The Honda powered S13 - KZO513 - Part 2 starts on pg2

[Isuzupickup]

I tried looking for whoever built the car after I stumbled upon a forum talking about the article. At last! Hahaha. Excellent work.

[Oxer]

[Oxer]

A couple more random pics and vids from Ryan/infinitefocus

Untitled from Infinite Focus on Vimeo.

[Randomofodication]

This is awesome! Such a unique swap. Can't wait to see part 2

[Toli]

It ran, we gave it a base tune to run in the clutch and then we took it to yet another friend Craig from PSR tuning. Long story short, It made 251kw at the rear wheels (336.6hp for the yanks ) and 330nm at 8000rpm

Then Oxer sponsored us for our first drift event, and this happened.

Exposure to the masses from Daniel J Oxer on Vimeo.

It was what we had set out to achieve. That video was the first time I had actually driven the car doing what we intended, and of course there were a couple of teething problems. Nothing major though, all little silly things.

During 2011 we took it to as many track days as we could. I got a feel of the cars handling and we played with different suspension settings.

One night we decided to take it to the local drag strip just for a bit of fun. Im into drifting, but Tom has always been a drag racer. With the car in its full drift setup, and nankang ns2's on the rear, he managed to push out a time of 12.37 at 118mph. Not bad considering the lack of traction the car has













It was then featured in an Australian magazine.











Along with a spotlight on speedhunters

http://www.speedhunters.com/2011/06/car_spotlight_gt_gt_k20_powered_s13/

I decided it was time to try get a little bit more tire on the rear for a bit more traction, so the rears were widened to 17x11"s and the car was re-tuned by Craig to make roughly 280kw (375hp) at the treads.



And then at a drift day more recently, I managed to blow second gear. I still kept at it all day, skiping from first to third. A pic from when we assume it happened haha.




So that was where the car was up to until recently, But thats the end of Part 1. Stay tuned as in the next few days Ill be introducing you to Part 2.

[Toli]

It was around the start of 2010 that my brother Tom introduced me to Oxer. He was willing to help out in whatever way, and 3 years later we're all still great mates. Tom came home with the turbo that we decided to use, a GT3076R, along with some 1000cc injectors.



Time to start mocking up the manifold.





Then the radiator, intercooler and oilcooler were all mounted. Again, plenty of people gave us grief about the intercooler size, but anyone with some actual knowledge about what we were doing knew that bigger isnt always better.



Manifold, gate, dump pipe and exhaust all made and mounted.











External fuel system with surge tank



And then we started making the intake manifold using the oem Honda one.





Our friend Mick from Headtech who made the exhaust manifold was also responsible for this, and lets just say the end product couldnt have come up any better.





At this point, everything was mounted, wired, plumbed etc.



Then this happened.

TNT K20a powered S13 from Daniel J Oxer on Vimeo.

[Toli]

PART 2 starts on page 2

First off, let me introduce myself.

My name is Toli, and along with my brother Tom, we are going to take you through the past few years of this cars life.

Back in 2009 Tom and myself discussed the idea of building a car like no other. I had been into drifting since before I got my licence, and had gone through several cars prior to this one. Tom had gone through a couple of hondas, his most treasured being a dc2 type R that he turbocharged and love. Unfortunately it was stolen and never recovered.

That integra convinced Tom that honda engines with forced induction were capable of not only decent power, but reliability. I had been through several nissan engines in a previous silvia, but Toms integra showed me the true potential of boosted honda powerplants, and from then on, I saw the light.

Together we came up with an idea. That idea was a drift car that I was comfortable in, powered by a honda motor. In mid '09 I bought the shell that would never be considered an true nissan again. Of course, as soon as people heard about what we wanted to do, there was a lot of negativity. People couldnt understand why we wanted to do this conversion. Lots of people would say that we could make power for much less money by building an sr20 or another nissan engine that would just bolt in. Not many understood why, but those who did gave us the motivation to get it done.

The only picture I have of it was after the original motor was out. Originally the shell started with a N/A CA18 auto.



And the day the motor came home. It is a aus delivered dc5 integra type R K20A.





There were many bad quality pictures of the parts we accumulated over time, I wont get into a great amount of detail, but if there are questions, I will try to answer them. Anyway, lets get some pics happening.

The suspention we opted for was tein super drift, with 10kg rates up front, and 8kg in the rear.



Then we started working out how to make a front wheel drive motor power a rear wheel drive car. We decided to go for an s2000 gear box, with a 180sx diff and a kaaz 2 way center. In order to mate the engine to the box, we requested the help of our friend Ian and his father Dave. They had previously done something similar when they built a clubman with a Honda K24 engine putting the power through an s2000 box.

sorry to Keep all you guys waiting! been quite busy lately but so far here is the progress!

first of all don't believe what u read on the net! lol, s2000 box onto a k series is not a matter of lining up the bolts and slapping it together! as we were initially lead to believe





initially, the bell housing looked like it would line up with three of the existing holes on the block which would have made a relatively easy conversion... if the bolt holes lined up, the centre spline wouldnt and vice verse, so it became big a very large job,



^^ usually in this case a simple adaptor plate would be made, but because the s2k box's bolt pattern was so close that the usual way of doing it wouldnt work! ( ofcourse )





a few discussions with Tom and his brother lead to us to a conclusion that the best way was to cut and weld in new segments to the bell housing to suit the k series! this would be hrs and hrs of work!

not being to keen to cut a perfectly good gearbox that's worth the price of a b series conversion, it sat in the same place for a week or two whilst further ideas and discussions were being made, until by chance we had stumbled across a way of doing an adaptor plate style mount utilising factory bolt holes and basically not making the bell housing one car specific! this was a much better idea!





this only meant the the block itself had to be minimally modified to accommodate the tapered bolts

and for any reason, the block can still be used as norm in any fwd platform.

recently tom dropped off the k series flywheel and s2k clutch for fitment and with very little work internally the complete gearbox clutch system lines up beautifully!
so once the flywheel is back its basically all ready to go

at the moment the flywheel is being machined and once that is done then its basically ready to mount in the s13!

We were excited to hear that it was all ready to go, and aranged to bring the car down to them so that they could make the engine mounts.





So then Ian and Dave sent us these pictures.





And due to the nature of this conversion the trans tunnel had to be modified, so at the time, this was the interior view



So then it came home.



And here are some better pictures of the engine mounts.





Another one of our good friend Mitch was responsible for making the wiring work. He is an auto electricial by trade, and as you may have guessed by now, this build has involved some close friends. Builds like this dont work without support from those closest to you.



Another close friend Rick stopped by with a jigsaw to modify the bonnet since the honda motor is much taller then the original nissan motor.







The s15 silvia 5 lug conversion and brake upgrade was completed and all after market suspension components to make everything adjustable. As all long term projects, at times things complie and can look extremely messy haha.



The first time it had been on the ground in months.