Blake Olsen's s13 Coupe Drift Build *Not as cool as my FC, but also with a v8* !

[RolledAndPulledG]

Didnt get as much done today as i had hoped (shocker right?) lol. I did the whole front setup, got caster and toe perfect, although i'd like a little more front camber. I also reinstalled the second lockring on the coilovers.

Gave the front coils a good washing...



Put them on, but not the conventional way, my homie Josh Behrens showed me the tip of running the tophat rotated so i can get more caster out of the car. I can adjust camber from the lca so thats no problem. This also does camber a little too, The main objective of this is to make the car snappier when it transitions





I didnt really take pics of anything else because there isnt much to see..

But I did end up swinging by Get Nut to check out Ray's car that he just finished finally! This thing is nuts





then he did a massive burnout with fire on the ground for a feature in import tuner magazine...


Aaaaand i'm in for the night...

[RolledAndPulledG]

Today i started working on the s13, didn't get as much accomplished as planned, but overall made some progress.
Todays first order was the suspension, I planned on setting a rideheight I liked and doing a rough alignment. The coilovers fought me a bit and took longer than i had hoped but got it done.




Also started on the motor to figure out why it doesnt seem very fast. Did a compression check and all numbers came back much better than expected!! The highest number was 168psi and the lowest was 156psi. Very good if you ask me, much less than 10% variance across the board! Fuel pressure was also on point so that is not the cause either. I'm going to run it to oreillys tomorrow and use their code reader since the car still has an obd2 port. Hopefully this can tell me what is up. All the sparkplugs were white so that leads me to believe that the motor is running lean, and hopefully a tune can solve this and it can really start making some power!!

While I had the wheels off I decided to clean up inside the wheel wells and suspension to the best of my ability without removing anything. Decided to paint strip the calipers and front tension rods...

Before:


After:




I'm gonna paint them black and file the nissan logo, but for now i can live with em.

I also lowered the front a good bit..

Before:


After: I removed 2 collars and put one on the bottom of the strut



Lowered the rear as well, but only 2 turns. I also pulled off the rear sway bar and the car drives much better and slides way better too.

Front clearance from tire to upper frame horn is about 3/4" I need smaller tires though.



Finished product:





Tomorrow I'm gonna raise the front a little for the time being and align it from there. Zero out the rear toe and camber, slight front toe out, and 4* front camber. Then i'll string the car to make sure its all straight, and if I'm feeling very ambitious I will also cornerweigh the car and get it dialed in before the next street test session lol

[RolledAndPulledG]

good god, im in for this.

Man I am dealing with the same shit you are on my FC, electrical nightmare lol. Good luck building this thing up and I cant wait to see this and the FC done. I need to make a build of my FC to show how jacked up it is...

Please do, always down to see another v8 fc!

God damn, shit's fucked up.

No doubt you'll sort everything though !

Yeah!

re reading this sober... ugh. longer way to go than expected, but it will be awesome, I BERIEVEE IN YUUUU!

side note... i love rays car so much, plz make it that cool/cooler.

Impossibru

*Not as cool as my FC*

Yeah, sure...

I take it my fc isnt your cup of tea...

very pissed for some reason.

I'm over it

Poor car, Save it!

im trying, at least she is still getting driven hard

This

my heart skipped a beat when i saw the cut firewall pic and then scrolled down to see the black s13 pic. i thought "damn he works fast"
btw, do you know the specs on your friend ray's wheels?

Hhahaha i wish! They were borrowed from his homie vince. SSR Vienna courage 18x10.5 -35 square

nice build good luck

Thanks

damn, i would have flipped a bitch on the guy. good luck with the build though man, looking forward to updates!

I was just beyond anxious to get on the road, i guess that clouded my judgement, oh well

I hope you make this a lot better man, you have a long road ahead of you

Oh i will, it cant get worse lol

Post fab work already.

And it wouldnt be your thread without pictures of food. When I get more stuff and a job to restart a build thread bet your ass I will show the world what wonderful foods we have in my area.

Nothing to fab yet, just trying to get the car up to par. not much fab will be done to this car, just a basic cage for now and some small brackets and whatnot

that car is a pile of shit haha, hurts dem feels when i see this poverty work.. Im sure you will turn this thing into something cool tho. Good luck man.

I hope so lol

[Thom]

that car is a pile of shit haha, hurts dem feels when i see this poverty work.. Im sure you will turn this thing into something cool tho. Good luck man.

[mrg7243]

Post fab work already.

And it wouldnt be your thread without pictures of food. When I get more stuff and a job to restart a build thread bet your ass I will show the world what wonderful foods we have in my area.

[rsingh3g]

I hope you make this a lot better man, you have a long road ahead of you

[scweet14]

damn, i would have flipped a bitch on the guy. good luck with the build though man, looking forward to updates!

[96CD7]

nice build good luck

[Riddle]

my heart skipped a beat when i saw the cut firewall pic and then scrolled down to see the black s13 pic. i thought "damn he works fast"
btw, do you know the specs on your friend ray's wheels?

[244Brick]

very pissed for some reason.

This

[GOATGUY91]

Poor car, Save it!

[pjurisprudencia]

very pissed for some reason.

[OrangeBlue]

*Not as cool as my FC*

Yeah, sure...

[ContraNero]

re reading this sober... ugh. longer way to go than expected, but it will be awesome, I BERIEVEE IN YUUUU!

side note... i love rays car so much, plz make it that cool/cooler.

[MrGL2]

God damn, shit's fucked up.

No doubt you'll sort everything though !