Mods will probably hate me for this, but I'm going to set aside some space for the last 9 years of this car and go ahead with skipping to the current chapter. It is what I have the most pictures of after all.
So in January of 2019 I PCS'd from Edwards AFB in socal to Travis AFB in norcal. I moved up here with the red car not running-having a catastrophically blown motor (will be covered in a previous post). I cobbled together a setup that was horribly inefficient, lost that motor over a spark plug and decided to take a step back from the car for a bit - I actually almost decided to sell it. After realizing I'm hopelessly upside down on how much I've invested in the car, and that S15s still cost a fortune to get to the states, I decided to keep the car. Shortly after Final Bout announced that they were going to have regional events. This is where we pick up the story...
I decided that I was going to go full retard, rip the whole car apart, do everything I ever wanted to do, and go drive South with my old friends I made while in college. And so it began.
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After ripping the head off of the motor, a terrible attempt at fixing my old kit, and weeding through the chassis harness to clean up the shit wire tuck I did years ago I quickly lost motivation, called myself an idiot for thinking this was a good idea and pushed the car back into the garage where it sat untouched for about two months.
I had been toying around with the idea of GT-1 and Car Modify Wonder on the car for a long while and eventually I pulled the trigger, ordered the GT-1 from Kyle at pro shop noble, and ordered Wonder fenders from Jesse Streeter.
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Picking up the kit from Kyle
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New kit stuck on the car for the first time
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And rolled out of the garage for the first time in months.
Needless to say I had some much needed motivation back. A few days later more motivation was delivered to my neighbors house, and after a panic attack frantically looking for where UPS left my package, those too made their way onto the car.
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With my second wind I slowly started piecing the interior back together. One of my friends helped me spec out a decent stereo system, another helped me out with sound deadening and carpet.
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Double dins are the best things to happen to 90s nissan interiors
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I also picked up a new bride zieg 3 to replace my 8 year old fake zeta 2
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Gotta have slap
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Shortly after getting the interior back together I got a call from my machine shop saying my bottom end was together, so I went down the street, picked it up and got to work putting the engine back together. I meant for this motor to be extremely responsive, relatively simple, and capable of 400 wheel - I think I ended up achieving all of those goals. Re-used CP 9:1 pistons, eagle rods, HKS step 1 cams and a GTX2860 gen 2. It ended up making 360 on a dynapak with plenty of headroom left in the turbo and injectors.
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Got the car running well enough to move in and out of the driveway then my friend Chad came by to work his magic on my quarterpanels that I hacked up years ago.
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After a day of work the body panels all fit better than I ever could've hoped and the car was ready to send off to paint.
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Having painted the car myself twice before I knew I didn't have the patience or attention to detail to put the cherry on top that all the work leading to this point needed. I made a new friend, a friend of a friend, he agreed to paint the car and while I was gone 2 weeks for a business trip he laid down the ice.
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Towed the car back down to socal for a tune and ended up visiting my parents while I was down there
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And at long last, got the car back home and put the rest of the kit back on for the first time.
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That doesn't get us all the way til today, or through the Final Bout trek, but hopefully it gives everyone something to read while I dig up more pictures. Another update soon, til then I'll leave you guys with this
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