Pro-Am S13 Coupe from Dayton build

[240sxdriftin]

Well I'm awfully bored at work, and I figured I'd share the build on my 240sx over the last year and season of drifting in the 2011 Midwest Drift Union FD Pro-Am series... And also begin the build for the 2012 season.

So the chassis is a 93 coupe, very rust free from Georgia. Sunroof-less and no power options. I picked up as pretty much a bare shell in rough shape from someone who didn't really know what they were doing.

The full list of end modifications on this car ended up being this..

Engine:
SR20 Redtop motor
S15 dual BB turbo
Deatchwerks 550cc injectors
Z32 maf
Hybrid Dynamics ROM tuned ecu
Apexi intake
Koyo Radiator
Samco hoses
PBM Highmount intercooler
Walbro 255 fuel pump
Tomei turbo elbow
Greddy downpipe
ISIS 4in dual tip catback
Circuit sports stainless turbo lines
Dual electric fans
ACT 6 puck clutch
TODA racing lightweight flywheel

Suspension/ Chassis:
Custom 6pt roll cage FD spec
Fortune Auto 500 coilovers
Fortune Auto tension rods
SPL parts toe, RUCA, and traction rods
SPL parts solid subframe bushings
Solid engine and trans mounts
Energy suspension bushing kit
Tein inner/outer tie rods with spacer
S14 front suspension and 5 lugs all around

Interior:
2 Bride vios III knock offs
2 Takata harnesses
Nagisa rails
NRG deep suede wheel/ thin hub/ QR
Prosport 60mm gauges boost/oil press/water temp
Greddy profec b spec 2
kept the dash/ carpet and door panels in

exterior:
BN type 2 knock off front bumper and sides
Uras style rear bumper
Uras GT WING
Origin 40mm front fenders
Origin 50mm rear overs
Knock off roof wing
H4 lights with 16000k pink HID's
Teal green metallic paint
Origin smoked tails
ebay ganador style mirros

Brakes/ wheels:
Z32 front brake conversion
Circuit sports drilled/slotted rotors
Hawk HPS pads all around
Agency power lines all around
Racing Logic Hydraulic E-brake
18x10/ 18x11.5 Work Emitz
18x10 FR500's
18x10.5 RPF1's
18x10.5 Varrstoens

I think that covers all the bases of what was done to this car. So here we go build time woooo...

Picked the car up in March, and took it straight to getting caged.

First picture of the car, as I began stripping it out to get prepared for the cage, at this point it still has the previous owners 5 lug on it, that goes away soon.



Car totally stripped out and ready for cage fitting. Good Friend of mine did this cage, I helped a little bit.




At the end of the day looking very haggard.



Started Collecting some parts...


More cage stuff.



New subframe ready to go in.


Test fitting seat before finishing cage


Put a better front crossmember in than the busted up one that came with the car. along with the steering rack bushings.


Then the cage was finished so I took the car back to my garage and got to work on other fun things.

Like re cutting the awful cut fenders


Testing the overs and painting the cage.








Chopped up the front to fit the PBM Highmount


Tossed the motor in


Cut up the dashboard and shoved it in



Mounted the Hydro


Put some more of the motor together



Z brakes, extended studs, fortune auto parts


Put my door panels in with a little bit of dremel trimming


Mounted a fender and the 326 power wing so I could see it all together for once


These tips are large!


Test fitted one of the emitz.


I failed at taking pictures of all the rear suspension and links cause it was all boring and black. So I got tires mounted... 235/40 on an 11.5 lol...


Had to grind nissan off the calipers to fit the wheels, even with a 12mm spacer


Then Got everything buttoned up and lowered it onto 4 wheels for pretty much the first time ever... for me. Things fell right into place.







The next day rolled it out into the sunlight to stare at.






The interior all buttoned up and finished




Then took the car to the alignment shop... horrible specs -6 camber front and -5... that was when I knew the emitz had to go soon. But not yet!

[240sxdriftin]

Drove it out to a car meet for the first time


Getting ready to go out for the first event up in clio michigan at round 2 for MDU.

This is now may 14th, I got the car beginning of March...



At the first event up in Clio Michigan. It was a bad day for drifting, The morning started off with pooring rain and 40's with lots of wind. So getting soaked and freezing while getting the cars ready and teched. It ended up stopping raining just before my run group, and then dried off later in the day but was still cold and windy.







Had some fun when we got home



Got back from the event and went back to work on the car, getting the headlights mounted and then the bumper fitted. after testing the bumper, I new I needed a good bracket to make it look right.





After seeing it all together I figured I needed to paint it all one color, so it was time for some primer. Again I slacked with taking pictures of prep and all that but here it is in primer.







About a week of driving around like that and I was over it and ready to get it all one color!! So I took it all apart and proceeded to do just that! First time spraying base/clear..




