milsom 93's Project Skids S13
So now its finally the time I've pulled my finger out to put a thread up here of my S13 which I call Project Skids
It started out as a winning bid on eBay(a year ago) and within the next 3 days I was travelling down 150 miles in a recovery truck to pick this up. My plan is to build it nice and slowly learning how to do things on the way and then enjoy it mostly. (when insurance came down)
It was a fully standard S13 that had been laid up for 13 years in a garage and only 85K on the clock.
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The boot was more rust than metal but a nice smoothed over one came with the sale, It needed 3 patches welding underneath, a new exhaust, tyres and generally some TLC
So the boot was fitted and bought a Japspeed Type 2 cat back.
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Then stripped the rear seats out to see the for rust, but will be staying stripped for now until. I have kept everything though so I can put it all back. The weeks after I spent my afternoons chipping sound deadening off :sleep:
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Sent the car for its welding to be done. No photos unfortunately
Bought some TE37's (17x9J ET+40) off a friend with some spacers.
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Sprayed my rocker covers
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bought some coilovers, fitment was a lot better than I thought with 20mm spacers.
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Then relocated the battery behind the passengers seat.
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Bought some S14 front brake callipers, conversion lines, braided lines and 280mm grooved discs. Took me forever to fit them as everything rounded off. A few swear words, skimmed knuckles and a whole lot of brake pipe later I got them all fitted and put new Red stuff pads in the rear.
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Put the callipers on the wrong side at first :wack , but managed to realise before I went any further.
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To be continued....