My 200sx ps13 build (lots of pics)

[R@tch]

Just introduced myself on these forums so I might as well post my project ps13 up here.

I live in the Netherlands and bought the car in Germany with only 85.000kms (about 52k miles) on the clock but the big end bearings had gone allready and so the engine was stuck.






I completely stripped the car in search of rust. It is a very common problem with the 200sx's in Europe, fortunately virtually no rust turned up at all, not even under the standard wing which is quite rare, the car must have been kept indoors during its life in Germany. All good news .





ca18det went out




And stripped



Picked this out of the oil pan

jammed rod




Got some oem silvia s13 skirts, bomex type1 mirrors and fitted kouki rear lights and panels.


tomei steering wheel with hkb hub



I sold the ca18 in parts and bought another 200sx in Germany, this time a low mileage full option but side damaged 1998 s14a which came with the sr20det.




I sold the rest of the car in parts and actually made a profit, so I got the engine/gearbox, full loom, differential and brakes for free. This is what was left of the car when I was done stripping it of bodywork and bits.


Ordered a lot of parts from Japan and picked them up from the Rotterdam harbour

In Japan just outside of the rhdjapan office

In Holland

The box was also filled with rims to sell on and fund the shippingcosts and project a bit.


Work Ewing rims, 3-piece LP-cast spun rim 17x8et34, they cost me 67,- euros for all four in Japan
Also fitted here are the JIC FLTA-2 coilovers and JIC bullet catback exhaust


Partially resprayed the engine bay

[R@tch]

Fitted OS-giken twinplate clutch/flywheel

New Nissan flywheel bolts.


Nismo clutch slave cylinder and brake fluid line.

Nismo clutch fork pivot, also fitted new nissan bearrings

Tomei 3pt strutbrace that proved to be a complete pain to fit later because of the high s14 intake manifold and vvt bump in the rocker cover.

New clutch line, brake lines and s14 bmc fitted.


By now the engine bay looked like this

Koyo copper 3 layer radiator, HKS type-s fmic, HKS intake.....


Sard fpr/meter and oil catch tank, bosch fuel filter



Apex'i solenoid for power fc boost kit and some altered intercooler piping, the engine was running by now.



Fitted recaro sr seat, it will move to the passenger side and replaced with a recaro spg. I picked the spg up for only 75,- euro's from this guy who had used it in a rally pulsar gti-r, still looks like new.



Custom battery box

Silvia s13 front end testfit

Oem aero front bumper, my custom front lip blends together with the silvia skirts verry well I think.





painted the dials red


The tomei strut-brace didn't fit, found out the Nismo engine mounts raised the engine, so I bought these GT-spec engine mounts from Japan.

Some interesting facts,
standard engine mounts: 68mm thick, weight1,45kg
Nismo: 72mm thick, weight 1,90kg
Gt-spec: 48/58/68mm thick, weight 0.8kg (with 1 spacer)

The washer fluid container would'nt fit because of the intercooler piping so I chopped it, melted an old soap bottle around the hole and sealed it.

[R@tch]

Ah, its always nice when a package from Japan comes in, bought this ancient but barely used complete Blitz k3t turbo kit.

It utilizes a German Borg Warner kkk blitz spec K3T 3070mga turbo, bottom mount blitz cast iron manifold blitz c42 external wastegate and some nice original heat shields.




This kit was modified so that the wastegate dumped back into the exhaust system. I thought it was super nice but unfortunately the LHD steering rod was in the way. Now it will get a screamer pipe which I still need to get made (I can't weld).

Test fitted

After modifying the pipe that leads to it the wastegate clears the steering rod by about 1,5cm.


I also fitted some gauges to monitor the engine



I'm actually still searching for instructions to fit the Tomei egt and A/F gauges.

New wheels, Work vs-xx 17x8et10 front 17x9et22

the inner arches will need rolling, but no outward rolling. Tires are 215-45-17 225-45-17

New red silicone hoses frow viper performance (notice the tomei strutbrace diagonal still doesn't fit at the intake manifold)







exchanged the Mocal oil cooler for a Setrab one with AN fittings



I will be getting the power fc mapped to run the engine on E85 in the future so I got Sard 850cc injectors that will replace the current 555cc nismo items


Cars out of the garage with the rs13 on its new rims



Started prep work to polish the greddy intake mani (Of course I test fitted it and the tomei strutbrace finally fits, whoohoo)


Its modified for the use of a q45 throttlebody, here compared to the s14 one


Next department I will be looking into are the brakes, mod list so far:
Engine Mods
1998 S14a sr20det
Blitz cast iron exhaust manifold
Blitz type C-42 external wastegate
Blitz k3t turbo
Tomei 256in 256ex poncams
Tomei rocker arm stoppers
HKS type-s fmic
Blitz, HKS, Greddy intercooler piping.
Apex'i power fc and boost control unit
Koyo 3-layer radiator
HKS intake filter
Blitz intake piping
Z32 MAF
Viper performance red silicone hoses for intercooler, intake, vacuum and radiator lines
JIC 3" catback exhaust
Blitz down/frontpipe
SARD tcv
OS giken ts2b twinplate clutch
Nismo clutch slave cyliner
Nismo pivot
Nismo clutch line
Nismo 555cc injectors
Greddy pro iso8 spark plugs
Setrab oil cooler
Grex oilfilter relocation block
Bosch fuel filter
SARD fuel pressure regulator
SARD oil catch tank
Earl's fittings for stainless oil and fuel lines

Handling mods
Work VS-xx 17x8et10 front 17x9et20 rear toyo r888 tires.
JIC FLTA-2 coilovers
Tomei 3-point front strutbar
ARC pipe anti roll bars
Nismo transmission mount
GT-spec engine mounts
S14 brakes

Style Mods
S13 Silvia front-end with oem aero front bumper and custom lip.
OEM S13 Silvia sideskirts
Kouki 180sx rear lights
B-wave rear wing
Doobie rear under aprons/spats

Audio Mods
cheap 2way amp on which I plug in my mp3 player, standard clarion front speakers.

