So, I’m here now haha big thanks to Damon for helping me get a build thread going. I’m going to apologize ahead of time for my lack of going into detail(not sure if you guys really would even like that) so I’m going to go back in time some and try and bring this/myself up to speed haha.
So, basically let’s go to the actual beginning(don’t worry, I’m not gonna use the same pics.)
1991 s13 hatch. When I got it the hatch was a different color, no carpet, holes in the floor, crusty torn up grey leather seats, but it was so cool to finally own a car I had been wanting since I was 15 I think. The car had rust, but I was determined to fix it myself and make the car less of a pile a shit.
This build unfortunately won’t be one of those really concise, everything is perfect builds primarily because this car is far, far, far from perfect.
BUT, I’ll do my best though.
Got the car, “fixed” the frame rails and the rockers as best as I knew how. It wasn’t done perfectly and it was also the reason I bought a welder. I had never welded anything before prior to owning this car. Grabbed a pignose from a local friend because I prefer them over shark nose. I also found a Pignose Lip I drove 4 hours to get for $40
Frame rails were trash and for whatever reason I don’t know where the finished photos of it are(not like they are good but they are better then the angle iron the po tacked onto the rot that was there) and yes I used flux cause I ran out of gas.
I did just cut everything out of I wanna say 16 gauge, again not perfect.
I did this all outside of my moms apartment I lived with at the time on the ground in a parking spot. Yes I undercoated over the rails and all that jazz but don’t have pics.
Next I fixed the rockers by cutting them out and got recommended a guy in the UK I want to say, who remakes sills/rockers. Bought those and chopped mines out not having a clue what I was doing.
I ended up redoing the right side later down the line a lot better.
At that point the car was still stock suspension with the exception of kouki tails, 5 lug swap I did and z32 wheels.
Picked up these boiz
But before I put them on, I paid a dude $1500 for a single stage spray(ah3)with Prep and all that(looking back I would of avoided but didn’t have the knowledge or space at the time) this is a picture he sent me afterwards.
I was hyped to say the least.
Picked up some square g33s 17x9+15 I wanna day and got some 215/45s.
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And lowered the car/aligned it(I’m a alignment tech) and enjoyed it for the rest of the summer pretty much.
My rad was leaking so I swapped that out and did a h4 swap with some silver stars,and changed the belts.
I knew winter was coming and I didn’t want to reverse all the work I had done..bought a $700 Volvo 245 wagon and needless to say you know how that story went. Drove my car for about a month in the winter with them salting roads(internally crying)
Volvo #1
About a month later, still wanted a Volvo so I picked up this manual 245. Too say the least this car is a fucking blast. It’s slow but it never stops running and it’s a tank in the snow. Pretty sure the car has close to or over 300k as the odo stopped at 260k haha.
My girlfriend lived two hours from me in the city I used to live in and her mom let me store my car for the winter there. So it sat for a while while I was sorting and dealing with the issues that come with buying used old cars.