My S14 Drift Car Build - LS1 content inside

[CamryOnBronze]

Man, sorry to hear that. I just ran into the same issue with the freight company that delivered my cage. It was a total mess... hope they show up today for you!

[95KA-Turbo]

I have them in my hands. I'm going to the skate park then attacking my car, hahaha!

[95KA-Turbo]

OK, well I got the coils on. Its raining until Saturday so I can't drive it until then, but I went ahead and lowered it as low as it could go up front and lowered the back a bunch just to gawk at it, haha.

The swift springs are 1" shorter then the old springs, and my shock mount is trimmed so its basically about as low as you can go. It measures out to 22.5" from the ground to the fender...and my fenders are hammered and dollied out to the edge is up higher then a stock fender.

Some pictures:



Without sides:


I can't get my finger under the low points on the side skirts, hahaha.

You can see my hammer and dolly work:






My shock dyno:

[slow40sx]

in the middle of it all the paper split from all the awesome lol

[turbo2nr]

king kouki

::bows down::

[CamryOnBronze]

So good!

msglngth

[Maximamike]

I was never really a fan of those wheels on a S14, but your car pulls them off very well. Car looks absolutely amazing.

[95KA-Turbo]

So, I tore a page out of Om1krons build page and started hacking up my rear fenders tonight. I currently have -2.5 camber on one side and -3.5 on the other, so I need to remedy that. I cut out the inner fender metal on the RH side tonight. It was a total pain in the ass, but it will definitely let me pull them enough to get my camber out to -1.5ish.



You can see where it was burning from rubbing. My power wire to my fuel pump was run through there and apparently was melting to the metal, to the point where it didn't have any protective layer around the wire anymore. I guess its good that never caused a fire!

[tricky_ab]

Damn, well it's good that it's sorted now...

[schells86]

one day, ill have a solid car, and it still wont be as nice as this:/
amazing work!

[95KA-Turbo]

Ok, so I pulled that side tonight. I didn't have a whole lot of time to spend up there, so it was all I could get done. According to a level, the wheel is nearly straight up and down. So if I had to guess, its somewhere between .5 to 1 degree. I obviously need to lower it back down to account for the hight gained from taking camber out.



It certainly isn't a smooth pull, the metal moves so freaking easy with that inner part removed - its crazy! I could pull it another inch I think if I really wanted to. I didn't really pull it out much further, I just pulled the upper portion out to match the bottom.

[essforteen]

Smooth it out and lay some paint already!!
Im waiting for paint!!! LOL

[Om1kron]

Originally Posted by essforteen

Smooth it out and lay some paint already!!
Im waiting for paint!!! LOL

Gotta reinforce the rear tubs, just as easy as it is to pull something constantly banging on it will rape the panel.

[97240TB]

Honestly I don't even care if you paint this car... It's just perfect regardless. lol

I do love that green though.

[corbin]

Paint it now

[95KA-Turbo]

Got the other side all pulled out. I just need to shape each side and put some metal back in there.

[Marcus]

Gonna do that to my rears too. not as gangster as yours tho. My rears also ripped like s14fbs.. btw, did some posts get deleted?

[95KA-Turbo]

I thought I had posted this video in here, so possibly a post or two was deleted, but maybe not?



I also updated my blog if anyone hasn't checked it out in the past few days. Here's a shot from the cabin looking back at the rear fenders where I cut out the metal:



And a shot of the ducting template....which I am going to redo because my friend is making me another bumper bar:

[icedsole]

damn the rear tubs are gangsta. how do you plan to seal it up. weld in another plate?

i need to do that my shits hitting right behind the fender lip.

[95KA-Turbo]

I bought another trailer fender, like this:



I used one for my front tubs, and I should be able to cut it into strips and weld it back in. I may even buy another one (since they're only 24 bucks) and cut more metal out and actually weld it in WAY higher then the stock metal for more of a legit mini-tub, haha.

[surge s14]

WAYYY FUCKING COOOL!

makes me wish i stayed with metal fenders instead of stupid exploding fiberglass

[statickx991]

Originally Posted by nathanong87

we needed u to come into philly with us. that would have been unreal too!!!!

spring time man, please make a trip up to MD and cheeel

where at in philly? im like 30 mins from there ill roll down

[tricky_ab]

Great update...Thanks for posting up that video!

[xnissan240sx]

sexy!!!!!!!!!!!

[Marcus]

Originally Posted by 95KA-Turbo

I bought another trailer fender, like this:



I used one for my front tubs, and I should be able to cut it into strips and weld it back in. I may even buy another one (since they're only 24 bucks) and cut more metal out and actually weld it in WAY higher then the stock metal for more of a legit mini-tub, haha.

fuck yes. this was my idea too. welp i guess ill wait to you do yours then steal your idea haha.

seriously man, this is way cooler than overs. i was seriously thinking about overs. remotivated to keep stock metal

[icedsole]

Originally Posted by 95KA-Turbo

I bought another trailer fender, like this:

I used one for my front tubs, and I should be able to cut it into strips and weld it back in. I may even buy another one (since they're only 24 bucks) and cut more metal out and actually weld it in WAY higher then the stock metal for more of a legit mini-tub, haha.

is the fender still pretty stiff or does it loose all rigidity?

my only concern would be if my rim scrapped/hit the fender it would buckle like no other.

[95KA-Turbo]

Its pretty flimsy without any metal connecting it to the body. When I was just barely using any pressure right below the body line from the roller it was moving all the way up at the rear quarter glass. If you had a super hard impact with the wheel you would definitely buckle the fender without any reenforcement.

Its pretty stiff at the edge where I've pulled it but the upper portion is super weak now. So I am just going to reenforce the upper part, the bottom should be fine....I hope.

[ballinnmiami240sx]

knoop,

The stance has come along very nice dood. I like how you still kept the OG metal and just worked it instead of the other idea you had. What events you plan to attend this summer? We need to tandem for sure this summer. I have scheduled the FD for a tune and as soon as i get back im gonna paint it. Can wait to ride out with the rest of the crew.

[95KA-Turbo]

Hyperfest (July 30-31st - I can only go to it if I'm not at X-Gams in LA) and East Coast Bash (June 25-26) and pretty F-ing high on my list of events this year. Those are probably the only two events I'll do outside of driftwater this season. I mean 100 drifters is a must again, but thats not till December.

I don't think the next driftwater is until May, and since I'm missing this current one I guess I'll only have one event under my belt before East Coast Bash. That's pretty depressing, but its going to be a fucking blast!

[blueshark123]

i will meet u at east coast bash hopefully lol