And then... PAINT!!!


Took it home asap to put it all together and stare at it with the emitz on it haha...




Got tired of that saggy bumper now that the car was painted...

[240sxdriftin]

So Then it was off to the next round of MDU along with a small parking lot event the day before... Not many pictures at this event my photographer wasn't able to make it.






After that event on a fast track, I realized it was time for the Emitz to go and for some lightweight reasonable sized wheels to come into my life before the next event. This is when my pictures get really off. I bought a set of 18x10.5 rpf1s and a set of 18x10.5 varrstoens, painted them all hot pink and stickered up the car to get ready for round 4 MDU in Nashville tn at an amazing track and facility













Home from that event.. Bought a new house... Moved the car in



Bought a Uras GT wing...



More stickers, and drove Street Life Tour... Barely any pictures of that but car looked dumb at that event anyways...



Went and drove another parking lot event in indy..



And then that was all the events for the season.. Drove the car around a little...




Then the last thing I did before tearing it down was lower it a bunch haha...




And thats the last it looked like before going into the garage to go under the knife again... Its currently torn back down. Getting a new engine power plant with 400 na whp... Front tubs, knuckles, Interior fully paint matched along with front end and engine bay, hood vent, and a matching BN rear bumper. Then most likely a vinyl wrap. But all my money is going towards this new engine setup...

I Just really enjoyed last season and had a lot of fun, and wanted to share it with you all.

Stay tuned I will start updating this thread with new stuff on the car as it starts happening this winter preparing for 2012 drift season.

-Thanks!!

[Strizi]

Nice Car man

[Landberg]

Other than that it needs its 326 wing back on it's just awesome!
What color is that?

[Kingbaby]

nice man super nice...

[7evil]

extra cool Nissan!

[hammy]

Love the color scheme! good work

[txrxs]

Guess you win this one bwag.

[alexanderig]

always admired your car nice build. and im guessing 400whp na will be a ls? if so congrats and thats going to be sick

[Darren]

Originally Posted by Landberg

Other than that it needs its 326 wing back on it's just awesome!
What color is that?

I agree totally with this, looked amazing!

[OBEEWON]

You build good cars boss.

I gotta say getting rid of the Emitz made me real sad.

[RHDphil]

sweet build

[d-man478]

sick build. it is very similar to my pro-am build, which gives me a lot of inspiration. Can't wait to see what you have in store this year!

[tricky_ab]

I like what you've done! It's just the pick me up I needed...I'm sick as a dog, stuck at work.

[nathanong87]

best move was selling the emitz

[vhamey]

Nice car! How did the paint go for you? Considering trying to paint my S13.

[towlie]

Nice dude.

[240sxdriftin]

Thanks for all the positive comments guys, means a lot to me!!

The paint color is a teal green metallic from paintforcars.com nothing fancy. Painting it actually went a lot easier than I had thought, it's not perfect but its a track car so its good enough.

Lots of work in store still for the 2012 season, working on getting my two tone coupe finished first then I'll be focused back on this car again.

[95KA-Turbo]

Originally Posted by Landberg

Other than that it needs its 326 wing back on it's just awesome!
What color is that?

needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on


I'm looking forward to see what you have in store for it next!

[240sxdriftin]

Originally Posted by 95KA-Turbo

needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on
needs its 326 wing back on


I'm looking forward to see what you have in store for it next!

I know I should have kept it

[Royal_T]

Looking good

[silviasteve]

So solid. I wanna shoot some photos of this thing when its back up and running!

[jubee]

glad you ditched the wing, mad the car look 100x's better.

keep up the good work

[240sxdriftin]

Thanks dooods

sad to see it sitting out in the snow


Its gotta sit outside while I finish this two tone thing...



soon as I sell my WRX lots of things will be happening... needs to be soon...

[fallen_51]

Makes me proud to be from dayton !!!! Keep up the awesomeness !!!

[Johnny_K]

Very nice, im building something similiar for the 2012 drift season and plan on drifting in some of the MDU events.

Question on the hydro setup.

1 - Did you find where the rear brake line ran into the brake master cylinder
2 - unscrew that line
3 - run a stainless steel line from one of the hydro ebrake fitting to the master cylinder where you unscrewed the rear brake line from
4 - then run another stainless line from the other fitting of the hydro to the line that your removed from the brake master?

Hope that made sense.

[sterlinge]

Nice car looked Badass with the emitz. What is your new alignment specs?

[BHG]

Does it make me a ricer for liking the car more unpainted?

This car is sweet man. Make sure to avoid the walls for the love of all the Zilvian's.

Did you sell the Emitz or just put'em in storage?

[Imarvin240]

before paint, i thought cool ...after paint, i thought awesome!