2 Tone Sil coupe 2 week complete build

[milo2191]

So a little background. I sold my 3 240's in like a week. It was crazy. In the midst of selling them all I did not take in the fact of what do I drive now...

I then went to my good friends at Lethal Injection Motorsports and I asked if they had any shells or cars I could just buy. With my luck they had an awesome rare two tone 1989 coupe that had a metal silvia front end that was almost perfect. It had been professionally painted 5 years ago by their painter. But right after it had been painted. It was put in the back and left there. So there is some serious clear problems to say the least. After buying the shell I really did not want to take it home and have to work on the ground and just take longer to build. So I worked a deal on using one of their lift spots.

My plans were. SR, full suspension, sway bars, 5 lug, bigger brakes, change the interior to black and have a nice DD.

This was all to happen in less then two weeks.

Day 1
Pulled her around and gave her a bath. This is how it looked after 5 years in a spot in the back.

I then find out its an automatic car. So i rolled her into a free spot in the shop.

Next I find out not only was it a automatic car. It had and automatic RB25 ha and had a R33 cross member.. Woo more work




Day 2 The motor arrived
SR20DET from a lethal Customer that was parting their car out. We tuned it and such makes almost 300 to the wheels.
He went ahead and put new belts, power-steering pump, new s14 alternator, new water pump, slave cylinder, and all new coolant lines under the manifold .
I then come to find out it has a OS Giken Twin Plate surprises are always nice ha.
Since the engine bay was painted flat black with 2 stage paint. So I made sure the motor would not scratch going in.

I left and was tired and went home

Day 3
Installed all the accessories and such. Fitting the Fmic and cutting the silvia crash bar :/... but it was ok it fits awesome.





It started WOOO I guess I did it all right ha. My second SR swap.
I then was all happy and decided to put the coil-overs on



Day 4
So I couldn't figure out why the car would not stay running.. I checked everything and decided to check the gas tank.... I should
of done this first... IT WAS RUSTED TO FUCK. The walbaro was toast... So the process of pulling the tank began FML.
It was some what hard but just dirty and smelly



SOOOO upon removing the tank I find this.....

FUKKKKKKKKKK

So a new project began removal of trunk/Spare tire well.. I almost burned the car to the ground at this point.






So I decided that I did not want to hunt down a new trunk.
I made a brace for the gas tank and I then installed the new un rusted gas tank along with the new fuel pump



Day 5
I Really wanted to bring it home after all that had happened. So I mounted some decent rollers on it and drove it home finally woo



Day 6-10
I went away for a couple of days for thanksgiving

Day 11
I Started the day out by fixing the trunk..
Sealed it and riveted a piece of 1/8th in sheet metal as my new trunk



I have a 5lug S13 240sx that I bought from auction and it got delivered while on holiday.
I take the wheels off and find that it has a full adjustable suspension arm set installed already
Then I find it has a brand new Nismo power brace.
And finally it has a R200 diff
I decided to drop the whole sub frame which would make so much less work for me.





After dropping the sub frame, I then turned to the front end of my donor car to pull the 5 lug assembly off as well as the
nismo power brace and the Q45 big brakes






Now to install everything







The pinch welds I went ahead and bent them, I as well relocated the wire harness in both fender wells.



As far as I got before it got to cold and I had been working on the car for 10 hours at the time.

[milo2191]

Day 12 The Rear End....




Next was time to clean the new subframe.. 2 hours and 2 gallons of purple power





R200v diff


New subframe cleaned and plut in place



I havn't been able to use my PBM fender roller to often but might aswell do them while im there so my RPF1's fit.


Finished Product of the rear with all the mudlfaps put on.

[bataangpinoy]

*claps*

[JIMB0]

good job!!!

