Hey guys!
OK I'll start at the beginning. This 180Sx was imported many years ago by my younger brother SXOC tag Tokyo_black. Here is his his old build thread: http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.p...0sx&highlight=
It was quite a well known car in the day and a feature car in Banzai magazine and possbily some other places.
He sold the car I think around 2010ish from memory.
It then went through 2 SXOC members in a year or so.
I then bought it back from a nice chap called Chris in early 2012, I forget his SXOC user tag.
Upon getting her back I did the following immediately. I like to put my own stamp on my cars:
- Fibreglass and plexiglass rear hatch from a nice SXOC chap.
- Full Apex adjustable arms + alignment
- Comprehensive underseal and general clean up underneath that it needed.
- Large Apex radiator + fancy hoses
- Thorough engine check including borescope check. All was good except some evidence of knocking in Cyl 4. I know my bro used to run it on non-premium gass like a cheapskate, so that was probably the reason. Nothing major. 170/170/170/155Psi cold compressions which was a nice surprise.
- Apex FMIC
- General engine bay clean up and simplification (usual SX stuff)
- Moved battery to boot
- Moved washer bottle to back
- re-build front Vertex bumper as it was falling to pieces
- Fitted Skyline R33 Gtst Auto Diff. The existing one was a locked diff and was leaking badly from input seal
- Gearbox & engine oil & plugs
- Changed boost controller, put it back down to 1Bar. Not a fan of destroying SR's with stupid boost levels.
- Stripped interior and painted inside black.
- Fitted sparco harnesses
- Removed Brides and fitted Stock S13 seats. Don't shoot me! There is a reason, I am too tall to fit in the Brides. The new seats gained me about 2" and I just about fit in the car now lol.
- Probably a shed load of other stuff but I can't remember now and don't want to bore you
Next thing that happened is I and several friends went to Wales in summer of 2012 for a driving holiday.
I ended up crashing fairly badly on holiday. The reason for the crash was political and I have no proof, so I'm not going to elaborate because life is too short.
I wiped the entire front of the car out. All front panels gone. Fmic. Lights. Also rear bumper and exhaust. Also some fairly minor damage underneath.
Got the car back to Cambridge and fixed what bits I could including wiring damage, exhaust, rear bumper etc. The silver lining is that the shell survived ok.
At this point decided to re-build with a PS13 front end which I have always wanted. Here are the parts that I have added in the last few weeks:
- Aerokit +20mm wings
- EP racing BN front bumper
- PS projector lights from lovely chap on SXOC
- Sidelights and indicators from eerrrrr dam forgotten, but they are on Ebay. Nice guys
- Bumper bar from Darren GDUK
- Tacky bonnet from a nice chap from Driftworks, can't remember his name, he was a mate of Mark from GDUK, that's all I can remember.
The build has gone pretty well so far. No major problems. The EP racing bumper was a about 40mm too wide but managed to counter that by juggling things around a little.
Before I show the pics of the last few week's work just a few thanks to people that have helped in one way or another over last few months:
Damian DI Racing
Darren GDUK
Gavin Driftbitz
All non-trader peeps that have given advice.
Now the pics! I will keep updating as I go:
Next when I get a break in the weather I need to spray the black top coat on.
Then I need to tackle the Over-fenders. The problem here is that many years ago the over fenders were screwed on(which drives me nuts when people do that). Since then water has got into some of those screws and big patches of rust are appearing around some of the screws. So I guess the fenders need stripping off. Rust and paint fixing. And new fenders fitting. I have NO idea how to do this so would apprectiate any help on this please
Longer term goals:
- clean up wheels
- carbon vented bonnet
- nicer seats (that I fit in)
- pro respray in either 1) Midnight Purple 2) Sil80 Blue(from initial D) 3) Bright White
Thanks!
Jon