tron_'s 2013 s13 build thread project bertstare *lots of photos*s

[tron_]

I thought I would start a build thread since this car has gotten a lot of love in the past and I'm sure a lot of people want to see how it ends up. First, I thought I would introduce myself; I'm Suraj, 23 years old, living in Michigan. I'm a huge Honda buff and ever since completing my Civic build, I've been itching to do a 240 build.

I spent a few months looking for a clean shell and I was having a hard time coming across one. Then my friend Damon decided to part out his car so I jumped on it since it was the perfect platform to build on. I picked it up in December (or was it January?) and after a crazy night, we finally got the car back to my house.

Plans for the car are to make it into a nice street cruiser that I can hop in after a day at work and just drive around town and enjoy the experience. I know I will probably catch some flak for this but I want to LS1 swap it since I already have a turbo 4 cyl in my Civic.

I'm really anal when it comes to building cars so I plan on doing this car right and updating this project log with a bunch of photos. Hope you guys enjoy the thread!

Car when we brought it home sitting next to my Civic




Another one of the party sedan


Fueled Racing headers, got a great deal on these off a guy on silviav8.com


Next I ordered some Apex'i N1 EXV coilovers


Box was a little damaged but nothing too bad


Quality seems really nice overall, I have the Koni/Ground Control setup on my Civic and these seemed on par quality-wise


What is this camber plate black magic

[tron_]

Yesterday I decided to tear into the car a little bit. I'm used to working on the trailing arm/double wishbone setup on my Civic, I couldn't believe how easy it was to rip through the suspension. Super stoked to get some progress done on the car.

Another shot of the car. It's in pretty good shape, lets see how this Nissan thing goes.


Heater fired up, time to kill some brian cells


Decided to tackle the front suspension first


Springs/struts out along with the tension rods. Holy fuk McPhearson strut cars are weird


Front looking pretty bare


Moving onto the rear


Springs/struts, upper control arms, tension rods, traction rods out


Old suspension out (ignore the d16 block, possibly doing a sleeved motor on the Civic eventually. Preferably before the end of the decade)


Old vs. new


Front coilovers on


Gonna sup at the hunny dips with my camber plates


Rear coilovers on


Thought I would vacuum out the car too. Using all the dog hair to clone myself a dogsled team.


*dealwithit*


Arguably the most important mod on this build: Project Mu reservoir cover I got at Tokyo Auto Salon


Used my extensive know-how and masterful skills to install the cover


This was one of the huge reasons that sold me on the car, the bay has fresh paint that is really nice. I decided to wipe it down with a spritzer bottle full of water and a couple drops of dish soap.

[Big Zee]

good looking base and great choice on the coilovers.
which motor are you going with ? VH or VK ?

keep updating

[KoukiMonsta]

Brake lines through firewall. Yes please. Keep it up

[treeafodo]

Like what was posted above, it looks like a good starting point. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.

[mugenjibz]

Nice pics, looking forward to further updates

[Ka24Power]

I'm here for the photography as much as the car. Build looks promising!

[tayloray]

Originally Posted by Ka24Power

I'm here for the photography as much as the car. Build looks promising!

agreed, great quality pictures.

[bc.]

someone taking pictures with a camera, not a phone!? no shit!!!

[gbaby2089]

You post in GDD, yes? I recognize the screen name/syrup eating avatar combo.

Do cool things, that shell is capable of them.

[Gar9854]

I thought that bay looked fimiliar, glad to see that his old shell didn't turn into a missile

[Extreme Dimensions]

Damn that civic is nice!

[240drifter1]

That Ek is dope man! I daily a '00 Si, so im alittle biased.

But damn why can't you ever find shells like that


This is gonna be a quality build.

[tron_]

Originally Posted by Big Zee

good looking base and great choice on the coilovers.
which motor are you going with ? VH or VK ?

keep updating

Right now the plan is to go LS1 so I'm keeping an eye out for an LS1 out of a GTO (I hear the GTO T56 has more aggressive gearing which is desireable for LS1 swapped s-chassis).

Originally Posted by tayloray

agreed, great quality pictures.

Originally Posted by bc.

someone taking pictures with a camera, not a phone!? no shit!!!

Thanks guys! My other big passion is photography so I try to get as many detailed photos as I can. Plus I'll probably make a ton of mistakes so hopefully someone in the future will find this thread and get their questions answered (I hate when you find a thread with your exact same problem from like 5 years ago and the poster never updated it haha).

Originally Posted by gbaby2089

You post in GDD, yes? I recognize the screen name/syrup eating avatar combo.

Do cool things, that shell is capable of them.

Yeah I actually just got done browsing over there . You sum kind of INV or something brah?

Originally Posted by Gar9854

I thought that bay looked fimiliar, glad to see that his old shell didn't turn into a missile

I joke with him that it's getting turned into a missle :P

Originally Posted by Extreme Dimensions

Damn that civic is nice!

Originally Posted by 240drifter1

That Ek is dope man! I daily a '00 Si, so im alittle biased.

But damn why can't you ever find shells like that


This is gonna be a quality build.

I appreciate it guys, I'm going to try my best to bring this car back to life with my own personal spin to it. Stoked about the support!


