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11-10-2012, 09:55 PM | #1 |
Nissanaholic!
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Kathleen, GA
Age: 50
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Mikester's SR-Powered Fun-mobile~
Hey everbody. My name is Mike; I've been trolling here for a few yrs... and decided to post my last few yrs work. If any of y'all were in Okinawa between 2005 & 2008, and into cars; you may remember my old 180SX that I built up from fairly stock form:
^^That's not me lol... She was a friend of mine who wanted to pose with it for a swimsuit calendar. ANYWAY... When it came time for me to leave, I packed up just about everything from the FMIC to the tailpipe & brought it back to the states and sold the body. My dream has been to reicarnate that car in LHD form; so in 2009, I flew down to Dallas for a nice, rust-free car to bring up to St Louis and get to work on. Here it is (was lol): First order of business was to rip apart the interior and redo it. So I tore it all out, cleaned and/or repainted everything; then added sound deadener. Then put it all back together nice & clean with: - R33 seats - Kouki 180SX rear seat - New [to me] dash - New OEM speaker grills & shift boot - New Essex carpet - Nismo floor mats - New headliner w/fixtures & visors dyed to match the darker shade of grey - New power window switches - hydrographic carbon map light - New Canadian-spec A & lower B pillar side panels - 180SX seat belts & upper B-pillar panels - LED dome - 180SX cluster - 180SX digital climate control - Painted glove box door (graphite) - carbon scuff plates - Razo carbon pedals - Momo wheel - Kenwood Excelon deck w/Pyle Red label speakers, 320w amp & Kicker Impusle 15" sub - carbon C-pillar bar - Cusco carbon rear tower brace - GT Spec trunk cross brace Looks & smells lie a whole new car in there lol! - There are still a few things left to do to the interior, but it's SO much nicer than it was... and there were a lot of other things I did to it as well, but I am trying to keep the narrative short. In between some the above work, I did a 1yr stint in Afghanitraz. While there, I bought a whole bunch more stuff for it on top of what I brought home from Okinawa. When I got back 8 months ago, I did some other prep work & started on the rear underbody portion of the build... - Completely redid fuel tank (cleaned, undercoated/repainted) - Summit -6AN braided fuel lines - Walbro 255 h.p. pump - Deleted evap system - Undercoated entire underside & rear fenderwells with Herculiner - Had rear member, sway bar, spindles, lateral supports & LCA's powder coated - Moog ball joints - Energy urethane subframe bushings - RS-R urethane main bushings - R32 GT-R rear brake/5-lug swap - 300ZX (2+2) ebrake cables / extension brackets - Ray's Volk Racing GT-C wheels 17 x 9 +13 / Nitto 555R 275/40/ZR17 drag radials - HKS Hipermax Performer coils - Drift-Spec RUCA/toe control rods - GT-Spec lower tie brace - 180SX VLSD - Driveshaft Shop Alum driveshaft Then I got started on the front underbody prep Aside from all of that, I did a bunch of other prep-type stuff done while waiting for the front stuff to get back from powder coat... Like the tranny lol! - CA18DET tranny w/SR bell housing - Cusco baffled center plate - HKS return springs - Nismo pivot ball - C's short shift - Circuit Sports urethane mount Sent the manifold to Jet-Hot- very happy with the turnout=) Looks damn near new- I beat the piss out of it in Okinawa for 2+yrs. FReddy intake... Got it free: Sent it to St Louis Plating for polish: Cleaned 20 yrs worth of shit out from behind the old tails & garnishes... Slapped the new setup in Continued front prep ^^Had the rear cut up to the body line & pinch-welded in prep for overfenders. DIF/Tokico Z32 MC Now that it finally had brakes again; and good ones at that, it was time to to drive it... Felt like a whole new, yet underpowered car!!! LOVE the URA's tails~ Picked up the motor from the builder (Adrenaline Motorsports, St Peters, MO) Very happy with their work~ Typical machine work (hone, tank, deck, polish crank, line bore etc), all new [OEM] bearings, thrust washers, gaskets yadda yadda... PLUS some other stuff: - Wiseco 86.5mm forged pistons (9.0:1) - Eagle rods (kit comes with ARP HW) - ARP main studs - ARP head studs - BC valve springs/retainers - Tomei solid lifters - Tomei 260* solid-type Procams - Powder coated crank pulley & bracketing - Billet blue CAS cover - Nismo ratchet-style oil cap - Tomei Super oil block - Tomei oil pan ^^Mmmm sexy~ It was time to my buddy's shop to toss the KA, start building up the SR and get the engine bay ready for paint... so I got some stuff ready for it. Pulled in and went to town: Bay is ready to stage the engine in to cut the holes for the piping:
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