Well I decided to make my 2nd build thread cause my 1st one was pretty old, I never updated it and on top of that it was in the wrong section.
Here's a link to my old build thread:
http://240sxforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57115&highlight=
A lot of things have happened since that time. A little after that thread I installed rotora cross drilled and slotted rotors with Axxis pads and SS lines, after that my car had stayed like that for a while.
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I was trying to max out my auto and my suspension pieces until I started to do some major modifications.
Here's some video of my drifting my car with those mods:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4722933720373946954
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8968586935999746094
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5530193415484296424
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I placed 2nd in the advanced competition that event.
After I felt like I had reached full potention with my auto I started to look for manual swap parts. After I found some that I felt were a good price it was time to make a trip all the way up to seattle. I spent all day in Seattle picking up a re-built tranny and the rest of the swap parts. I decided to do the swap myself to save on money cause I was pretty broke at the time with me barely working because I had a lot of hours of school. Doing the swap I ran into every single problem possible, the hardline leaked, I didn't have all the parts, I didn't have the right tools, the driveshaft was missing a piece
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It was missing the yoke, the left is the manual driveshaft the right is the auto driveshaft.
After about a week or so of working on the car and getting more parts I had finally finished the swap (and ended up paying more in parts then I wanted to), I turned on the car and well what do you know it wouldn't shift it into gear even after adjusting the master clutch cylinder. I was ultra pissed cause I hit every problem possible (I'm not even mentioning all the problems but trust me I ran into every one of them). The next day I started messing around with the clutch pedal and adjusted it all the way out and it kind of started to go into gear but it would be by force and I would kind of grind sometimes. I got it over to my sponsers shop just in time actually because my clutch master blew and started leaking everywhere.
After we put in a new clutch master the clutch started to work fine but then all 4 of my brakes decided to seize and stop working. It was time for new pads anyways so I purchased some hawk pads (I wanted to try something new) and 4 new calipers and me an my friend installed them in my garage. After that I was pretty happy with my car and the way it was running, well at least other then the engine mounts being pretty cracked.
Here are pics of the new clutch master and the pedals:
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I started to hit some more events seeing the potential of the manual.
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I felt pretty comfortable with the manual and caught onto it pretty quickly, In that event I placed 3rd in the advanced competition. If anybody wants I can ask my friend to upload video footage of that run.
After getting comfortable with the manual I decided to do a 2-way LSD; finally after a year and a half of drifting I bought a Cusco 2-way.
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That same day I got brand new rear tires, falken ziex's and I went and broke in the lsd; boy was that fun, I'll have to get the video of me breaking it in
. I went up to the touge and started to test the power of the 2-way. I felt strong understeer from the car like I've never felt before and the ziex's are the worst tires I have ever drifted on, they are so unpredictable. Anyways long story short I ended up crashing my car pretty freaking bad (I blame the retarded falken ziex's because after that I went up there with different tires and I was doing 100 times better) and had to drive it home with an increadibly bent tire rod inner, the most twisted lower control arm I've ever seen, slightly bent Topspeed tension rod, and the piece that held in the swaybar was bent too. Off to the junkyards I went, I found myself a new lower control arm but couldn't get a tie rod for a good enough price so I decided to go aftermarket. I bout some JIC Inner Tie Rods and also put on a tanabe raduis bar.
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My sponsers didn't have any Topspeed tension rods in stock but they did have 1 JIC tension rod in stock (the other one was taken by my friend when he crashed a couple months prior) so we threw that on. I have one JIC tension rod and 1 Topspeed tension rod lol, but the car doesn't feel different from that.
JIC Tension rod; newer:
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Topspeed tension rod; older:
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The car felt awsome, the radius bar made a pretty noticible difference in steering and so did the tie rods. The next day I got some better tires and headed out to an event, and did pretty good after I adjusted my clutch master and stopped the clutch from slipping. Btw tie rods kick ass.
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Thats not even full counter!
A big event was coming up that required me to have a roll cage so I went ahead and had my sponsers put in a roll cage in my car. I did a 7 point roll cage with door bars and harness bar. I love the cage its one of my favorite things about the car now. Before the event I also did a supra tt fuel pump, I was going to do a z32 fuel pump but they were out of stock so I did the supra one, a MAF, a cone filter, changed my oil to redline, Corbeau SCCA approved harness for the driver side with camlock and had a cheapy harness put in for the passenger side. The reason I put in the harness' was because they had to take out the auto seatbelts because of the cage.
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So that kind of brings you guys up to speed with my car and progress. This past friday I got my licience suspended for a year so my car is just going to sit in my driveway for a year (unless I get a hardship permit to get to and from school). I will still be taking the car to events to drift because you don't need a licience to be in an event.
