car!

We would also like to thank our sponsors:
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Kumho Tires (http://www.kumhousa.com/)
XS-Engineering (http://www.xs-engineering.com)
Renova Auto/M's Sports (http://www.renovaauto.com/)
Battle Version (http://www.battleversion.com)
JPR
Blitz USA
Escort Racing
APR
Kalis Auto Body
Top Fuel USA

See you guys at the events!

Here are some action pics:
Here are some pics at Willow Springs hosted by Just Drift!.
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Some tandem action from the same event. Pictures courtesy of Brendon Walker (calidrifting.com, owner of S14 in pictures)
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www.g-dimension.com

[Hondamatic]

excellent.. thats how you build a car. i was going to say the car was missing a wing to flow with the lines and to scrape concrete barriers at events, but i see it has one in the bottom pics!

[w1ngzer0]

love the pictures. Hope to do that to my hatch one day when i make 30k+ :P

[drift into a curb]

David's the shit. Always doing dirt drops. How'd the car do on the time attack? Was there some kind of scoring system?

[S14DriftR]

Awesome, Ive seen that car tearing up some touge action even before it had silvia front and was still sohc ka. and yeah, David is the man!

[vvtisupra]

Santa Barbara represent! Super David Student during weekdays, drifting/driving extrordinaire on the weekends :wiggle:

[Dousan_PG]

woot go david!!!!!


good guy!

and g-dimension rocks
got my kouki s14 motorclip there
cheap and it rocks
runs PERFECT
thanks james!

[nocomedown]

i'm diggin the paint color. looks nice.

[crazy9ceguy]

man i saw u guys at jgtc, that was one of my favorite cars.

[G-Dimension]

Thanks for all the compliments!

Dousan glad to hear that it runs well!

www.g-dimension.com

[ex-RotaryKun]

hahaha I remember that....stock SOHC with a LSD and that's it! We took it to buttonwillow that weekend and on the way back down to LA it died by La Conchita. When we drained the oil pan, only coolent came out hahah. That's when the transformation began :)

VVTisupra, can I get a sbcars sticker to put on the helmet? :D

Dousan, where are you at? I don't see you at the events much recently....

David

[Dousan_PG]

working on that POS s14
soon full aero again and new paint and wheels
ill be there, just drift for sure
we'll have to go tandem and rock it. lindsay will run w/ us too in his s13 muhahahaha
im waiting on a 4.3 final drive right now..la dee daa

good times you still got that corolla?
and get nicky back out there!!!!!!!!

[ex-RotaryKun]

sounds fun! :) whatever happend to the 13?
you are going to the just drift that's coming up this month??

Yup, it's outside the shop...waiting for me to wire, bolt on p/s and lots of other stuff hahah
He keeps telling me he's out of it, but I think when he gets a diff...there's no stopping him. ;)

David

[wylin]

go abow nice to see ur car done before waynes =X!

[Dousan_PG]

hahaha i miss drifting w/ you guys
damn
that was fun times those old 4ag events and such
s13 got totalled azusa it ruled, grip video got it on film, DS2 it will be on haha

justdrift nah probably not, dman coilovers.

[mellojoe]

Thats why I LOVE coupes with the silvia front end. SOOOOO SEXY!

Looks hot.

[DoriftoSlut]

David and James.... NICE. Looks HOT. I loved the car with an all white nose, but the red is DEAD FUCKING SEXY!!!! Like Aaron said, once he gets damn coilovers, we'll have some tandem fun. Maybe get Slidesquad Mark in there too!

[phase2]

go abow nice to see ur car done before waynes =X!

I will finish mine this year biatchznit !#@[email protected]^[email protected]#$ j/k :)

Wayne
Phase 2 Motortnred
http://www.phase2motortrend.com
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F: (626) 338-8375

[po1z5che__]

i saw that issue of superstreet, looks like they trashed that car up :hsdance: :D

[ex-RotaryKun]

hahah Wayne, you kinda have a car already...with all the support you already gave, wink wink.

Well, as long as they didn't crash, the car lives for trashing :D A car is defined by its ability to live through these kind of things :whip:

Definately, you guys going out to the Just Drift twin drift competition?

David

[Drunk Bastard]

your fender well cutouts look just like Blue808's .... :rolleyes:

[ledzeppelin240]

Man I can't wait to start stripping my '89 coupe and rebuilding it. Did the stitch welding the all of the unibody help out noticeably? Very nice car, I am for sure keeping my car Cherry Red Pearl now.

[G-Dimension]

your fender well cutouts look just like Blue808's .... :rolleyes:

Yes, it is quite common for this type of roll cage to have the wheel wells cut out. We don't plan to keep it open though, we are working on covering it up so we don't have rocks and debris coming into the engine bay. :)

[ex-RotaryKun]

Yes, the car is very stiff but I'm not sure exactly how much to give credit to the stitch welding since the roll cage was put in at the same time. But I'm sure it does help since some places that we welded were already cracked apart.

David

[240silvia]

nice nice nice.... looks good, I think it's even better that in a lot of shots... you have a missing panel! lol

[ledzeppelin240]

Yeah I have noticed that on the seams where they put that sealer stuff the chassis starts to pull a part there. So then I will just stitch weld it and then get the entire chassis sealed and primed at the body shop. Colour of your car is awesome...

[brianglawson]

nice car.....love the amount of work put into it too:)

[vvtisupra]

hahaha I remember that....stock SOHC with a LSD and that's it! We took it to buttonwillow that weekend and on the way back down to LA it died by La Conchita. When we drained the oil pan, only coolent came out hahah. That's when the transformation began :)

VVTisupra, can I get a sbcars sticker to put on the helmet? :D

Dousan, where are you at? I don't see you at the events much recently....

David

yah im working on it what color ?

[daverussell]

good god that is sexy. the first pic had my attention. i LOVE the S13 front end. the whole car is just so sexy. keep up the good work, and good luck. i hope my car looks and performs half as good as that.

[Fastback180]

Looking very nice!
I would have kept the stickering to a minimum with that beautiful paint job.
Looks like your driver did well?

[sLiDewAys]

shit is SWEET man, definatly good work:)

[G-Dimension]

Thanks for the complements. Many after business hours were put in for the past months, it has been a very good experience for us all at the shop. Any ideas on stickers? It looks nice without stickers but we have to represent our sponsors....any ideas will be greatly appreciated!

The driver has been doing well with the car, but we will find out how he and the car will perform this year at Formula D, WDC, and D1!

G-Dimension

[S14GE]

G-DIMENSION is the shit!!

[sal240sx]

You brought back a 2 yr old post for that?

[s13gold]

its 2 years old but....

sweet paint job!

[crazyikimasho]

G-DIMENSION is the shit!!

uhhh.... this thread is almost 2 yrs old.

[redsuns3838]

cmon, sometimes its good to bring back old threads just to keep the memories alive. =P