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wolf904 · 12-22-2017, 03:00 PM

Some more media from the most recent gainesville event which was a party

received_10159628080185307 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

received_10159633402940307 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

Pushing that stock angle to its limits lol.

received_10159633402985307 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

received_10159633402950307 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

At this event my friend Sebastian came down from georgia with his team mate dustin to party, was really fun to see them come down to shred at a grassroots bash. These are my favorite types of events, no competition just shredding, flicking in , tight tandems, and stylish driving. his hcr32 is amazing, as im sure most of you know they "won" the most recent final bout and rightfully so. midmount sr with a td06, zeros, defis, safety 21 cage with full interior, 17 18 kf's and OG kai's for spares, bn, just amazing style all around. his team represents the best parts about drifting to me: fully sick cars with attention to detail and originality, styling cues from the early 2000s with proper execution with legit parts where it counts, driving hard as fuck, and a down to earth attitude without being stuck up. Getting to ride in the car was awesome and very motivating to finish my own car and get out there.

20171216_165703 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

Anyways back to the car.....

So I had gotten back from pensacola in the silvia, and wanted to drive my own car. I had broken the silvia bumper dirt dropping in pensacola, and needed to bring it to my friend in daytona so he could repair it. It so happened there was "simply clean" the same day, a stance show in daytona but usually slammed cars take over daytona and cruise around afterwards which is cool. I loaded up for the coupes first road trip.

20171106_135457 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

SAME-SAME

20171111_134536 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

Made it to daytona and was reminded of my old hatch how this thing cruised 90 the whole way there no issue

20171111_173001 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

20171111_174442 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

gettin the team together

Cruised around town with my boy with the cressida and got a tease of my paint to come soon. then randomly my car started smoking a ton. Then eventually it went full downhill. Turbo seals were completely shot and car was barely building boost. Made it halfway back to Jacksonville till i checked dipstick and it went from full high to full low in like 30 miles so I towed it from there.

IMG_20171112_040613_585 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

Pretty aggravating to say the least. I had never put so much money, time, or effort into a car, and it turned out to be my least reliable one so far. a few days before daytona I had just fixed a issue with the one piece driveshaft blowing out transmission output shaft seals and causing crazy drivetrain vibration. I had gone to put my jdm driveshaft in and it literally got stuck in the freshly resealed no issues transmission. I had to pull that trans and put a random one from my storage unit in it and use a USDM driveshaft. and of course this trans had a loud main bearing and grinded second (;

To have this turbo setup fail me right after swapping trans and wanting to drive, had me pissed. I had already paid good money for the whole setup, and got roughly 5 to 6 drives out of it. I felt like i should of stuck to my instincts and gone new on the hotside and just got a 2871r. Oh well. I had already pre registered for my first drift event in the new car that was only a month out. I pulled the turbo, and sent it out for a rebuild and to have a GTX billet wheel installed.

Atleast I got a few cool shots from the daytona drive

IMG_20171112_191608_296 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

IMG_20171112_053313_987 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

In the period of time between the gainesville drift event and the turbo rebuild, I finished the chassis build. I got my double din installed, wired my gauges , ordered a non unicorn nut silvia hood, fixed a few odds and ends in my engine bay, mounted my battery in the trunk with the battery box securely, wired a fuel pump relay to ensure it sees proper voltage, and installed my built rear subframe. That consisted of the gktech plated s13 subframe gktech s13 solid riser bushings, moog balljoints, gktech drop knuckles, pbm ruca, vodoo13 rear toe arms,isr traction rod, welded diff with villains stubs and brand new 350z axles, new high grade axle hardware, new s13 rear calipers and tighter ebrake cables. Ill get photos of all of that stuff this week and update the car to where it currently is.

In this time waiting for the turbo i mocked my autopower cage I had bought a while back and learned the added sunroof would continue to fuck me beyond a headliner

20171124_214455 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

20171124_223400 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

20171124_223856 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

Of course this car would continue to serve me L's. the cage would need to be shortened for the main hoop to clear the sunroof. and new a pillar bars made to work and properly tuck the roof while being safely away from my head. More on that later, but for now heres when i mocked the cage after cutting some excess before welding. Basically i've gotten the main hoop to work but i still need to remake the slip joint mounting point for the a pillar bars and the a pillar bars themselves.

20171124_222232 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

20171125_132305 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

20171125_132323 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

the front part just hangs too low and looks stupid so that will be gettinf fixed.

