Been here long enough and figured I'd start a build thread with everything I've done so far with photos as eye candy & cliffnotes.
When I bought my car, it was sometime between 2004 and 2006, I can't remember that far ahha. It had a missing radio with a rats nest for radio wiring. The backhalf of the stock seat broke on the way home 5 min after buying it, so I was pretty much sitting on a stool, but held on to the back half with one arm. Had mismatched body panels and paid way too much for it. Maybe a year or so later it looked like this.
Maybe a year after, I got a silvia front end as a present from my brother.
Maybe 2 years later, I threw on my 5lug setup, q45 brakes, and my 15x7 +0 Riken meshes. I was feeling like the biz for a while, then I was over it. :gc-free-sign-smiley
Years later I was fed up of not being able to see shit on the road so I retrofitted tsx projectors, denso ballasts, and 4300k d2s bulbs into my triple projectors.
I had the fresnel lenses cleared out, and water proofed the ballasts with some black water resistant material I got from HIDplanet years ago.
I was happy as hell and wondered how the hell I've been driving around with crap lights.
I had to alter the oem projector bracket for it and here's a reference photo for those who're curious. *I'll update this in the future since I'm switching to dual projectors and it'd be a good time to snap some shots*
More years have passed, I got older, graduated school and ended up going to another school, because degrees aren't worth a damn anymore. I bought my aero stuff that I wanted, version select II front bumper, some gp sports g4 side skirts (didn't feel like putting the door caps on), 180sx version select rear bumper.
Somewhere along this timeframe I installed an oil cooler with a greddy relocation kit and had to change a bunch of fittings to AN, bought a thermostat, -8 aeroquip starlite racing hose. and mounted it. Ran cooler than a jamaican bobsled team.
Then this happened...
Some animal along side the road was running alongside the car and decided it wanted to cross the street right in front of me. This pissed me off since my driver side door was already jacked up from someone hitting my car and dented the driverside door, ripped off the side mirror, and slightly dented the fender. WTF!? FLJSDFLJSLF :gaah:
Several days ago I dynoed this pos and was okay with its results. Despite having mods to actually get there.
When I bought my car, it was sometime between 2004 and 2006, I can't remember that far ahha. It had a missing radio with a rats nest for radio wiring. The backhalf of the stock seat broke on the way home 5 min after buying it, so I was pretty much sitting on a stool, but held on to the back half with one arm. Had mismatched body panels and paid way too much for it. Maybe a year or so later it looked like this.
Maybe a year after, I got a silvia front end as a present from my brother.
Maybe 2 years later, I threw on my 5lug setup, q45 brakes, and my 15x7 +0 Riken meshes. I was feeling like the biz for a while, then I was over it. :gc-free-sign-smiley
Years later I was fed up of not being able to see shit on the road so I retrofitted tsx projectors, denso ballasts, and 4300k d2s bulbs into my triple projectors.
I had the fresnel lenses cleared out, and water proofed the ballasts with some black water resistant material I got from HIDplanet years ago.
I was happy as hell and wondered how the hell I've been driving around with crap lights.
I had to alter the oem projector bracket for it and here's a reference photo for those who're curious. *I'll update this in the future since I'm switching to dual projectors and it'd be a good time to snap some shots*
More years have passed, I got older, graduated school and ended up going to another school, because degrees aren't worth a damn anymore. I bought my aero stuff that I wanted, version select II front bumper, some gp sports g4 side skirts (didn't feel like putting the door caps on), 180sx version select rear bumper.
Somewhere along this timeframe I installed an oil cooler with a greddy relocation kit and had to change a bunch of fittings to AN, bought a thermostat, -8 aeroquip starlite racing hose. and mounted it. Ran cooler than a jamaican bobsled team.
Then this happened...
Some animal along side the road was running alongside the car and decided it wanted to cross the street right in front of me. This pissed me off since my driver side door was already jacked up from someone hitting my car and dented the driverside door, ripped off the side mirror, and slightly dented the fender. WTF!? FLJSDFLJSLF :gaah:
Several days ago I dynoed this pos and was okay with its results. Despite having mods to actually get there.