Heywood Jablomie

That is so rad^ Cant wait to hear it.

And I'm about a year too late on this, but bolts are spec'd to a torque + an angle because that way you get a more consistent clamp load and bolt stretch than with just a torque spec.

onehundredoctane

Haven't had much free time lately, but I did get a chance to make a to a local Autox


Also had my cousin make these up


I ended up walking away with first place in XP Class and first place in a prepared class! Very exciting!

sncs14

Very nice, Matt, congrats on the first place finishes! Now you need to do something to those stock front fenders so they flow better with the rears.

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Thanks Owen!

I think the long term solution is going to be widebody, but I don't have time for that right now :/

onehundredoctane

Finally got around to ordering the front flares, taped on to test fit before drilling holes in the fenders. Still not sure I'm sold on the flare look. . . may still go widebody if I don't like how this turns out.


My oldest finally got to ride in the S14, he just giggled and laughed the whole time. We only rode around our neighborhood and didn't get out of 2nd gear, but he loved every minute of it!

crash n' burn

with front flares..does this mean it will get more low in the front finally?

onehundredoctane

Yep! With the slicks on the front end had to be at this height to prevent them from rubbing the wheel arc. Once these are on the front will get lowered a bit.

onehundredoctane

Getting tired of the flare look, decided not to install the front flares.

So, I did a thing. . .

onehundredoctane

These things look great! A little sanding around the edges and they'll fit like a glove!

onehundredoctane

Slowly but surely making these things fit. Like most fiberglass (FRP) stuff it's not a direct fit, so the edges are all having to be sanded to fit the car and leave even gaps.


The top edge against the trunk has had to have more attention than any other part of the panel, the gap is looking much better now.


You can see here where I've been making marks to note what part needed to be sanded or evened out.

travon47

Looking good man! You just really need to tape and paint those greying tails black and re-clear them

Sansone

Much better than the flare in my opinion. Looking good

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crash n' burn

Love it. I'm going to have to take a trip up there and get a ride.

onehundredoctane

Yeah man, hit me up next time you're up this way!

onehundredoctane

I decided it was time to update the lighting of the car, bulbs are great, but LEDs are obviously longer lasting and much brighter. So I ordered a 10 pack of 194 LEDs and replaced all of the park lights on the car, along with the front corner lens.


These are much brighter now!



License plate bulbs were actually burnt out I found, they got the LED treatment too

A subtle hat tip to the V8 swap

d_nice

looking good man

cbeuglas

What 194 bulbs did you use? How many leds?

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onehundredoctane

For the front corner lens I used these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1


For the front and rear park lights with amber lens I used these white LEDS. The rear corners were the hardest to do, just take your time and work slowly.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

crash n' burn

you use an LED flasher relay, right?

or we going with the hyper blinker, haha?

onehundredoctane

The LEDs I used did not create hyperflash, but that also might be due to me still having bulb 1157 and 1156 in the tail lights. . . ?

crash n' burn

who knows. I would have sworn that it would notice a low draw and think it was a dead bulb..I'm slowly doing the same for mine

onehundredoctane

Decided it was time to get serious if I'm going to be autox the car exclusively. Picked up these GK Teck toe arms, and after seeing how nice these are I think all of the arms on the car will switched out to GK soon. Compared to what I'm taking off the car, these things are gold. GK even supplies these dust boots to keep the rock crawler grade hiem joints clean, love it! I made sure to apply plenty of anti seize to the threads so these stay in good shape.

240sx_sr20det

GK Tech toe arms look nice!

Also, love the rear overs versus the flares. Are they Origin V3 55mm?

onehundredoctane

The GK arms are so solid, I should've done them sooner.


Rear flares are actually from a company based in California called Fineline Tuning. They make replica stuff, and based on current wait times for Origin I went this route instead, cheaper and readily available. The rears were less than $400 shipped, but I'm having trouble getting the matching fronts from Fineline as they don't have them in stock

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onehundredoctane

With the car being more track based than street based at this point, I decided it was
time to get my head out of the sunroof. When I autox I have to slouch ever so slightly
to keep my helmet out of the headliner.
Not only is it uncomfortable, it's not safe.


As you'll notice in the next two pictures, I purchased a set of Street Faction and
Planted Technology brackets to see which gets the seat lower. During the
install process my oldest wanted to help, so naturally I had to suit him up and let him sit in the new Sparco lol

Here you see the Street Faction brackets, which have a lot of adjustability, however they seem to have
more upward adjustment than anything. So for shorter people, these may be a good option. . . ?


The Planted Technology brackets get the seat over an inch lower than the SF however, and these are the ones
I'll end up using, as on the lowest setting my helmet has over a 1/4" between it and the headliner.


Overall, the Planted Tech brackets work best, and get the seat lower and further right than the Street Faction brackets. If you are running a wider seat, be forewarned you'll need to do some work to get the seat to keep from hitting the door when it closes.

tricky_ab

A lot of the North American vendors are having quite a time sourcing items for customers. The delays go from 1-2 months to 4-6... Heck I ordered a hood and front canards, and I'm STILL waiting for the canards... The order was placed last summer.

I should have used Streeter for the smaller items that I had ordered.

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Back for round two... 4 doors this time around...

onehundredoctane

Streeter is all I will use from here on out!

onehundredoctane

Managed to borrow a truck and trailer from a coworker to hit up a 1/2 mile event over the weekend.
Had a blast, learned a lot about the cars stability at speeds over 100mph, and saw a ton of awesome cars as well.


Got 5 runs out the the day, could've squeezed in a few more, but I let the car cool down
a lot between runs, since heat is the enemy of horsepower.


I was paired up with a new 5.0 Mustang on one of my runs, kept a few lengths on him, not surprised
really since they are so heavy. Maybe Ford should start making them out of aluminum like their pick up trucks lol


Overall, my speed average for the day was 130mph, one pass I pulled the muffler and gained 3 mph,
making my overall top speed 133mph.


If I did 1/2 mile events more often I would check into gearing to gain some more MPH. But it was still a blast! Saw tons of cool stuff.
Factory Five GTM, Corvette based, rear engine with Porsche trans.


Didn't get to see this up close, but man I love a C-10!!! Exhaust came up through bed with flappers!


There had to be over 25 GT-Rs there, I've never seen so many in one place in my life.


Only one Nismo GT-R though, love this thing.


One lonely Aerial Atom


Without question, the cleanest E30 I've ever seen, gutted, full cage and swapped.
Wish I know more about BMW engines, maybe someone can weight in on what swap this is.

crash n' burn

Looks like an S62 swap. Laguna Seca Blue is such a nice color; I don't know how I feel about it on an older BMW though.

Can't say the cleanest until you come see the wagon, haha.