s14unimog

What's funny is that these days, this isn't really anything special. Guy has an S14 with an SR in it; seen that before. Some how I find myself just a little different from the typical drift car/owner combo though. I figure if you're gonna do it, you need to commit to it and figure out the details. IF not, you really shouldn't (in an opinion that doesn't really matter) be doing this; sorry I don't approve of doing stuff the easier quicker way.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't have unlimited resources or funds for my car. I earn a decent salary but mainly flip bikes and cars to support the higher dollar parts. I try to do things the best I can, so typically that yields a functional part that isn't overly pretty. Either the case, here is what I'm doing.

This is a brief history on the car.

Bought in 2003 basically stock, SE, Mediterranean Blue, 53k miles. Look how proud I was



I was pretty stoked to be driving this to highschool; drifting wasn't "cool" yet and V8's meant business. I can still hear the Honda's leaving the parking lot and trying to catch their shifts so it sounded like they weren't automatic; you know what I'm talking about. That shit cracked me up.

I pretty much hit Ziliva right after getting the car, I remember seeing an SR for the first time and thinking that was amazing. Those cars had a presences and it was not a common thing. Now I'm not getting into this who was in to 240's sooner bull shit. That stuff was new to me and the community was fairly small. This sorta talk seems to incite that annoying conversation.

A couple years went by, I went to college and finally had enough money and experience to attempt turboing the KA. I was orriginally surprised when it got the attention it did, I just couldn't afford an SR and wanted to be boosted. Drifting isn't fun with an N/A KA. That's when I did this thread.

So the car went a little further. Made 209whp @ 10psi with a T25 and sidemount from an SR.





A couple years after that, I bought a black top, put some old Volks on it and coilovers.








Then a deal came up with a buddy of mine that was selling his GT28RS SR car that had some knock. Basically buy the car, swap the engines, my BPU setup for this moderately tuned one, plus a bit on top to repair the damage in the other. Seems simple enough.





So I picked a holiday weekend and got to it. I basically needed the black car with my engine so I could get to school on Wednesday.







At this point I wasn't driving the blue car anymore, which was a weird feeling. I rented a storage unit down the street and had the short block assembled by a Tiger Racing. After a couple discussions with Sam, the owner of the shop, he had convinced me to ditch the 28RS and go for more power with the 20G. So that's what I did. Basic specs are as follows...

-S14 SR block (VVT plugged) / s13 SR head / 264 HKS cams / Eagle rods / ARP head studs / Cosworth 1.5 MLS / TD0620G turbo / 740's / Nistune / All New bearings / guides & chain. Basically the works on stock pistons. The car made 394whp @ 18psi. Also made a couple exterior & suspension improvements along the way. You can read more about that here









After this the car was pretty solid. I drove it to and from the drift events pretty consistently. The car was stupid fast and never gave any headache until one night. Unfortunately I had never noticed the pedal range of motion compared to the throttle cable pull length and broke a throttle body hinge, dislodging one of the screws. The number 4 ate it and while doing so threw a rocker. Sounded like that terrible engine failure sound from a big turbo Supra video. Repaired that...





By this time, I had things back together with new valve guides in a spare head I had. The car ran pretty solid for another stretch before finally shattering the ring lands on the #1 after some winter weather spikes; 23psi. Here is how it looked around then. I finally got some solid wheels, and touched up a few more things; mainly in the interior.

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