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Back in the fall my best friend Trevor (Magical Trevor) and I decided we would both build hatches. We talked about it and since I have the bigger shop and quite a big tool collection already, we decided it would take place at my shop. So Trevor brought his stuff down. The next step was to find cars. This will be the story of Trevor's car from start to end. Along the way we will review each part we get for the car, and each new tool we buy to complete the process.

The car is a 1991 240sx SE Hatchback 5spd. It is a rescued drift car from Chicago that spent most its life in Florida. The plan is to rebuild and restore the car to better than factory spec. The goal is to be able to have a street car that is comfortable and quiet to drive down the highway at 70mph and have a normal conversation without yelling at your passenger.

Full interior build will include complete gutting the interior, removing all the OEM sound deadening material and sloppy glue jobs. Sanding the entire cabin for aftermarket rust proofing, sound deadening and a few other tricks that we're going to try to keep the noise level down and keep the car enjoyable.


Full exterior build will include body work repair, full chassis respray (including the engine bay), OEM Type X kit, wheels (Volk, Work, SSR, etc.) and a few other minor custom things. Unsure of what color the car will be painted, but it will be something unique.


Suspension, well we're looking at some comfortable options. Coilovers (opinions are welcome), new bushings, ball joints, tie rod ends, etc etc.

Powertrain - we will be using the S13 SR that we pulled out of his S14. Lightly modded, all the bolt ons, Power FC and a few other odds and ends.

We have it planned out pretty well. We have some excel sheets set up to track hours worked on the car, the parts installed, and several other aspects of building the car. I will have these up on a google document shared file shortly so anyone can check it out along with a blank one for anyone that wants to use it and download.


So, on with the storyline.

After searching around for a month or so we found a nice hatch in Chicago that had a engine "issue". We drove down and checked it out and it turns out it was in pretty good shape for what it was.
One the way through Chicago. The traffic was horrible.


So after making the deal we loaded the car up on the trailer and headed back home. With the car FULL of extra parts.


And after fighting back through Chicago traffic we had the car back home.


And the saga continues........

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