As far as updates, sorry but I have none . I ordered my brake setup which should (partially) be here this weekend. Here is what I have coming in terms of brakes:

-STi rear calipers (will machine myself the 3mm spacers this weekend)
-Evo rear rotors
-Wilwood Superlite BBK (with slotted rotors)
-Wilwood conversion stainless steel lines

[Oakville]

Pardon the noobness, camryonbronze's old car?

I like the project mu cover, only seen one other one before!

[silviaks2nr]

I can definitely tell you're a honda guy. I haven't seen anyone buy apexi coils in ages! Looks good so far.

[gbaby2089]

Originally Posted by tron_

Yeah I actually just got done browsing over there . You sum kind of INV or something brah?

Yazz Krew bruh.

[EratBP]

Dang it Tron, so you don't share anything with the local homebrews.

I had no idea you bought Damons car.


I know you'll take care of it.

[tron_]

Originally Posted by Oakville

Pardon the noobness, camryonbronze's old car?

I like the project mu cover, only seen one other one before!

Yeah this is his old car, I was looking for a clean 240 shell when he decided to part his out so I figured I would jump on it!

Originally Posted by silviaks2nr

I can definitely tell you're a honda guy. I haven't seen anyone buy apexi coils in ages! Looks good so far.

Not going to lie I wouldn't mind if there were a few Honda cues on this car

Originally Posted by gbaby2089

Yazz Krew bruh.

Do you even #GEH doe?

Originally Posted by EratBP

Dang it Tron, so you don't share anything with the local homebrews.

I had no idea you bought Damons car.


I know you'll take care of it.

Thanks dude, yeah I hope I can bring it back to life with my own flavor to it!


I'm still waiting on some parts so I figured I would update this with a little new new. I sorted out the spare parts that came with the car last night and today I got my STi rear Brembos in.

These are in really nice shape so I'm reconsidering getting them powdercoated to match the Wilwoods since I really don't want to disassemble/rebuild these. How stupid do you guys think it would be if I kept these gold in the rear and the Wilwoods black up front?

Straight out of the box


Approved upon inspection


Starting to take the old pads out. Kind of weird how they use pins to hold the pads in.


Managed to take things apart without setting the house on fire


Both calipers broken down (house still not on fire)


They were kind of cruddy (aint nobody got time for that) so I thought I would give them a quick wash


Post bath


Dried off. Definitely reconsidering getting these powdercoated haha.


Pins were pretty cruddy too (aint nobody got time for that either) so I thought I would clean them up.


After

[Bumpkin203]

Lookin good man! I could see myself dailying a civic sedan.

[ryans523]

looking good!

[PG BOOSTED]

I like those calipers.

[tron_]

More parts have been trickling in slowly but surely so that's nice. Hopefully getting the rear brake setup done this weekend. My Wilwoods were supposed to be here this week but they got delayed. On a scale from 1 to hearing this car start, hearing my Wilwood kit will be delayed until Monday was about a -1.65.

In other news my Evo 8/9 rotors showed up. So glad my mom finally let me buy rotors (just kidding).


Got slotted Stoptechs to keep the slotted look of the Wilwoods


These are bigger than the Prelude rotors on my Civic! ~12" rear rotor should provide for some big time stopping.




Next update will be actual work being done on the car, I promise

[CamryOnBronze]

Awesome progress man. I like the gold Brembos too- kind of looks like this dude. You may have heard of him:



Stoked to hang out soon- keep it up man!

[Idahos13]

More updates please hahaha! Great build so far! I will be watching this one for sure.

[hotlavaflow]

Subscribed to see where this goes, good start.

[tron_]

Alright so I got my rear Evo 8/9 rotors and STi calipers on the 240sx yesterday. I didn't get too many photos but hopefully I got enough to give you guys a good overview of what I got done today:

First off I read rear STi calipers need to be shimmed 3mm but in actuality they need to be shimmed a little over 3.5mm. I forgot my camera so no pics of the spacers, I can get some if you really want to have a looksy.

Thought I ran out of brake cleaner and almost lost my shit thinking I had to make another trip to get stuff haha. Thankfully I found a can and the project was underway.


I usually like putting a little anti seize on the hub when doing brakes, just a thing I do


12" rotors + twin pot Brembo calipers + Hawk pads = tron_'s face in dash (hopefully) (jk hopefully not)


Even with the shims I was getting a TINY bit of scrapage on the rotor so I clearances the caliper with a die grinder


Fukkn weight redukshun playaaaa (note tape to keep the finish keen)


Threw everything on and it went together pretty smoothly! My friend had a set of Hawk HP+ pads laying around for his STi which he sold so he let me have them for a steal. I also got the lines hooked up. Just waiting for Enjuku to give me an update as to when my suspension arms will be here.





Today the Wilwoods showed up! Super surprised with how nicely these are built. I wanted to throw these on today but I have to go to school and don't have any safety wire

Box was waiting for me outside


Everything is packed VERY well


All the items are very high quality. I couldn't believe how light the rotor hats, brackets, and calipers are. I guess that's why they call them Superlites haha


THE CLUB CAN'T HANDLE ME, 2 ICY 4 WORDZZ

[yzrider450f]

Nice Update! Loving the baller 2 pc rotors.

[dreamin240sx]

let us know how you like the coils when you start driving the car was thinking about purchasing a set myself

[gbaby2089]

GET YO SOCIALIST FLAG OUT OF MY MURICA.