Shredding tires is way more fun than *real* racing.
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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Sup. Onto the stand. Super clean, and super complete. Less than 53,000 km on the odometer. Wayne picked a great motor as usual. Can’t thank Phase2 enough. Going to be a busy weekend.
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Did this instead. Picked these up with my last order from Wayne @ Phase2. They are Federal SS595 in 215/45/17, stretched across 17×9 +17 MB Weapons, more pics in this post. Looks like around 1″ stretch on both sides. Not bad. Looking forward to destroying them.
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Have an S13 240SX and want to replace your worn out and busted up ball joints? I decided to replace the ball joints in my lower control arms as part of my rebuild, so I hit up the usual sites and search engines to find out what I needed. It wasn’t easy to find what [...]
