Shredding tires is way more fun than *real* racing.
Mounted up the exhaust last night, front to back. Heat wrapped from the turbo elbow back to just before the muffler section. This exhaust is just ridiculous. And this is how it sits right now. Still working on running hoses and gauge wiring on the car. Boring pics are boring, so this is all for [...]
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So it’s been over a week, bleh. Between working and working on the car, haven’t had a chance to update really. Worked on the car past midnight a couple times this week though, so progress is being made. I got the last two parts I needed for the rear suspension and bolted it all up. [...]
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So the holidays are over and it’s time to get back to work on the car. I am still missing a couple pieces that are holding up putting the motor back together, but I still have plenty of other stuff to do. I finished the new subframe last night; I actually finished it in November, [...]
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This week I caught up with an old friend, Brendan from Perth, Australia. He is the guy who took over my old domain, sillbeer.com, when I went on hiatus in 2005. Instead of letting the domain sit as I did (like a jackass), he put it to good use detailing his S13 Silvia build. This [...]
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Since I pulled my column to make room to work on a few other things (painting the bay, removing all sound deadening), I figured it was as good a time as any to swap out the steering bushing. Stock next to CS bushings. Now, I had heard these were hard to install, that having the [...]
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Broke open the bottom of the motor for the first time yesterday. I had planned to use an S14 SR oil pickup on my motor, as opposed to the stock S13 pickup. I had originally expected to get a red top motor, and had purchased the S14 pickup to replace the skinnier S13 version with [...]
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Been a couple weeks, been working on chassis prep – not glamorous so no new posts until today. Here is the bay before prep. After I’d had a chance to grind down or wire brush most of the surfaces in the engine bay and got rid of most of the dirt and grime. Also removed [...]
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KA is out. On to bigger and better things. Or something. Cleared the engine bay of most of the random brackets and fittings too. Anything unnecessary is gone. Lots of work to do.
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I hate doing this, so getting it out of the way early. Damn you Nissan. There is a special place in hell for the person who chose this stuff. Going to get fat and happy today, motor comes out tomorrow.
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