kyles1988

Put in my Next Miracle X-Brace tonight without the C-Pillar bar. Got burnt out on modifying the C-Pillar bar to work with it, so I just put it in by itself. Hopefully you folks appreciate the fact that I dusted off my DSLR instead of just using my iPhone for these pics. Have to do a shoot for canibeat for a friend's RX7 next week so I gotta shake the cob webs out.





I usually have my backseat in the upright position but I wanted to get a better view of all of my recent stuff haha. With the seat up, the miracle sits right along the back of it. It's pretty cool.

Levan. B

looks good Kyle, those bars are neat. I can't seem to find any.. though i can't justify buying one at the moment.

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kyles1988

They're not real easy to find. I was lucky enough to get ahold of BBoyOracle at the right time and he sold me this one.

Small update: Put on my A'PEXi Z32MAF Intake and Z32 MAF tonight. Pretty sure the MAF I bought off a dude on here is bad.

The car will start then lope real bad then shut off. If I unplug the MAF, it runs fine. When I used a multimeter and measured pin-to-pin on it, it had the same readings as when I did the same measurement on my bad Z32 MAF from my coupe when I fried all of the electronics in it last year.

Speaking of frying the coupe, when I did that, I also fried the PowerFC I had in the car, so it's been a nice desk ornament since then. Well recently a friend of mine did the same thing I did (hooked the battery up backwards) on his SR'd/PowerFC'd car and it fried his PowerFC as well. He called A'PEXi USA and apparently you can ship the PFC back to them and they will forward it on to A'PEXi Japan and they'll repair it for about 150 bucks with around a 2 month turn around time. So in other words, I'll be doing that as both this car and my coupe had Redtop SR's, then I'll be putting that PFC in this car once I get it back.

I redid the MAF wiring too when I was wiring in the new plug, it wasn't....how I would have done it. So at least that's a little better now.

I also sold my Bride Zeta 3 Sport today, so I'm going to get that shipped out for the dude and probably order a Red Zeta 3 or 2 soon. I'm extremely excited to finally have a Zeta 3 instead of a Zeta 3 Sport as that's what I've always had. Cool seat and all, but the Zeta 3 has the nicer fabric, finish, etc. I really want a Zeta 2 but I don't think it's going to happen this time around.

Ok if you made it through all of that, congrats. It is probably rambley. Here are a few pictures as a reward.







Does anyone need this SR20 MAF / A'PEXi intake? I think the SR MAF either needs cleaned or is starting to go bad (I'll just say that up front so you don't get screwed like I did) but the intake piece is obviously fine (and OG).

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CamryOnBronze

Nice intake man!

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kyles1988

It's no GReddy intake, but it'll do.

JesusFreakDrifter

awesome build already...color and everything

fatduece

Very nice build. The red graduation seems a little overpowering? I think the black graduation would have helped match your floor mats and the bride seat, along with the rest of the interior. Here's a little article about your car, before you bought it.

CARSPOTTING> N. Konstantinov’s Kouki Monster – MotorMavens | Car Culture and Photography

kyles1988

Thanks man! Gradation in general is pretty overpowering, do you mean Black Logo material? Mine is Red Logo. I generally like to be pretty subtle with things I do (like doing Black Logo instead) but since the car is bright red and has a huge wing, etc, I figure I would just go for it and hope it turned out well. I can always redo it if I don't like it. The black Zeta 3 Sport seat is now sold, being replaced by a red Zeta 3 ASAP. I think when I do the doorcards it will help distract from the glovebox and armrest. Right now with only those "highlighted" by the bride material, I would agree that it looks pretty dumb and overpowering, as those are odd items to highlight. I will be replacing the floormats before too long. The only thing that is more shoddy than the quality of the DMAX floormats is the wiring in this car. I'll probably end up with floormats that mimic the pattern of the DMAX set, but in red, and made by a local upholstery shop that does top quality work. They will be made to have an indentation to go around the cage that I want to do.

