[Behind Horizon´s] 200SX S13 Drift Project...

[sepulchral]

i abs. love your bumper cutout situation... what did you use to cut it?

[kouki-gymkhana]

Absolutely brillant work with the build! The car is going to be an absolute monster! I would like to second the idea for providing some insight into how you cut up your bumper so nicely. The cut-outs you've made are extremely clean and straight. Please tell us how you did it and what tools you used!!

[Behind Horizon]

Originally Posted by Clawhammer

<---- Still wants to know how you did the clock.



^Don't mind the camera phone pic but see my problem with the clock?

With these...

[Behind Horizon]

Originally Posted by kouki-gymkhana

Absolutely brillant work with the build! The car is going to be an absolute monster! I would like to second the idea for providing some insight into how you cut up your bumper so nicely. The cut-outs you've made are extremely clean and straight. Please tell us how you did it and what tools you used!!

I made various templates for the holes with my computer and printed them out, that's why the holes are exact like that.

Then i used a jigsaw to cut the holes out, you'll maybe waste a bumper until you have a good result or maybe not.

[sargdesigns]

Cool project! Keep up the good work!

[turtle m3th]

car looks good, are you still going with the same paint scheme you were planning on doing? I'm eager to see how it comes out!

[swiftdrift]

O-M-G!!!

Nuckin Futs!!!

great build up man!

Kudos Kudos Kudos For YOU!

[Behind Horizon]

Update:

My webhoster had a hard drive crash so there are a lot of pictures misssing. I already uploaded them again but the editing of my posts is a lot of work.

However here are some new ones:

My new 5Zigen, 17x9 +15 with 235/40 in front and 17x10 +25 with 255/40 in the rear. Tires are Bridgestone Potenza RE050A.







Test fitting the Brembos:



My new bumper as i crashed the old one:



Oirignal vs. Ichiba 5-Lug-Swap




Taking the old ABS-Ring of and putting it on the new Ichibas:




350Z stopping power:



Rear Ichiba vs OEM one:





Brake calipers from left to right:

350Z (324mmx30) - S14/Z32 (280mmx30) - S13 Prefacelift (~256mmx?)

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Wheel fitment in the front:




That are cm.



Rear before rolling/pulling :







Rear after rolling:

Testing if there is enough space for the wheel:

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Making the car ready for the track and the roll cage:

Weight saving:







Pulling out the noise absorber matts:








Cleaned up:

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My complete brake setup:

[yarou]

Wow, that is beautiful. Your work is amazing man, what did you use to take off the gunk leftover from the sound deadening?

[Behind Horizon]

Unfortunately none of the 350Z brakde disc shields are fitting the original S13 knuckles. So i had to modify them:

Top cutted OEM ones, bottom OEM 350Z ones:




Left rear 350Z shields, right rear S13 shields:

Getting out the middle section of both shields and putting the old middle section in the 350Z shield.





All shields are already welded and powder coated by now.

[Behind Horizon]

As my uncle need an engine for his own S13 i decided to sell him my CA18DET and i bought myself a "nearly" full spec RB25DET.

Therefore i cant use my old V-Mount setup anymore due to place problems of the RB engine.


Getting the Battery-holder out for the new front mounted Intercooler:

Almost no rust at all...

[Behind Horizon]

Originally Posted by yarou

Wow, that is beautiful. Your work is amazing man, what did you use to take off the gunk leftover from the sound deadening?

About 3l of Nitro for the whole car.

[mr_240sx]

thats an awesome build thread dude!!!!!!

[Behind Horizon]

Update:

Removed the rear harness:







Sand blasted my wipers as they were nearly finished with their life:




The Brake shields and the wiper arms came back from powder coating:








Started to clean up the engine bay from parts for respray and other stuff.

[staygold24]

jesus christ, great work.

[axiomatik]

nice work. can't see myself spending money to powdercoat brake dust shields, but you certainly have an eye for detail.

[IIIXziuR]

this is awesome. I really like what you have done thus far

[gameeffect]

wow that is really nice and clean. good stuff!

[Behind Horizon]

Originally Posted by nbrindley

nice work. can't see myself spending money to powdercoat brake dust shields, but you certainly have an eye for detail.

Haha the thing is that i do sandblast the stuff by myself but i do not need to pay a cent for powder coating.


@ all:

Thanks for the positive feedback.

[Behind Horizon]

Update:

Ok, i sold the old K-Sport-Style coilovers and got myself a set of Tein's, i like !!!




















The next thing to do is to modify my engine bay, because of the 9" wide front rim with 235/40 on it i'll hit
the wheel arch if i would have full steering lock.

Full lock:





Distance between the tyre and the wheel arch:





The limiting factor:




The old wheel arch will be cutted approx. like shown below:





Made some templates, this is how it should look:

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Update:

As my uncle bought hisself an S13 hatch also with a broken ca18det in it, i saw my chance to swap for a RB25DET.

So i sold him my old Stage III+ CA18DET and was looking for a RB25DET and found a "500hp-engine" in England after one week of searching,
however at the first time i just wanted the engine but the seller made me a good offer and so i bought the engine with the whole
car.

However i'll put the engine out of the cefiro when my hatch is finished so far and the Cefiro shell is already sold to someone as i dont like 4 door saloon cars at all now.


Spec list:

- Welded Diff
- DW Subframe bushes
- S14 5 Lug Swap front & R33 5 Lug Swap rear
- R33 GTS-t Front & Rear brake system
- WORK Rezax 3-piece 5x114,3 18x8.5 front (215/45) and 18x9.5 (225/45) rear


Engine Spec:


- freshly rebuild RB25DET
- Wiseco Pistons
- ARP Manifold Studs
- 1.5mm Cometic MHG
- Tomei 256° Intake Poncam
- Tomei 256° Exhaust Poncam
- HKS Exhaust Cam Pulley
- HKS Cam Belt
- HKS GT2835R Turbo A/R 0.87
- external Wastegate
- Z32 AFM
- Apexi Intake
- SARD FPR
- Nismo 555cc Injectors
- GREDDY Oil Filter Relocation Kit
- GREDDY Oil Cooler Kit
- DW Wasted Spark Remote Coil Pack
- Iridium Spark Plugs
- Cusco Oil Catch Tank
- Front Mounted Intercooler with Samcos
- Apexi Power FC + Commander

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Update:

The ceffy arrived from England:

As the cefiro was/is a drift car its pretty much beaten up but thats fine with me, also some jerks tried to steal the car in England and thats why some windows and the taillights are broken, but thats fine with me.

The IC was disassembled because the low front end would have scratched on the ramp of the trailer:








Apexi Intake isnt installed jet:

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Update:

My gauges arrived finally too...







Here are some older pics i took with me cell phone cam:




The license plate is real i only photoshopped the last two digits away

[sikkk240]

i <3 your car..

who did the fender rolling?

[fromxtor]

Looks effing awesome

[Behind Horizon]

Originally Posted by sikkk240

i <3 your car..

who did the fender rolling?

We did it by ourself, it's was the first time for us, we fucked up the front ones and decided to do the rear ones better and it worked pretty well, however i'll go for front 20mm overfender anyway.

[CrimsonRockett]

I'm jealous.

Where the hell do you get all of the money for this?!

Btw, is that Aztec red on your hatch?