Here are current pictures of the car. The big ass sticker on the side of my car is sponsership, they help me with tires, entry fee, working on the car etc. etc. I don't usually work on my own car, other then oil changes, doing the brakes, and manual swap. This sponsership is also not a full ride sponsership, I still pay for all the parts on my car. Also if your wondering why there are parts of the car where its really dirty it's because their doing work on my backyard and the side of the house and there is dirt EVERYWHERE and it gets all over my car, inside the cracks, inside my car, all over my engine bay; my engine bay is so dirty I didn't even want to take pictures of it. Also if your wondering why I have rear seats since there is a roll cage, its simple, I just love full interior. I also do pay for all the parts myself my parents don't buy me things for my car, they actually hate my car
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I don't know why photobucket is being so gay and made the pictures so small on some of them and big on the other ones, that kind of sucks.
A run down of what I have to this day: 08/29/06:
Exterior:
-Nothing, my zenki lip got torn off by towing and its all fucked up.
Interior:
-JIC full bucket seat
-Cusco spin knob
-Kazama shift knob that I stole from my friends car cause his car is just sitting there because the engine is blown.
-Corbeau 4-point camlock seatbelt for driver
Audio:
-Stereo got stolen at the mall =[ now I just use the stereo hole to put my driving gloves in
Performance:
-Topspeed 3 inch exhaust tip with custom 2.5 inch tubing catback
-Intake
-Supra TT Fuel pump
Drivetrain:
-Cusco 2-way
-Unknown clutch
Wheels:
-Steelies
-Kumho 711's all around; 711's and 712's are the best tire ever made
Brakes:
-Rotora cross drilled and slotted rotors
-Stainless steal lines
-Hawk pads
Chassie/suspension:
-JIC FLT-A2 coilovers
-1 Topspeed Tension rod
-1 JIC Tension Rod
-Topseed Rear Traction Rod
-JIC Rear Upper Camber Arms
-Topspeed Rear Strut Bar
-Aerospeed Front Strut bar
-Topspeed Front Chassie Ladder Bar
-Rear Toe Arms
-Rear Lower Arm Bar
-JIC Tie Rod Inners
-Tanabe Radius Bar
-7 point roll cage with door bars and harness bar
OEM Replacement parts:
-All new calipers
-Brand new Flywheel
Plans for the car this upcoming year are to do an SR and a couple mods to go with it, get a FRP Urethane body kit, paint the whole car mercedes benz black including interior and engine bay, paint the cage gold, do 5 lug conversion and get a couple different sets of 17" wheels.
Thanks for looking I hope you enjoyed my build thread, leave some comments or if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them. I will update if I remember that I forgot something or when I do something new.
-Artur
-Auto Art
Here's a link to my old build thread:
http://240sxforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57115&highlight=
A lot of things have happened since that time. A little after that thread I installed rotora cross drilled and slotted rotors with Axxis pads and SS lines, after that my car had stayed like that for a while.
I was trying to max out my auto and my suspension pieces until I started to do some major modifications.
Here's some video of my drifting my car with those mods:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4722933720373946954
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8968586935999746094
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5530193415484296424
I placed 2nd in the advanced competition that event.
After I felt like I had reached full potention with my auto I started to look for manual swap parts. After I found some that I felt were a good price it was time to make a trip all the way up to seattle. I spent all day in Seattle picking up a re-built tranny and the rest of the swap parts. I decided to do the swap myself to save on money cause I was pretty broke at the time with me barely working because I had a lot of hours of school. Doing the swap I ran into every single problem possible, the hardline leaked, I didn't have all the parts, I didn't have the right tools, the driveshaft was missing a piece
It was missing the yoke, the left is the manual driveshaft the right is the auto driveshaft.
After about a week or so of working on the car and getting more parts I had finally finished the swap (and ended up paying more in parts then I wanted to), I turned on the car and well what do you know it wouldn't shift it into gear even after adjusting the master clutch cylinder. I was ultra pissed cause I hit every problem possible (I'm not even mentioning all the problems but trust me I ran into every one of them). The next day I started messing around with the clutch pedal and adjusted it all the way out and it kind of started to go into gear but it would be by force and I would kind of grind sometimes. I got it over to my sponsers shop just in time actually because my clutch master blew and started leaking everywhere.
After we put in a new clutch master the clutch started to work fine but then all 4 of my brakes decided to seize and stop working. It was time for new pads anyways so I purchased some hawk pads (I wanted to try something new) and 4 new calipers and me an my friend installed them in my garage. After that I was pretty happy with my car and the way it was running, well at least other then the engine mounts being pretty cracked.
Here are pics of the new clutch master and the pedals:
I started to hit some more events seeing the potential of the manual.
I felt pretty comfortable with the manual and caught onto it pretty quickly, In that event I placed 3rd in the advanced competition. If anybody wants I can ask my friend to upload video footage of that run.
After getting comfortable with the manual I decided to do a 2-way LSD; finally after a year and a half of drifting I bought a Cusco 2-way.