And yeah I've seen that article haha.

tricky_ab

Pfft it's better

kyles1988

I ordered an RS*R full car bushing kit today. I couldn't stand the thought of putting anything back on the car that wasn't freshened up. So the rear knuckles/spindles/everything will have brand new polyurethane bushings. As well as the rear subframe bushings themselves. The differential may get SPL solid mounting bushings.



Here is the subframe / rear end assembly that I am picking up from Bret tomorrow. This thing needs some serious work in the cleaning department. Assuming everything checks out (no structural rust, etc) I'm going to drop this off at PowderCoating Unlimited to be sand blasted and powdercoated gloss black along with the uprights/spindles and front and rear 300zx brake calipers. I will clean and paint the differential housing my self. Most of the arms (toe arms, traction arms, upper control arms) will hopefully be replaced with aftermarket SPL units this winter. The lower control arms may be replaced as well, but I'm not set on that just yet. The brakes/e brake cables you see in these pictures will be sold off or thrown away as I have the 300ZX E-Brake assembly and calipers to put on there. That will be a huge upgrade.

I am dropping my Zeta 3 Sport off at Greyhound today to be shipped off to a military base in the Mojave desert where it's new owner resides. I think I've decided against running a completely red Zeta 3 for my next seat. Hopefully I'll be ordering the new one within the next couple of days so that it will be here by the middle of October for Toby's cookout. I'm going to do something a little different with the Zeta that draws on my roots in the Honda world a little bit, it should turn out pretty cool and match the black/red theme of the interior pretty well hopefully.

CrimsonRockett

Great thing about S13's is that the differential requires no bushings. It's directly mounted onto the subframe.

You should upgrade to solid subframe bushings while you have it off. They're not as horrible as people make them seem.

Urethane bushings...dunno. A lot of people have ran them and they become annoying after a while. Have to continually grease them so they don't bind up.

Personally decided against having my subframe powdercoated. If any of the coating chips, the bare part will allow the subframe to rust from the inside. Painting it instead.

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kyles1988

I thought that if you had an S14/15 housing, they had to be secured somehow? And that the S13 Subframe had provisions to do so, but they weren't used when in conjunction with an S13 diff housing?

I've read up on the solid subframe bushing vs poly as much as I can. Most people say it's "not too bad", well that's the thing, the PBM coilovers on the car do ride poorly, so I'm afraid that adding one more thing that's "not too bad" to it will make it too bad. I'd like it to ride as nice as possible at it's current ride height. As it is, some days I can not drive the car with the condition my back is in.

As far as the urethane bushings on the spindles etc go, I've heard they bind up too, definitely a bummer. What other option do you have though? I guess the idea of re-greasing them every winter isn't horrible. I grew up racing motocross and we used to tear the forks / rear suspension down every winter and rebuild/regrease them. I guess I should also mention that the car is not my daily. So will the grease hold up longer since the car sits 5 days a week?

I figured that the powdercoating would hold up to more abuse than painting. it seems like when people spray bomb their subframes it looks cool, but down the line when they show the subframe again it looks trashed. So will a well-prepped and painted subframe outlast powder? What about sandblasting it then POR15'ing it?

CrimsonRockett

Could always go with different coilovers. Personally looking at DG-5's and such. Already have a brand new set of FLT-A2's, but they're just sitting around collecting dust(with all my other shit, hah). That way, the solid subframe bushings aren't all that noticeable.

Don't know what your budget looks like, but you could look into going all spherical. SPL sells these: SPL PRO SUSPENSION | 89-94 Nissan 240SX S13

My buddy (owner of the infamous "Ruined Z" ) has all spherical bearings on his car and it's really comfortable. Solid, but not back breaking. It's a blast to drive.

