Ok, well here is my build attempt. I've been into drifting since '05. Since then I've had only 240sx drift cars s13/s14, back in April I decided to make a change.
Here is a video of me(in car s13 240sx 317rwhp) and another local drifter(Jeremy Lowe) on a practice day at the local oval track getting some tandem action.
Bought an 1989 Rx7 GTUs as my starting chassis. No sunroof, manual windows, 5-lug, and turbo 2 brakes.
Seems like a proper chassis to start with, so here is what I've done so far.
I don't mind opinions, like it or not, just try to be respectful with what you say, on to the pics/updates.
I'll make it kind of a picture book with small descriptions of parts ect.
The day I got it.
Begining tear down.
Dry Ice magic.
Got tired of looking at the wheels that came on it, so I put the set from my last car on it(MB Battles 17x9.5 +15 offset)
Motorset '99 Camaro LS1
Mount kit (grannys speed shop)
Wasn't happy with the condition of the doors, so I found a couple clean ones(red) at the local junk yard.
Test fitting mount kit.
Tranny mount not installed yet, but looks like it's where it should be.
Headers came in(1 3/4"), got them from jagsthatrun.com.
Headers installed.
Ordered some coilovers (megan racing track series)12k front 10k rear since I won't be able to run a front swaybar.
Went ahead and installed them, not adjusted yet.
I also scrapped my stock hood, found a really clean turbo 2 alum. hood, also scrapped the stock wing and replaced it with the stock "sport" wing for a more subtle look.
Installed the full energy suspension bushing kit.
I brought the car over to a friends shop, I put the new t2 hood on the car for the ride over, kinda excited just to see the hood on the car haha.
We took the drivetrain back out to make some room for the headers, and sensor on the rear of the intake, and remove the stock tranny mounts.
Did a quick pressure washer rinse of the engine bay while the motor was out. Put the motor back in and bolted up the tranny crossmember.
Starting on the wiring mess.
EGR block off plate(delrin).
I wanted to clean out the gas tank prior to installing fuel stuff because the car was sitting for 6 years prior to me buying it, upon inspecting it, decided it was better to just find a replacement tank. Found a local tank for $50, and before installing it, my buddy talked me into letting him make some solid subframe/diff mounts out of nylon/aluminum plate he had laying around at the shop(didn't take much for me to agree to that haha). Here are some pics of them.
New clutch line.
And now for some bad news.....
Went to bolt up the driveshaft after finishing the tranny mount and it only goes in about 2" and then hits an imaginary wall. Closer inspection reveals that the shaft is not centered in the hole on the rear of the cover of the tranny, stopping the driveshaft from going in all the way. After taking apart the tranny, we are thinking the previous car this motorset came from might have been in some kind of accident, or dropped, tweaking/bending the rear tranny cover about 1-1.5mm to the left. All the internals look brand new clean, does look like a small amount of water got in there, but nothing that would cause the issue I am having. Trying to find a local friend with a t56 to try the back cover theory before spending the $200 on a new one.
Well, found out it was as we thought, this little guy was bent about 1mm to the left. A friend of mine happened to have a junk t56 laying around for spare parts and sold me the tail housing, it fixed the problem.
After seeing the headers mounted with tranny mount installed, we were dreading how to route the exhaust over the tranny mount as they suggest to do it. Best solution we could think of was just to fab up a new mount with arches to make life easy to route exhaust.
After making solid mounts for the rear diff and subframe, we decided it would be beneficial to make the front diff mount solid as well, and while the diff was out, may as well reinforce it a bit with some scrap aluminum we had laying around, overkill I assume, but damn it looks sweet.
Oil pressure sending unit adapter.
Fitment with header installed(not nearly as close as it looks, pic is decieving)
Temporary shifter until seats are installed and can fine tune what size I'd like the shifter to be permanantly.
