Levan. B

Sup dudes. I'm finally getting around to starting this build thread after almost a year of building the car, better late than never.

My goal with this project was to try to build the cleanest s13 that i possibly could, nothing extreme, I just wanted it to be almost like " new ". With my old 92' SE Hb I ran into a few problems with body damage, and not having the time or ability to get that fixed due to it being my daily driver, I decided to go for a whole new chassis.

Because of the fact that my whole family has been car enthusiasts for as long as i can remember this build has been a family effort of sorts. My father Jay, and my grandfather Gary have been helping me out with this thing for the past year tremendously, I can't possibly thank them enough. It's pretty neat that I can say that about a silly 240 build of mine.

Some of you may already be familiar with my ol' Goldie hatch.

Sad to say I had to begin reaming it of its parts for the new chassis after working so hard to get it the way it was, but I will still be driving it nonetheless.

Onto the new chassis:
While i was on the lookout for a new car to start with, my father ran across another gold hatch, what a coincidence. It was a 93' and was also an SE; right down the road from his house, and it was for sale. He said it was the cleanest completely stock s13 he had seen in a while. The car had two owners it's whole life. The current owner at the time had owned it since 1995. So of course i jumped on it and bought it a few hours later.
Here it is the day of purchase:


Drove the car once completely stock, just because. ran into some small electrical problems and addressed them right away before i started stripping it down.

Started off day one pulling the front end, doors and hatch off of the car.



Then went the interior.






All of the doo doo brown interior would be either replaced or painted to be black and grey.

The interior of the car was sprayed with Lizard skin for sound deadening. I was skeptical about it at first, but it turned out okay apart from the messy overspray




Then came some minor body work, I wanted to have it as smooth as i could before it went to the painter to try to make it move as quickly as possible, since I am unfortunately a very impatient person. Hah.




Pulled the grimey KA out, it wasn't quite as " Clean " as the rest of the car, Then worked on stripping down the KA and feverishly cleaning the bay.






Put the car up on the lift where it would sit for a while, and dropped the front crossmember and rear subframe.





Finally, the bay was prepped and ready for paint. unfortunately i couldn't find photos of it in primer.
I wanted the color for the car to be something that was a little different, I spotted some photos from japan for some inspiration, and went for it.



The color is a bit more green than what it looks like in the photo. Thats all I'm posting tonight. bare with me on the photos, they are scattered everywhere on different computers.

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