Tranman324

Check it out! another S13 SR project on the forum! My original plans was to rebuild a good S13 for my new job this spring. I'll be commuting about 40 miles everyday. I currently have a carbon blue boosted 2000 Toyota Celica GTS. I know, hate on me, but it was my first car and I worked 4 long years to pay the ********** off. I've put a huge amount of time and money in that car, but mainly it has GT2860RS, 450CC injectors, PowerFC, etc... It puts down 240hp to the ground. I've been driving this car as a daily and even with all the care I put to it, it'd falling to pieces and with the expensive parts, it's just a rediculous money pit. Nevertheless, my first car.

Anyway, I just wanted to build a good reliable daily thats a little fun and just let my Celica sit and out of my hair for a good while. I wanted to strip the car all the way down and rebuild and clean it from the ground up. I was looking at about 4,000. But then I went to thinking....hmmm for about 1,000 more I can get a shell instead and an SR and then it just grew from there.... Now I'm working with 5 grand and I'm order parts out the Ying Yang.

I found a white "shell" on here for 900 bucks. Its a 93 SE with some body damage, missing carpet, Nismo tranny mount, VLSD, some other goodies, and a running KA. I thought it was a pretty good steal so I nabbed it.











I also found a S13 SR motorset for $1600 on craigslist I know, risky. The guy also threw in a brand new intercooler+all the piping and a 255 walbro pump. The only thing it was missing was the clutch, flywheel, transmission bolts, the clutch fork, and Ignitor. Kinda wierd. But I thought it was still a good deal. Oh yeah, it came with the full harness too.



Currently, my plan for the car is:
1. The Motor
- Clean the SR
- replace the water pump
- replace most of the gaskets
- hoses
- possibly a small wire tuck
- etc....anything I can think of that could be replaced. i.e. make a good clean working motor

2. the S13
- pull the KA
- paint the engine bay
- drop all the suspension parts and subframe for clean and repaint (possibly powdercoat)
- remove any rust spots
- strip down the underbody and recoat with some sort of rhino-liner
- do something with the interior, haven't gotten that far yet

I'm currently a student at Georgia Tech so I live on campus in Atlanta. My parents live in Marietta and the stuff has been sitting at their house for a few weeks. I've recently been working on it for the passed 3 weekends, so this is going to be a long post.

The first weekend I came home after a week or order parts and what not and had all this waiting for me. I found a good deal on a Megan Manifold for $80. I also decided to play it safe and bought some Greddy RAS. That flywheel weighs like 13lbs or something? I don't know, bought it off ebay .

The intercooler kit I got from the motorset I bought was kinda cheap, but nothing that can't be fixed.


Started with pulling parts off the motor


Cleaned and re-painted brackets, hightemp gloss black. Like my organization?


I also decided to replace the S13 Oil strainer(Right) with an S14 Strainer (Left).


The inside of the motor is clean!


Baffle plate cleaned and strainer installed


Got a Free stick welder! not sure what Im going to use it for....


I was able to get my hands on some Bride seat fabric and had a little side project on the broken center console lid on the S13. So it went from this.


to this! 3 seconds flat.


Then I did the glove compartment next. Messed up a little bit. Can you tell? I think I'm going to reupholster the whole interior with this stuff, minus the front seats of course.


Took off the turbo and cleaned some of the pipes


Took off the manifold and decided to clean the rusted water lines under it. replaced those hoses too. If anyone needs the parts numbers, I've got them.



Everything off the motor and being cleaned. It took forever, wish I had a sand blaster or something.


Several coats later(1 primer, 2 silver, 2 clear)...


This is where I break car parts. My house is also under renovation because of the flood a few weeks back. Everything is away from the walls so people can work... My parents are the only people with flood insurance, what?