Newtypex

So I'm having a hard time figuring out whether to paint the gtr grill the black or the green

Newtypex

Finally started making progress on the car. I'm off of work for a bit here so its time to push to get things ready here for summer. I've got the body work on the front and rear bumpers done. Primed the grill and front bumper tonight. Heres how they look. Minty aero bumper

jdms14slammed

This the s13 featured on superstreet ?

Newtypex

No. It's not done. There's a couple pics in here of jasons car. His has been in superstreet. I'm not the fake race car magazine guy. No offense to Jason. I actually want to finish this car enjoy it for the summer, cut my loses, and sell it.

Newtypex

So got the bumpers painted.. Still gotta paint the rear valance, rear wing, and side skirts. Those are on hold at the moment cause I wanted to work on getting it road worthy. Its getting there though.

Newtypex

Better pic of the front bumper. 100% complete and mint jdm aero bumper.. Suck it..

S14Odin

So sexy now man im jealous

Frank_Jaeger

Dear lord. It'd beautiful.

conrad_s13.5

^ same thoughts!

awesome stuff man!

guard that bumper with your life!

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Newtypex

I have a back up aero bumper ;P

blo0d

Your bonnet, headlamps, and grill needs better alignment... other than that... WOW! green is suddenly a colour consideration for my 240

Newtypex

Its all better now. Rushed to get the car outside to take a picture. The grill is actually just sitting in there not even mounted in that pic. lol

Junior x

damnn... amazing build and loving the attention to detail!

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scottie

Beautiful. No need to say anything more.

bardabe

^^^ I'm with Scottie

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Review Thread

Mishkin_707

Man this is awesome, makes me want to two tone my coupe, but I was thinking the OEM gold with the black bottom, I'm still iffy but who knows I may just do it, sorry I ramble too much, great job on that beauty!

Newtypex

Restoring my Lm's at the moment. Gonna post pics and a "how to" here in a few minutes.

Newtypex

So heres a tutorial on how one can restore his wheels.

These are of course my LM's that are on my car. First pull the sob off the car and pull the face out.


So some wheels are polished then have a clear coat sprayed over them. Easy way to tel is to try and polish them. The polish will turn black if its against bare aluminum. If it doesn't really discover your just rubbing against a clear coat. Depending on what your aiming for you may be able to get away with just buffing the clear coat. That'll make em nice again. However I wanted to repair the lips so I used aircraft stripped to strip off the clear coat. A good wash is in order afterwards.



Then it was on to repair the curb damage. Where the curb damage wasn't to bad I just used a 60 grit whirly disc on it and cut out the damage. I left a few small imperfections cause I didn't want to cut the lip down to much. Be mindful of the shape of the lip. If it has beveled edges you want to make sure that you don't sand flat bringing the edges to a point.



Once the damage is gone you'll wanna sand the surface smooth again. I did this by starting with 120 grit sand paper and going up in steps tell I reached 2000 grit. 120 - 240 - 320 - 400 - 800- 1000 - 1500 - 2000 grit. Once its all sanded out youll wanna take a sec to look around the rim to see if theres anywhere you may of hit the rim with 120 grit. You'll wanna get rid of those accidental scratches by going through the same process. Once sanding is complete take it out for another wash.



Make sure the wheel is dry before starting the polishing process. I used my drill and a couple differen't buff wheels to get in all the areas of the wheel. The polish I used is Meguiars All Metal Polish.



As you can see after a good once over its already starting to mirror up.



The way the process works is apply some polish around the wheel with a rag then go over the entire wheel with the polisher. Once the polish is good and worked in it'll be a swirly black.
Then you can wipe with a clean dry rag. Repeat the process tell you reach the finish your looking for. I did the polish process a total of three times tell I reach the epic mirror finish.



I then reassembled the wheel. It take a proper squence and torque settings to assemble it correctly. You'll also want to use blue lock tight. And presto a mint restored BBS LM


Before pictures:



After:

Newtypex

Pictures don't do justice. :P. They're a fking mirror.

Newtypex

Got the exhaust all ready for powder coat. Just had to make hangers to work with the stock locations. Also made a hang for the muffler even though it weighs nothing. I wish the whole exhaust was 3.5" Ti, but I don't have 2000$ nor is this a race car. Just gonnna powder coat it a high heat 30% gloss black. Powder coat does a pretty good job covering up my horrible mig welds. Also taking the time, while the wheels are off, to drop the car 1/2" more in the back and 3/8" in the front.

Newtypex

I was really excited to get the rest of the parts on that I painted. Got one side done and took some pictures. Pretty happy with it. Was happy to get some pictures but when I put them on my computer I took a look and the pictures are shit.. . I need a good camera. Ill post some pics anyway but I need to take some better pics.

Sergio180sx

perfect ride height!!!! not that fanboy "stanced" drop

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Newtypex

All the locks are out of the car right now. I'm getting them all matched to my ignition key. I have a Silvia square trunk lock that goes in. I'm gonna put the side skirt and rear valance on tomorrow then take some better quality pictures with a real camera. And yea I've had a couple people say to drop it another inch and tuck the tire in the wheel well but theres one thing I like better then looking at my car and thats driving my car. I like a working ride heigth.

bftII40

beautiful car, meticulous build. Lovin it.

Newtypex

Would also like to add that I bought some MAN tires. Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec. I jumped down a size cause my tire guy said the Star Specs are over and sized. 245/40/18 rear and 225/40/18 front. And yes they were oversized lol. They are as big as the tires I had on the car before which were 255/40 and 235/40. Worked out nicely. Just a little camber as you can see and perfecto!
MAN TIRE!

Newtypex

Picked up some stereo equipment today. Also took a little better quality pictures. Still not the best you can't really see the side skirts. Gonna work on the other side now.

dbiz

your car is my inspiration hahaha BEAUTIFUL! perfect stance. wheels look really fucking clean too. and the two tone just completes it haha

truckmtrS13

Did u wet sand the wheels or was it all dry sanding?

soflacoupe

Hey you how did you have both hi and Lo beams on.. how is that? On my sil front it turns off the low beam when I turn on the hi beam? Wiring?

Anyways clean car and been following it...
Amazing


Eddie

Nachtmensch

Nice work on the wheels! I'm in the process of restoring some myself and can appreciate the work put in.