Sparky's S13 drift build

[Sparky]

Apologies for anything that doesnt make sense I have copied it over from Driftworks.

Well I have owned the car for over 3 months now and its getting to how I want it so thought its time to start a build thread.

The car was advertised on here and when searching for a s13 I came across it, it looked familiar and I inquired about it and turns out it was local to me and I had seen it about so I went and checked it out. It needed quite a bit of work but had the fundamentals for a good base, 90% rust free shell, stage 2 with t28, coilovers, adjustable arms, 5stud conversion with 4pots and 2pots, bucket seat and loads of other mods which to me was a good start.

Pictures I took when viewing the car.

After I bit of negotiating I got it for a price I was happy to pay so I bought it. When I got home that night took a sneaky pic for facebook

So yea the first thing you do to a new car is clean it and have a good look over it so here is some pictures after a clean.

Carbon tailgate and carbon GTR spoiler

I knew from the start the diff needed replacing so that was the first thing to do, came across this skyline 4.3 welded diff with solid bushes and shafts so went and paid the Kyouto boys a visit and picked it up

Sealed the back plate on and filled it with some of the good stuff

And set about fitting it all

As the car was on axle stands and I wanted to change the appearance of the car to make it my own (not to keen on the stealth look) I decided to sell the 18x10 Rota's and get some 17's, my heart was set on XXR 527's and with a long waiting list I managed to find a set second hand seeing as I had a colour change in mind for them anyway

One wheel rubbed down ready for the new colour

And painted

Fat wheels need some fat arches so again hunting driftworks I came across these fenders, ChargeSpeed +25mm fronts and Magic Aero +50mm rears, should do nicely

Again to get rid of the stealth appearance there was no other option than to get some kouki lights

Some more goodies including the kouki lights

And fitted, just waiting on some bulb holders so I can make a loom up as I refuse to pay £75 for kouki looms!

Also decided on a hydraulic handbrake and remove the ABS while I was at it so here is the engine bay before, quite cluttered and dirty.

And ABS removed

And my handbrake being mocked up

handbrake fitted with new dildo gear knob

Removing the front bumper was a pain and I have NO patience when working with rusty/rounded/snapped bolts so I turned into the hulk and this happened needed a new front bumper anyway lol

So then I got this Norris designs bumper off a mate for free, well I couldnt accept it so I gave him a buckets seat and s13 rail for it

Set about fitting come quick release catches to it then for ease of removal/fitting and ended up looking like this, nothing is aligned properly yet but its looking good

Decided to get some more suspension parts and ended up buying DW lower control arms aswell as the tension rods bought previously.

So got on with fitting them, and of course you always get one seized bolt so had to cut my arm and bolt off

Made sure my tensions arms were nice and free so took them apart and copper greased them before fitting

All fitted

Had a rocker cover gasket leak so decided to spruce up the rocker covers while I was at it

Noticed my lambda sensor loom was broke so got a new plug and soldered that in

Inevitably the standard clutch will give up soon so got this bad boy ready

Noticed my track rod end was damaged so decided to upgrade to the Japspeed arms

Also snapped a droplink on the DB power ARB when changing the LCA's so got some new ones

My seat was nackered and needed replacing so I came across this and I kept the Takata out of my Starlet

Also recieved a suprise with the seat, TNT accidentally dropped this lot off to me

An RB26 Greddy TD06 20G twin turbo kit!!!! Luckily (for the guy) it was signed for and im a genuine person so he came and collected it all the next day but I had to try it on the CA

Finally manned up and got my old man to cut my rear arches out!

All stich welded and grinded, undersealed ready for the over fenders to go on

Then over fenders fitted

Needed to be lowered massively so that was next, had one seized coilover to deal with first but lowered it another 50mm in the end.

And how it looked

back on its wheels

Just waiting on these bad boys now for the rear

Garage filling up nicely with skid rims and tyres

Got some custom verniers and an extra exhaust cam for the inlet side waiting to go in

Been running diagnostics on the ECU so decided to take it apart to confirm what chip it has, anyone know what make this is?

So yea it doesnt run great (faulty temperature sensor) so now I am waiting on that to get it running mint and then its off for alignment and hopefully be ready for the drift day at pembrey on the weekend!

At the moment Forza will have to do!

Temperature sensor is fitted and working, still runs a little bit rough but not half as bad when warm, its saying CAS fault but I have tested the CAS and its fine, there maybe a problem in the circuitry which I am trying to trace.

Anways took some pictures, fitted my seat properly, put my harness in place (still need eye bolts) and also wired up my sleepy eye kit ( can see the control unit in the footwell attached to the tunnel.

and yes it is a genuine recaro and takata

Had a few things turn up today

The rest of my bulb holders so now I can crack on wiring in the rear lights

And my ultralite 25mm spacers for the rear

Had a massive hold up today because in the one spacer the studs were too long so spent the day hack sawing them down which was a ball ache but finally got both fitted and it has transformed the car! I think I can go a bit wider once I have had my camber correction and alignment done but it looks good for now.

With the trouble with the spacers I didnt have time to check my cambelt timing plus I have a rounded bolt to deal with on the cover so that will be tackled tomorrow.

