Fuglychuki’s undercooked type x

[Fuglychuki91]

Well, my real reason for getting the Swift’s is due to them allegedly being more linear. Before, the pbm comps came with 10k/8k and they allow you to run +/- 2k without needing the dampers re-valved. You may be right though as I’ve never done any real events in the thing yet. so, I can’t say if I’ll like how it truly handles as I have nothing to really compare it too

[Fuglychuki91]

So, I’m here now haha big thanks to Damon for helping me get a build thread going. I’m going to apologize ahead of time for my lack of going into detail(not sure if you guys really would even like that) so I’m going to go back in time some and try and bring this/myself up to speed haha.

So, basically let’s go to the actual beginning(don’t worry, I’m not gonna use the same pics.)
1991 s13 hatch. When I got it the hatch was a different color, no carpet, holes in the floor, crusty torn up grey leather seats, but it was so cool to finally own a car I had been wanting since I was 15 I think. The car had rust, but I was determined to fix it myself and make the car less of a pile a shit.

This build unfortunately won’t be one of those really concise, everything is perfect builds primarily because this car is far, far, far from perfect.
BUT, I’ll do my best though.

Got the car, “fixed” the frame rails and the rockers as best as I knew how. It wasn’t done perfectly and it was also the reason I bought a welder. I had never welded anything before prior to owning this car. Grabbed a pignose from a local friend because I prefer them over shark nose. I also found a Pignose Lip I drove 4 hours to get for $40



Frame rails were trash and for whatever reason I don’t know where the finished photos of it are(not like they are good but they are better then the angle iron the po tacked onto the rot that was there) and yes I used flux cause I ran out of gas.
I did just cut everything out of I wanna say 16 gauge, again not perfect.


I did this all outside of my moms apartment I lived with at the time on the ground in a parking spot. Yes I undercoated over the rails and all that jazz but don’t have pics.
Next I fixed the rockers by cutting them out and got recommended a guy in the UK I want to say, who remakes sills/rockers. Bought those and chopped mines out not having a clue what I was doing.



I ended up redoing the right side later down the line a lot better.
At that point the car was still stock suspension with the exception of kouki tails, 5 lug swap I did and z32 wheels.
Picked up these boiz
But before I put them on, I paid a dude $1500 for a single stage spray(ah3)with Prep and all that(looking back I would of avoided but didn’t have the knowledge or space at the time) this is a picture he sent me afterwards.

I was hyped to say the least.
Picked up some square g33s 17x9+15 I wanna day and got some 215/45s.

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And lowered the car/aligned it(I’m a alignment tech) and enjoyed it for the rest of the summer pretty much.

My rad was leaking so I swapped that out and did a h4 swap with some silver stars,and changed the belts.







I knew winter was coming and I didn’t want to reverse all the work I had done..bought a $700 Volvo 245 wagon and needless to say you know how that story went. Drove my car for about a month in the winter with them salting roads(internally crying)

Volvo #1


About a month later, still wanted a Volvo so I picked up this manual 245. Too say the least this car is a fucking blast. It’s slow but it never stops running and it’s a tank in the snow. Pretty sure the car has close to or over 300k as the odo stopped at 260k haha.

My girlfriend lived two hours from me in the city I used to live in and her mom let me store my car for the winter there. So it sat for a while while I was sorting and dealing with the issues that come with buying used old cars.

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sorry for the double post, just wanted to make sure I wasn’t gonna have to re-type all this a third time on my phone.

SO, yeah the car sat. The more and more I looked At it it just was kinda boring looking. Simple is best imo but I was really starting to want to do something else. So I decided to go type x as you saw in my first post. Bought 18s. Chrome battles and xt7s a buddy powder coated for me.

Decided 18s, were a little too big for me up front so I went the 17/18 route.
Idk if it was the xt7s, but being they were 18x9.5+12 I had to run a lot of negative camber in the rear to fit them with 225/35s. That’s when I picked up the xc8’s in 17x9+17.


Picked up a key!s 330mm from evasive and wasn’t a fan of it in my s13. I think it was how deep it felt compared to my nardi that I had in it.



At that point I pulled the rear subframe and dropped the gas tank. Only one of my rear calipers locked up so I replaced them both and did the rear brakes along with the pbm subframe risers, eccentric lockouts, all new es poly bushings for the lca’s, rear uprights, isr pro arms, welded diff and Swift’s on my pbms. Then, I had to address the front suspension. Gktech extended flcas,inners,outers and their roll center correction kit which I’ll touch on why I got rid of them later.








Also, got a little cup holder from STI and it came with this cool little postcard of streeter’s coupe I wanna say. Atleast it says streeter on it.


I also did a tune up, deleted egr, installed isr headers and testpipe I got in a trade for my g33’s.

Got a bride rep and some street faction rails which I don’t have any pics of installed.Also, put in some es rack bushings and isr rack lines.

