350sx NW Build up

[KansaiDrifter]

Hola fellow Zilvian's, I've been building up another drift car for the NW scene and just thought I'd share some of the pics. I've already got some great deals and would like to start off with a few shout outs

Avery@DTMAutoBody
[email protected]
Fatboy Garage
Travis@88ROTORS
Dan@PoweredbyMAX (USA)
Schassis707
Zfever

Thanks!

Anyhow, here's a quick catch up *beware, lots of pics haha

The term "350sx" is what I've decided to go with, being that a 240sx has a 2.4l, the 180sx (originally started with a 1.8), and I'm going with a 3.5, so it's a 350sx. The engine of choice is the 350z's VQ35DE. I've ran with a LS1 for the past about 3 years drifting at Evergreen Speedway (the 5/8th's banked oval track that Formula D stops at). I was the first in the NW to do the LS1 and some thought it was cool, some thought it was stupid but it was all original. Well years have gone by times have changed and that's played out for me. I've enjoyed the torque of the v8, but wanted the revs of the sr, so the v6 vq is a nice match.

The project started out after sitting out this last year and wanting to get back in it. I started with an engine, found this vq complete with trans, harness, ecu, for a great deal so I hopped on it.
Here's a couple quick pics after I played with it lol


Pretty clean inside, supposed to be ~30k miles


Then I started to assemble a subframe,

Took these, Thanks to Powered by Max!


Did some of this,


and a little of this, (no fire!) Just cut center out, cut outer shell, chiseled out easy as pie



Comparison


Just set in there, perfect fit


Then after some cleaning and paint action got to here,



For my budget this was the best bang/buck, worst case is replacing some bearings so that's in the future plans for sure.


The next and probably most important part would be the Coilovers, got hooked up with DTM AutoBody's special price and got a set of the new Megan Type RS coils for a great price, these are bound and rebound adjustable. The rears will go absolutely slammed and the fronts are pretty good, could go further but go plenty for me. Here's some pics of everything combined




Installation was a snap, the upper plates fit perfect and the knuckles slide right in without having to beat on it like some others lol. I found that the best route for the rear lines was around the knuckle to avoid kinking the line. I also put those rings in the rear to keep it away from the ruca's. Also notice that the PBM subframe risers actually correct a lot of the arms and bar angles. I recommend these to everyone.
(yeah I like yellow haha)





Here's some of the fronts after being lowered the 1" in front, installed along with the S14 5 lug and r33 gtst brakes





Here's a shot of the chassis and where the rear suspension is somewhat set, but before I did lower the front another 1" from where it's showed. I'll be sure to follow with better pics of the chassis soon, been to focused on other things lol.

Lowered front (off ground still)



It needs cleaning lol



Much more to come and Enjoy!