This car is starting to get on my tits.

Rounded bolt in the rocker cover literally took me all day to drill out (bastard cordless battery powered drill) so had to wait for the batteries to recharge 3 times to get it off which ended up looking like this

Still got the bolt to remove from the block. But then I was faced with this, a completely fucked belt on an engine that "apparently" was rebuilt 5k miles before I bought it fucking cowboys.

Looks like I need a new tensioner pulley aswell

In between waiting for the batteries to charge I messed around and fitted my tow strap and took a picture of the rear camber, its alot more than I first thought so the next job is to remove my rear camber arms and unseize them, after I fit a new timing belt and tensioner of course *sigh*

[Josh@TunerLifestyle]

love it

bringing it to the shows next year?

[Sparky]

Well today I took the timing belt off, I say take off it actually snapped when I was rotating it to line the timing marks up! Lucky or what?

Anyway new belt, tensioner and idler ordered aswell as a new waterpump and power steering belt so its all done and new.

Got my rear bumper fitted (sort of) today aswell, just need to fix the corners somehow, anyway some pics

Fingers crossed it will be running again by the weekend(properly this time)

Instead of messing around removing my head to get a new thread put in i found a cheap CA with nismo 440's and a stage 3 ECU so snapped it up and fitted it along with the ORC clutch and a z32 MAF

Some pictures of recent progress starting with engine removal

engine bay all cleaned up and nylon race mounts fitted.

clutch fitted to new engine

And new engine going in

started first time with no problems

Fitted a Bee*R love it

Also got some new driftworks camber arms as the apex ones were fucked.

Got my kouki's wired up

and with my sisters whip

The i maxed my front top mounts out ready for when it went for alignment

then at alignment

and it looked completely different when it was done so much more poke on the rear

The I took it to the ODC rounds 5 and 6, first time driving the car properly and the first time driving a rwd car, fair to say I loved it and caught on pretty quick.

Car went faultlessly apart from a boost pipe and imobiliser problem in my first runs but then fine all day apart from loosing my bumper

And now its tucked away for winter

Not going mental with it, going to make sure my other CA is repaired and ready to go back in if the inevitable happens, also need a new filler neck as mine is holey, need to sort the problem with the LCA's as it doesnt self centre and just tidy it up.

An AVCR and some Geomasters/with rack spacers are on the wishlist and will be purchased next year but for now the car can wait

love it

bringing it to the shows next year?

Hopefully will be on the road for JapFest mate, should be getting lots of goodies for it after christmas

[Starbuck]

Looks great fella. Good work.

[morgey]

Sweet gotta love a drift slag 13! This looks so similar to my mate tonkin's s13 he used to even have XXR's but i think hes swapped them out for something different now, hes also got an RB in his

Look forward to what you do with it!

[Sparky]

RB would be awesome and is NOT out of the question!

Toying with building an epic 500+HP CA though as I have a spare, all comes down to money so we will see what next year brings

[Stefan_s]

This is awesome I love these cars and want one for my next car after the glanza

[Dan507]

I Would say it looks good but I'd be lying. lol

I wouldn't bother with the CA personally. every one i know who has had a CA it's blown up. One of my mates is currently on his 3rd in 18 months.

SR20 FTW

[Driver]

Away for the winter ? Tyre friendly streeto you raging homosexual !

[Sparky]

I Would say it looks good but I'd be lying. lol

I wouldn't bother with the CA personally. every one i know who has had a CA it's blown up. One of my mates is currently on his 3rd in 18 months.

SR20 FTW

Exterior changes and a lick of paint will come with time, no point having a mint car which is just going to get abused.

And CA's are every bit as good as SR's IF NOT BETTER, people are actually starting to realise this and jump off the SR bandwagon. I definitely wont be wasting over £1k just to go SR complete waste of money

Away for the winter ? Tyre friendly streeto you raging homosexual !

I like my license as it is lol

[ryan lang]

I like my license as it is lol

with one ban on it haha

cars looking good dude. kurt needs to pull his finger out and get his sorted

[Dan507]

Exterior changes and a lick of paint will come with time, no point having a mint car which is just going to get abused.

And CA's are every bit as good as SR's IF NOT BETTER, people are actually starting to realise this and jump off the SR bandwagon. I definitely wont be wasting over £1k just to go SR complete waste of money

Yeah i know mate. just taking the piss.

LOL. Fair enough. I personally wouldn't waste my time with a CA but it's your car, Do as you wish.

Edited December 7, 2012 by Dan507

[Amjad]

Wow you've done a lot already! Nice to see a build thread and you back online!

I'd like to go for a ride in this, but saying that..you took me in the GT and I wanted TD04 power, don't want you to end up wanting RWD just yet haha!

[drongo boi]

Nice build dude

[Socks]

Weapon Sparky

[Sparky]

Cheers Guys

Oh and Amjad I would take you for a spin in it maybe summer time when I can bring it to some shows and meets

[Starlet SR]

This is awesome !!!!! Fair play to ya sparky ,

Glad u seen that timing belt when ya did would be nasty

Is she broke !!