tricky_ab

I'm putting in my vote for a Spec 2 as well I was even planning to run one till I got my hands on some Reinhard...

SlideOrDie831

BC Spec 2 hands down.

kyles1988

Time for today's update:

I did a tiny amount of work on the car. Had planned to do more but the ol' back wasn't having it.

So, Tuesday Nights at Toby's continued...I ended up mounting my GTSPEC C-pillar bar. It mounts to the rear seat belt upper mounting points. Well, like all hatches, at some point in my car's life the rear seat belts were removed, so I didn't have any of the hardware. Luckily, Toby came to the rescue and had some spare Gallery Fresh bolts lying around that were the perfect fit, so I mounted that up with those.

Excuse the iPhone pic/dirty interior. I'll probably get a better one soon.



The last thing I did for the night was to remove the roof spoiler. It just wasn't really "me" and made the back of the car look too chunky. I'll probably post this on zilvia for sale with a bunch of other stuff soon once I figure out which one it is. I'm really liking the look if it without it so far.


I had planned to do something like this

http://zilvia.net/f/chat/293805-inte...ml#post4218563

with my Pivot RHU-M last night as it is currently just double-stuck to the bottom of my steering column shroud, so it always falls down and annoys me, but I didn't have the motivation to do it, what with my back acting up and being tired from school/work (last semester of undergrad...yessssss)

In other news, got some new stuff this week. Got the 180SX belts and interior panels on the way, some red bride logo fabric on the way to spice up the interior a little, got a new turbo inlet pipe for the Z32 MAF, and my Z32 rear calipers showed up.

On a final note



Wanted one of these for close to 10 years. NeXt! Miracle X-Brace.

PS someone buy my cusco RSTB

lflkajfj12123

King of DOPE

roof wings suck nuts

PoorMans180SX

I'd highly recommend upgrading to a Z31 BMC. It changed my life.

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kyles1988

Z31 or Z32?

I bought a Z32 BMC the other day. I'll get to talking about that eventually. All of my "updates" so far have just been me copying and pasting the entries from my blog over the last few months. Starting to catch up to where I'm at right now with the car.

s13silvia_R

Good work Kyle.
If I was to ever do a Hatch it would look similar to yours. All it need is Ganador mirrors and maybe a Dmax vented hood.

lflkajfj12123

I have a Z31 bmc for my r33 brembos + stock brakes... has better split if you're just upgrading fronts

I think the Z32 one is fine if you have Z32 all around

Ganadors are good. Don't get a hood unless its KOGUCHI

kyles1988

Thanks man! Yeah Ganadors need to happen soon. I have a line on a few sets. DMAX vented hood would be cool, but I think that's a little rowdy even for me.

Anyone want to sell me some Zeta 2's?


Dang..R33 brembos..what a boss. Yeah I have Z32's all around for now. I had them on my coupe too and dug them. Eventually I want to step up to something like GREX or Endless. But so does everyone else *shrug*

Brian

Endless ....... $$$$$

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riptor

aww such a pretty build...i have to say this is exactly what i want my green machine to look like!! thanx for the insperation bro!!

icedsole

i vote east bear mirrors on this joint

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towlie

I like that pivot idea

Neat progress.

I'll trade you East Bears for Ganadors

chiboy002

pop that sunroof!
steal damon's seats!

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LBCtoofortee

loos dope - the sleepy eye

i love that red too

kyles1988

Got 2 sheets of red Bride Logo fabric in the other day. So I'll be wrapping the door card inserts, glovebox and arm rest in that before too long here. Can't wait to get rid of the last bit of tweed in the interior. I also got my JDM seatbelts / interior plastics in from Matt the other day. No headliner yet to get rid of the gaps, still working out shipping with a guy from Canada, hopefully it's not too insane.



Man I really need some good updated pictures of this thing. Oh I also ordered some Energy Suspension Urethane subframe bushings today too. Right now the rear subframe bushings are in bad shape, so I can't wait to get those in. I'll be putting them in at the same time I do my non-HICAS subframe/HICAS delete and S15 dif that I picked up from Toby. This winter I'll be refreshing all of my suspension components with a new full-car bushing set and probably cleaning some stuff up under the car, like probably a fresh coat of paint on the subframe and suspension arms.


