cchondro

Hello my name is Chris and I'm from central Florida
Ive been on the hunt for a 240 for quite sometime and finally decided to pull the
trigger on one when I decided to sell my old accord.

One Happened to pop up that really intrigued me so I went for it
This is how I picked it up for 650$, it came with a ton of
parts also.



It looked quite ugly but I wanted a project and this one fit the script.

The first updates are from the truck but I got rid of it and bought a hatch, Im going to Update the Progress on the Hatch Here
The Truck Has been Sold!!



Engine Modifications:

-Freshly re-done 1jz Twin Turbo
-Izuzu Rodeo Dayco Timing Belt
-Light Weight Crankshaft Pulley
-VSV delete
-USDM 2jz water pump
-Converted to Front Sump Oil Pan
-2jz Ecu
-NGK Spark Plugs
-Chasebays Conversion Harness
-Xcessive 1jz to S13 motor mounts
-High amp Alternator
-25x12x3inch Intercooler w/ 3in inlets
-2.5in hot side piping/ 3in cold side
-HKS BOV
-HKS Mushroom Filter
-Magnetic Oil Drain Plug
-CX Racing Radiator
-2 12" electric slim fans
-Mishimoto Toyota Supra Thermostat
-Mishimoto Inline Water Temp. Adapter
-Custom Downpipe
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Fuel Modifications:

-16gal. Fuel Cell
-Warlboro 255 fuel pump
-300zx Fuel Filter
-(-6AN) Feed+Return Steel Braided lines
-Isis Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator
-Running 93.
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Drive Train Modifications:

-W59 w/1jz bell housing
-Xcessive W58 to S13 transmission mount
-Welded Diff
-Shaftmasters W58 to S13 driveshaft
-Steel Braided Clutch Line
-Speedy Bleeder valve on Slave
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Suspension Modifications:

-Tien S14 Inner Tie Rods w/ spacers
-Tien S14 Outer Adjustable Tie Rods
-Notched front subframe
-S14 front hubs
-S14 Front Spindles
-S14 Lower control arms
-DGR 32-way adjustable Track Coilovers
-Isis Front Tension Rods
-Isis Rear Toe Arms
-Isis Traction Arms
-No Name Upper Control Arms
-Solid Subframe Bushings
-Aluminum Rear Uprights
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Wheels:

-Front: XXR 527s 17x8.25
-Rear: XXR 527s 17x9.75
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Interior Modifications:

-Wide Band
-Greddy Profec B EBC
-Apexi Turbo Timer
-Auto Meter Oil Pressure Gauge
-Auto Meter Oil Temp Gauge
-Auto Meter Water Temp Gauge
-Auto Meter Mechanical Boost Gauge
-Bride Low Max Seats (Red)
-Custom low seat mounts
-G-Force Racing Harnesses
-Finishline Products FD Spec Roll Cage
-S14 dash
-Relocated Battery to Hatch
-Ebay Hub w/ Woodgrain wheel
(Will be replacing shortly)
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Exterior Modifications:

-Origin Lab Replica Front 30mm Fenders
-Extreme Dimensions Front Bumper
-Extreme Dimensions Side Skirts
-Extreme Dimensions Rear Bumper
-Extreme Dimensions 50mm Rear Overs
-Silva Styled Half-n-Half Taillights
-9k Racing Hood Vent
-Hood pins
-PWJDM Bumper Quick Releases
-Custom Front Bash Bar

cchondro

Sorry for not keeping this updated, this is over the past 3 months

Purchased all the stock suspension pieces for the car so I can get it rolling around
also bought the front drilled and slotted rotors but can't put it on till I can locate the front hubs
which for some reason is super difficult to find.
I need to figure out where to buy new 4lug hubs or I'm going to have to settle for used ones from the yard

Got the passenger front and rear done
now on to the driver side


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So decided on starting a tube front chassis
going to leave some of the stock points nut reinforce all around for some extra strength
got one bar welded in, hoping to get a couple more done next week and also start adding sheet metal into the bed and reinforcing that to
this will be the chapter of welding :laugh:







gotta grind down to sorta flow with the tube and the black is just rust stop.paint

Forget that crappy core support
decided to go ahead and cut everything out and mimic what dai yoshihara has on his 13