Interior Mods
Recaro SP-G drivers seat
Recaro SR passenger seat
B&M shortshifter
Tomei steering wheel
Tomei shift knob
Tomei boost meter
Tomei A/F meter
Tomei Egt meter
HKS oil temp meter
HKS oil press meter
HKS boost meter
Blitz voice guided turbo timer
Alcantara door panels shift boot and glovebox
Origin checkered floor mats

[dex]

wow! Congrats on the job, this is some nicely done work and good prices too!!!

[Slammed180]

I got all excited when I saw the CA18.
Then I cried as if Megan Fox was brutally mutilated, when you said it was sold.

[R@tch]

Hahaha, sorry about that, in europe the s13 only came with the ca18det and I wanted to be a bit different plus the engine is just a lot younger. In Canada it must be different having a ca18.

[franklin93zx]

well this sucks the pics aren't showing up

[CrimsonRockett]

At first, I was thinking "Good god, look how fucking clean this car is. Something's going to happen though, I know it..."

Originally Posted by R@tch

Then, saw this:

Originally Posted by R@tch

I personally would have left it alone just because of how ridiculously awesome the condition of it is, but it does look very promising.

Just get the parts paint matched and you'll be set.

Definitely a nice build.

[RastaS13]

God shes clean

[R@tch]

Thanks, as for not keeping it original. I was kinda expecting comments on that, and you're probably right. I'm a bad person , all metal silvia panels I used are in very good condition as well though, so when they're professionally painted everything will be ok (I hope)

[Z33dori]

i was loving it till i saw the Sil front.

But judging by how the nice the engine bay is done up, I have a feeling that this will be one of those.. "Yea its a sil-80, but it looks good. weird."

Engine bay looks awesome.

[ThatGuy]

I see a spoiler in one picture, but not the others. Hopefully you are planning to add something similar. In my opinion (and that is all it is, my OPINION) the fastback needs a Wangan style wing to attempt to "square off" the rear end. The stock rear end is too rounded to flow with the very blocky Silvia Aero front you are using.

Looks to be a very clean job thus far though.

[CrimsonRockett]

This wing would look perfect on it.



Not massive like all the other Wangan wings.

[Z33dori]

^^^ which one is that... i've only seen the giant ones

[bboyoracle]

Not a fan of the sil-80 look but nice job.

[R@tch]

I allready have the 'giant' b-wave one .

I'm thinking about a way of mounting it so that I can remove it at any given time I want without showing any holes in the lid, I got inspiration from a HKS kansai s14 wing I purchased for someone, it was mounted with brackets that wrap around the outer edges on the trunk lid.

To finish off the back I also have some rear aprons lying around, exactly the same as these;

I personally never really liked the look of the oem kouki aprons. Together with the front-lip and wing they will be the only frp parts on the car. edit, forgot about the bomex mirrors not sure if I'll keep those though.

[S-Nation S13]

wow!!!!! nice and clean i know the fronts in the process but hey looks hella clean and its done right!!!

[S14_Kouki]

Thats one HUGE box of goodies, the SR looks super clear too, great build.

[Artigo]

Great build you got going there! Keep it up.

[BustedS13]

wow.

also, euro license plates are way too big. what up with that?

[s13 @ fullboost]

car is very clean I am not going to hate on you even though I am not a sil80 fan I can already see yours looking really nice with paint. I think you should go back to the old wheels though but sweet ride motor is very legit

[2-4-0]

Nice build. Lots of quality parts...

I got jealous when I saw your Big Box from JDM land..haha

Looking forward to more updates!

[R@tch]

Thanks all for the kind comment and the sceptical ones as well

@busteds13, you're absolutely right, imagine one of those plates in the front blocking the oil/inter cooler. I think just about everybody who's into cars hates them over here. By chance I picked up a 240sx rear bumper just yesterday. I have not registered the car in the Netherlands yet. But when I do by fitting the 240sx rear bumper I hope to be getting a note on the registration papers that allows me to legally (you'll get a ticket otherwise) use smaller ones, the same size as on my gt-r. They have to do that for imports from Japan and the US with the smaller inserts. I'll just say the car came with that bumper and pray they will fall for it .

[wannabdr1ftr]

wow one hell of a build...cant wait to see the car painted

[ixfxi]

interesting choice of parts, cool car

build looks pretty good

[ChiSleepyEyes]

chicago def doesnt keep its cars anywhere near that rustless

[BustedS13]

Originally Posted by R@tch

Thanks all for the kind comment and the sceptical ones as well

@busteds13, you're absolutely right, imagine one of those plates in the front blocking the oil/inter cooler. I think just about everybody who's into cars hates them over here. By chance I picked up a 240sx rear bumper just yesterday. I have not registered the car in the Netherlands yet. But when I do by fitting the 240sx rear bumper I hope to be getting a note on the registration papers that allows me to legally (you'll get a ticket otherwise) use smaller ones, the same size as on my gt-r. They have to do that for imports from Japan and the US with the smaller inserts. I'll just say the car came with that bumper and pray they will fall for it .

ha, awesome. you learn something new about europe every day.

[tricky_ab]

WOW...This is a nice quality build! I can't wait to see more of it!

[Slammed180]

Originally Posted by R@tch

In Canada it must be different having a ca18.

Yea, different as in everybody shakes their head at you.
With the amount of JDM imports here, everyone is rockin an SR in their S13's.
CA swaps are barely worth more than a KA in Canada.

[ZX88]

that thing was so mint when you got it.