New Car New Build after write off!

[Direza]

Coilies

Looks sweet mate! Loving the old school drifters

Cheers bud, yeah the old school stuff rocks! I am not a big fan of the new cars that come out, too round and too futuristic. Can't do the maintenance yourself anymore.

Hi there, great project,

how did you do the custom coilovers ? i've a r30 , thanks alot

Hey bud, this is a rough idea of how.

I ended up using R33 Coilovers because it was what I had out of my previous write off.
I used the front bottom part of the coilover and the front shock body / insert then I ended up using 8kg springs for the rear as 10kg is too much in my opinion.[

I took out the old shocks and springs and took the top hats off,
I then drilled out and ground off the rubber fused to the bottom of the top hat and used the rubber from the coilover.

Then I simply cut off about 0.5 cm off of the metal fitting inside the bush (eye ) and cleaned it up to match the diff mounts.

Cheers,
Luse

 

[Direza]

Alrightey update time, figured it was jungle gym clean up time so I did a bit of thinking..
Redid a new lip, because the garden edging was the wrong way around so it was going under not pushing out.

Stripped a few panels and the breather hoses.

Upon looking around a few of the photos of the members rides decided to follow in some of their foot steps.

Started hiding every wire I can see. I also changed the 382 Omh resistor from a variable to a fixed which I put inside a pen and sealed it up against the weather.
I have had the variable one change value because of vibration which was shit. (Lucky about no rust in the entire car )

Finished product I ended up moving the Catch can to the front passenger side and reran the hoses. Much neater.
Before

After

Also got a new TPS, the old one failed on me and the cars response became way too choppy, on off on off. and Misfired like shit at top end

Decided to get some Autosol and polish the crap out of everything that is Stainless or metal. I only have progress pics no finals so far.

Now plans are to just finish the wiring harness off by wrapping it in the black ribbed tubing to make it neat and clip it neatly to the firewall.
Get brand new Hard brake line and redo the one that is ugly on the top.
Remove all of the stickers in the engine bay
Change all the old bolts to new stainless steel with washers.
Relocate the Alarm thing
Cut 2nd plug off TPS for auto kickdown.
Remove Aircon entirely with the lines from firewall etc.
Make some brackets for the Radiator.
Lengthen / Hide wiring for the CTS
Change Rocker Cover Breather Hoses to longer ones so it Tee's near the catch can. (Maybe?)
Upgrade to a EBC instead of the Turbosmart Tee (It is stuck can't be moved for some reason must be seized). or glued.
Degrease and polish the engine bay.
Polish the shit out of the metal's
Hook up Horn
Hook up Window washer bottle / Hide it under the bumper
Skid
Change the Brake Booster from R31 to R33 and new hose to suite. (too lazy to pull it out of my r33 still sitting in the back of the workshop).

Still tossing up whether to remove the Recirc pipe and run no BOV as its so damn fugly with the recirc pipe.. or maybe make the recirc pipe run down by the FMIC under the headlights.

Luse.

 

[Direza]

Got a few things from work today, a Window Washer bottle and a motor and a smaller universal Radiator overflow bottle.

These shall be hidden under the bumper.

Luse.

 

[Direza]

Got a little bit done after work,
Wrapped the Wiring Harness in Black heatproof-ish tubing. Now need to hide it a bit further down and clip it in place and out of the way, then heatwrap the shit out of the dump pipe.

Did this temporarily until the battery moves to the boot.

Fit the new overflow bottle temporarily ziptied as the battery is in the way

Purchased a Catylictic Converter for the last part in my exhaust setup to come
100CPI 3 inch
Metal inner and stainless steel.

Luse.

 

[Direza]

Updayte tyme

Just waiting to get some tyres and a flare and It'll be lower. Got to love 18's being able to go low but not chassis low.

Going to get started on the handles for the doors, Going to do a strip of leather and thread it through and bolt that onto the door. So its a strap not an actual handle.
Test fitted the gauges too.

My exhaust out of my R33.
Got some handy dandy cutters..
And got cutting..

I guess it was a backyard job..
Stainless steel pipe welding onto a mild steel pipe
= Leave it to the pro's with at least a tig welder...

Who ever did this.. is my hero..

Exhaust all ready for welding Stay tuned.

Luse.

 

[Direza]

Got my Apexxxxiii turbo timer, still hadn't peeled the plastic off the face to protect it from scratches.

Luse.

 

[spin-king]

Get a video up of this bud love to hear it

 

[Direza]

Hey Man, back when I read your first thread, (the whole thing in one night), i didn't have a DW profile. Now that I do, I'll tell you my heart missed a beat when i saw that r33 destroyed, and I'll definetly follow this thread. oh ya nice old school whip

Cheers, yeah I cried for awhile but eventually realised that I liked 4 doors more anyway ^^ haha.

Get a video up of this bud love to hear it

Hey mate yeah will do just waiting on finding some time to finish the exhaust, shall be wicked. Nice cef btw gotta love a31's.