That same day I got brand new rear tires, falken ziex's and I went and broke in the lsd; boy was that fun, I'll have to get the video of me breaking it in
. I went up to the touge and started to test the power of the 2-way. I felt strong understeer from the car like I've never felt before and the ziex's are the worst tires I have ever drifted on, they are so unpredictable. Anyways long story short I ended up crashing my car pretty freaking bad (I blame the retarded falken ziex's because after that I went up there with different tires and I was doing 100 times better) and had to drive it home with an increadibly bent tire rod inner, the most twisted lower control arm I've ever seen, slightly bent Topspeed tension rod, and the piece that held in the swaybar was bent too. Off to the junkyards I went, I found myself a new lower control arm but couldn't get a tie rod for a good enough price so I decided to go aftermarket. I bout some JIC Inner Tie Rods and also put on a tanabe raduis bar.
My sponsers didn't have any Topspeed tension rods in stock but they did have 1 JIC tension rod in stock (the other one was taken by my friend when he crashed a couple months prior) so we threw that on. I have one JIC tension rod and 1 Topspeed tension rod lol, but the car doesn't feel different from that.
JIC Tension rod; newer:
Topspeed tension rod; older:
The car felt awsome, the radius bar made a pretty noticible difference in steering and so did the tie rods. The next day I got some better tires and headed out to an event, and did pretty good after I adjusted my clutch master and stopped the clutch from slipping. Btw tie rods kick ass.
A big event was coming up that required me to have a roll cage so I went ahead and had my sponsers put in a roll cage in my car. I did a 7 point roll cage with door bars and harness bar. I love the cage its one of my favorite things about the car now. Before the event I also did a supra tt fuel pump, I was going to do a z32 fuel pump but they were out of stock so I did the supra one, a MAF, a cone filter, changed my oil to redline, Corbeau SCCA approved harness for the driver side with camlock and had a cheapy harness put in for the passenger side. The reason I put in the harness' was because they had to take out the auto seatbelts because of the cage.
So that kind of brings you guys up to speed with my car and progress. This past friday I got my licience suspended for a year so my car is just going to sit in my driveway for a year (unless I get a hardship permit to get to and from school). I will still be taking the car to events to drift because you don't need a licience to be in an event.
Here are current pictures of the car. The big ass sticker on the side of my car is sponsership, they help me with tires, entry fee, working on the car etc. etc. I don't usually work on my own car, other then oil changes, doing the brakes, and manual swap. This sponsership is also not a full ride sponsership, I still pay for all the parts on my car. Also if your wondering why there are parts of the car where its really dirty it's because their doing work on my backyard and the side of the house and there is dirt EVERYWHERE and it gets all over my car, inside the cracks, inside my car, all over my engine bay; my engine bay is so dirty I didn't even want to take pictures of it. Also if your wondering why I have rear seats since there is a roll cage, its simple, I just love full interior. I also do pay for all the parts myself my parents don't buy me things for my car, they actually hate my car
I don't know why photobucket is being so gay and made the pictures so small on some of them and big on the other ones, that kind of sucks.
A run down of what I have to this day: 08/29/06:
Exterior:
-Nothing, my zenki lip got torn off by towing and its all fucked up.
Interior:
-JIC full bucket seat
-Cusco spin knob
-Kazama shift knob that I stole from my friends car cause his car is just sitting there because the engine is blown.
-Corbeau 4-point camlock seatbelt for driver
Audio:
-Stereo got stolen at the mall =[ now I just use the stereo hole to put my driving gloves in
Performance:
-Topspeed 3 inch exhaust tip with custom 2.5 inch tubing catback
-Intake
-Supra TT Fuel pump
Drivetrain:
-Cusco 2-way
-Unknown clutch
Wheels:
-Steelies
-Kumho 711's all around; 711's and 712's are the best tire ever made
Brakes:
-Rotora cross drilled and slotted rotors
-Stainless steal lines
-Hawk pads
Chassie/suspension:
-JIC FLT-A2 coilovers
-1 Topspeed Tension rod
-1 JIC Tension Rod
-Topseed Rear Traction Rod
-JIC Rear Upper Camber Arms
-Topspeed Rear Strut Bar
-Aerospeed Front Strut bar
-Topspeed Front Chassie Ladder Bar
-Rear Toe Arms
-Rear Lower Arm Bar
-JIC Tie Rod Inners
-Tanabe Radius Bar
-7 point roll cage with door bars and harness bar
OEM Replacement parts:
-All new calipers
-Brand new Flywheel
Plans for the car this upcoming year are to do an SR and a couple mods to go with it, get a FRP Urethane body kit, paint the whole car mercedes benz black including interior and engine bay, paint the cage gold, do 5 lug conversion and get a couple different sets of 17" wheels.
Thanks for looking I hope you enjoyed my build thread, leave some comments or if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them. I will update if I remember that I forgot something or when I do something new.
-Artur
-Auto Art
