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S13 to RB25 build - now with ghetto frame bending technique!

wow pics = fail

Woops just fixed lol

wow im surprised you didnt ditch it

That chassis is pretty fucked up, but it appears that it is in more than capable hands.

The process pics had me thinking "Oh fuck, this is gonna turn into a piece of shit with a cool motor..." but now that I see you can do dimples and shit, and your work looks good I've reversed that idea.

Are you gonna paint the engine bay or are you gonna say something like "FORM OVER FUNCTION! I can't spend money blah blah *cry*."

we will for sure be painting the entire car... engine bay included ;)

The rest of the car minus the front end is pretty damn straight.

Primer is going to be shot this friday, so hopefully paint next weekend.

I bow to your welding skills (as I still suck at clean welds) , and so should your S13. It owes you its life. Looks good bud. GL with the completion!

Haha cool stuff man.

there is lots of bolt on stuff that fits without making it custom fabrication, but i guess nothing hurts, like making your transmission mount, and other things

looks good!

Looks good, cant wait to see more.

lookin' pretty good so far!!

andy and I have a shop called racefab, he is a fab god :) I am still learning.

peep his personal project here.

did you use TIG or MIG on those tranny mounts?

damn that looks sweet

That core support looks similar to the work done on the fc. I dig.

Awesome work man. Looking forward to more progress.

Damn good work, that looks great.

haha I saw this piece of shit on zip-tied... I still sit mezmorized that such good fab work was done on such a bad chassis, but it's not like you're trotting around your newborns with it so cheers to you for a bad ass job.

^ lol damn straight. Like CJ said, first time it hits 1 bar, shits gonna go supernova and kill everyone in a 1km radius.

oh and the trans mount was mig'd :) Only tig so far is on intake and boost pipe.

respect to your fab work, nice to have the shop and tools.

Im loving the front end work. Looks pretty good, keep us updated!

Having your intercooler slanted like that is not a good idea at all. I had that on an s13 with a 4-row IC, and had overheating issues even with a taurus fan on low speed. My HG was fine, no water in oil, and had no leaks, straightened my FMIC out and air could finally flow a straight path to my radiator. Car neve roverheated again.

Just some friendly advice. Nice custom rad support... you should have modded it further out so you could run Puller fans.... Pusher fans are gay and inefficient. Also, where did you get your intake manifold?

thanks for the input! we may straighten her out, i guess when testing and tuning we will find out quickly.

Its one that gavster made using the stock manifold.

Pm me if you want something similar :)

Night and Day! good progress keep it up

what happened to all of the gusset plates?

we haven't welded them in yet, in case we need to make minor adjustments to the support. now that everything is painted we can assemble the front end to make sure everything fits, then remove motor and paint!

saw this on ziptied.. looks really good man! diggin the rad support and dimples

nice.....is that a gecko!!!