After I got all that wrapped up decided to start searching for some oem kouki aero. Managed to get ahold of two sets of skirts, dorki valances, new oem bumper/extensions lights, oem wing, and dorki poly lip(not the grey one, I had two lips) aero marker mirrors.







Sold my xt7s(I hate myself still) and picked up some more 17s. Some model 5s as you saw. Decide to go 17 all the way around


I finally got the car back together and on the ground( I was driving 4 hours round trip every other weekend to go work in a unheated/not insulated garage)
And spring was around the corner. My girls mom was moving out of the house so I had to move the car all the way back to Lansing. I eyeballed the alignment and drove it all the way home. At that point, I didn’t have anywhere to keep my car being that I live in an apartment.
Me an my brother decided to go halfsies on a small storage space. 16x38’ with shitty lights, no heat and 110 sockets for electrical. But more ideal then being outside fixing things.

So, I raised(ugh) the front of the car and aligned it.

Hanging with a buddy

My super trash interior before I bought another nardi



My car was insured but no plate. I had a bunch of fun doing a little streeting and eventually tire caught the fender after I lowered it because I didn’t like how it sat haha. This is the reason I got rid of the rcc kit. It pushes your wheels out 25mm so it works better for wheels that aren’t as low of offset and if you don’t have your car very low. Bought some decently clean fenders for $100 from a guy in kzoo.


Swapped the fender out and the apartment management told me to move my car or it would be towed due to no plate. Put a expired plate on(I know, I don’t think they cared because there’s multiple cars with expired plates in my complex) and they put another sticker on it. I got mad and moved the car to the shop and it was an absolute pain getting the car in the shop do to how low it is.
A pic before I drove it there.


After fighting with the car, I knew that it was going to stay in there until I painted which was quite the endeavor. I decided to learn how to do it, I asked people on the internet a bunch of questions, red a lot of things but ultimately, I had no one that could stop me from making mistakes. So I prepped, sanded, sanded, sanded, sanded, you guys get it. Deleted the third brake light and shaved the antenna.




Bought some origin cf canards(for sale)

Took everything back apart to prime the car fully with polyester filler to get everything somewhat straight and then block it, shoot urethane primer and wetsand it.

Cut the passenger side rocker out about a foot section to make it better then what I did in the past.




Prepped the kit and all that jazz in a day or two. I also bought this air compressor being it was the biggest that I could safely run in my “shop”.





Two things I failed to mention is that I felt I needed a third car for due to issues with my girlfriends car I had to constantly fix(03 protege ughh)
And I picked up a 01 330ci. It’s not the nicest but I didn’t care and it came with some cool stuff. It did cause me to get sidetracked for awhile here’s it before and after I owned it for a few months.




The second thing I failed to mention was that I was aiming to have the car painted before super d Midwest trial at usair. I wasn’t driving I just wanted to give myself a deadline because I went on vacation the week before so I was trying to get the car hammered out. It didn’t happen so here’s a photo dump from when a bunch of friends and myself went out to the dairy state!




Too many pics in one post sorry I’ll post more in a second

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My buddy Cory’ s car that was in the pile up







ALRIGHT

Enough of all that haha. Back to my s13. They ended up messing up the paint order and it ended up taking about 3 weeks to get here(should of went local)
I ended up going with cheaper paint because I didn’t want to spend a whole lot as this endeavor was already expesnive to start from scratch to do.

Painted pretty much the whole kit except for the lip, Which I’ll paint at some point. The car is basecoat/clearcoat aswell




Then, the guy I rent the storage from got mad and told me I couldn’t paint In there. I was pretty upset but there was nothing I could do. Then I remembered my buddy had a barn that had a desiccant filtration system and a huge 2 stage compressor. Before I ever even painted anything he said if I needed a space I could bring the car there. So, after a lot of fighting, raising the car and loading something for the first time and in the rain I made to his barn 7 minutes down the road.

I also forgot to mention, i picked up gktech v3 super drift knuckles and that remedied my issues with the wheels sticking to far put up front and hitting the fender. I even went down to a 205...


Back to the car.
Got it unloaded and the next day I painted it in a makeshift booth that almost killed me and my brother. It was a good time. Orange peel for days but nothing some wetsanding(which I did) and buffing couldn’t fix.

I also got this one piece driveshaft



Painted the fenders and wing


Started wetsanding and buffing the car. Also I tossed on the fenders and wing


I bought some chrome gx01’s and drove the car to my mini shop haha

Also picked up this shift knob, oem shift boot and these ganador tails. Not entirely sure what I’ll do with them yet but they were cool and I needed them haha.





That’s pretty much where I sit now. Right now I’m selling a bunch of stuff just to get it out of my way. The goals this winter are to: drop front subframe and move the rack forward, pull motor refreshen it without actually opening it up, fixing minor bay rust and paint the bay. Lastly, I really really wanna work on the interior. It’s looked like ass since I bought the car and hasn’t got any better really. Here’s a pic of how dusty and dirty it is inside

I will be putting carpet back in the car aswell