Trinidrift3

damn, you went to work. looks good

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Adams old car with a new twist.... LOVE YOUR STYLE an attention to detail(exactly why my build taking so long that an lack of money in the account haha).
Details on psm nz supplier would be fantastic. keep rockin it man.

O also are ya keeping the midnight purple?

ill.

Thanks man. Yeah I'll be keeping midnight purple.

Parts Shop MAX NZ is the NZ/Aus distributer for Part Shop Max.

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SWEEET. cheers for the link. look forward to seeing more progress. cr kais are giggdy

ill.

CR Kai's are good for now. I'm brainstorming an idea for a new set of wheels, but only time will tell.

As for updates, well they'll be held off a while, this thing is taking up a lot of my time lately.



Picked it up a while ago for a steal, seems to have been neglected severely so I'm fixing up a few things.

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Damn! I'm moving to NZ! An Actual Type-X AND a Stagea? My two top dream cars! Only 2 pages in to the build and I already hate you! GLWB

Is the Stagea the RB25 or 26? Either way awesome car

ill.

Haha. Yeah it's good we get all the stuff that Japan doesn't want anymore haha.

It's RB25DET Auto 4WD. If I find a GTR box for cheap I might manual it, but that's a long way off. It's a pretty awesome cruiser, just needs a bit of attention.

The list of stuff to do includes:

Cambelt, pulleys, water pump.
Plugs, change ATF & diff oils
Install some R33 Turbo brakes I picked up for cheap.
New rear shocks, will probably pick up coilovers.
A/C needs re-gassing
Front CV's need replacing
And both front doors are rusted out under the mirrors, just found replacements for them so I'll be doing those pretty soon.

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ill.

I wasn't kidding about the mirror rust.



Picked up some new doors and got it taken care of!



180's coming along too. Got some carpet for it so now the interior can go back in.

Oh and I sold my Brix and got another Zeta 2. Cool!

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memphis180sx

looks good hope to see more updates that mirrior rot was bad

ill.

Yeah thanks man. That was the worst side, but the other side was on its way there.

The 180's just waiting on my shortblock, and carpet to arrive, amongst a couple of other things. But those are the big ones.

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jdm2191

That was some serious Cancer good thing it was on the door

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Gastkr

i see alot of stagea's like that. seems to be a nissan thing to rust out under wing mirrors, my car had passengers side do that. good to see one stagea out of a whole country of em getting love

ill.

Yeah. Nissan put foam behind the mirrors which holds water and just rusts downward. It's particularly bad on series 1 Stagea's

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Update time!

So I've been working hard on the car the last couple of days. Getting what I can done.



After looking at the head that came with my engine, I decided to get a second hand head and swap everything over, as there was some wear in the cam journals that I'd rather not take the risk with.



So I picked up this mint head off an S15 SR20DET, and made up some head stands and got to work. I'll dismantle the old head, and remove the valves, springs and retainers from that and use them on this head as it came with none. I'll be running factory cams and valvetrain for now, as there's no point in getting too wild with cams while running a T28.

Currently the engine is at the machinist's being bored, honed, decked and having the crank balanced, but I'm waiting on my new oil pump to arrive before the block can be decked, So that's holding me up pretty bad.



Scraped/wire wheeled all the seam sealer in the bay and in the tubs away so I can remove any rust starting to form underneath. There were a few small bits, but I've fixed them up nicely and primered it, so this chassis should last a while. I've also wire wheeled back around all the holes that still need to be welded, and trust me there's a few.



Here's the tower minus its seam sealer, now, should I seam weld this thing?

Also picked up a flywheel and ordered a custom clutch setup from the boys at Autoclutch. Shit should work really good. Gotta pick that up in the next few days so my engine builder can balance the crank up.

Hopefully next update will be when the shortblock comes back!

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chiboy002

stitch weld would be better, in case you have to replace it then you won't have to cut an entire seam weld off

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ill.

Seam welding is the process of spot welding the seams of the car man.

Stitch welding is what you'd do to butt weld two thin metals, intsead of a continuous weld which would warp the metals.

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Pinggg

curious on how much it gonna cost you for the machine shop to bored, honed, decked and having the crank balanced also deck the front cover with the block..
pm'd me if you don;t wanna post the amount, thanks! enjoying the build!

ill.

I'll let you know when I get everything back man. Just because I added a few things on in addition to that, and he'll be sizing bearings for me, and assembling it to a shortblock for me as well.

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Pinggg

thanks man just trying to get a price range.

chiboy002

ah i must be confused then, switched the names up

yeah seam weld it, it helps reduce the wear & tear
i plan on doing that to my front as well

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ill.

Yeah. Gunna ring up a certifier (the guy who inspects your car for the gay long drawn out process we have to go through to get our cars road legal over here) up tomorrow and ask him about the legality, and also because I wanna do this hahaha.

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kalypso123

very nice!

Gastkr

oooo. keen to see what he says. as i have notched my rad support to tilt my radiator forward be nice to hear what he says about rad support mods

ill.

So my radiator came with some unbranded shitty fans. I knew they wouldn’t work that great so decided I’d get rid of them for a better setup. I need to straighten up a few of the fins, but it should clean up mint.



After someone posted a pic of AU Falcon fans and shroud on a local forum, I thought it looked like it would work pretty good with a bit of trimming, so i picked up a set off a wrecker, cleaned them up and got to trimming them up.



Made two top brackets, and some bottom locators and it mounts pretty solidly.

Came up pretty good after an hour or so with a dremel. Still need to do a bit more trimming so the hoses will fit properly, and get some rubber edging strips to seal the shroud to the radiator.

Also ordered a new oil pump and picked up my clutch the other day, so hopefully the shortblock will be back to me soon and I can finally get this thing going.

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chiboy002

removing the upper radiator support doesn't reduce chassis rigidity so with the frame non-seam welded it'll be pretty much the same

why cut out the whole thing though? why not cut the rad portion off and move it back/tilt it back, and have it be bolt on? removing the entire rad support is a pain in the ass, a lot of the spot welds are in shitty positions

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ill.

I don't need to change its position, I need to accomodate the intercooler and its piping, so instead of hacking up factory brackets and shit I can just remake everything to run pop ups and a mid mount intercooler.

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ill.

Sold the Stagea and bought a Terrano/Pathfinder that I'll use as a cheap tow rig.

In other news!



Excuse the shit photo, but the bulk of my engine is finally back in my posession. Ordering a timing kit tomorrow, and then the shortblock will be well on its way to being ready for a head.

I've put the ARP studs in, but that's about all for now.

Put carpet and most of the interior back together in the last few days, looking good, just need to get the bay painted, so I can run the body loom. Light was too shit for a good picture of it.

More updates in the next few days!

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Looking forward to them, block looks great!

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Pinggg

How much did you paid for the bottom end work?!

you never got back to me

bc.

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