20171207_231245 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

Picked up a tial bv50 in like new condition for cheap. really want this new turbo to last as long as it can since it wasnt cheap, however im hoping this thing wont cause issues still on the ROM Tune at the moment. as long as its not open at idle it will be fine with the maf setup, however i hear mixed reviews with the tials. If anyone has experience running vent to atmosphere Tial BOV's on MAF setups I'd love to hear your feedback. Also i already know if i run a blow through maf i'd have no issue but that would look dumb with the HMIC IMO haha.

The week of the drift event came and I still hadn't got my turbo back. I ended up getting a unknown t25 for free and trying it out, but that didnt work either. It came down to last minute and my friend ended up letting me drift the silvia once again. I really tried to make this event but once again this car fucked me. Im hoping to have better luck with the car in the future after all the work I've done to it, but I havent been able to catch a break so far.

20171215_110325 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

the extra clamp on the hotside is for a extra small piece if IC piping and a extra coupler to bridge the distance to be able to run the t25 and t25 outlet pipe, as I had mentioned earlier they come up short with the pbm t28 hot pipe.

20171217_141218 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr

The car is sitting nice with the new hood, built rear end finally in and little to no rear camber. however I am going to go with a 225 35 front on the cr kais as the 215 35 is just too much on the 9.5j.

Thats the car present day and everything is up to speed right now. As it sits, I am waiting to get my turbo back any day now to be able to drive the car again. I am leaving the trans for now until that blows to put a perfect condition one in. The cage can wait as most tracks in florida are cageless tandem now, however I am still going to see that through so I can travel to other tracks and tandem. Once the turbo comes in, I will align it, start sanding, and drive it to paint. I also still need to put a rear swaybar in, a working fuel sending unit in, and fix my powersteering leak, but besides that the car is pretty much ready to ride. There is alot of stuff I lost on my phone that I will document this and the next upcoming week.

Overall im happy with how the car looks so far. The engine bay came out pretty much exactly how I wanted it to, the suspension feels amazing, the interior is coming together again, and the exterior looks cool enough for a functional car. Its been a long road coming with this car, and honestly never finishing a car has been driving me crazy since the day I got my gold hatch over 3 years ago. I am excited to finally see something through to the end, then never touch a wrench again, and only drive the fuck out of the car.

To the few people who will actually read most of this, I applaud you lolol.

I'll continue to update the thread this week with the photos of things I left out, a few videos from the past of the car , and maybe some other cool stuff from the past.

