Nissan 200SX S13

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No pictures but slight update.

Took the passenger door off last night and started to strip the front half of the interior. We didn't have much time, so removed the dashboard, ABS, old brake lines all ready for the new brake lines to be routed through the inside of the car. Carpet up as it's going underneath all that.

Also ripped most of the stupid fluffy sound deadening out as I didn't realise just how much moisture it can hold!

The cage may be going in sooner than planned too as it's in the way where it is and I don't have much room for it.

[TheCrabMaster]

I Can Dig This Build!

[willis]

The things that are happening here are good.

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Moar bad phone pictures!


Car looking sorry for itself. New slam panel is going to be made, removable too. Intercooler is to be mounted right up into the car, just above the chassis rails.


Offered up my reclining low max to the passenger side. Bolted it to the floor this side, the front opposite corner is sat resting on the tunnel, I'm now thinking about just mounting it straight to the floor to save money on rails!


Quickly offered up my S15 dashboard. Had to cut two locating pins off it, then cut/beat/smash out the centre dashboard mounting bracket, which in doing so cracked the screen slightly. It's not too big though, a strategically placed sticker should hide the worst of it!

Got all night tonight through into tomorrow to work on it, hopefully we get shit done. Main plan is finish new brake lines, fit Z32 rear brakes, widen other arch to match passenger side:



And generally get everything ready for a session with the welder. The front arches need some serious work too to achieve any kind of steering angle.... getting about 20% now as the wheel width is causing them to hit just about everything! :P

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Good stuff and bad stuff...

Turns out my Z32 rear brakes are , R33, no biggie, until we went to fit them and realised the guy had sent me two passenger side backing plates! :/

Fortunately can use the S13 ones, although the heat shields are way too small for the new discs, so will be cutting them off.

All the brake lines plumbed in, happy days, until my mate realised the T-piece that came with the new lines was worthless as it had a hole in it! I just went to a local shop on the way home from work today and picked some bits up. I got brake fluid, diff oil, a T piece, some 6mm spacers for the front (as the spokes won't clear R33 front calipers...damn Meisters!) and some other stuff for a mate.

Unfortunately can't work on the car tonight, haven't done now since Friday. But the ABS is now out, the new brake lines in, the S15 dash almost in too. I'm now getting rid of the whole heater matrix, which I know I'll regret at some point along the way, but I want it clean for now!

Sorry, boring update I know with no pictures, but an update all the same.

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THE most annoying thing about tonight is that if I hadn't had removed the centre dashboard mount and cracked the screen doing so, the dashboard would fit even better than it does now!

*sorry for more iphone pictures*


Drops a little in the centre but I don't think it will notice once all the trim is in. Alternatively could re-mount the bracket just to prop the centre up.

It really is a great fit. Part of the heater piping will need to be scalloped to fit around the glove compartment so that it can close properly. It all seems to fit under there so I may aswell keep it and make use of it!


Hard to see from here but the line along the bottom of the screen. I have S15 A pillars to use, I may space them out at the bottom so that they meed the dash nicely.


S14 Ganador on. Holes needed elongating and the window trim cutting but they fit okay. Also had to trim a little A pillar trim down and change the plug. S14 wing mirrors have 5 different wire bits on each plug but only three wires. S13s have only three wires so they're easy enough to switch over. Not tested them yet though.


If you look closely along the black window trim at the top of the door you will see where we cut the trim a little short. We had a spare one so made the cut further down yet when we put the longer one back on the gap was the same!


6mm slip on spacer clears the brakes perfectly.


Obligatory dish shot Front too!



I offered up the S15 doorcards tonight. The most noticeable thing is that they are longer than S13 doors. Not too much though, so some fiddling should see them fitting. The biggest issue is the shape of the S13 door on the inside. It has a huge bulge where the top of the handle is. I have a spare door so will cut it off and hopefully get the 15 card sitting a lot closer.

As it is at the moment, the top of the doorcard will sort of slot in the top of the door, bending the door out a little should make it fit perfect there. Once the bulge is cut off too then the card should sit pretty flush. I couldn't get the door to close with the card on tonight, but I haven't cut anything yet. It's all just in the offering up stages. Already though I could see that the back of the card is too long.

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Loom relocation through the door hole.


Trailing arm lock. Looks better in real lifes, once looms are sorted we should manage more.


Needs more work!

This has to be out if my friends garage on the 31st..... Faack!

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3" hole saw solves loom issues! Plenty of slack to plug it all back in.

Passenger side needed a new hole, but the rest goes through the door hole! Needed to re pin the wiper and indicator boxes and make a new hole for them as they go into the bay.

Heater matrix and a/c all gone, dash bar is gone too.

Intercooler is all plumbed in, it's all coming together.

[Wyatt Lay]

Icky rear fenders

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S15 dash and centre console about there.


Super high mount I/C

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Car is home! Shock horror non-iphone pictures!

[rsingh3g]

I love it! Needs some skirts though

[btober]

hell yeah this is sick we need more updates

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This is as far as it is I'm afraid. If I get a chance this weekend I will fit the S15 dashboard back in. The plan is to turn the heating panel area into a switchboard for the S13's old buttons, such as hazards and headlights as they won't fit where they used to with the S15 dash.

I need some spacers at the back so I can get more stretch and low on too.

I'll get some diffuser pictures later too as you can't see it too well in those pictures.

[M.Doban]

I really really like those fenders. I've never seen them before. The just look so much better than the standard over. Very nice!