Punxva's S13 and S14 Builds

[punxva]

yeah only the 240, the toyota pickup, not the mini truck, and the lexus sc300 are mine, my other roommate owns the rolla, rx7, mini truck, and the ranger

[punxva]

took the dash and interior harness back out of the car, since it has way too many wiring problems (cuts, shorts, ect) and i found another harness on here for cheap (Thanks CrimsonRockett) so that should be here tomorrow, but I went ahead and painted the interior with POR15 rust preventative paint, i'll get better shots today after class...





once again i apologize for the shitty pictures.

[punxva]

here are the day shots...

[ManoNegra]

did you roll/brush the paint on?
looking good so far.

[punxva]

i brushed it on, i really wasnt too concerned with it being smooth and shiny like most people do when they paint their interior. plus its like 30 degrees out so i kept it simple. the front will be covered by dmax floor mats.

[punxva]

started cutting and welding in the spare tire holder...

[punxva]

cleared the carbon fiber radio delete panel i made out of a spare sentra spec v hood

[CamryOnBronze]

I like the radio delete panel- looks sweet!

[punxva]

started welding up my battery box, i like making things rather than buying them, and also got some old nascar SS lines with an fittings off of ebay for my oil cooler setup...

[punxva]

Got a front set of the red and blacks to finish off my interior, minus the seat rail which fabrication will be in progress as soon as i get more gas for the welder



also picked up this today...

[punxva]

trunk floor is welded in and seam sealed, waiting for that to dry, so in the mean time i threw the new vertex knockoff front bumper on, it needs some more shaving and it should fit like a glove.... in the pictures it has nothing bolting it on, i need to swap the hardware over from the oem bumper tomorrow...

[Csomme]

Looks very, very good man. I'm loving this.

[CamryOnBronze]

Very nice!

[SoSideways]

What did you use as the seam sealer? I was gonna pick up some 3M stuff, but nobody carries that stuff around here locally... I would have had to purchased it from an online retailer to get it.

[punxva]

my roommate brought it home from work, it's 3m, we both work in body shops i just forgot to grab some before i left haha

[SoSideways]

Oh shit.

Nice.

Maybe I'll just send you a few bucks if you could grab me a tube.

Beats buying from some online shop that I've never even seen or heard of, and them charging me like $10 for shipping or something absurd like that.

lol

If you could do that for me, that'd be awesome.

[punxva]

drove the car today, it has way too much toe in the rear, need to adjust the parts shop max toe arms then we will see how it feels. Threw the floor mats in just to take a pic since i still have a water leak issue so once that's figured out i'll leave them in there.

[punxva]

even in a foot of snow the usps delivered my ichiba 5 lug front hubs yesterday haha, was super excited.

[punxva]

installed my ichiba front 5 lug hubs and my q45 brakes onto the car, the rear 300zx setup will be on once i get the conversion lines and rotors.

[CamryOnBronze]

Nice work, man! I have the same brakes... not really flashy or anything, but they make a great improvement over stock.

[punxva]

yeah i got the rears on today, no pictures since we were all business, but swapped the 300zx ebrake and calipers to the stock uprights, 7lbs isn't worth saving for the price of new coilover bottoms from stance lol $40 a piece. i'll have pics up tomorrow once everything is finished

[SoSideways]

I just noticed, you have the exact same steering wheel that I have! hahaha

[punxva]

haha awesome, on a side note i'm a little pissed

somehow i manage to give my buddy one task, and that is to take off the 27mm nut off of the back of my 300zx uprights so i can transfer the ebrake assembly to my stock uprights, and he takes it off and then beats it off of the upright, with the nut still on it. Fucked up 2 threads on the nut, lucky for him it wasn't the stud itself, but now i'm stick 3/4 done with my 5 lug swap and can't finish it until i can find a new nut for it. FML

[SoSideways]

I still have to find some new bolts for the front struts.

I managed to cross thread one of the bolts that holds the front struts to the knuckles when I was taking off the nut.

So... yeah... you and me both

[punxva]

rear brakes on, found a 300zx junkyard like 5 minutes from my house, too bad their prices are outrageous. now all i need is the conversion lines for the rear. Borrowed my buddies wheels.

[punxva]

not really a build update, but i got a new dope helmet and gold visor haha

I couldn't pass it up plus the matte black looks sexy haha...

[punxva]

i need spacers... lowered the rear, and finished the z brake swap on the rear, everything works great.

[punxva]

well got into the body work, shaved the antenna and rear corner markers, and have to re repair some spots on the quarter panel that the previous owner completely fucked up. I didn't really take pictures of the during progress just up to where i'm at now.






and my roommate is putting his wide body on his rx7 today as well haha

[PoorMans180SX]

Just to let you know, if you don't weld the metal flush when shaving the markers, antenna, etc, and just fill that little dip in with filler, it will eventually sink and be noticeable.

[punxva]

yeah its completely welded all the way, that picture was just when it was tacked in place. Here's the wheels test fitted i need to roll it a little more before i prime the quarters...

18x9.5 +15 225/40/18