12-22-2017, 03:00 PM	#7
wolf904 Zilvia Addict Join Date: May 2014 Location: Duuuuuuuuval, FLA Posts: 724 Trader Rating: (16)	Some more media from the most recent gainesville event which was a party received_10159628080185307 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr received_10159633402940307 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr Pushing that stock angle to its limits lol. received_10159633402985307 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr received_10159633402950307 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr At this event my friend Sebastian came down from georgia with his team mate dustin to party, was really fun to see them come down to shred at a grassroots bash. These are my favorite types of events, no competition just shredding, flicking in , tight tandems, and stylish driving. his hcr32 is amazing, as im sure most of you know they "won" the most recent final bout and rightfully so. midmount sr with a td06, zeros, defis, safety 21 cage with full interior, 17 18 kf's and OG kai's for spares, bn, just amazing style all around. his team represents the best parts about drifting to me: fully sick cars with attention to detail and originality, styling cues from the early 2000s with proper execution with legit parts where it counts, driving hard as fuck, and a down to earth attitude without being stuck up. Getting to ride in the car was awesome and very motivating to finish my own car and get out there. 20171216_165703 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr Anyways back to the car..... So I had gotten back from pensacola in the silvia, and wanted to drive my own car. I had broken the silvia bumper dirt dropping in pensacola, and needed to bring it to my friend in daytona so he could repair it. It so happened there was "simply clean" the same day, a stance show in daytona but usually slammed cars take over daytona and cruise around afterwards which is cool. I loaded up for the coupes first road trip. 20171106_135457 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr SAME-SAME 20171111_134536 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr Made it to daytona and was reminded of my old hatch how this thing cruised 90 the whole way there no issue 20171111_173001 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr 20171111_174442 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr gettin the team together Cruised around town with my boy with the cressida and got a tease of my paint to come soon. then randomly my car started smoking a ton. Then eventually it went full downhill. Turbo seals were completely shot and car was barely building boost. Made it halfway back to Jacksonville till i checked dipstick and it went from full high to full low in like 30 miles so I towed it from there. IMG_20171112_040613_585 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr Pretty aggravating to say the least. I had never put so much money, time, or effort into a car, and it turned out to be my least reliable one so far. a few days before daytona I had just fixed a issue with the one piece driveshaft blowing out transmission output shaft seals and causing crazy drivetrain vibration. I had gone to put my jdm driveshaft in and it literally got stuck in the freshly resealed no issues transmission. I had to pull that trans and put a random one from my storage unit in it and use a USDM driveshaft. and of course this trans had a loud main bearing and grinded second (; To have this turbo setup fail me right after swapping trans and wanting to drive, had me pissed. I had already paid good money for the whole setup, and got roughly 5 to 6 drives out of it. I felt like i should of stuck to my instincts and gone new on the hotside and just got a 2871r. Oh well. I had already pre registered for my first drift event in the new car that was only a month out. I pulled the turbo, and sent it out for a rebuild and to have a GTX billet wheel installed. Atleast I got a few cool shots from the daytona drive IMG_20171112_191608_296 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr IMG_20171112_053313_987 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr In the period of time between the gainesville drift event and the turbo rebuild, I finished the chassis build. I got my double din installed, wired my gauges , ordered a non unicorn nut silvia hood, fixed a few odds and ends in my engine bay, mounted my battery in the trunk with the battery box securely, wired a fuel pump relay to ensure it sees proper voltage, and installed my built rear subframe. That consisted of the gktech plated s13 subframe gktech s13 solid riser bushings, moog balljoints, gktech drop knuckles, pbm ruca, vodoo13 rear toe arms,isr traction rod, welded diff with villains stubs and brand new 350z axles, new high grade axle hardware, new s13 rear calipers and tighter ebrake cables. Ill get photos of all of that stuff this week and update the car to where it currently is. In this time waiting for the turbo i mocked my autopower cage I had bought a while back and learned the added sunroof would continue to fuck me beyond a headliner 20171124_214455 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr 20171124_223400 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr 20171124_223856 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr Of course this car would continue to serve me L's. the cage would need to be shortened for the main hoop to clear the sunroof. and new a pillar bars made to work and properly tuck the roof while being safely away from my head. More on that later, but for now heres when i mocked the cage after cutting some excess before welding. Basically i've gotten the main hoop to work but i still need to remake the slip joint mounting point for the a pillar bars and the a pillar bars themselves. 20171124_222232 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr 20171125_132305 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr 20171125_132323 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr the front part just hangs too low and looks stupid so that will be gettinf fixed. 20171207_231245 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr Picked up a tial bv50 in like new condition for cheap. really want this new turbo to last as long as it can since it wasnt cheap, however im hoping this thing wont cause issues still on the ROM Tune at the moment. as long as its not open at idle it will be fine with the maf setup, however i hear mixed reviews with the tials. If anyone has experience running vent to atmosphere Tial BOV's on MAF setups I'd love to hear your feedback. Also i already know if i run a blow through maf i'd have no issue but that would look dumb with the HMIC IMO haha. The week of the drift event came and I still hadn't got my turbo back. I ended up getting a unknown t25 for free and trying it out, but that didnt work either. It came down to last minute and my friend ended up letting me drift the silvia once again. I really tried to make this event but once again this car fucked me. Im hoping to have better luck with the car in the future after all the work I've done to it, but I havent been able to catch a break so far. 20171215_110325 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr the extra clamp on the hotside is for a extra small piece if IC piping and a extra coupler to bridge the distance to be able to run the t25 and t25 outlet pipe, as I had mentioned earlier they come up short with the pbm t28 hot pipe. 20171217_141218 by Gabe Esquivias, on Flickr The car is sitting nice with the new hood, built rear end finally in and little to no rear camber. however I am going to go with a 225 35 front on the cr kais as the 215 35 is just too much on the 9.5j. Thats the car present day and everything is up to speed right now. As it sits, I am waiting to get my turbo back any day now to be able to drive the car again. I am leaving the trans for now until that blows to put a perfect condition one in. The cage can wait as most tracks in florida are cageless tandem now, however I am still going to see that through so I can travel to other tracks and tandem. Once the turbo comes in, I will align it, start sanding, and drive it to paint. I also still need to put a rear swaybar in, a working fuel sending unit in, and fix my powersteering leak, but besides that the car is pretty much ready to ride. There is alot of stuff I lost on my phone that I will document this and the next upcoming week. Overall im happy with how the car looks so far. The engine bay came out pretty much exactly how I wanted it to, the suspension feels amazing, the interior is coming together again, and the exterior looks cool enough for a functional car. Its been a long road coming with this car, and honestly never finishing a car has been driving me crazy since the day I got my gold hatch over 3 years ago. I am excited to finally see something through to the end, then never touch a wrench again, and only drive the fuck out of the car. To the few people who will actually read most of this, I applaud you lolol. I'll continue to update the thread this week with the photos of things I left out, a few videos from the past of the car , and maybe some other cool stuff from the past.