Went ahead and cut everything out


Then I used some extra cage tubing and mocked up the tube front


Now Im finishing welding it up and then ill put it on the 240
shot of the accord :salook:


Got the bottom bars in
now just need to add the last two and its good






finished the front and painted, still had to finish welding on one part
but I live in florida and rust is a serious problem


I finally Got a couple susp. parts in
I got some RUCAS that I sprayed purple
The color that ill be using to make some parts flashy :laugh:







You can also see that i finally installed some coils, some DGR Track Coilovers to be exact
got them for 600$ the guy got them for 1400$ so I got a pretty decent deal

pictures of it lowered
Itll drop alot more in the front once the motor is in, I have the coils in the rear adjusted higher up to match the front for now





Finished the dash besides one gauge and I need to put the wide band under the radio

cchondro

So a little update from me
I stripped down the truck so I can transfer everything over to the hatch didn't take the Subframes off yet in this pic,



The hatch was so mint when I got it it would have been stupid to make it a parts car
but don't look at the pictures of it since I had already dropped it's Subframe for the swap

o and the car in the middle was a coupe used for a parts car, but just sold it and still made a 150$ profit

on the 1jz side I painted the intake mani the wrinkle black,



and I also bought my chase bays harness. Suckers go for 850$ new, got mine BNIB for 535$


I traded my rear sump oil pan for a front sump one and got it all bolted up and ill be going to the junkard to find the other misc. parts that ill need to get this thing going..

But this weekend I swapped all the subframes and suspension parts over to the hatch and ill start gutting the interior next weekend.

Heres a few pics of it with out the front fenders or the front bumper





Got the new hatch to my house



Then got the front aligned



Thats all until the next update

Thanks for reading guys..

Krusty_s13

making progress. keep it up for the florida dudes lol

d_nice

looking good man

Flaks

Nice build. i was wondering if you can pick up wrinkle black spray cans anywhere? is it easy to paint stuff with.

KoukiMonsta

U get that harness from 'prove it' on here? He's a buddy of mine

Either way cool build I'm local

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cchondro

Thanks for all the luv guys

and heres a small update
ive been busy just buying other things to make the car ready to drive so all ive been doing is sprucing up the motor

The coil packs came in so all I need is the alternator and im good to go.


I finished painting the valve cover and other pieces on the motor


And heres the finished product.

05subysti

any updates? i like the ute. you got a good deal on everything!

rwtf

sweetsauce man, can't wait to see more updates!

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cchondro

Hello Zilvia,
sorry I haven't updated this thread much
I've recently been working on my bay
I'll be showing a before and after pick when it's done
I got my dash installed but I'm going to make a new center cluster so that'll be changing soon and I also got my fuel lines ran and the fuel cell in the car
I'll update with finished photos this weekend forgot to take photos last weekend

I've also found a really awesome individual who does a lot of cages and is going to hook me up with a FD legal cage
ill show the CAD outline of it

so that's what it'll look like but I'll be adding in 2 extra bars

so onto the pictures

I cut the nostrils out of the pignose and will be making a few more cuts, it's just for airflow until I can purchase my kit



I've also ran the fuel lines up the left frame rail and centered the cell directly in the middle.

Also got some Isis rear toe arms from my friend Brett.

I'll have to update with the finished pictures but this is an idea of what it looks like now


I also got the bolts for the coil pack cover and added some finishing washers


And my girl friend recently got a coupe and we've been putting in work on that also
put on:
New door panels
new radio and speakers
new center council
re did the wheels back to silver (were black)
Painted the valve cover
New power mirror switch (other one was stuck)
Broadway mirror
Stillen High Flow 5in filter tunnel adaptor with a K&N filter (combo goes for 100+, got for 3$ at junkyard :laugh
She will be swapping in a dual cam KA possibly turboing it, repaint
Putting coils on it and some nicer wheels and just keep it as a good daily
pictures
only two though


Thanks for reading

Krusty_s13

what paint did you use on the s13 se's?

cchondro

Just some silver wheel paint
they were black so we stripped it off and then sprayed with the silver

rednissan180

I like where this is going

Dolph_KYAS13

Those Valve covers are the best. hands down.