Wired up the gauges

Still need to change over my mechanical boost gauge from the corner of the drivers side pillar to the left side of the 3 gauge bracket as its a blue light instead of white.

This one

Going to run one mechanical boost gauge for waste gate pressure, one mechanical and one digital electronic boost gauge in intake side.

Dirty dash needs a clean with that protectant stuff to make it look like new again but anyway

Turbo timer installed

Luse.

 

[Direza]

Finally finished the diff.

Full Spool.

Going for 3.89's this time, current is 3.70

Needs a lick of paint.

Waiting on the wheel studs.

Luse.

 

[Direza]

Alrightey, the front brake and suspension upgrade time.

Got myself some front hubs for S13 with bearings with extended 60mm studs.

Changed my mind about the GSP knuckles, found some standard ones from fleabay for half the price from a wrecker near my work.

And some Lower Control Arms, ( I've wanted these for awhile, they look pretty spiff
And aren't too shabb quality

Deciding on which coilovers to use over the next week while I await for the arrival of my two front drift teks.

Luse.

 

[Direza]

panels panels panels

Okay, a few little changes were in order.. the shitty f**ked up paint job that was meant to be properly done in a spray booth but well.. I was lied to so.
New cluster with lower milage to suit chassis without a lazy tacho.

New Bootlid, with obviously much much lower milage as its very clean.

aaannddd... New bonnet.

Much straighter than the other one which hasn't been resprayed a million times.

Luse.
ALSO, removing the garden edging, just got hold of some Arch flaring thingy from QLD Diesel spares

 

[akinadan79]

Loving this mate, and a nice write up aswell. Black interior looks a lot better than it did but I'd personally keep the body colour scheme as per original but with a fresh re-spray and maybe lose the chrome to match it in with the bumpers etc. Really nice

 

[Direza]

Loving this mate, and a nice write up aswell. Black interior looks a lot better than it did but I'd personally keep the body colour scheme as per original but with a fresh re-spray and maybe lose the chrome to match it in with the bumpers etc. Really nice

Yeah it's come a long way, I only just started.

Initially, I wanted yellow over black but I'm going to get the roof boot and bonnet and front grill/ insert resprayed in the cherry red or which ever shade you might call this. Then get the moulds and silver two tone resprayed gun metal or black But the red does look pleasing to the eye.

However one thing is a definite, Engine bay is going metallic black very soon.
All of the chrome is going to also go all metallic black.

Me and the girlfriend are moving to a new place soon so when we do its going to get a strip down and get parked for a few weeks while I do the s13 swap and a few other bits and pieces in preparation for the paint. The front and rear windows are both coming out and the front is being replaced with a new one as its had a few stone chips and is aged, when they do that il get them to change all of the chrome to black moulding for windscreens.
Luse

 

[akinadan79]

Sounds good mate

 

[Mikesbmwgolf]

nothing better than an old square car

 

[proyer.]

Well you dont often see thease do you?! Looks bloody lovely

 

[Direza]

Well you dont often see thease do you?! Looks bloody lovely

Thanks, I am not sure if you guys actually have these in UK or anywhere in Europe as its quite popular in Australia as its made here.

My awesome girlfriend who spends her days polishing and cleaning my car...(Okay not all her days but she helps out more than your average joe.

New Cluster, 37,000 km's

Off came the boot lid.

Old light garnish.

New bootlid

New garnish

It fits much better than before

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Took off the Garden Edging today.
Luse.

 

[Direza]

cluster

New Cluster in. Tacho working perfectly.

Luse.

 

[Direza]

All of the trims around windows are gone awaiting new ones from Clark Rubber
And I cleaned up all of the glue that was around it

Replaced the old gator.

New Gator with red sticccching.

Will need to remove all of the dash to redo some of the wiring to tidy it up when my Battery Box gets here on Thursday next week.

Naked again :C

I said i'd rep NRBE so, sign up guys find em on facebook.

Dat Ass Can't wait for the paint job.

Luse.

 

[Direza]

Plans for the future.

Plans now are

Interior.
- Strip all of the interior trim and dash
- rip out all of the wiring under the dash
- move battery to boot
- run power cables
- rework the wiring under dash
Install relay for ignition for gauges
Make up harness for gauges using thick wires for no voltage drop
Tidy up wiring for ignition and turn it into a harness
- Make straps for door handles run through door cards.
- Change a few out dated gauges, change location of certain gauges.

Engine Bay
- Move brackets and remove stickers
- Move bov to hot side just after compressor before FMIC.
- Make up new pipe (shorter) than current to fit MAF with a filter
Make up recirc pipe to fit.
- Change to new clamps where required.
- Change to r33 Brake Booster.
- Change to r33 Clutch Master.
- Change to a 2L sized catch can.

Exterior
- Install new rubber seals in doors / windows.
- Professional respray.
- QLD diesel spares lip.
- Rear strut bar
- 2 8.5j Drift Teks for front.
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I'd love to know paint colour ideas, what ideas does everyone have. Let me know and if you have an example please feel free to share.

Luse.