Mestizo's 92 Nissan 240SX Coupe Build Thread, yeah it was an automatic. Options

[mestizo]

Ok so I broke down and decided that I wanna return to my roots of going sideways... since 10 years of my life I raced quads and that yearning has never really left me. So after a couple of months of pondering I decided that I wanted to do this and to get out of the Honda game for a while. With that being said I looked for a couple of weeks and found this car in November 2006 on craigslist for $500. There were a few things wrong with it but nothing that I couldnt fix, it had a dent in the drivers headlight area, a large dent in the passenger rear quarter panel and an overheating issue from a neglected cooling system. Well needless to say that 95% of those problems are gone and I have had that car about 3 weeks now. Anyways here is the progress of the car since i got it, along with some pics too. I will be documenting all the progress and taking more pictures along the way


Current Specs as of 6/29/2010

Car:
1992 Nissan 240SX SE Coupe

Car name:
Layla

Engine, Transmission & Drive Train:
Stock JDM Zenki S14 SR20DET Engine, tranny & ECU swap
Circuit Sports 1 piece O2 Elbow & 3 inch downpipe
Mr Gasket copper turbo manifold gasket
Greddy M Spec Front Mount Intercooler Core
Greddy Type RS blow off valve
Custom charge piping done by Jonnie Fraz
Circuit Sports rocker arm stoppers
VHT wrinkle red painted valve cover
Exedy OEM replacement clutch kit
Kazama motor mounts
Nismo tranny mount
SPL hardened clutch fork pivot bolt
1995 Nissan Altima Electric Fans
FAL Variable fan speed controller
Koyo S13 SR20 Aluminum Radiator
A/C lines, compressor and condensor removed
Weld Locd version 3 welded rear diff
Cruise control removed
Odyssey PC680 battery
Walbro 255LPH HP fuel pump
No Name 3 Inch air filter with MAF adapter
No name Stainless Steel 3 inch exhaust piping from the down pipe back with a 3" tip
Greddy "GREX" thermostatic oil sandwich adapter
B&M oil cooler core with Russell -10AN lines/fittings
Ford truck power steering cooler core with custom bent 3/8" aluminum hard line
STRI DSD-SLM 60mm oil temp, water temp and 30 PSI boost gauges
Sun Automotive Hyper ground kit

Exterior:
JDM S13 Nissan Silvia Front end conversion
Rebased Lexus/Phillips HID kit
B Magic D1 Series full kit (Vertex knock off)
Aftermarket Origin style red/Clear tail lights
LED rear signal and tail light bulbs
Rattle can primer black paint (lol no money for paint yet)
Custom Vinyl graphics by Infinit Graphx

Interior:
Modified driver's side floor pan with custom seat bracket to get the seat as low as possible.
Bride MO Passenger seat rail
Corbeau Forza II seat driver side (wide version cuz im a fat ass)
Recaro SRD seat passenger side
Momo Hub
Momo Mod 8 steering wheel
NRG Version 3 Slim quick release (FET Copy)
Relocated stock E brake mounting bracket to the right side for more leg room
Generic aluminum Drift E brake knob
1995 Acura Integra shift knob (yup! it's my car fuck off)
Custom 4 point roll bar with door bars by Blu808 and Stealth Custom Fab, using 1.5" .120 wall DOM tubing

Brakes:
1990 Infiniti Q45 front brake calipers
Brembo Q45 X Drilled/Sloted front rotors
PBR XBR pads in front
Brembo X Drilled/Sloted rear 4 lug rotors redrilled to 5x114.3
PBR ULT pads in back
Russell Stainless steel braided brake lines front
Circuit sports rear lines

Suspension & Steering:
Stock S13 Hicas front steering rack swap(quicker ratio than non Hicas)
Aluminum steering column bushing
Stealth Custom Fab modified steering knuckles
Battle Version weld on FLCA adjusters
SPL - KTS Coilovers 8k front and 6k rear spring rates
SPL - Nagisa Fender Braces
SPL - Nagisa Pro RUCA's
SPL - Nagisa V2 Rear toe arms
SPL V2 front Tension Rods
SPL V5 pro outer tie rod ends
Moog S14 inner tie rods
Battle Version rear traction rods
Techno Toy Tuning rear sub frame collars
Energy Suspension full bushing kit installed
Stealth Custom Fab prototype front strut bar
Stealth Custom Fab welded front tension rod brace.
S13 Hicas 21mm rear sway bar
Stitch welded engine bay by Jonnie Fraz of Stealth-Cutsom-Fab.com

Wheels and Tires:
S5 / Ichiba Bolt on 5 lug conversion
Drag DR-31 17x9 +17 offset 5x114.3 pattern custom painted white
Front tires Falken Azenis RT 615 225/45
Rear tires Federal 595ss 225/45

Current Sponsors:
Stealth-Custom-Fab.com
Infinit Graphx - InfinitGraphx.com
Blu808.com

Alignment Specs:
Front:
-3.5 degrees camber
stock caster
1mm toe out

Rear:
-1.5 degrees camber
traction rods shortened 12.7mm / 1/2 inch
1mm toe in

Fluids:
Redline 5w40 engine oil
Amzoil gear oil (tranny)
Redline Power Steering Fluid
Redline Water Wetter Plus 60:40% water:coolant
Motul 90PA gear oil (differential)


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11/6/2006
Picked up car from Yuba City for $500 Clean Title and Drove it straight home. Here are the pics from the craigslist ad.




Here are the pics I took of it the night I drove it home, these show the various dents that it had.












11/7/2006
Registered/payed tax on the car at the DMV. Removed all rear interior parts from car, cleaned the interior of all the stank smoke ashes and dirt. Checked tire pressure and ordered up a factory thermostat. Picked up a set of black seat covers to cover the stank seats that were in the car as well as a leather steering wheel wrap. Washed trunk floor of oil and debris, pressured washed floor mats and washed entire car.






11/8/2006
Pulled the ecu and checked codes, fixed the EGR vacuum leak, fixed the power steering bolt, topped off brake fluid, bought a brand new battery hold down to fix the non existent one I had and changed the air filter.

11/9/2006
Popped large dent out on passenger quarter panel, pushed out small dent on the rear taillight area, checked/replaced all fuses, removed 80% of the faded/bubbled tint, removed fan shroud, fan/fan clutch, removed all belts, pulled thermostat and water pump.




11/10/2006
Diagnosed parking light problem, removed extra wires from under the dash, flushed engine block and radiator of rust. Replaced water pump, thermostat, alt/power steering belts and radiator hoses. Found coolant leak in the thermostat bypass coolant line.

11/12/2006
Removed coolant bypass hose. Replaced with a similar hose from Kragen.

11/22/2006
Fixed dent with front headlight and core support. Here are some pics when we were using the come along to pull the core support back out and putting in the new head light bucket. The first pic is the passenger side and what the core support should look like. The light is good enough for now I could make it look better but i really dont need to since I am getting a Silvia front end.










11/24/2006
Pulled the stock diff and had my dad weld it, filled with new gear oil. 1st DRIFT Happened this night!

11/26/2006
Changed engine oil to mobil1 synthetic and replaced oil filter. Purchased KTS Coilover’s from SPL.


Next update will be the installation of my KTS Coilovers which will be here this friday!