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'93 Skyline Type M

cchondro

Thanks guys for all the positive comments

PG BOOSTED

bring them to the nissan meet on saturday. the sonic is located on i drive

cchondro

Well the hatch won't be ready till January because of the cage. The fabricator prefers the motor out. So after that I well make sure I head out there

cchondro

So just trying to get through some small stuff before January when I send it off for the cage
Ive been looking for a color for the bay since ive already decided the color I want to paint the car itself.
I wont be painting the car until I buy the kit, but the bay needs to e painted before the motor goes in
I think Ive decided on a Black Base Coat,
with a Metallic Purple Pearl to give it a really rich purple that will tie into small things throughout the car and the 1j's valve cover
The car itself will be painted with Nissan's Magnetic Black but ill be adding in a faint Purple Metallic.
The wheels are already painted Dodge cool Vanilla with a Purple Pearl so hopefully it'll all look good together

I got the finished fuel cell pictures



The inside of the car will also be hit with the Magnetic Black Paint
Im not sure if I want the cage to be White or Purple to match the bay?? but I also found the DOHC female body harness plug so I wired that in


I also decided to re-do the dash inserts
I just wasnt happy with the look of the metal and the whole layout of everything
I got the top done this weekend using ABS Plastic and ill be tackling the bottom section next weekend


It looks a bit crooked in this picture. One of the brackets bent so im going to pick up another during the week.


Thanks for viewing!
will update next weekend

cchondro

SO to update I finished my lower center piece

I started with a 12"by 12" piece of ABS plastic and got to cutting and shaving



Here is my first attempt of getting it to fit



So I started shaving some more with my file and got it to where it was a snug fit



Straightened out all the lines so they were all nice and even and bam it was in.
I then figured out where I was going to drill the holes to mount and got the bottom two in first.......




.......and then continued by getting the top corners bolted in.



After I got that all situated out I drew out the layout I wanted to have and started to drill out the holes



Got the switches lined up and made sure I had room for an extra switch just in case



Then cut the rest of the holes out for the gauges, battery kill, and push start. I then bolted it back into the dash and put the dash back into the car



I aslo got a fire extinguisher w/ bracket for christmas so I bolted that up to.



I got this idea from another user on here but decided to put my own spin on it, I got an Aluminum Bud light beer bottle and decided im going to use that for my coolant overflow tank.
I started to sand it down and then threw some polish on it. I put some blue electrical tape on the top which is where ill make a bracket to wrap around it and use that to bolt onto the car somewhere







The lady got my some new tails for christmas so ill be able to slam into some walls with style!





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Now for a little update on the coupe,
Its pretty funny but I got her the same tail lights but for the coupe



I also got her some mirrors I bought from a user on here and refinished them since hers were beat up and the passenger side wouldnt fold in.


The glass is perfect surprisingly......... got the daily in the background. I really want to trade it in for a truck but you cant beat those gas miles.



I also got here some seat belts off of a member here and got to installing and trimming.
Im very happy with the outcome and they look great and function properly.

cchondro

Well thats it for now.
The Hatch is getting sent off this weekend to get its FD Legal cage put in and then after that ill be putting in the motor and then its off to the driveshaft shop to get the driveshaft made. SO updates will hopefully be full of pictures but it might not happen till the end of the month or so. Ill try to keep this thread updated in the mean time. Thanks for reading

PG BOOSTED

dude come to the meet at sonic on i-drive this weekend

cchondro

I'll be bringing the hatch out there once I get everything buttoned up on her.

but I'll sell if the lady doesn't mind taking her coupe out there
is it still at the same sonic ?

I've been to a few but that was a good 3-4+ years ago ha

D.Adams

likin this build. Love the budlight can overflow. I have some extra parts for that if you need them

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cchondro

Well thanks bro
and what kind of parts are you talking about ??

PG BOOSTED

yeah on I-drive close the Prime Outlet Mall.

Mr.Clerc

looks real nice man glwb, i like that your girl drives a coupe too ahaha

cchondro

Alright man
lll try to swing by sometime


Hahaha thanks man

cchondro

On its way to get the cage put in
updates on cage towards the end of the week

cchondro

Short Update
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While the car is at Finishline Products and Services getting the hookup on the cage I've just been relaxing and just collecting parts while they come through the mail and saving some money to collect more parts.

I got my hood vent from 9k



Got my label maker in and got to labeling a few things


I'll make a whole post of pics for the cage when it's done which should be Thursday.
Thanks again for reading