smellslikecurry

So I picked up this zenki in April. Really clean chassis for being a NY car. Got it for a great deal. It had an freshly rebuilt SR in it and looked like this...


PS Phillip please excuse the grammar and punctuation.













You can see in the last pic that something was up with that front end. The core support was slightly tweaked. The paint is in pretty good condition...no big dents or scratches.

First couple of days I didn't really do anything with the car. Brought it over to a good friend's shop, Tarmac SPL. If you're from NY and you bring your 240sx to a different shop you need to stop and bring it to Damian. I hope this build thread will be a testament to the quality of his work. Damian eats, sleeps, craps 240s.

Here's the car at Tarmac already looking better.



Got bored and cut a heart out in my bumper



The car came with these awesome 18x7 +45 or something jdm tyte hella flush wheels. They were too awesome for my car so I decided to sell them and get in touch with Ravspec for some new wheels. Calvin's the man. He's local and always does his best to hook us up.



JDM / USDM Auto Performance Parts Wholesale - Specialized in STI, EV0, 350Z - Ravspeconline.com

a week or two later we have...





aka stop buying knock off bullshit







got some kics for a great deal with my wheels.




This car will never be drift hellaflush so sorry fanboys. These tires are just temp rollers. I'll need traction and a whole lot of it so my next tire setup will probably be a set of semi-slicks. 275/35/18 all around most likely. Yes I will be going widebody.

A friend of mine was selling his Navan setup so I scooped that up at the same time as well. Slapped it all on that night







Snapped some pics the next morning...FJ daily in the background. I love that damn thing.













please excuse the POS winter beater bmw in the back

The sides of the navan bumper were cracked at the mounting points so we just used some zebra tape to hold it together for now. The entire car is getting painted soon.


The dirty ass engine bay started to get to me as well as the bent radiator support so we yanked the motor out and towed the car over to the HRE FAB to build me a a crash bar/rad support.



Austin and his dad Jim Harvey run the show over there. They can build you anything. I'll let the pictures do the talking. They're on zilvia...here's Austin's profile...


http://zilvia.net/f/members/streetz.html



Hit him up if you need any sort of fabrication. If you can't get in touch with him PM me and I'll relay the message.



THE STUD HIMSELF


so handsome

yesss work that ish


nice welds bro


next up was primer...you can see the headlight brackets and hood pin brackets in this pic as well


orange swag


then came paint...i could tell you the paint code but then i would have to kill you.




the color is insane...looks different in different lights but still so ridiculous. 600+hp RB build going into the black kouki in the background.

So while Austin was busy with the front end, I was in talks with mazworx about building a sick sr20vet setup. In the meantime, Damian, like the devil was whispering in my ear about doing an LS swap. The more and more I thought about it the more it just made sense. 15k into a sr20vet motor and still worrying about blowing the motor when I beat it up. The stress wasn't worth it.

LS it was. Damian was also planning on doing an LS2 swap into his beautiful S14 seen here...




We started looking into swap kits..

One of the Tarmac customers had just picked up an LS1 for his S14 and went with the sikky kit so we were leaning towards sikky. I did some research and stumbled upon Fueled Performance's LS mount kit.

Fueled Racing Performance

Todd is the man. Extremely helpful and excellent customer service. For real. FP > SIKKY ALL DAY

They claimed that we dont have to bang the tranny tunnel and that the motor sits lower and farther back in the car when compared to sikky. We also dont need a new sway bar! We were sold. The kits however were on backorder. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. We bought 3 and and now Tarmac is an authorized dealer for Fueled Performance mount kits.

I also picked up a LS1 out of a 04 GTO and had it mildly built. I wanted to keep things as reliable as possible. I took off the valve covers to have them powder coated in wrinkle black and the coilpack brackets in white.




Then I saran wrapped the motor for extra HP.





all three LS motors at the shop...


While we waited for the mount kit to come in I started gathering parts. Here's the parts list as of yet.


2004 GTO LS1 - 24k miles
M2 CNC heads [email protected]
baby Comp cam - 214/224/559/567
ARP rod bolts
PAC springs
Manely pushrods
ASP UDP
MSD plug wires
160 Thermostat
Melling Oil Pump
Setrab 32row oil cooler 22X7.5
Custom 3.5 exhaust
7/8'' long tube headers
Trust oil filter relocation kit with thermostat
Griffin Radiator w/fan and shroud
Setrab power steering cooler
Custom cabon air box
GTO T56 6spd transmission
Diamond racing stage 2 clutch
Diamond racing 15lb flywheel
Aluminum one piece driveshaft
Short throw shifter
Delrin shift knob
Tein he drift spec winding master coilovers
Nismo power brace
SPL Tension rods
SPL Outer Tie Rod
SPL Brake deflector
Modified knuckles courtesy of Johnny 5
SPL RUCA
SPL Toe rod
SPL Traction rod
SPL eccentric lockout
Project Mu Front BBK
Custom brake brackets - the Mus were off a 370z
Project Mu rear rotors
300zx rear calipers
Project Mu rear pads
ASD Agency power braided lines
Hydraulic ebrake
Wilwood brake proportioning valve
custom tube front end
custom crash bar
Spare tire delete
Navan aero
URAS hood vent
DMAX trunk spoiler
Navan tachi-s super rare driver side seat
DMAX floor mats
Ganananador mirrors
German glass headlights
Custom rear diffuser
18x9.5 Rays Gramlights
Project kics neochrome lug nuts

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