[MegaMan]

How did you remove the stuff on the door pannels? That looks real good. I have the same panels and its fuggly haha


Looking good so far with he build. Looks like a clean SR too.

It was fairly simple actually. i took my drivers license and used it to pry out a part of the carpet on the door, or what ever you wanna call it (ugly shit) and pulled it away from the pannel. You have to use your other hand to hold the vinyl so it doesent pull away from the door with the carpet. =] hope that helps you!

 

[MegaMan]

Today i got the bottem of the S14 back seats mounted I had the top mounted to but with the bottems in I have some fitment issues. I made some custom brackets to make the top of the back seats mount up and I have to re-drill and move the latches. tomorrow I should have fully functional s14 back seats. will post pics when I got it all in tomorrow. Anyone know where I can pick up some OEM black S13 carpet? I cant find any anywhere!

 

[MegaMan]

I actually like wiring I guess I am weird. Really love those door panels without the carpet. Gonna have to do that to mine. Do you think a heat gun would ease the removal

dude to be honest they came off realy easy without it for me but I live in florda and its like 98 everyday so that might have helped. It dident leave any residue. If it does you probbly could take some rubbing alchohol and get it off. =]

 

[MegaMan]

Fo sho =]

 

[MegaMan]

Ok for a small update! I have the back seats fully installed and have decided on taking a diffent direction with the build. im going to go with a s13.5 =] insted of my origanal sil40 plans. I got my head unit wired in and my stereo fully opperational. I had a cluster f*** of a mess to work with. I will post some pics tomorrow. =]

 

[MegaMan]

Yea I still havent decided yet. . . but on a side note, clutch went out. I am hunting down another one as we speak. . . .

 

[MegaMan]

Well today was my lazy day no class and I was sleeping in I placed my order for a cupple parts and my clutch, yesterday. Shout out to Enjuku raceing cause my short shifter and my ISIS pullys arived this afternoon :thumbsup So much for a lazy day.

My ISIS light weight pullys! =]

Now I have heard good and bad reviews about the ISIS short shifter as well as the B&M I decided to say screw it and bought the ISIS anyway. So when I get my clutch in and install the short shifter I will give a personal in depth review of it for youguys. :thumbsup

So before night fall I got 2 of my pullys installed as I do not have my power steering hooked up ATM and I dont know about anyone else I had the hardest time to get my altinator pully off. I literally tried every trick I was ever tought to try and get this dam thing off. I tried stuffing the belt with a shop ragg, tried putting a vice on the belt and finally 3 hours later (it shouldent take that long to get a fuc**** pully off) I took the altinator out put a pipe wrench on the pully and a friend hold that. had another friend push the altinator to keep it on the ground and used a breaker bar to break the nut loose. Needless to say im doing that from now on it, took 30 seconds. I was so impressed with my idea. =Þ (sorry for the shitty pic)

 

[MegaMan]

Not good yet still need to put my 5lug and rims on, My ZX brakes, new bushings, get a one peice driveshaft, and get my diff welded. and hunt down a good set of coilovers with some camber plates. then ill be set. :thumbsup

 

[MegaMan]

I am gunna weld it. Is the driveshaft a aluminum or steel?

 

[MegaMan]

I also need strut bars to cut back on some body roll. I really want a aluminum one. so ill wait. =]

 

[MegaMan]

Well it has been pouring in south florida the last cupple days. More rain then the days we were supposed to get hit my a silly hurriccane. In one of the shittiest days my beauty arrives.

If i could cheat on my GF with a inanimate object it would be this. Why do parts you dont see so sexy?
Stage 3 SPEC clutch.

Six puck sprung

IDK why this pic is small I cant get it any bigger lolz

So today there was a break in the rain so I put her on jack stands and began work.

Pulled the stick out it was leaking tranny fluid up like crazy. never noticed how bad till i pulled it out.

Stuffed a shop rag down in there to keep crap from falling into the tranny when I muscle her out.

pulled out the started and was in for a sight.

This pile of mess i pulled out of the bell housing stuck to the back of the flywheel and the starter. Its whats left over from my clutch. I am verry eager to see what it looks like when I pull the tranny. Has anyone eles seen this before? Its raining again so hopefully more work tomorrow.

 

[MegaMan]

DC makes a sweet looking one piece strut bar check it out on ebay they are like 150 i think!

