Finally Got a S14. 56K BEWARE!

splicer · Sep 21, 2007

If you want to save money I'd say go with the redtop and source your manual parts from a junk yard, they're easy to find. I'm almost done wiring my redtop into my S14, hasn't been to hard, now let's see if I did it right :eek3dance

sikk240 · Sep 21, 2007

splicer said:
That's some love right there.

What are you going to use the car for, and what other plans do you have besides an SR. And go with the redtop SR, especially if your going for 350hp. The money saved can be used for a bigger turbo

Theres like a $200 difference between the red top cost, and black top cost..

splicer · Sep 21, 2007

sikk240 said:
Theres like a $200 difference between the red top cost, and black top cost..

I don't know about you, but I'm not made out of money. 200$ to offset the cost of a turbo helps in my book, 600$ instead of 800$...

Shwag · Sep 21, 2007

Hey man I missed it before... You can use a 2 jaw puller to get the ball joints and tie rods off. Put the jaws of the puller on the knuckle and the screw part on the threaded ends and they pop right off. Hammering or pickle forking them will destroy the joints.

I seriously had nowhere to keep my car, so I had to do something with it. I wound up making more money than if I was to sell it. Plus I still have shit left over. My S14 pics are here if you interested.

OpenThrottle · Sep 22, 2007

splicer said:
If you want to save money I'd say go with the redtop and source your manual parts from a junk yard, they're easy to find. I'm almost done wiring my redtop into my S14, hasn't been to hard, now let's see if I did it right :eek3dance

yea i said i was going to go with the s14 notch-top and two days later i read about the problems with vvt........FUCK....oh well back to the redtop

sikk240 said:
Theres like a $200 difference between the red top cost, and black top cost..

i've seen them go different prices sometimes anywhere from 200-600 dollar difference...but i def wanna save some money for a better turbo

sikk240 said:
Theres like a $200 difference between the red top cost, and black top cost..

yea neither am i, but my engine is where most of the money will go so even if i have to pay some extra money to get a good engine i will

Shwag said:
Hey man I missed it before... You can use a 2 jaw puller to get the ball joints and tie rods off. Put the jaws of the puller on the knuckle and the screw part on the threaded ends and they pop right off. Hammering or pickle forking them will destroy the joints.

I seriously had nowhere to keep my car, so I had to do something with it. I wound up making more money than if I was to sell it. Plus I still have shit left over. My S14 pics are here if you interested.

thanks for the help Shwag and i left you a comment on your page

Thanks for the input everyone.

I took some pics of the garage on my phone camara but i dont feel like installing activesync on my PC....so i gotta find my digi i think my sister stole the shit hahaha

but expect some pics of the garage this weekend :dancingna

OpenThrottle · Sep 26, 2007

Well as promised here are some pics of the garage that we have been working on for the past month and a half or so

The guy that did most of the framing (hes def doing a good job so far)

Thats my pops on the bottom left

The way shes been sitting

Damn it i cant wait to put her in the garage and tear her apart

Well thanks for looking updates soon

OpenThrottle · Nov 5, 2007

Updates

wow i havent updated in a while.....

well we are getting close to finishing the garage. i did pick up something for the car over the weekend.

heres some pics:

car is in the garage

the way she sits

back shot of the garage

my new toy

bought the engine from a guy that was sellin it on 240sxforums. payed 1500 for everything just had to go pick it up.

well more updates should be coming soon b/c we still have to put the garage doors and i should be able to work on the car.....thanks for looking

240fly · Nov 5, 2007

nice job on the garage.

OpenThrottle · Nov 5, 2007

thanks 240, hopefully everything should be done soon and then i can work on the car again its been sitting there for a while

Scoot · Nov 5, 2007

Very nice, HKS WG on stock T28?

Yuumai · Nov 5, 2007

Wow awesome thread

Good work and keep the pics coming. I will share some pics of my 97 project when it gets out of the body shop tomorrow. I re-painted it black, lowered and put some 18's on it like you are planning on doing

OpenThrottle · Nov 5, 2007

240-kid said:
Very nice, HKS WG on stock T28?

well the guy i bought it from had it on there, but he took it off and put the stock wg on the t28

OpenThrottle · Nov 5, 2007

Yuumai said:
Wow awesome thread Good work and keep the pics coming. I will share some pics of my 97 project when it gets out of the body shop tomorrow. I re-painted it black, lowered and put some 18's on it like you are planning on doing

Yuumai, thanks and definitely let me see the pics, hopefully within a few days i can start working on it again. what are you doing to lower it and what 18's you putting on it?

TransformedBG · Nov 5, 2007

OpenThrottle · Nov 5, 2007

TransformedBG said:
Nice

thanks

Reosoul · Nov 7, 2007

while everything is out, why not rivet the seams and get that glue crap out. You 'll stiffen up the chassis quite a bit with minimal effort and a fairly low cost.

Great record of your transformation. Keep it commin' OpenThrottle.

s14240sxsilvia · Nov 7, 2007

Damn pretty nice garage i wish i had enough space to build my self one . Keep up the work man

OpenThrottle · Nov 8, 2007

Reosoul said:
while everything is out, why not rivet the seams and get that glue crap out. You 'll stiffen up the chassis quite a bit with minimal effort and a fairly low cost.

Great record of your transformation. Keep it commin' OpenThrottle.

How much does it usually cost for a shop to do it? I don't know how to weld or any of that. But what i want to do, for right now, is to get the body/car looking good and get it running. Then i will probably tear it apart, after I get more experience, and do things like that.

Thanks, i will keep ya'll updated once i get more pics.

s14240sxsilvia said:
Damn pretty nice garage i wish i had enough space to build my self one . Keep up the work man

Thanks, its pretty sweet now i got space where i can work. it would have sucked working on the car outside in the cold.

I have the next 4 days off so i'll be helping my pops around the garage so we can finish it and i will try to get the ka out of the engine bay (hopefully) :thumbsup

Thanks guys for all the support and keeping up with the build page.

OpenThrottle · Nov 12, 2007

More work done over the weekend

hey everyone

didnt get the KA out of the car, couldnt get a hoist.......oh well.....but i do have some progress

started working on the cruise control and the wiper assy.

removed and gone

removed fuel filter and tried to clean up some hoses

shot of the bay

ahhh my other addiction.........i mean motivation :thumbsup :superdrun

more motivation and some cleanin up

fuck the motivation is gone :crazyrant

dash has been removed

clean dash dont ya think?

and the driveshaft is out

Next on Agenda:
-borrow/go buy a hoist to pull the KA
-if not imma tear the rear end out and go from there

thanks for lookin

OpenThrottle · Nov 17, 2007

Updates!!!!!!

well got an update:

the hoist we made

strapped and ready to be pulled

:ihit
its out, as you see i fucked up my radiator support......FUCK:crazyrant

and the ka is just sitting there (its for sale if anybody wants it)

Question:

-Whats the best way to remove the radiator support? (I'm not a master at body work, so the help is greatly appreciated!!!)

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