If anyone wants my fairly low miles, good condition Cusco 2-Way diff, let me know.

kyles1988

I really thought about it for a while (don't wanna mess up the Itoh vibes), but Ganador's are more my style

Damn you noticed the sunroof. I think it was about to rain or something.

I'm on the hunt for some red zeta 2's. preferably kevlar ones.

Something like this would make my head explode:



As a side note, I PM'D the guy above to try to buy them

kyles1988

Last night I had my first go at wrapping some stuff in Bride fabric. I started with the glovebox and good lord that thing showed me who was boss. I think I spent a total of 4 hours working on it. <a href="http://www.broadfield.wordpress.com">Toby</a> got quite a lot of enjoyment out of watching me struggle I think. Anyway, here are some progress pictures.

What I started off with



After pulling the nasty stained stinky tweed off. When you do this, the tweed separates from the backing (yellow stuff) so to prevent any lumps I sanded down all of the high spots.



Mocking up the fabric so that the bride logos are level with the bottom of the glovebox and not slanted like they were on my coupe



Top part glued down, about to start stretching



Toby made me this little "tongue" or trim piece as he called it to help finish off the area on under the handle. Also put a fresh coat of Landau Black on the handle itself



Finished and reassembled



Back in the car



Another showing the arm rest, which I did second and was much easier.



The red is definitely very grabby. I'm hoping when I get the door cards done they kind of tone the glovebox and arm rest down a little. Otherwise I'll have to get red Zeta 3's.

My thumbs are killing me from all that fabric stretching. And that stuff is made out of kevlar I swear, such a pain to cut.

Might have another super small update tonight of the "hey I bolted a part on" sort, we'll see.

I ordered some more stuff for the car, A'PEXi Z32 MAF intake, some random little interior clips that I was bummed I was missing like the ones on the sill plate, Circuit Sports exhaust hanger bushings and then a Z32 rear caliper rebuild kit.

Oh and I'm really regretting the gray dmax floormats now btw. Knew I should have gone red.

Anyone want to buy my 180 seats? And my (real) Bride Zeta 3 Sport?

Brian

I am really excited for your car.

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tricky_ab

A lot of people here are excited for this build!

lflkajfj12123

yeah so did i...

the car was stolen lol

MrFairlady

I'll take 180sx Rear seat!!! Gimmie

I miss My Deftones Glovebox I made out of an old t-shirt on my old 180. Was the bomb.

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Crondy

There's got to be somebody else out there having trouble looking at granadors. I searched a little bit but I kinda want to go at it on my own. The top brace looks like shit on these mirrors, completely kills the flow. Anyone know of any mirrors looking exactly like ganadors but without that top arch? If nothing comes up I'll hack some up

How much for the diff? How bout the seat? Nice job wrapping that shit though, I recently got my first "real" job as an engineer for a foam in place company

kyles1988

Ah..bummer. Hope I don't ruffle any feathers with my PM.

Who said I was selling my 180 rear seat just yet? Haha...at this very moment, I don't have plans to get rid of it just yet.

MrFairlady, can you chime in with any specifics on ABS delete? Anything I need to know? (besides bleed the brakes like crazy)

Thanks man. Wrapping the glovebox was a pretty big pain, but the armrest was easy/fun.

750 for diff.
450 for Zeta 3 Sport.

Got my A'PEXi Z32MAF intake today. Pretty cool piece.

Tuesday night I go over to my friend's place to start pulling the parts off that shell. So I'll have my new dashboard, non-HICAS rear subframe, S15 Diff and some other stuff from it laying around. Will probably start pulling the car apart for that stuff once the white stuff starts flying


Also...........................

Ordered BuddyClub Spec2

MrFairlady

Bench bleed bmc before installing real good. Theres a kit avail or borrow from technicians at work. Hahaha
That will make things easier. Bleed in car as well.Get speed bleeders for the calipers to make that a 1 man job. Did that on my 180 and will do on the s14 as well.

That's about it. You wont need to bend lines like I did so that's a plus.
Red floor mats would be bukake magic. But that's just me talkin.

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chiboy002

non sense! i see blue sky in the reflections

ill let my cousin know about the zetaIII

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kalypso123

wow... your actually IMPROVING IT!

Broadfield

There's a LOT of room for improvement, but I'm hard to impress Kyle is wasting no time though... I've never seen him attack a car like this before. I'm happy for him!

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tricky_ab

Yes *Highfive*

towlie

Neat, we have matching air filters lol