Ill check it out =]

 

[MegaMan]

You haz spec clutch, not act

Whoops, thats what happens when your listening to your ipod and typing away. Ty for catching that (fixed)
:thumbsup

 

[MegaMan]

Update

Ok so I feel its time to bring this thread back from the dead for a big update. Last time I posted in this thread my car was looking something like this

I had finaly gotten most thing strait and sanded down. then found me a pretty decent front end.

It came with some clear D-max corners that were broke and just completely ugly as all hell so I ordered some OEM corners from good ole japan.

I got tired of looking at the holes for the chuchi hood so I had an extra one laying around so I tack welded some metal stips across the holes and fiberglassed them up for the time being till I could find a hood.

Went to the local muffler shop and told them to give me all the scrap and spare 3" exhaust pipe they have and Built me a exhaust. had it as a strait pipe but just recently welded back on my apexi can.
I moved back up to gainesville florida to be closer to most of the florida events went to cfrc a cupple times KMS and other things. ended up throwing a bearing and got a rod knock or slap what ever you may call it. And so the build really begins.

It starts.

IC piping off

SMH at the mess of a chassis harness.

Intake mani off.

Still SMH at that harness. its mangled and not my fault. I removed the radiator, headlight mounting brackets, hood latch, engine harness, and the chassis harness. I ended up having to cut the harness in the wheel well to get through the fire wall because the smarty befor me decided it was a great idea to tangle the harness in the bay with the dash harness with left me no choice but to cut. plus it was owned by tire at an event and zipties failed.

so I said fuck it, and cut it.

laid everything out and started to deloom this mess.

made a vid
harness.mp4 video by megaman_v2 - Photobucket
Decided that there is to much rust on the core support and this is going to be a trac car I am cutting out the core support and tubbing the fenders when I pull the SR.

started pulling out dash and dash harness.

removed the dash and harness

All AC components are out I have everything but the compressor its all for sale, PM if interested. will ship at your expense.

And this is where she is sitting as of now

Ready to be pulled and disassembled. Should be getting my taxes here soon ARP studs, gasket kit, cosworth head gasket, rod and main bearings, if the walls are too bad in the #1 (where the knock is) cylder its getting bored out. but im going to assume its not to bad. block is getting tanked and decked. all oem parts going in for a OEM spec rebuild. then the rest of my money is going to a cage. also WTT my s14 front and rear seats for a driverside bucket and rail. Any input is much appreciated. =]

 

[MegaMan]

Well This is going to be a HUGE update. Well sense my last post quite a few things have gone down and the coupe is no longer the project at hand anymore! But for the sake of documentation I will continue where I left off. Pulling the SR

HAHA my buddy and mentor Marshal SR is out (insert fist pump ) :thumbsup

And so the break down begins. I want to add we pulled motor at 6 PM and had long block completely disassembled by 5 AM went through 2 boxes of hungry Howie's, with spicy crust, and about 4, 6 packs. got some shit DONE!

I welded my down pipe to my J pipe a wile back due to the studs one was stripped, one was broken and the other was fine couldn't replace with engine in so I got aggravated with the exhaust leak and welded that bitch solid.

Head was relatively clean ^ not bad.

Parts bin ^

Lower pan and crank was yucky ass molasses color which is no bueno.

OEM cross hatching is still there so +1 for under 60k SR

Organization is key, if there's anything I have learned from Marshal its organization. I now have CAR OCD because of that guy.

#1 cylinder crank looks fine I caught the problem before damage occurred so that's a good sign.

The culprits dam bearings.

And as for now motor is still sitting waiting to send Head, block, crank, to get decked, tanked and specked out. And I still need to order parts to rebuild. I had all the cash needed for the cost of rebuild but then found damage to the frame rail of the coupe and stumbled upon a REALLY REALLY REALLY good buy and couldn't pass it up so engine is at stand still.

Frame damage that I could not have known about, nor was I told about when I both the car. but oh well

 

[MegaMan]

its hard for me to see the damage in the pic... and +1 for catching the rod knock before it did any damage!

Yea it was a substantial knock instantly killed ignition as soon as I felt the engine off ballance and called a buddy and trailerd it home. started it at my house to confirm the knock upon engine start the motor shook pretty bad but no sound and the rod would only knock at 2400 RPM, but there was no knock when the car was under load. SO.... the engine was pulled.