My Little Silvia (S15 with RB26)

[unicoladron]

+1 for making my pants tight

[Edgar]

pretty cool looking build

lots of work to do

[shane_lxi]

Loving everything . Whenever I see one of these threads I always go in assuming the poster is a rich jackass, lol. It's nice to see someone who bought a pos s15, and wasnt afraid to get dirty to turn it into what he wanted. Nice work!

[Fuel for Blood]

da zam thats hot, subscribed gotta see the finished product. You have some mad fabricating and mechanical skills, mad props.

[Gavster]

Like many others have said...Great build! Love the engine and all of the attention to detail! I will watch this one to the end!!

[ixfxi]

not digging the color/flames, not digging the fiberglas - but hey... not my car either

[s13gold]

ballller status!

[burnsauto]

Originally Posted by CursedGTR

No, it is a Greddy 5 Core usually used on a GTR with big twins. The intercooler is 160mm thick and has twin 80mm inlets with a single 100mm inlet.

dude...ur outlet is about 1/3 of the size of most of our spec V's...lol. thats awesome. how much $$ those thing run?

[Loofee95SE]

wow, talk about insane project. with ur car done, I'm sure I'll no longer need porn. C

[CursedGTR]

Originally Posted by burnsauto

dude...ur outlet is about 1/3 of the size of most of our spec V's...lol. thats awesome. how much $$ those thing run?

They usually run about 2,350.00 (with the current yen conversion) However, I picked mine up used off of a guy for 1100 ish. I have heard nothing but good things about them from people that use them.

ixfxi - That's cool you don't dig it, not everyone is going to, which is the reason it is a little unique. My friend that airbrushed the vale covers was given the following instructions.

"I like true fire but I hate it looking like regular fire because people put that crap on everything, I like blue and I like silver maybe a hint of purple so use your imagination and come up with something that everyone is either going to hate or love as long as I do not consider it hideous it will be cool" He hated the tribal idea and plain solid colors were out of the question (everyone does that).

The flames have a hint of purple hue that cannot be captured by the camera (I tried liek 50 times) but it is pretty cool when it sets off.

[CursedGTR]

I did some more work this weekend as I took advantage of the wife being in Thailand still. Because of her absence I am doomed to a bad attitude, microwaveable or fast food only and working on my car every single little chance I get.
Anyways so here goes it.
Put the motor in the engine bay yesterday in order to determine where it sat so I could drill holes for intercooler piping. The Intake saide Hole is a 104mm Hole Saw, The Turbine Side Holes were a 73mm hole saw and a air saw that I used to modify a stock piping hole to fit a 70mm pipe. The Turbines are 60mm oultlet so the piping will immediately neck up to 70mm and under the car will go up again to 80mm. I know Bondo Sucks, but it is the only way I know of to fill in minor imperfections. Cake that shit on there and then sand it to nothingness that way it is only a one time application and that small little divit caused by the holesaw jumping and stuff liek that is taken care of without delaying you for days on end.
Looks like I will not have too many problems with the big twins in there but I have run into a problem with the Front wastegate not wanting to play nice with the motor mount, so I am going to modify it later on when I am working on engine stuff again.
I cut the core support in order to accompany a larger radiator with puller fans. According to the measuresments I took (I should be right in there, kind of tight but in there nonetheless. Once the core support was cut I cut up some sheet metal to start welding in so that the core support regains some of the strength it lost when I cut it (I took out the verticals so I got kind of worried about it) and also looks like it is supposed to be that way. So far so good, but I will not be done with that part until tomorrow. Pics Below.

[breaker77]

awesome build man, cant wait to see the end result. ive always loved the s15 and i think that with the rb26 it would rock in both the looks and performance department.

[camppain]

So I take it your stationed in Oki and in the Marines judging by your boots

Nice project and clean precise work and attention to details. Can't wait to see the finished project.

[illvialuver]

oooooooooooohhhhhh lala, and now in japanese
ohhhhhhhhhh rara

very nice stuff keep it up.

[CursedGTR]

Got some more work done today and in the past few days.
Tom Painted the interior and engine Bay today
We Primed the body kit so I could see defects easier and get them taken care of
Final coat on the interior will be done tomorrow and then it will all about the clear coat. and moving onto things like subframes and suspension install.







I should be done with this pig in the next 6 months if this keeps up.
The color is a cool little mix that tom came up with and depending on exposure to light it will shift between shades of blue with a little bit of a purple hue to it.
Started Marking of the bumper to make sure the vents I will be installing are center and correct.

Got Some SPL Subframe and Diff Bushings in today


Should get the rest of the footwork from NAMS in the next day or two.

[RUTH'LESSDET]

This is the stuff dreams are made of...great build

[mr_240sx]

thats an awesome colour and an awesome build!!! keep up the great work!

[Tops*]

Originally Posted by CursedGTR

Yeah, the glass seemed to be the way to go on that one
as far as squish it is ideal as I am not tuning for street drivability but pure power at top end. I am looking to run this car at 7500 plus RPM for extended periods of time. Since Races like the silver state classic are high speed races, I will need to be high in the RPM and Boost range (7500 and 1.4 - 1.8 Bar) for extended periods of time which kind of makes this mod ideal.

If this was going to be a highly modified street car I would agree with you and leave the squish area in, but this car will not be driven daily as the maintenance required for that would be extremely time consuming and kind of expensive plus the car will not be set up for that, should I decide to street it, I will just build another RB26 that is more suitable (something in the 600hp range) but 900 plus is not daily driver material on a RB26.

I wish my car could MAKE 1.4-1.8 bar and run 7500+ RPM for extended periods of time...that's just intense. My turbo can't even handle that, let alone the engine.

As far as for your streetable 600hp RB, I totally agree with you there. That's pretty much exactly what I would have done...... I'm left speechless.

Amazing build *subscribes*

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

This shit is bananas.

B A N A N A S!

[IIIXziuR]

This build is going amazing. This really is the stuff dreams are made of!
Thank you sir for taking your time to post this material on here. It honestly makes me salivate because it's so damn sick.
I wish I had the means to build/tune to this calibur
Perhaps oneday!

Keep us update man!!!!

[300hp owen]

wicked cool stuff man, I like the motor pics, its different and at least its not hideous colors.

good luck on the project!!!

more pics!!!!!!!

[axiomatik]

hotness. looking forward to future progress.

[drftkng951]

so this car is gonna be used for drag....what is your goal e.t.???
P.S. ur a lucky mo fo.....

[yaba94070]

looks good so far...
wish i could of got my hands on a S15 over hear.. i tryed finding a RB and there wasn'y anything worth picking up.. props on th ebuild awsome work

[CursedGTR]

Originally Posted by drftkng951

so this car is gonna be used for drag....what is your goal e.t.???
P.S. ur a lucky mo fo.....

Drag times - I really have no clue as of right now, I would be happy in the Tens, would be thrilled in the nines. BUT The primary purpose of this car is stuff like the Wangan and Silver State Classic. Highspeed races like that.

Thanks all for your comments, Once this thing is painted and I am working on other shit, I plan on doing a step by step on a painless harness install, maybe some carbon fiber molding, Tilton Brake Pedal install and of course the Stack Logger System and ECU. There are other things I will be doing and when people post interest or comments I have no problem outlining how I did something as well.

[prang11]

VEry sexy color. I cant beleive I havnt seen this yet. More Pics!!!

[juice.def]

You are the doctor of SEX

[vader3120]

looks really good man

[A'PEXi]

look forward to seeing how this progresses

[sweet89s13]

wow. just wow. i hate you for this, (not really im just jealous) good luck with the build.