Sounds kind of dumb, but I'm going with two different set ups (street and track). Street set up will consist of Nismo bushings on my LCA's and spindles. Everything else will be spherical (Cusco). Track set up will consist of all Spherical. Looking at SPL's newest line, I'm tempted to get rid of all my Cusco stuff and go SPL everything, but then again, Ikeya Formula is looking at me funny and I feel like throwing my money at that. Hah

I figured that as well with the subframe. My subframe has been sitting off to the side for months now because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Powdercoating was the first thing that came to mind, but after reading how it could rust from the inside (powdercoating doesn't bubble up like paint does when it rusts), that threw me off. I mean, it's not like we get a serious amount of rain in Cali, but I plan on keeping my car long term. As long as the subframe is prepped and painted properly, I don't see why it wouldn't hold up just as well as powdercoating it. Personally not a fan of spraybombing stuff. I mean, I've worked with rattle cans (a lot), but wouldn't want that on my suspension pieces. It'll definitely chip. Don't have any experience with POR15 unfortunately. I've read about it though.

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kyles1988

Thanks for all the info Johnny, you've given me a lot to think about.

Those SPL Spherical bushings are giving me a chubby.

e1_griego

Your coils are the ride quality issue.

All sphericals and solid subframe bushings just make for more noise. Mine isn't bad since I have full interior still, but the sphericals in the rear spindles definitely increased road noise.

s15inCali

really like the last picture on the first page.

tricky_ab

Can I ask where you're planning to buy your seat from? I checked a few places and they all were out of Red and I was told it would be about a 2 month wait till Tee's gets some in...

HWYKING

Awesome build man, when are you planning to install your Apex'i Z32 intake system? and if the red armrest and glove box end up being too much red for ya, let me know and ill buy them off ya and send you my stocks

kyles1988

Ahh, ok. Thanks for the info on the sphericals man. The coils are for sure the issue, but they will do for now. My point was that I didn't want to increase the harshness of the car in any other way.

Thanks man! I was bored just sitting around Damon's garage while he wired in his Pivot RHU-M and dripped solder on his old Zeta 3 like a greg and decided to take that picture.

Well I'm actually not getting the red Zeta anymore. Bitching out. I'm still shopping around a little, but it's been Driveline Motoring (which apparently is no longer run by Eric, so I'm not sure who the new guy is) and AutoRnD. Basically depends on the price/availability balance. I imagine a black Zeta won't be bad to get.

Thanks. The APEX'i intake is most of the way installed, I'm just waiting on my new MAF to get here so I can finish it up and maybe take some pictures.

icedsole

get some stance xr's youll never want another coil. i remember riding in your car
and the pbm are pretty jarring and stiff

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tricky_ab

Oh I didn't know about Eric parting ways with Driveline. And when I placed my order they checked with Tee's and the only Zeta III style seat in stock was the sport model. I'm sure most places stock black since it's a safe bet.

kyles1988

Tee's gets a new shipment in the first week of October.

tricky_ab

Damn my man, you just made my day That's a lot earlier then I had expected...

kyles1988

Don't be buying no Hyper Black Zeta out from under me now ya hear.

Have you guys seen the new color for the (I think new) Stradia 2. So dope.

tricky_ab

Are you talking about the Venus colour series? (That's from their premuim Japan seat model). That's been out for a bit but it looks ohhhh so freakin' good!

And don't worry, I won't be picking up any black seats, so you're good

kyles1988

From what I understand though it only comes on the Stradia II right now though right? I reallllllllllllllly want some Zeta 3 Japan's, especially if they come in the Venus color seat back

tricky_ab

Yeah it only is currently available on the Stradia II (I hope they run this colorway on other seats soon). I'd pony up the cash for one for sure. The carbon backed Type R's look amazing as well (Though I only seen it on Vios III and Zeta III L model). I was shocked to see that it's not THAT much more then Zeta III's. Though the price has dropped on regular Zetas...

kyles1988

Oh I forgot to mention, apparently all of Bride's pricing goes up on October 1st, so get your order in before then.

Broadfield

Yes, all Bride product will see an increase in price.

I just emailed my info to Tee's to become a direct dealer.

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