[rednissan180]

wowww good job man

[milo2191]

thanks you guys. the car is having a week start.. idk what it could be. the battery was bad but even with a jump any idea?
only things i need to do tom is to 3m coat the trunk. and get tires mounted on the front rpf1s,
and begin on the hood yuck

[holemilk00]

Looks nice man. What was the original two tone color? Because the color the car is now wasn't offered in the US as a two tone. Looks damn nice regardless.

[KravingAKouki]

Originally Posted by holemilk00

Looks nice man. What was the original two tone color? Because the color the car is now wasn't offered in the US as a two tone. Looks damn nice regardless.

The way he worded it, I assume it was not a two tone, then painted to the rare color it has now. I could be wrong though. None the less, very clean car.

[milo2191]

it was the more tan two tone then was changed to the jdm two tone.

[Doc KA24DE]

Not bad for 2 weeks I got my 240 for 9 months now and still haven't put in any real work into it yet

[milo2191]

Day 12

[milo2191]

yea we have a family at my house. 5 total everynight and another 2 atleast hang out on the daily ha.

[jasonkmills]

What was the total build cost so far bro? (Just guesstimate)

[Mofuhcka]

Might have found a new favorite car on Zilvia

[milo2191]

right around 7k with wheels. it would cost more to do again tho

Originally Posted by jasonkmills

What was the total build cost so far bro? (Just guesstimate)

[milo2191]

really?? thanks !!

Originally Posted by Mofuhcka

Might have found a new favorite car on Zilvia

[sophiasluv]

Super clean

[milo2191]

yep this morning I find the rear brake caliper shit it self over night.. great and then the brake fluid resivoir cracked from sun rot and pissed brake fluid all over the ground its all super blue race brake fluid so its like 10$ worth on the ground yay ha.

[wacko2]

really nice clean two tone

[Big Zee]

yay!! another 2 tone! looks great

[Gleeso]

Good job mate, shame about the boot though. I hope you go back at some time and weld the piece in, or weld in a part of the boot from another donor, rivets are ugly....unless they're done properly on overfenders.

What sizes and offsets are your RPF1's? I've just ordered a set, and yours look to fit up pretty well.

[spray2020]

does the parking pole work?

I have one complete with wiring if you need to make a copy harness from mine

[drscooper]

nice build man!

[milo2191]

I have tried to make it work cuz the harness i got was i guess supposed to work, but i cant seem to get it to come up...

[cchondro]

Damn putting in some good work
good job man.

[spray2020]

The cable inside might be snapped, or your wiring isnt right.

Easiest way to check if it wirks is to disconnect the two main spake connectors that go to the pole, one should be power, the other ground- put them
On your car battery for a second or two to see if you can get the pole to move,or if thd motor works.

[milo2191]

I cant wait to take it off the stands ha

I picked up the new motor basically fully built by mr.popo thanks alot only thing was the timing was sorta off

Getting ready to pull the bad unlucky sr






Howie helping and I kept my old wrinkle black valve cover and sold the gold one with the old motor.



New motor in! Thanks Mr. PoPo




getting ready to go to tiger racing to button up and make sure everything is good.

[milo2191]

car runs great sammy got it running in like 2 hours timing was off due to the cams and stuff i guess. but its great besides the engine mounts... everything vibrates lol
but some pics from picking up a sil front for a friend 2 fenders and bumper fit with full interior I also fit 10se's in it the other day and still had room ha.



I also got a metal alomost mint hood. the pic is right after spraying it flat black until i can get it painted.

[milo2191]

little update everything is done put a thermostat on the fans. put new component speakers, head unit, mounted the gauges. I ordered my shift knob, shift boot, grounding kit just because, silvia oem rear trim logo, silvia lock, A's Almighty logos for the quarter panels, and a new HKS filter.
car is getting ready for paint hopefully next week i just cant be down a car right now.
Last thing is i am trying to choose between 18in 526's or..... battles.


heat shielding

[KravingAKouki]

battles for sure! and add an uncracked dash to your list of need to do's! Congrats on the build man, it makes me want a two tone now